Nominate your outstanding senior colleagues for the Ecological Society of America's Eminent Ecologist Award! Nominations due Nov. 13. esa.org/about/awards...

🗣 Repost if you agree, America does not have any kings and we do not want any! #NoKings

Kimmel for president (2028)

Also #AJB has some of the nicest editorial staff around. Working with them was a real pleasure!

I really enjoyed reading this article. Thought-provoking about the privileges many of us have (or not).

If you see this, post something orange

It’s live online: cronelab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/how-we-do-re... Kudos to Erin Treanore and Sylvie Finn for compiling our guide of field methods for bumble bee demography. Developed in collaboration with the BOMBUSS 2023 conference participants

Today I am randomly scrolling Bluesky and liking nature posts. “Like” just doesn’t feel right for anything about politics right now.

New paper with Erica Henry & @nickhaddad.bsky.social Q: What happens when butterflies, responding to climate warming, attempt an extra generation as summers get longer? A: Long-term monitoring shows overwinter population growth increases! 🧪🦋🐛https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70018

www.opb.org/article/2025... My awesome collaborator Cheryl Schultz talking about butterfly populations and declines

Next “Exploring Careers in Ecology” webinar series by @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social * April 15, 2-3 PM EST * Panelists Rese Cloyd (also incoming ESA President!) & me * Register: esa.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #ConservationJobs

Cat and mouse (poor mouse)

Crane Beach, Ipswich Massachusetts

Happy #DarwinDay!

To me the question is whether Pres. Trump actively _wants_ to flood California or just doesn’t understand fluvial geomorphology? Clearly, I’m ignoring the possibility that he wants to do something that will make headlines and doesn’t care about the consequences

"Experts told The New York Times that the water released by the Army Corps on Friday has no way of reaching the region affected by the wildfires, which is over 200 miles away, and could have been useful to farmers months from now as irrigation." www.thedailybeast.com/farmers-plea...

Frustrated/horrified/infuriated by what's going on in the US? Students and ECR botanists and plant scientists, this is your chance to talk to elected officials face to face in April and be trained in how to approach them for maximum efficacy. Apply by 21 Feb. Must be US citizen. 🧪🌎🌾 #NSF

I started gathering a list for REUs/Summer research opportunities for undergraduate students in Ecology/Conservation/Evolutionary Biology. Feel share to share with any undergraduate students who may be interested in participating in *PAID* research. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Applications due Friday Jan. 31 for the SSE Presidents’ Award for Outstanding Dissertation Paper! If you published part of your PhD work in a 2024 issue of Evolution or Evolution Letters, apply here: https://buff.ly/4fD5OtQ @journal-evo.bsky.social @evolletters.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social

Delighted to see the final version of my paper for @asn-amnat.bsky.social appear online. In it, I analyze stochastic matrix models to partition the effects of spatial and temporal variation in demography and dispersal on metapopulation growth rates www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 1/n

Feb 15 Deadline to apply for this MSc project! 🌏🧪

Hey ecologists! I’m looking for papers for my into ecology students to read and discuss. Suggestions would be much appreciated!

Funding opportunity for Natural History research in western North America! $2500 (x5) offered by the Western North American Naturalist: scholarsarchive.byu.edu/wnan/grant_i...

First day of classes. A student sends me a messsge starting with, “Hell professor…”. Should I assume it’s a typo?

Last week, Finland's Publication Forum announced that it is downgrading its classification of 271 journals to the lowest level, zero. This includes 187 MDPI and 82 Frontiers journals. Read more by @deevybee.bsky.social here:

A good month in the urban ecology / pollinator gardening wing of the Crone lab: Paper 1/2: pollinator gardens are more common in wealthier neighborhoods with _smaller_ lot sizes. And, you can nap pollinator gardens using Google Street View: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A good month in the urban ecology / pollinator gardening wing of the Crone lab: Paper 2/2: Roads are partial barriers to sweat bee foraging rdcu.be/d20HA

Today’s puppy photo is about understanding new perspectives and (hopefully) learning to get along

Food, family, friends. So much to be thankful for.

A visit to the National Museum of the American Indian. Seemed like an apt start to the Thanksgiving holiday.

Heading to Pennsylvania for a seminar visit. Unless I am forgetting something, this is my first bona fide long distance seminar visit in about 5 years! Looking forward to meeting so many cool people! ento.psu.edu/events/eliza...

Reposting to my timeline so I have this handy. It’s great!

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Crate training?

Good morning!

Wow - this is really nicely written. Thanks for sharing!

So many new faces on Bluesky! Where did everyone come from? 😊 I wish I had more to post, but for now I’ll just add another puppy picture

So it turns out today was the day I adopted a puppy. Thanks to Yolo County SPCA!

Re-upping this as folks join the new platform: Our department is hiring!!! If you've got some quantitative and/or mammals experience, come join our wonderful department @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social! Deadline for applications is Dec 2! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06725

Our checkerspot butterfly research from 2019 is finally out! Nectar, phenology and big regional differences in habitat quality. So much has happened since then! And huge thanks to Ecology editor Jessica Forrest for her thoughtful handling of this manuscript! doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

Are you a comp bio graduate student close to finishing your PhD? The Mahan Fellowship is a fully-funded ~2 year postdoc to work with any Fred Hutch comp bio faculty members! Pre-proposals are due Dec 20! Check out full details here: apply.interfolio.com/157470 #ScienceJobs 🧪 #AcademicSky

Join the Computational Biology Core @cbcuconn.bsky.social at UConn! We're hiring a scientist to provide bioinformatic support to diverse research, develop reproducible workflows, & provide training at all levels! Position is available at MS/PhD level - apply here: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/cw/en-us/job...

We are hiring a TT faculty at CU Boulder at the assistant or associate level at the interface of ecology and remote sensing: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... Apps due Nov 15

In Fall 2020 #WVU initiated a review of academic programs that led to devastating layoffs and program closures announced in Aug 2023. Today we learned the same process has begun at #UCONN www.courant.com/2024/10/17/u...

my dept is looking to hire two professors in plant/fungi/algae evolution & ecology! 🧪 apps due Nov 15 jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess...

Guess which of these was more familiar to students in my Ecological Statistics class: A. Taylor series (the math kind) B. Andie MacDowell (the actress)

A great job (Herbarium Collections Manager) in a great department (Herbarium, Botany Department) at a great institution (UW Madison) in a great city (Madison WI)! Apply today! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/herbari...

“When you don’t have test scores, the students who suffer most are those with high grades at relatively unknown high schools, the kind that rarely send kids to the Ivy League...The SAT is their lifeline" www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/b... Features a new study by my colleagues tinyurl.com/satvshsgrades

I am *thrilled* to finally announce that our department is hiring an Evolutionary Biologist. We are esp looking genetic/genomic expertise, and those who can help us build a more equitable biology community at UCSB. Please apply by Jan 15! recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02635 #unicornjob