Jeremy Cohen, PhD

🚨🚨🚨 NEW PAPER out today in Proc B! @royalsociety Responses of wildlife to climate change are typically quantified at the species level, but are we missing important variation in thermal sensitivity over space (species ranges) and time (seasons)? royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

@JoshuaPHilll America has attacked numerous countries, does that mean those countries have the right to annihilate the US?

New York Governor Kathy Hochul says genocide is just the natural way people respond to being attacked. “If Canada someday ever attacked Buffalo, I'm sorry my friends, there would be no Canada the next day. That’s a natural reaction.”

@tcarpenter216 Ice cold take

Hot take: the postdoc (and with it, academic funding) system is fundamentally broken

Recent wildlife around Fayetteville Arkansas

@evornithology Here in northern Arkansas, half hour from Missouri. Been 70 F for 2+ weeks

It’s the middle of February in central New York. There’s no snow anywhere. Syracuse hit a record high of 63° today.

@pschofie79 With the current job market there's not even room for people who do publish

There should be room in academia for professors who don't publish, but who know things. Not dead wood, who stopped learning in 1995. I mean: leaves for the summer, reads all summer rather than write, smokes a pipe on the quad and will talk to you about stuff.

@sam_safran @al_auerbach @rbfrncs @MichaelChiappo3 Thanks! I was wondering what that could possibly be. Another note is that coastal/island stuff is hard to spot. My two remaining eastern lifers (non-pelagic) are dovekie and white-crowned pigeon, but they are tough to spot here

@al_auerbach @rbfrncs @MichaelChiappo3 @drjerbs’s map shows that this analysis doesn’t filter out exotic species (I think that blue on the Iowa-Minnesota border is Gray Partridge…)

Bird lifer maps thread! 🪶🗺 Reach out if you’d like to see yours or try making it yourself: smsfrn.github.io/posts/2024/01/… Mine first (gotta get to AZ!):

@sam_safran This is great! The code runs into an error on line 65 if the user doesn't have an API key. Can I send you my ebird data file instead?

@JeffreyMWard Double wigeon shot from two weeks ago when I was in Seattle

Pretty cool picture posted by Shetland Wildlife (in the UK) of a Greylag Goose, A Pink-footed Goose and a Tundra Bean Goose (from left to right). I love “field guide” views of similar birds.

@NorthernNiches I just use a photo of an animal and that's always worked, never had pushback

Not a fan of mandatory graphical abstracts. It would be lovely if all labs had loads of extra funds to pay professional illustrators but I’m finding this burdensome…especially when HQP have left the lab.

Are all birds shrinking with #climatechange? In the mountains of Tanzania we (@mwtingley + Bill Newmark) find that birds are actually increasing in body size over almost four decades! Check out our paper in @EcographyJourna (nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec…) @UCLAEEB @UCLAlifesci

Happy #wrensday

My sex-biased transmission study with @durant_lab is now in issue and on the cover of this month’s @AnimalEcology 📸: @drjerbs

@evornithology @FogleBird @OnlyVeesAz @Saskajanet @brentcizekphoto I'll throw one on the pile!

Any of my Twitter bird photography friends have a dope Black Tern photo they'd like to have considered as a journal cover image? @FogleBird @OnlyVeesAz @Saskajanet @brentcizekphoto

@n_a_gilbert Just did it. Felt weird for sure and I was probably less articulate than usual (I like seeing all the faces nodding along). The search chair asked each question in pre-recorded clips and there was 5 minutes to record a response to each

@drjerbs I got one of those too and I'm terrified

New encounter on the academic job market. Has anyone done one of these "on demand" interviews where you log in, the system asks you questions and it's recorded and the search committee watches later? How was it?

@JeffreyMWard My 2023 lifers [end of list] this is known as the baby effect

My 2023 lifers Mitred Parakeet Upland Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Ruff Baird’s Sandpiper Hudsonian Godwit Red-necked Phalarope Cinnamon Teal Gray-headed Swamphen White-tailed Hawk Yellow-headed Blackbird Yellow-green Vireo Lark Bunting Comment with your 2023 lifers!

@derekhennen one leg for every 1,000 tons of carbon she pumps into the atmosphere annually

Widespread record temperatures 20C (36F) above average throughout the Northern hemisphere.

@GREGNEISE We kicked our own Al Franken out of congress because of a joke photo

if a Democrat ever plans and incites an insurrection, we'll be first in line to make sure they can't serve again