POSTDOC JOB AD: I'm hiring a Bayesian ecologist to build a (IMO, extremely fun) model of humpback whale spatiotemporal dynamics in California

2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin.

ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003

In June, the @washingtonpost.com sent me and @byaliceli.bsky.social to witness cultural burns in California. We learned how they encourage beneficial vegetation, reduce wildfire risk, and provide traditional food and craft sources for tribes in the Klamath region.

🎁: wapo.st/3J7BQTL

new pub out — Yosemite is a perfect (and picturesque) place to show how heterogeneity can shape species distributions and foraging patterns. Grateful to Yosemite NP, Levi & Sacks labs & @roguedogs.bsky.social for their collaboration 💗

🌄🥩Landscape heterogeneity shapes the spatial and diet partitioning of a montane carnivore guild

📷 © Jennifer Hart

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#Competition #DetectionDogTeam #HierarchicalModeling #HighThroughputSequencing #IntegratedOccupancyModel #NichePartitioning #NonInvasiveSampling

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!!

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🚨 New Paper in Eco Apps 🚨 - Our research team at USFS PNW Research Station used a long-term adaptive management experiment to test the effects of forest thinning on wildlife habitat in the Tongass National Forest 🧵 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social

Unfortunately for Americans who want to not experience things like "bubonic plague," we also can't write NIH or NSF grants about this kind of thing anymore. I dunno, seems important

Spent last week in the field measuring veg and tagging seedlings in our small mammal exclosures at HJ Andrews experimental forest. Bit of a surreal landscape following the 2023 Lookout Fire.

“Things are not OK,” Heatley told OPB on Monday. “This is not a normal situation. This is a paradigm shift that is having repercussions that will last for at least a generation.”

I'm looking for a postdoc in quantitative ecology / macroecology to start in summer/fall 2025 in my lab at Oklahoma State University. Please spread the word

www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities

“Should AI be allowed to review papers or grant proposals” always reveals a thing I think people don’t understand about algorithmic bias 🧵

This is why the media’s credulous boosterism for Colossal is so dangerous. “Innovation, not regulation” is tech-bro propaganda. It’s the false promise that any problem can be solved with some future breakthrough that will enable the same people who got us into this to profit from the solutions.

we got a copy of this in Madison and I said Zac Efron picked up a side gig

Looking for someone that can lead the Indigenous Stewardship Network and help progress a new era if indigenous stewardship throughout California. jobs.gusto.com/postings/ind...

#PeerReview is too important to let it get destroyed by AI.

We need to be making it easier for scientists to evaluate each other's work, while also making the process fun and engaging.

This is possible with collaborative peer review like what we've built @stacksjournal.bsky.social.

#SciPub

Excited to share the news that I have accepted a TT assistant professor position at @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social in the Dept of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources! I will be recruiting a postdoc and grad students soon for my wildlife disease ecology lab, so check back in here!

Best way to find a typo in a paper is to read the draft carefully 100 times, print it, mark it up, submit it, get it accepted, have copy editors review it, read it again, finalize it, get it published, and then proudly share it will all of your close colleagues

“Within protected areas, there is an urgent need to rethink what we are protecting: the current landscape conditions or the landscape dynamics that generate those conditions.”

New paper in BioScience “Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes”

Link: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Hey #RaptorResearch folks- I'm handling a cool natural history note about raptors being attacked and killed by snakes. Anyone interested in reviewing? @arjundevamar.bsky.social @jonathanslaght.com @fletcherecology.bsky.social @janetngbio.bsky.social @shannonskalos.bsky.social etc...

you know where to find me if you need a literature conduit

One of the first endangered California condors released by the Yurok Tribe, Pey-noh-pey-o-wok, has died from lead poisoning in a remote part of Redwood National Park. Stop using lead shot!

Get the Lead Out: www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/ge...

Article: www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti...

“Bioregional‐scale acoustic monitoring can support fire‐prone forest restoration planning” out now in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

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