Every other year NW Lichenologists meets for certification for macrolichens in the Pacific NW of North America. Two subgroups attend: those wishing for more training and those taking the certification exam. Check out the info here: northwest-lichenologists.wildapricot.org/page-1854192

@nwlichenologists.bsky.social Every other year NW Lichenologists meets for certification for macrolichens in the PNW of North America. Two subgroups attend: those wishing for more training & those taking the certification. Follow> northwest-lichenologists.wildapricot.org/page-1854192

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So cool to see the freshwater mussel habitat model and map by Shiva Torabian from Virginia Natural Heritage Program @ Society for Conservation GIS meeting out of Joe Weber's GIS lab with VADCR #VANHP #SCGIS #SCGIS2025 #FRESHWATERMUSSELS #USFWS #NCTCWV @deepseadawn.bsky.social @scgis.bsky.social

Occasionally, we get to travel to the NW fringes. Recently, the Calif. Lichen Soc. forayed to San Luis Obispo. How could we not want to see that area too? So, here are few specimens from the Los Osos. Our IDs are Usnea rubicunda Heterodermia leucomelos Lecanora caesiorubella Your input on them?

Invasions!—a fresh newsletter on invasive alien species is out now. 🐟🌱 Get the latest on monitoring, policy, and action across Europe. Read Issue #1 here: 🔗 viewer.joomag.com/invasions-ne... #InvasiveSpecies #Biodiversity #Conservation #EUInvasives #bioinvasions #GuardIAS #Onestop 🌐🌍

Found this guy on the way back from our rafting trip through the Owyhee Wilderness. Never had a Wilson's Snipe pose for me before #birding #birds #snipe #snipehunt

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Visited our daughter down in CalPoly-SLO and had the chance to do some big and little birding, including some California condors (white-tag 86 & red 27) @PinnaclesNP plus this Curlew and willet combo at Morro Rock. Weather was awesome and included two rattlers

Sometimes you just need to sit back and stare at rocks, or at least the exciting things covering them like this one here with Rhizoplaca, Xanthoria, and others. -Seen in Central Oregon over the weekend, along with Umbilicaria phaea and what keys out to be U. krascheninnikovii on nearby rock. #lichen

It was great to hear about the history of Old-growth forests in the PNW from Jerry Franklin, and as an added treat, to see past U.S. Representative Peter DeFazio at the NW Scientific Association meeting on the UOregon campus last week. #nwsa #uoregon #peterdefazio #oldgrowth #northwestscientific

Nothing is more satifying than seeing the intrepid inventory work of a group of lichenologists tracking rare to even common lichens. Here we are on the Oregon coast last week looking for Erioderma, Leioderma, & Sulcaria, as well as a host of Cladonias and others. Pannaria oregonensis is shown.

Sometimes you hit the TRIFECTA-Lichens, rare birds, and old-growth, as the folks from Evergreen State College did during their group talk on lichens and marbled murrelets at the NW Lichenologists/Scientific Assoc. meeting talk Wednesday. Their mentor, Dr Calabria is leading the way. #lichens

Hello Bluesky! Good to see you all again! Job alert: I'm looking to recruit a postdoc interested in working at the interface of AI and wildlife ecology, supported by the AI for Biodiversity Change (ABC) Global Center. Apply by April 15, 2025. gaynorlab.weebly.com/join-us.html

On #WorldGlacierDay, our paper in @science.org about the Sikkim glacial lake disaster has been published in its final form: 🧪⚒️❄️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Northwest Lichenologists on the search for rare lichens in the Willamette Valley during the NWLichenologist / Northwest Scientific Association at the University of Oregon this mid-March. If you want to learn, we want your interest. #lichen #biologicalsurvey #inventory

AND HOW MUCH DID THIS COST? After the SpaceX Starship exploded mid-air, the FAA halted flights into four Florida airports until 8 PM ET. The advisory affected Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, and Orlando airports. The decision followed debris crashing off Florida's coast after the failed launch

This is not acceptable. This is VERY dangerous. Rapid Unscheduled disassembly= EXPLOSION! Air traffic halted in Florida because of space launch debris. Explosion was caught on video in Florida, Bahamas, Jamaica and Turks & Caicos. Who is doing the clean up? finance.yahoo.com/news/spacex-...

Nope, they're the Coyote.

Someone please post a Space X sticker over this 😉

Very excited to see this uncommon high mountain specialist up at the highest peak in the Coastal Range of Oregon. It's a gray-crowned rosy-finch. #rosyfinch #birding #birdallianceoforegon

The best way to confront a bully about the misinformation he is spreading is to confront him in front of everyone. Macron just did that.

Interested in Biodiversity? Conservation? Data? Cool mapping projects? Then check out scgis.org I don't know one conference I have enjoyed more. Hope to see you in late June! #scgis #gis #qgis #esri #mapping #biogeography #biodiversity #conservation

An awesome day of pelagic birding last week: Ancient murrelets Black-footed albatrosses Cassin's auklets Northern fulmars And more! #birding #oregon #pelagic #birds

Remember this name and pass it on: VERA RUBIN

Privacy law expert @daniel-solove.bsky.social unpacks how tech erodes privacy, the legal system’s struggles to keep up, and dangers of big data and AI. He warns that unchecked tech design shapes our choices and freedoms. On Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube. Link in comments. #Privacy #PrivacyLaw

New from the Washington Post: "Riveting Storytelling for All of America." It's their new motto, but how much truth in their stories??? I think I will stick with the NY Times. #nytimes #wapo #news #journalism #washingtonpost

Annual General Meeting Eugene, Oregon: Mar 17-20, 2025 Registration is through the Northwest Scientific Association website: www.northwestscience.org The meeting has talks, a workshop, and one or more field trips. Schedule and summary of lichen activities for the meeting will be posted there.

How are pathogens and parasites responding to planetary change, what does this mean for people and biodiversity, and what is to be done? New @viralemergence.org synthesis out today in Nature Rev Biodiversity (@natrevbiodiv.bsky.social) with a fantastic author team🧪😷 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I fly UAS for the UofO, this is bad news. I am glad it didn't cause the plane to crash, injure the crew, and/or start another horrific fire.

DNA metabarcoding of stomach contents shows predation impacts of black rats on island birds after a resource pulse are driven by numerical not functional response | link.springer.com/ar... | Biological Invasions | #ornithology 🪶

For all my Mid-Atlantic ecology and botany peeps, this is a really cool vegetative history of one rare community type in an area loosely near where I used to work. It's a free download from PLoS journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

As climate change increases the risk of dry conditions and fire weather, fires across western NAm are bigger, more dangerous, and burning greater area. It’s the difference between accidentally dropping a match into a pile of green, wet wood versus dropping it into a stack of bone dry kindling.

Excited to share our new study in @ismepublications.bsky.social showing that microbial niche breadth specialisation (being a generalist or a specialist) impacts ecological and evolutionary adaptation following environmental change doi.org/10.1093/isme...

First-time presenting a poster at a conference: done! Thank you to everyone who stopped by and asked such interesting questions. If you missed it, you can find more information here: github.com/salazarjhan9... #SICB2025

My two favorite PNW sightings of the last year were of marbled and ancient murrelets, but the photos were bad. So, here's a better photo of something being monitored in Oregon. I hope you like this pika I spotted in Casacade Range back in October.

Travel awards (up to $5,000) are available to support the study of collections in the United States National Herbarium. Applications are due on 15 January: naturalhistory.si.edu/research/bot...

It will come as no surprise to anyone that Elon Musk and X are the biggest purveyors of online misinformation www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Happy New Year! And what a better way to celebrate than by admiring how cool these tracks of grey seal pups’ movements are! 🦭🦑🌎 More pups will be tagged soon! @exetermarine.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

We have had a lot of rain recently, and it has made hiking a bit more challenging but still rewarding. Fluted elfin saddle (Helvella) Common bonnet (Mycena) Funeral bell (Galerina!)

Coolest find of 2024 has to be this blue Physarum slime mold. Still can’t get over it. #slimemold #fungifriends #fungi #naturephotography

New paper on magnetotelluric modeling of Yellowstone caldera: “We find that rhyolitic melts are stored in segregated regions beneath the caldera with low melt fractions, indicating that the reservoirs are not eruptible.” ⚒️🧪🌋 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I was recently asked within my photography group to submit my best pic of there year. My favorite was of the aurora, but I chose this one as my best. Flickr seemed to agree. www.flickr.com/photos/wolfr...

Just published: we introduce three metrics (s-core, Louvain clustering, walktrap clustering) to improve the integration of ecological #connectivity in #conservation prioritization. Implementation: priorCON: cran.r-project.org/web/packages... besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌍🌐🧪

Annie Montague Alexander, naturalist & fossil hunter, was born #OTD in 1867. She co-founded the museum of natural history of the University of California and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. wp.me/p3ihHu-1MU #WomeninSTEM #histsci 🧪⚒️