gavin jones
@ecologyofgavin.bsky.social
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Ecologist, “socially maligned, known hater of birds and birding”, etc:
https://gavinmjones.com
pinned post!
It’s official: I’m joining the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of Iowa as an assistant prof starting Fall 2026! I’ll be recruiting multiple grad students and postdocs to join my lab, so if you’re into disturbance ecology and conservation science… watch this space!
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Went to watch the giants play the brewers tonight in Milwaukee
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Dani Owens, my first (!) graduate student (co-advised w/
@mhurteau.bsky.social
) is defending her MSc thesis on June 9. Dani’s work on pikas in Glacier National Park has been impressive in so many ways. Come see what she has been up to, and what comes next!
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The Department of Biology at the University of Iowa is hiring an evolutionary ecologist at the assistant professor level for fall 2027. Come and be my colleague!
jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...
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Faculty Requisition Details - Jobs@UIOWA: Search and Apply for Jobs at The University of Iowa
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https://jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view/75951
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Closing on the sale of our house in Albuquerque this morning and it’s literally at the Hamlin Hamlin and McGill law office from better call Saul
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This is what I see during a migraine
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7 days ago
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Last Sunday morning living in New Mexico. Listening to the birds
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Remember that in a heated argument, there is no comeback to “up your butt and around the corner”
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How about a $1.8 billion slush fund for federal employees to right the wrongs of the machinery of government being weaponized against them
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I have a cousin who decided to become a monk and I had to make sure he knew about the GOAT
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One of the worst things that has happened to me
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Book design used to be good
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👋💚💛
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10 yrs after our first paper on spotted owls & “megafires”, here is the granddaddy of them all: a Wildlife Monograph. >30 yr of detection/non-detection data across >1500 territories (796 burned) and movement data from 171 GPS-tagged owls. Conclusion: big hot fire bad
doi.org/10.1002/wmon...
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TWS Journals
For the past few decades, northern and California spotted owls (SPOW) have declined across much of their range in response to habitat loss and fragmentation and have faced threats associated with the...
https://doi.org/10.1002/wmon.70014
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A truly wonderful farewell gift from my dear colleague Matt Hurteau (
@mhurteau.bsky.social
) - a hand turned pen made from the wood of a ponderosa pine recovered from the 2017 Hondito Fire in northern New Mexico.
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You all have no idea how hard I’ve worked to curate my Microsoft teams chat jokes over the past 6 years
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I married my wife for many reasons and this is one of them
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There are two Mexican spotted owls in this photo. Can you find both of them?
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How your email finds me
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“Captured” an “owl” last night. Cant share any more information for national security reasons
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It’s been close to 5 months since I accepted a new job and only recently has the ecoevojobs dot net addiction started to subside
29 days ago
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Yo this is really cool
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Historical art as a source of insight for studies of environmental change
The field of historical ecology continues to grow as we seek to understand the magnitudes and rates of environmental change and to quantify impacts of the Anthropocene. Historical artwork has not bee...
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fee.70046?utm_medium=article&utm_source=researchgate.net
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How I feel about moving to Iowa in the summertime
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Idk man, where’s the evidence of the evidence for evidence based conservation
doi.org/10.1002/2688...
about 1 month ago
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Bring back extremely short papers where you just ask one question and give one answer
about 1 month ago
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I can’t explain it but 0 and 00 are cursed sports numbers and I hate them
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It’s not possible to watch every baseball game during the regular season, even if you watch replays. Each game is ~2.5 hr. With 2430 games/season that’s 6075 hours of baseball. Across a season of ~185 days, thats 33 hr of baseball in every 24 hr period, tearing a hole in the space-time continuum
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Leto II Atreides would have loved baseball
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I’m gonna need phoebe bridgers to make music again
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Fellas is it gay to have herd immunity
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about 1 month ago
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reposted by
gavin jones
Carl Boettiger
about 1 month ago
Recently
@karinorman.bsky.social
,
@ctrlalttim.com
@ecologyofgavin.bsky.social
+ I argued it's time we ecologists pay more attention to the carbon footprint of our tools.
doi.org/10.1002/fee....
In this spirit: I give you the footprint of our local LLMs on
NRP.ai
carbon-api.nrp-nautilus.io
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Rob Fletcher DOES IT AGAIN 😤 Excellent piece arguing that at its core, habitat fragmentation is a temporal process
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about 1 month ago
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reposted by
gavin jones
Robert Fletcher
about 1 month ago
Excited to share a new article from the lab & wonderful co-authors. We argue that habitat fragmentation research needs to be recalibrated to focus on changes over time. We hope that doing so will advance understanding, isolate attribution, and diminish heated debate.
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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Resurrecting habitat fragmentation as a process over time
Habitat loss and fragmentation occur over time. Despite this truism, understanding the effects of habitat fragmentation has, in recent years, predominantly focused on interpreting snapshots of current...
https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347%2826%2900073-X
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“See how Waste Management helps Jason Mraz grow avocados” is a sentence I just saw that broke my brain
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Hardest things I’ve done: 1. do a dissertation 2. keep house in showing-ready condition with four kids under 10
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reposted by
gavin jones
Emily Dolhansky
about 2 months ago
Elon Musk was the “mastermind” behind this program. The next Dem president should seize this + interest from him.
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The pope is cooking
about 2 months ago
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Insane that being on a government wired internet line is blocking me from accessing a .gov website
about 2 months ago
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Still waiting for someone to invite me to be 115th author on a 300 author Science paper
about 2 months ago
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You all know how I feel about LLMs but you have to give it to them: engineering an algorithmic pro-owl bias is something I can stand behind
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about 2 months ago
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Matt is one of the best dudes around, and a superb scientist to boot. Do not walk… RUN to this lab
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about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
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Bring back screensavers
about 2 months ago
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Had a dream where JD Vance stole my favorite sweatshirt and was wearing it around at the CPAC convention. I was in attendance (?), what does this mean
about 2 months ago
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Hill I will die on is the Florida marlins -> Miami marlins rebrand was a generational glowdown
about 2 months ago
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On the Giants radio broadcast Jon Miller notes the Orioles newly minted jerseys feature an “ornithologically accurate” Baltimore oriole. Ornithologists what is the verdict
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Ecological Indicators continues to be undefeated in sucking at peer review. Just rejected a paper after 8.5 months in peer review. Said they had to reject because they only secured one review (which was positive) 🤡
about 2 months ago
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Imagine publishing in the journal “Frontiers in Bird Science”, first of all, nobody says bird science
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Every so often it hits me how lucky I am to get to do science for my job 😮💨😮💨
about 2 months ago
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It’s important to remember that everything was perfectly fine before we had data centers and we simply do not need them
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