Getting to work in the regrowing Klamath reservoirs is such an incredible source of joy. The river is so clean and beautiful this year, and look at those willows! I've loved seeing the osprey move in this year following the abundance of salmon

The New York Times is now parody of itself. Universities that focus on what we do in our day-to-day lives that resonates with people beyond ourselves? My dudes, have you ever been to a regional public university or any campus that isn't Harvard?

Such a devasting loss 💔 If you are able to, consider donating to support Adriana's family 👇🏽 www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

The decision to make is (1) do you get your grant killed by text analysis tool or (2) killed in study section by not describing your science well? Also, does this cover biosketches because now with sciENcv it’s impossible to censor your work without removing it entirely and looking unqualified.

Prof. Adriana Romero-Olivares, UC Riverside, was doing incredible work on how fungi and ecosystems respond to global change. A rising voice, a dynamic scientist and educator, a young mother, wife and daughter gone far too soon. A huge loss. Her family, students and community are in my thoughts.

All 12 palettes together for easy reference! 🎨 While this started out with R coding and plots/figures in mind, I have absolutely LOVED seeing replies excited about using these palettes on other art projects, from quilting to decorating. 🥹 Feel free to share your creations! #rstats #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪

Happy #EarthDay celebrating wonders large and small

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

I sighed again. I was having a lot of opportunities to do it and I think I was getting good at it.

For the First Time in the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas - Yale E360 share.google/MHqujR4WDrUK...

My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service. The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.

Registration for Ontario #Ecology, #Ethology, and #Evolution Colloquium closes TOMORROW, April 10th! #OE3C Plenaries from Drs. Jesse Popp, Nancy Chen & Mélanie Guigueno! CCOVI tour and #wineTasting #workshops #GuidedHikes #PhotoContest + more! @brocku.ca

As a fire scientist, I am devastated for my many good friends and colleagues who will be affected by the mass closure of so many research stations and offices. Many will leave the agency. USFS has pioneered so much foundational fire science. The consequences of this will be catastrophic.

This I Know Far Too Much About (that aren't theater or movies): 1. Mistletoe dispersal via bird diarrhea 2. Civil War history (not proud of this one) 3. Modeling all scientific phenomenon as a mass on a spring

I have this idea of doing a monthly bee id guide (The Bee-ther Report?) but I can't do this month without mentioning the most common bee you'll see out there

Few are brave enough to acknowledge the truth.

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

Beautiful welcome to town view, love to see that smoke in the hills during this wet week 🔥💚

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

Let’s focus on R&D. A list of cities hides the ties to our nation’s scientific prowess: USFS R&D sites are co-located w/ universities. To illustrate: when a list says “Lexington, KY,” the name is: “Institute of Forest Health, University of Kentucky.” It’s how the FS helped build brain power.

Yup.

This is the reality that trans academics live in. You think the job market is bad for YOU? Imagine what it's like for someone who can't safely work in over half of the country. If you live in one of these red states, your department is missing out on amazing scientists. Science is political.

Southern Oregon: all of the above

I have an ecology joke, but the punchline depends on the audience

Come work with us! We're hiring summer field technicians to conduct ecology research in the Colorado Rocky Mountains! nwt.lternet.edu/news/apply-n... @official-bweems.bsky.social @sacnas.bsky.social @fieldinclusive.bsky.social @geolatinas.bsky.social @500womensci.bsky.social #AISES #LGBTSTEM

The Wayne Harrison Memorial Scholarship supports the academic and professional growth of students through funding research, management, or education projects related to wildland fire science. Applications are due April 15, and scholarships are awarded by May 31. https://ow.ly/wwBS50YsubN

A fitting end to teaching speciation in the last week of undergrad evolution. Darwin 1858 March 11th, definitely was running on empty in week 10 of the quarter.

I’d appreciate if folks could share this seasonal forestry (non-fire) position, based at any BLM office in California, with current/former students (or anyone else who may be interested!): www.usajobs.gov/job/857451400

New dog paper out! 📢 #CanineScience We used 2 timepoints of behavioral testing, a population pedigree, and genome-wide sequence data to estimate the heritability of various cognitive & behavioral traits in a population of assistance dogs. 🐕‍🦺🧬 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

Ominous bird valentines.

Botany valentine. Another oldie.

Cool new paper showing that prescribed + managed fire can restore historic fire regimes, using and validating new dendro methods to re-construct area burned histories. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The lack of snow in our mountains is pretty scary. And in case, like me, you could use the reminder -- we have no direct control over whether or not it snows today. That said, there are many things we can do to make our forests, communities, and watersheds healthier and more resilient 🌱🏔️🔥

Update -- six email threads later we have figured out the report name had been changed by one letter so the search couldn't find it anymore. Will it be there tomorrow? Who knows!

Love sharing the WatchDuty app in my classes, but every time I open it Jackson and Josephine county breaks my heart. Where's our prescribed fire?🔥🔥

Paid Summer Internships... Join us for a summer of ecological research at the Holden Arboretum. Opportunities in restoration ecology, population ecology, plant ecophysiology, forest health, and more. On-site housing available at low cost. lnkd.in/gjWUznhj

Our lab is hiring summer positions! frsbeelab.org/join-the-lab

So excited about this incredible fellowship program designed to empower students interested in tackling issues like climate change, wildfires, and more. Open to all majors, because all perspectives and skillsets are important to engage with these challenges!

Southern Oregon University’s Institute for Applied Sustainability is recruiting students for its new Community Resilience and Leadership Student Fellows program to help create meaningful solutions to urgent challenges facing local communities. ashland.news/sou-opens-ne...

📣 Job Opportunity | Reintroduction Planning Manager This position will support a new 3-year grant focused on tribal-led sea otter reintroduction planning in Oregon. 🗓 Apply by: January 26, 2026 🔗 Full job description & application: www.elakhaalliance.org/employment/ #NowHiring #OceanJobs #Oregon

I've kept a running doc of how to do basic grant things throughout my institution's multi-year transition of core software programs, and at this point it reads like House of Leaves. Notes like "I've either lost access to this report or it never existed" abound 🫥

Really looking forward to presenting some of our past, ongoing, and upcoming work on the underappreciated role of private urban trees at #BES2025 tomorrow morning (in the Nature and Humans session)! Hoping to see some friendly faces and new colleagues there. @britishecologicalsociety.org

Excited to attend my first BES meeting! Visit poster A4.29 tomorrow 6-7:30 pm to chat about nectar microbes! #BES2025

To be clear: the new, near-exclusive emphasis on natural causes of climate change on the U.S. EPA's website is now completely out of synch with all available evidence demonstrating overwhelming human influence on contemporary warming trends.

I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉 gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

When you're faced with an emergency like a wildfire, where do you turn for information? As of today, everyone across 50 U.S. states can now rely on Watch Duty: Simple, clear, actionable alerts backed by a powerhouse team that combines cutting-edge technology with nonstop human monitoring.

Wildlife tracking! I'm reposting things I made this past year. If you look closely at the deer tracks you'll see I added the hint that they're double registering (hind foot is stepping into the same spot as front foot).

Our timely study set in western India, which utilizes #indigenous traditional literature dating back to 750yrs, provides 1 such line of evidence. Contradicting t popular notion of a forested-past, historical nature descriptions revealed a major% of plants typical of savannas. 5/n

Oregon has some suggestions for you 😆