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Please repost! The LOC Lab @UCSB is recruiting a #PostdoctoralScholar in forest ecology and data science to develop data-driven models of forest resilience to compound disturbances (e.g., fire, drought, insects). 🌱🍁🌏🧪🌐 Applications due Feb 5 Apply here: www.landscapesofchangelab.com/were-hiring-1

Keeping rats out of our toilets seems like an important yet heretofore unexplored climate action talking point.

New Weather West post: As warm atmospheric rivers slide gradually southward along Pacific Coast, a return to rain and end to tule fog in NorCal later this week–but don’t expect much mountain snow (at least initially).

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

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/

I'm very sad to say William Bond, of the University of Cape Town & Fellow of the Royal Society (@royalsociety.org ), has passed away. It is a great loss. He was an enthusiastic ecologist and a critical thinker. I learned a lot, and I still had a lot to learn from him. RIP. 😢 🧪🌎🔥🌿🌳🪴🌐 #PlantScience

Happy #BatMas everyone! Follow this thread ⬇️ or check out the hashtag to find out about a new bat species everyday, for 25 days! 🦇🌎🧪 #BatSky🧵

Valid link to the paper: mapress.com/zt/article/v...

Norman et al. The role of AI in ecology’s computational carbon footprint esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #AI #ecology #CarbonFootprint

“Choosing to write is also choosing to make meaning. Studies suggest that having a sense of agency is both a prerequisite for, and an outcome of, writing.” ChatGPT isn’t mentioned once in this article but it’s impossible not to read it as a powerful critique.

Despite the general perception, global emissions from biomass burning have shown a decreasing trend over the last 23 years, a pattern that is reversed in North America. 🧪🌎🔥🌲🔥🌳🍁🌐 wildfire

Some important news this week that fell below the headlines or other news www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...

🤯 Wild shit here. They put biologgers on greater noctule bats and found them pursuing, capturing, and eating birds in-flight. The recording of a European Robin getting blasted and snacked on is nuts. Sci Am story: www.scientificamerican.com/article/this... Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Join us at CU Denver Biology! We have an open search for an assistant professor in cell and molecular biology to support our research and teaching mission. cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

A Magellanic penguin making sure the seals were asleep before walking past them..

Our new study just came out taking a look at how drought influences human-wildlife conflict reports in California! Check it out here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Researchers looked back at more than 1,000 cancer patients, including some who received a COVID mRNA vaccine around the time of treatment. Their findings excited them.

The latest @ologies.bsky.social is Owls! It's brilliant (as are all Ologies). It's with the awesome Rocky Guitiérrez, who was PhD supervisor of @jonathanslaght.com (Owls of the Eastern Ice book!) who we got to meet & show owls to when he came to Brisbane a few years ago. pca.st/episode/573b...

We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist. For more information, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet...

With the aurora popping up again last night, I thought I'd repost this adventure from last year. I drew this when the great @nepeteaa.bsky.social wondered what night-migrating songbirds might make of it all. Part 1/2

The impacts of avian influenza are profound and far reaching. Hopefully 🇮🇸 Gyrfalcons will recover in time but this is near catastrophic #RaptorResearch 🌎 🪶 Avian flu taking a severe toll on Iceland’s falcon population icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/20...

Fort Collins, CO! A first for me! Also, why is it red and not green?

Both of these animals are 'pandas': the red panda (Ailurus fulgens) and giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca). But they're not closely related, with a common ancestor ~40 MYA. So which one is the TRUE panda?

🦇ICYMI: a great video on our work developing a "probiotic" to help bats survive white-nose syndrome infections. This beautifully shot video also gives a good primer on what the probiotic is all about. This was 2yrs ago -good news...our studies show the probiotic is working! youtu.be/VOtuiB6aiLE?...

¿Hiciste tu doctorado en México? ¿Quieres hacer un postdoc en California? ¿Te interesa la genética evolutiva? ¡Checa esta beca y mándame un mensaje! alianzamx.universityofcalifornia.edu/research-and...

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

Bats are the primary pollinators for agave plants. Commercial agave, used to create tequila & mezcal, is increasingly being propagated via clonal "pups", because the flowering stalk is cut to increase the rate at which the "heart" (piña) grows. This decreases genetic diversity....

Yesterday I posted the slowed motion of a Pileated woodpecker in flight. this reminded me I also had done a Barred Owl in flight, #birds

Hi all! I am seeking an ecology or applied math PhD student interested in quantitative ecology, specifically ecological theory, food web modeling, or population dynamics. If you are interested, have a look at our lab website below and reach out to me. resiliencelab.github.io/join/

Peeking in at juveniles in the sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) breeding program at Friday Harbor Labs was just overwhelmingly hopeful. These little guys can grow to 3ft across. >90% of sunflower stars along N. America's west coast were killed by sea star wasting disease in 2013-14.

Halloween costume ideas for birders.

A reminder to all scientists & data viz people 🧪: It's Spooky Science Time. Adjust your models to use the paranormal distribution 👻from now until November 1st.

Bummer www.npr.org/2025/10/22/n...

The North Atlantic right whale, one of the rarest whales on the planet, now numbers an estimated 384 animals, up 8 whales from the previous year, according to the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium. Right whales were once hunted to the brink of extinction. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Folks have been focused on the developing disaster in southwest Alaska, but America's farthest-west community is suffering, too: Adak has been without power for two weeks because of problems with the local generator. www.kucb.org/regional/202...

Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c

OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx! www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

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

NEW EPISODE of #FireEcology Chats! 🔥 Bob Keane is joined by Kristin Nesbit, Scott Stephens, and Zachary Steel to discuss how greater use of managed wildfires impacts carbon stocks #SNFECO Listen here: fireecology.org/feco-podcast/ep70

UMass Boston seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in microbial ecology, starting September 1, 2026. Apply by December 1, 2025. Details: http://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/biology #job

🚨 Please repost widely!🚨 I am recruiting a PhD student to join my lab next fall to work on forest and climate change ecology projects in southern Appalachia! Come join me in one of the most beautiful, biodiverse, and understudied parts of North America. Details below and happy to answer questions

Yo #teamfish, major dream job alert!

Come work with us! My lab is looking for PhD student(s) to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies in Colorado. Reviewing applications now - apply by Nov 1 at the latest You could spend your summers here!

Jane and her work had a special way of bringing you in. She undoubtedly inspired entire generations of conservation biologists, behavioral ecologists, and optimists — Myself included. She will be missed. 🧪🌍

🚨Great job with great people in Alaska 🐺🦌🧪 We are recruiting for a wildlife biologist to support our predator-prey program in Southeast Alaska. This application is now open. This is a great career starting point with room for growth in this field. www.governmentjobs.com/careers/%7B0...

Ponderosa pine smells like butterscotch. Go ahead, sniff one the next time you're in the western US. Some say "vanilla", some say "oh no, my nose is covered in sap." Let's talk about birds, butterscotch, forest fires, blue wood, & boring beetles. But mostly this thread is about terpenes.

California firefighters are mounting extraordinary efforts to shield some of the planet’s most venerable trees from the Garnet Fire, which has burned over 55,000 acres in the Sierra National Forest.