New paper out today (my final PhD chapter)! Increasing impervious surfaces strongly reduces cavity-nesting bee and wasp communities, and flower patches alone showed no detectable impact. @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social #openaccess besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Now online! In this review, we cover four major topics on butterflies and moths: their evolutionary history and diversification dynamics, genomics, global diversity patterns, and conservation 🦋🌏 (1/8) @natrevbiodiv.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44...

We found support for the Rapoport effect in butterflies 🦋 species that live in more variable climates have broader thermal tolerances and larger range sizes. A collaboration with Aaron Yilmaz and @sarahdiamond.bsky.social 🔬 academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

A great place to publish PNW-focused research just got better. Thanks to BioOne’s Subscribe to Open (S2O) program, @nwscience.bsky.social l will publish 2026 articles as open access, with authors paying only standard page charges.

New paper from our lab, led by Leah McTigue We reviewed 40+ years of research on drought affects on wildlife: 66% of single-species responses were negative, only 2% positive. As droughts intensify under climate change, wildlife are in trouble. 🌍🌐🧪 📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Join Xerces & help protect fireflies! 🪲💡 Job Title: Endangered Species Conservation Biologist, Firefly Specialist 🌎Location: Remote (IA, IL, MO preferred. Will consider AR, IN, KS, KY, MI, MN, ND, NE, OH, OK, SD, WI) 💲Compensation: $65,998/yr 📅Apply by: Mar 5 Learn more & apply at xerces.org/jobs

Are you an relatively new to field ecology and data collection? Or are are you supervising students? Our guide for effective field data collection is now published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! We also include a printable poster with a visual overview of the guide doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Post a tree you photographed.

New lab paper! It's a first, first-authored paper by PhD student, @nicki-bailey.bsky.social ! Nicki won the 2024 @entsocamerica.bsky.social @pie-entsoc.bsky.social Master's Student Achievement in Entomology Award. Read it here! doi.org/10.1093/ee/n...

I have a story out in @columbiainsight.bsky.social with numbers (lots of numbers) showing how two recently delisted PNW plant species have seen steep population declines since their federal protections were removed. Both plants were delisted because the USFWS argued they had fully recovered.

When I need cheering up I look at the cards my kid's afterschool program made for a dead bug

Reading this for my ecological genomics class. Pretty mind-blowing stuff, even identifying insect-bacterial symbionts from high covariance in airborne eDNA!

The Mississippi basin. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Oregon fire history in western Cascades reconstructed with tree rings by Johnston, Merschel, Schmidt & Reilly. Including evidence of fires hundreds of years ago similar in size to 2020 Labor Day fires. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

My colleagues Calvin Farris (NPS) and Ellis Margolis (USGS) led a landmark study in paleofire reconstruction. In addition to showing that fire management can restore past fire regimes, the demonstrated methods are a first in dendrochronology. 1/6 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Species shift their ranges in response to climate change, but many can't keep up. The resulting "community-climate disequilibrium" can impair ecosystem function and cause counterintuitive dynamics, like short-term gain but long-term loss onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌎 'Journal of Forestry' has published a special issue on Forest Pollinators, Guest Edited by James W. Rivers and Michael D. Ulyshen—Hurry, it is free to access until 15th February. bit.ly/4bM6sWK 🍁 #Entomology

2025 was the third-hottest year in Oregon in records that date back to 1895. This year’s heat wasn’t as obvious — coming at night and in spring, late fall and early winter (hence the crap snowpack). It was also dry, but not that wildfire-y. Full story: tinyurl.com/dauh9e64

SEIU, which represents nearly 2 million workers around US, are holding Friday actions in solidarity with the Minnesota economic blackout, from the Twin Cities to Orlando, to Columbus, to Phoenix, to Seattle, to Boston, to LA, to New York.

North Carolina Natural Heritage Program just posted two invertebrate biologist jobs (one aquatic, one terrestrial) to work on species of concern in Hurricane Helene-affected areas. We'll probably be collaborating with whomever they hire. Details here: nc.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NC_Car...

Searching for something tangible to do to make a difference in your community 🤔? Look no further! Join us for a Wildlife Conservation Letter-Writing Party in #Eugene or #Portland coming up in the next several weeks. #seaotters #1percentforwildlife #oregon #wildlife #wildlifeconservation

📣Corvallis is a forming a new R-Ladies group and hosing their first event on Jan 22 at 5:30 pm at Common Fields. Details and an RSVP for the event are here: www.meetup.com/rladies-corv... Please share widely! @weare.rladies.org #Rstats #Rlang #R #oregon

New on Entomology Today: A simple rubbing technique borrowed from grade-school art class offers a quick and effective way for scientists to measure damage to trees caused by bark beetles—and an accessible tool for engaging the public in forest entomology.

National assessment of river protection in the U.S. Article: doi.org/10.1038/s418... Policy Brief: doi.org/10.1038/s418... Rivers Explorer: map.myriver.americanrivers.org Collaboration b/t American Rivers, Conservation Science Partners, Univ WA @americanrivers.bsky.social Thread 👇 | DM for PDF

Ever wish rocks could tell you their stories? Geologist and writer Marcia Bjornerud imagines how 10 Wyoming rocks would describe the world as it was when they formed for @highcountrynews.org's Deep Time issue: www.hcn.org/issues/58-1/...

Anyone out there have thoughts on how to remove duplicates from NIFC fire polygon data? There are a lot of observations that aren't 100% matches (spelling errors, slight name differences) but are clearly the same fire. I don't think using an erase in terra will work because data span multiple years

oh wow, mdpi special issue invitation on monarch butterfly conservation edited by a crank with very particular opinions about how they shouldn't be listed. thatsbait dot gif

Now that we're at the end of the year, it's time to rave about my favorite science and nature writing of 2025. If you're looking for holiday reading material, here are 12 stories I loved from around the web, all free to read: #SciComm #ScienceWriting #Bestof2025 ianrosewrites.com/2025/my-favo...

Today at @unbreaking.org we have a big update to our page on transgender healthcare. A TIMELINE!!! And the explainer has been rewritten to be clearer and easier to follow (if not any less soul crushing). If you need a primer on all the ways this administration is attacking gender affirming care:

New study: backyard mosquito sprays lead to insecticide levels high enough to kill pollinators, and sprays travel easily into neighboring yards. stacksjournal.org/article/ande...

Today’s incoming atmospheric river could bring one of the bigger flooding events of the past decade in Oregon, NWS meteorologists said, with around 16-18 streams currently forecast to see some level of flooding. Wind and wet soils could also bring widespread outages: tinyurl.com/34fptzsy

ICYMI (I did): homeowners in WA State filed a class action law suit against big oil companies for skyrocketing insurance rates caused by climate harms, including forest fire risks and flooding. 1/

Fun collab w an awesome group of ecologists, led by Jenn Williams and Tom Miller! Linking Climate and Demography to Predict PopulationDynamics and Persistence Under Global Change dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

I only saw the pics from river level before but a) is that the headscarp way up the hill; 👀 b) if it really is, look at the way all the intermediate trees stayed upright!! 😱🤯

Very pleased to announce that my recent paper in Oecologia "Trophic generalism in the winter moth: a model species for phenological mismatch" won the journal's 2024 Ehleringer Prize for student research! 🏆 You can read more about the paper and the award below 👇 link.springer.com/journal/442/...

Did you consume too much depressing news on your timeline? Here's your palate cleanser from @dradriansmith.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJNa...

I started getting reports of an unseasonal Joshua tree bloom in the last few weeks, and looking over records on @inaturalist.bsky.social it's pretty widespread! So we're putting out the call for folks to record this "bonus bloom" and help us study it 🌿 lab.jbyoder.org/2025/12/10/w...

Essential pairing for this reading is a statistician examining the potential biases in the MS miracle: statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/01/h...

What are the most pressing questions about the status of #insects? Our survey is available here in multiple languages: bit.ly/insectquestions! #insect #entomology #biodiversity

Right now, Oregonians should listen very hard to @opbkmhdcreators.bsky.social union. The voices you hear on the radio at OPB are generally poorly-compensated, some working two jobs, and the wage gap between the CEO and the actual journalists is a gap of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

New study on arthropod declines @natecoevo.nature.com 🪲 In two time series @jena-experiment.bsky.social & @bexplo.bsky.social we show how community (dis)assembly underpins local biomass declines. It mostly boils down to species loss, with identity losing relevance. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Disturbance interactions have profound consequences for forest health, yet remain poorly understood. Here we use DAGs to differentiate #Synergisms, #CompoundDisturbances & #NetworkEffects and review the impacts of climate change. Final version out now! 🧪🌐🍁🌱 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Incredibly proud of my former student, Rohan Gowda Thanh Quang. His new paper in 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩: 𝘌𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 analyzed $128B in US climate investments & finds that 𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘁-𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 - especially nature-based solutions. Results in 🧵: 1/9

Fun fact that St. Louis metro has 10.1 governments per 100,000 residents (Table 1)

Even your older nature photos can help scientists today! As long as you know when and where you took the photos, you can post your nature sightings on iNaturalist anytime — and they'll still contribute to science and conservation. Got anything in your camera roll to share? 👀

📣 Do you live in the Portland, OR, area? We're especially in need of volunteers to help with some in-person parts of organizing the Cascadia R Conference (Jun 26-27, 2026). Volunteers get free registration for the conference! #Rlang #PDX #Coding #R #Programming #Conference #RStudio

We churned through over 100 million radar samples to quantify the structure of migration through the airspaces across the United States: Just out in Ecology esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

“Universal hydrological trends post‑wildfire are obscured by local watershed variability” iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #Hydrology #Wildfire #WatershedProcesses #Streamflow #WaterResources

NOTE: No detectable change in *activity density*: they measure bugs that have dispersed into the upper atmosphere. That is quite a few steps from abundance. Consider (just one) scenario: abundance declines but warmer temps promote flight activity. The Achilles’ Heel of malaise, pitfall traps…