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Data management is worth the effort. 🙌

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Proud to be part of this massive collaboration (217 authors!) out today in Scientific Advances examining diel activity in mammals using camera data from all over the world! www.popsci.com/environment/...

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Our analysis of BBS data (through 2023) just came out! doi.org/10.5066/P1F2...

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The most recent lecture I gave on Oak Origins at The Morton Arboretum was really nicely recorded and is available for free online. This is the fullest and cleanest version of the lecture I've given to date, with some new info. I hope you enjoy it. Feel free to share. vimeo.com/1057955943

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I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

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Graduate student Cindy Fiser, Landis Lab at @kbslter.bsky.social, took a fresh look at a 30-year-old dataset to study long-term trends in beetle populations. She found significant declines in abundance and community composition in agricultural systems. lter.kbs.msu.edu/2025/02/long...

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I got an email this morning from a couple named Eric and Joanna Reuter who found a snake in their basement. They used one of my comics to help determine that it was a North American Racer and not a more common ratsnake. The photos are so, so cute

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Did you know that milkweed saved American Troops during WWII? The government ask kids to go collect the pods that would then be put into the life preservers of soldiers. A kid would get 15-20 cents a bag. It took two 20 lb bags of pods to fill 1 preserver. 2 million lbs= 100,000 preservers! #prairie

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Job alert: The Nature Conservancy in Illinois is currently recruiting paid seasonal technicians for Nachusa Grasslands, Emiquon Preserve (near Lewistown, IL), Kankakee Sands (eastern IL), and Southern Illinois. For details visit careers.nature.org/ and search for "Illinois".

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Blue skies, full hearts, can't lose. We're excited to join a platform of activists, educators, scientists and engaged people. If you're into: 🗞️ Nature news 🌱 Biodiversity 🧪 Science 💬 Diverse perspectives Then you're in the right place! We can't wait to connect with this new community.

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Want some native ecosystem art for your walls? I've made a hobby of collecting Robert F. Eschenfeldt's Illinois DNR posters and I wanted to share the ones I do have so more people can see his beautiful art. Download full resolution ones for yourself flickr.com/photos/19985...

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First paper from my postdoc is out in #EcologicalMonographs w/ @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social! We looked at patterns of summer co-occurrence among 5 predators at 3 time scales to assess how competition, prey, & habitat affected predator distributions in north Idaho, USA. dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

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Going through some old trail camera photos and found one of @birdnbiologist.bsky.social's study birds. This gal was hanging out in a corner of low-diversity CRP grassland on one of our collaborator's farms that also had prairie strips.

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Introducing {wbw}, a new geospatial powerhouse in the R ecosystem by Anatolii Tsyplenkov! 🌍⚡ {wbw} provides a fast & powerful library for hydrology, geomorphometry, remote sensing, and more (raster, vector, LiDAR). Check it out: https://buff.ly/4gaWbCe #rspatial #rstats #geocompx #GIS

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With only 9,119 overwintering butterflies, this is the 2nd lowest year ever recorded since the Western Monarch Count started in 1997. Numbers had increased slightly after the 2020 all-time-low, so this year's sharp drop is troubling. Learn more & get involved 🦋 xerces.org/press/wester...

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Monarch Butterflies - we love them AND need them! Learn more about adding beneficial monarch (and all pollinators) habitat in our next webinar on Wednesday, February 5, 2025.

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Trying our first prairie planting with mycorrhizal inocula with KU. 3 units get the application and three do not. Should be interesting to see how the legumes accelerate in the test plots.

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... It takes a village. Or about 300 coauthors 📸 🦌

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{tinytable} 0.7.0 for #RStats is out! 🚀 This 📦 converts data frames to html, tex, docx, typ, or md tables. Super simple, ultra flexible, 0-dep, and the website hosts a billion tutorials. vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/ 0.7.0 fixes bugs and adds some cool features. Please update!

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A first-year native plant research plot holds onto the 10”+ of snow that fell two weeks ago (1/10/25). The plants have experienced temperatures ranging from 108 degrees F (8/22/24) to -6 degrees F (current lowest, 1/21/2025). The winners in year 2 will be those that survive the winter.

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JOB ALERT Please spread the word! 4-year post-doc with me @ SAFIRE on transforming ecosystem restoration research. The job unites stakeholder management and and research on theoretical/conceptual and methodological approaches to transdisciplinary research on ecosystem restoration. lnkd.in/dj-Zd3Q6

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📢 Job opportunity: Join our team as Postdoctoral Researcher to explore acoustic monitoring methods and their applications in conservation and agriculture with a focus on arthropods @unigoettingen.bsky.social @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @feda-biodiv.bsky.social www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...

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If you haven’t considered buying googly eyes for your office, you should.

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We're hiring an ecosystem ecologist (open rank) @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social It's a great place to work and live! Lots of opportunities for collaboration including with @kbslter.bsky.social KBS Long Term Agroecosystem Research careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

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Applied grassland ecologists! Consider applying for this job at K-State! Faculty position and director of 2 prairie research sites. (photo is one of my fave summer storms at one of the sites where I worked for many years) careers.k-state.edu/jobs/profess...

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I would never have even thought to looking at mower type. Interesting! Makes me wonder if there's a survival difference for grassland bird nestlings.

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Are you interested in how species distribution models are used in land use planning? Come work us! This is going to be a super cool position understanding how model reliability affects model applications. Creative! Collaborative! Quantitative! Apply by Jan 10: ow.ly/gzPn50UsUQG

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spAbundance package (Doser et al. doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14332) was published this year at @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! It fits a variety of single/multispecies abundance models using Bayesian Inference allowing also for hierarchical frameworks. Let me show you a funny example 🧵👇(1/6) #rstats

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Come work with us!!!! NREM nrem.iastate.edu at ISU is hiring an Assistant Professor of Biodiversity Conservation! See link below for more details & application instructions. Applications due January 31. isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IowaSt... Please share broadly!

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Undergrads, come join us this summer at the @kbslter.bsky.social!

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Time since fragmentation is an important, but difficult to study aspect in landscape ecology: conservationcorridor.org/digests/2024...

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Super interesting article about valuing ecological field work more - both by academia and funding agencies. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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What a beautiful infographic! Well done! doi.org/10.32942/X27...

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My major project today is helping a colleague develop metadata so they can publish their data. At BEI we use the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) as our formal, machine-readable metadata standard. It is easy to create your own EML metadata using EDI's ezeml.edirepository.org

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as we advance further into data aggregation methods for pushing scientific questions forward, it’s important we wrestle with the development of structures that support transparent, accessible and reliable data. 🧪👩‍🔬🌎

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Do you want to see the cutest rabbit on the planet?? Cause I've seen him. I have photos. Are you sure you're ready? Okay: Here is ChubbyCheeks McGee

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Diversity and volume of birdsong in agroecosystems found to affect human perception of experiences: phys.org/news/2024-12...

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This is so spot on. As a climate scientist and public intellectual, I see or experience these often

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