South Texas game cam catches a raccoon riding a javelina (Dicotyles tajacu). The deer feeder corn attracts a lot of other species, but maybe we should worry about them all teaming up against us? (📷: Jeff Davis, TAMU-Kingsville alumni forum)

#SciArtSeptember Day 23: Scouting Working dogs use their noses to find target species during conservation projects. - #beagle #dogs #sketchbook #drawing

TODAY is the deadline to submit public comment on Trump’s proposal to rescind the Roadless Rule, which would expose 45 million acres of national forest to permanent roads and their attendant environmental ills. Register your disapproval here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... #roadecology

Today's "everything is bad so let's pause for a second to regard nature and take a breath that isn't poisoned by our fear of a collapsing democracy" pic -- an osprey flying overhead. Photo by me.

Why do we have to have workday when it literally does not help anyone out ever

I want to be a great scientist for many many reasons. At this moment, I want to be known to the point that Joe Jonas knows me. Lmfao three things about me: I love dogs, wildlife, and the Jonas brothers.

One last outing this field season with my incoming graduate student. We collected genetic samples from wolf scat and hiked through some beautiful country. Looking forward to the start of the semester and getting this project officially started!

Diving into the world of genetics and wowowowow it’s pretty incredible what we can do huh

‼️New 🐺 paper‼️We developed models to predict highly suitable den & rendezvous site habitat for Mexican wolves in AZ & NM. These models will be used to guide future monitoring as the population continues to grow. #OpenAccess #JournalOfWildlifeManagement wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The WildCo Lab @wildco.bsky.social is recruiting 2 postdocs in quantitative ecology to work on mammal population estimation and monitoring from camera trap data. 🐺🐻🦌📷📈 Please share the word or apply to join us at UBC in lovely Vancouver, Canada! wildlife.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/0...

I miss when we could connect and network on Twitter. It’s not the same here. I am grateful for my network I made on there though. It has helped me More than yall know.

I thought I’d share a photo from one of our sites on the MD black bear project. A big male and female pair hanging around our snare. They both were a bit pre occupied to go in, except the female was more curious. Fingers crossed she comes back and goes in. Some younger bears went in though!!

I really love Meidase brand cameras.

Hey! Check out a snippet of our project!! Maryland and DC Bears 👀 www.instagram.com/reel/DKaAyD4...

We started building hair snares yesterday! Black bear hair snares will be used to determine density and movement estimates that will better understand the Maryland black bear population. I have a team of 10 and so far they are dedicated wonderful humans ❤️

HOLY SHIT. The ban on any federal funding gender-affirming care includes stripping ACA plans of covering it as the essential care it is. I have an ACA plan. I live in a blue state, but I am about to lose access to treatments I need. We told you this was coming www.advocate.com/politics/ant...

The bears like our [duct tape] hair snare! 😍🧪🐻

The Nightingale is ruining me

Birding at Magee wildlife marsh in Ohio… I SAW A BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER AHHHHHH

Do not forget to submit a comment to the feds to not rescind the definition of “harm” in the ESA!!!

Hey @searchliaison.bsky.social I am not a bot, please stop terminating my ability to use google scholar 😭😭😭

So I made friends with the woman next door. We are about the same age. She has a huge family. They are all so welcoming and their friends. Be annoying and ask people to be your friend yall. It sometimes works out. And they are all big nerds in the music world.

We're #hiring a Statistical Wildlife Ecologist! This position analyzes large, complex datasets to support landscape management throughout Canada. Learn more and apply through the University of Alberta by May 27, 2025: wildlifescience.ca/hiring-stati... #biodiversity #mammals #wildlife

Huge shout out to the people who are willing to help my team and I here at UMD on this bear project, even while facing the uncertainty of the wildlife profession and their jobs. I am beyond grateful because this project is huge and it could not be done without the help of so many.

🧪Hello! are you a scientist who started your PhD in 2020 and are now wrapping up? I want to know how your life is and how you're feeling about your prospects in 2025 for a story in @nature.com. DM me or find me on Signal at aheidt.16. Tell yo friends! (Also seeking international sources.)

One of my goals this summer is to uplift and build confidence in the wildlife techs and volunteers on this MD bear project. The world and the US specifically is so hard, and I’m glad I can help get them some experience and put them into the woods.

This administration is banning any mention of the minorities who helped shape our country. So it is our civic duty to shout their achievements from the mountain tops. Today we highlight Patsy Mink, an absolute powerhouse in U.S. politics. #SaveOurHistory #censorship #dei #history #CivilRights

My dog child cost me $700 yesterday because she needed all of her shots, but also a senior blood panel. And that rocked me a bit because how is my hyperactive GSD a senior dog 😭😭😭😭😭😭

📣PRESSURE WORKS!📣 The Trump administration has reversed its termination of thousands of students’ U.S. visa registrations, reinstating their legal status after legal challenges and court orders deemed the mass cancellations unlawful. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, DORKS! www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Speaking as a lawyers: lawyers are not going to save us, but we have an important role to play in buying enough time for a mass movement to push back against what's happening

A science communicator launched an effort to pair artists with scientists whose jobs were eliminated or whose research funding was halted by the Trump administration. The result? Powerful portraits of researchers and their work. ⚛️🧪 doi.org/10.1063/pt.f...

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

I have one or two more chapters to really finalize for my PhD and I’m stuck between making them more ecological focused, or more quantitative focused. I’m trying to decide what will be better for my future. I want to be more “ecologist” than “quantitative ecologist”. I probably do not make sense.

If you, like me, had you NSF granted terminated, here’s what I learned from a hopeful meeting with my VP of research: 1. We have 30 days to act! Meet with your admin asap 2. APPEAL: Everyone can appeal! It must go through your institution, there’s a template, sent registered mail. My VP told me ⬇️

Im trying to step away from social media. I have a huge project to run this summer. 155 hair snare traps, 9+ people, DNR collaboration, hopefully 155 camera traps, and a squished little field house. The world is burning and my mental health is declining bc I can’t stop reading horror every day.

Kelly Perkins presented a great comparison of Merlin Sound ID and BirdNET for classifying avian passive acoustic data. #neafwa

Maryland’s spring tops any other states spring I’ve experienced (California, Michigan, Ohio)

University of Kentucky is hiring a wildlife research analyst. This is great for a recently graduated masters. ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/579...

I have family that I love dearly, that saved me from very bad situations in my life, who voted for Trump. And it kills me every day. But having one of them ask me how to get reliable information and what news to follow that will be unbiased, was a win.

#Trump's #Easter message should be front page news, #FactChecked by real #journalists we evidently no longer have. It's as unhinged as it is riddled with lies, and every time we fail to call it out, #WeThePeople become less #free.

I try to hold on to a smidgen of hope. Hope that the natural resources field won’t be destroyed. But it’s happening. Nothing is going to be the same. And the grief is overbearing.

Does anyone have a good paper or protocol they use for camera trap settings? What you would use for bears at hair snares and for potential video settings?

NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume... Download what you need asap and send comments to: [email protected]

If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Making a big deal about sending an all women team “to space” on Blue Origin, in full glam, while defunding programs that support women scientists and stripping DEIA from NASA…is something else. Science for me, but not for thee! #standupforscience