Dr. Catherine Sheard
@sheardcat
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Interdisciplinary Fellow @ University of Aberdeen • #NewPI • macroevolution, especially birds & mammals, also languages • chaos gremlin • likes maps • she/her
Aberdeen, Scotland
Joined November 2012
New paper out today! Most (but not all!) birds build nests. But what kind of nests? Where do they put them? How big are those nests? What's in them? Which parent builds, and how long does it take? In GEB, we present a global database of nest traits: https://t.co/KtsM5iQwNN
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How do birds fly without getting overheated? They slough off lots of heat from their wings - bird wings are longer in warmer climates for >1500 species. Allen's Rule, likely driven by heat dissipation demand. With @ja_tobias @sheardcat and others https://t.co/OWdTHiNMyz
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Know anyone looking for a PhD? Like phylogenies and R programming? Think behaviour is really neat? Isabella Capellini, Domhnall Jennings, Karina Vanadzina, and I have a funded PhD on parental care macroevolution, based at Queen's University Belfast! https://t.co/ztFIjrZSnq
findaphd.com
PhD Project - Social and ecological drivers of parental care at Queen’s University Belfast, listed on FindAPhD.com
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AVOTREX: A global dataset of extinct birds and their traits. 🦤🌍 The dataset includes 610 extinct birds from last 130k years. This dataset includes details on species traits, mirroring the morphological data available for extant species in AVONET (1/8) https://t.co/QrMJwsp9aQ
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Motivation Human activities have been reshaping the natural world for tens of thousands of years, leading to the extinction of hundreds of bird species. Past research has provided evidence of...
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Sabine Parrish, David Burslem, and I are offering a fully-funded PhD project on the cultural evolution of tea (yes, tea!) at the lovely University of Aberdeen. Project's very flexible, get in touch if you have questions, deadline December 18, UK 'home' funding only (sorry).
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Are you fascinated by the relationship between people and tea? Ever wonder why some tea is called 'tea' and some 'chai'? What makes a hot drink a 'tea' anyway? Will any of this change in the future? Looking for a UK-based PhD? https://t.co/ZMYdDsVbcD
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PhD Project - People and tea: past, present, and future at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
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Amazing study! 79.1% of the 621 publications on coral cover in Indonesia (home to 15% of the world's coral area) were in Bahasa Indonesia. Nevertheless, most global reviews on coral reef science have relied on English-language sources. #languagebarriers
So pleased to see this published "Long-term dynamics of hard coral cover across Indonesia" in Coral Reefs. Thanks to all co-authors @SB_Tebbett @beginersubhan @gitaal_ @rindahvida and many others not on X. https://t.co/X2cPwvZl2S A🧵 (1/5)
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Conservatives would really like to believe that cities are mooching off of prosperous rural areas, but it’s just not true. Urban counties are pretty consistently the least dependent on government programs for their income.
@StatisticUrban Why do those in the city seem to support Democrat policies? Democrat policies generally focus on social programs. Are more people in urban areas dependent on said social programs? If so, why do we fund that? They choose to stay in an area where costs are significantly higher.
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The fecundity costs of building domed nests in birds https://t.co/4tohvPMgxc
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It is not even dark, and auroras are already visible in Maine. Notice the pink tinge to the whole sky. The whole U.S. is likely in for a huge show tonight. Get out, and look up! https://t.co/klLuJEIKjO
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New research on the Global Impacts of Bird Extinctions 🌍🦜🦤 "The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions" led by Tom Mathews and published in @ScienceMagazine. https://t.co/iPZms4JbvH A summary of our findings below 🧵(1/9)
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Humans have been driving a global erosion of species richness for millennia, but the consequences of past extinctions for other dimensions of biodiversity—functional and phylogenetic diversity—are...
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JOB! Would you like to join the Palaeontology team here at UCC? We are now hiring a short-term Lecturer in Palaeontology. Full details below - feel free to get in touch if you have questions! https://t.co/BuE8VwLHL5
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🇩🇪🇷🇼 UPDATE: Two suspected of Marburg infection are a medical student and his girlfriend who returned from Rwanda, where there was a known Marburg outbreak. He treated a patient in the country and later developed symptoms on a train to Frankfurt.
🇩🇪🦠 Hamburg Central Station closed by police due to suspected 'eye bleeding' Margurg virus in two passengers. Most outbreaks of Marburg virus, with a fatality rate of up to 88%, have occurred in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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BirdWingData: Wingspan and wing area data of birds compiled from multiple literature sources and original measurements https://t.co/DDdLhxBbDV
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Wing morphology diversity in birds. Photo credit: Kozue Shiomi, Masanori Tatani, Dale M. Kikuchi.
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I bring a “I think using chatgpt and similar programs is morally wrong” vibe to my workplace that my coworkers don’t really like.
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Why do birds have whiskers? Long a mystery, phylogenetic analysis of these facial bristles in Old World passerines found the number & length was associated with various functions related to insect capture & tactile sensing! https://t.co/5cXeWuT18P
@LinneanSociety @batmunkh89
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Abstract. Many bird species have vaneless hair-like feathers in the frontal area of the head (facial bristles). Several alternative hypotheses on the funct
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It’s basically impossible to understand how expensive climate change is and is going to be.
@TheCatchFence This is an overhead shot coming out of the mountains from Asheville NC to Erwin TN. We don’t have bridges anymore. Nolichucky washed them all out. Like, all the bridges 💩 It’s insane.
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NEW PAPER: Host nest design affects cuckoo parasitism likelihood and cuckoo laying success. ➡️ https://t.co/Dmj3FFKPZz
@AviEcoMig @robertL_thomson #ornithology #birds #broodparasitism @NordicOikos
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New job at @BangorSENS! Zoology (T&R). It’s one of the best zoology places in the country. Critical mass of both staff and students. Etc. Apply! https://t.co/brYJFZTJ6W
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based on data from the non-breeding grounds gathered from museum specimens and community-science records, we report substantial changes in the migration phenology of birds. the effort was led by two undergrads who worked on it in their spare time!
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