Celebrating #WorldWetlandsDay 2026 with a quick look at the Hudson Bay Lowlands, the largest wetland in North America. Home to many Indigenous people, a massive storehouse of peat, and is habitat for wildlife. I teach a 15 day field school entirely in the Hudson Bay Lowlands each year in August.

Latest paper from our Hudson Bay polar bear research. It's hard won data & explores a topic we know little about: predator / prey relationships. Lead author supported by @PolarBears post-doc. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... [open access]

First time I've ever come across a dragon in a wildlife paper! Figure caption, "...upper panel with dragon icon symbolising all tetrapods)". Paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Took me way too long to realize that its super easy to just merge pdfs in R rather than fussing with Adobe #rstats library(pdftools) pdf_combine( input = c("file1.pdf", "file2.pdf"), output = "merged.pdf" )

Seeing screenshots of niche bird and ggplot memes from my old twitter account

TWS highlight on research coming out of our lab! Great work by Jamie Clarke!

well now what do I do

📷🦌Cover article! Congrats to @wildco.bsky.social PhD candidate Taz for leading this nuanced paper showing that the effects of wolf reduction on caribou calf survival depend on landscape context. Compensation by other predators may limit benefits for caribou. #openaccess doi.org/10.1002/jwmg....

Couldn't sleep last night thinking about authorship order if the members of the fellowship of the ring wrote a paper. Frodo gets first author, but Gandalf or Sam senior author? Who goes in the acknowledgments?

Question on listing publications on a person website. Do people prefer a plain list of papers, or a more elaborate section with details? For example a picture/graphical abstract and a short summary?

I'm starting over on a personal website to host a portfolio of the work I do, and wondering what are some key elements people look for in scientist websites?

I recently started as an associate editor at the Journal of Wildlife Management, and the first manuscript I worked with was just published. Quite fun being on the "other side" of the publishing process! wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

What is missing from Bluesky to make it feel like the days of classic science twitter? You know before everything turned terrible.

Yesterday (Jan 7th) I had one paper submitted. Today (Jan 8th) I had two new ones submitted. I am right on track to have 587,135,645,693,458,306,972,370,149,197,334,256,843,920,637,227,079,967,676,822,742,883,052,256,278,652,110,865,924,749,596,192,175,757,983,744 papers submitted by end of year.

A first for me, one of my papers was cited in a recent pub, but listed as an "Uncited Reference". What does this mean??

I'm hiring a postdoc to work with myself, Dr Jim Lyons and the entire NOAA Firebird team on the adaptive management part of our larger project focused on the impacts of prescribed fire on Gulf Coast wetlands Accepting applications until Feb 15th blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/19...

When will universities realize graduate students are the primary producers of academic ecosystems?

Our latest boreal mammal work by the talented Rebecca Smith! Beyond habitat loss: How landscape configuration drives mammal distributions across petroleum extraction landscapes - Smith - Journal of Applied Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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!

Paper: "Data available upon request" Me: "Dear authors, may I see your data?" Authors: "No 😇"

A letter to a young data analyst: learning before leaning on AI academic.oup.com/jmammal/arti... (by my very talented colleague Dr. Marissa Dyck!)

Out today, a companion article for my autoOcc R package: Estimating species occupancy across multiple sampling seasons with autologistic occupancy models via the autoOcc R package. #rstats 🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

For my aging millennial coders who used to game. Stick this at the end of your long run-time R code to let you know its done: browseURL("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55sOvmHOvs")

Reminder that some call me alarmist over critiquing AI use in wildlife science.

Postdoctoral Liminal Space

We need a self-citation index

I'll be there! Come say hi!

Meet the sponsors of 32nd annual conference of The Wildlife Society! The event officially kicks off in Edmonton, Alberta on October 5.

Declining bird populations are associated with loss of species identification skills in students | www.tandfonline.com/... | Ecosystems and People | #ornithology 🪶

Returning from fieldwork and opening your inbox

When I am in charge of publishing, clicking a reference link in a paper will always open a new tab, and not shoot you down to the reference section so you don't lose your spot when reading the paper. #Academia

For the upcoming @thewildlifesociety.bsky.social conference I am concerned about "silent sessions". As a speaker I rely pretty heavily on live audience feedback, and not knowing who in my audience is listening to me seems like a huge loss. #TWS2025

Are there any good examples in wildlife/ecology/conservation where folks have used AI for science communication with the public? #SciComm

#newpaper led by @wildco.bsky.social MSc Katie Tjaden-McClement: “Mixed evidence for disturbance-mediated apparent competition for declining caribou in western British Columbia, Canada” wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (thread: 1/7)

Great British Baking Show, but its for data analysis. 1. Signature analysis 2. Technical de-bugging challenge (no internet) 3. Showstopper data visualization

The WildCo Lab @wildco.bsky.social is recruiting 2 postdocs in quantitative ecology to work on mammal population estimation and monitoring from camera trap data. 🐺🐻🦌📷📈 Please share the word or apply to join us at UBC in lovely Vancouver, Canada! wildlife.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/0...

Is it time to stop coding and start teaching prompt engineering? #AI #Rstats #HigherEd

Looking for ideas of places to pitch academic opinion pieces, particularly on the use of AI. Any thoughts?

Pictures are worth 1000 words, and that goes for manuscript edits as well.

My computer knows too much about me.

Here I go complaining about journals and publishing again. My latest piece in Times Higher Education: www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/scie...

I'm back baby

I almost forgot that this is the whole point

New paper alert in The Wildlife Society Bulletin: Will using artificial intelligence to review camera trap images reduce human connection to wildlife research? Open access link: wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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