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…

New paper by Tielens, Stepanian, & Kelly uses weather radar to monitor flying insect communities across the USA over 10 years. Detected no change in density over 2012-2021, with lots of station to station variation. #openaccess paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌐🧪🪲🪳

Capitol Chronicle is a great resource that helps supplement politics coverage for many newsrooms across our region. It's worth supporting!

Spread the word: we are providing multiple $5k awards for grad & undergrad research on invertebrate conservation !! In addition to our continuing DeWind Award (for Lepidoptera research), we now have the 1st annual BanDrosky Award (for any invert in decline). Details in thread🧵 ⤵️

In October 2023, there was a mass die-off of kokanee during the first drawdown of Green Peter Reservoir. Floating dead fish everywhere. It was ugly. Turns out, many fish survived and at least 500 reached the ocean and have returned transformed into sockeye salmon. Nature! tinyurl.com/4r8pr5n2

My latest paper is now published in an issue! We showcased the incredible scientific contributions that local and amateur naturalists make for research on long term change! 💚🌍 doi.org/10.1111/icad...

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/...