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Jesse Alston

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Computational mammalogist at the University of Arizona. Public land and Green Bay Packers enjoyer.

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Musical theater, Pynchon, Faulkner, A Farewell to Arms, jazz

07.03.2026 23:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

TLDR: Do not use (d)BBMMs to estimate animal home ranges

07.03.2026 14:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Clarifying space use concepts in ecology: Range vs. occurrence distributions Quantifying animal movements is necessary for answering a wide array of research questions in ecology and conservation biology. Consequently, ecologists have made considerable efforts to identify the...

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/...

07.03.2026 14:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Missing my workdesk from the past two weeks

06.03.2026 13:57 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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...

05.03.2026 19:05 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

Paternal: photographer, vegetable farmer

Maternal: chicken farmer, heavy equipment operator

05.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Shout out to @elinck.bsky.social for putting me on to this album. Farewell Transmission in particular is in my personal pantheon

04.03.2026 19:45 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Speak for yourself

03.03.2026 18:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Society for the Study of Evolution Site description

πŸ“’ Now accepting proposals for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! These provide evolutionary biology research funds for early and advanced Master’s and PhD students. Applicants must be members of SSE. Deadline: May 18, 2026
www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

27.02.2026 13:22 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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And here’s a littler guy

24.02.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Hurricane Helene damage in a forest showing trees fallen down across a trail

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 πŸ§ͺ🌎

23.02.2026 18:35 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Biggest stick insect I’ve ever seen

23.02.2026 13:38 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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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

21.02.2026 03:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I will be naturepostmaxxing to mog @cmikesspinmove.bsky.social the next two weeks

20.02.2026 13:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Here’s a dik-dik for your viewing pleasure

20.02.2026 13:54 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s hard to make a living at the top of the world

16.02.2026 20:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’d still like to see more tests in non-passerine spp. Very consistent trend in passerines, less so in others that I’ve seen

15.02.2026 20:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The new safety tool my university installed this year doesn’t even allow the user to see what the linked website is…

15.02.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Find the canyon wren

15.02.2026 01:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I build my class around grizzly bear reintroduction in Arizona in large part to force students to think about this

12.02.2026 23:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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

11.02.2026 03:34 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Society journals are quietly innovating even as MDPI and Frontiers eat their lunch

11.02.2026 01:48 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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 ⛰️. Reach out if you have any questions.

10.02.2026 20:59 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

You signed it and put it back, right?

11.02.2026 01:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

SD cards have tripled in price since I last bought them (last year) πŸ™ƒ

10.02.2026 18:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

06.02.2026 14:35 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Excited to have this one out after over a decade of work. Strong evidence for why migration matters for ungulates.

05.02.2026 23:12 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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 isn’t that it has better classes, it’s that you might become friends with a Cheney family friend

05.02.2026 03:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Drive-by Truckers
.357 String Band
The Boomswagglers
JJ Grey and Mofro
Sturgill Simpson

02.02.2026 04:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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 β€œUh, coach, we aren’t physically capable of moving like Alfred Morris”

02.02.2026 03:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0