Last call for Boston-area grad students & postdocs. We are hosting a one-day #scicomm & public engagement workshop on Tuesday, Oct 20. This is made possible by faculty sponsors at Brown & Harvard, and will be hosted at MIT. Application closes Friday - apply ASAP at bit.ly/ENGAGE-Bosto...

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Connectivity-the unimpeded movement of species and the flow of natural processes-is a fundamental target for conservation. How do we predict connectivity from increasingly available tracking data on movement? We provide a solution here: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/W2FP2X...

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Northern Saw-whet owl feathers contain porphyrins, which fluoresce under UV but break down over time. Older feathers thus glow less intensely than newly-molted feathers. Here you can see three generations of feathers, making this an after second year bird. 🧠

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Early voting is now open in Wyoming! 🎉

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The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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