Claire Nemes
@cenemes.bsky.social
Postdoc @ NZCBI (kestrels!), previously PhD & postdoc @ UMCES Appalachian Lab. Bird migration ecology, phenology, free-roaming cats & other threats, equitable science | she/her | clairenemes.weebly.com
As well as the (Northern Hemisphere) autumnal equinox, today is Bilbo and Frodo Baggins's birthday, a.k.a. Hobbit Day! Here are some of my favorite Tolkien-inspired paper titles. Have you come across any others?
There and back again: Migration in freshwater fishes: cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
There and back again: Migration in freshwater fishes: cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Canadian Science Publishing
cdnsciencepub.com
September 22, 2026 at 4:36 PM
As well as the (Northern Hemisphere) autumnal equinox, today is Bilbo and Frodo Baggins's birthday, a.k.a. Hobbit Day! Here are some of my favorite Tolkien-inspired paper titles. Have you come across any others?
There and back again: Migration in freshwater fishes: cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
There and back again: Migration in freshwater fishes: cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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EcoEvoJobs 2026-27 just opened for business and we've already got 79 faculty / permanent jobs listed. Please repost!
ecoevojobs.net
ecoevojobs.net
ecoevojobs.net 2026-27
ecoevojobs.net
August 5, 2026 at 2:34 PM
EcoEvoJobs 2026-27 just opened for business and we've already got 79 faculty / permanent jobs listed. Please repost!
ecoevojobs.net
ecoevojobs.net
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recruiting a couple new grad students to start in january, please share! www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities
June 4, 2026 at 1:33 PM
recruiting a couple new grad students to start in january, please share! www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities
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Come be my (remote) work colleague! Dr. Ellen Aikens and Dr. @wyokauffman.bsky.social are hiring a postdoc to lead analyses on a new migration ecology and climate resilience project with 152 mule deer herds and >44 million GPS points! Apply by July 15th!
eeik.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
eeik.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Post Doc Res Assoc - Aikens Lab
Postdoctoral Researcher — Migration Ecology and Climate Resilience in Mule Deer
eeik.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com
June 10, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Come be my (remote) work colleague! Dr. Ellen Aikens and Dr. @wyokauffman.bsky.social are hiring a postdoc to lead analyses on a new migration ecology and climate resilience project with 152 mule deer herds and >44 million GPS points! Apply by July 15th!
eeik.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
eeik.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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This weekend’s Wall St Journal
March 15, 2026 at 8:36 AM
This weekend’s Wall St Journal
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Our paper about the flow of nocturnal bird migration through Colombia is finally out today in #ProcB! Using weather radars operated by the #IDEAM, we found that low variability in wind underlies a pace of migration that is far more gradual than at temperate latitudes. #Ornithology 📡🪶🇨🇴
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June 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Our paper about the flow of nocturnal bird migration through Colombia is finally out today in #ProcB! Using weather radars operated by the #IDEAM, we found that low variability in wind underlies a pace of migration that is far more gradual than at temperate latitudes. #Ornithology 📡🪶🇨🇴
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How are Pacific NW mountain birds responding to climate change?
I got up at 4:00 am for a month to find out.
but first the backstory, or "how I spent seven years telling everyone this project wasn't possible"
new paper here:
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
I got up at 4:00 am for a month to find out.
but first the backstory, or "how I spent seven years telling everyone this project wasn't possible"
new paper here:
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
How are Pacific NW mountain birds responding to climate change?
I got up at 4:00 am for a month to find out.
but first the backstory, or "how I spent seven years telling everyone this project wasn't possible"
new paper here:
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
I got up at 4:00 am for a month to find out.
but first the backstory, or "how I spent seven years telling everyone this project wasn't possible"
new paper here:
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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🐣 Excited to share our new paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social !
Using @euring.bsky.social ringing data, we investigated “Phenological plasticity and its temperature-related drivers in common songbirds across Europe.” #Ornithology
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Using @euring.bsky.social ringing data, we investigated “Phenological plasticity and its temperature-related drivers in common songbirds across Europe.” #Ornithology
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
🐣 Excited to share our new paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social !
Using @euring.bsky.social ringing data, we investigated “Phenological plasticity and its temperature-related drivers in common songbirds across Europe.” #Ornithology
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Using @euring.bsky.social ringing data, we investigated “Phenological plasticity and its temperature-related drivers in common songbirds across Europe.” #Ornithology
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Come join us in Italy in January for the Predator-Prey Interactions GRC— full program is now up! And we have some funding to support ECRs! www.grc.org/predator-pre...
2026 Predator-Prey Interactions Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Predator-Prey Interactions will be held in Lucca (Barga), Lucca Italy. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
September 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Come join us in Italy in January for the Predator-Prey Interactions GRC— full program is now up! And we have some funding to support ECRs! www.grc.org/predator-pre...
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I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science
On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...
www.science.org
October 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I do want to take a minute to share the backstory of our paper on the total solar eclipse that triggered dawn behavior in birds. This was SUCH a fun paper to work on, a major light in a lot of different tunnels over the past 18 months. doi.org/10.1126/scie... < ☀️ Let the light puns begin ☀️ > (1/x)
two men are fighting with lightsabers in front of a doorway
ALT: two men are fighting with lightsabers in front of a doorway
media.tenor.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I do want to take a minute to share the backstory of our paper on the total solar eclipse that triggered dawn behavior in birds. This was SUCH a fun paper to work on, a major light in a lot of different tunnels over the past 18 months. doi.org/10.1126/scie... < ☀️ Let the light puns begin ☀️ > (1/x)
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I know there's a lot going on in the world and in people's lives right now - including mine - but I'm pretty excited and honoured to have gotten an award for one of my papers 🥹🎉
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/anim...
Read it here! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/anim...
Read it here! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I know there's a lot going on in the world and in people's lives right now - including mine - but I'm pretty excited and honoured to have gotten an award for one of my papers 🥹🎉
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/anim...
Read it here! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/anim...
Read it here! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
On the eve of World Migratory Bird Day #WMBD2025, it's another record night of autumn bird migration with over a billion birds aloft over the US! 🤯 Looking at the moon thru my scope, I saw (and heard) dozens of migrants zipping by. birdcast.info/migration-to... Lights out, cats in to keep them safe!
Live bird migration maps - BirdCast
See real-time analysis maps of intensities of actual nocturnal bird migration, as detected by the US weather surveillance radar network between local sunset to sunrise. Cornell Lab of Ornithology curr...
birdcast.info
October 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
On the eve of World Migratory Bird Day #WMBD2025, it's another record night of autumn bird migration with over a billion birds aloft over the US! 🤯 Looking at the moon thru my scope, I saw (and heard) dozens of migrants zipping by. birdcast.info/migration-to... Lights out, cats in to keep them safe!
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Not even peak part of night yet, but we’ve hit over ONE BILLION BIRDS in flight!!!
#birds #fall #migration
#LightsOutForBirds
#birds #fall #migration
#LightsOutForBirds
September 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Not even peak part of night yet, but we’ve hit over ONE BILLION BIRDS in flight!!!
#birds #fall #migration
#LightsOutForBirds
#birds #fall #migration
#LightsOutForBirds
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#ESEB25 2 for 1!
Come to see my posters, spot 260, today if you'd like to chat about :
how gender identities play a role in the type of species interactions people study (⚔️or 🤝?)
or if you want to learn more about the weapon evolution of the great rhinoceros beetles ⚔️🦏
Come to see my posters, spot 260, today if you'd like to chat about :
how gender identities play a role in the type of species interactions people study (⚔️or 🤝?)
or if you want to learn more about the weapon evolution of the great rhinoceros beetles ⚔️🦏
August 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
#ESEB25 2 for 1!
Come to see my posters, spot 260, today if you'd like to chat about :
how gender identities play a role in the type of species interactions people study (⚔️or 🤝?)
or if you want to learn more about the weapon evolution of the great rhinoceros beetles ⚔️🦏
Come to see my posters, spot 260, today if you'd like to chat about :
how gender identities play a role in the type of species interactions people study (⚔️or 🤝?)
or if you want to learn more about the weapon evolution of the great rhinoceros beetles ⚔️🦏
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💰 RESEARCH GRANTS & CAREER DEVELOPMENT BURSARIES 💰
Applications are OPEN for BOU Small Research Grants & Career Development Bursaries.
Find out more now:
Grants ➡️ bou.org.uk/funding/s...
Bursaries ➡️ bou.org.uk/funding/c...
DEADLINE 31 Oct 2025 ⌛
#ornithology 🪶
Applications are OPEN for BOU Small Research Grants & Career Development Bursaries.
Find out more now:
Grants ➡️ bou.org.uk/funding/s...
Bursaries ➡️ bou.org.uk/funding/c...
DEADLINE 31 Oct 2025 ⌛
#ornithology 🪶
Small ornithological research grants
Closing date for applications (for 2026 awards): 31 October 2025The BOU Small Ornithological Research Grants scheme offers awards of up to £2,000 to support small projects on any aspect of ornithology.The scheme is open to BOU members only. An exception is made for those
bou.org.uk
August 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
💰 RESEARCH GRANTS & CAREER DEVELOPMENT BURSARIES 💰
Applications are OPEN for BOU Small Research Grants & Career Development Bursaries.
Find out more now:
Grants ➡️ bou.org.uk/funding/s...
Bursaries ➡️ bou.org.uk/funding/c...
DEADLINE 31 Oct 2025 ⌛
#ornithology 🪶
Applications are OPEN for BOU Small Research Grants & Career Development Bursaries.
Find out more now:
Grants ➡️ bou.org.uk/funding/s...
Bursaries ➡️ bou.org.uk/funding/c...
DEADLINE 31 Oct 2025 ⌛
#ornithology 🪶
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Excited to share the first publication from my PhD research about wolves using diverse movement tactics, including migrating and moving young pups, to track the partially migratory Cody elk herd in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem! news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/01/p...
Pups in tow, Yellowstone-area wolves trek long distances to stay near prey - Berkeley News
For the first time, a UC Berkeley-led research team has observed gray wolves outside of the Arctic migrating during pup-rearing season.
news.berkeley.edu
August 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Excited to share the first publication from my PhD research about wolves using diverse movement tactics, including migrating and moving young pups, to track the partially migratory Cody elk herd in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem! news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/01/p...
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🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social
We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.
📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.
📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species
Declines in North American birds are driven not by rare species vanishing but by sharp losses among formerly common species.
www.science.org
July 31, 2025 at 3:18 AM
🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social
We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.
📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.
📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:
July 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:
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🌲 New R package: forestdata makes it easy to download forestry and land cover data from multiple sources (Copernicus, ESRI, EU-Trees4F, and more). Supports sf, SpatRaster, and tidy outputs.
Explore it here: cidree.github.io/forestdata/
#rstats #rspatial #forestry #landcover
Explore it here: cidree.github.io/forestdata/
#rstats #rspatial #forestry #landcover
July 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🌲 New R package: forestdata makes it easy to download forestry and land cover data from multiple sources (Copernicus, ESRI, EU-Trees4F, and more). Supports sf, SpatRaster, and tidy outputs.
Explore it here: cidree.github.io/forestdata/
#rstats #rspatial #forestry #landcover
Explore it here: cidree.github.io/forestdata/
#rstats #rspatial #forestry #landcover
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I found a non-exhausted list of Indigenous radio stations that you can donate to in order to keep them afloat after the defunding
If anyone has a better list, please let me know, and I will happily repost it (I couldn't find anything on here)
If anyone has a better list, please let me know, and I will happily repost it (I couldn't find anything on here)
July 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I found a non-exhausted list of Indigenous radio stations that you can donate to in order to keep them afloat after the defunding
If anyone has a better list, please let me know, and I will happily repost it (I couldn't find anything on here)
If anyone has a better list, please let me know, and I will happily repost it (I couldn't find anything on here)
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Hey, KOTZ in my hometown could use some support. This one radio station serves an area the size of Indiana, as in, it's the only radio station in the entire area. The area is also primarily Inupiaq.
kotz.org/index.html
kotz.org/index.html
July 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Hey, KOTZ in my hometown could use some support. This one radio station serves an area the size of Indiana, as in, it's the only radio station in the entire area. The area is also primarily Inupiaq.
kotz.org/index.html
kotz.org/index.html
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Needed this reminder today.
July 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Needed this reminder today.
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We are so far over the guardrails here.
E.P.A. Suspends 144 Employees After They Signed a Letter Criticizing Trump
www.nytimes.com
July 4, 2025 at 1:37 AM
We are so far over the guardrails here.
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The bill republicans passed will raise your electricity bill. It will raise how much you pay at the pump. It will make our grid less reliable. Every time you fill up your tank or pay your utility bill for the next 10 years, when you notice how much more it is, think back to this bill, today.
July 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The bill republicans passed will raise your electricity bill. It will raise how much you pay at the pump. It will make our grid less reliable. Every time you fill up your tank or pay your utility bill for the next 10 years, when you notice how much more it is, think back to this bill, today.