Dan McGlinn
@danmcglinn.bsky.social
Ecologist and professor at College of Charleston interested in biodiversity, conservation, quantitative methods. My views do not represent those of my employer (he/him). https://mcglinnlab.org
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Returned from a trip to the field. Made me appreciate the finer things in life…like no internet! Seriously, go touch some dirt. It’ll (probably) be good for you.
September 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Returned from a trip to the field. Made me appreciate the finer things in life…like no internet! Seriously, go touch some dirt. It’ll (probably) be good for you.
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More than 200 businesses and nonprofit groups have joined prominent climate scientists in pressing North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein to challenge Duke Energy’s huge expansion of fossil fuels.
Duke Energy is one of the world’s worst climate polluters.
Learn more ➡️https://bit.ly/46wM5cd
Duke Energy is one of the world’s worst climate polluters.
Learn more ➡️https://bit.ly/46wM5cd
September 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
More than 200 businesses and nonprofit groups have joined prominent climate scientists in pressing North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein to challenge Duke Energy’s huge expansion of fossil fuels.
Duke Energy is one of the world’s worst climate polluters.
Learn more ➡️https://bit.ly/46wM5cd
Duke Energy is one of the world’s worst climate polluters.
Learn more ➡️https://bit.ly/46wM5cd
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The Center today filed a 671-page notice of intent to sue federal agencies to end chronic, multi-year, and often severe damage from cattle grazing to almost all of the streamside critical habitat for endangered species on the Tonto National Forest.
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
Lawsuit Launched to End Widespread Cow Grazing Damage to Tonto National Forest’s Endangered Animals
TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Maricopa Bird Alliance today filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to end years of illegal c...
biologicaldiversity.org
September 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The Center today filed a 671-page notice of intent to sue federal agencies to end chronic, multi-year, and often severe damage from cattle grazing to almost all of the streamside critical habitat for endangered species on the Tonto National Forest.
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
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imagining what all of the badass organizers i know could do with these funds
August 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
imagining what all of the badass organizers i know could do with these funds
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Biological Reality sticker
Kiss-cut stickers featuring a clownfish! If the female clownfish dies, the dominant male will trans his gender and become the breeding female. These stickers are approximately 3 inches across.
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May 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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New paper! (arxiv.org/abs/2503.14093) I haven’t been this excited about one in a while, and I think the theory @mhab.bsky.social develops here will be a big step forward for the field. Why? Let me explain 🧵...
March 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
New paper! (arxiv.org/abs/2503.14093) I haven’t been this excited about one in a while, and I think the theory @mhab.bsky.social develops here will be a big step forward for the field. Why? Let me explain 🧵...
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OK, #causalinference #ecology folk - my paper with the even excellent @lauradee.bsky.social on causal inference with observational data is now out in Ecology Letters! 🌍🧪🌊
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Causal Inference With Observational Data and Unobserved Confounding Variables
As ecology tackles progressively larger problems, we are moving beyond the scales at which randomised controlled experiments are feasible. Using observational data for causal inference raises the pro...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
OK, #causalinference #ecology folk - my paper with the even excellent @lauradee.bsky.social on causal inference with observational data is now out in Ecology Letters! 🌍🧪🌊
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The next episode...uh, blog post...of Portal: the Regime Shift is up! The Desert Pocket Mouse was the first noble House...uh, Species...to fall, but will it be the last? Which Species will survive the carnage of poor rains to rule this parched land? jabberwocky.weecology.org/2025/03/12/r... 🧪🌎
Regime Shift: A Winter of Grim
Every episode in a tv series starts with a recap. So… Previously, on Portal: the Regime Shift — In fall of 2024, one of the ruling families of Portal — the Desert Pocket Mouse (Ch…
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March 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The next episode...uh, blog post...of Portal: the Regime Shift is up! The Desert Pocket Mouse was the first noble House...uh, Species...to fall, but will it be the last? Which Species will survive the carnage of poor rains to rule this parched land? jabberwocky.weecology.org/2025/03/12/r... 🧪🌎
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Musk claims Social Security is a "gigantic magnet to attract illegal immigrants."
In fact, immigrants here illegally do not collect Social Security. But they pay $25.7 billion a year into it, a recent study found, so these undocumented workers are actually subsidizing Americans.
In fact, immigrants here illegally do not collect Social Security. But they pay $25.7 billion a year into it, a recent study found, so these undocumented workers are actually subsidizing Americans.
March 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Musk claims Social Security is a "gigantic magnet to attract illegal immigrants."
In fact, immigrants here illegally do not collect Social Security. But they pay $25.7 billion a year into it, a recent study found, so these undocumented workers are actually subsidizing Americans.
In fact, immigrants here illegally do not collect Social Security. But they pay $25.7 billion a year into it, a recent study found, so these undocumented workers are actually subsidizing Americans.
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Yes
March 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Yes
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@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉
With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest.
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...
With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest.
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...
Air, an extremely fast R formatter
We are thrilled to announce Air, a new R formatter.
www.tidyverse.org
February 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉
With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest.
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...
With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest.
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...
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Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
January 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
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Wow, just wow.
V different approach reveals numerous problems in Scientific Reports - cf deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-o...
I do hope @springernature.bsky.social will start to publish reviewer reports and editor info as we suggested
V different approach reveals numerous problems in Scientific Reports - cf deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-o...
I do hope @springernature.bsky.social will start to publish reviewer reports and editor info as we suggested
January 14, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Wow, just wow.
V different approach reveals numerous problems in Scientific Reports - cf deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-o...
I do hope @springernature.bsky.social will start to publish reviewer reports and editor info as we suggested
V different approach reveals numerous problems in Scientific Reports - cf deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-o...
I do hope @springernature.bsky.social will start to publish reviewer reports and editor info as we suggested
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🌿 Half a Century of Plant Community Changes in Non-Forest Habitats 🌿
Our new article in Global Change Biology, led by Klára Klinkovská, reveals how the plant species composition in treeless vegetation has changed over the last 50 years.
Our new article in Global Change Biology, led by Klára Klinkovská, reveals how the plant species composition in treeless vegetation has changed over the last 50 years.
January 25, 2025 at 7:51 AM
🌿 Half a Century of Plant Community Changes in Non-Forest Habitats 🌿
Our new article in Global Change Biology, led by Klára Klinkovská, reveals how the plant species composition in treeless vegetation has changed over the last 50 years.
Our new article in Global Change Biology, led by Klára Klinkovská, reveals how the plant species composition in treeless vegetation has changed over the last 50 years.
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The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
January 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
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How do rare plant species respond to habitat fragmentation?
We've been testing this question for the past 18 years, through demographic studies of a half dozen longleaf pine savanna groundlayer species in the SRS Corridor Project fragmentation experiment 🧪
We've been testing this question for the past 18 years, through demographic studies of a half dozen longleaf pine savanna groundlayer species in the SRS Corridor Project fragmentation experiment 🧪
December 12, 2024 at 11:56 PM
How do rare plant species respond to habitat fragmentation?
We've been testing this question for the past 18 years, through demographic studies of a half dozen longleaf pine savanna groundlayer species in the SRS Corridor Project fragmentation experiment 🧪
We've been testing this question for the past 18 years, through demographic studies of a half dozen longleaf pine savanna groundlayer species in the SRS Corridor Project fragmentation experiment 🧪
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Important piece by Gittleman - “It’s impossible to separate human health from health of the natural world. Ecology is the unifying science that integrates knowledge..[the] One Health approach is unlimited, exciting, & necessary for the health of life on our planet” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪🌎🌐🌾
December 13, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Important piece by Gittleman - “It’s impossible to separate human health from health of the natural world. Ecology is the unifying science that integrates knowledge..[the] One Health approach is unlimited, exciting, & necessary for the health of life on our planet” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪🌎🌐🌾
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We'll be measuring and tracking adoption of synthetic alternatives to #horseshoecrab blood at the world’s 50 largest pharmaceutical companies via a new scorecard.
Over 1 million crabs are bled alive annually for use by the biomedical industry.
Get more: bit.ly/3DaK4aA
Over 1 million crabs are bled alive annually for use by the biomedical industry.
Get more: bit.ly/3DaK4aA
December 10, 2024 at 9:24 PM
We'll be measuring and tracking adoption of synthetic alternatives to #horseshoecrab blood at the world’s 50 largest pharmaceutical companies via a new scorecard.
Over 1 million crabs are bled alive annually for use by the biomedical industry.
Get more: bit.ly/3DaK4aA
Over 1 million crabs are bled alive annually for use by the biomedical industry.
Get more: bit.ly/3DaK4aA
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Me, a somehow still-naïve professor: This exam question essentially asks students to recap a point I made on a single discrete slide during the lecture, it should be a layup for them
Student: [300 words on topics from a totally different lecture]
Student: [300 words on topics from a totally different lecture]
December 10, 2024 at 11:50 PM
Me, a somehow still-naïve professor: This exam question essentially asks students to recap a point I made on a single discrete slide during the lecture, it should be a layup for them
Student: [300 words on topics from a totally different lecture]
Student: [300 words on topics from a totally different lecture]