Virtual Social Field Safety Workshop Saturday April 27 from 1-3pm ET Virtual Members: free Nonmembers: $10
With Spring/Summer Field seasons starting soon, we will be hosting our social field safety workshop virtually! Join us for 2 hrs of informational, interactive activities, in which we will co-create tangible, actionable change & social field safety solutions.
Register: go.ncsu.edu/fi-workshop
Spotted several Yellow-rumped Warblers right outside my apartment! Took these photos through my home office window! According to CLO, Yellow-rumped Warblers don’t breed in MS, but I put out a few clumps of raw wool just in case. If they don’t use it, other birds will! 🪺
Our 1st BIPOC Book Club meeting is Friday, February 16th from 7:00-8:00 PM ET! Our first book is Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. In our first meeting, we will discuss Part 1: Planting Sweetgrass (pages 3-59). Not a member? Join today at the link in our bio! See you all there!
Look what came in the mail!! 🎓
#FieldInclusiveWeek 2024 is almost here! We have an amazing lineup of speakers & topics, including hearing #sparkmoments from our 2023 FI awardees, turning field work fails into successes, #AllBodiesInTheField, #FemFieldSafety, & #FieldHistory.
Register:
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“The Frontiers in Ornithology (@frontiersinornithology) Association wants to create opportunities for young people to find successful careers in conservation science. Field Inclusive’s work certainly aligns with our mission and we are happy to support their efforts.“
All the thanks from the FI Team
FI BIPOC Book Club interest survey flyer
We are considering a virtual book club for discussing nature & environmental themed novels by BIPOC authors in order to broaden the voices & perspectives we consume in regard to our professional science careers!
Interested? Want more info? Let us know: forms.gle/Kx17mfZQxWx4...
It’s finally here!!! Sparrow Loves Birds available for PREORDER through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Walmart, Target, and other major retailers.
RELEASE DATE: June 25, 2024
Get yours now!! 🤗
#SparrowLovesBirds
I have 2 FULLY FUNDED ornithology-related M.S. opportunities that start Summer or Fall 2024! 🐦⬛
Check them out on Texas A&M job board or my website (link in bio). Looking forward to your application! 😁
Submitted a first author paper for review 🤞🏽
Quote with a picture of water you took
Holding a feather in palm of my hand Feather is a (approx.) 4 inch long primary. The bottom 2/3 of the feather is gray, followed by a black band, and a white tip
WHOSE FEATHER IS THIS? The Feather Atlas is failing me lol
Oktibbeha County, MS
10/13/23
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I’m definitely gonna keep my eye out for them now!
Such a pretty butterfly! Had never seen one before
Ok, here’s a challenge: What is this bird and what is it eating? 🪶
My guess: Eastern Wood Pewee eating a monarch butterfly
Starkville, MS 10/14/23
SciComm time with Gendry!
Wicker basket in the shape of a duck
Found the cutest candy basket for my desk!
Book Cover Reveal‼️
So excited to get the F&Gs (Folded & Gathered, step before final bound print) & see my beautiful book coming together! F&Gs are also sent to buyers & reviewers. Almost tearing up as I see this come to fruition. 🥹 #SparrowLovesBirds coming 2024!
Love it 😂
My favorite part about being a professor so far? Being able to park almost anywhere I want on campus 😂
Alligator! Alligator! Alligator! 🐊
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
Blurry photo of a great egret in flight
This was ALMOST such a great photo 😭🪶
Exciting Life Update: I have a job!! You’re looking at the new tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Wildlife, Fisheries, & Aquaculture Department at MS State! 🙌🏽 T-minus 4 days until I move to Starkville. So ready to start this new chapter!
Getting slightly better at feather ID. I believe this is a redtailed hawk feather! Perhaps a juvenile? A secondary or tail feather? 🪶
If you are willing to participate, I am including a link to a Google Form to spotlight a scientist or two a week. It will be a quick, name, what do you study, advice for a middle schooler and asking for a pic so they can see. Totally volunteer. https://forms.gle/ka3GTEVihzpsKJpp7
Juvenile 5-lined skink held in my open palm
Bebe skink
A call for questions to my "ask a marine biologist" column
I write an "ask a marine biologist" column for SCUBA Diving Magazine. If you have questions about the ocean, animals that live there, or people who work to study or protect them, ask and I may answer in a future column! Please re-skeet or otherwise share! 🧪🦑
