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Jeremy Cohen

@drjerbs.bsky.social
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New asst prof at Rutgers DEENR, research scientist at Yale '21-'26. Quantitative climate change ecology, macroecology, avian ecology, early career researcher, birder, bird guide, photographer, human dad, cat dad, knicks/yankees fan, NYer

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you care about keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open to the public in Philadelphia, I need you to read and share this thread. Trish Wellenbach was sent from the mayor's office to oversee the Academy of Natural sciences situation. She needs to hear from us. Here comes the action item:
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Have you given a lecture on the broad topic of Macroecology and would be willing to share slides? Anything from a few slides to a full hour lecture would be helpful!
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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
PERSPECTIVE A Trait‐Based Approach to Studying Animal Movement Responses to Extreme Events 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Nicholas D Carter @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Counter doom by: 1. Communicating the threat accurately, 2. prebunk against emotionally manipulative narratives, & 3. pair the problem with credible solutions & agency. Full study & coverage below: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Doing a bioacoustics project somewhere in the eastern US? For a large-scale study exploring how bird communities react to disturbance across regions/habitats, we are looking for daytime recordings at consistent sites over 2+ years, during the same season(s) each year. Please get in touch!
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨 NOW OUT at @globalchangebio.bsky.social! "Continental‐Scale Biodiversity Predictions Are Influenced by Climatic Variability and Extreme Weather" – collab with @diegoellissoto.bsky.social and others from Yale BGC! 🧪🌐🪶 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Alison Robey @alisonrobey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Second dissertation chapter just dropped at Ecology Letters! doi.org/10.1111/ele.70441 Across theory, stochastic models, and protist microcosms, we show how rising temporal autocorrelation drives predictable increases in extinction risk under warming (ft. coauthor @mtkummel.bsky.social!)
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Temporal Autocorrelation Increases Temperature‐Driven Extinction Risk by Clustering Stressful Conditions
Extinction risk forecasting typically relies on comparing thermal tolerance data to predicted shifts in thermal distributions. However, changing temporal sequencing of temperatures may exacerbate the....
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Erin Sauer @sauerscientist.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I am recruiting a PhD student interested in the disease ecology of cavity nesting birds to start Fall 2027! Interested applicants can contact me by filling out the linked form. I will also be at ESA 2026 and am happy to meet! More info on my website: sauerlab.com Please share!
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I'm joining Rutgers DEENR in a tenure-track faculty position this fall! I'll be recruiting a quantitative postdoc in climate change wildlife ecology (start fall 26 or jan 27) and PhD student doing bioacoustics to study avian responses to extreme weather (start fall 27). More- www.gcmelab.com/join-us
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
We have a new perspective piece out about incorporating extreme heat in ecological research - academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...
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Extreme Heat as the New Normal: A Methodological Roadmap Incorporating Behavior, Physiology, and Species Distributions
Abstract. A defining feature of climate change is the increasing frequency, intensity, and severity of extreme weather events. Among them, extreme heat is
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
🚨Now out! For 98 hummingbird species, we jointly model presence-only GBIF data + presence-absence ebird data, leveraging both simultaneously to arrive at more accurate predictions for under-surveyed species. And got the cover! Led by Jussi Mäkinen 🧪🌐 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Model‐Based Data Integration Improves Species Distribution Models for Data‐Deficient and Narrow‐Ranged Hummingbird Species
Aim For species with narrow ranges or low population sizes, a deficiency of species occurrence records can limit the capacity to build accurate species distribution models (SDMs). Model-based integr...
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Exciting to be a part of this!
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Dr. Marta Jarzyna @majarzyna.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Thrilled to share our new paper out in @science.org, led by François Leroy and Petr Keil! Using the Breeding Bird Survey, we document not only a continent-wide decline in bird abundance since the 1980s — but, crucially, the acceleration of these declines over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture
Human activities might have accelerated declines of population abundance, but this acceleration remains underexplored. Using 1033 North American Breeding Bird Survey routes, we analyze abundance chang...
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Leading a organized session at #WBF2026 on climate change and biodiversity! Titled "Linking anthropogenic climate change to shifting biodiversity patterns". If submitting an abstract, you can send it directly to the session (under NEX track)! worldbiodiversityforum.org
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🚨Now out in @pnas.org! Our group provides a framework to mathematically link environmental niches from individual to population and species scales. Our approach enables more accurate forecasting of biodiversity change across organismal levels. 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Nature Ecology & Evolution highlights our paper about bird niches keeping pace with climate change in a news & views feature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Some birds are left behind in a race to beat the heat - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Twenty years of occurrence data for North American birds suggest that range shifts in some, but not all, bird species have partly mitigated the effects of climate change.
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
NEW SCIENCE! 🚨🚨🚨🧪🪶🌐 Our paper is now online at @natecoevo.nature.com! “Geographic redistributions are insufficient to mitigate exposure to climate change in North American birds”. We know birds are moving north with climate change, but what are the consequences? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Sarah DuRant @durantlab.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
A high lipid diet leads to worse infectious disease outcomes. Interesting implications for wildlife food supplementation. Always exciting to have a new manuscript out! Congrats @ashley-love.bsky.social @sauerscientist.bsky.social @jexpbiol.Bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
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A high-lipid diet leads to greater pathology and lower tolerance during infection
Summary: Canaries fed a diet high in lipids show more severe disease outcomes than those fed a high-protein diet, with important implications for human and wildlife disease transmission.
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Volker Rudolf @volkerrudolf.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
To understand how climate change affects natural ecosystems we need to know how warming influences species interactions. In our newest paper we show that predator-prey interactions fundamentally change across latitude leading to context dependent effects of warming. 🧪 doi.org/10.1111/oik....
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
The #climate/water paradox: As temperatures rise, more #water evaporates into the atmosphere & more precipitation occurs. But land areas are getting drier not wetter. Why? Because more water evaporates from soils. The rain that falls is in intense events in fewer regions, leading to worse #floods 👉
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Just had an idea
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Kristin Winchell @kmwinchell.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
‼️📝 New paper! 1st undergrad honor thesis from the lab! Hannah Owen looked at thousands of #spottedlanternfly @inaturalist.bsky.social images to study spatio-temporal & phenology patterns of the invasion, and to understand the role of #urban environments in their spread www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
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Spotted Lanternflies in the US Are Living Longer—and Cities May be Helping Them Spread
NYU researchers find longer life cycles and urban connection for the invasive insects, which could spell trouble for local ecosystems, but also point to cities as “early-detection zones” for controlli...
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Saw/heard 104 bird species in Florida over Thanksgiving... crossing 100 was a goal I slowly become obsessed with, made tougher with all the best spots being closed due to hurricane. Here's a prairie warbler ebird.org/tripreport/2... 🪶 #birds
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 28/11/2024
Wait, do I want cool science to drown out all of the politics?! Yes. Yes, I do. 🧪
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Recently discovered a fun webpage called Probability Playground where you can interactively explore probability distributions. It’s helpful especially for distributions with parameters that are not immediately intuitive. Very cool! www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~adamcunn/pr...
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
🚨 NOW ONLINE- global ecol & biogeog As global change accelerates, accurate predictions are critical to limit biodiversity loss. With many continental predictions at coarse grain, it's unclear how grain-size biases vary across space/time, giving poor predictions for some regions, seasons, species 🧪
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Fine‐Grain Predictions Are Key to Accurately Represent Continental‐Scale Biodiversity Patterns
Aim As global change accelerates, accurate predictions of species distributions and biodiversity patterns are critical to limit biodiversity loss. Numerous studies have found that coarse-grain speci...
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Gary Woodburn @gary-woodburn.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hello Bluesky, it's my first post, here's some Little Auks ! 🙂 #birding #northumberland #beadnell
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
American woodcock appreciation- hanging out by the side of a back road in central Connecticut in May #birds 🪶
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Literally the best bird
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Incredible job by my colleagues at Map of Life! advancing tech in biodiversity monitoring
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‘Map of Life’ team wins $2 million prize for innovative rainforest tracking
The Yale-based team, Map of Life Rapid Assessments, will use its prize money to expand its biodiversity work around the world.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 20/11/2024
Temperatures in October 2024: Red 🟥 - warmer than average Blue 🟦 - colder than average Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 using their own 1971-2000 baseline: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...
Global map showing surface air temperature anomalies in October 2024 across the entire planet. Most all areas were warmer than average. This data set is from NOAA's NOAAGlobalTempv6.0.0 using anomalies with a 1971-2000 climate baseline. Red is shown for warmer than average temperatures, and blue is shown for colder than average temperatures.
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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
100s of millions of sparrows and other birds died. In the absence of birds, insects flourished; crops vanished; and as many as 75 million people starved to death. How does that disaster echo in what is happening today, even in the US? Read on: therevelator.org/china-sparro.... #birds
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Six Lessons From the World’s Deadliest Environmental Disaster • The Revelator
China’s Great Sparrow Campaign aimed to “conquer nature” but resulted in as many as 75 million human deaths.
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
[Recapping research since I left Xitter: June '24] We explored how dynamic winter min temps influence short-distance migration & survival in white-tailed deer using decades of archival telemetry data 🧪 My first pub as a formal grad mentor- of an awesome MS student at UW-Madison shorturl.at/eUc7B
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
#birds of southern California earlier this year 🪶 roadrunner, avocet, threatened California gnatcatcher, endangered California condor
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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 18/11/2024
well, here it is lads after combing through some 1,400 records, it looks like the slender-billed curlew is indeed extinct and the last known photo taken in 1995 was probably at the point it slipped beneath the waves 🦉🧪 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
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The slender-billed curlew is declared extinct
This is the first mainland European bird declared extinct in 500 years.
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Erin Sauer @sauerscientist.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I recently wrote up this research highlight of the nest parasite community science program run by @sarahknutie.bsky.social
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
[Recapping our research since I quit Xitter - Apr '24] Continental-scale experiment and global analysis show local amphibian-fungal interactions result in high pathogen prevalence, growth, and host mortality, but novel interactions led to some virulent combinations🧪 Led by @eronhubbard.bsky.social
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Are novel or locally adapted pathogens more devastating and why? Resolving opposing hypotheses
The naïve host syndrome hypothesis suggests that pathogens are able to easily invade and become deadly to novel hosts because of a lack of co-evolutionary history, whereas the local adaptation hypoth...
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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Climate change is a 'natural' process now occurring ~10 times faster than the average rate after an ice age. Extinction is 'natural' but is now occurring 1000X faster than in past eras (apart from mass extinctions). Biological invasion is now at rates 100000X prehistoric levels of spp colonisations.
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Merlin with a snack (goldfinch?) in coastal Connecticut this week #birds 🪶 #nikon
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 13/11/2024
One my bangers from Twitter. #ExxonKnew
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Tremaine Phillips @cleanenergyguy.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
No, it’s not just you. As a product of the Great Lakes region (Youngstown → SE MI → Lansing → Columbus → Cincinnati → Lansing → Cincinnati), the patterns, temperatures, and rhythms of the season feel unmistakably altered. Graphic via @climatecentral.bsky.social #climatesky #energysky
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Washington state #birds from a trip earlier this year 🪶 Varied thrush, American and Eurasian wigeons, Anna's hummingbird, Canada jay
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
[My research recap: June '24]: The presence of fixed geographical survey locations (eg eBird hotspots) reduces the opportunistic nature of citizen science data, allowing for more reliable trend estimation. We estimated the survey completeness of richness at 300,500 eBird hotspots during 2002–2022 🧪
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Data coverage, biases, and trends in a global citizen‐science resource for monitoring avian diversity
Aim Understanding and addressing the global biodiversity crisis requires ecological information compiled continuously from across the globe. Data from citizen science initiatives are useful for quan...
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Birds from spring migration in Arkansas this year (summer tanager, painted bunting, white-eyed vireo, scissor-tailed flycatcher) 🪶#birds .
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
[May '24] Meta-analysis on global change drivers and the risk of infectious disease. Biodiversity loss, chemical pollution, climate change and introduced species are associated with increases in disease endpoints- consistent for human & non-human diseases. 🧪https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07380-6
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A meta-analysis on global change drivers and the risk of infectious disease - Nature
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions, managing ecosystem health, and preventing biological invasions and biodiversity loss could help to reduce the burden of plant, animal and human diseases, especially ...
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Swiss and Italian #birds I photo'd this past summer 🪶
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Take a read of this excellent paper - possibly the largest assessment of fire-biodiversity relationships ever conducted. How did the 2019-2020 Australian bushfires affect biodiversity?
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Recapping research I published since I've been off Xitter! [Jan '24] Across 57 US waterbird species, at coarse grain, continuous landcover variables are much more informative for SDMs than binary variables- but this advantage disappears in fine grain models. doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-01813-3
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Assessing the applicability of binary land-cover variables to species distribution models across multiple grains - Landscape Ecology
Context Species distribution models are widely used in ecology. The selection of environmental variables is a critical step in SDMs, nowadays compounded by the increasing availability of environmental...
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Recapping some research I published since I've been off Xitter! [Dec '23] Responses of wildlife to climate change are often quantified to species, but are we missing important variation below the species level over space (ranges) and time (seasons)? A macro approach! doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1398
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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Hey these are my cats
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