My thesis defense is next week, on June 3rd at 10AM AKST! If anyone is interested in joining in, DM me for the Zoom link.

Next week I am defending my PhD at University of Miami If you want to hear what I’ve been working on over the past 5 years reach out and I’ll send you to Zoom information. Tawaki Project

😮 A new species: Patagona chaski.

A free online two-weeks crash course in evolutionary biology for students who did not have much exposure to evolutionary biology yet. Ideal for applying for a PhD or Master. evobiocrashcourse.github.io. Run by an excellent team of grad students on 10-21 of June. Register by 4 June.

Please RT: I’ll be recruiting in Fall 2024! Fieldwork in Chile, Peru, & the Tetons. Potential grad students (MS & PhD), undergrads, & postdocs, please reach out.

Por favor RT: Pronto buscaré estudiantes (MS, PhD) y postdocs para el lab—ponte en contacto si estás interesado/a!

🐦🐦‍⬛🦜Happy to share our study on the 🧬genetic basis and #evolution of structural color polymorphism🪶 in the white-winged #fairywren ! Now published in
Molecular Biology and Evolution (1/6)
doi.org/10.1093/molbev…

Ahh it's hapenning! My defense is tomorrow, Friday, March 22, at 3 pm Eastern (2 pm Peru). If you'are interested in attending via Zoom. For login info please just DM me. miami.zoom.us/j/92484315911?…

Los Humedales de Chilca a pesar de no estar reconocidos como tales por nuestro ordenamiento legal, son un invalorable refugio para las aves tanto migratorias como residentes. Hoy con mucho pesar me entero que este lugar está bajo ataque Ministerio del Ambiente 🇵🇪♻️ El Comercio 🧵

OjoPúblico La República Diario El Peruano
ojalá puedan darse el tiempo de cubrir esto. Este humedal alberga una diversidad de especies notable para un espacio pequeño. Y de acuerdo a varios registros de observadores de aves, muchas especies migratorias llegan a este sitio.

Tenemos una nueva especie de nutria 🦦 para el mundo (Lontra anectens). Lo cual coloca al Perú 🇵🇪 con 4 especies de nutrias, siendo así el país con más especies de nutrias en América. En este caso vive en las regiones de Tumbes y Piura academic.oup.com/jmammal/advanc…

Excited to see this (pandemic-born project) in print! We found an unusual looking Northern Mockingbird in West Texas.

This study would not have been possible without the valuable contribution of citizens who recorded their bird observations on citizen science platforms (eBird and iNaturalist). Let's go birding and document more natural history events of birds!

Our new study on the diet of birds and bird-plant interactions in Lima city, the largest metropolitan area of Peru, which uses citizen science data, has just been published in the journal Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment. tandfonline.com/eprint/2V6DFYS…

El pudu que no era piurano (. . . pero sí peruano)
🧵hilo 100tífiko

Mañana estaré compartiendo con grandes mujeres 💐 por el #DíadelaMujerylaNiñaenlaCiencia

Congrats to Flor Hernandez for a great talk on our simRestore R program at DUCKS9 conference!

Guess the cat's out of the bag! Happy to announce that my first-ever first-author publication is now available online! We already knew that LEOWs had sexual color dimorphism, but our study (w/ ~2k owls) showed that plumage color can be seen as a gradient correlated with size. 🧵

Después de muchos años de trabajo, por fin salió nuestra publicación sobre la recuperación de las poblaciones de Puya raimondii, la vegetación y aves asociadas a ellas después de un incendio provocado por turistas en el Parque Nacional Huascarán: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Students advance waterfowl science and receive hands-on training for future conservation careers.
ducks.org/conservation/w…

Starting off the new year with good news! Our paper, 'Lack of local genetic representation in one of the regions with the highest bird species richness, the Peruvian Amazonia', has been published in PLOS ONE: tiny.cc/2krrvz. Check it out! 🧵👇