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Paige Byerly, PhD

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Postdoc at Senckenberg @sgn.one | research associate at Smithsonian NZCBI | conservation and museum genomics, seabirds, conservation biology | managing editor @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social she/her

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Paige Byerly, PhD @paigebyerly.bsky.social · Nov 18

new account 🚨! hi everyone I'm Paige Byerly, a postdoc researcher from the US living in Germany. I work on conservation #genetics of a lot of species, including the endangered Great Bustard I'm holding, but my true love is #seabirds. I'm excited to rebuild a community of scientists on here ❤️‍

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 2h

We'll be interested to see how many Short-eared Owls cross the North Sea and spend the winter in Britain. 🦉 Read about BTO’s research tracking Short-eared Owls here ➡️ bit.ly/TrackingSEO #Ornithology #RaptorResearch

📷 Short-eared Owl by Liz Cutting/BTO

A Short-eared Owl perches on a fence post looking in the direction of the camera.

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 1d

By now issue #60 of our newsletter should've hit your inbox! 📩

This time is a hefty one, inclu. round ups from many #seabird breeding colonies around the UK! 🐣

We've got herons predating kittiwakes, brood patches in stormies & we spotlight Lindsay Young - VP. Research for Pristine Seas (NatGeo) ⭐

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s set aside the question of whether these edited animals *are* the species they’re claimed to be - what possible argument would there BE for releasing them into a wild that isn’t the ecosystem they went extinct from? It would likely be condemning behaviorally-unequipped animals to slow death.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

One of the world’s most important nature groups is weighing a call for a temporary ban on allowing genetically engineered plants or animals, such as canines edited to appear like extinct “dire wolves,” from being released into the wild.

These animals are extinct. This vote would make sure they stay that way in the wild.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature, a top conservation group, is weighing a moratorium on unleashing genetically modified plants or animals into the wild.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Paige Byerly, PhD @paigebyerly.bsky.social · 1d

No, this is my first one!!! But the region I live in is a hotspot for tick-borne encephalitis and I haven’t finished the vaccination course for it, so I’m paranoid 😬

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Paige Byerly, PhD @paigebyerly.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, I pulled the tick out alive and then am keeping it tape in case I show any signs of illness and need to get it tested 🫠

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Paige Byerly, PhD @paigebyerly.bsky.social · 2d

Was annoyed my mom wasted money sending me that tick key, but it worked! 🤢

Paige Byerly, PhD @paigebyerly.bsky.social · 2d

Curse of the Totentrompeten—reminder that you still need to do tick checks into the fall season!!! Tragically I was not there to remind myself yesterday

An open page of a mushroom guidebook with a tick sealed in tape and a green tick remover tool on top

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Paige Byerly, PhD @paigebyerly.bsky.social · 3d

Relatable

Paige Byerly, PhD @paigebyerly.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know but they seem to love mushrooms! spotted this one last fall

A small black beetle eating a brown mushroom

Paige Byerly, PhD @paigebyerly.bsky.social · 3d

I love weird-little-guy season 🪲🍄‍🟫

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Paige Byerly, PhD @paigebyerly.bsky.social · 3d

along with some other nice finds the wild boars left behind

a cluster of white coral-like mushrooms on a log

A large cluster of brown and yellow mushrooms on a log

Paige Byerly, PhD @paigebyerly.bsky.social · 3d

gorgeous black chanterelles on my mushroom walk today (“trumpet of the dead”’ in both German and French if you want to get goth with it, which oc we do🖤🖤🖤)

#fungi #fungifriends

Two black trumpet-shaped mushrooms on a bed of moss on the forest floor

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Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social · 14d

📢🚨Please share! We’re hiring! 📢🚨Have a strong interests in wildlife ecology and gut microbiome bioinformatics? 3 year Senior Research Associate for NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant. Apply here: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18.... Informal enquiries welcome! drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch

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Miki Perkins @mikiperkins.bsky.social · 4d

This is desperately sad. Professor John Woinarski breaks the news for @aunz.theconversation.com that Australia's next animal - the tiny Christmas Island Shrew - has officially been declared extinct.

theconversation.com/and-then-the...

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.

theconversation.com

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 4d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Steffen Oppel @steffopp.bsky.social · 4d

NEW JOB in #ornithology with @RSPBScience to oversee research in #Wales with #seabirds and #waders: buff.ly/qkTVU6m

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 5d

Tens of millions of essentially factory farmed poultry are dumped into the countryside each year. They boost the population of mesopredators like foxes, reducing ground nesting bird populations. They are an obvious avian flue hazard. They eat declining reptiles. Turn out they're also a health hazard

British Birds @britishbirds.bsky.social · 17d

Ticks are more likely to carry the bacteria that cause Lyme disease in areas where Common Pheasants Phasianus colchicus are released, according to new research.

Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti...
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