Joanna Wu

The winners of the 2025 Audubon Photography Awards were just announced, of which I had a small but very enjoyable role in judging the female bird prize. Which are your favorite photos? 📸🦜https://www.audubon.org/magazine/2025-audubon-photography-awards-winners

Love the poetic energy of this alt text about a capybara.

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.

This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

Really great writing by @bittelmethis.bsky.social blending birds, human health, and the administration. Give it a read! #FemaleBirds #GalbatrossProject

Bird science has a bro-bias Scientists just recently decided to study female birds. What they found astounded them.

Science has historically overlooked female birds, leading to a partial view of these species' biology, ecology, and contributing to real-world conservation consequences.

Important new 🦉🧪 by @joannaxwu.bsky.social Et al.

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Feeling very nerdy (and accomplished, too) because I used terminal to install some back-end C++ tools to run some STAN code 🤓👩‍💻 Thanks ChatGPT! #RStats

Image of a Stonechat on a purple background alongside the wording: Work with us! Senior Programme Lead (Bird Atlas). www.bto.org/jobs BTO logo sits top right of the image. Image credit reads: Stonechat © Liz Cutting/BTO.

Job alert! We’ve got a great opportunity for a full time, permanent Senior Programme Lead to oversee the Bird Atlas 2027–31. For the full job description and to apply visit ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs #Ornithology

DEIA For Birds Could Help Avian Conservation A new study finds that overlooking the lives of female birds could have severe conservation consequences.

DEIA For Birds Could Help Avian Conservation, a study out of UCLA & Audubon Society, published by IBIS journal

by @GrrlScientist

#DEI #ornithology🦉 #birds🪶 #SexBias #ecology🌎 #conservation #SciComm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

DEIA For Birds Could Improve Avian Conservation A new study finds that overlooking the lives of female birds could have severe conservation consequences.

I love when a scientist turned reporter writes about your work 🤓 Check out this great piece from @grrlscientist.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

How wildlife survives after wildfires The biggest danger for wildlife is the aftermath. But many species have evolved to rely on the opportunities created by others.

I gave an interview to the BBC at midnight while the #LAfires were raging outside and I couldn't sleep. Turned into one of the most thorough and well-researched articles on wildlife and wildfire I've had the pleasure of contributing to.

Great paper! Immediately going into our proposal!

We have a current project working on female Bicknell’s Thrush across the annual cycle. It’s hasn’t escaped me that this is one of my first projects as the only female conservation scientist at my org 🤔

Thanks to @brookebateman.bsky.social @marthaharbison.bsky.social @spiffybirder.bsky.social Purbita Saha for inspiring me to think about the female birds always. And @ibisjournal.bsky.social for publishing our Forum!

In Research, Ignoring Female Birds Harms Scientific Understanding A new study shows that ecological research often ignores or excludes data on female birds and behavior, resulting in erroneous assumptions on conservation.

The first paper of your PhD is always so exciting! 🤩 An all-#Galbatross effort, "A focus on females can improve science and conservation!" See press release (www.audubon.org/news/researc...) and the study here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...! #FemaleBirds #FemaleBirdDay

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