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Matt Wuensch

@mattwuensch.bsky.social
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Wildlife ecologist | Mammal landscape use and resource selection | Postdoc at Michigan State University | Keen on wild places and the things that inhabit them | he/him

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Phil Manlick @pmanlick.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Folks, backcountry hunters and anglers are flooding the lines today - the goal is 25,000 calls and emails opposing public land sales. They’ve got a handy tool to contact your reps here. Make your voice heard! www.backcountryhunters.org/take_action?...
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Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is the voice for our wild public lands, waters and wildlife.
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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I'm looking for a postdoc in quantitative ecology / macroecology to start in summer/fall 2025 in my lab at Oklahoma State University. Please spread the word www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities
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Matt Wuensch @mattwuensch.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Words cannot describe what we'll be losing if these cuts go through.
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Justine A Smith @justineasmith.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
JOB ALERT! We are hiring two seasonal field technicians for mid July - mid October to conduct research on mule deer in the Santa Monica Mountains, CA. The project is a collaboration between UC Davis and NPS. Ungulate capture experience preferred. Please share! jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
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Mule Deer Field Technician | Natural Resources Job Board
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 02/04/2025
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/04/2025
Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/02/2025
Trump Signs Executive Order Making Official Language Of U.S. Remedial English
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Trump Signs Executive Order Making Official Language Of U.S. Remedial English
WASHINGTON—In a move designed to promote unity and establish efficiency at the federal level, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday making the nation’s official language remedial Eng...
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/02/2025
The black-footed ferret has been coming back from the brink of extinction thanks to the work of US government scientists. They just got fired. www.vox.com/down-to-eart...
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This animal is on the edge of extinction. Trump just fired the people trying to save it.
Job cuts and frozen funding could inch one of the world’s rarest species even closer to extinction.
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Of course many federal workers can just “find another job”. But the point is that the jobs we do are done for the *public good*. There are no private sector corollaries. We do things that are largely not profitable and that is on purpose. We do work that benefits everyone, if sometimes indirectly.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
That’s how you write a headline, people.
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American Society of Mammalogists @mammalogists.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Fellow Mammalogists. As many of you are aware, science is in a state of turmoil in the United States. Recent efforts to drastically reduce government workforces and research funding for science will lead to many adverse consequences for Earth’s remaining natural ecosystems.
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Travis Gallo @mellamorooster.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Are there Canadian and European job boards/list-serves like ECOLOG and the Texas A&M job board?
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Dan Gorczynski @dangorczynski.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
New paper out led by Ilaria Greco in @plosbiology.org : Landscape-level human disturbance results in loss and contraction of mammalian populations in tropical forest. A huge effort with a global team! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Landscape-level human disturbance results in loss and contraction of mammalian populations in tropical forests
Tropical forests hold most of Earth’s biodiversity and a higher concentration of threatened mammals than other biomes. This study uses a standardized pan-tropical dataset of 239 mammal species from 37...
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Mason Fidino, PhD @masonfidino.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
URUKHAI meme that says "looks like federal grants are back on the menu"
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Ben Stone @benstemon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
NSF PRFB POSTDOCS: Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs. If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
If you are searching Google scholar to try and find a paper, but the paper doesn’t exist: that’s the paper you need to write
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Joshua Twining @joshuaptwining.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I am recruiting two funded graduate students (1 MS, 1 PhD) to join the lab and the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences program at Oregon State University! If you are into population ecology and a combination of fieldwork and modeling - then check this out! Please share/repost widely!
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Whenever I see misinformation on here related to topics in which I have expertise, I struggle to choose between the two paths: (1) Correct the misinformation, or; (2) as a mentor once advised me, “don’t wrestle with pigs, because you’ll get dirty and they love it.” I usually pick the latter.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 13/12/2024
Fuck.
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Trump to discuss ending childhood vaccination programs with RFK Jr.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in an interview published on Thursday said he will be talking to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services, about ending childhood vaccination programs.
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 04/12/2024
www.stm-publishing.com/altmetric-ad...
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Altmetric adds Bluesky social media as a research attention source
Digital Science is excited to announce that Altmetric, which gauges the online attention of research, has added the social media platform Bluesky as a new attention source for published research.
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Matt Wuensch @mattwuensch.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I'm fully in favor of just filling everyone's feed with camera trap photos of hungry bears.
Grizzly bear eating olives.
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Kirsty Franklin @kirstyfranklin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
An exciting PhD opportunity to investigate the migration strategies of a fascinating tropical #seabird with a unique long-term geolocator dataset and great supervisory team! 🤩 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🔗 #ornithology #seabirds #RoundIslandPetrels
A Trinidade petrel flying over Round Island, Mauritius, with a geolocator clearly visible on it's left (lower) leg.
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Just remember that for the next few years you study the “long term variation and trends in weather conditions, typically over periods of 30 years or longer”
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Matt Wuensch @mattwuensch.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
So is this what Twitter was before the bots and ads took over? Because I come across multiple really great articles/posts on here daily that I wouldn't see otherwise. And that's neat
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Matt Wuensch @mattwuensch.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
This is one of the coolest papers I've read in a long time!! If you're planning to do any research looking at activity patterns, read this first! Also, incredibly timely since I was planning to spend my afternoon figuring out how I wanted to analyze activity patterns in response to landscape covars
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Remington Moll @remingtonmoll.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
New paper! We analyzed coyote abundance across the USA working w/@rolandkays.bsky.social & SNAPSHOT USA Hunting seemed to ⬆️ abundance Wolf, puma, & bear effects were habitat-dependent Urban effects flipped from ➖ to ➕ as spatial scale increased nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Matthew Kauffman @wyokauffman.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Love this from one of our bison camera collars. Scenes like this one would have been common across the American West 200 years ago, now rare. This one is from Yellowstone NP. In collaboration with the YNP Bison Study Team.
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Wildlife Biology @wildlifebiology.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Our Wolves Across Borders Special Issue is now live! 23 papers on #Wolf #Ecology. #OpenAccess! ➡️ nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1903220x... @nordicoikos.bsky.social @ecography.bsky.social @avianbiology.bsky.social @nordicjbotany.bsky.social @oikosjournal.bsky.social
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georgia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @blahttodea.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Starter packs
BIOLOGY Ecology Macroecology https://go.bsky.app/GBn9pNZ Global ecology https://go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv Trait based ecology and evolution https://go.bsky.app/PThMXeX Invasion biology https://go.b...
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