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Erin Buchholtz

@erinbuchholtz.bsky.social
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mostly here for science stuff, connectivity, conservation, finding cool papers & people & perspectives opinions are not of my employer USGS Co-op Scientist & Assistant Prof at Clemson University

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
📢 We’re hiring at Aarhus University! Tenure-track or permanent on vertebrate-driven #ecosystem processes, especially large #mammals w/in @econovoau.bsky.social's strong interdisciplinary environment spanning #ecology, paleoecology, biodiversity science & global change biology 🦬🌿🌍 ➡️More info below
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I’m looking to recruit a postdoc to join my research group at University of Iowa to work on disturbance ecology and biodiversity! Start date flexible, lots of opportunity for skill development, collaboration, and mentorship. Will review applicants in mid-August! Link: gavinmjones.com/opportunities/
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BIG NEWS! The Jones Lab will be relocating to the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability (SEES) at the University of Iowa in Fall 2026. Our work on disturbance ecology and conservation sc…
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Erin Buchholtz @erinbuchholtz.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Connectivity job opportunity: trustcareers.si.edu/postings/cb8... "postdoctoral researcher to lead the development of next-generation landscape connectivity science, advancing modeling approaches that integrate high-resolution remote sensing, machine learning, and circuit- & network-based methods. "
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Ecologist (Postdoctoral Research Fellow), IS-0408-09
Job Opening: Ecologist (Postdoctoral Research Fellow), IS-0408-09 at National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, VA.
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Erin Buchholtz @erinbuchholtz.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Research biologist position at Clemson for work on forest wildlife/habitat recovery post-Hurricane Helene in western NC. Full time, multi-year position. Will be working with David Jachowski & myself, includes field work, analysis, writing. **Apply by March 9** Job posting bit.ly/cuhhftpos 🧪🌎
Hurricane Helene damage in a forest showing trees fallen down across a trail
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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
📣 Our team at @nhm.org is #hiring a Program Manager to support our community science programs and integrated social-ecological research. Full time temporary (on grant $) for 4 months, then part-time permanent. Application review begins Jan 5 - apply and/or share widely! tinyurl.com/NHMCS2025 🧪🌎
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Recruitment
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Folks: I will be flying an ad for well funded PhD and MSc positions in the coming days. If you want to do movement ecology and conservation with these incredible animals… watch this space 🦉🌲
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15/10 Foundation @15outof10.org · 02/12/2025
We hit our initial goal of $25k to lock in 10 of these clinics for communities that need us most and now our final push is for $100k. Each one costs at a minimum $2,500 in supplies and medical resources. They directly impact hundreds. Donate below ❤️‍🩹 www.15outof10.org/donations/2026-clinic-fund/
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Erin Buchholtz @erinbuchholtz.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Many things could be said about returning to work after being gov't furloughed, but I'll just leave it at appreciating this beautiful view from my office!
Autumn foliage on bald cypress tree
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
For 41 weeks now, I’ve been sitting down every Friday night to chronicle the damage this administration is doing to science & higher ed. We must stay focused. We’re in this for the long haul. We are finding ways not just to block them, but build something better. buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
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Week 41
October 25-31 - a seasonal shift
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Erin Buchholtz @erinbuchholtz.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Conference travel award opportunity: Foreign Scholar Travel Award to attend the International Association for Landscape Ecology - North America chapter (IALE-NA) conference in April 2026. www.ialena.org/foreign-scholar-award.html & bit.ly/IALENA-FSTA-.... Apply by Nov. 2, 2025! 🧪🌎
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18/09/2025
The annual Fat Bear Week featuring gluttonous brown bears at Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve is back.
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What to know about Fat Bear Week, and the brawny bruins ready to battle for the title
The annual Fat Bear Week featuring gluttonous brown bears at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve is back.
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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Gap-spotting, problematization, finding a niche: How can researchers develop their contribution to the literature? www.raulpacheco.org/2025/06/gap-... There is (justified) pushback against the gap-spotting approach. In this post I argue for "searching for a space to contribute". #RPVSky
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Gap-spotting, problematization, finding a niche: How can researchers develop their contribution to the literature?
Three of my PhD students are close to finishing their doctoral dissertations over the course
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Friends, I am offering a free online 2-hour crash course in how to write and publish a scientific paper, perfect for early career scientists and students considering writing their first paper soon. All information can be found in this link: www.southernfriedscience.com/im-offering-... 🧪🌎🦑
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Caroline Hu @hudrewthis.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.
An anole extends its dewlap, which says "call for scientists!"
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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
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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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Lara @laracrc.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Happy Friday 🌍! We are giving away one copy of 'Spatial Linear Models for Environmental Data'. To enter, simply follow me and re-post this by the end of Sunday, August 17. #spatial #environment # #data #StatsSky routledge.com/9780367183349 not associated with bsky
Book cover of Spatial Linear Models for Enviornmental Data, dark blue background with white pattern with a picture of caribou and data plots
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Erin Buchholtz @erinbuchholtz.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Student-lead joint lab paper published today! Black bears are abundant in North America - this review investigates their trophic role as large omnivores with top-down effects onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌎🧪 @johnnettles.bsky.social @pancakesnmegs.bsky.social @davidjachowski.bsky.social
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The American Black Bear (Ursus americanus) as an Apex Predator: Investigating the Ecological Role of the World's Most Abundant Large Carnivore
Black bears as apex predators. American black bears can (1) produce top-down effects on ungulates equal to or exceeding those of typical apex predators and (2) modify the spatiotemporal behaviour of ...
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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
up to three years of support for postdoctoral researchers in the broad area of the diversity of life and/or organisms in their natural environments cns.utexas.edu/research/res... 🧪🌎
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Stengl-Wyer Scholars
Stengl-Wyer Scholars are postdoctoral scientists in ecology and the life sciences who study at The University of Texas at Austin
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Aimee Classen @aclassen.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Come work at the UMich Biological Station as a Michigan Fellow (you don't have to be a biologist)! Apply today: societyoffellows.umich.edu/uncategorize...
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Apply Now: Michigan Society of Fellows 2026-2029 Postdoctoral Fellowships – University of Michigan Society of Fellows, Established 1970
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.
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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
FOUR TT positions in ecosystem ecology at Odum School of Ecology, 2 aquatic 2 terrestrial, over next 2 years! visit www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/439... for more info.
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Assistant Professor in Ecosystem Ecology
The Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia invites applications for four tenure-track positions in Ecosystem Ecology at the Assistant Professor level. These are academic year, 9-month app...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/07/2025
1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint. This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.
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Will anyone review this paper? Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review
Scholarly publishing relies on peer review to identify the best science. Yet finding willing and qualified reviewers to evaluate manuscripts has become an increasingly challenging task, possibly even ...
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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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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 14/07/2025
A heat wave in 2021 killed 19 people in Spokane, Washington. The city was awarded $19.9M by the EPA to prepare for future heat waves, but the grant was abruptly terminated. Now Spokane and 350 other communities are left scrambling to adapt to #climatechange. theconversation.com/my-city-was-...
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My city was one of hundreds expecting federal funds to help manage rising heat wave risk – then EPA terminated the grants
The administration said the grants were ‘no longer consistent with EPA funding priorities.’ Spokane, which has faced deadly heat waves in eastern Washington, shows who is at risk.
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Benjamin Larue, Ph.D. @benjaminlarue.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
If you're a conservation scientist into connectivity & great collaborators—check this out 👇 Postdoc position to work on caribou road ecology. You’d join a fantastic team I will also collaborate with! 📍Hybrid (U.S.-based) 🗓️ Apply by July 15 thewildernesssociety.careers.hibob.com/jobs/27bffb5...
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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
the ad is up! applications due 7/15: evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
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https://evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/GradStudentPositions//MontanaStateU.SwiftFoxGenomics
MSc Assistantship ¨C Genetics and Movement Ecology of Swift Fox Following Establishment of a Translocated Population. Department of Ecology, Montana State University Smithsonian Institution National...
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Erin Buchholtz @erinbuchholtz.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Right to the top of the wildlife-connectivity TBR pile! 🌎🧪
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Map of Ecosystems of North America Completed! @natureserve.bsky.social has released a first-of-its-kind map of ecosystems across the conterminous U.S. & nearby regions w/ a level of detail & consistency not previously available. 🧪 🌎 #GISchat geohub-natureserve.opendata.arcgis.com/maps/Natures...
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International Vegetation Classification Groups v1.0
This layer presents information on the distribution of International Vegetation Classification (IVC) Groups for North America.
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Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The Berryman Institute brings you the second edition of The Human-Wildlife Report - a quarterly newsletter with updates on the most recent research by our faculty & students, news & media highlights, & education and outreach events & opportunities. Signup at: usu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Issue 2 The Human-Wildlife Report | PDF to Flipbook
Created with the Heyzine flipbook maker
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Kaitlyn Gaynor @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Have you ever cited or come across a mention of the 'human shield hypothesis' and wondered: what is the evidence for this hypothesis, and what is the quality of that evidence? Wonder no more! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Human Shield Hypothesis: Does Predator Avoidance of Humans Create Refuges for Prey?
The human shield hypothesis posits that predators avoid areas of human disturbance due to perceived risk from humans, and prey therefore seeks refuge in these areas of perceived safety. Our systemati....
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Molly Schumer @mollyschumer.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Please share! We are accepting applications for the Biology Preview Program, which aims to make the PhD application process accessible and work with students to strenghten applications. Participants will receive a fee waiver, work 1:1 w/ a mentor, and meet w/faculty. Link: forms.gle/1xBShmvot5Vr...
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2025 Stanford Biology Preview Program Application
The Stanford Biology Preview Program (BPP) aims to support scholars through the PhD application process. The Stanford BPP offers virtual workshops to provide insight into the Stanford Biology PhD Prog...
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Here in Washington state, 3,866,398 acres are on the line. This includes some of the most carbon-dense forest in the world, with immeasurable value for climate resilience, biodiversity conservation, and human health and well-being.
A map showing public lands eligible for disposal in the west, zoomed in to show US Forest Service (green) and Bureau of Land Management (orange) public lands in Washington state that could be sold under the Senate Reconciliation Bill.
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Pedro Peres-Neto @comecology.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🚨 Recruiting! I’m looking for two graduate students (MSc or PhD) already based in Canada to join my lab and work on biodiversity research - broadly defined. Based at Concordia University (Montreal) - competitive stipends will be offered. communityandquantitativeecology.weebly.com
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Community and Quantitative Ecology
Spatial Patterns of Biodiversity LABORATORY OF COMMUNITY AND QUANTITATIVE ECOLOGY
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
EEB Mentor Match for 2025 is now open! This is an opportunity for students applying to graduate school in Ecology, Evolution, or Behavior to be matched with a mentor to guide them through the application process. Mentors can sign up too! eebmentormatch.com
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EEB Mentor Match
Visit the post for more.
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Erin Buchholtz @erinbuchholtz.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Can't overstate the emotional support joy I got from the NPS Denali Park sled dog puppy cam on my second monitor today www.nps.gov/dena/learn/p...
A group of sled dog puppies playingA group of 5 sled dog puppies nursing on their mom dog
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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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Queen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown...
Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
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Roland Kays @rolandkays.com · 05/06/2025
Anticipated Job Opening - Biodiversity Lab Manager at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. Come join our group using technology to monitor biodiversity #AI #Cameratrap #Animaltracking #GPS docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
"Scientists and citizens assessed the effectiveness of two wildlife underpasses installed under a road in Monkton, Vermont. The results were striking: an 80.2% reduction in amphibian deaths." Glad to see this new study proving the utility of herp crossings! #roadecology www.uvm.edu/uvmnews/news...
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Amphibian Road Mortality Drops by Over 80% with Wildlife Underpasses, Study Shows | UVM News | The University of Vermont
A new UVM-led study shows that wildlife underpass tunnels dramatically reduce deaths of frog, salamanders and other amphibians migrating across roads.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
We're 10 shirts away from selling 600 of these shirts which absolutely rocks. Order goes in first thing tomorrow morning. I bet we can hit 600. Which again- oh my god. I was crossing my fingers we'd hit 100.
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AniMove @animove-course.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Application countdown for the #Animove Workshop 2025 in Costa Rica.....Deadline is 31st of May. Sign up now ! animove.org/next-animove... @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @movebank.bsky.social #biologging #animalmovement #rstats
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
NWS Houston down 10 of its normal staff of 24 going into hurricane season. 🎁 link:
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National Weather Service in Houston Weathered Trump and Musk—Now Comes Hurricane Season
Weeks ahead of hurricane season, National Weather Service in Houston remains short-staffed due to Trump's hiring freeze and Musk's downsizing.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Great article with lots of perspectives from scientists who are scared to speak out — and other scientists who are scared of what will happen if they don't. Trump & Musk & Kennedy are devastating U.S. research and setting progress back decades www.science.org/content/arti... on @science.org
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Trump’s ‘fear factor’: Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalate
Many worry about retribution. But for others, speaking out is worth the risk
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
If you’re concerned about the impact of the proposed budget on Federal funding of science but aren’t sure what to say when you call your elected officials, remember that a coalition of professional societies representing nearly 100,000 scientists signed an open letter about this a few weeks ago. 🧪
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48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
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Dustin Rubenstein @dustinrubenstein.com · 07/05/2025
Our latest superb starling work in @nature.com. We observe long-term reciprocal helping relationships, and suggest reciprocity is an underappreciated mechanism promoting the stability of cooperatively breeding societies. Led by Alexis Earl and @gerrycarter.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A cryptic role for reciprocal helping in a cooperatively breeding bird - Nature
A study of the cooperative breeding behaviour of superb starlings during 40 consecutive breeding seasons over 20 years reveals long-term reciprocal helping between both related and unrelated individua...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel
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Ologies with Alie Ward @ologies.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
NATURE NERDS UNITE. It's global competition time. The City Nature Challenge goes from April 25- 28, and you can help scientists by adding sightings of plants, animals & fungi using @inaturalist.bsky.social. Follow @lilahiggins.bsky.social & @nhm.org to learn more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu8g...
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Join the City Nature Challenge 2025 | April 25-28
YouTube video by Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM)
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 25/04/2025
📣 Current and former #USgov data scientists! Join @ropensci.org + @openscapes.bsky.social on May 6 for a community support and networking event: ropensci.org/events/datas... Co-hosted by former feds (NOAA, NASA, DOE, NSF, NIH + Federal Reserve) to discuss their paths to other sectors. #dataBS
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Non-Government Career Paths for U.S. Federal Data Scientists
A community support and networking event hosted by rOpenSci and Openscapes
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 25/04/2025
The week has been chaotic, but there's been A LOT of good news this week, especially in politics. A thread/
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Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
A nice summary of our article out today in Science: How organismal movement is critical to meeting global and local conservation goals @camzoology.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/news/well-co...
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A well-connected earth: the science and conservation of organismal movement | Department of Zoology
Over 194 million birds and 57 million mammals are killed annually on European roads and up to 1 billion birds die every year from building collisions in the United States.
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