📢 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...

🧪🌎🔬🌡️Many heat-stressed tropical insects are reaching their limits www.science.org/content/arti...

NEWS: Ecuador has officially recognized the Llanganates–Yasuní Connectivity Corridor—a milestone for conservation in the Andes-Amazon region. bit.ly/4bkY6ou 🌎

Dawg if I was a cookie-cutter shark and found out that my species could have been known as the "demon whale-biter" instead I'd be fuckin' *pissed*. Absolute nomenclatural humiliation. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Who COULDN’T use some good news? ‘ Scientists with the Yurok Tribe say that two of dozens of condors released to the wild in Humboldt County since 2022, to reestablish the endangered birds, have paired up, built a nest in a redwood tree and appear to be tending to an egg.” #californiacondor

"Billions fewer birds are flying through North American skies than decades ago and their population is shrinking ever faster, mostly due to a combination of intensive agriculture and warming temperatures, a new study found." 🧪 🌎 🌿 🪶 apnews.com/article/bird...

It’s #worldwildlifeday and here’s a photo I took of one of the last two northern white rhinoceros, living in protection at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. 🦏 🇰🇪 🌎

The Wisconsin DNR reports that even January’s polar vortex wasn’t enough to wipe out most insects, making it unlikely we will see a large impact on EAB populations. Read more: forestrynews.blogs.govdelivery.com/2026/03/02/d... #Entomology 🧪🌍🍁

Meet the Malayan tapir. This critter's unique nose (proboscis) helps it breathe while in water. Though it may be friend-shaped, give it space: It weighs ~1,000 lbs (450 kg) & can run faster than an Olympic sprinter! Photo: John Clough, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

New green #sturgeon open access article published. We look at potential spawning cyclic dominance as we investigate some aspects of our survey methods. 🧪🌎 doi.org/10.1002/aqc....

new paper and illustrations 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🌎🌐 We asked are embryos understudied in conservation physiology? Turns out, despite the increasing recognition of the ecological importance & sensitivity of embryos, we found no evidence that embryo research has gained traction over the past 10yrs paper link below👇🏼

I'm turning Fridays into #frogfriday! I'll do my best to post a photo or video of my frogs every Friday! You're welcome to join if you have frogs as well! Just use the hashing #frogfriday! We need more frogs on the skyline! My gorgeous gray tree frog, Rupee 🐸🌲🌲🌱🐸💚🌱

Good news on California Condors: The Peregrine Fund (TPF) reports that 17 young condors were successfully released in 2025, joining the Arizona-Utah flock. TPF has a management facility at the Vermilion Cliffs where the condors prepare for release and are carefully monitored after release.

Looks like bad news for #vaquita

Looking at #Biodiversity #DigitalTwins that utilise Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) principles to help transform research and decision-making 🌍 www.nature.com/articles/s44... #BiodiversityDigitalTwin #BiodiversityAction #Ecosystems

Improving #species #abundance information from #river #eDNA metabarcoding data: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🐜 🧬 📈 🌐🌍

While there are new reasons to be concerned about public lands each day, a bit of sunshine and hope as the Ventura Land Trust opened its new Ventura Hills Nature Preserve. The preserve includes more than 1600 acres of hillsides above downtown and west Ventura 🌎

Just finished one of the best books I've read in a while. Highly recommend. All the more interesting given it's pre-COVID

A fun case study since there have been 72 million articles on the cold in the east and 4 on the warmth in the west

Does anyone still use VisTrails or Kepler for scientific modeling workflows? Have those been eclipsed with something else? 🧪