Andrew Iwaniuk

This American Robin knows what you did and he is not happy about it. #Alberta #Canada #wildlife #birding #birds 🪶

Spent this morning at the ER but because academic life is never allowed to stop, managed to get a paper reviewed in between doctors, nurses, and imaging. As I tell my students, academic life is great because you can choose which 60-80 hours per week that you work!

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I had the pleasure of appearing on the BBC podcast "Evil Animals" with Russell Kane and the delightful Desiree Burch recently to discuss crows - evil, or genius? Tune in to hear the verdict. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... [we recorded this in the peak summer heatwave - hence sartorial choices!]

Is it cake? 🍰

Obama: "Canada, that historical adversary of ours. It's your neighbour, a few minutes drive over the bridge. They are the nicest people. And somehow we've gotten them so mad because they're just constantly being abused and talked about. Talking about annexing their country, making it a 51st state."

Irazoqui, F., Paulina-Carabajal, A. & Acosta Hospitaleche, C. A window into the Cretaceous avian paleobiology: integrating evidence from central and peripheral nervous systems and sensory organs in Pujatopouli soberana. PalZ (2026). doi.org/10.1007/s125...

I found the pair of Rufous-vented Ground-cuckoos again this morning at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #birds #nature #costarica

Dear colleague, No I am not dealing with edits on your grant proposal after 4pm on a Friday and it’s due on Monday. Especially when as a coPI I told you to fix that a month ago in an earlier draft and you didn’t.

Fuck special AI grant competitions, all my homies hate research funding that is restricted to AI related projects

Barbara Finlay, who died on 12 September, championed the idea that developmental constraints dictate how evolution sculpts brains, which she used to model the timing of hundreds of events and align them across mammalian species. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/evolution/re...

My general sentiment towards my “colleagues” and support staff at my institution this week. A week of regularly addressing issues that other people created while trying to get medical treatment. And they honestly wonder why I prefer working at home…

Crows will pwn your ass on PS5.

Now that frost has sweetened our backyard ornamental fruit trees, both migrants and residents are filling up on their seasonal offerings. #YYC #birds #AB

Also note that today’s Warblers podcast also discusses the report on loon populations. #ornithology #birds

New Common Loon research uncovers a widespread decline and calls for action - learn more about the unprecedented international effort to understand and reverse declines in one of North America’s most iconic waterbirds in our blog: tinyurl.com/mrdtv9ne

Functional anatomy of the ʻakiapōlāʻau, an unusual Hawaiian finch: academic.oup.com/auk/advance-... The lower jaw is used to chisel into wood and the long, curved upper jaw for extracting prey. 🪶🧪 (📷Bret Nainoa Mossman, Samantha J. Clark)

October is LGBTQ+ History Month. The month celebrates the achievements, history and civil rights movements of the LGBTQ+ community. Today, it is the story of Michael Hendricks and René Leboeuf

For anyone interested in seeing my talk today at Society for Avian Paleontology and Evolution, I've made a link here. I review some of the ways we can potentially infer the sensory abilities of extinct bird species. #ornithology #paleontology #neuroethology youtu.be/KYwfgPr6S1s?...

Ever see a snake do a barrel roll? Scientists disentangle the locomotor kinematics of this behavior in rolling snakes. Learn more in Current Biology: spkl.io/633287ntaA Yosuke Kojima & colleagues @currentbiology.bsky.social

All I found behind the last door of my Alberta Referendum Advent Calendar was a dried out cat turd. Kind of a let down tbh

It's great that a moa egg, which was taken from an urupa (Māori burial), is returning to Aotearoa NZ. It's a pity that it has been caught up in @itiscolossal.bsky.social latest publicity stunt at the Colossal (sorry, fossil birds) conference in Christchurch www.rnz.co.nz/news/science... 1/4 🧵

A bird flu outbreak on a Utah mink farm is raising concerns about the public health risks of fur farming. In a new article for Think Global Health, Dr. Neil Vora breaks down the dangers of disease spread on fur farms and why the industry must come to an end: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/bird...

While I appreciate and understand that everyone works differently, don't expect co-PI's on grants to drop everything 24-48 hours before a deadline with no notice because that's how you work. That's not being collaborative or collegial. That's being a dick. #academicsky

As I was half heartedly trading barbs with this troll about the Alberta referendum I “coincidentally” received a phishing scam from a Russian bot account. Others might want to block this account.

Military sources had told Global News a live-fire exercise at CFB Wainwright hit a gas line or well. Wainwright has 284 wells inside the base. CFB Suffield, where the Army is ramping up training, has 11,332. Soldiers train on top of Alberta’s well field. This is Alberta y’all. Map from AER data:

A little better video from yesterdays Whooping Crane experience. Check out the cute colt. We saw 61 of these beautiful and endangered birds. About 540 in Canada make up the world population of 800 #bird #birds #nature #wildlife #migration

My latest about local leadership in #Lethbridge & why several of our elected officials did not vote to affirm our place in Canada.

Over 443 million birds are forecast to fly across the East Coast & eastern Midwest. Help them arrive safely, turn off all off all nonessential lights from 11PM-6AM to keep them from becoming disoriented. More than a billion birds die in glass collisions every year. birdcast.org/migration-to...

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I continue to question wtf is wrong with East Lethbridge. How has Neudorf represented them or the city effectively ever? What can he point to that was a positive change since he was elected as MLA? (trick question as the answer is nothing) #abpoli

Polling Canada's projection for Alberta based on the new Abacus poll.

Post mortems suggest five Hen Harrier chicks found dead in nest on grouse moor in northern England had injuries consistent with being stabbed. New blog (warning - contains distressing info) ⬇️ #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/10/16/p...

Not surprised. This region has a long history of xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny and just flat out white supremacy so why not try and manipulate the vote

I should be en route to Auckland, but my physiology conspired against me and I am grounded for the foreseeable future. My plenary talk will at least be on video, but gutted that I cannot attend in person. #ornithology #SAPE2026 #neuroethology

New big collaborative paper out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Biology Letters. "Frequency of plastic occurrence varies across phylogeny but not ecology in seabirds". Title says it all really. Congrats @saverygo.bsky.social and @nhcooper123.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

Disgusting but not surprising. Adding insult to injury, Albertans have spent millions on translocation of Sage Grouse from the US, captive breeding programs, habitat studies, radio tracking, and population genetics. All for naught. #abpoli #Canada #wildlife #birds

Having seen th devastation of fracking on grouse habitat in the AB foothills this is a must read. The cognitive dissonance from the person concerned about water but supports fracking is typical of the locals. #abpoli #Canada

There’s a fracking boom underway in Alberta, and it’s consuming billions of litres of fresh water per year. Reporter @drewanderson.bsky.social and photojournalist @amberbracken.bsky.social toured a rural fracking hot spot to document the industry’s impacts on local communities.

I have no problem never going into the USA ever again. #Canada

More than half of Alberta doctors say they would leave the province if Alberta separates from Canada: AMA survey www.albertadoctors.org/news/publica...

Happy #PortfolioDay! I'm Rebecca, a science illustrator who specializes in birds 🐡🎨

Wolfe also said, while explaining his motion to refer to next week, that "The voters win as any indication of trying to influence the voters eliminated." The 2 comments insinuate impropriety on the part of the motion's author, & it's dirty politics. Taking a public position isn’t voter interference.

They're coming for abortion. Just in case you thought the stakes in Alberta's referendum aren't high enough... Re-read question 9. Then try and tell yourself this doesn't create a back door for the anti-women's healthcare caucus to come after abortion rights in Alberta. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

43,500 Ukrainians in Alberta with non-permanent migrant status. They'd be affected by Danielle Smith's immigration questions. Doubt they're the explicit target of the proposed crackdown on services for temporary residents, but they represent about 1 in 7 of them. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It was nice talking to @kensycoop.bsky.social on @manymindspod.bsky.social - A great podcast series that I listen to often ! disi.org/island-of-th...

After preparing several video lectures, working for several days on a talk, and months of planning, it looks like I have to cancel yet another conference trip. Living with chronic inflammatory conditions in a province with shitty healthcare is not fun.

New research from Lucy van Haaften. By taking photos of the same flying squirrels over a year, Lucy was able to show that photoluminescence is associated with fresh fur and therefore patterns of moulting. academic.oup.com/jmammal/adva...