Travis Seaborn
@travisseaborn.bsky.social
Assistant prof SNRS at NDSU. Landscape genetics and distribution (and other) ecology modeling endeavors. Conservation, climate change, and land use with disease sprinkles. Views own. He/Him
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A fine-scale fish population model reveals how integration of spatial and temporal management can maximise conservation and fisheries benefits 📊🧪
Applied the model to spangled emperor in the Ningaloo World Heritage Area 🐟🌏
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Applied the model to spangled emperor in the Ningaloo World Heritage Area 🐟🌏
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
November 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
A fine-scale fish population model reveals how integration of spatial and temporal management can maximise conservation and fisheries benefits 📊🧪
Applied the model to spangled emperor in the Ningaloo World Heritage Area 🐟🌏
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Applied the model to spangled emperor in the Ningaloo World Heritage Area 🐟🌏
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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🐛 #MNSG project highlight: #BugsBelowZero
Bugs Below Zero helps understand winter stream food webs, which helps trout fishers & communities protect fisheries—supporting local economies!
Bonus: anyone can get involved in community science & conservation! Learn more: z.umn.edu/mnsg_bbz
Bugs Below Zero helps understand winter stream food webs, which helps trout fishers & communities protect fisheries—supporting local economies!
Bonus: anyone can get involved in community science & conservation! Learn more: z.umn.edu/mnsg_bbz
March 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
🐛 #MNSG project highlight: #BugsBelowZero
Bugs Below Zero helps understand winter stream food webs, which helps trout fishers & communities protect fisheries—supporting local economies!
Bonus: anyone can get involved in community science & conservation! Learn more: z.umn.edu/mnsg_bbz
Bugs Below Zero helps understand winter stream food webs, which helps trout fishers & communities protect fisheries—supporting local economies!
Bonus: anyone can get involved in community science & conservation! Learn more: z.umn.edu/mnsg_bbz
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Half the southern elephant seals on South Georgia Island, one of the major populations, were wiped out by bird flu in the past two years:
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/b...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/b...
Bird Flu Wiped Out Nearly Half of the Females in the World’s Largest Elephant Seal Population, Drone Images Suggest
Scientists recorded a 47 percent drop in breeding females in South Georgia’s three largest elephant seal colonies after bird flu hit. Scaled to the whole island, that’s a potential loss of more than 5...
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Half the southern elephant seals on South Georgia Island, one of the major populations, were wiped out by bird flu in the past two years:
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/b...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/b...
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Check out new research on Lake Michigan Cisco and their use of DRMs, here! Limited time link to free article here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m8t31MRgT...
#ciscoinferno🔥
#ciscoinferno🔥
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Check out new research on Lake Michigan Cisco and their use of DRMs, here! Limited time link to free article here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m8t31MRgT...
#ciscoinferno🔥
#ciscoinferno🔥
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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Opinion | Finding Your People
College gives students the opportunity to grow by connecting with people outside of their bubbles of belief. https://bit.ly/4oiPWjM
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
College gives students the opportunity to grow by connecting with people outside of their bubbles of belief. https://bit.ly/4oiPWjM
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
November 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Opinion | Finding Your People
College gives students the opportunity to grow by connecting with people outside of their bubbles of belief. https://bit.ly/4oiPWjM
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
College gives students the opportunity to grow by connecting with people outside of their bubbles of belief. https://bit.ly/4oiPWjM
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
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Happy #WorldFisheriesDay! Celebrate by reading the latest issue of #Fisheries: Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon restoration, Defusing and advancing the dialogue on hatcheries and stocking, Climate change call for action, and much more: academic.oup.com/fisheries/is...
Volume 50 Issue 11 | Fisheries | Oxford Academic
Fisheries is the monthly magazine of the American Fisheries Society, the oldest and largest professional society representing fisheries scientists.
academic.oup.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Happy #WorldFisheriesDay! Celebrate by reading the latest issue of #Fisheries: Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon restoration, Defusing and advancing the dialogue on hatcheries and stocking, Climate change call for action, and much more: academic.oup.com/fisheries/is...
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Nearly 30 countries refuse to sign a final #COP30 agreement that doesn't include "fossil fuel phase-out," as negotiations head into overtime.
Live updates from @fionaharvey.bsky.social, @olliemilman.bsky.social and @theguardian.com here: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Live updates from @fionaharvey.bsky.social, @olliemilman.bsky.social and @theguardian.com here: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Nearly 30 countries refuse to sign a final #COP30 agreement that doesn't include "fossil fuel phase-out," as negotiations head into overtime.
Live updates from @fionaharvey.bsky.social, @olliemilman.bsky.social and @theguardian.com here: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Live updates from @fionaharvey.bsky.social, @olliemilman.bsky.social and @theguardian.com here: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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#UMN undergrads: Ready to school yourself in fish care? 🐟
Join #Minnesota Sea Grant’s Aquaculture Lab & help raise #YellowPerch & #GoldenShiner while gaining valuable professional experience! $15.25/hr, 10–15 hrs/week.
📍 UMN St. Paul
🔗 z.umn.edu/2025-mnsg-aq...
Join #Minnesota Sea Grant’s Aquaculture Lab & help raise #YellowPerch & #GoldenShiner while gaining valuable professional experience! $15.25/hr, 10–15 hrs/week.
📍 UMN St. Paul
🔗 z.umn.edu/2025-mnsg-aq...
November 21, 2025 at 11:10 PM
#UMN undergrads: Ready to school yourself in fish care? 🐟
Join #Minnesota Sea Grant’s Aquaculture Lab & help raise #YellowPerch & #GoldenShiner while gaining valuable professional experience! $15.25/hr, 10–15 hrs/week.
📍 UMN St. Paul
🔗 z.umn.edu/2025-mnsg-aq...
Join #Minnesota Sea Grant’s Aquaculture Lab & help raise #YellowPerch & #GoldenShiner while gaining valuable professional experience! $15.25/hr, 10–15 hrs/week.
📍 UMN St. Paul
🔗 z.umn.edu/2025-mnsg-aq...
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"This narrative that faculty are indoctrinating students is a manufactured crisis...You can trace it back to a network of right-wing think tanks, but it seems the university is treating it as if it is real.”
- Karma Chávez, President of AAUP UT-Austin
@utaustinaaup.bsky.social
- Karma Chávez, President of AAUP UT-Austin
@utaustinaaup.bsky.social
University of Texas silent on Trump compact as deadline looms
Most other invited universities have rejected the administration’s offer tying priority federal funding to campus policy changes.
www.texastribune.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"This narrative that faculty are indoctrinating students is a manufactured crisis...You can trace it back to a network of right-wing think tanks, but it seems the university is treating it as if it is real.”
- Karma Chávez, President of AAUP UT-Austin
@utaustinaaup.bsky.social
- Karma Chávez, President of AAUP UT-Austin
@utaustinaaup.bsky.social
One of my favorite things as a graduate student and now as a faculty is the Landscape Genetics Distributed Graduate Seminar. Happy to answer questions.
Please see course website for more info if you are an individual or group interested in joining us this spring:
sites.google.com/site/landsca...
Please see course website for more info if you are an individual or group interested in joining us this spring:
sites.google.com/site/landsca...
Landscape Genetics DGS
Landscape Genetics - Distributed Graduate Seminar
The Landscape Genetics Distributed Graduate Seminar (DGS) is an international collaboration that provides a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary ...
sites.google.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
One of my favorite things as a graduate student and now as a faculty is the Landscape Genetics Distributed Graduate Seminar. Happy to answer questions.
Please see course website for more info if you are an individual or group interested in joining us this spring:
sites.google.com/site/landsca...
Please see course website for more info if you are an individual or group interested in joining us this spring:
sites.google.com/site/landsca...
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Folks whose jobs, postdocs or grad school fellowships or applications were cut short--drop them a line
Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
October 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Folks whose jobs, postdocs or grad school fellowships or applications were cut short--drop them a line
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The reviewer crisis: data from the journal Biological Invasions:
"Reviewer acceptance rates dropped steadily over the past two decades. Early-career researchers had the highest acceptance rates, while senior scholars were least likely to accept review invitations."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Reviewer acceptance rates dropped steadily over the past two decades. Early-career researchers had the highest acceptance rates, while senior scholars were least likely to accept review invitations."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
October 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The reviewer crisis: data from the journal Biological Invasions:
"Reviewer acceptance rates dropped steadily over the past two decades. Early-career researchers had the highest acceptance rates, while senior scholars were least likely to accept review invitations."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Reviewer acceptance rates dropped steadily over the past two decades. Early-career researchers had the highest acceptance rates, while senior scholars were least likely to accept review invitations."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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🚨 Breaking News | MIT has rejected the Trump admin’s proposal to sign on to the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which would mandate sweeping changes across campus in exchange for preferential treatment on federal funding.
Read the full story ➡️ https://bit.ly/4h5dQgM
Read the full story ➡️ https://bit.ly/4h5dQgM
October 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🚨 Breaking News | MIT has rejected the Trump admin’s proposal to sign on to the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which would mandate sweeping changes across campus in exchange for preferential treatment on federal funding.
Read the full story ➡️ https://bit.ly/4h5dQgM
Read the full story ➡️ https://bit.ly/4h5dQgM
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This:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Absolutely yes. And I'm proud that @asn-amnat.bsky.social has led the way on this with requiring code and data editors checking code for about five years now!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Absolutely yes. And I'm proud that @asn-amnat.bsky.social has led the way on this with requiring code and data editors checking code for about five years now!
Stop treating code like an afterthought: record, share and value it
Scientists, research institutions, funders, libraries and publishers must all improve software practices.
www.nature.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Absolutely yes. And I'm proud that @asn-amnat.bsky.social has led the way on this with requiring code and data editors checking code for about five years now!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Absolutely yes. And I'm proud that @asn-amnat.bsky.social has led the way on this with requiring code and data editors checking code for about five years now!
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Oh cool, he’s singling out random academics now to send targeted harassment this way! Can we stop doing this with our hands tied behind our back and actually try to push him out now
RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."
October 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Oh cool, he’s singling out random academics now to send targeted harassment this way! Can we stop doing this with our hands tied behind our back and actually try to push him out now
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This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical
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Just because an LLM can produce a report with various figures & charts doesn't mean it is good at statistics.
Because good statistics is not about producing code.
It's about deep knowledge of study design & conduct. In my opinion, 95% of all data science problems come from poor questions & design.
Because good statistics is not about producing code.
It's about deep knowledge of study design & conduct. In my opinion, 95% of all data science problems come from poor questions & design.
Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.
How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?
scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...
How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?
scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...
Statistics in the era of AI
How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?
scienceforeveryone.science
October 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Just because an LLM can produce a report with various figures & charts doesn't mean it is good at statistics.
Because good statistics is not about producing code.
It's about deep knowledge of study design & conduct. In my opinion, 95% of all data science problems come from poor questions & design.
Because good statistics is not about producing code.
It's about deep knowledge of study design & conduct. In my opinion, 95% of all data science problems come from poor questions & design.
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RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
October 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
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Read of the day: “Turning Point USA is targeting a Rutgers faculty member for doing his job — in this case, researching the history of postwar anti-fascist movements and writing about them,” [Rutgers AAUP-AFT President] Givan said. https://loom.ly/1rQW_J8
N.J. professor says he’s moving to Europe after death threats over antifa research
Mark Bray said right-wing influencers have been targeting him on social media. Turning Point USA wants him fired.
www.nj.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Read of the day: “Turning Point USA is targeting a Rutgers faculty member for doing his job — in this case, researching the history of postwar anti-fascist movements and writing about them,” [Rutgers AAUP-AFT President] Givan said. https://loom.ly/1rQW_J8
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periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live
October 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live
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It looks like Trump's EPA is stonewalling the release of a major scientific report on the health effects of "forever chemicals" in our drinking water.
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.
Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...
www.propublica.org
October 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It looks like Trump's EPA is stonewalling the release of a major scientific report on the health effects of "forever chemicals" in our drinking water.
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
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What are the ‘social dimensions’ of moving species for conservation and why does engaging with them matter?
This is the focus of our new paper doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social olevo.bsky.social led by ever talented @aisrayne.bsky.social
📷 Kevin Parker
This is the focus of our new paper doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social olevo.bsky.social led by ever talented @aisrayne.bsky.social
📷 Kevin Parker
October 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
What are the ‘social dimensions’ of moving species for conservation and why does engaging with them matter?
This is the focus of our new paper doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social olevo.bsky.social led by ever talented @aisrayne.bsky.social
📷 Kevin Parker
This is the focus of our new paper doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social olevo.bsky.social led by ever talented @aisrayne.bsky.social
📷 Kevin Parker
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The American Fisheries Society extends our support to the furloughed fisheries and aquatics professionals affected by the U.S. federal government shutdown. Read our full statement on the shutdown and its impacts on natural resources here fisheries.org/2025/10/afs-...
October 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The American Fisheries Society extends our support to the furloughed fisheries and aquatics professionals affected by the U.S. federal government shutdown. Read our full statement on the shutdown and its impacts on natural resources here fisheries.org/2025/10/afs-...