Musical theater, Pynchon, Faulkner, A Farewell to Arms, jazz
Musical theater, Pynchon, Faulkner, A Farewell to Arms, jazz
TLDR: Do not use (d)BBMMs to estimate animal home ranges
New paper in Ecology! In which we clarify the distinction between range and occurrence distributions for quantifying animal movement patterns esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Missing my workdesk from the past two weeks
Our paper is out in @Science! The Atlantic silverside spans Earth's steepest latitudinal gradient in coastal sea-surface temperature. Despite high gene flow, populations show clinal genetic variation in multiple locally adapted traits. doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Paternal: photographer, vegetable farmer
Maternal: chicken farmer, heavy equipment operator
Shout out to @elinck.bsky.social for putting me on to this album. Farewell Transmission in particular is in my personal pantheon
Speak for yourself
π’ Now accepting proposals for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! These provide evolutionary biology research funds for early and advanced Masterβs and PhD students. Applicants must be members of SSE. Deadline: May 18, 2026
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And hereβs a littler guy
Hurricane Helene damage in a forest showing trees fallen down across a trail
Research biologist position at Clemson for work on forest wildlife/habitat recovery post-Hurricane Helene in western NC. Full time, multi-year position. Will be working with David Jachowski & myself, includes field work, analysis, writing.
**Apply by March 9**
Job posting bit.ly/cuhhftpos π§ͺπ
Biggest stick insect Iβve ever seen
Kind of cool that I see these in both my house in AZ and in the housing I stay at in Kenya, even if they are not native in either place
I will be naturepostmaxxing to mog @cmikesspinmove.bsky.social the next two weeks
Hereβs a dik-dik for your viewing pleasure
Itβs hard to make a living at the top of the world
Iβd still like to see more tests in non-passerine spp. Very consistent trend in passerines, less so in others that Iβve seen
The new safety tool my university installed this year doesnβt even allow the user to see what the linked website isβ¦
Find the canyon wren
I build my class around grizzly bear reintroduction in Arizona in large part to force students to think about this
I spent a couple of weeks in rural Nepal in 2016. Barely any electricity in the village, no running water. I vividly remember our host family and their neighbors crowded around a tiny TV to watch WWE wrestling
Society journals are quietly innovating even as MDPI and Frontiers eat their lunch
Please repost! We are looking for two field technicians to work on our deer mouse project in the Colorado Rockies this spring-fall. Learn about physiology, ecology, and evolution, all in one project! Not to mention that you get to be in the β°οΈ. Reach out if you have any questions.
You signed it and put it back, right?
SD cards have tripled in price since I last bought them (last year) π
Post Doc Job open with us to work with biologists to build AI models to analyze camera trap data. The specific focus will be to study animal coloration and camouflage, but there will be opportunities to work on other related projects.
jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
Excited to have this one out after over a decade of work. Strong evidence for why migration matters for ungulates.
The thing I think gets lost in this is that the dumb rich kids *are* what makes the fancy schools the fancy schools. The benefit of going to Georgetown isnβt that it has better classes, itβs that you might become friends with a Cheney family friend
Drive-by Truckers
.357 String Band
The Boomswagglers
JJ Grey and Mofro
Sturgill Simpson
The funniest thing was our teach tape was mostly 2012 Shanahan offense because there was no film from the year before, and everyone in the RB room was like βUh, coach, we arenβt physically capable of moving like Alfred Morrisβ