I want to write a spicy manuscript entitled “Poor Statistical Training in Wildlife Agencies Results in Mismanagement” or something like that and then just discuss all the hundreds of poorly made decisions state agencies make for game species.

“Woah I love snow and cold weather”, I say, living in Georgia. “Ffffff why are all my pipes frozen”, I swear this morning as the real feel drops to 6F and my Southern house suffers from lack of insulation.

📘 New book out soon ! I’m excited to share that 𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞-𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐨𝐯 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐈𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐄 is being published by Chapman & Hall / CRC Press Hope it’s useful to students, researchers, and practitioners #StatisticalEcology #NIMBLE

About to pay a copay for $966 and wondering why I even bother to have insurance 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ Healthcare in the USA is a scam

“Everything is a back exercise if you do it wrong” - my wife, in regards to injuring her back weightlifting 🙄

We do not get out of fascism by saving ourselves and turning our backs on others. We get out through solidarity with everyone—especially the most vulnerable.

First CWD paper published! We found that #CWD has a dramatic negative effect on deer populations. Check it out here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

The trees are alive, with the sound of stupid Yellow Rumped Warblers that refuse to enter the mist nets 👀

UGA is encouraging staff to start using and promoting AI in their classrooms and research and I just… no. I do not like this. I agree AI can help with some tasks - namely image processing, grunt work type things, but this seems dangerous

Went to check on our friend’s cats yesterday and this one was not pleased to see me. Luckily his only response is to flatten himself and hope it ends soon. I guess he hasn’t forgotten all the times I’ve had to give him meds 😂😂

Long run didn’t quite go as planned, but one more chance to get to 20 before the taper. Having a 3 mile uphill at the end of my route was probably the killer here 😅 #marathontraining

I just want to remind everyone that a really fun, free,!ride-to-work activity is to call your least favorite senator/rep and just waste their office phone time by expounding in length about your thoughts on their job performance. I especially enjoy wasting the time of the office of #mikecollins.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

A message for the senate democrats

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Love discovering my flight is delayed from a 7:15 boarding to an… 11:30 boarding???? #tsa #fucktrump

Spotify is now running ICE recruitment ads. We asked them to stop. They ignored us. Let's show them what we showed Disney. No Kings, No Collaborators, No Capitulators. indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Took the puppy on her first camping trip. 10/10 fall colors and 10/10 for exhausting the pup! She like swimming and hiking, did not enjoy having to share the tent with moms

One of us devoted a lot more time and skill to our sign but it was a great protest regardless. #noking #Georgia

Ran a half marathon, ended up with a kitten 😅 Luckily I had also randomly trapped a cat on Friday and we knew some folks looking for a pair. The cat distribution system at its best! Two fewer cats to eat the birds and create even MORE kittens.

I, for one, am shocked that CWD is spreading in a state that is taking no active measures to prevent CWD from spreading 😂

Seeing your own research in the news is a crazy experience! We found that lethal control is not an effective strategy and coyotes are probably just the new normal. Amazing how an article can turn a lengthy study into a sound bite 😅 www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

A colleague working through stats problems in my office just sighed and said “I hope my models aren’t as broken as I am” and I’m considering getting that as my next tattoo.

The funny thing about urban #hunting is I’ll be literally in the middle of processing a deer and over my shoulder I’ll see several more deer trying to decide if now is a good time to eat the backyard plants or not 😅

It is actually possible to reaffirm publicly one's principled opposition to political violence without expressing sympathy or even praise for those who devoted their entire lives to inciting violence and propagating the most vile forms of hatred and bigotry.

Apple is sneaking AI into everything. Turn off enhanced visual search on your photos:

The garden at our old house is flourishing, if a little chaotic. Meanwhile at the new house, the deer are eating everything, even the mint! And the hairy rattleweed! #plantnative #killyourlawn

The porch wrens have FINALLY fledged which means we can actually close our screened in porch after weeks of leaving it open while mom took care of babies. Unfortunately fledgling also required encouraging the babies to actually leave the deck 😅

Some intellectual cat photos for the day

Well the US might be rapidly approaching fascist disaster but at least I have finally labeled and hung my second case of moths!

Our integrated population model of a high density coyote population is now online! We combined data collected at irregular intervals and varying spatial scales to inform an #IPM of 18 years of #coyotes on the SRS in SC, USA. Check it out! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#tarrifs are going well for American businesses I see.

In case you were wondering how much a Nissan transmission costs to replace (not paying this obviously haha) 🙄☠️🪦

I don’t understand how the average American affords a car. My transmission is dying and I’m looking at used cars - $10K for a car with >100K miles is a terrible deal but new cars are crazy expensive! Do people just live in debt?

Yeah yeah but #CWD doesn’t harm #deer populations, right? 🙄🙄

We are still facing the largest attack we've ever seen on public lands. Sen. Mike Lee still wants to liquidate more than a million acres of public lands – turning them over to the highest bidder. Call your senators! Urge them to oppose any sell-off of public lands. 📱➡️ (202) 224-3121

$20/hr in Louisiana in this economy? That’s a darn good wildlife gig if you ask me! Let your deer enthusiast friends know! #jobs #wildlife #ecology #fieldwork

For some reason there's an old crank in the deer world who claims #chronicwastingdisease #cwd isn't an issue. This is my 'favorite' section of his report. Like, my dude, we saw a 50% decline in deer densities in 4 years, I'm pretty sure that's a significant impact on population dynamics.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger

The “anti-fraud” tools that DOGE installed for the Social Security Administration’s phone service slowed claim processing by 25% and ended up reporting a true fraud rate of less than 0.000018% Elon Musk and the President claimed it was 40% www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

Pouring rain and thunderstorms at the Athens, GA #nokings parade yesterday, but the crowd was still large and enthusiastic.

We decided an experimental approach to this question could be cool. So Andrew strapped a taxidermied badger on top of an RC cart and drove the cart toward incubating curlews both while playing prairie dog ground-based predator calls and not (control). We lovingly call this the badgerinator. 🧪

Indigo buntings and blue grosbeaks are some of my favorite summer birds! Even got my wife to hold one this time! #birds #nature

Tiny toad season has started