Just realized that Microsoft Word now automatically offers an AI assistant on the sidebar of a document. This insidious intrusion of AI into every task is so distracting. This is a worse version of Clippy.

My lab's contribution to this year's departmental calendar. We are very serious scientists and also very cool.

I had such a wonderful time visiting @caryinstitute.bsky.social last week. Everyone was so kind & generous & curious. Feel like I made a bunch of new science pals! Thanks to my longtime pal Amy Zanne for the invite.

Massive exodus of people from the buildings on @Cornell’s campus tonight to take pics of the sky.

AMAZING opportunity to lead the future of the Macaulay Lab (home of the beloved Merlin App) at the Lab of Ornithology at Cornell University. Search is on for a new Director. Please forward along! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30293

In this time of uncertainty, I am grateful for this research team. This collaboration. These friends.

And the stress of figuring out how to move forward w a project when u have no idea if $ will continue -or- the weird feelings of “it sucks right here, but it’s worse for that person/dept /school so I guess I shouldn’t vent” -or - the sense of dread for even more newly hired or USGS co-op colleagues

No one talks enough about how funny looking academic regalia is. Actual footage of the faculty line at commencement:

Happy #WorldBeeDay from this Apis cerana* and the #PollinatorCommons Project *A. cerana is native to the low Himalayas & is an important pollinator of apples in that region.

NY fieldwork is underway on our #PollinatorCommons project. The team is out here sampling all of the cool native bees that live in our forests….and then pollinate our apples! 🍎 🍏🍎🍏

We actually wrote an article about this, it's not just a joke. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The EPA is canceling almost 800 environmental justice grants, court filing reveals. The agency is sending out notices of termination to 781 awardees, almost twice the number of canceled grants that had been previously reported. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

In the past two days I have dried & pinned bees, helped plan forest plots for lidar scans & spent hours planning for experimental games to feed an agent based model. This is how you Interdisciplinary Science. Love this team so much. #PollinatorCommons

Time to start the next big field push for our #PollinatorCommons project. The whole team is in India for the next 3 weeks. Day 1: Training on pollinator sampling. Tomorrow we start setting up pollination exclusion experiments on 60 farms.

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY w/ our #PollinatorCommons project! Co-supervised by me & Dr. Matt Williamson @ Boise State to model where & when collective action could emerge to effectively coordinate the conservation of wild pollinators. Info here: jobs.boisestate.edu/en-us/job/49...

Are you a postdoc working on global environmental change? Apply for the new #TenureTrack professorship on #Geography of #Global Environmental Change and join us at the Geography Department of Humboldt-University Berlin! @humboldtuni.bsky.social --> hu.berlin/GeographyGEC

Pan trap stands & phones are going out to the farmers who will be collecting data on their farms as a part of our #PollinatorCommons project in Uttarakhand. Cheers to our field staff for managing all of this! The rest of us will be back in a few weeks.

New Lab photo: Map Nerds 4ever

The 5th graders of Ithaca are continuing to fight the good fight. Literally got teary today listening to them talk about the Human Rights heroes they were depicting in their living ‘wax museum’.

Grassland and rangeland folks! We are seeking someone for our rangeland ecology Chair position. Full title OR at least 10 years experience outside of academia. LOTS of financial support: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Work with me!!!!!! #range @sustainablerangeland #grassland

This is it. I have reached the peak. I have BOXES of field notebooks available to me. I have never been so rich. Field Tech Me of 2002 is in awe of 2025 Me. I have arrived.

As scientists, we must continue to support diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. Most importantly, broadening participation in science is the right thing to do. In addition, numerous peer-reviewed pubs have shown that diverse teams are more productive and innovative. Diversity has benefits!

My current bright spot is the daily updates we’re getting from field staff in Uttarakhand. They’re doing baseline surveys of the participating farmers & training them on how to sample pollinators on their orchards. #PollinatorCommons #spatialSES

First phase of our #PollinatorCommons project is underway w/ a week in the mountains in Uttarakhand. Training field staff, trialing methods & planning for a big fieldwork push in March w the whole team. #spatialses #DISES

Excellent compilation of current land system science postdoc and faculty positions, from the job board at the Global Land Programme meeting: whova.com/event-job/gl...

FYI the call is out for the Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sustainability. GREAT opportunity! 🌏 www.atkinson.cornell.edu/cornell-atki...

Everything is official, so I can finally share that our #DISES proposal on the #PollinatorCommons has been funded by #NSF! We'll be working w/ small-scale apple producers in N India & Central NY to study collective action for the conservation of wild pollinators. 🐝🌸🌳🍎👩‍🌾 www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

Reminder! Only a few more days to apply to come and work w/ me & my great colleagues @ Cornell Dept of Natural Resources & Env. We're looking for a forest ecosystem scientist-- emphasis on the *systems* part of that title! Happy to answer Qs! Exclamation pts!! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/26799

NEW PAPER OUT! w/ my ride-or-die collab Aman Luthra: ***Geographies of the Pollinator Commons*** Born from a convo over coffee, it nearly broke my brain many times. I'm so excited for it to be out in the world. Msg me for a pdf! 🌏 🐝 🌍 🌼 🌎 🌱 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

I have a piece in @nytopinion today about the true costs of cashmere. Please consider reading before you wrap up your holiday shopping. 🐐 🎁 🌏 www.nytimes.com/2023/12/16/o...

Just released! A little piece Aman Luthra & I wrote about our work w/ apple farmers in the low Himalayas. Part of our ongoing work on the Pollinator Commons. Come for the content, stay for the photos: www.focusongeography.org/publications... 🌏

Having an extremely On Brand day: -Met w colleagues to plan a social survey of herders. -Gave a lecture on Systems Thinking to 120 freshmen. -Now I need to finish my talk for the CU Biogeochem seminar tomo. This is how you #interdisciplinaryscience!

My University paid for me to get new professional headshots but they should have saved their $ bc one of our TAs just took this photo & it’s a much better representation of me:

It’s never not a good time to bring Dorceta Taylor’s critical environmental history of the American Conservation Movement into your Intro-level courses on Env Studies etc., my friends.