Saw this one today and got so mad I almost forgot to look for the data I was trying to download

I don’t doubt people are contributing but we did this study where there is limited human pressure and no supplemental feeding. Certainly didn’t stop the coyotes from flourishing.

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 😅

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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:

We simply do not have to live this way.

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!

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#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) 🙄☠️🪦

Yes we need better public transport! That would solve so many problems 😅

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.