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Unpacking the science behind resiliency, wellbeing

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Robyne Hanley-Dafoe, EdD, an education and psychology instructor, gave insights into resiliency and share tools for wellbeing during the keynote Everyday Resiliency: How to Master Working and Living Well on January 10 at the 2025 AVMA Veterinary Leadership Conference in Chicago.

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Birding Technology – The New Citizen Science

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But one of the most important aspects of these advances in new-age birding is the fact that they have grown hand-in-hand with the almost exponential growth in citizen science. Citizen science is a term used for the systematic collection and analysis of data and the dissemination of such data by researchers on a primarily voluntary basis.

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The Importance of Citizen Science in Mexico

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Mexico need much more citizen science, and there are far too few people doing it here. The post The Importance of Citizen Science in Mexico appeared first on 10,000 Birds. There is also a slow, but long-term, increase in Mexican birders, but believe me, we still feel few and far between.

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Citizen Science or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love eBird

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Steve Kelling from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology gave the keynote talk, “The Birder Effect: Birding, Science, and Conservation.” The talk described eBird’s origins in 2002 and traced its history as a project aimed at using “citizen science” to help researchers and conservationists learn more about birds. .

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The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent–A Book Review

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The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent focuses on this last question, but you might find yourself fascinated by the first two, which come early in the book but linger on in the imagination as author Danielle J. Do birds use odors and a sense of smell to communicate with each other? But Danielle Whittaker has.

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My eBird Citizen Science Experiment

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Two years ago, I was counting active nests of Rooks in the flat agricultural landscape north of Belgrade, Serbia. We drove for about 290 km through the 400 square kilometres expanse of Pancevacki Rit and found 8 breeding colonies with 252 occupied nests, or a density of 1.6 nests per 1 km2.

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FDA establishes research partnerships with four universities

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The Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine announced on September 18 the establishment of four Animal and Veterinary Innovation Centers (AVICs), which will receive funding for work to advance regulatory science.

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