Loomis State Forest, northern WA

Great, now I can’t use the one pdf map I uploaded to Avenza nor can I add points, tracks, etc. unless I “upgrade” to a paid account. I used this app for free during my entire PhD field work. Anyone using alternative free mapping apps these days?

That would be me ca.news.yahoo.com/retired-biol...

Looking forward to diving into Roger Powell’s Home Ranges of Animals (only have the ebook, sadly). Loving the chapter art already!

A landscape missing its caribou… Salmo Basin, WA/ID

Reminds me of the “adaptive fetal sex ratio” idea from long-lived mammals, except that predicts more males when times are good (partly because males tend to be larger and more expensive to produce). Females are larger in raptors so this makes sense!

A mama Wood Duck and her ducklings, resting on lily pad roots.

Using tools to learn how to program is one thing, but I’m worried that we’re replacing the pursuit of a deep understanding of nature (that can only come from field experience and well-developed hypotheses) with contextless prediction machinery. Par for the course with modern ecology!

Lepus taking “leaps” across the landscape!!

Some accidental “Rt” - a raster depicting which study site each pixel on the landscape is closest to

Still amazed by this feeder bird!! (rufous hummer)

Why are the natural-history illustrations in Richard Scarry’s I AM A BUNNY (1963) as precise and well-drawn as those in any field guide? 😭

Happy Mother's Day! 📷: American Mink mom with her two kits

Felt nice to get out today in the Clearwater NF

Glacier lilies out in the Palouse

Now that I’m in data analysis mode, my diel activity pattern is pretty dang bimodal

As long as I live, I'll never understand how "it should be easier for wealthy corporations to poison the water my family drinks and the air my family breathes" became a popular political position with half the country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Wishing good luck to all the snowshoes surviving out there

Oh no, I outsourced all of my intellectual and educational responsibility to a tech bro’s content-stealing bullshit machine and it didn’t end well www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I really enjoyed reading this paper, and the data visualization gets an A+!

Like 2025, my 2026 resolution is to use zero gen-AI* It's bed for our cognitive function It's bad for our social lives, because it's algorithmic and addictive It's bad for our environment Nope *I'm ok with task-specific AI, like computer vision models for remote sensing of the environment