Check out presentations by me and my collaborators at Entomological Society of America meeting in Portland, OR (Nov 9-12)! Topics will cover weevils, biocontrol, modeling, and ecological genomics. @entsocamerica.bsky.social #IPM #Weeds #InvasivePests #Entomology #Weevils #Model #Forecast #EntSoc25

Check out our new insect decline paper. By analysing 36 yrs of German ground beetle distribution data, we show: - ~80% of species have declined, with significant declines for >50%. - The decline was similar across species traits and threatened status. doi.org/10.1111/ddi.... @consbiog.bsky.social

Few people outside North Carolina have heard of Paul Newby, the chief justice of the state’s Supreme Court. But Newby has had a huge impact on America and his state. He’s done this with the goal of delivering what he’s called “biblical justice, equal justice, for all.” THREAD 👇

Here's a convenient countdown clock for when UCLA has to give up the DoJ letter to the @uclafa.bsky.social. Follow along with me, why don't you! countingdownto.com/countdown-pa...

Matt Levine's "Money Stuff" crossover with entomology: 2012 Texas property tax exemption for non-native honeybees caused bee farms (in residential yards) to quadruple. Sucks to be a native pollinator. www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/a...

TIL about the Cyclocrane invented in the 80s for aerial logging. Did not pan out. Great video showing its test flights in Tillamook, Oregon www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiU7...

In Corvallis, Rev. Jennifer Butler created a microshelter program at her church despite neighborhood complaints. Butler is one of a handful of Corvallis residents working toward service and shelter options in Oregon's most rent-burdened city.

If you missed our webinar, "Climate Resources Roundup: Taking Stock of Available Resources for Washington and the Northwest," a recording is now available.👇 We reviewed the evolving status of federal climate resources and the availability of regional resources for informing adaptation in the NW.

I'm riding my mountain bike on the 850-mile Arizona Trail this fall to see and write about #climate impacts along the way. We're publishing weekly dispatches from the trail in The Arizona Republic | @azcentral.com as I go. The first one just dropped: www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

My heart was jubilant while reading this story this morning - more than 100 Chinook salmon have passed the former Klamath River dam sites as well as the fish ladder at Klamath Lake and are naturally spawning in Oregon headwaters for the first time in over a century! 🐟🧪🌎 www.opb.org/article/2025...

36 years ago today, the #LomaPrieta earthquake rocked Santa Cruz County and the SF Bay Area. There’s a twisted redwood grove near the epicenter at the Forest of Nisene Mark. #SanAndreasFault

A cute springtail hangs with its white-footed slime mold friends 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM M, f/4, 1/2, ISO 640 Stack of 9 images 8/29/25 Northern Oregon Coast #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

In this recently published article, we take a closer look at the making of Calscape’s new Pollinator Companion Tool - developed with leadership from CBI’s Dr. Chris Cosma consbio.org/news/a-place... #PollinatorConservation #Biodiversity #EcologicalRestoration #DataDrivenConservation #ConsBio #CBI

Oof, same battery issue as last year's recall for 2019-2020 cars which still has no fix. Lithium deposits can form in the battery (estimated to affect 1% of cars in recall) & cause a fire when fast-charging.

Ongoing thread on tonight's hearing on keeping California National Guard out of Portland. Oregon's attorneys now want to expand the order to encompass National Guards of all 50 states + D.C. given news from Texas. ⬇️

Drought and insects have killed an unprecedented number of Oregon’s Douglas fir trees during the last decade, costing billions in timber value, damaging infrastructure and ramping up wildfire danger. What is Douglas fir dieback? Where is it happening? What is being done? tinyurl.com/5n9amvx6

🚨 Please repost widely!🚨 I am recruiting a PhD student to join my lab next fall to work on forest and climate change ecology projects in southern Appalachia! Come join me in one of the most beautiful, biodiverse, and understudied parts of North America. Details below and happy to answer questions

Sometime around the turn of the 20th century, the sea mink disappeared from Maine's coastal waters. Its loss came during a rush of North American extinctions, but many today have never even heard of it. My latest for Smithsonian: #wildlife #maine #extinction www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

I recently spoke at a neighborhood association meeting about native plants in the city. Going to meetings like this can reach audiences that aren't following scientists on social or reading up on their own. If you wanna take any bits/pieces of what I said to them, handouts & slides in the thread.

I'm developing a grad course on experimental design (study design generally) & data analysis in biology. What topics, papers, etc. do you think are most important? If you teach something similar, I would love to hear what/how you teach (if you are willing to share a syllabus that would amazing!).

If you want to learn about phenology and invasive species, check out my webinar to the Southeast RISCC group on YouTube. #climate #phenology #invasivespecies #ipm #pest @nwriscc.bsky.social youtu.be/0lVDIiGgnJM?...

Our latest research on fire impacts on snow melt timing across the Western US was just published in @aaas.org Science Advances. Read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The NW Climate Adaptation Science Center recently convened 100 scientists & managers to synthesize what's known and unknown about the ecological impacts of the 2021 PNW heat wave, and what can be done to manage risks from extreme heat events. Products now available! 👇 nwcasc.uw.edu/programs/act...

Immigration advocates say if you see ICE targeting someone, knowing what to do in the moment is critical to protecting immigrants. It’s hard to know what to look for, but this guide can help you better understand how to be an effective bystander in Oregon, and your legal right to do so.

@americanforests.bsky.social is #hiring multiple positions to support post🔥 reforestation 🌲 on USFS lands. Come work with a really great team doing amazing work. Reach out if you have questions! www.americanforests.org/job-opportun...

New paper led by PhD student Elise Pletcher! Forecasts from simple, density-dependent population models are highly transferable to new sites. Adding env. covariates does little to improve prediction in-sample and worsens forecasts out-of-sample. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌳 New paper out from our lab 🌲 We looked at how different harvest intensities and types influence timber production, carbon storage, tree biodiversity, and species composition in northeastern Appalachia 🧪🌎🍁 Just-In at CJFR 👇 doi.org/10.1139/cjfr...

This untold story about a woman who saved hundreds from the path of the Labor Day Fires five years ago got a big response over the weekend. So reposting one more time on this anniversary of one of the most terrifying days in Oregon history. www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2...

The venn diagram of two of my interests circling in on each other this improbably is going to make my head explode

We have a new paper developing methods for looking at bird-fire macroecology. What’s most fascinating to me is that the magnitude *and* direction of fire effects can vary enormously across a species range. Stationarity is dead!! Long live non-stationarity!! doi.org/10.1002/fee....

🌡️By the way, the excessive heat that is helping to create the high wildfire danger Tuesday -- climate change has made these unusual temperatures at least 2x to 5x more likely. In Interior Washington, early September heat like this would be almost impossible without a fingerprint of climate change.

Analysis was "able to identify two key trait mediations that are consistent across the studied taxonomic groups. First, habitat breadth strongly mediates the effect of landscape diversity, and second, voltinism mediates the effect of temperatures."

📣 New research, including @savebutterflies.bsky.social #citizenscience data, shows winners & losers across >1200 insect species in Britain since 1990. Urbanisation identified as major driver of decline for moths, ladybirds & hoverflies www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌍 🦋🐞🦗🪲🐝

Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities, shares Stateline. buff.ly/CicG9BT

Not to brag but we just won our union election with the most YES votes cast in a single union election this year 💅💪 7,000+ UC staff now have a union and are heading to the bargaining table with over 40k other UC research workers.

Listen to Dr. Sheila Colla, may her memory be a blessing: "Engage, tend, nurture and cultivate the natural communities we’re a part of and depend on. Coming back from the biodiversity crisis will require active stewardship, not neglect, of altered landscapes." www.rewildingmag.com/no-mow-may-d...

Thank you @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social for the reminder that golf courses should be forcibly seized by the government and converted to solar farms interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...

Back on #BlueSky to spread the word about the chaos unfolding at University of Oregon. Admin laid off teaching profs this summer & now are telling us that TT & tenured profs will be laid off & numerous #humanities depts closed. Who will teach the largest ever incoming cohort of #ducks this fall?

“The specific cuts [at University of Oregon] reflect a misunderstanding of the essential reasons for the existence of the university. Cuts in teaching & research should always be a last resort, after budgets for administration, athletics, & other nonacademic programs.” www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr...

For an Oregon example, here's a similar analysis from the Labor Day Fires that splits the severity impacts by whether the east winds were extreme or not www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/5/...

New work by Levine et al.: In the northern Sierra Nevada, private industrial forests tend to be denser and more homogenous, and to have more high ladder fuels, than public forests. This leads to a substantially higher probability of high severity wildfire. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out! Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos... Experimental parallel processing ⚡ New assemble() for building plots 🎨 Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪 Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨ 👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/ #Rstats

TIL a sink can get clogged by a bolus made almost entirely of Sparkle Fun toothpaste

The National Association of Agriculture Employees has filed suit against the Trump admin after USDA revoked its union recognition. Representing APHIS inspectors, entomologists, botanists and more, NAAE is fighting for collective bargaining rights. 🧪 #entomology #science

Could be revolutionary for reducing insecticide use in cattle & pastures, cats & dogs in addition to human health benefits

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 The last chapter of my dissertation, "From pixels to parcels: Flexible, practical small-area uncertainty estimation for spatial averages obtained from aboveground biomass maps," is now freely available in Remote Sensing of Environment! 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

🐞 🐝 I'm recruiting students to join my lab at the University of Minnesota! Hoping to bring on 2-3 MS or PhD students (MS a pre-req for PhD students). Take a peek at the opportunities available and feel free to reach out with questions. Please share widely! jhemberger.github.io/ibug_lab_web...

Join us at the University of Washington in the #HarveyLab in the School of Environmental & Forest Sciences. We're currently recruiting a postdoc in forest disturbance & landscape ecology for a project focused in western US + w/ international collaborators. Details below. Apply by end of August!

We took a collective lunch break today to protest @propublica.org management’s continued use of a flawed performance management system. Just this morning, a member of our Bargaining Committee was fired as a result of this system. Read more: www.propublicaguild.org/updates/we-d...

A new paper demonstrates a clear latitudinal gradient in responses of the Finnish moth communities to warming climate. This work is based on the Finnish #mothmonitoring dataset gathered @syke.fi.