My beard has crossed the size threshold where random dudes will give me a “hell yeah” in public

Please, please, please-submit to good journals (society + reputed publishers), respect peer review, and do your reviews with integrity. So important. Thanks to all of you who do. @steve-carpenter.bsky.social @esajournals.bsky.social #Ecosystems

Got soaked on my bike home today like a cartoon character with a cloud directly over my head

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Absolutely love this study. This is the type of creative experimentation we need to understand fire adaptations in animals. Huge kudos to Chris et al!

Last summer while doing surveys in Glacier NP we found PLASTIC HAIRBRUSH BRISTLES in a pika haypile in a remote part of the park. Why?? How?? We don’t know. So of course we speculated about it in a short natural history note. Link: doi.org/10.1898/NWN2... RG: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I regret to inform you that the new Sabrina carpenter album is fire

Okay new mexico… I see you 👀👀 www.governor.state.nm.us/2025/09/08/n...

my new computer has two versions of the outlook app. “Outlook” and “Outlook (classic)” , this is cursed

We have a new paper developing methods for looking at bird-fire macroecology. What’s most fascinating to me is that the magnitude *and* direction of fire effects can vary enormously across a species range. Stationarity is dead!! Long live non-stationarity!! doi.org/10.1002/fee....

This is well researched. But I bristle at the idea of this as a “scientific standoff.” A hallmark of science is that there are almost always contrary paradigms challenging the dominant one. But you have to know when the weight of evidence is on different planets. news.mongabay.com/2025/08/old-...

Statisticians love writing papers titled “A simple introduction to _____” followed by the most impenetrable and byzantine prose you have ever seen

Whenever I need a little dopamine hit I remember how the senior academic who bullied me throughout grad school and publicly demanded I retract my “bad science” made a wikipedia page for *himself* that has a warning banner at the top: “may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for academics”

I further regret to inform you form you there is an MDPI journal called Wild

I regret to inform you there is an MDPI journal called Ecologies

Doing some writing, fell down a google scholar hole, just found myself typing “plant radiations during the Carboniferous” and I may have lost the plot

Gonna skoot out some threads of recent papers that my alter ego refused to publicize

Listening to the hit song ‘liquidize’ on the new album ‘moisturizer’ by the band ‘wet leg’

Ok bug ppl… WHAT am I looking at here (Albuquerque NM). I’ve had multiple ppl send me videos of these THIS MORNING. Is this the beginning of the insect takeover

This is bananas. Our world is so beautiful and mysterious

Working on a paper with @fletcherecology.bsky.social, happened to turn on an album I listened to lots during my postdoc in his lab at UF. You know how music can transport you sometimes? Anyway, exciting work about habitat fragmentation and habitat heterogeneity loading…

FS research currently being brought to its knees because we discovered “dancing pickle” emoji in microsoft teams chat

I love the energy of ppl who don’t put “ornithology” or “avian ecology” as areas of interest on their google scholar profiles, and instead just go with “birds”

Good bye Tony pancake

I regret to inform you that stretching helps your body feel less bad

Looking for poop under these rocks

Something to take the edge off

Where your email finds me

My skeptic 7 y/o son performed an experiment last night. Pulled out a loose tooth after we put him to bed and put it under his pillow without telling anyone. We’re so cooked

My daughter in Lake Michigan at sunset

Curling up in some rainy weather at my in laws to re-read one of my favorite books of all time 🦉🧊 . Getting in the right headspace for @jonathanslaght.com’s forthcoming book Tigers Between Empires 🐯 👑

Not a red sox guy (sorry @evornithology.bsky.social) but their new city connects are fire 🔥

Me and the boys at the city pool this summer trying to feel something

┏┓ ┃┃╱╲ in ┃╱╱╲╲ this ╱╱╭╮╲╲house ▔▏┗┛▕▔ we believe ╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲ “mixed severity” is a meaningless fire regime concept 💘 ╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲ ▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔

In science we don’t say “I love you” we just add each other as co authors on google scholar and I think that’s beautiful

Sandia Crest trail 👍👍👍

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

Wife is thrilled as you can see

There are 3 separate badass ecologists named J Wiens and for the ever loving life of me I cannot keep them straight

The phrase “reviewer 7” is a cursed combination of words

I love when robots on websites have the nerve to ask ME if I’M the robot

We will continue studying owls until morale improves

Now out in Biological Conservation: Collapse and restoration of mature forest habitat in California www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In Diversity and Distributions: “Rapid declines in southern Sierra Nevada fisher habitat driven by drought and wildfire” Led by @ronanhart.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New paper out in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment - Functionalizing ecological integrity: using functional ecology to monitor animal communities doi.org/10.1002/fee....

Anyone have ideas for an ecology journal where I could submit a “statistical note”? Like a little piece of practical advice for ecologists.