i love when a press release headline sounds like it was written by an aggrieved fish

At a brewery. It's trivia night. The question was "what z word is the term for a fertilized egg?" Guy down the bar says "zembryo"

Are you a landowner? Make sure your lad has beaver inclusive practices! I love learning about topics outside of my own area of research! #NACCR2026 #wildlifeconservation

The most stressful part of my trip to ##NACCR2026 is now over. I figured out how to pay for the bus.

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www.latimes.com/california/s... The Trump administration rolled back the Endangered Species Act on Friday, slashing protections to the habitats of endangered species and paving the way for more drilling and mining. 🧪🌎

I submitted my comment on the dangers of finalizing the OMB rule. Have you? Tomorrow, July 13 is the deadline!

If your University's business cards suck, you can design your own. No one can stop you.

Sent off the #NACCR2026 poster for printing. Come by if you have suggestions about linking models together in a user friendly way.

Come say hi at #NACCR2026! We have some great #consocsci content going on! Don't forget to join us for the @scbsswg.bsky.social business meeting!

when you never learned the salmon life cycle

We're excited to join colleagues from across #conservation and #restoration at #NACCR2026 in Milwaukee this July! If you’re attending, we hope you'll join us at any of our 3 events to strengthen #scicomm skills, exchange ideas, and build connections. Learn more: buff.ly/CMYTtFT

Beavers play an important role in creating habitat connectivity for terrestrial mammals, and their dams are favoured over other structures. 🧪🌍

These are really cool 🧪 www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

On Friday I took my *luckiest* and *most disgusting* wildlife shot so far: a California sea lion (Z. californianus) puking up a bunch of rocks! 🤮🪨 That's right - many pinnipeds use gastroliths. The gastroliths are in mid-air! 🦖🐬🦑 #nature #photography #sealion

Scientists Capture First Photo Evidence of Dwarf Island Fox Not Seen in 20 Years https://gizmodo.com/scientists-capture-first-photo-evidence-of-dwarf-island-fox-not-seen-in-20-years-2000768699

I found some cool coasters in our office supplies cabinate.

I have been collecting funky folk-art fish figurines on various trips & finally strung them together to make a reef fish mobile that reminds me of snorkeling as they spin in the breeze 🐟🐠🎏 🤿 🌊

New way to view these Data Centers that are draining the communities they implant themselves in... draining resources for slop

📢 New IMR study on movement patterns of #BaskingSharks shows that sharks tagged above the #ArcticCircle in #Norway perform repeated large-scale movements to subtropical waters and actively use the water column across habitats.🧵 1/5 👉 doi.org/10.3354/meps... @whoi.edu @thembauk.bsky.social

10 yrs after our first paper on spotted owls & “megafires”, here is the granddaddy of them all: a Wildlife Monograph. >30 yr of detection/non-detection data across >1500 territories (796 burned) and movement data from 171 GPS-tagged owls. Conclusion: big hot fire bad doi.org/10.1002/wmon...

Neat study on how the removal of fencing along the Trans-Mongolian Railway allowed Asiatic wild asses to recolonize their historic range. Now we need more permanent wildlife crossings to help these guys out. #fenceecology #roadecology www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

All works of prose, fiction or non-, could benefit from the incorporation of a sturgeon.

Happy Earth Day, everybody! (Poster by me with some NASA public domain photos)

Almost 60 percent of the lifetime diets of taimen in Russia's Tugur River is *adult chum salmon*. Imagine what a bad-ass freshwater fish you have to be to just inhale salmon like they're mayflies. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

I got so annoyed with some of You People that I made a meme Science is not why you and your family are struggling, friends. President Trump and Congressional Republicans are the reason why you and your family are struggling.

Sad that it died, but maybe this enterprising gray whale in the Willapa River just wanted to show the salmon how real carcass enrichment works? I hope this turns into a bear bonanza, that would be awesome. Nobody tell Oregon. 🐟🌎🦊

happy #sturgeonsaturday (on sunday)! 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌐🦑🌎 did you know that sturgeon rely heavily on scent & feel to find food rather than eyesight? in the photo you can see the barbels (like whiskers) & the 2 nostrils - which are basically the same size as the eye! these strong sniffers are quite impressive 👃

HEC-RAS 2025 is now in Beta!!! Looks like they haven't updated the site yet but if you download it you can get Beta. 🧪

happy #sturgeonsaturday ! this is the time of year that sturgeon wake up from their overwintering cuddling and move around in search of food! in the Fraser River, BC this usually aligns with the eulachon spawning run, a crucial sturgeon food source, full of fat after a long winter 🍽️ 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🌐🦑🐟

My gosh, the helicopter pruning some conifer branches on camera at the 5:10 mark is a harrowing example of the risk that accurately counting and managing wolves sometimes requires. Great video from @biographic.bsky.social 🌎🧪🦊 www.biographic.com/how-to-count...

🌎️🧪 Ecology, forestry, or geography students — ApexRMS is hiring a Wildfire Specialist Intern! 6-month remote role starting April 6. Deadline: March 31st. apexrms.com/careers/ #Hiring #Wildfire #Canada #Forestry #Ecology

The striped hyena is in decline. There are fewer than 10,000 left. “Yet it remains largely overlooked in global policy frameworks,” says WCS’s Sue Lieberman. 🌎 At #CMSCOP15, we are supporting a proposal for protections. bit.ly/4uPPUEC

Please soothe your soul with this footage of an enraged muppet being treated at the wild muppet center.

My late husband would have been so excited about this news! Scientists discover new heavy proton-like particle at CERN share.google/8aKm98yYU5NE...

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Two new bird species identified in Amazonia 🌎 www.sci.news/biology/amaz...

I would like to interrupt your doomscrolling for an important announcement: This figure from Ellen Dymit et al., 2025, depicts the proportion of vertebrate prey in felid scat, recorded as a Proportion of Occurrence (PoO). 💩

This could be your dream job! PhD in ecology, and English and Japanese language skills required... working for POKEMON!!! www.ign.com/articles/the...

Ordered. These books are both beautiful and informative.

GOP leadership using the rarely used Congressional Review Act to overrule land mgmt plans that have taken years of research, local collaboration and public meetings to push for coal & copper mining & oil drilling & reverse protections on other lands. 🧪🌿🌎 stateline.org/2026/03/09/r...

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 287 Research suggests that around one in five #bumblebee queens perish during winter #hibernation. Heavier queens, having greater reserves of fat and glycogen, are more likely to survive than their lighter counterparts. #bees #nature #wildlife 🐝🌍

Great ecological models don’t matter if decision-makers can’t use them 🌎️🧪 Ecological forecasting is advancing rapidly, but too often results never reach the people making real-world decisions.

The US army corps of engineers is considering, right now, what would be the largest destruction of coral reefs in US history. To make a port slightly bigger. People know this, right? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... 🧪🦑🌎

Good. No concern was given for the impact on other marine species nor for human health. #politas

Conservation decision-makers need to figure out how to spend their very scarce resources most effectively and in real time. A new mapping approach, led by @wcs.org and funded by NASA, could help. 🌎 More from @mongabay.com: news.mongabay.com/2026/03/new-...

“Internationally, suspension bridges have proven their effectiveness in various habitats, providing connectivity between them, increasing gene flow for endangered species, and reducing mortality in areas near power lines and highways.” 🌍🐒🦥 news.mongabay.com/2026/03/acro...