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 😆

Amy Bowers Cordalis’ new book, The Water Remembers, weaves together memoir, historical narrative nonfiction, legal battles and family to tell the story of the largest dam removal project in history. buff.ly/Ev5kjMH

Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15 Please share far and wide 🚀 (See thread)

New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm

Was reminded on a beautiful trip to the Klamath River today how intensely we would love to collaborate with folks studying pollinators in this space. Amazing restoration of the reservoirs with so much going on. N CA and OR pollinator peeps, we have veg data and would love to chat!

Turns out that planted Jeffrey pine seedlings in the eastern Sierra have higher survival under shrubs than in the open. Most foresters will tell you that shrubs are detrimental, but most of that data come from more productive, western slope sites where shrubs get much bigger 🤔

WOCinEEB is preparing for this year's round of mentorship groups, so it's a great time to connect!

The Women of Color in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology community (WOCinEEB; non-binary inclusive) is doing another round of matching for one-on-one mentorship! You can sign up here: forms.gle/Cfk3Y5CZksSS... I'm also happy to answer any questions! #Mentorship #Ecology #EvolutionaryBiology

If you're interested in what two years of revegetation look like in the Klamath reservoirs, I'm presenting this Thursday at the Native Plant Society of Oregon, Siskiyou chapter meeting!

Last two days to apply! #postdocjobs #remotesensing #ecology

Spooky season approaches, so I'm going to repost some of my Halloween comics from years past.

Join the Laughlin lab and our new NSF funded project! Awesome opportunity to visit forests across the western US and examine the functional basis of demographic responses to drought and wildfire.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Really looking forward to meeting and learning from amazing scientists and restoration practitioners this week! Anyone else going to be at #SER2025 in Denver? 🌱 🦋