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Alli Pierce, PhD

@allikpierce.bsky.social
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Animal ecologist, Mountain Ploverologist, stats geek, amateur artist, and nature nerd. General research interest in behavior (esp. #migration) and life history. Looking for opportunities.

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Alli Pierce, PhD @allikpierce.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Beauties who brighten my day in the shadow timeline
A group of Evening Grosbeaks perched on a platform bird feeder
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Elizabeth Pansing, PhD @epansing.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Excited to be a part of this year's Climate Week NYC! @planscape.bsky.social and @americanforests.bsky.social will be chatting post-fire reforestation at Doris Duke's Treehouse with amazing speakers from @nature.org, @moorefound.bsky.social, and more!
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Alli Pierce, PhD @allikpierce.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I LOVE this time of year. Check out this huuuge bull elk I saw in my yard today! It’s been 2 weeks of listening to these fellas sing and it’s magical ✨
Large male elk with a big set of antlers walking through an aspen grove.
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Alli Pierce, PhD @allikpierce.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Libby rocks so I bet these jobs do too! Forest people get on it!
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Alli Pierce, PhD @allikpierce.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The best plover in my very biased opinion! Shore? Who needs it!
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Alli Pierce, PhD @allikpierce.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Second this! Great location, great people, great size, and great science!
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Mike Moore @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
new paper from my lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social in @natclimate.nature.com, led by @sarahnalley.bsky.social! Dragonflies with dark mating ornaments on their wings are disappearing from parts of the United States that have had more warming and wildfire over the last 40 years 🧪🌍🐙 rdcu.be/eFm7e
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Showy dragonflies are being driven extinct by warming and wildfire
Nature Climate Change - The authors use 1,603 estimates of local extinctions from 1980 to 2021 to show that dragonfly species with wing ornamentation have disproportionately gone extinct and lost...
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Mike Moore @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Are you looking for a PhD position and want to spend your summers in the Rocky Mountains? My lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social is looking for 1 PhD student to work on a NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts in Colorado! 🧪🌍🐙 Apply by Nov 1! Details here docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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2025 - Hypoxia PhD job ad
The Moore lab at the University of Colorado Denver is searching for 1 Ph.D. student to study the elevational limits of dragonflies in Colorado (http://moore-evo-eco.weebly.com). This position is fully...
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Mike Moore @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
new paper out with Paula Cushing @denvermuseumns.bsky.social in @royentsoc.bsky.social! We explore elevational distributions of 🕷️ in Colorado Species that live at extreme elevations tend to be cold-tolerant generalists that can live anywhere 🧪🌍🐙 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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High and hardy: Cold‐tolerant generalists inhabit extreme elevations in Rocky Mountain Pardosa spiders
Pardosa species richness is highest at mid-elevations in the Rocky Mountains, declining at the lowest and highest elevations. Pardosa species that inhabit extreme elevations tend to be generalists, ...
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Miguel A Gómez Serrano @gomezserrano-ma.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Kentish Plover chicks are masters of camouflage. Can you spot it? #plovers #shorebirds #waders
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Mike Moore @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
cool new paper in @nature.com about moth migration, showing they use the stars to navigate up to the mountains in the summer 🧪🌍🐙 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Bogong moths use a stellar compass for long-distance navigation at night - Nature
Every spring, Bogong moths use the starry night sky as a compass to navigate up to 1,000 km towards their alpine migratory goal.
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Alli Pierce, PhD @allikpierce.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I pass this Bison herd off I-70 all the time driving home. This time we stopped to appreciate all the adorable red-dogs since the herd was right next to the viewing fence. This full Bison herd has been maintained by the city of Denver for over 100 years!
Herd of Bison grazing in a grass field. Photo is centered on a red colored Bison calf with other adults and calves in the background.Close up photo of a red colored Bison calf’s face.Photo of a Bison herd in a grass field with a large dark colored bull centered in the shot.
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Alli Pierce, PhD @allikpierce.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Normally a Mountain plover clutch is 6 eggs split between 2 nests that the male and female split up to incubate and rear independently which is super weird and cool in itself but…
A Mountain plover nest containing 3 speckled eggs nestled in bits of dried vegetation in a shallow scrape on bare ground.
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Alli Pierce, PhD @allikpierce.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Last week I got to help my colleague, Casey Weissburg, GPS tag some Mountain Plovers and it was the nostalgic itch I needed to scratch. Enjoy this plover being released looking a bit like a lil 🦖 I love these shoreless shorebirds ❤️ Watch till the end for a cute lil tweet! All work done w/permits
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Elizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Grad students: Free training and community-building event this week!! If you are working on anything involving individuals or populations from an ecology or evolutionary perspective (including modeling!) your work probably qualifies as "animal behavior" for our purposes. You can still register!
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Alli Pierce, PhD @allikpierce.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Pretty fitting our first of the year Black-headed Grosbeaks and Western Tanager arrived on Migratory Bird Day! All the summer friends have now arrived!
A male and female Black-headed Grosbeak perched on a platform bird feeder. A male Western Tanager perched on a Ponderosa Pine branch.
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Elizabeth Pansing, PhD @epansing.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Colorado State Forest Service is hiring a nursery manager. Please share widely! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/159...
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Nursery Manager
Under the direct supervision of the Associate Director of Forest Planning and Implementation, this position is responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating all activities related to a forest ...
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Alli Pierce, PhD @allikpierce.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Bump! In case it was missed when I first posted
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Alli Pierce, PhD @allikpierce.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
EEB Researchers - is there a discord/slack/etc server for ECRs specifically? I'm interested in a research related career but not TT (gov/NGO/non-prof acad) which seems tricky now... I'd like to find a venue more conducive to career related discussions than short format social media sites. TIA!
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Sarah Senese @ssenese.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🚨CO Scientists🚨 Have you or someone you know been fired from a federally funded position? If so—contact me! Looking for speakers/stories for the Stand Up for Science rally in Denver, CO.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 25/02/2025
Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science. Story by @heidiledford.bsky.social & @humbertobasilio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science
As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.
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Alli Pierce, PhD @allikpierce.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
There's a lot of uncertainty about the future of ecological research right now (especially as an ECR on the job market) but I feel so privileged I had the opportunity to spend my graduate career studying Mountain Plovers. I hope the peeps of this little newly hatched chick can help you smile today.
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Alli Pierce, PhD @allikpierce.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
My former plover protege now plover research extraordinaire, Casey, is hiring a field technician to help with her PhD project in Colorado. Good pay and awesome birds, please share! cu.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Mountain Plover Research Technician
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Sarah Nalley @sarahnalley.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
My research was posted on Boulder County Open Space! This is so meaningful after having lost my home to wildfire in Boulder County. Humans & animals face an increasing threat of wildfire. While humans can move, many animals must deal with life in burned habitats. bouldercounty.gov/open-space/e...
Photo taken in Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming by @andrewnorrisarts.bsky.social while assisting me with research this summer.
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Alli Pierce, PhD @allikpierce.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
In case you need it today. Here’s some pictures of my new puppy Mochi.
A white husky puppy with blue eyes sitting on a couch looking past the camera with a small bit of tongue showing A white husky puppy sleeping on a couch with an expression that looks like a soft smile
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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Important news: The Wilson Journal of #Ornithology will be transitioning to a new publishing partner, Taylor & Francis, for 2025—and eliminating page charges! wilsonsociety.org/2024/12/11/w...
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WJO to eliminate page charges, transition to Taylor & Francis
In 2025, the WJO will be moving to a new publishing partner, Taylor and Francis.
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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Look at this map. Look at it! This is what Amur Falcons do! Their migration is jaw-dropping. You do not want to miss Suresh Kumar's @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social webinar next week! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/amu...
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Teague O'Mara @teagueo.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
This took some time, but what a bat, what a social org, and what an amazing team of collaborators! @animaltracking.bsky.social Consistent long-distance foraging flights across years and seasons at colony level in a neotropical bat: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Greater spear nosed bat flies away from a balsa flower
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Cher Chow 周馥溢 @cherfychow.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Seeing quite a lot of posts about PhDs and postdocs. Please circulate around #EcoEvocareer! I run the Ecology and Evolution ECR feed to consolidate these ads and career chats bsky.app/profile/did:...
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The Waterbird Society @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
We're thankful to hear that Wisdom, the world's oldest banded bird, has returned to Midway Atoll for the breeding season AND has already laid an egg! At 74+ years old, Wisdom is changing our understanding of #seabird biology. Welcome back & congrats! #ornithology friendsofmidway.org/wisdom-was-s...
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Wisdom was sighted near her usual nest site on Kuaihelani (Midway Atoll) on November 26, 2024. Her new mate is now incubating their egg!
The oldest known banded bird in the wild, a Mōlī or Laysan albatross known as Wisdom and who is at least 74 years old, has once again mystified biologists. Being able to reproduce and develop an eg…
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Alice Boyle @birdfiddler.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
#Wisdom has returned to Midway Atoll! Will the oldest known wild bird—a mōlī or Laysan albatross—breed at age (at least) 74?
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Alli Pierce, PhD @allikpierce.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Not me repeatedly calling out “that’s some good lookin mountain plover habitat right there!” while roadtripping to visit family for the holidays… 👀
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Francesco Garzon @garzonfrancesco.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
What do you do when an orca eats your research project? Why, you continue tracking of course! #trackingNotSlacking 🌊 New paper describes how orcas catch bluefin tuna, and shows the longest high-resolution tracking of an orca ever! @exetermarine.bsky.social 🦑🐠🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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High-resolution biologging of an Atlantic bluefin tuna captured and eaten by a supposed orca - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - High-resolution biologging of an Atlantic bluefin tuna captured and eaten by a supposed orca
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Elizabeth Pansing, PhD @epansing.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
@americanforests.bsky.social ‘s resilient reforestation work in SC Oregon was featured on CBS last night! I had the honor of co-creating an integrated post-🔥 resilience strategy for the region, released last year. AMAZING to see increased capacity to support climate informed reforestation! (1/4) 🌲
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How collecting pine cones is helping regenerate Oregon forests destroyed by wildfires
Conservationists are teaming up with the U.S. Forest Service and logging companies to clear scorched land and make room for new reforestation projects.
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Alli Pierce, PhD @allikpierce.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Canyon wren I painted last year (been waaay too long since I painted) Let’s see your bird art!
Watercolor painting of a Canyon Wren singing on a rock
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Alli Pierce, PhD @allikpierce.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Excited to see there’s more folks making the switch! I stopped checking X awhile ago and was hoping an active alternative would materialize. Might have start being more active here now…
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Alli Pierce, PhD @allikpierce.bsky.social · 12/10/2024
Starting to lose count on the times I’ve seen the Aurora in Colorado this year which is insane! Loving it!
Aurora borealisAurora borealisAurora borealis
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Alli Pierce, PhD @allikpierce.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Working on setting up my prof. personal website. This might be a long shot but anyone have any advice/tips for examples to share? I've found some but it's not an easy thing to search for directly! For ref. I'm a new PhD grad in the field of animal ecology. Thanks and please share!
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Alli Pierce, PhD @allikpierce.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
I’m still figuring out this new space and will post a proper intro later. I offer up a cute baby plover picture in the interim. All handling done with proper permits and for research purposes.
Downy day old mountain plover chick resting in the palm of a hand.
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