I want to learn how to make templates for Quarto documents (pdf or html). Can you point me to your favorite blogs or resources for this? I’m talking like designing my own templates for reports etc. #rstats #quarto

The oldest known wild Sunda clouded leopard is a 6.51-year-old female! Similar to the oldest known mainland leopard cat too. Pretty neat what long-term camera trap studies can tell us. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Please #rstats community I need your help and guidance. I am teaching a GIS and spatial data class for ecologists. They are Sophomores. Beginner level 0. I have tried to live code my labs but they are unable to follow my code and they make all kinds of errors because they are missing commas etc.

Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research 🧪 #Macroecology

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

I have never been more glad that I have resisted the digitization of my classes.

🐻Excited that my and @littlemuseums.bsky.social 's paper on the demographic history of American black bears across the eastern range is up! While I think the phylogeography aspects are interesting, our key point is that named subspecies are unsupported. doi.org/10.64898/202...

A study I led came out in Nature Cities yesterday! We used radar to study the role that urban landscapes play in migratory bird stopover. Spoiler: birds use cities a lot, and the patterns of their use reflect social processes and the inequities embedded in them. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I’m looking for a review paper on different gps tracking methods and tech for wildlife. If you published such review or know of a paper discussing this topic please let me know ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️🌎

Where will novel fire regimes threaten birds? Our paper in @natcomms.nature.com shows that most bird diversity hotspots facing future high-sev fire occur in places that historically burned at low severity - a critical mismatch. These are the spots to focus restoration. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Twenty years ago, if you said we were going to have chikungunya and dengue in #Europe, everybody would have said you were mad: these are tropical #diseases. Now everything’s changed. This is down to this invasive mosquito and #climate changet" www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Essential reading for conservation scientists & ecologists (in fact anyone doing science across borders!) 🌍🧪https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70227?af=R Remote-control science is an internet-enabled form of "parachute" science FWIW, I see a lot of this in AI and macroecology research

New paper! 🌎 Hyper-local social and ecological factors correlate with public tree distributions across Washington, DC: Implications for equitable ecosystem service provisioning www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Published!📖 OccuGAMs: Non-linear occupancy and abundance modelling with imperfect detection🌍 🖥️ 🔎 Find out more:

We are past mid February. Is it just me or is this month going by so fast?

This is the first time that I’ve seen an actual, mechanistic explanation for how the shingles vaccine may protect against dementia. Very interesting! If you’re in your 50s, definitely get your vaccine. profbubak.substack.com/p/how-the-sh...

Please enjoy our research paper on how Bluesky is the preferred home of academics of all stripes, including professors of rare moths. (Yes, we actually have lots of entomologists here). academic.oup.com/icb/article-... 🧪

Now published: Landscape connectivity across Canada and the USA. A seamless, high resolution connectivity map across both countries. 🧪🌎 Open access in Facets, including open data www.facetsjournal.com/doi/full/10....

I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.

Have you ever wondered what the prefix st_ in the majority of the r package sf functions stand for? Spatial Type. #rstats #rspatial

Very cool paper using acoustics to identify species richness in oil palm plantations: "Habitat structure and landscape context influence vocalising vertebrates in oil palm plantations" doi.org/10.1007/s105... #science #research

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

There’s a wolf in LA for the first time in 100 years. A collared gray wolf entered the mountains of north Los Angeles County yesterday. Known as “BEY03F” she traveled hundreds of miles from her pack in Plumas County crossing highways, mountains, creeks and valleys. www.latimes.com/environment/...

The principles of experimental design in ecology and evolution has 20k downloads, but unfortunately I still have to reject ~20% of papers without review because they lack replication at the right level. More discussion among mentors and mentees please. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I want to start including conservation success stories at the end of every lecture in my #mammalogy class. Anyone have recommendations for success stories for any group of mammals? Especially mammals that are perhaps less charismatic and therefore harder to find examples for. #highered #scicomm

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 We are happy to announce the third JAB Review Award competition! Submit your mini-review by 30 April 2026 Who: early career researchers up to 8 yrs after completition of doctorate More info: vist.ly/3n8ihr8 @NordicOikos.bsky.social

Does human disturbance disrupt predator-prey temporal niche partitioning? Today in @natcomms.nature.com we show that while there is no overall effect, the larger species of the dyad "loses" the temporal response race to humans. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yay first accepted manuscript of the year!!!!! Yay!!! Now I have to come up with the money to publish it…

cognitive reframing ahead of quals: ❌ I will be stuck in a room with a firing squad of friends and allies whose eyes will go red like robots in the movies for 2 hours to grill me ✅ THEY will be stuck in there with ME while I talk a 2 hour blue streak about my very favorite stuff in the world 😌

Nevermind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university [undergrad edition] - Tracheophytes taxonomy - Entomology - Mammalogy - Wildlife Management - Greek and Roman literature ❤️ my absolute favorite

Artemis 2 moon suits ready to make history photo of the day for Jan. 30, 2026 https://www.newsbeep.com/nz/261525/ NASA’s Artemis program is working to achieve something the U.S. hasn’t done in more than 50 years: send…

Not gonna lie, I’m super excited about the Artemis mission 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑

Let's all take a moment to stop and drink a toast to the wonderfulness and luminosity of Catherine O'Hara. Here's to her.

New paper from my lab and my first PhD student's first chapter on urban caracal and artificial light at night authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Just the smell of predators, like lynx, is enough to limit sapling damage from deer overbrowsing, according to new research in @jappliedecology.bsky.social 

New blog post!!🚨 Michael Chimento gives an overview of the new R package STbayes, designed for creating, fitting and understanding Bayesian models of social transmission 🌍 🧪 Read the blog here 👇

Coauthor on a paper and the journal allows you to enter your social media handles, but ... no Bluesky? Especially given that Bluesky now links to more scientific papers than Twitter, according to @altmetric.com

Wow, this is spectacular! Evolution of beak size in an urban population of juncos in response to the loss of supplementary food (bird feeders) during the COVID pandemic, and subsequent regression. Is the UCLA campus the new Daphne Major? pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Something that keeps me up at night is this AI thing. It’s absolutely an ethical dilemma in modern times. I don’t use it that much but even for the few times that I have, should I stop? I usually leave it as a last resort bc I enjoy coding that much so I enjoy finding out how to code something.

Not sure why but I opened a threads account. I wonder if people are using that SM? Or are we just here?

Species shift their ranges in response to climate change, but many can't keep up. The resulting "community-climate disequilibrium" can impair ecosystem function and cause counterintuitive dynamics, like short-term gain but long-term loss onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I am teaching an occupancy workshop in Spanish in a couple of weeks. I’m super excited about it not gonna lie but it’s a lot of work, you know?? Planning two full workshop days.

I just cancelled my ChatGPT Plus account and I'm seriously considering getting one for Claude since I code a lot. I'm a good coder but I am looking to expand my skills which is why I am considering this. I know this is controversial as an ecologist my mind is torn. (1/2)

How salt makes roads safer in winter—and why new methods could be better for the environment

Hotter hot take: Always do citations by hand. All automated citation systems introduce massive formatting mistakes. (Link to relevant blog post: clauswilke.com/blog/2015/10...)

"You're on the Island of Conclusions. Make yourself at home. You're apt to be here for some time." "But how did we get here?" asked Milo, who was still a bit puzzled by being there at all. "You jumped, of course," explained Canby. "That's the way most everyone gets here."

Microplastic emissions into the air from land sources are estimated to be about six hundred quadrillion particles per year, which is more than 20 times larger than emissions from the oceans, according to an analysis in Nature. go.nature.com/4jWQCei

Introduced foxes and cats have had a devastating impact on Australia's mammals. This threat to biodiversity has been widely recognised, documented and acted upon by scientists, policy makers and land managers. Here we refute recent assertions to the contrary. Read more (OA): doi.org/10.1093/bios...

New paper links Salmonellosis disease dynamics to avian irruptions mediated by transmission at bird feeders - with subsequent spillover to humans causing severe illness and death 🪶🌎 #ornithology #UKBirding www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #BirdFeeding #Rethink @mwtingley.bsky.social

A study in npj Urban Sustainability based in Tokyo finds that perceived nature exposure has higher explanatory power for happiness than objective exposure. Views of greenery from home and easy access to parks had the strongest positive impact. go.nature.com/3NoD9zK 🧪