Fantastic piece from @schmidtdse.bsky.social post-doc @lucialayr.bsky.social on handling the emotional side of doing a PhD in climate or ecological modeling blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/...

New paper in @newphyt.bsky.social using @gbif.org mediated data: Documenting biodiversity with digital data: comparing and contrasting the efficacy of specimen‐based and observation‐based approaches 🇺🇸 #CiteTheDOI: ✅ #OpenAccess: ⭐️ https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70406

Great commentary from Evans et al. detailing some flaws in using space-for-time substitutions (SFTS) for climate change ecology. They provide a succinct piece with some ideas for moving forward. I've used SFTS in the past and will definitely refer to this in the future. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The Trump Admin has proposed a rule to rescind the definition of harm to include endangered species habitat. You have until May 19 to submit a comment to the Fed. Please do so. youtu.be/jt5I7OuQrZQ?...

I had the privilege of being interviewed by @markschwartz.bsky.social for his video series on new conservation literature. We discussed my paper on 'econativeness'––the idea that a species is native to a niche rather than a geographic location. youtu.be/Y7cwfxEvok4 #conservation #ethics #ecology

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t considering it too www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In the moment when so much feels like a struggle, her work is truly inspiring. It is a privilege and an honor

US #agriculture productivity is slowing down for the first time in decades due to #ClimateChange. FSE, @cornelluniversity.bsky.social + @univofmaryland.bsky.social scholars found that $2.2-3.8B per year in extra research is needed to offset the climate-induced decline. stanford.io/3DDTuMa

Boosting this podcast (about the largest academic strike in history) into the Science 🧪 & Ecology and Conservation 🌎 feeds because i think it’s never been more important for scientists to know how to effectively organize. And here’s the paper: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Never fails to amaze me how any work in conservation that uses AI in any part of the pipeline, no matter how small, is advertised as "AI helps save the planet." The value there is real, but it's one tool. I'm still waiting to see the headline with 'duct tape and pvc helps save the planet'

#LAwildfire update❗Lawsuits claim Edison's equipment sparked the deadly Eaton fire. @michaelwara.bsky.social says the company re-energized power lines despite damage -- violating protocol -- and was slow to shut off power during the crisis. Read more @npr.org: n.pr/3Xd4iaL

Community scientists help fill gaps in studying and protecting social-ecological systems. A new study coauthored by @stanfordwoods.bsky.social @giuliodeleo.bsky.social + Nicole Ardoin highlights their role in knowledge generation, education, and conservation enforcement. go.nature.com/4b3PCAE

Here's a shiny app I made that maps the density of observations and unique species for all GBIF records in California. Pretty exciting to see aggregate metrics from 31 million(!) records on-the-fly using duckdb. Webapp: calacademy-community-science.shinyapps.io/california-g...

The Data Life Cycle is a useful narrative device to understand how data flow within a project. But understanding how it fits with complex model pipelines has been awkward. So we wrote a thing! It's called the Model Life Cycle, and it's now out in PLOS Comp Biol: 🧪 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Got an email 15 minutes ago from the director of the National Nature Assessment confirming that the inaugural report on the nature in the U.S. is now officially discontinued as per the EO "Unleashing American Energy." It was a privilege to work alongside many incredible scientists, while it lasted.

This is one of my awesome colleagues at the California Academy of Sciences! @arachnologynerd.bsky.social @calacademy.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#Climatechange is exacerbating the #LAwildfires. Noah Diffenbaugh likens it to baseball: "climate change doesn't have to hit the home run to affect how many runs are scored. 'If it puts runners on base, then the impact of the homerun is increased.'" Read more @wired.com: bit.ly/40otddn

Nativeness as Gradient? Beyond the Native/Alien Binary... Towards a More Complete Value Assessment of Species in a Rapidly Changing World 🌎🌍🌏 doi.org/10.1007/s108...

I have a new paper out in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘴 called "Nativeness as gradient: Towards a more complete value assessment of species in a rapidly changing world" (1/3) doi.org/10.1007/s108... #ecology #ethics #environmentalethics #biogeography #conservation #anthropocene

I'm going to be eating (and judging) forest-themed cake on KQED, December 18th. You can also submit a cake! More information here www.kqed.org/event/4663

The California Academy of Sciences is hiring a curator of botany! us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor... #sciencejobs #botany #museum

Our community science team at the California Academy of Sciences is looking to hire someone to help strategize the growth of our community science programs in California. Please take a look and spread the word! us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor... #sciencejobs

Rapid biodiversity changes driven by climate change are in our future. My co-authors and I found in a new study that grassland plant communities in CA shift more quickly in response to hot and dry conditions in contrast to forested ecosystems. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hi all. I am a global change ecologist with some expertise in botany, SDM, fire ecology, and environmental ethics. I’ll use this account to talk about my research, interesting papers I find, and programming/modeling techniques I find useful. #academia #ecology #climatechange #research #gis