Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For you SoCal people, if you have not seen this episode of 'Nature' (San Diego - America's Wildest City), you need to. My Ecosystems of California class will be watching it today discussing the awesome ecology, and identifying the plants, & wildlife featured. www.pbs.org/video/san-di...

**FORESTGEO STAFF SCIENTIST POSITION!** We are hiring a Research Ecologist to focus on Central and South American Forest Dynamics, to be based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Smithsonian staff scientist positions are excellent, as is the ForestGEO team! Come be our colleague!

I'll be giving a free webinar Thurs, Dec 5, 7 p.m. Central time for the Minnesota Native Plant Society on the topics of #oak reproduction, #species, #hybrids, & #phylogeny / #treeOfLife, from my new book (press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...). Join us, and pls share! us06web.zoom.us/j/6977108818...

A few years ago, postdoc Gail MacInnis led this great project showing that urban beekeeping doesn't help "save the bees" (and can do more harm than good). peerj.com/articles/146...

@ndevere.bsky.social Hi - we do a bunch of urban pollinator work. Would be happy to network with you and others in the starter pack.

As usual, students in my lab have been busy with many projects. One that has taken off recently is our NSF-funded urban food webs project, which generally explores relationships between native/nonnative oaks, insects, and birds right on our LA campus. A fun project with long-term data potential!

A flower that mimics aerial leaf litter (e.g., dead leaves trapped in vines, branches etc) tricks an aerial leaf litter specialist beetle into pollinating it. Super crazy and cool pollination syndrome.

The Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University, affiliated with our Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences Department, is hiring an Assistant / Associate Prof. Join us! jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/161...

Remarkable view of #BombCyclone west of Oregon & Washington and associated #AtmosphericRiver west of California this PM. Fortunately, the strongest winds will remain well offshore, but very heavy rainfall is likely across portions of northern CA into weekend. #CAwx #ORwx #WAwx

Cat "What have you done?"

Birding is the best.

If you are interested in #rstats, hierarchical modeling in ecology, and in particular occupancy models, then check out my blog! The one post that gets the most traffic is this one here on how to combine presence-only and detection/non-detection data. 🧪 masonfidino.com/bayesian_int...

People are suggesting Bluesky is just an echo chamber. Possibly. But there needs to be a place to network with friends and colleagues and learn about amazing science and ways to improve our planet. That used to be the other site - and it was amazing. That is long gone and now this is where it's at.

🚨Looking for two PhD students to join our lab in Fall' 25🚨 If you know someone that loves/works with Neotropical birds and/or species interactions, and is looking for a PhD please share this with them! (application deadline is January 3rd). More info here --> montanolab.com/join-us/

A really interesting critique of the ‘luxury effect’ in urban ecology studies and a discussion on an alternative framework to understand variability in biodiversity within cities.

Bluesky and fellow #urbanists - I am an ecologist at Cal State Los Angeles. My research is focusing more and more on urbanist issues, e.g., walkability, urban design, etc., and the intersection between benefits for people and biodiversity. I'd love to connect with others thinking of similar things.

💡 Tip: You can set your website as your username on Bluesky! This is one form of self-verification, and we especially encourage official organizations and brands to do this! Examples include @npr.org @react.dev @duolingobrasil.com.br. Here's our guide for how to do this:

go.bsky.app/HKhn9FZ just made a starterpack for LA Urbanists. These are accounts that I followed on Twitter that often (but not always) chimed in on LA urbanist issues like housing, bikes, transit, and the environment.

youtube.com/watch?v=06eU... This is amazing - a cool surf gang in Pakistan. Send these guys your spare boards and lets get these guys to the Olympics.

Cool study finding differences in herbivory between island and mainland sites - but no real vertebrate predation effects. We have an oak exclosure experiment going too and are finding strong predation effects related to herbivory patterns. Will be interesting to further compare with this neat study.

Some amazing crossbill vagrancy going on in North America, White-winged Crossbills arriving on Bermuda over 1000km from the mainland! Worth scrutinising any “Two-barred Crossbills” that turn up near shipping lanes…

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

I haven’t posted in a while, what have I been up to… well for starters Frontiers finally published our urban coyote connectivity paper after almost a year of being accepted. Bit criminal, but we are happy its out & somehow still relevant considering we submitted in 2022 doi.org/10.1002/fee....

Hi folks, I'm new here! I'm an Urban Ecologist based in Melbourne, Australia. I spend most of my time thinking about how to make our suburbs more bird-friendly. 🌳🏠🦜 I'm keen to connect with others interested in #Ecology, #Environmental #Science, #Wildlife #Conservation, and of course #Birds! 😊

Ahh this place feels nice. No right-wing bots, lots of scientists, feels like the twitter I used to know.

People often try to account for variation in sampling effort by including the number of days surveys were conducted in the detection part of an occupancy model. Occupancy models, however, already deal with this variation in the model itself. Read more about this here! masonfidino.com/camera_days/

Oh yay! One of the Peregrine Falcon chicks has fledged.

go.bsky.app/29rs45P We have an Urban Ecology Starter Pack! 🌆

Like many of you, I was on X for many years. But this will now be my outlet for discovering cool science and connecting about the environment, birds, cool ecology, and ways to better our cities (and planet). I am just starting to build my community here and appreciate tips on getting going.

Just back from an epic week in Brazil working to set up our study looking at the vertical distribution of insects in the Amazon rainforest (and surrounding landuses, including fragmented forest and urban). Loads of cool birds, insects, food, and great times with our Brazilian colleagues.

I am happy to share our new monograph on redlining, birds, their habitat, and people in Los Angeles just out in Ornithological Applications (see link - please DM if you're unable to access it) Please see the infographic below (by KAPdesign) for further details. academic.oup.com/condor/advan...