Here is an interesting 10-min survey, based on image comparisons, on how people perceive forests. www.biodiful.org#/forest

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

Article featuring research from my former students and myself, including some quotes from an interview with me. 🌎🌿🦤

Conservative religious beliefs, MAGA sentiment, and ignorance of long-term health risks from 'childhood diseases' for many community members are making my county at high risk for an outbreak of avoidable infectious diseases. www.northcountrynow.com/stories/vacc...

Research indicates that there is an uptick in industrial and home accident injuries and vehicle collisions after a time change, which lasts for up to a week, mainly caused by fatigue and physiological stress produced by disruption of the circadian sleep cycle.

Armed conflict in Cameroon’s anglophone regions has engulfed protected forests home to great apes. Violence blocks conservation work as displaced people and militias move into forests to survive. Scientists are turning to local citizen scientists to keep monitoring wildlife.

Some scientists reflected on their values and said no. www.science.org/content/arti...

I have fond memories of this community. I did my stateside Peace Corps training at Penn Center on the island, long before it was declared a national monument. I did a homestay with a nearby family. It's a very special place. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/fe...

It amazes me to think that I have actually seen the largest animal species that has ever lived on earth, the blue whale, and the most massive tree species that ever lived, the giant sequoia.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Many folks like to ski In the frigid morning sun I prefer gliding alone In late afternoon shadows I notice texture of bark Dream stories out of snow tracks Sky and snow changing colors As the sun slowly descends

There appears to be no shortage of elite male professors who are eager to cozy up to racist, misogynistic, eugenicist billionaires.

Happy birthday to my inspiration, Mr. Charles Darwin.

Remember the 1619 Project? How it made the case that racism and the legacy of slavery are foundational to the U.S. economy, politics, and social structure. Remember how it was widely criticized for over-emphasizing the role racism plays in US society today? Yeh, about that...

Bluest Imbolc skies Shadows stretch to Druid dreams Raven seeks the dead #poetry

"Who could of predicted?" I taught college sophomores about concentration / refugee camps and infectious disease epidemics in Ecology last semester, predicting just such an eventuality.

Published: A new editorial of mine in Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment , about the value of spending time with people on their land when doing ecology. 🌎🌿🦤 Walking the land with property owners Tom A Langen, Catherine Benson, Rick Welsh esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Approved university-level sociology textbook in the new MAGAmerica.

As a RPCV (Burkina Faso '84-86'), this really lands hard.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

"Slavery was real" Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington. Presidents House, Philadelphia.

5 years ago, my first Fauci-ouchy. I'm recovering from my 2nd coronavirus-2 infection: mild 'bad cold' symptoms for 2 days. NBD. Grateful for all biomedical researchers and medical care workers involved in developing and delivering this vaccine, and its annual boosters (which I partake).

“The U.S. Department of the Interior announced on Friday that it is revoking seven grazing permits in Phillips County that American Prairie had been using to sustain its herd of bison.” 🧪🌐🌾

New article! Clinging to power: status threat and attitudes toward the renewable energy transition by Tammie-Louise Finnegan, Cassandra Epping, Nick Florian & Colin Kuehl @profkuehl.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Hey, good folks of #TEsky— Looking for good recent review, suitable for undergrads, of the fnxns of transposable elements in the genome, for class session on the nonlinear, highly regulated, 4D nucleome. Suggestions welcome! (I'm the author of the "other book" on Barbara McClintock) TIA!

“Bioregional‐scale acoustic monitoring can support fire‐prone forest restoration planning” out now in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. doi.org/10.1002/fee....

A 🆕 Concepts & Questions article in "Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment": A guide to how scientists and stakeholders can work together to pinpoint fixes and turn research into real-world environmental wins 📄A stepwise process for actionable environmental science research doi.org/10.1002/fee....

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone. The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets. We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

An article this week in the local newspaper (Watertown Daily Times). Watertown NY was home to the diplomat that negotiated the US forfeit of any claims to Greenland and confirmation of Danish sovereignty to the island, back in 1916. www.nny360.com/news/nationa...

New paper in @pnas.org — and this is my favourite one out of my PhD thesis! Field transplants of wall brown butterflies show life history evolution during climate change-driven range expansion, BUT non-evolving winter tolerance still sets the range limit.🧵1/12. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Thanks for this contribution to Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment!

My latest 'Value in nature' post celebrates the many valuable ecological services provided by bats, while calling attention to various threats to their populations. mscaterino.pika.page/posts/bats-w... #biodiversity #nature 🌐

A new editorial of mine in Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment , about the value of spending time with people on their land when doing ecology. 🌎🌿🦤 Walking the land with property owners Tom A Langen, Catherine Benson, Rick Welsh esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A great profile of the legendary Billy Barr, who has collected 50 years of winter climate and phenology data in high-altitude Gothic, Colorado. 🌎

The US is withdrawing from the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature). Along with other international organizations related to conservation, resource use, climate, and diplomacy. I wonder how long until the US withdraws from CITES? 🦤🌎

A moving essay about being a faculty member at a good but inviable small college. #academicsky

"Behavioural scientists are increasingly calling for context as a key to addressing pressing problems caused by human behaviour. However, despite its powerful ability to generate contextual hypotheses on the basis of relatively simple rules, ecological thinking is rarely applied to human behaviour"

In 5,000 years, almost all texts and video / audio recordings from our century will be lost to time. Future historians will pore over what remains, which will consist mostly of fragments from the Epstein files.

I finished my patch of the Canton-Potsdam NY CBC -11 C with 30 kph wind. Roads very icy and blowing snow. 24 species First bird: Raven Last New Bird: House Finch Most abundant species: Snow Bunting (of course) at 113 Best birds: 4 Bald Eagles, a Red-bellied Woodpecker 🦉🌿

An excellent essay on human evolution, and the reevaluation of 'archaic' humans. I don't agree with all (bow & arrow wasn't a key adaptation; the first people in the Americas came without it), but it's worth reading if you are curious about how our lineage is the only hominid that remains on earth.

The warm winter days are the worst Snow clings to skis like a bad thought Today is cold and powder snow Sun peek-a-boo-ing behind clouds Down the old gravel road, I glide And focus on the stride and slide #poetry

As we ski along the hedgerow, The ash saplings, boughs uplifted, Pay homage to the snowy sky. Winding through the floodplain forest The alder cones dangle and swing Like tiny Christmas ornaments.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Massena NY, USA Christmas Bird count My patch: Temperature -11 to -2 C Number of species: 30 First Bird: American Crow Last new species: Red-breasted Merganser Most abundant species: Common Merganser (420) Best species: Common Loon, Northern Shrike Notable: 17 Bald Eagle, 79 Trumpeter Swan 🦉🌿

An important study that demonstrates what we should already know: we must be very cautious about inferring the phenotypic consequences of single gene variants to human evolution.

Some days it’s like dragging A heavy sack of birdseed Along a sidewalk Today I glide down-trail like a snow-swallow The golf-course my Greenland #poetry 🌿

Is it all in the hips? Scientists break down woodpeckers’ head-hammering moves. Plus, what makes one ant a queen and another a worker: buff.ly/0fOLcp3

Here is a sweet story with a local angle here in the North Country of NY, for folks who like Stranger Things. Teachers and high school arts programs make a difference.

"Overlooked and extensive ghost forest formation across the US Atlantic coast" -- wow what a comprehensive analysis by Yeung, @xiyang.bsky.social et al. 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...