jessealston.bsky.social
Computational mammalogist at the University of Arizona. Public land and Green Bay Packers enjoyer.
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There are some lands that it would make sense to sell, but revenues should be earmarked for replacing it, not enriching Mike Lee’s buddies
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This is lovely
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B2s got moved to bomb-Iran position to bomb the Houthis, then moved home like 2 weeks ago. Pretty clear we are doing this live
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Herps help but most of them are little brown plethodontids and my novelty-focused brain wants to see different shapes and colors
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From my understanding, it varies from state to state and depends in large part whether the taxes on it are high enough to allow illegal production to pencil out at market rate sales
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Fish diversity in southern Appalachians is maybe the biggest reason I think Clemson, UGA, and UT are the most desirable southern universities
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I would legitimately love to read a piece on the nuts and bolts of how federal land sales would impact grazing leases
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What routes should Luke Musgrave run given his strengths and weaknesses (i.e., he can run like the wind but has the balance of a newborn giraffe), and why is it corners?
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Main but poorly articulated point being feds have wasted millions on this grant if the gov’t turns around and sells the part they already owned
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Sorry, didn’t think about dollar figures closely enough. I think TNC bought Weyerhaueser’s holdings in the checkerboard in ~2015 for ~$115M. I’m guessing they still own a ton, but haven’t kept up with it since I moved out of the area
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If I understand right, Washington DNR just got a federal grant to buy the non-federal portion of this after like 10 years of work by a large coalition mtsgreenway.org/blog/cle-elu...
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Feel like blind trusts for high-level politicians and appointees could be legislatively codified pretty easily—seems like low-hanging fruit
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@cmikesspinmove.bsky.social @dustyevely.bsky.social please validate my work
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The main component is typically surveying for endangered species and documenting any impacts on them or their habitat. CA has a state list in addition to the federal list, so the state-listed species also likely add to that
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You don’t submit papers via ScholarOne or Editorial Manager?
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It’s fine, Scott, you can just make up the difference with increased efforts to secure federal research grants and recruiting more full-tuition international students, right?
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Did not realize tinkerbirds were mistletoe specialists—I need to pay more attention to the mistletoes next time I’m in Kenya
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Teach the stuff you are personally passionate about. If you can bring the noise every class, students will absorb and reflect that ethos. Worry less about the Main Things Students Must Remember because you have little control over that (what do you remember from intro bio? The stuff you care about)
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doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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As someone who is tangentially involved in this kind of thing (but for extant mammals), we usually say “scientists described a new species”
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Ice cream in northern Europe overall is worse. In Germany, the only decent ice cream in Aldi was branded as Funky American Style
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Yeah, the popularist immigration policy is to say we’re being tough, focus enforcement on violent criminals, highlight a few major apprehensions, and then make some changes around the edges to improve the system while not talking about them much.
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The way I have heard it explained by ESL friends: grammar is easy but have no idea how words are pronounced a priori
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Would like to see the numbers if “government bureaucracy” was substituted for “bottlenecks”
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Spinner series mesh traffic with MarShawn and Savion when
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Some of the very early colonial architecture (e.g., Roanoke Island) used wattle-and-daub construction