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Kari Norman

@karinorman.bsky.social
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Ecologist at Rocky Mountain Research Station. Thinking about measuring biodiversity change, monitoring, and tools for making those things easier.

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Kari Norman @karinorman.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Really proud of my paper with @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social, @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social, Andrew Stillman, and Courtney Davis out now in @natcomms.nature.com, which looks at the forecasted exposure of bird biodiversity to high severity fire in the western US. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Exposure of western United States bird communities to predicted high severity fire - Nature Communications
Changing fire regimes, leading to higher likelihood of high severity fire, are having unknown impacts on biodiversity. This study identifies regions of high avian biodiversity and individual bird spec...
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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 14/01/2026
This is a real tour de force by Maria Isabel. This paper is, put together, a whole century of CPU time done with the help of Calcul Québec. We will also be moving some of the outputs to BON-in-a-Box, @geobon.org cloud-based tool to facilitate the reporting of biodiversity indicators.
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Carl Boettiger @cboettig.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
We're hiring a full-time research software engineer for biodiversity & bioacoustics! Position offers a strong research component with independence + research pub opportunities and real-world impact. expected salary range $111K - $116K. dse.berkeley.edu/news/were-hi...
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We’re Hiring! Help Build the Future of Biodiversity Research | The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment at Berkeley
We’re excited to announce a new, full-time position opening for a Research Software Engineer / Data Scientist, who will focus on biodiversity and bioacoustics research.
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Kari Norman @karinorman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Thought our experience earlier this year receiving 8 reviews, some of which were for the wrong paper, was a bizarre one-off. Apparently not!
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉 gavinmjones.com/opportunities/
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Opportunities
***PhD and MSc openings – Movement ecology and conservation*** I will periodically support graduate students, postdocs, and other staff through the Biology Department at the University of New…
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Kari Norman @karinorman.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
With all the conversation surrounding the environmental impact of AI, we decided to give our two cents on what it all means for ecologists! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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The role of AI in ecology’s computational carbon footprint
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Keila Stark (she/her) @keila-stark.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Most major theories in ecology assume some sort of equilibrium, but only ~half of empirical tests acknowledge it & even fewer observed it in their system. Does this matter? How did the idea become so pervasive in ecology anyway? Find out in our new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Equilibrium Conundrum
Although an assumption of equilibrium dynamics underlies most ecological theory, the evidence for this dynamic in nature and in empirical studies is scarce. This creates an unfortunate disconnect bet...
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Kari Norman @karinorman.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Really excited to have been a part of this one! Hopefully sparks some conversation about what exactly we want our protected areas to *do*.
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Kari Norman @karinorman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Some postdoc work up now up as a preprint! ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... Choosing sites for monitoring biodiversity is critical for robust inference - so which algorithm should you use to pick sites? We found similar performance for algos and outline the features that might influence your decision.
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Katherine Siegel @katherinesiegel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
New paper from me + @lauradee.bsky.social on using causal inference methods and concepts in ecology! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (1/5)
Two directed acyclic graphs showing causal relationships. The first shows a simple relationship between the presence of rare plant species (x), illustrated with icons of individual plants, and grassland productivity (y), illustrated with icons of grasses. There is an arrow going from x to y. The second shows the same relationship, but this time with omitted variables (u). The omitted variables include observed omitted variables (like precipitation) and unobserved omitted variables (like legacies of agricultural activity). These are illustrated with an icon of a rain cloud, a fence, and a shovel. There are dashed arrows going from the omitted variables to both x and y.
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Kari Norman @karinorman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
My inaugural post is for my paper recently out in GEB! A contribution to the conversation around local biodiversity change, we reconstructed thousands of functional diversity time series to assess shifts in functional structure for bird & mammal communities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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No General Trend in Functional Diversity in Bird and Mammal Communities Despite Compositional Change
Aim Despite unprecedented environmental change due to anthropogenic pressure, recent work has found increasing dissimilarity due to turnover but no overall trend in species diversity through time at...
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