I show the PBS "Serengeti Rules" documentary, which strongly features Jim Estes's research, to my intro class every semester. Sad to hear of his passing.

🐙🌿 An awesome little insect I found recently in Montana. It's a mantidfly/mantisfly, which is neither a mantis nor a fly. It's in the family Mantispidae, order Neuroptera along with lacewings, antlions, and owlflies. I think this one is Dicromantispa sayi. Adults are predators, and larvae of some--

No views from today's trail run, but I scoped out the last unknown-to-me section for my next race #Ouray50. Just 21 more days to prep and rest before embarking on what is most likely going to be an absolute type 2 #sufferFest. Psyched.

I know I just shouldn't make movie references in my courses, but the absolute 🦗 response my R-coding class gave to my Zoolander "the files are in the computer" joke today was absolutely soul-crushing. #academicChatter #higherEd

#academicChatter #academicSky

If you're a storymap kind of person, here's one that nicely explains what's happening & why with the glacial lake outburst flooding now underway on the Mendenhall River near Juneau. #akwx #ClimateChange #Flood #Glacier @spiraledu.bsky.social @alaska.bsky.social storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/72ce...

One unexpected enjoyment of teaching is observing students mature both academically and socially. I've now been in my position long enough that I'm starting to get folks in my senior-level classes that I first had 4 years ago in my freshman classes. The difference can be like night and day.

Requested this from my interlibrary loan; looking forward to digging into it.

Colorado #trailRunning views

Classes started today and my throat is on fire; I probably talked more today than I did all summer.

Views from the trail. #trailRunning

Could this be the origin of the mythical jackalope?? I wonder if frontier-stories of infected rabbits got exaggerated to stories of jack rabbits with deer-like antlers... www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

Last Saturday, I had the privilege of waking up in the dark, watching the moon set over Moab, the sun rise over Castle Valley, feeling the wind rip at 12,000 feet, and was back in camp to watch the peaks alight with alpenglow. In between, I ran 50 miles and climbed >11k ft. Great day. #trailRunning

*State insect

Saw a Colorado Hairstreak (Hypaurotis crysalus) today on its host plant (Gamble oak, Quercus gambelii). This is Colorado's official state butterfly!

Happy #Hardrock100 to all who celebrate! This is old news but it was SO. SMOKEY. In the San Juans this morning. Glad it's cleared up for the runners and I'm blown away to hear that Katy Schide (as of 15 hours elapsed race time) is almost an hour ahead of Courtney Dauwalter's (🐐) course record pace 🤯

Do you fish in freshwater? Please share or/and complete our survey gathering data on observations of insects for our study on aquatic insect population declines! The link to our survey is here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/VXLMY89. Please share if you know anyone who might be interested in participating!

The 2025 Western States 100 has started: Live coverage, via Youtube: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ehpq... #running #wser #westernstates100 #westernstates2025 #ultrarunning #trailrunning

I am so excited for #westernStates100 #ws100 tomorrow. Can't wait to watch who starts crossing the line in about 24 hours from now 🤠🏃🤙 youtu.be/WHA8gO_A_gc?...

Fantastic day of #trailRunning today. I don't have a ton of efforts on this local beast of a run, but I was able to shave off over 40 minutes on my previous PR. Incredible what nearly a year of consistent, structured training can do. If only I'd started earlier!

Don't forget to apply for the Headwaters Leadership Academy by Monday!

Finally started Welcome to Wrexham S4 last night. I never thought a documentary about football would make me cry, and I never in a million years thought a documentary about football would make me almost cry multiple times per episode. I don't know what it is but it really kicks me straight in the 🩷.

Beautiful day for a #trailRun in the San Juan mountains of Colorado. I need to work on my loose, technical downhill running. Splits going up were almost faster than my downs 😂

I've never actually gotten around to fitting species distribution models, but this package for abundance-based distribution models looks like it would be fun to play with.

Federal efforts to sell off or privatize our national public lands risk our way of life. If you're based in CO, here are resources to tell your politicians that Colorado is not for sale. keepitpublic.co/take-action #KeepItPublic #PublicLands

My work here is done #proudDadMoment #dinosaurNerd #theKidsAreOurFuture

Yesterday, we picked up my brother in law and my three year old asked what his favorite dinosaur was. Uncle: my favorite dinosaur is a Pterodactyl 3yo: a Pterodactyl is a flying reptile, not a dinosaur Me:

"There’s a rhetoric that what we do is wasteful." My latest story—about scientists writing op eds in their hometown newspapers, a grassroots effort organized by @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social and others. www.science.org/content/arti...

Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Update: I went on a walk to reset my brain and was able to salvage the day, I think. Now I just have to wait 5-8 hours for it to run to see if it worked or not. Time for a run and then a drink or three.

I tried to "fix" some things in my current simulation code today and instead broke everything. One of those days where a full day of work actually has me further behind than I was when I started this morning. Oh well. Tomorrow is another day to try again.

Northern Water announced Thursday that naturally occurring uranium has been found in rocks quarried at its Chimney Hollow Reservoir construction site, and that the contaminant will leach into the water as the reservoir begins to fill. coloradosun.com/2025/06/06/c...

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Fun early season day in the mountains. Trails up high were still a little too snowy and sloppy to connect my originally intended route. Luckily, this area is so stunning that even spending ~6 miles on the roads is quite enjoyable. #trailRunning #mountainRunning #ultraTraining

Informative thread, great storytelling! 🧪

"With great power comes great responsibility." There comes a time when each of us must step into the role of reviewer 2. I believe my time has come.

Holy moly

#trailRunning #mountainRunning #powerHiking

Beautiful day for a long run/power hike in the mountains. I even got graupelled on!

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Kilauea is going absolutely crazy right now with episode 23 of the eruption. USGS live stream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqmp...

Congratulations to everyone who ran the SFS 5k fun run this morning! #SFS2025

Good morning #SFS2025 and congratulations to all the 5k fun runners!

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Grades are submitted just in time to hop on a plane headed to #sfs2025 in San Juan PR! Can't wait to catch up with my #AquaticScience family and hear about all the amazing work that's been done over the last year 😁 🧪

It must be #Dobsonfly season. I just spent 3 days on the Colorado River and we saw no less than 5 #Hellgrammite larvae crawling on the bank. These aquatic species dig a burrow in the bank to pupate before the short-lived adults emerge to reproduce. #AquaticInvertebrates #streamEcology

Here’s the list of presentations from our lab members and collaborators at the annual meeting of the Society for Freshwater Sciences in Puerto Rico. Very excited to share our work and meet old and new friends! #2025SFS

High dive score: 10/10

important historical perspective on the value of federal funding of basic research at universities: "These are the building blocks of America's extraordinary strength, created over the last 100 years, and they are now being dismantled in 100 days" 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qk4...