Fort Collins folks, do you realize that Martha Wells is going to be in Fort Collins today! Go, Old Firehouse Books! I can hardly wait to read the latest Murderbot

What do you all think of somebody arguing back against Editorial decisions? And who do you see do it? (I've only ever had senior white men do that. Is it a pattern, or is that small sample size?)

40. The best idea in the world is worthless if people can't understand you. A mediocre idea* presented outstandingly will go over better than an outstanding idea presented mediocrely. (*grants, papers, seminars, talks, conversations etc etc)

We're looking for a junior specialist to work on a fun project exploring seagrass local adaptation across the whole state of California! It should be a good mix of field and molecular work. Please share with folks you think would be interested! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07605

Missing my former twitter anon account for ranting.

Postdoc position with Enakshi Ghosh working with myself, @hufbauer.bsky.social and Ian Pearse! Based at Virginia Tech and visiting us here in Colorado! Despite the photo, it is not on geese...but in fact, focused on insect immunity! jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/postdoc...

🚨 2nd master’s project! Interested in bird migration & genomics? 🧬🐦 Use whole-genome data to trace the recent colonization of Ouessant Island by Blue Tits and explore how irruptive migratory events can shape colonization dynamics. Please share! #ornithology www.vogelwarte.ch/de/wir/mitar...

Wow my kid is rocking HS. I'm so impressed. 3 A+s and two As.

Minor victory of the day. I fixed our vacuum cleaner.

I can hardly wait!

the "handshake" service for advertising and hiring student hourly positions remains as nonfunctional as ever. just sayin'

I'm bribing myself to get through a few tasks.

Post-teaching puddle

Ok, time to prep (more!) for the week to come.

Instead I'll tell you what's cute: the dog grabbing a toy and running at a squirrel squeaking it like crazy. If squeaks could kill! Lol.

I kinda miss my anonymous bird site account. I liked having a place to complain about things, apparently!

Comic sans is alive and well.

Just spent 5 hours grading a short essay exam in Canvas. I apparently missed that even when the answer shows as graded in canvas the grade isn't saved unless you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and click update.

16 just asked to watch episode IV w me. Thank you social media feeds for making this happen! (A rare statement indeed.)

How much chocolate is too much chocolate?

Seattle!

BTW - what an amazing group of US federal, university, and industry scientists working together to help protect our forests! @hufbauer.bsky.social @sandyliebhold.bsky.social

We already knew that the phylogenetic distance between an insect’s native and non-native hosts was a key predictor of impact on insects that specialize on conifers… doi.org/10.1002/ece3... …or specialize on hardwoods… doi.org/10.1007/s105... …but what about generalists?…

Our new paper(!) developed a comprehensive model to predict which non-native insects will have high impact on trees after arrival… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just initiated monthly donations to the ACLU

I'm so sad and mad for our country and the world right now.

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

I actually miss digital measures.

interfolio is helping me understand the book I'm reading on Buddhism. Yes, life is suffering. And I just have to keep going to achieve enlightenment. And annual evaluation.

I just found more coffee in my thermos. #smallvictories

Gorgeous day out in celebration of 20 yrs married.

So much entirely up in the air.

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Ecologist: it is complicated. And with a sample size of 1, why do you expect to get an answer??

It is so darned hard to find reviewers. Folks are busy! Minor issue given the state of the world, but it does matter to science with a small and capital S, and also to people's careers.

Doing taxes. Yep.

I was interviewed by @msjpauly.bsky.social for @motherjones.com regarding that awful gamete size "sex" executive order. A bit of an explainer here of why the science is so bad, and why that's dangerous:

It's officially winter in Colorado. And some of the chickens have started laying, poor girls!

This is super cool. Such a success story.

Paper accepted! Happy dance! I'm just a middle author, but the team is marvelous and I'm so happy for (and impressed by) the lead author Ashley Schulz. Science to follow once it's closer to actual publication.

new Ecology paper alert: we use 2 tree diversity-ecosystem function experiments to show that tree diversity increases productivity through increased canopy complexity (as measured with NEON airborne Lidar) #treedivnet esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

in good news, I just realized there's a murderbot bot. @murderbotbot.bsky.social

Science is great, the news is grim, and now I'm going to go do some self care and read #Murderbot

Yikes.

On my reading list!

My commute. Just the fat tire bike for company!

Reading list!

Wow 16 is going all out on this.

I’d just like to take a moment to acknowledge the best tik tok video of all time youtu.be/7ZWaWrvJ7nA?...

OK, I shall procrastinate on this paperwork no longer. It's getting bad. I was thinking of starting my taxes instead of doing it. There are just some things (kinds of paperwork) that I dread for really no good reason.

Go CSU Ecology!