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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This one hurts.Helen’s reporting on the Covid pandemic was epic. Her early reporting allowed me and my family to be prepared long before lockdowns started and kept me grounded and sane during the worst of it. A legend in health and disease reporting that will be truly missed.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In the last couple of years, we've seen multiple critical collections (museums, herbaria) close. The IUCN--the global authority on the status of biodiversity--recently published on how important these kinds of facilities are in conservation. Every day, the dead are working to protect the living.

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From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums

The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s my fault. I planned to send students to coastal Louisiana on Friday and Saturday. Arg.

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Teaching about Allee effects today which means that I get to show this video. It’s a hammerhead shark, playing a piano in an Elton John costume, singing about abalone. Laugh so hard I cry every dang time…. youtu.be/MLAmdHTnr1g

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I LOVE ABALONE | The Pacific Pals

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thanks. I’m glad the world is trying to become less tolerant of it. But many of my female students are still not comfortable confronting it, so I make sure warn my students that behavior isn’t tolerated, to tell me, and I can and will handle it.

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Given my own experiences, color me not shocked on this.

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Silent spring is a classic. Cant go wrong there. There are a couple of good chapters in Braiding Sweetgrass dealing with ecotox but it’s a long book so I don’t think I would go whole book on that. Maybe something like Living Downstream?

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Haven’t taught that one yet, but blending with a few chapters from a toxicology book might help. That’s usually more on the human side. I’ve found whatever perspectives I can provide on that side of the concept help them. I wonder if there are any popular science nonfiction books out there…….

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I use a standard ecology textbook (bowman and hacker) for concepts but have added examples relevant to students geared towards pre health. in pop growth we do disease modeling with r0 and talk through r0 and herd immunity relationships. I have an activity on zoonotic diseases and h5n1. Etc.

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In my behavioral ecology lecture, we talk about prey strategies to avoid being dinner. This picture is on the slide under “avoid being dinner” and in a class poll only a third of my students gets this pop culture reference. I’m old. Sigh.

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Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

📢📢 NEW PAPER! 📢📢 From undergraduate project in 2022 to @royalsocietypublishing.org #ProceedingsB in 2026: Plasticity in collective behaviour helps fish shoals mitigate limited visual information from water turbidity #openaccess @seanrands.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Jaws set with light kit complete. It goes in my office tomorrow! Will entice my students to come introduce themselves in office hours with pictures in my intro lecture Friday

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Anything from K Paul’s (Paul Prudhomme’s) in NOLA. Shut down in 2020. So many delicious dishes but the steak and debris sauce was amazing. The only place I’ve ever wanted to literally lick my plate in a restaraunt

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Back to the Bayou for more SAV suction sampling. I’m officially a Louisiana scientist now because I can now put it a paper “ only 2 of 3 replicates were collected at this site due to a very curious gator who would not leave”

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Hate those little buggers and everytime I find one crawling on me or on my dog, I have the creepy crawlers for hours. I do not want a tick borne disease!

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Best find from Ruston Peach Fest. A 4ft tall crochet giant squid! Can’t wait to find him a home in my office

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

30 or so live marine inverts and algae. 9000 steps. And one visit from Dr. Henderson, our university President. A successful invert lab for my marine biology class.

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I had three students present at the Benthic ecology meeting. 2 undergrads, 1 grad student giving their first oral presentations. To say they were nervous would be an understatement, but they all did amazing!

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

The book was so good. Excited for the movie, hope they can capture the magic

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Summer @summerinthesticks.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

OMG! 🦀 beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea... @franzanth.bsky.social @jopabinia.bsky.social

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I have new snow goals for next time

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I’m jealous. This would be so much fun!

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

This!!!! I want guidelines of how to handle these situations. It’s the Wild West out there.

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

As a graduate of Texas A&M, I have been horrified by these policies and the intrusion of politics into what a professional and subject matter expert can teach in class.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A common complaint among job seekers is "jobs require experience, but I can't get experience if I can't get a job!" Conservation Careers has an online take-at-your-own-pace short course that offers expert guidance in solving this dilemma. www.conservation-careers.com/experience/

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Very effective illustration of what has happened to Florida's coral reefs in response to anthropogenic climate and environment change. The loss of this important ecosystem is all but complete - attempts to rescue it discussed here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🪸🧪🌊

A schematic image showing Recent changes in reef zonation of western Atlantic coral reefs, brought about by lack of recruitment of elkhorn, staghorn, and massive boulder corals. Without these key reef builders, the reefs have already measurably eroded. Image credit: Rashpal Dhilon. Adapted from ref. 6, which is licensed under CC BY 4.0. The panel on the left labeled Late Pleistocene to ~1978 shows a vibrant ecosystem, the middle panel (the 1980s) is depleted but still many corals remain (though some key species are lost). The panel on the right (2020s) is like a moonscape with a few hardy species left.

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

4 to 5 inches of pretty much solid sleet here in central North Louisiana. Glad we didn’t get as much freezing rain which would have made it awful. Currently wishing the road conditions were better so we could effectively help our eastern towns as 20 minutes down the road they weren’t as lucky…..

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

5 student abstracts to work on for upcoming meetings. Leading to 3 oral presentations and two posters to get ready for March meetings. This will be the first oral presentations and first posters for all of them. So many many edits….Send me good thoughts for my February yall.

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

You know you live in the South when you have to pull your last pepper harvest in December for the first real freeze. Thanks for the multiple bountiful harvests pepper plants!

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

My colleague gifted me Christmas crabs!!!! Merry Crustmas!

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

My Xennial Moment today: handing my undergrad a point and shoot camera to take pictures of leaves for image analysis and he has absolutely no idea how to use it. Absolutely none……😂😂🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Happy to report my ecology class activity on zoonotic disease and the recent events of bird flu transmission in cattle has firmly changed the mind of at least one student to not drink raw milk anymore……

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Finally get a floating plant salinity stress test study going with my undergrads. Kiddie pools all set up outside with different salinity treatments. And now we are forecasted to potentially get over 4 inches of rain 🤦‍♀️ Yay for early morning runs to the store to grab plastic tarps! 😬

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I need this in my life. My favorite critter!

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Yay! And you got a spider crab. They are my favorite.

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

And then we got back to the dock and my students had boat driving lessons with the LUMCON captains. Learning to drive boats is an important skill.

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

A day in the marsh collecting periwinkle snails. My students were blessed by the marsh gods (I.e sunk in the mud) many times. I got to jump in to the bay to remove a derelict crab trap that wrapped around our boat prop. Thank the marsh gods I left wire snips in my dry bag from our last trip!

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Dude have you been in my office spying on me and the advice I tell my students….cuz this is pretty much verbatim what I tell them. (At a state school 6 hours from the coast)

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

One of my students told me this week that every time she hears all this autism, vaccine, and Tylenol stuff in the news, she hears my voice in her head saying “correlation is not causation” and “ shark attacks are correlated with ice cream sales” Someone listened and learned. It is possible!

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

This scandalous share made me laugh out load. And it makes me happy to know the scourge of defunct thermostats is not limited to my campus.

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Thanks to being a marine ecologist, I could probably build you a shopping mall out of pvc, vexar mesh, and zip ties.

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Which is why we need the engagement of the arts, humanities, and social sciences. We cannot “science only” our way out of these problems.

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Jennifer Hill Ph.D. @hill-ecolab.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Cool weather. Delicious wine. Big redwood trees. Loving the vacation life away from the Louisiana heat and humidity.

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