Gentle parenting my reviewers. “Your feelings are valid!” “Do you have a question based on this statement?” “Critical comments without constructive feedback hurts authors’ feelings unnecessarily—is there a way you could say that differently?”

My student said I ate today

Can you identify this cutie baby? Perhaps my favorite timberline tree.

Can you identify the two tree species in the photo? My undergraduate students can!

Me and my Ecology students to a trip out to Hoosier pass to learn about the climatic drivers of tree line and work on our field identification skills. We brought our class mascots Clarke and Tony with us to boost morale!

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Got hitched! Of course I had to have an emotional support barred owl in hand ;)

Womp womp 👉👈

The authors want to thank two anonymous reviewers who offered helpful criticism in the form of an 11,000 word spiteful monograph

Release the most unhinged sentence from your notes app I dare you

Trump is offering all federal workers a buyout with seven months’ pay to shrink the government—but that’s not the whole story. Reports reveal some employees are being pressured to resign or face termination under the guise of organizational restructuring. In short: take the buyout or be fired.

The Trump administration’s rebranded Schedule F policy aims to reclassify federal employees in policy roles as at-will, removing civil service protections. This will politicize agencies by allowing dismissals based on political alignment.

Peep our new paper! We leveraged our bioregional acoustic monitoring program to study the effects of fire on the distribution of forest owls in the Sierra Nevada. doi.org/10.1002/eap....

The largest wildfire in Texas history just happened eleven months ago and destroyed thirty times more area than the one in Los Angeles

"Yes, wildfires have always happened in California, but climate change is making them worse" by David Knowles for @yahoonews.com: www.yahoo.com/news/yes-wil...

Added another void of darkness to the family. In the process of teaching him about forest succession and how to drive.

My inaugural post is for my paper recently out in GEB! A contribution to the conversation around local biodiversity change, we reconstructed thousands of functional diversity time series to assess shifts in functional structure for bird & mammal communities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌡️🔥Climate change isn't a distant threat—it's a public health crisis now. Our study shows heat-related deaths in many cities could surpass annual COVID-19 deaths in just 5–10 years at 3°C warming. Urgent action is needed! 👉 rdcu.be/d5rnL @natureportfolio.bsky.social #scientificreports

Leading a workshop next week on preparing scientific figures, and I will be sharing a few lessons learned. I would love for y’all to comment with some useful tips for grad students and maybe some of your own figures that successfully communicate your work!

Around this time last year @boyswillbebugs.bsky.social, @allomygale.bsky.social, @spissatella.bsky.social, @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social and I published an open letter on supporting transgender persons in STEMM. We have decided to open to additional signatures 🧪⚒️🦑 medium.com/@transrights...

PI: Should we add field assistants as co-authors? Co-PI: mmm... They did not write anything... You know that writing is the hardest part! PI: OK! Field assistants 👇🏿

If you know someone that is looking for a grad student opportunity in 2025 in fire ecology / dendroecology / spatial analyses -- please pass on this announcement. Julia Burton, Jed Meunier, Eric Rebitzke and myself are looking for a student to join our team and be based here at Michigan Tech.

Are you interested in MS programs in ecology or evolution and want to be paid for it? Check out these fully funded programs (stipend + tuition is provided). It's been a looong time since I updated the list, so as always, check with the program for the latest info. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I actually wrote my first paper about birds in 2001. Frankly, this is some of my best work.

Me at dinner tomorrow

Me catching up on reports before the end of the year.

For the first time in my professional life, I have no unread emails, texts, or notifications. 👉👈

Some wonderful drawings from students last month. Training them young 🦉

@ecologyofgavin.bsky.social promised me a treat for joining this app.

Hi folks! I am a scientist studying the direct and indirect impacts of climate change🌡️🔥🌲 on wildlife🦉🐦🐀 with experience waxing poetic about biology 🧬🫀🐍 as a professor. I’ve also been known to hoot in the woods at night. Cheers!