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Amanda Cheeseman

@amandacheeseman.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor @SDState | Conservation | Management (mostly mammals) She/her 🐇🌳🦦🐿🐕🐦🌾🦨 views mine | aecheeseman.weebly.com

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Lisanne Petracca @lisannepetracca.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
🐺🐺🐺 NEW PAPER! 🐺🐺🐺 Recovering wolves in WA tolerate threats except high harvest, high lethal removals, and lack of immigration With @labgardner.bsky.social, Sarah Converse, & Ben Maletzke zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Forecasting Dynamics of a Recolonizing Wolf Population Under Different Management Strategies
We use a novel spatially explicit projection model to evaluate how different management strategies and system uncertainties affect the recolonization dynamics of wolves. We found that scenarios relat....
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
OPT provides short-term work visas for recent international graduate students in the US, allowing them to work after their student visa expires. It's a pipeline for jobs in medicine, biomedical research, education, technology, engineering, and other highly skilled work. This is very, very, bad.
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Lisanne Petracca @lisannepetracca.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
🐆🐆 TWO M.S. POSITIONS AVAILABLE IN MY LAB!! Focus will be bobcat and coyote dynamics in an ocelot pre-reintroduction landscape. Come join the fun. Deadline is June 1 for an August start 🐆🐆 Position posting is here: tinyurl.com/5y3uhbf3
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Olivier Gimenez 🦦 @oaggimenez.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🚨🎉 New paper "Ten quick tips to get you started with Bayesian statistics", hope you'll like it 😇🤗 ✍🏽 w/ Andy Royle, Marc Kéry and Chloé Nater 🔗 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... @plos.org @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social
Graphical summary of 10 quick tips to get started with Bayesian statistics and how they fit into a larger view of an analytical workflow with Bayesian models.
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Lisanne Petracca @lisannepetracca.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Are you going to #ICCB2025 in Brisbane? Come take the Geospatial Analysis in R all-day workshop on Saturday, June 14. This workshop was developed by me and @amandacheeseman.bsky.social in the COVID era, and now has some brand-new updates from @thespeclab.bsky.social! Join us! 🗺️🤓🦘
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Amanda Cheeseman @amandacheeseman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Anyone in the wildlife ecology world in need of a good data analyst/ lab/ project manager or someone to help polish up those outstanding pubs? I have a brilliant graduating MS student looking. Photo from some of her work for attention!
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Chuliang Song @clsong.com · 25/03/2025
So emotional seeing my first-ever teaching evaluations! 😭 Creating all the materials from scratch was tough, but incredibly rewarding. I put a lot of thought into what students need in the AI era—sharing the complete class materials here in case they're helpful: clsong.github.io/EEB_C234/01_...
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Kate Morozova @brushesandbiomes.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Excited to say that the stickers of all #2025MMM contestants are finished and up on the store. Check them out here: brushesandbiomes.printful.me #mammals #sciart #watercolor #art
Sticker design depicting the TayraSticker design depicting the NarwhalSticker design depicting the Maned WolfSticker design depicting the Eurasian Water Shrew
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Amanda Cheeseman @amandacheeseman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I feel so honored to be mentioned by #2025MMM. Spotted skunks are the best
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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
March Mammal Madness fans, good news! @natickbobcat.bsky.social created a Starter Pack of folks involved in #2025MMM. I also converted it into a Bluesky List so you have both options. Happy species research! List: bsky.app/profile/did:... Pack: go.bsky.app/BVUtr1g 🧪
The 2025 March Mammal Madness bracket
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
"The US took nearly a century to craft its rich scientific ecosystem; if the unraveling that has taken place over the past month continues, Americans will feel the effects for decades to come." www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
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The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled
Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come.
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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Baby tapir Ume had her first encounter with the water dish and it’s adorable! 🥰
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
What kind of research do they consider "wasteful DEI"? Reading through the project descriptions (column N) and it's project grants studying: -fentanyl overdose prevention -earthquake disaster preparedness -renewable energy -kidney disease (and other healthcare topics) -disability aid product design
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Phil Manlick @pmanlick.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
How do you get followers on here, post fun bear videos? 🐻
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Amanda Cheeseman @amandacheeseman.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Lucky enough to visit Antarctica over the holidays and met the best seals- figured Bluesky needed to meet them too
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Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩‍🔬 @kristinamuise.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
In-line with some Ichthyology/ornithology individuals on here, I want to do 25 days of #BatMas this year! Follow this thread to learn about bats everyday! 🦇 🧵
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 10/12/2024
Mentions of research on Bluesky have crossed a half million posts as of this morning. #Academicsky #Metascience #highered #MedSky
Bluesky post count mentioning research is at 500,997.
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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
There is still space left in the #biodiversity #redistribution starter pack ⬇️ If you are working on or interested in biodiversity responses, aka #species #range #shifts & #community #composition #changes, to global change drivers, I'd be happy to add you in the list 😀 go.bsky.app/6KqEpb9
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Amanda Cheeseman @amandacheeseman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Anyone find any good starter packs for nature / space photographers? (Preferably not full of AI). Missing my spectacular landscapes and skies portion of my feed from the other place…
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Amanda Cheeseman @amandacheeseman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Come join us! We have such a fantastic and supportive group of faculty and I think there is potential to teach a variety of courses specialized to your interests with this one! 🦌 🌳🦜🦞🐠
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Paulina Arancibia @pauliarancibia.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
As promised, here's a list of women doing research in Ecology & Evolution. You can pin it to your home and then follow these wonderful scientists by clicking the about tab. If you want to be added just comment or DM me. Please share far and wide :) 🧪🌍🌐 bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Antarctica Day is on Dec 1st each year. It marks the signing of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a continent for peace and science. To help celebrate, here’s a photo I took a couple of years ago, of a seal which had clearly got the message about peace. Happy #AntarcticaDay!!
A seal snoozing in the sunshine on some ice.
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Amanda Cheeseman @amandacheeseman.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
For anyone else tracking blue sky’s population boom this is a fun tracker and neat bit of coding bcounter.nat.vg Thanks @natalie.sh!
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Almost-real-time Bluesky user count
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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 25/11/2024
I've updated this starter pack for all interested! Now bursting with over 100 natural history museum related accounts 🎉🌱🦆🙌 go.bsky.app/NtdUnyF
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Martin Jung @martinjung.eu · 11/11/2024
Making starter packs seems to be the hot thing and I noticed that we don't have one for conservation scientists (🧪), so here we go go.bsky.app/3CZDnb2 So if you are an active researcher and would like to be added, reply here. Please no journalists or NGOs, there are other starting lists for that ;)
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Stelios Katsanevakis @skatsanevakis.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Very interesting work on improving species distribution modelling #SDM by combining several #R packages!
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Here are some nice mushrooms
An overturned stick is held upright in an autumn forest and covered in mature Splitgill mushrooms, one stacked above the next, each of their gills radiating above the next
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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
🌎🧪Forest Ecology Starter Pack now available for those studying various aspects of forest 🌲🌳🌴ecosystems. The starter pack is limited to 150 names & it is now full. To grow your network: follow folks, get followed, re-post, & enjoy! go.bsky.app/8ZNK9jy
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Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I made a Carnivore Ecologists Starter Pack! If you want to be added, please let me know 🤩🐻🐻‍❄️🐺🦨🦡🐾🦭🦊🦦🦝🐆🐅 🧪🌎 go.bsky.app/7hdbr6C
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Amanda Cheeseman @amandacheeseman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Oo! Great potion with a great advisor!
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Thomas Shahan @tshahan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hey new followers! 🌞 Here's a sparkly blue eustyline weevil from the Colombian Andes near Pueblo Rico, Risaralda 💙💚 more pics on iNat: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Earth did not survive a collision with another planet, hundreds of asteroid and comet impacts, hundreds of millions of years of deadly radiation from space, five mass extinctions, and literally freezing solid for you to give up on her now.
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Cynthia Becker @cynthiabecker25.bsky.social · 13/06/2024
The ecoevojobs google doc has crowdsourced postdoc, fixed term faculty, and TT faculty jobs!! ecoevojobs.net
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ecoevojobs 23-24 - Google Drive
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Amanda Cheeseman @amandacheeseman.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Does anyone else get pressure to not take sick days when you teach (I.e. “not allowed”)? Moping about before class with no voice and a wet cough wondering how to make this work…. #AcademicSky
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Lisanne Petracca @lisannepetracca.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
🚩🚩 Position 1/2: Postdoctoral Scholar in Ocelot Population Dynamics. See shorturl.at/MORY2 to apply. Deadline is November 12. Please help me spread the word! 🚩🚩
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Lisanne Petracca @lisannepetracca.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
🚩🚩 Position 2/2: Program Manager for the SPEC Lab Ocelot Research Program. See shorturl.at/LMN57 to apply. Deadline is November 12. Five years of experience in related tasks is **required** for this pay scale as per A&M rules, so pls have this reflected in your CV 🚩🚩
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Amanda Cheeseman @amandacheeseman.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
Our Habitat Conservation & Management lab is on 🔥… literally Thanks Fire Pete 👨‍🚒 for showing us how fight invasives w/ fire & restore native prairie
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Bill Severud @billseverud.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
📢Please share! #MidwestFW Conference abstract submission deadline has been EXTENDED! Get those abstracts in by OCT 6! www.midwestfw.org
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Amanda Cheeseman @amandacheeseman.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
Love when you come home to fresh flowers 🌸
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
New by me for Slate: the amazing story of some bull sharks that lived on a golf course in Australia for 17 years. 🦈🌎🦑🧪 slate.com/technology/2...
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How Sharks Survived on a Golf Course for 17 Years
And what likely did them in.
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Amanda Cheeseman @amandacheeseman.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
What are 5 nature things that make you lose your cool? I’m glad you asked! 1. Bunnies 2. Mushrooms 3. Really big trees 4. Fun colored rocks 5. Sundews
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Amanda Cheeseman @amandacheeseman.bsky.social · 07/09/2023
I swear- can’t even keep fake fiddle leaf figs
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Amanda Cheeseman @amandacheeseman.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
Sometimes I even leave the office! Here’s me finding a glacier this summer
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Amanda Cheeseman @amandacheeseman.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
Found these grumpy bebes
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Amanda Cheeseman @amandacheeseman.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
Please Share!! Who wants to work with BATS!? Recruiting a MS OR PHD student interested in assessing the distribution and habitat of South Dakota's bats w/ emphasis on the threatened ones! Possibilities for mist netting, transmitter deployment, & acoustic sampling!
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Amanda Cheeseman @amandacheeseman.bsky.social · 16/08/2023
Y'all what's better than mid-week baby otters?
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Amanda Cheeseman @amandacheeseman.bsky.social · 04/08/2023
Bunnies for the win! WE GOT THE COVER!!! 😍😍😍 Also accelerometers are cool for tracking translocation outcomes: academic.oup.com/jmammal/article-ab…
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Amanda Cheeseman @amandacheeseman.bsky.social · 03/08/2023
Hi BlueSky! I work on tuning conservation & management of mammals (otters, bunnies, bats, the occasional leopard) & sometimes birds + their habitats
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