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K. L. Cockle
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Deschooling, aves, ecología. Hacia una ornitología colaborativa y anticolonial. Research Scientist @ IBS-CONICET. ella/she/they.
ornitologiaS.org, pinoparana.org
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folukeifejola.bsky.social
In what is often described as the most significant assassination of the 20th century, the execution of Patrice Lumumba of Congo possibly occurred on 17 January 1961. I wrote about him and the global participation in his horrific execution
folukeafrica.com/patrice-lumu...
Patrice Lumumba: May Africa breathe the air of freedom
Prime Minister of Congo June-Sept 1960 (Assasinated)
folukeafrica.com
January 17, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.
The Cost of Staying Human
Remarks from a vigil for Renee Nicole Good
organizingmythoughts.org
January 8, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
Anthropomorphizing language can be cute when applied to your favorite car, but it helps to muddy the discourse when applied to tech sold as "AI". New from me & @nannainie.bsky.social on @techpolicypress.bsky.social -- how to spot & revise away from anthropomorphizing language applied to "AI"
We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.Press
We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.
www.techpolicy.press
January 7, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social
The call for symposium proposals for #AFOWOS2026 is open until January 18! A symposium is a set of talks organized a central theme and may be either a half or full day.
Symposia
Symposia Each symposium will include a set of talks organized around the same central theme. While we expect a diversity of ornithological topics throughout the scientific program, we are happy to …
afowos2026.org
January 5, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Biologist kidnapped in Mexico news.mongabay.com/short-articl... 🧪🌎
Biologist kidnapped in Mexico
In the mountains of central Veracruz, scientific work is rarely abstract. It means walking narrow paths through cloud forest, speaking patiently with communities, and learning to read landscapes that…
news.mongabay.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social
There's just one month left to apply for a Burtt Undergraduate Mentoring Grant from the WOS! This is a great opportunity for anyone who works with undergraduates in #ornithology. wilsonsociety.org/awards/jed-b...
graphic with bird photo, WOS logo, and text "Burtt Undergraduate Mentoring Grant Applications Due February 1!"
December 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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nisrinelamin.bsky.social
Robyn Maynard, Ismail Adam (VP of the Darfur Diaspora Association) and I wrote this op-ed about Canada's complicity in Sudan, calling among other things for the loophole to be closed that allows Can. weapons to get to the RSF through the US + UAE.

breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
In the genocide in Sudan, Canada has a hand in the violence ⋆ The Breach
The massacres of civilians in Sudan are being fuelled by Canadian weapons, mining interests, and refugee restrictions. It’s time for Canada to end its complicity
breachmedia.ca
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.

Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.

#Critical_AI_Literacy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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amcuervo.bsky.social
museum job alert 🇨🇦
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/XBR2Yc...
Curator of Birds - Royal Ontario Museum - Career Page
Apply to Curator of Birds at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, ON, Canada.
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
kcockle.bsky.social
Check out our new paper from the Atlantic Forest: "Resource suitability drives low use of avian‐excavated tree cavities: A multi‐state occupancy dynamics approach." Journal of Animal Ecology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Open Access by CAPES (Brazil)! Foto: Carlos Ferreyra
A bright red male Robust Woodpecker throws bits of wood out of the cavity he is excavating in a dead tree.
October 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
kcockle.bsky.social
Fantastic paper and beautifully written. Gripping, actually. Highly recommend to all in academia.
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 15, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social
The full September issue of The Wilson Journal of #Ornithology is now available online! Peruse a range of new research on topics ranging from female song in orioles to egg cannibalism in gulls. www.tandfonline.com/toc/uwjo20/1...
graphic with journal cover image, WOS logo, and text "New WJO Issue!"
September 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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asn-amnat.bsky.social
New Natural History Miscellany Note available ahead of print! "Poles Apart: The Structure and Composition of the Bird Community in Bamboo in the Eastern Himalaya" by Srinivasan et al.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
www.journals.uchicago.edu
May 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
kcockle.bsky.social
Check out our Special Feature on cavity-nesters in the Neotropics! americanornithology.org/cavity-nesti...
Hidden Nests: Advances and Challenges in the Research and Conservation of Cavity-Nesting Birds in the Neotropics - American Ornithological Society
In the Special Feature Ecology and Conservation of Cavity Nesters in the Neotropics, seven field studies, a perspective, and a review contribute to understanding the ecology and conservation of cavity...
americanornithology.org
March 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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fieldornith.bsky.social
¡Atención, estudiantes, investigadores y ornitólogos! Está abierto el llamado para aplicar a nuestras becas Skutch Research Grants.

Estas becas son exclusivas para latinoamericanos que estén buscando fondos para sus investigaciones.

Toda la info aquí: shorturl.at/Blhsl

#AFOgrantsandawards
Aplica a la ronda 2025 de las becas Skutch Research Grants (ex becas Bergstrom Grants for Latin Americans) Normalmente damos cinco becas anuales de 1500 USD cada una. Restringidas a investigadores de Mexico, America Central, Sudamerica y el Caribe. Pueden aplicar estudiantes de grado/licenciatura, doctores, postdocs y personas fuera de la academia. Dirigidas a promover investigaciones y otros proyectos que aumenten nuestro conocimiento de la historia natural, ecologia y/o conservacion de las aves silvestres. Fecha limite de aplicacion: 15 de junio, 2025 Aplica y lee mas en la pagina web de la AFO: afonet.org/grants-awards
March 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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krisknisely.bsky.social
ISO Trans/nonbinary people to hire as (non-English) language experts

Are you trans and know a language other than English? I'm looking for people who are in-community and want to collaboratively develop free language learning materials.

Interest form: bit.ly/TLangExpert

Please share!
ISO Trans/Nonbinary (Non-English) Language Experts. Want to help make free trans-inclusive resources for language learning and get paid for your expertise? I’m looking for people to participate in an online professional learning network April 1-May 6 who are in-community and can bring their language and cultural knowledge to help us collaboratively develop free language education materials. Do you qualify? 1. Are you trans/nonbinary (in the broadest sense of these terms)? 2. Are you at least 18 years of age or older? 3. Do you know a language other than English? 4. Would you like to work with a language teacher to create trans-inclusive open educational resources? April 1-May 6, 2025 10 hours Flexible Scheduling. If matched with a teacher, you will receive $250 compensation for co-creating an educational resource. Fill out a short interest form or ask questions: https://bit.ly/TLangExpert
February 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social
Coming to #WOS2025 this June? Join us for our annual LGBTQIA+ and Allies Social, a safe opportunity for community and conversation.
Workshops & Special Event
Help us shape the program of the 2025 meeting.
wos2025.org
February 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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amornith.bsky.social
The AOS Conservation Committee is offering seven grants of up to $5K each to support early-career scientists from Latin America & the Caribbean for conservation-related research on migratory or resident birds in those regions. Apply by 3/3/25.
americanornithology.org/awards-grant...
#ornithology
January 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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ellycknight.bsky.social
Like birds and models? Dr. Erin Bayne and I are currently recruiting a 2 year postdoc to come work with us at the Boreal Avian Modelling project on boreal bird models and applications of those models. Full details are here tinyurl.com/4yxju63k. Feel free to get in touch with qs!
February 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
kcockle.bsky.social
Published online early today! Find out how our research team has been using collective governance and citation politics to more effectively share power and recognize Latin American contributions to ornithology. doi.org/10.1093/orni... PM me if you want a copy without the paywall.
A graphical abstract that reads: How can research teams share power and promote justice in publications? Colonialism excludes people and ideas. 1. We recognized interlocking systems of oppression: Academic capitalism, White supremacy, Ableism, Imperialism, Cis-heteropatriarchy. 2. We intervened. Tools we used in organizing a special feature and a review article: Citation politics, Collaboration ethics, collective governance & authorship decisions, Reveal 'hidden curriculum'. 3. Participants reflections: "We strengthened ties across marginalized groups." "We highlighted Indigenous and Afro-descendant knowledge." "We valued healing and rest." Cockle, Cuatianquiz Lima, Nuñez Montellano, Bonaparte et al. 2025. Ornithological Applications.
February 8, 2025 at 1:53 AM
kcockle.bsky.social
Yatevo bamboo (Guadua trinii) flowers every ~30 years like clockwork. Photo from Corrientes, Argentina, 2016.
February 7, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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clear-lab.bsky.social
We are hiring a Research Associate to deepen research & education in Indigenous approaches to math, statistics & quantitative methods. See the link for details:

civiclaboratory.nl/2025/01/18/p...
Position: Research Associate in Indigenous approaches to quantitative research
We are looking for two experienced researchers who are fluent in Indigenous approaches to quantitative methods. Experience can come from community research, graduate degrees, and/or research positi…
civiclaboratory.nl
January 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
kcockle.bsky.social
A beautiful book that got me through 2024, our first year under Milei in Argentina, by focusing on solidarity networks, coalition building, and a culture of care. I come back to these ideas again and again, in my work and friendships.
mskellymhayes.bsky.social Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Jan 20
It will be easy to fall into a pattern of dunking & reacting in these times. Performing disapproval can be a consuming pastime & it is not enough. Refuse to abandon vulnerable people. Build a rebellious culture of care. If you need help, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote a book to assist you.
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care a book by Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba, Harsha Walia, et al.
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building powe...
bookshop.org
January 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM