Happy Catmas!

Thanks to @doc-brock.bsky.social for the invite for a seminar at SDSU this week! Had a great time chatting with faculty and grad students and learning more about the department. Love our San Diego biologist community!

Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Mola Mola Three-toed Sloth Bornean Orangutan Coastal Giant Salamander Vermillion Flycatcher

NSF GRFP is out, but they’ve unexpectedly made 2nd year students ineligible.

So amazing our team’s work is getting recognized on @npr.org for our successful bi-national translocation of California red-legged frogs. Was super fun chatting with Nate about the project!

NSF GRFPs terminated for those in graduate school and already attending Harvard, too.

Sunny Day Real Steak

I’m losing my mind here. USTR made a list of “Unfair trade practices” they’re retaliating against, complaint number 5 is that the EU cares too much about stopping illegal deforestation, complaint number 7 is that the South Americans are doing too much illegal deforestation

Marching off to the Trade War

I mean, they constantly are wearing tuxedos, they must be rich.

'Real Emo' only consists of the dc Emotional Hardcore scene and the late 90's Screamo scene. What is known by "Midwest Emo" is nothing but Alternative Rock with questionable real emo influence... 😆

An interactive map shows where IMLS funding is / was by state. I found this info very helpful for sharing locally about what such "invisible" support infrastructure provides for our communities. 2// www.imls.gov/map

Amidst *everything* going on, I'm still proud to see my 2nd chapter of my PhD out in full in the latest special issue of @animalecology.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1111/1365... (1/4)

Chilling to see this list of terminated NIH grants. Research on Alzheimer's, HIV, rare diseases, vaccines -- gone. Cancer centers closed, training grants & fellowships terminated. Young scientists stranded. Patients waiting for treatments that'll never come. Just sad. taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

-Don’t touch birds -really don’t touch dead birds -call rehabbers about sick birds -bird feeders can stay up (unless you have chickens)

If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations. Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers. Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...

🦎🍀 Happy St. Patrick's Day! We're getting our green on with the different green-colored specimens of our Herpetology Collection at #NHMLA!

Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order

Endure amidst the current Be motionless in the tumult When the shadow descends Be muscle, be maw, be might And fend with one's being entire

NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes — theonion.com/noaa-cuts-le...

The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases NSF program has been archived. Huge loss. Does anyone know if the current proposals in the queue for funding will not be reviewed or are panels still happening?

Much needed time out this weekend, jamming with one of my best friends, catching up, and sharing some amazing pupusas together.

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I know it's small in the whole scheme of things, but the bloodbath at NPS in Hawaii is almost certainly going to lead directly to the extinctions of no fewer than 4 native Hawaiian songbirds in the next 4-5 years.

The Trump administration's cuts in science funding will likely lead to an exodus of scientific expertise, the research community warns. "That beacon of research that the US was for several decades — it’s just not going to be there.” www.statnews.com/2025/02/12/t...

Any suggestions for making helpful comments when reviewing papers with questionable scientific-style writing evident throughout? In my view, these authors likely have little support and mentorship from more senior co-authors to end up in this shape.

My place of work could be a lot uglier. Very lucky to do science here.

First California Red-legged Frog of 2025 from Baja a few weeks ago! Our team is working to conserve and re-establish this threatened species across the southern portion of its range.

Kit and Ollie brining in the New Year!

Looking for reviewers before Christmas

Our paper on what value amphibians and reptiles have within a One Health framework is out! Great collaboration with workshop participants at the 1st Global Amphibian and Reptile Disease Conference! Herps are important for One Health too!

Santa *Claws* looks a bit different this year.

Just deactivated and deleted that letter app, feels good!

Retro is in, even in the ocean. The orcas are once again wearing salmon hats www.newscientist.com/article/2457...

#FBF to my time as a sustainability fellow at Colorado State University, where I contributed this post about how grateful we should be to share the world with our froggy (and other amphibian) friends! sustainability.colostate.edu/humannature/...

Incredibly difficult! I’ll follow with 4, though there are at least 10 others I could swap out. Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.

A favorite insect from my trip this summer, a Curculionoidid weevil from Mulu National Park, Borneo.

Researchers found that painting a single-blade black on wind turbines reduced bird collisions by more than 70%.

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

Some outstanding color from Rocky Mountain National Park earlier this fall. Really enjoyed getting back into photography this year.

Blue-throated Bee Eater timeline cleanse from Borneo earlier this year.

A great week at SICB 2024 getting re-invigorated about science for the new year!

Recharged with some SoCal scrub this weekend

As “White Christmas” season approaches, watching Bing Crosby and gang take a train from Florida to Vermont and they show the exterior of both a Southern Pacific and Santa Fe train when neither railroad ran on the East coast: Me, a railroad buff: “NOOO!”

Been on the Big Island for a few days and it’s definitely living up to the hype for naturalists! Yes the many invaders suck..but at least they’re pretty to look at?

Great time last weekend in Joshua Tree NP. Kangaroo rats, tarantulas (pictured), and hummingbirds galore!

Great day for a SICB 2024 abstract acceptance! Excited for my first SICB and meeting old and new friends!

Another few nights and caught our local under-house Opossum #WildFullerton