The #NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program #GRFP solicitation is coming soon! The due date for Life Sciences proposals is 27 October 2025. For more info: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Looking forward to reading this!

Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/kareemca...

Thinking about applying for the Smith Fellowship? Watch the recording of our FAQ Webinar for answers to common questions and insights to strengthen your application here: vimeo.com/1111487510?s...

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

One last outing this field season with my incoming graduate student. We collected genetic samples from wolf scat and hiked through some beautiful country. Looking forward to the start of the semester and getting this project officially started!

📝 Are you using multispecies occupancy models to investigate interactions in species occupancy (i.e. co-occurrence)? 🦁🦓 Check out our new paper for advice on the number of sites you need to reliably detect interactions under different scenarios ⬇️

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

I’m honored and excited to be presenting in the “Quantitative Methods for Predator-Prey Interactions” section of this conference. The GRCs are small and have a unique format that makes them something truly special. Check out the link below for more details and to register.

With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵

I am making a Starter Pack for people who are looking for PHD STUDENT POSITIONS in the biological sciences! If you wish to be added, please respond directly to this post saying you want to be added. I need at least 5 people to create the pack. Please share widely!

I really appreciate being given the opportunity to contribute to this Nature article on best practices for versioning shared data! 🫱📂🫲 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nice collection of articles about AI and the many challenges it presents.

I've been interested in uncertainty visualization for a long time, yet somehow it took forever to come across this 2018 paper on ‘value-suppressed uncertainty palettes’. A neat and intuitive alternative to the clunky ‘unsuppressed’ bivariate palette approach: doi.org/10.1145/3173... 🧪 #dataviz

#bioacoustics community: do you know any online platforms for volunteers to join an acoustics project, validate and label acoustic data (e.g. birdnet detections, false negatives), filter for specific species etc? I asked this a few yrs ago but nothing of the sort existed...

‼️New 🐺 paper‼️We developed models to predict highly suitable den & rendezvous site habitat for Mexican wolves in AZ & NM. These models will be used to guide future monitoring as the population continues to grow. #OpenAccess #JournalOfWildlifeManagement wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Very cool conservation science here. Congrats on the publication, Lisanne!

🆕 & #OpenAccess in "Ecology": A meta study of 1,000+ ungulate tracking studies shows how the number of predator species shapes patterns of predation 📄Interspecific carnivore competition and ungulate predation correlate with predator species richness doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

Have you ever cited or come across a mention of the 'human shield hypothesis' and wondered: what is the evidence for this hypothesis, and what is the quality of that evidence? Wonder no more! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The gray wolf research group is back in the field this summer, conducting howl surveys & collecting non-invasive genetic samples to study wolves in Idaho. I’m grateful to continue being a part of this long-term study & so excited that my first graduate student is now part of it as well.

Moving this to the top of my reading list

New blog post sharing updates on the latest version of the Diel.Niche R package, which we just released about an hour ago. Interested in quantifying if a species is nocturnal with data? Well it is easier than ever now! 🧪 #rstats #cameratrapping masonfidino.com/Diel.Niche_u...

Feared this was coming. It will suck to lose the job I have loved for 19 years. If this goes through, it will gut the science capacity that helps us understand and conserve fish, wildlife, and our natural world. Expecting the RIF notices to go out end of this coming week.

I'm looking for a postdoc in quantitative ecology / macroecology to start in summer/fall 2025 in my lab at Oklahoma State University. Please spread the word www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities

This is getting lots of attention - check the thread. I want to emphasize the basic problem: Just because you have randomized (or pseudo-randmized) a treatment, that doesn't mean you can reliably estimate interactions with that treatment. Which means post-strat prediction for population not possible

We are hiring an Assistant/Associate Prof of Quantitative Ecology! I'm on the Search Committee for this one. If you have any interest in the position & want to learn more about living in this v. cool part of the country, pls reach out! tinyurl.com/2h6bdece

I totally agree. And I think this applies to coding as well. Writing your own code (as best you can) is how you learn and think through many aspects of your analysis. AI is a helpful tool but it shouldn’t be doing the heavy lifting for you.

There are lot of good reasons to not feed wildlife and here’s another one.

🐆🐆 Aaaaand we have another M.S. position available!! This position represents an opportunity to study ocelot genomics in the context of an active reintroduction effort. Deadline is June 1 for an August start 🐆🐆 Position posting is here: shorturl.at/o4dTA

Some really helpful tidbits and good reminders

New 🦇 migration discoveries out in #TheScientificNaturalist series from our journal "Ecology"!

This is a great resource! I just watched the first video and it inspired so many ideas for the quantitative ecology course I’m designing for the fall semester.

A heartbreakingly powerful statement

❗️I’m looking for recommendations❗️for a very introductory text book (or online resources) to use in a bio statistics / quantitative ecology course. And ideally one that doesn’t cost a lot. Most of the ones I’ve found are either too advanced or too expensive for this course. For more context, (1/3)

Among the other great points in this statement, “Every dollar spent on conservation in the US has a positive return of 2.4 times its original investment.” Conserving natural resources is good business. 🐟🐠🎣

I'm seeing a lot of support for fired scientists and environmental professionals, which is great But a lot is phased is "just keep doing your important work," and I need you to know that these are early career people with student loans and no savings, and they need income for food and shelter.

There are 43 CRUs across the US. Their mission is to conduct research, train & educate graduate students, & provide technical assist. to cooperators (like state F&W agencies). They’ve already lost scientists to initial layoffs. Their complete loss would be devastating to conservation & education.

The Dems on the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology have setup a site to collect info on the impact of the mass firings at federal science agencies. If you were fired and are willing to share (including anonymously) it’s here democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

Now officially published with its 2025 publ date. Looking beyond Popper: How Philosophy can be relevant to ecology. @oikosjournal.bsky.social A fantastic collaborative effort between ecologists and philosophers of science. #philosophy #ecology nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Does open hunting disproportionately affect breeding wolves? Researchers in Idaho examined tissue samples and the time of harvest to determine how harvest might affect pack leaders. Read more 👇

Thank you for contributing to Ecological Monographs!👏

First paper from my postdoc is out in #EcologicalMonographs w/ @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social! We looked at patterns of summer co-occurrence among 5 predators at 3 time scales to assess how competition, prey, & habitat affected predator distributions in north Idaho, USA. dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

If you want to read the full text of the memo pausing federal grants it's available here: static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

Exciting fellowship with the USGS for graduate students on diverse knowledgr systems in climate adaptation. Just make sure your projects include Indigenous data sovereignty ! www.usgs.gov/programs/cli...

Come join the Dept. of Ecology at Montana State University! We’re hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor of Ecology (non-tenure-track). Details in the link. jobs.montana.edu/postings/44917

Where are all the field studies? This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer. A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork) www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Check out this awesome fellowship for undergrads & recent grads who are interested in wolf research. Fellows choose from 1 of several research projects to participate in & are given $10,000 in support for gear, stipend, etc. Application deadline is Feb. 1st. wolf.org/programs/mec...