Our #ConservationDog, Filson is in a children’s book, 𝘋𝘰𝘨𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘑𝘰𝘣𝘴 by Andrea Rowe (& even has his own coloring page)! 🥲 We’re so proud of his hard work for wildlife & for inspiring the next generation wildlife biologists. Sniff it out: www.readings.com.au/product/9781...

I’m really concerned about early career scientists using generative AI in writing, because writing is how we think and reflect. There’s almost nothing *more* human than that, and to give that gift away to a machine is almost unconscionable to me

And another article featured thanks to Matt Delheimer’s photography of female marten F20 in Lassen NF, California 💗. Huge shoutout to @roguedogs.bsky.social, Matt, and the Levi and Moriarty research programs for collaborative peek into the diets of martens in the PNW and across North America

Take a peek—the December cover of "Ecosphere" is here! With a curious marten photographed as part of a recent study that finds these small carnivores have remarkable foraging and diet flexibility across North American forests Browse the issue: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21508925...

Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...

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/

💙 Excited to have participated in this dynamic wildlife research alongside Martin et al.(2025) in Yosemite NP. By our side when we snapped this pic? Our cowoofer, Filson. 👇🏽 We're grateful to his nose for all the data he helped detect! -With @mellenmartin.bsky.social

Filson says he still can't believe @oikosjournal.bsky.social chose this pic! Awoo! He appreciated the opportunity to contribute to wildlife surveys in Yosemite NP alongside this team of amazing researchers. 👏🏽🐾

Our (very!) collaborative look at the lives of carnivores in Yosemite gets a feature thanks to @roguedogs.bsky.social amazing camera work 😊 Yosemite is an ecological and aesthetic marvel!

Our cover for December! 🦊 Martin et al.(2025) show that species like bobcats, cougars, coyotes, gray foxes, and martens largely avoid each other in space but share surprisingly similar diets—revealing how landscape conditions shape coexistence but also their delicate balance. vist.ly/4h3ks

Occasionally there is good news.

Folks: I will be flying an ad for well funded PhD and MSc positions in the coming days. If you want to do movement ecology and conservation with these incredible animals… watch this space 🦉🌲

POSTDOC JOB AD: I'm hiring a Bayesian ecologist to build a (IMO, extremely fun) model of humpback whale spatiotemporal dynamics in California 2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin. ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003

In June, the @washingtonpost.com sent me and @byaliceli.bsky.social to witness cultural burns in California. We learned how they encourage beneficial vegetation, reduce wildfire risk, and provide traditional food and craft sources for tribes in the Klamath region. 🎁: wapo.st/3J7BQTL

new pub out — Yosemite is a perfect (and picturesque) place to show how heterogeneity can shape species distributions and foraging patterns. Grateful to Yosemite NP, Levi & Sacks labs & @roguedogs.bsky.social for their collaboration 💗

🌄🥩Landscape heterogeneity shapes the spatial and diet partitioning of a montane carnivore guild 📷 © Jennifer Hart vist.ly/47zke #Competition #DetectionDogTeam #HierarchicalModeling #HighThroughputSequencing #IntegratedOccupancyModel #NichePartitioning #NonInvasiveSampling

We have a new paper developing methods for looking at bird-fire macroecology. What’s most fascinating to me is that the magnitude *and* direction of fire effects can vary enormously across a species range. Stationarity is dead!! Long live non-stationarity!! doi.org/10.1002/fee....

🚨 New Paper in Eco Apps 🚨 - Our research team at USFS PNW Research Station used a long-term adaptive management experiment to test the effects of forest thinning on wildlife habitat in the Tongass National Forest 🧵 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social

Unfortunately for Americans who want to not experience things like "bubonic plague," we also can't write NIH or NSF grants about this kind of thing anymore. I dunno, seems important

Spent last week in the field measuring veg and tagging seedlings in our small mammal exclosures at HJ Andrews experimental forest. Bit of a surreal landscape following the 2023 Lookout Fire.

“Things are not OK,” Heatley told OPB on Monday. “This is not a normal situation. This is a paradigm shift that is having repercussions that will last for at least a generation.”

I'm looking for a postdoc in quantitative ecology / macroecology to start in summer/fall 2025 in my lab at Oklahoma State University. Please spread the word www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities

“Should AI be allowed to review papers or grant proposals” always reveals a thing I think people don’t understand about algorithmic bias 🧵

This is why the media’s credulous boosterism for Colossal is so dangerous. “Innovation, not regulation” is tech-bro propaganda. It’s the false promise that any problem can be solved with some future breakthrough that will enable the same people who got us into this to profit from the solutions.

Looking for someone that can lead the Indigenous Stewardship Network and help progress a new era if indigenous stewardship throughout California. jobs.gusto.com/postings/ind...

#PeerReview is too important to let it get destroyed by AI. We need to be making it easier for scientists to evaluate each other's work, while also making the process fun and engaging. This is possible with collaborative peer review like what we've built @stacksjournal.bsky.social. #SciPub

Excited to share the news that I have accepted a TT assistant professor position at @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social in the Dept of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources! I will be recruiting a postdoc and grad students soon for my wildlife disease ecology lab, so check back in here!

Best way to find a typo in a paper is to read the draft carefully 100 times, print it, mark it up, submit it, get it accepted, have copy editors review it, read it again, finalize it, get it published, and then proudly share it will all of your close colleagues

“Within protected areas, there is an urgent need to rethink what we are protecting: the current landscape conditions or the landscape dynamics that generate those conditions.” New paper in BioScience “Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes” Link: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Hey #RaptorResearch folks- I'm handling a cool natural history note about raptors being attacked and killed by snakes. Anyone interested in reviewing? @arjundevamar.bsky.social @jonathanslaght.com @fletcherecology.bsky.social @janetngbio.bsky.social @shannonskalos.bsky.social etc...

One of the first endangered California condors released by the Yurok Tribe, Pey-noh-pey-o-wok, has died from lead poisoning in a remote part of Redwood National Park. Stop using lead shot! Get the Lead Out: www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/ge... Article: www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti...

“Bioregional‐scale acoustic monitoring can support fire‐prone forest restoration planning” out now in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. doi.org/10.1002/fee....

Ok so this is some good news?? www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

PhD Position Alert (planned start August 2025)! 🎓 🐭If you are you interested in studying small mammal population dynamics in Norway at @uniinnlandet.bsky.social then check out and apply for this exciting position: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

thanks so much for the press release about our new urban coyote movement study, @calacademy.bsky.social !! 🧪🌎 www.calacademy.org/press/releas...

Here's a porcupette for you, Alie "this one word is the thin string holding up my sanity in 2025" Ward (also same) @ologies.bsky.social

PORCUPINES, the official mascot of anybody who wants friends but doesn't know how to make them

scientists who genuinely believe that if we were less vocal about social issues the state of science would be more stable are working pro bono for politicians who convince their constituents trans people and immigrants are the ones making their lives shitty. idealistic at best, disingenuous at worst

The Peregrine Fund is seeking a GIS specialist. Join an awesome team that's making the world a better place. peregrinefund.org/sites/defaul...

I think the biggest lie being told right now is that one of the wealthiest countries in the world cannot afford to invest in science, education, and the environment.

This is incredibly frustrating and sad.

Just received an illegal stop work order on 2 BLM grants to restore riparian areas within grasslands for the benefit of wildlife and producers. These people can fuck all the way off regardless but if this project is getting caught in their ChatGPT keyword searches... just about everything must be.

same thing starting to happen at NPS. this shit is disgraceful

I resent that people are saying it's just "desk jockies" who were fired from the Forest Service. No. These were field techs and timber markers and people who served on militia fire crews as a collateral duty. They're also the people that keep IMTs running. Logistics, comms, planning, READs etc.