Mike Cove
@mikecove.bsky.social
Dad, Husband, Mammalogist, Conservation Biologist trying to make the world a better place in the #ageofmammals
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💡 What if monitoring wildlife was automatic and could even differentiate among species?
New research in @StacksJournal.bsky.social shows a novel idea: using the rate of temperature change in den boxes to track martens, fishers, and even sometimes squirrels. 🌍🧪🦊
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#WildlifeConservation
New research in @StacksJournal.bsky.social shows a novel idea: using the rate of temperature change in den boxes to track martens, fishers, and even sometimes squirrels. 🌍🧪🦊
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#WildlifeConservation
July 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
💡 What if monitoring wildlife was automatic and could even differentiate among species?
New research in @StacksJournal.bsky.social shows a novel idea: using the rate of temperature change in den boxes to track martens, fishers, and even sometimes squirrels. 🌍🧪🦊
A 🧵
#WildlifeConservation
New research in @StacksJournal.bsky.social shows a novel idea: using the rate of temperature change in den boxes to track martens, fishers, and even sometimes squirrels. 🌍🧪🦊
A 🧵
#WildlifeConservation
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Kudos to Pepper for her hunting skills & her contribution to science, and if you find a dead animal you should always see if your county or other local scientists are looking for study subjects, but also JUST KEEP YOUR CATS THE FUCK INSIDE.
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Florida Cat Named Pepper Brings Home Never-Before-Seen Virus—for the Second Time
Pepper the pet cat has made yet another contribution to virology.
gizmodo.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Kudos to Pepper for her hunting skills & her contribution to science, and if you find a dead animal you should always see if your county or other local scientists are looking for study subjects, but also JUST KEEP YOUR CATS THE FUCK INSIDE.
gizmodo.com/florida-cat-...
gizmodo.com/florida-cat-...
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NEW! 🎉 We need wildlife disease surveillance to predict epidemics, but data sharing is rare - we found that only 2-3% of studies share raw data. So, we spent three years developing a data standard and R package to help get wildlife disease data into FAIR repositories. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
NEW! 🎉 We need wildlife disease surveillance to predict epidemics, but data sharing is rare - we found that only 2-3% of studies share raw data. So, we spent three years developing a data standard and R package to help get wildlife disease data into FAIR repositories. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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June 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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It's like evil Gifford Pinchot drew a map. That's a lot of national forest land in the Lower 48 and a massive amount of BLM land in Alaska. Some of the best public lands we have will be available for purchase, but not by people like you or me.
Thanks to @wilderness.org for pulling this together.
Thanks to @wilderness.org for pulling this together.
June 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
It's like evil Gifford Pinchot drew a map. That's a lot of national forest land in the Lower 48 and a massive amount of BLM land in Alaska. Some of the best public lands we have will be available for purchase, but not by people like you or me.
Thanks to @wilderness.org for pulling this together.
Thanks to @wilderness.org for pulling this together.
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Quick. Somebody tell Trump that the best way to own Elon is to restore all research grants and double NSF funding.
June 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Quick. Somebody tell Trump that the best way to own Elon is to restore all research grants and double NSF funding.
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Check out our new paper in #BioScience!!! If COVID taught us anything, we very much need to be doubling down on our scientific structure and not regressing, and we need to improve collaborative networks that transcend geopolitical boundaries.
#naturalhistory #collectionsareessential
#naturalhistory #collectionsareessential
Harnessing natural history collections for collaborative pandemic preparedness
Five years after the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, we have the opportunity to gather lessons learned about needed infrastructure for predicting, und
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June 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Check out our new paper in #BioScience!!! If COVID taught us anything, we very much need to be doubling down on our scientific structure and not regressing, and we need to improve collaborative networks that transcend geopolitical boundaries.
#naturalhistory #collectionsareessential
#naturalhistory #collectionsareessential
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Really wish people would stop talking about the problem with Science under Trump as “budget cuts”.
No. Budgets are set deliberatively by elected members of congress. Budgets haven’t been cut.
What’s happening are *purges* and *censorship*.
No. Budgets are set deliberatively by elected members of congress. Budgets haven’t been cut.
What’s happening are *purges* and *censorship*.
March 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Really wish people would stop talking about the problem with Science under Trump as “budget cuts”.
No. Budgets are set deliberatively by elected members of congress. Budgets haven’t been cut.
What’s happening are *purges* and *censorship*.
No. Budgets are set deliberatively by elected members of congress. Budgets haven’t been cut.
What’s happening are *purges* and *censorship*.
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#2025MMM GORG
The star-nosed, a stellar underground specialist will find a fearsome opponent in the puma! Looking forward to March Mammal Madness this year. #mmm2025 #watercolor 🐡🧪
March 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
#2025MMM GORG
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We need to break down the silos between addressing climate change, biodiversity loss, and human suffering.
Fortunately, the solutions are often complementary -- and we can sometimes find "win-win-win" opportunities to address all three.
More from Project Drawdown:
drawdown.org/insights/we-...
Fortunately, the solutions are often complementary -- and we can sometimes find "win-win-win" opportunities to address all three.
More from Project Drawdown:
drawdown.org/insights/we-...
We need synergies, not silos, to solve humanity’s greatest challenges
Climate change is often framed as humanity’s greatest challenge. And for good reason. Every fraction of a degree of warming – the planet is currently about 1.2°C (2.2°F) warmer than before the Industr...
drawdown.org
March 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We need to break down the silos between addressing climate change, biodiversity loss, and human suffering.
Fortunately, the solutions are often complementary -- and we can sometimes find "win-win-win" opportunities to address all three.
More from Project Drawdown:
drawdown.org/insights/we-...
Fortunately, the solutions are often complementary -- and we can sometimes find "win-win-win" opportunities to address all three.
More from Project Drawdown:
drawdown.org/insights/we-...
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I don’t care what Colossal or Beth Shapiro are trying to sell you. Woolly mammoths are extinct and not coming back. De-extinction is an unethical vanity grift that cannot deliver on its promises.
Extinction is forever: de-extinction can’t save what we had | Aeon Ideas
Even if it works, genetic resuscitation would begin something new; it can’t restore what we lost. Extinction is forever
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March 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I don’t care what Colossal or Beth Shapiro are trying to sell you. Woolly mammoths are extinct and not coming back. De-extinction is an unethical vanity grift that cannot deliver on its promises.
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Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.
March 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.
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Stopping deforestation is one of the largest and most effective climate solutions. It can reduce global emissions by ~10-12%, equivalent to the entire U.S. economy.
It could be a powerful "emergency brake" on climate.
So why aren't we paying more attention to it?
drawdown.org/insights/how...
It could be a powerful "emergency brake" on climate.
So why aren't we paying more attention to it?
drawdown.org/insights/how...
How stopping deforestation is a powerful “emergency brake” climate solution
When people think of climate solutions, they often focus on smokestacks, tailpipes, and other artifacts of our fossil-fueled economy. That’s fitting since roughly two-thirds of the world’s greenhouse ...
https://drawdown.org/insights/how-stopping-deforestation-is-a-powerful-“emergency-brake”-climate-solution
March 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Stopping deforestation is one of the largest and most effective climate solutions. It can reduce global emissions by ~10-12%, equivalent to the entire U.S. economy.
It could be a powerful "emergency brake" on climate.
So why aren't we paying more attention to it?
drawdown.org/insights/how...
It could be a powerful "emergency brake" on climate.
So why aren't we paying more attention to it?
drawdown.org/insights/how...
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Close your eyes. Take deep breaths. Slowly inhale through your nose, and exhale through your mouth. With each breath, imagine the face of someone you love, or a place you hold sacred. They are why we do this. Recommit yourself to the work. May we be strong. May we be steadfast. May we never forget.
March 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Close your eyes. Take deep breaths. Slowly inhale through your nose, and exhale through your mouth. With each breath, imagine the face of someone you love, or a place you hold sacred. They are why we do this. Recommit yourself to the work. May we be strong. May we be steadfast. May we never forget.
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Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…
March 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…
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This is why I get so angry about anticipatory compliance. So many of these EOs are being overturned. This is good news, and it means our advocacy is making a difference! Keep it up!
NSF is re-hiring nearly all fired probationary employees following an OPM directive and a Friday judge order.
This is 84/86 probationary staff being hired back; 84 "experts" are still terminated
My Signal : nidhisubs.11
This is 84/86 probationary staff being hired back; 84 "experts" are still terminated
My Signal : nidhisubs.11
March 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This is why I get so angry about anticipatory compliance. So many of these EOs are being overturned. This is good news, and it means our advocacy is making a difference! Keep it up!
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Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
www.ucsusa.org
March 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
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Forty-seven scientific societies have signed a letter organized by the @ucsusa.bsky.social urging Congress to protect federally funded research and federal scientists:
www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...
www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...
48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
www.ucsusa.org
March 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Forty-seven scientific societies have signed a letter organized by the @ucsusa.bsky.social urging Congress to protect federally funded research and federal scientists:
www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...
www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...
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March 3, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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New EO to promote timber production on FS and BLM-with FWS implications related to the Endangered Species Act and NEPA..
(b) Within 60 days…the FWS…shall complete a strategy on USFS and BLM forest management projects under section 7 of the ESA to improve the speed of approving forestry projects.
(b) Within 60 days…the FWS…shall complete a strategy on USFS and BLM forest management projects under section 7 of the ESA to improve the speed of approving forestry projects.
March 2, 2025 at 11:03 AM
New EO to promote timber production on FS and BLM-with FWS implications related to the Endangered Species Act and NEPA..
(b) Within 60 days…the FWS…shall complete a strategy on USFS and BLM forest management projects under section 7 of the ESA to improve the speed of approving forestry projects.
(b) Within 60 days…the FWS…shall complete a strategy on USFS and BLM forest management projects under section 7 of the ESA to improve the speed of approving forestry projects.
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But idiots think we’ll have a thriving human population on Mars 😂.
Ecology…
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Ecology…
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The ISS is 'too clean', and it could be making astronauts sick
US researchers have created the first 3D map of the microbes on the International Space Station, finding a lack of microbial diversity could be causing astronauts to get rashes, cold sores and other i...
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March 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
But idiots think we’ll have a thriving human population on Mars 😂.
Ecology…
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Ecology…
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
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It’s not even in dispute & very clear in data. Racist federal housing finance policies in the 1930s+ [redlining] combined with continued disinvestment, made communities of color disproportionately have more concrete & less green infrastructure, which make them hotter. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 2, 2025 at 2:32 AM
It’s not even in dispute & very clear in data. Racist federal housing finance policies in the 1930s+ [redlining] combined with continued disinvestment, made communities of color disproportionately have more concrete & less green infrastructure, which make them hotter. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...