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Phil Manlick

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Research scientist @ USFS PNW Research Station | Animal responses to global change | Foraging, food webs, energy flow, isotopes | Opinions & RTs my own

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Phil Manlick @pmanlick.bsky.social · Jul 14

🚨 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

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Sep 2

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · Aug 25

I know this is not a unique observation but public health was basically created to deal with the Spanish flu, and then a century later COVID hit and killed twice as many people and our response was to destroy public health

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Bananalaska @bananalaska.bsky.social · Aug 22

Fosso mama needed a nap.

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Phil Manlick @pmanlick.bsky.social · Aug 21

This looks very cool

Zoogeochemical niche construction: how animal-mediated biogeochemistry affects evolution: Trends in Ecology & Evolution www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Zoogeochemical niche construction: how animal-mediated biogeochemistry affects evolution

Animals exert control over biogeochemical processes within their ecosystems – the study of which is called zoogeochemistry. However, most zoogeochemical research stops short of examining how animal-dr...

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Steve Inskeep @steveinskeep.bsky.social · Aug 20

Restaurant owners tell the Washington Post that sending troops into civilian areas seems to have scared off their customers

www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/08...

‘The city is dead’: D.C. restaurant reservations drop amid federal crackdown

August restaurant week can be a lifeline for D.C. food businesses, but high-visibility arrests and heavy law enforcement presence are driving some diners away.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Phil Manlick @pmanlick.bsky.social · Aug 15

Ha! I agree we can save it. We already got lucky once. This monster cedar fell right between the exclosure and the camera in April.

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Phil Manlick @pmanlick.bsky.social · Aug 15

Trees are starting to come down in our small mammal exclosure study. @ambystomax.bsky.social found the first potential casualty this week 😩 (I still think we can save it!)

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Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · Aug 14

My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Scientists’ role in defending democracy

The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...

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Alt US Forest Service @altusfs.altgov.info · Aug 13

“More than 62,000 emails and 5,000 calls in the first couple weeks, all but a few in vehement opposition to Lee’s plan.”

“‘People were fired up. It was like a declaration of war.’”

Bedrooms Are For People @boulderbedrooms.bsky.social · Aug 12

"At first, Senator John Hickenlooper didn’t think Sen. Mike Lee’s plan to force the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to sell as much as 3 million acres was real. But he saw the Utah senator’s proposal. And then came the outcry."

Outdoor recreation, conservation groups stir public lands advocacy

After defeating a contentious proposal to sell federal lands, public lands advocates are galvanized and targeting other threats

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Brian J Harvey @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social · Aug 12

Join us at the University of Washington in the #HarveyLab in the School of Environmental & Forest Sciences.

We're currently recruiting a postdoc in forest disturbance & landscape ecology for a project focused in western US + w/ international collaborators.

Details below. Apply by end of August!

Jenna Morris @jenna-e-morris.bsky.social · Aug 11

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY:
Come work with us in the Harvey Lab at Univ. of Washington (depts.washington.edu/bjhlab/)!

We're hiring a postdoc in Forest Disturbance and Landscape Ecology. Full details here: ap.washington.edu/ahr/position...

Application review starts Aug 31

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · Aug 12

www.cnn.com/2025/08/12/e...
If no news is good news, no data must be great news.

Trump’s pick for BLS commissioner suggests suspending the monthly jobs report | CNN Business

EJ Antoni, nominated by President Donald Trump Monday to become the next commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, suggested that the agency should suspend its monthly jobs report, claiming it ...

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Ryan Stephens @ryanbstephens.bsky.social · Aug 11

I'm giving a talk on Tuesday about carnivores as dispersers of mycorrhizal fungal spores as part of a special session on fungal spore dispersal. Come check it out if you are here in Baltimore and like fungi, carnivores, or trophic interactions. #ESA2025

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · Aug 8

Everybody needs to call this what it is: extortion

Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · Aug 8

Sick fucking bullshit www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding

www.nytimes.com

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Catherine Fletcher @cathfletcher.bsky.social · Aug 7

Obviously a lie, since the definition of PhD-level expertise, standard across universities worldwide, is that you can produce original knowledge.

OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’

GPT-5's release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world's most advanced AI.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 7

And Congress certainly did not grant these authorities with the Director of Management and Budget, no matter how much he wants to be a deputy dictator.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Aug 7

We are on a bullet train to the end of US science, and possibly the country as a whole, when political appointees are reviewing every scientific grant submitted to NIH to determine if The Regime finds the science acceptable.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · Aug 6

Years ago, at a workshop we held on changing wildfire risk in western Washington, I was struck by the analogy that preparing communities for megafires in our fuel-rich forests is similar to tsunami: rapid evacuation, because they can't be fought.

Nice coverage by @rdzombak.bsky.social. Gift link.

Washington State Braces for ‘Inevitable’ Megafire. Climate Change May Bring It Sooner.

www.nytimes.com

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Phil Manlick @pmanlick.bsky.social · Aug 6

Interesting thread. There’s also a really interesting podcast series - “on the divided dial” - about why conservative media dominates talk radio.
www.nypublicradio.org/2022/11/15/w...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Aug 5

This is real I shit you not

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Monica G. Turner @monicagturner.bsky.social · Aug 4

Please, please, please-submit to good journals (society + reputed publishers), respect peer review, and do your reviews with integrity. So important. Thanks to all of you who do. @steve-carpenter.bsky.social @esajournals.bsky.social #Ecosystems

Science Magazine @science.org · Aug 4

A new study, based on an analysis of thousands of publications and their authors and editors, shows paper mills are just part of a complex, interconnected system that includes publishers, journals, and brokers. scim.ag/3H9kwwQ

Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds

Sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake papers

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · Aug 5

It is not “deal-making.” It is extortion built on Christopher Rufo’s idea of “taking down” one or more elite university.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

Trump’s Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations

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Phil Manlick @pmanlick.bsky.social · Aug 4

Were you around for the moth invasion? www.koat.com/article/new-...

New Mexicans deal with moth invasion

It's that time of year where the moths seem to take over, but some years we see more than others, and you might be noticing it even more this year.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · Aug 3

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Aug 3

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Aug 3

Also, “echo” ??

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 3

“.. The message .. was unmistakable: Government officials who deal in data now fear they have to toe the line or risk losing their jobs ..”

@peterbakernyt.bsky.social @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

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