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Abby (she/her)

@abigailthiemkey.bsky.social
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Carnivore ecologist with interests in population, behavioral, and movement ecology - becoming a quantitative ecologist as a result | PhD student @ University of Maryland | views my own #WomenInSTEM #firstgen #latinxSTEM 🌈

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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I will be at the 29th International Bear Association Conference in Italy from the 20-24! I am doing some solo traveling after for a few days. If you’re going to the conference I would love to talk all things bears. Excited to hop over the pond soon!
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I finished up my summer field work on Friday. From summer 2026 and 2027, we collected ~3000 samples of black bear hair from barbed wire hair snares. This was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done but I am fortunate for a supportive team and lab. Along with a great advisor. Now to writing!
A woman with a blue shirt and beige field pants standing by a tree with a sign, also in front of barbed wire wrapped around trees. Flagging is also on the tree and barbed wire.0.5 Zoom of a woman in a blue long sleep shirt and beige field pants. Again, standing in front of a tree with a sign. Barbed wire wrapped around trees, and tampons and donuts hung for bait to lure bears in.A woman on the ground with a black bear that is anesthetized. She is wearing beige pants and a pink shirt. The bear has oxygen in its nose and a face covering.Black bear hair on a barb with a white board underneath it.
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I turned 30 today (7/12). I’m so excited for this new decade.
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Phil Manlick @pmanlick.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
A fun write-up from PNW Research Station on our recent bear-salmon paper in Current Biology 🐻 🦅 🏃‍♂️ research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/articles...
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Bears, eagles, and humans, oh my: How human-wildlife interactions impact forest nutrient cycles | US Forest Service Research and Development
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Hi fellow scientists! I am in search of travel grants to apply to for a conference in Italy next year with the international bear association! Any leads would be great! #travelgrants #science #conference
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
IBA abstract accepted! Excited to potentially go to Italy and hang out with bear researchers next fall! I’ll be done with my field seasons, and have more data to talk about (:
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Talking about study design recommendations and considerations for black bear monitoring today at #NEAFWA ! I really like conferences this size.
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I feel numb. What’s happening around us is horrific and I feel like we aren’t talking about it enough in some of our circles.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 29/01/2026
In October, the Trump administration bombed a civilian boat, killing Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo as they were traveling home to Trinidad and Tobago. We’re suing the government on behalf of their families to get justice for these murders.
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Families of two men believed to have been killed in military strike on boat sue US government over 'unlawful' attacks | CNN Politics
As the US military began launching strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean last year, a young Trinidadian man who was in Venezuela for work was searching for a way home, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/01/2026
Tell everyone you know HALF A BILLION $ apnews.com/article/trum...
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Federal troop deployments to US cities cost taxpayers $496M and counting
The Trump administration's deployment of federal troops to six U.S. cities has cost taxpayers about $496 million through December.
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Max Waugh @maxwaughphoto.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Soon it'll be time to start sharing my Year in Review content, including my "Not Quite Best" and my favorite images and moments of the year. I wonder where these cubs will show up on the list?
Alaska Peninsula brown bear cubs, Lake Clark National Park
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I feel like I'm going insane. The president let loose 2 absolutely unhinged racist rants this week that sounded directly out of klan rallies and his allies clapped and laughed and everyone else was like, oh he's nuts moving on. Personally + professionally, I truly don't know how to address this.
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I need to attempt science communication again. I was once so good at social media, networking, etc. I’ve fallen off a bit with Twitter becoming X. Anyways, what’s the trendy science thing lately? I am behind lol
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I would move back to East Africa for good. Some days I dream about it. Maybe one day.
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Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
"He presents [NYC] as a fundamentally good place...He makes it sound as if people are a part of something, and as if they have the ability to make that thing better. If anyone's searching for a winning way to talk about democracy, they could try to do the same." www.indignity.net/politics-is-local/
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Politics is local
Indignity Vol. 5, No. 194
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I think a lot about the time I got up from my tent in Kenya to go outside and I saw an African Hedgehog. That was something I will never erase from my mind. Some day I hope to be back in Kenya as a researcher.
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
wildlife.org/texas-cracks...
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Texas cracks massive deer smuggling ring - The Wildlife Society
A wildlife smuggling bust unveils a statewide black market in captive deer trafficking and regulatory fraud
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
South Texas game cam catches a raccoon riding a javelina (Dicotyles tajacu). The deer feeder corn attracts a lot of other species, but maybe we should worry about them all teaming up against us? (📷: Jeff Davis, TAMU-Kingsville alumni forum)
On a black and white game cam, three javelinas are browsing corn while a raccoon sits on one of their backs.  The lighting produces laser-eyes in the raccoon, who is secretly one of the X-Men.A raccoon knight on a javelina steed.  "Onward, Pigasus!  Let us show them the meaning of haste".  Motion blurred, black and white game cam shot.
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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
#SciArtSeptember Day 23: Scouting Working dogs use their noses to find target species during conservation projects. - #beagle #dogs #sketchbook #drawing
An illustration of a beagle, walking with its nose to the ground. The illustration is simple, with blues taking the place of dark colours on the dog. The background is flat beige.
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
TODAY is the deadline to submit public comment on Trump’s proposal to rescind the Roadless Rule, which would expose 45 million acres of national forest to permanent roads and their attendant environmental ills. Register your disapproval here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... #roadecology
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Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation; National Forest System Lands
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is initiating an environmental impact statement (EIS) and rulemaking concerning management of inventoried roadless areas on approximately 44.7 million acres of Natio...
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Today's "everything is bad so let's pause for a second to regard nature and take a breath that isn't poisoned by our fear of a collapsing democracy" pic -- an osprey flying overhead. Photo by me.
In this landscape-oriented photo, an osprey flies overhead -- the sky behind is a denim blue. The bird is majestic, its wing feather's splayed out like fingers reaching for the heavens. It's tail is pointed back straight. The sun comes through its wing feathers, giving them an amber glow. The look on the bird's face is one of abject panic, with total bug eyes that suggests the bird just shit its pants, except birds don't (generally) wear pants, which instead suggests that the bird just read the news and was like, "oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck." Photo by me, Chuck Wendig
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Why do we have to have workday when it literally does not help anyone out ever
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I want to be a great scientist for many many reasons. At this moment, I want to be known to the point that Joe Jonas knows me. Lmfao three things about me: I love dogs, wildlife, and the Jonas brothers.
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Sarah B. Bassing, PhD @sbassing.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
One last outing this field season with my incoming graduate student. We collected genetic samples from wolf scat and hiked through some beautiful country. Looking forward to the start of the semester and getting this project officially started!
Two people wearing backpacks stand together in a large open meadow with conifer forests and mountains in the background. Scat from an adult wolf on the forest floor. A black lighter is next to the scat for scale. Woman holds a broken skull from a long dead bull elk while standing in a forest. A scat from a wolf pup sits in a matted down patch of grass in a meadow where pups have been playing. Pine trees and willow shrubs in the background.
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Diving into the world of genetics and wowowowow it’s pretty incredible what we can do huh
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Sarah B. Bassing, PhD @sbassing.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
‼️New 🐺 paper‼️We developed models to predict highly suitable den & rendezvous site habitat for Mexican wolves in AZ & NM. These models will be used to guide future monitoring as the population continues to grow. #OpenAccess #JournalOfWildlifeManagement wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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TWS Journals
We developed predictive models of pup-rearing habitat (i.e., den and rendezvous sites) that could help guide future population monitoring efforts of Mexican wolves. Mexican wolves selected den sites ...
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Cole Burton @coleburton.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The WildCo Lab @wildco.bsky.social is recruiting 2 postdocs in quantitative ecology to work on mammal population estimation and monitoring from camera trap data. 🐺🐻🦌📷📈 Please share the word or apply to join us at UBC in lovely Vancouver, Canada! wildlife.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/0...
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I miss when we could connect and network on Twitter. It’s not the same here. I am grateful for my network I made on there though. It has helped me More than yall know.
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I thought I’d share a photo from one of our sites on the MD black bear project. A big male and female pair hanging around our snare. They both were a bit pre occupied to go in, except the female was more curious. Fingers crossed she comes back and goes in. Some younger bears went in though!!
Cam trap photo of a male looking over a female bear who has her ears back in a submissive position. Both in front of a barbed wire hair snare corral.
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I really love Meidase brand cameras.
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Hey! Check out a snippet of our project!! Maryland and DC Bears 👀 www.instagram.com/reel/DKaAyD4...
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
We started building hair snares yesterday! Black bear hair snares will be used to determine density and movement estimates that will better understand the Maryland black bear population. I have a team of 10 and so far they are dedicated wonderful humans ❤️
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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
HOLY SHIT. The ban on any federal funding gender-affirming care includes stripping ACA plans of covering it as the essential care it is. I have an ACA plan. I live in a blue state, but I am about to lose access to treatments I need. We told you this was coming www.advocate.com/politics/ant...
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BREAKING: Republicans pass ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ stripping transgender Americans of health care
The Human Rights Campaign called the bill "cruel."
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Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The bears like our [duct tape] hair snare! 😍🧪🐻
Mother and 2 black bear cubs at a hair snares made of duct tape Black Bear cub hugging hair snare tree with mom in foreground
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The Nightingale is ruining me
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Birding at Magee wildlife marsh in Ohio… I SAW A BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER AHHHHHH
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Do not forget to submit a comment to the feds to not rescind the definition of “harm” in the ESA!!!
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Hey @searchliaison.bsky.social I am not a bot, please stop terminating my ability to use google scholar 😭😭😭
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
So I made friends with the woman next door. We are about the same age. She has a huge family. They are all so welcoming and their friends. Be annoying and ask people to be your friend yall. It sometimes works out. And they are all big nerds in the music world.
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Biodiversity Pathways @biodivpathways.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
We're #hiring a Statistical Wildlife Ecologist! This position analyzes large, complex datasets to support landscape management throughout Canada. Learn more and apply through the University of Alberta by May 27, 2025: wildlifescience.ca/hiring-stati... #biodiversity #mammals #wildlife
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Huge shout out to the people who are willing to help my team and I here at UMD on this bear project, even while facing the uncertainty of the wildlife profession and their jobs. I am beyond grateful because this project is huge and it could not be done without the help of so many.
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Amanda Heidt @scattercushion.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🧪Hello! are you a scientist who started your PhD in 2020 and are now wrapping up? I want to know how your life is and how you're feeling about your prospects in 2025 for a story in @nature.com. DM me or find me on Signal at aheidt.16. Tell yo friends! (Also seeking international sources.)
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
One of my goals this summer is to uplift and build confidence in the wildlife techs and volunteers on this MD bear project. The world and the US specifically is so hard, and I’m glad I can help get them some experience and put them into the woods.
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The Resistance Toolkit @resistance-toolkit.com · 12/04/2025
This administration is banning any mention of the minorities who helped shape our country. So it is our civic duty to shout their achievements from the mountain tops. Today we highlight Patsy Mink, an absolute powerhouse in U.S. politics. #SaveOurHistory #censorship #dei #history #CivilRights
Graphic highlighting Patsy Mink. The title is Patsy's name followed by a list overviewing her life and achievements: "Japanese-American. First woman in Hawaii Territorial Senate. First woman of color in U.S. Congress. Co-authored Title 9 Amendment of Higher Education Act." In the bottom right corner is a picture of Patsy in front of of a light blue circle. In the bottom left corner text reads '#SaveOurHistory' and The Resistance Toolkit logo.Black and white photo of Patsy Mink smiling in and holding a copy of bill H.R. 13196 - the capital building is in the background. Patsy's name is superimposed at the top left corner of the picture along with hashtag "#SaveOurHistory" and The Resistance Toolkit logo.
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/TAMUK_...
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Assistant/Associate Professor in Quantitative Ecology
Job TitleAssistant/Associate Professor in Quantitative Ecology Agency Texas A&M University - Kingsville Department Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute Proposed Minimum SalaryCommensurate Job Locat...
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Abby (she/her) @abigailthiemkey.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
My dog child cost me $700 yesterday because she needed all of her shots, but also a senior blood panel. And that rocked me a bit because how is my hyperactive GSD a senior dog 😭😭😭😭😭😭
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 25/04/2025
📣PRESSURE WORKS!📣 The Trump administration has reversed its termination of thousands of students’ U.S. visa registrations, reinstating their legal status after legal challenges and court orders deemed the mass cancellations unlawful. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, DORKS! www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Trump administration reverses abrupt terminations of foreign students’ US visa registrations
DOJ announced the reversal in federal court after weeks of intense scrutiny by courts and dozens of restraining orders issued by judges.
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Sam @spratt.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Speaking as a lawyers: lawyers are not going to save us, but we have an important role to play in buying enough time for a mass movement to push back against what's happening
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