Why is the U.S. National Science Foundation important? Please share your stories! Use the hashtags #WithoutNSF or #WithoutScience

#WithoutNSF we wouldn't have been able to train folks in the skills they need for their jobs at: College of Charleston Denison University Instacart Institute for Ecosystems Studies National Ecological Observatory Network Netflix NIH Oregon Department of Human Services ...

New update on the regime shift at our long-term study site. With a little levity thanks to @skmorgane.bsky.social. "No species was safe, and populations began to drop like characters in a George R.R. Martin book. Only kangaroo rats... were making a valiant stand against the forces of dryness" 🌎 🧪

One of my favourite papers I've been involved in was just published in @peerj.bsky.social. Working with a wonderful team of ecologists at @weecology.bsky.social, we used multivariate ecological forecasts to understand the population dynamics of desert rodents peerj.com/articles/189... 🌎 #rstats

Excited to see @vectorbyte.bsky.social joining Bluesky www.vectorbyte.org

Interested in using computer vision to help understand, manage, and conserve nature? We looking for someone to join our team to work on models, software, and community outreach in projects using airborne imagery to monitor and understand nature at scale.

New paper on "Near-term ecological forecasting for climate change action" by a group of folks from the Ecological Forecasting Initiative led by Mike Dietze w/me @skmorgane.bsky.social @cboettig.bsky.social @careylab.bsky.social @waterpotential.bsky.social and lots of other (non-Bluesky) folks 🌎🧪

I tried to build a starter pack for researchers in ecology sensu lato. Who am I missing? go.bsky.app/2MdGeqi I can add more people and spread it around.

Really pleased to share the preprint of Ms Simrik Bhandari's primary thesis paper examining spatial patterns in Nepal's record outbreaks of dengue in 2022 and 2023. (1/n)

If I had known a career in “weecology” was an option, I might have made some very different decisions.

There are still 5 days left to apply to join me teaching interdisciplinary data analytics at Denison University! It's an exciting place w/ great resources. PhD in any field + ability to teach using R and/or Python; @ Assistant or Associate Professor rank, apply by Oct 7 apply.interfolio.com/151230

We're looking for a PhD student to join us starting Fall 2025 to work on our long-term study (almost 50 years!) of small mammals and plants to understand and predict changes in species abundances and biodiversity in response to changing climate and biotic conditions. 🧪🌎

I'm looking for a PhD student to join @weecology.bsky.social to study ecological forecasting using wading birds in the Everglades. The position will be focused on data science, time-series modeling, and forecasting. There will also be opportunities for field, drone, and computer vision work. 🌎

We're looking for a new #PhD student to join weecology! Come learn and work with us studying ecological forecasting and dynamics with wading birds in the Everglades.

New preprint on our work monitoring Everglades wading birds in near real-time using drones, computer vision models, & automated workflows. 🧪🌎 Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2024... #rstats data viz website: everwatch.weecology.org Open data: zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/... Code: github.com/weecology/ev...

We (@weecology.bsky.social) monitor Everglades wading birds using drones & turn this imagery into data in near real-time using computer vision models to detect birds & automated workflows to immediately process new imagery. 🧪🌎 Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2024... Blog post doi.org/10.59350/b5b...

New NSF Postdoc Fellowship track. “…will support Fellows that leverage large data, such as those from the National Ecological Observation Network (NEON), and innovative approaches, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and modeling…” www.nsf.gov/pubs/2024/ns...

🧪 Very cool results on food webs by lab members: [1] Banville et al.: what does it mean to use probabilities to represent interactions? [2] @gabdans.bsky.social et al.: local reconstruction of regional food webs [1] ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... [2] royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#BeneficialMicrobes day 3 starts with Elizabeth Mallott discussing human gut microbiome. Mallot has a background in sociology and looks outside of race/ethnicity for variables that alter the gut microbiome. Love this shift in microbiome research. Cites this paper: journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

We published a dataset of canopy tree maps for 100 million trees in the National Ecological Observatory Network with info on location, species identify, & size 🧪🌍 Paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour... Interactive DataVis: visualize.idtrees.org Data: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Blog: doi.org/10.59350/zb2...

We made maps of 100 million trees in the National Ecological Observatory Network with info on location, species identify, and size 🧪🌎 Paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour... Interactive #DataViz: visualize.idtrees.org #OpenData on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Blog Post: doi.org/10.59350/zb2...

Our @skmorgane.bsky.social has been chronically a potentially rapid shift in species composition happening at one of our long-term study sites. Check out her most recent update 🌎🧪

Latest update on the rodent community dynamics at Portal - is a regime shift still in the cards? Read and find out! jabberwocky.weecology.org/2024/07/08/r...

We've been monitoring what appears to be the start of an active regime shift at one of our long-term study sites. The ecosystem is likely rapidly transitioning from a decade long stable state to a new state & we can watch the transition happen. We can do this thanks to... 🌎🧪

Has anyone we know gone through the NSF LTREB renewal process (the renewal proposal for the 2nd 5 years of funding)? We're starting work on the renewal for the Portal Project (portal.weecology.org) and are hoping to see an example of what this looks like since it's our first time doing one. 🌍

Howdy all! Chelsea only needs 2, 193$ to pay down her tuition! She needs to make this payment ASAP to be able to graduate with her MSc this semester! Please donate, share, and RT! #MutualAid #gofundme gofund.me/5ccde1af

REU openings with the SRS Corridor Project to study fragmentation effects on plants and insects! www.brudviglab.com/post/reu-ope...

This has been one of my favorite conferences in recent years. Great interactions, great science, great people.

If you're interested in big ecological datasets, natural history, and predictive cross-scale ecology (like we are) then you should check out the upcoming Gordon Research Conference and Seminar (a student/postdoc only conference that occurs first). Read about why it's been great for weecologists 🧪🌎

@mabakerusu.bsky.social 👋🏻

note to publishers : if I have to find how to log in into your journal platform just to decline a review invitation, do not be surprise if you do not get my answer...

Exciting opportunity for multiple postdoctoral scholars to join our growing UC Berkeley team at DSE! Focus areas in Climate resilience in our National Parks, Indigenous Environmental Stewardship, Applied hydrology, + Tools for Working Lands. ~ $87K - $95K + plus benefits dse.berkeley.edu/postdocs

As part of The Carpentries 25th Anniversary @ethan.weecology.org writes about the impact the organization has had an him "The Carpentries has changed every aspect of my professional life... [it] changed how I approach scientific research, how I teach, and how I collaborate and organize."

As @weecology.bsky.social said, 2024 is the year the ecology blogosphere makes its comeback. I agree! I will be starting a newsletter to discuss cool ecology papers, time management techniques for anxious academics, and teaching. First post next Monday, and then weekly. Feel free to sign up! 🧪

Regime Shift Cometh? We've been studying how rodent communities change through time in the Arizona desert for 40 years. About once a decade we see a rapid change. Is the next one about to happen? @skmorgane thinks it might be! 🌍🧪 doi.org/10.59350/7bk...

I finally have energy for more than just surviving so @ethan.weecology.org and I are resurrecting Weecology's blog: Jabberwocky Ecology. Can't speak for Ethan's planned topics but stay tuned for a rodent's eye view of biodiversity change, and a bird's eye view of monitoring wildlife w/ drones

We've got the ecology blogosphere back?! Welcome back to @weecology.bsky.social and Dynamic Ecology!

Return to (and of?) the ecology blogosphere doi.org/10.59350/ftf... 🧪🌍

New paper: "Data science competition for cross-site individual tree species identification from airborne remote sensing data" TLDR; Predicting common species w/local training data works; rarer species are difficult; same species w/o local training data are harder. doi.org/10.7717/peer...

New on Jabberwocky Ecology (our blog) - We’re excited to announce the initial release of crown maps for 100 million trees in the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) with information on location, species identify, size, and alive/dead status. doi.org/10.59350/6vj... 🧪🌎

Rock some #BlackInNHMs swag! Represent #BlackInNHMs beyond our annual event and support our cause!!! Purchase a t-shirt via our CustomInk Fundraiser tinyurl.com/2p8uey4e ! New, softer T-shirts! And, don't forget to register for our events tinyurl.com/y4bzxzk8. RT

Adania Flemming, PhD candidate in Univ. of Florida's Dept. of Biology and an ichthyologist at the Florida Museum, launched Black in Natural History Museums week to bring together & create visibility for Black museum professionals. About #BlackinNHMs + schedule: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/thir...

For the ecology folks who might know someone looking for a job helping lead a major field project 🌎

We're hiring a project manager to help run our wading bird project in the Everglades! If you like birds, boats, managing a small field crew, & are at least interested in drones & work that informs management decisions, this might be the job for you! Job ad: jabberwocky.weecology.org/2023/10/05/f...

The study of food webs in space has been limited by lack of data. In a new preprint, Gabriel Dansereau shows how we can remove this limitation with downscaling of regional data, and how the resulting data can be used for food web macroecology. Read more: ecoevo.social/@tpoisot/111...

To make projects on one of our long-term studies easier we built an #rstats Shiny app that lets us visualize and build basic models for dynamics at the site. This lets us iterate more quickly than having to stop and wait while someone does common data viz work portalexplorer.weecology.org 🌎️

@ethanfreedman.bsky.social - can you please add us to the What's Ecology feed? Thanks!

weecology is now on BlueSky! We're an interdisciplinary ecology and environmental data science research group led by skmorgane.bsky.social & @ethan.weecology.org. We do things like use drones and machine learning to monitor wading birds in the Everglades and make ecological forecasts. weecology.org