It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Wyoming's governor is moving ahead with a long-delayed pronghorn migration corridor designation, but he opted for a version preferred by the Wyoming Stock Growers Association that forgoes protections in the Red Desert and Golden Triangle regions.

To survive, migratory species need a series of connected sites where they can feed, breed & rest along their routes. Protecting ecological connectivity means identifying these key places, ensuring they remain suitable & accessible, and understanding what may be preventing species from reaching them.

go work with Liz!

I'm recruiting a new master's student for fall 2026 in my lab at Northern Michigan University @bionmu.bsky.social ! Students with interests in evolution of freshwater fish are encouraged to apply. Please see our lab website lizmandeville.github.io and the attached advertisement for more information.

Our preprint is out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Peter Skovorodnikov and I are excited to present FERAL: a new video-understanding toolkit that maps raw video directly to behavior, no pose estimation required. It works across species, from lab to field, and even in collective systems. (🧵1/n)

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

World’s largest sage grouse lek and longest mule deer migration threatened by oil & gas lease sale in western Wyoming. wyofile.com/drilling-lea... Public comments due Monday, 17Nov. eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui...

Damn. We lost a great one. RIP

Don’t mess with the California coast. bsky.app/profile/dust...

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️

OKC just finished a memorial to honor the lunch counter sit-in that Clara Luper and her students did in 1958. kfor.com/news/local/c...

Only four #taxidermy bluebuck are known in #museums (Paris, Leiden, Stockholm, Vienna): the only large mammal species to become extinct in Africa in recent centuries. Bluebuck disappeared in ~1800. (It feels weird to know I've seen them all - the only physical evidence of what bluebuck looked like)

Polls will begin to close very soon. And it'll feel like there are a million things to watch! One resource to bookmark: my cheat sheet to election night. We'll be updating with results as they're known: so once you know what happened in VA, NYC, NJ, you can check out the all the down-ballot stuff!

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

Polls don't close until 9 p.m., but here's a gift link to the results page for the NYC mayoral election to bookmark to watch once they do. (No needle for this one.)

🧪Now that the flaws in Ripple et al. (2025) are on record, it’ll be an interesting test of scientific integrity to see if and how that paper is used. This Science letter, for instance, cites Ripple et al. (2025) in calling for strict wolf protection across Europe. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The executive order allows Gov. Mark Gordon to send emergency funds to charitable organizations and churches amid a government shutdown that's stalled food assistance for thousands in Wyoming.

The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)

Casper-based Kirkwood Oil and Gas successfully nominated leases in a restricted area where the parcels overlap with pronghorn and mule deer migration routes, and 'priority' sage grouse habitat. BLM staffers and conservationists question why land use plans weren't followed.

Just looked at the site full of details of large mammal migrations in Wyoming. Really interesting

As part of today's historic return of ancestral land in the Sierra Nevada foothills and Central Valley back to the Tule River Tribe, the Department of Fish and Wildlife is helping reintroduce tule elk to the area. It's a critical step in restoring balance to the lands and waters of their ancestors.

My op-ed on Chronic Wasting Disease response in British Columbia cranbrooktownsman.com/2025/10/28/c...

Cheyenne is seeing more federal workers lining up for food assistance. Two cities are looking at ways to prevent liquor license violations and underage drinking. In Teton County, electricity rates are on the rise, partly due to the data center boom.

The topic of migrating herbivores should be on everone's radar. If it's not, then please watch this excellent video from Bill Sutherland and give the Wyoming Migration Initiative a follow @wyo-migrations.bsky.social Restoring herbivore migrations will fix a whole heap of problems.

New research using 46 GPS datasets from 17 wildlife species to validate our pan-Canadian connectivity model rdcu.be/eMWN5

Exciting pic from WCS Mongolia. Khulans on the Eastern steppe where we are working with partners to bring them back. Last year, a WCS survey counted 300 there, beyond their IUCN range. Recently, a follow-up confirmed that figure and we spotted foals—a great sign. 🌏

🐎October 25 marks #KhulanConservationDay! The #Khulan roams tens of thousands of km each year across the Gobi-Steppe, Mongolia. One of earth’s most mobile mammals, their routes face fences, roads & fragmentation. Let’s protect their #BoundlessMigration & keep Asia’s wild heart connected. @wcs.org

Sad but true. #AI

Hi friends! It's that time again. From today through Thanksgiving weekend, all prints on my website are 25 percent off, including a big old print of my recent mural painting in Tonasket! Go get you something nice 🦋 www.etsy.com/shop/HiddenD...

A BLM auction next summer could test the state's migration policy to an unprecedented degree. "We simply can't lease and allow development in our big game migration corridors if we want our kids and grandkids to have the same hunting and wildlife viewing opportunities that we've enjoyed."

Endorse!

Hundreds of Wyomingites rallied in streets and parks, on sidewalks and boardwalks in the nationwide No Kings Day of protest Saturday, declaring love for their country and saying “No!” to what they characterize as President Trump’s monarchical ambitions. wyofile.com/wyomingites-...

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Prof. Jens-Christian Svenning's inspiring talk held 2 weeks ago for Naturnahe Weidelandschaften e.V. is online now. No one else can argue as clearly & precisely for integrating grazers into modern conservaton. Great thanks to you, Jens! @jcsvenning.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqHS...

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are steps you can take to evade it.

Civilian federal workers in Wyoming furloughed during the government shutdown say they’re stressed, angry and trying to help one another as their paychecks are cut, leaving them languishing in uncertainty. wyofile.com/furloughed-f...

Camera traps in the polar desert: At 82°30′ North, this Peary caribou grazes atop a hill — and atop the world. From our biodiversity monitoring study area at CFS Alert, Nunavut, Canada (2 July 2025). 🧪🌿🌎🦊 #wildlife

Ewe U15 is 10. She has weaned 3 lambs over her lifetime, 2 are still alive. This year she lost her lamb at or soon after birth and by mid-September she was 79Kg, 10 Kg more than last year when she weaned a son. #LongTerm

My lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.

Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

Yesterday I was looking at passenger pigeons, Carolina parakeets, and ivory-billed woodpeckers in a museum collection. They hit hard, and so does this.

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library’s children and young adult sections was awarded $700,000 in a settlement on Wednesday.

One by one, the kids knelt on the ground, smudged themselves with smoke and walked to the fallen buffalo to rest a hand on its coffee-colored hide. Buffalo meat from this week's harvests will be placed in 660 boxes that a food bank will distribute to Wind River Reservation residents.

One issue the preprint identifies is that mentors are super important - but they (we!) lack training in effective writing mentorship. That's exactly why @bgmerkle.bsky.social and I wrote our forthcoming book, 'Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences" - our next month.

Billionaires force Bari Weiss on us, so I donated to @boltsmag.org It is an essential media resource in times like now boltsmag.org/donate-page/...

Holy wow, y'all! I just finished and installed my very first mural! You can find these mountain bluebirds, against a backdrop of the Okanogan Highlands, on the main drag in Tonasket, WA, on the side of the Ziply fiber building!

A small herd of pronghorn that lives in the 'Golden Triangle' — migrants that winter near Interstate 80 — pause for a moment in the morning light.