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juli g pausas
3 days ago
Rapid postfire color shift in a Mediterranean lizard
@jzoology.bsky.social
#Lizards
inhabiting recently burned areas display lighter coloration, as a
#thermoregulatory
response
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧪🌍🔥🦎📏
#trait
#fauna
#zoology
#wildfire
#fireecology
#fire
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Traveling to the northern reaches of upper Michigan today. You would simply not believe the volume of Edmund Fitzgerald content I’m being served
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Wake up babe sesame street just dropped some new iconic scicomm
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In such a beautiful piece about cultural burning, I was able to share a bit of my own work on how “good fire” can bring a host of benefits to wildlife and forests. Thanks
@sadbumblebee.buzz
for including me. And what a great spotlight on fire as a form of art, deeply human.
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Gothic, CO
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Gaussian, beta, Poisson
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about 1 month ago
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My beard has crossed the size threshold where random dudes will give me a “hell yeah” in public
about 2 months ago
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Got soaked on my bike home today like a cartoon character with a cloud directly over my head
about 2 months ago
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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!
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about 2 months ago
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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/...
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my new computer has two versions of the outlook app. “Outlook” and “Outlook (classic)” , this is cursed
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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....
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Evaluating macroecological fire impacts on bird populations
Fire regimes are context-dependent, as are the ways that animals respond. However, most information on animal responses to fire comes from short-term local field studies, which are hard to extrapolat....
https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.70003
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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-...
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Old forests, new fires, and a scientific standoff over active management
This is the second installment of Mongabay’s coverage of active management tools for forest fires. Read Part 1. Photographs of forests in the western U.S. from the mid-1800s show a starkly different r...
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/old-forests-new-fires-and-a-scientific-standoff-over-active-management/
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Statisticians love writing papers titled “A simple introduction to _____” followed by the most impenetrable and byzantine prose you have ever seen
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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”
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I further regret to inform you form you there is an MDPI journal called Wild
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I regret to inform you there is an MDPI journal called Ecologies
3 months ago
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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
3 months ago
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Gonna skoot out some threads of recent papers that my alter ego refused to publicize
3 months ago
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Listening to the hit song ‘liquidize’ on the new album ‘moisturizer’ by the band ‘wet leg’
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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
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This is bananas. Our world is so beautiful and mysterious
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4 months ago
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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…
4 months ago
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FS research currently being brought to its knees because we discovered “dancing pickle” emoji in microsoft teams chat
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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”
4 months ago
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Good bye Tony pancake
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I regret to inform you that stretching helps your body feel less bad
4 months ago
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Looking for poop under these rocks
4 months ago
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Something to take the edge off
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Where your email finds me
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www.eenews.net/articles/for...
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Forest Service research survives in House spending bill
Republican appropriators also set aside a White House request for a new wildfire agency at Interior.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/forest-service-research-survives-in-house-spending-bill/
4 months ago
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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
5 months ago
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My daughter in Lake Michigan at sunset
5 months ago
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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 🐯 👑
5 months ago
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Not a red sox guy (sorry
@evornithology.bsky.social
) but their new city connects are fire 🔥
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Me and the boys at the city pool this summer trying to feel something
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┏┓ ┃┃╱╲ in ┃╱╱╲╲ this ╱╱╭╮╲╲house ▔▏┗┛▕▔ we believe ╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲ “mixed severity” is a meaningless fire regime concept 💘 ╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲ ▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔
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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
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Sandia Crest trail 👍👍👍
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This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like
6 months ago
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Wife is thrilled as you can see
6 months ago
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There are 3 separate badass ecologists named J Wiens and for the ever loving life of me I cannot keep them straight
6 months ago
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The phrase “reviewer 7” is a cursed combination of words
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I love when robots on websites have the nerve to ask ME if I’M the robot
6 months ago
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We will continue studying owls until morale improves
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Now out in Biological Conservation: Collapse and restoration of mature forest habitat in California
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Collapse and restoration of mature forest habitat in California
Mature and old-growth forests provide critically important ecosystems services and wildlife habitats, but they are being lost at a rapid rate to uncha…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320725002782?via%3Dihub
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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....
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Rapid Declines in Southern Sierra Nevada Fisher Habitat Driven by Drought and Wildfire
Aim Forest disturbances are a natural ecological process, but climate and land-use change are altering disturbance regimes at an unprecedented rate, posing significant threats to biological communit...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ddi.70023
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