Ornithologist / Molecular Evolutionary Biologist at the California Academy of Sciences. bit.ly/1ul6CJA
Joined December 2010
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17 Feb 2022
Do you code? Want to help #Ornithology with an AI challenge for identifying birds by sound?
Checkout the BirdCLEF_2022 competition, put together by @CornellBirds, the Google Bioacoustics group, and others: kaggle.com/c/birdclef-2022
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30 Jan 2022
WHAT flower blossoms in the cold of winter, is mostly blackish (and white)? And WHO thought to name it "Fetid adder's tongue"? Blooming in our front yard...
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13 Jan 2022
New paper out in @NatureComms! We show population differentiation in Wallacean & New Guinean birds is consistently & positively correlated with barrier strength and a species’ altitudinal floor: doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-2…
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25 Jan 2022
Amazing work by Google AI engineers creating automatic classifiers to identify birds in recordings. Significant improvements to the algorithms bring us closer to having functional tools for science. ai.googleblog.com/2022/01/se… #ornithology @googleai @calacademy
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25 Jan 2022
Another rare beauty from Maldives #mesophotic ecosystems, Plectranthias winniensis. This one is very cryptic, and this is the first good picture I take of it in situ at about 105m depth. #hopeforreefs #perpetualplanet
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25 Jan 2022
Yes! We will be teaching our Master Birding Course in 2022! This is a great class for advanced birders who wish to really hone their birding and environmental leadership skills. For more information, click here: calacademy.org/events/scienc…
@calacademy @GGAudubon
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21 Jan 2022
Goodbye Galapagos! What an amazing research trip, working with @chavecito76, Ezra Mendales and Pooneh Kalhori on island birds. Thanks for the fantastic data, Galapagos! @calacademy @GSCGalapagos
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21 Jan 2022
Katharine Brandagee gave up her position for Alice Eastwood to come to @calacademy ! Happy to say this spirit of women supporting women is alive at CAS today 💜@RaynaCBell @alisonkestrel @flylogeny @rkim1853 @ArachnologyNerd @jacobs_sarahj @RebaFay 💜
19 Jan 2022
Canadian-born Alice Eastwood succeeded Kate Brandagee as procurator and Head of the Department of Botany @CalAcademy. She rebuilt the herbarium from the 1500 type specimens she saved from burning in the 1906 earthquake to nearly a third of a million, and described 395 species.
ALT In an old photograph, Eastwood views a fault line crack in a grassy hill.
ALT In an old photograph, an elderly Eastwood sits on the ground processing botanical specimens. A car tire is visible in the background.
ALT In an old photograph, Eastwood sits with a plant press in her lap, processing botanical specimens. Several horses are visible in the background.
ALT In an old photograph, Eastwood walks through waist-high brush carrying a plant press.
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21 Jan 2022
That’s a wrap! Galápagos field season completed. Happy students (sugar high), samples collected, and great memories made. A treat to share this time with @CASBirdman @PoonehKalhori Ezra Mendales.
@GSCGalapagos @SFStateBIO @calacademy @USFQ_COCIBA @jocotoco_org
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16 Jan 2022
Great hike to the highest point on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos. Plus a new life bird for me - Galapagos Rail, with @chavecito76 who studies them….
14 Jan 2022
Successful summit to the highest point on Sta Cruz-Island: Cerro Crocker. It has been a blast after 2 years of hiatus. Couldn’t be more grateful for having @CASBirdman as a colleague and two rockstar students @PoonehKalhori @Ezramenda114 #Galapagos @SFStateBIO @calacademy
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10 Nov 2021
Penang Hill was recently made a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve! It was soo cool working with everyone on that BioBlitz, and great to see the results!
scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-le… Nice work @canopymeg @calacademy
ALT The Curtis Crest Tree Top Walk in The Habitat Penang Hill
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1 Nov 2021
Excellent work led by Devon DeRaad in Rob Moyle's lab at the University of Kansas sorting out the relationships of Chalophaps doves! Cool story of how birds diversified across these islands... authors.elsevier.com/c/1d-PP… #ornithology
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1 Nov 2021
Happy to see our new paper on the phylogeography of the 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘴 doves out and fully formatted. This share link provides free access for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1d-PP…
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29 Oct 2021
Gotta love poisonous birds! Nice article by Eldon Greij @BirdWatchDaily about toxic pitohui birds of New Guinea! birdwatchingdaily.com/news/s…
ALT A bird researcher holds a Hooded Pitohui on the Huon Peninsula of Papua New Guinea. Photo by Benjamin Freeman
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15 Sep 2021
The San Cristóbal Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus dubius) hasn't been seen in many years and may be extinct. But with @DarwinFound biologists from Galápagos Islands, we are sequencing their genomes from 100 year old specimens @calacademy! #HispanicHeritageMonth
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12 Aug 2021
Evidence that toxin resistance in poison birds and frogs is not rooted in sodium channel mutations and may rely on "toxin sponge" proteins. A new study from Fayal Abderemane-Ali, @ElectrosomeUCSF, @megan_kobiela, @CASBirdman et al. bit.ly/37mau5Z
#MolecularPhysiology
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11 May 2021
If you're a birder, here is a rare opportunity to birdwatch Tom's Point in Tomales Bay: goldengateaudubon.org/blog-p… It is a great time of year, and you're supporting @GGAudubon
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28 Apr 2021
Much of conservation depends upon our perceptions and emotions. Colleagues who study owls are conducting a survey to understand how people think and feel about owls! Please take a minute to fill out their questionnaire...
you-and-the-owls.webnode.com… @RoulinRoulin
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30 Mar 2021
Excited to be using PacBio HiFi technology to get a reference genome for the Galapagos Vermilion Flycatchers - and unlock the DNA in our 100 year old specimens... #HiFiExhibit @calacademy @DarwinFound
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8 Nov 2020
Super excited about this work coming out! Something that we've dreamed about and worked on for years. Excellent team, and thanks to @megan_kobiela for helping kick this off!
30 Oct 2020
New work from our lab. Terrific collaboration with @alaurenoconnell, @CASbirdman, and @du_bois_lab on how poison birds and poison frogs avoid autointoxication. Context matters. Proposed toxin resistance mutations have no effects on the poison frog NaVs.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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