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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Our synthesis on the effects of wildfire on spotted owls is now live in Wildlife Monographs. Which is cool but can we talk about this cover???? 🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉 @kate-mcginn.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/wmon...

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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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Kate McGinn @kate-mcginn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Baby owl season! Banding these little Flammulated owl nestlings before they fledge in a few days and become nearly invisible and inaudible for the next few months. They’ll be fully independent by October, when they will fly south to Mexico/Central America for their first fall migration.

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Kate McGinn @kate-mcginn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Flammulated owl demography field season off to a great start! (All birds monitored and handled with proper training and permits)

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Kate McGinn @kate-mcginn.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Ask AI? No thank you. I already asked the turkey vulture communal roost, and they told me to projectile vomit on my problem

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us ❓Quantifying animal #movement patterns & behavioural #interactions in a changing world 👥Joint position in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #MacquarieUniversity 📆19th April deadline tinyurl.com/343acaev #maths #modelling #data #fieldwork #Australia 🙏PLEASE SHARE

Zebra finches in Australia; one of the study organisms for the PhD

Dwarf mongoose staring at a camera in South Africa; one of the PhD study organisms

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Kate McGinn @kate-mcginn.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I saw someone on Reddit post “if you don’t ask you die stupid,” and I fear I now must include this somewhere in my classroom/lab

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Kate McGinn @kate-mcginn.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I have a full ass PhD and I still have to look up if an x coordinate is latitude or longitude

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Kate McGinn @kate-mcginn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

youtu.be/a_mh-v02-Tw Misinformation about bald eagle life histories🤷🏼‍♀️ bad bunny concert was really good otherwise

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Budweiser | Super Bowl LX Commercial 'American Icons'

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Kate McGinn @kate-mcginn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Feels good to graduate a paper from “in review” to “in press”

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Kate McGinn @kate-mcginn.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

🦉🔥🌲 New Paper 🌲🔥🦉 We used a novel dataset by Dr. Anu Kramer, bioregional passive acoustic monitoring, and Bayesian occupancy modeling to examine the relative effects of disturbances on the distribution spotted owls in the Sierra Nevada. Give her a read! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Fuels management mitigates megafires to the benefit of old forest species

Climate change and fire exclusion have changed disturbance regimes in forest ecosystems globally. In many seasonally dry forests, fuels management can…

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Kate McGinn @kate-mcginn.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Can you identify this cutie baby? Perhaps my favorite timberline tree.

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Kate McGinn @kate-mcginn.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Can you identify the two tree species in the photo? My undergraduate students can!

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Kate McGinn @kate-mcginn.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Me and my Ecology students to a trip out to Hoosier pass to learn about the climatic drivers of tree line and work on our field identification skills. We brought our class mascots Clarke and Tony with us to boost morale!

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Kate McGinn @kate-mcginn.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Got hitched! Of course I had to have an emotional support barred owl in hand ;)

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The authors want to thank two anonymous reviewers who offered helpful criticism in the form of an 11,000 word spiteful monograph

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Kate McGinn @kate-mcginn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Release the most unhinged sentence from your notes app I dare you

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Trump is offering all federal workers a buyout with seven months’ pay to shrink the government—but that’s not the whole story. Reports reveal some employees are being pressured to resign or face termination under the guise of organizational restructuring. In short: take the buyout or be fired.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The Trump administration’s rebranded Schedule F policy aims to reclassify federal employees in policy roles as at-will, removing civil service protections. This will politicize agencies by allowing dismissals based on political alignment.

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Kate McGinn @kate-mcginn.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Peep our new paper! We leveraged our bioregional acoustic monitoring program to study the effects of fire on the distribution of forest owls in the Sierra Nevada. doi.org/10.1002/eap....

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The largest wildfire in Texas history just happened eleven months ago and destroyed thirty times more area than the one in Los Angeles

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Kate McGinn @kate-mcginn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Added another void of darkness to the family. In the process of teaching him about forest succession and how to drive.

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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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Fulden Batibeniz @fuldenbatibeniz.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

🌡️🔥Climate change isn't a distant threat—it's a public health crisis now. Our study shows heat-related deaths in many cities could surpass annual COVID-19 deaths in just 5–10 years at 3°C warming. Urgent action is needed! 👉 rdcu.be/d5rnL @natureportfolio.bsky.social #scientificreports

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Rapid climate action is needed: comparing heat vs. COVID-19-related mortality

Scientific Reports - Rapid climate action is needed: comparing heat vs. COVID-19-related mortality

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Kate McGinn @kate-mcginn.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Leading a workshop next week on preparing scientific figures, and I will be sharing a few lessons learned. I would love for y’all to comment with some useful tips for grad students and maybe some of your own figures that successfully communicate your work!

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Around this time last year @boyswillbebugs.bsky.social, @allomygale.bsky.social, @spissatella.bsky.social, @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social and I published an open letter on supporting transgender persons in STEMM. We have decided to open to additional signatures 🧪⚒️🦑 medium.com/@transrights...

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An open letter to the scientific community in the US and UK on the crisis impacting transgender…

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

PI: Should we add field assistants as co-authors? Co-PI: mmm... They did not write anything... You know that writing is the hardest part! PI: OK! Field assistants 👇🏿

Sherpa in the Himalayas carrying a super large and heavy handmade backpack.

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Steve Voelker @thetreecorener.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

If you know someone that is looking for a grad student opportunity in 2025 in fire ecology / dendroecology / spatial analyses -- please pass on this announcement. Julia Burton, Jed Meunier, Eric Rebitzke and myself are looking for a student to join our team and be based here at Michigan Tech.

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Stacy Farina @stacyfarina.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Are you interested in MS programs in ecology or evolution and want to be paid for it? Check out these fully funded programs (stipend + tuition is provided). It's been a looong time since I updated the list, so as always, check with the program for the latest info. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Funded Organismal Biology MS Programs

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Kate McGinn @kate-mcginn.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I actually wrote my first paper about birds in 2001. Frankly, this is some of my best work.

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Kate McGinn @kate-mcginn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Me catching up on reports before the end of the year.

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Kate McGinn @kate-mcginn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

For the first time in my professional life, I have no unread emails, texts, or notifications. 👉👈

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Kate McGinn @kate-mcginn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Some wonderful drawings from students last month. Training them young 🦉

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Kate McGinn @kate-mcginn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Hi folks! I am a scientist studying the direct and indirect impacts of climate change🌡️🔥🌲 on wildlife🦉🐦🐀 with experience waxing poetic about biology 🧬🫀🐍 as a professor. I’ve also been known to hoot in the woods at night. Cheers!

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