Excited to be a part of this year's Climate Week NYC! @planscape.bsky.social and @americanforests.bsky.social will be chatting post-fire reforestation at Doris Duke's Treehouse with amazing speakers from @nature.org, @moorefound.bsky.social, and more!

I LOVE this time of year. Check out this huuuge bull elk I saw in my yard today! It’s been 2 weeks of listening to these fellas sing and it’s magical ✨

Libby rocks so I bet these jobs do too! Forest people get on it!

The best plover in my very biased opinion! Shore? Who needs it!

Second this! Great location, great people, great size, and great science!

new paper from my lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social in @natclimate.nature.com, led by @sarahnalley.bsky.social! Dragonflies with dark mating ornaments on their wings are disappearing from parts of the United States that have had more warming and wildfire over the last 40 years 🧪🌍🐙 rdcu.be/eFm7e

Are you looking for a PhD position and want to spend your summers in the Rocky Mountains? My lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social is looking for 1 PhD student to work on a NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts in Colorado! 🧪🌍🐙 Apply by Nov 1! Details here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

new paper out with Paula Cushing @denvermuseumns.bsky.social in @royentsoc.bsky.social! We explore elevational distributions of 🕷️ in Colorado Species that live at extreme elevations tend to be cold-tolerant generalists that can live anywhere 🧪🌍🐙 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Kentish Plover chicks are masters of camouflage. Can you spot it? #plovers #shorebirds #waders

cool new paper in @nature.com about moth migration, showing they use the stars to navigate up to the mountains in the summer 🧪🌍🐙 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I pass this Bison herd off I-70 all the time driving home. This time we stopped to appreciate all the adorable red-dogs since the herd was right next to the viewing fence. This full Bison herd has been maintained by the city of Denver for over 100 years!

Normally a Mountain plover clutch is 6 eggs split between 2 nests that the male and female split up to incubate and rear independently which is super weird and cool in itself but…

Last week I got to help my colleague, Casey Weissburg, GPS tag some Mountain Plovers and it was the nostalgic itch I needed to scratch. Enjoy this plover being released looking a bit like a lil 🦖 I love these shoreless shorebirds ❤️ Watch till the end for a cute lil tweet! All work done w/permits

Grad students: Free training and community-building event this week!! If you are working on anything involving individuals or populations from an ecology or evolutionary perspective (including modeling!) your work probably qualifies as "animal behavior" for our purposes. You can still register!

Pretty fitting our first of the year Black-headed Grosbeaks and Western Tanager arrived on Migratory Bird Day! All the summer friends have now arrived!

Colorado State Forest Service is hiring a nursery manager. Please share widely! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/159...

Bump! In case it was missed when I first posted

EEB Researchers - is there a discord/slack/etc server for ECRs specifically? I'm interested in a research related career but not TT (gov/NGO/non-prof acad) which seems tricky now... I'd like to find a venue more conducive to career related discussions than short format social media sites. TIA!

🚨CO Scientists🚨 Have you or someone you know been fired from a federally funded position? If so—contact me! Looking for speakers/stories for the Stand Up for Science rally in Denver, CO.

Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science. Story by @heidiledford.bsky.social & @humbertobasilio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

There's a lot of uncertainty about the future of ecological research right now (especially as an ECR on the job market) but I feel so privileged I had the opportunity to spend my graduate career studying Mountain Plovers. I hope the peeps of this little newly hatched chick can help you smile today.

My former plover protege now plover research extraordinaire, Casey, is hiring a field technician to help with her PhD project in Colorado. Good pay and awesome birds, please share! cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

My research was posted on Boulder County Open Space! This is so meaningful after having lost my home to wildfire in Boulder County. Humans & animals face an increasing threat of wildfire. While humans can move, many animals must deal with life in burned habitats. bouldercounty.gov/open-space/e...

In case you need it today. Here’s some pictures of my new puppy Mochi.

Important news: The Wilson Journal of #Ornithology will be transitioning to a new publishing partner, Taylor & Francis, for 2025—and eliminating page charges! wilsonsociety.org/2024/12/11/w...

Look at this map. Look at it! This is what Amur Falcons do! Their migration is jaw-dropping. You do not want to miss Suresh Kumar's @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social webinar next week! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/amu...

This took some time, but what a bat, what a social org, and what an amazing team of collaborators! @animaltracking.bsky.social Consistent long-distance foraging flights across years and seasons at colony level in a neotropical bat: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Seeing quite a lot of posts about PhDs and postdocs. Please circulate around #EcoEvocareer! I run the Ecology and Evolution ECR feed to consolidate these ads and career chats bsky.app/profile/did:...

We're thankful to hear that Wisdom, the world's oldest banded bird, has returned to Midway Atoll for the breeding season AND has already laid an egg! At 74+ years old, Wisdom is changing our understanding of #seabird biology. Welcome back & congrats! #ornithology friendsofmidway.org/wisdom-was-s...

#Wisdom has returned to Midway Atoll! Will the oldest known wild bird—a mōlī or Laysan albatross—breed at age (at least) 74?

Not me repeatedly calling out “that’s some good lookin mountain plover habitat right there!” while roadtripping to visit family for the holidays… 👀

What do you do when an orca eats your research project? Why, you continue tracking of course! #trackingNotSlacking 🌊 New paper describes how orcas catch bluefin tuna, and shows the longest high-resolution tracking of an orca ever! @exetermarine.bsky.social 🦑🐠🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@americanforests.bsky.social ‘s resilient reforestation work in SC Oregon was featured on CBS last night! I had the honor of co-creating an integrated post-🔥 resilience strategy for the region, released last year. AMAZING to see increased capacity to support climate informed reforestation! (1/4) 🌲

Canyon wren I painted last year (been waaay too long since I painted) Let’s see your bird art!

Excited to see there’s more folks making the switch! I stopped checking X awhile ago and was hoping an active alternative would materialize. Might have start being more active here now…

Starting to lose count on the times I’ve seen the Aurora in Colorado this year which is insane! Loving it!

Working on setting up my prof. personal website. This might be a long shot but anyone have any advice/tips for examples to share? I've found some but it's not an easy thing to search for directly! For ref. I'm a new PhD grad in the field of animal ecology. Thanks and please share!

I’m still figuring out this new space and will post a proper intro later. I offer up a cute baby plover picture in the interim. All handling done with proper permits and for research purposes.