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marie martin

@mellenmartin.bsky.social
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ecologist at OSU, fan of weasels, birds, handicrafts

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Rogue Detection Teams @roguedogs.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Our #ConservationDog, Filson is in a children’s book, 𝘋𝘰𝘨𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘑𝘰𝘣𝘴 by Andrea Rowe (& even has his own coloring page)! 🥲 We’re so proud of his hard work for wildlife & for inspiring the next generation wildlife biologists. Sniff it out: www.readings.com.au/product/9781...
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I’m really concerned about early career scientists using generative AI in writing, because writing is how we think and reflect. There’s almost nothing *more* human than that, and to give that gift away to a machine is almost unconscionable to me
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marie martin @mellenmartin.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
And another article featured thanks to Matt Delheimer’s photography of female marten F20 in Lassen NF, California 💗. Huge shoutout to @roguedogs.bsky.social, Matt, and the Levi and Moriarty research programs for collaborative peek into the diets of martens in the PNW and across North America
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ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Take a peek—the December cover of "Ecosphere" is here! With a curious marten photographed as part of a recent study that finds these small carnivores have remarkable foraging and diet flexibility across North American forests Browse the issue: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21508925...
Cover of the December 2025 issue of Ecosphere
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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...
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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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Rogue Detection Teams @roguedogs.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
💙 Excited to have participated in this dynamic wildlife research alongside Martin et al.(2025) in Yosemite NP. By our side when we snapped this pic? Our cowoofer, Filson. 👇🏽 We're grateful to his nose for all the data he helped detect! -With @mellenmartin.bsky.social
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Rogue Detection Teams @roguedogs.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Filson says he still can't believe @oikosjournal.bsky.social chose this pic! Awoo! He appreciated the opportunity to contribute to wildlife surveys in Yosemite NP alongside this team of amazing researchers. 👏🏽🐾
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marie martin @mellenmartin.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Our (very!) collaborative look at the lives of carnivores in Yosemite gets a feature thanks to @roguedogs.bsky.social amazing camera work 😊 Yosemite is an ecological and aesthetic marvel!
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Oikos @oikosjournal.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Our cover for December! 🦊 Martin et al.(2025) show that species like bobcats, cougars, coyotes, gray foxes, and martens largely avoid each other in space but share surprisingly similar diets—revealing how landscape conditions shape coexistence but also their delicate balance. vist.ly/4h3ks
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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Occasionally there is good news.
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Native American tribe reclaims land at the edge of Yosemite National Park
The tribal nation that calls Yosemite National Park its ancestral home has reclaimed a stunning piece of its historical territory with the acquisition of 800 acres along the edge of the park.
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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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Alexa Fredston @afredston.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
POSTDOC JOB AD: I'm hiring a Bayesian ecologist to build a (IMO, extremely fun) model of humpback whale spatiotemporal dynamics in California 2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin. ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
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Fredston Lab: Postdoctoral Scholar
University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!
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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 14/10/2025
In June, the @washingtonpost.com sent me and @byaliceli.bsky.social to witness cultural burns in California. We learned how they encourage beneficial vegetation, reduce wildfire risk, and provide traditional food and craft sources for tribes in the Klamath region. 🎁: wapo.st/3J7BQTL
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How indigenous practices can help protect forests
The Post followed cultural burning practices, an Indigenous tradition now permitted under California law and used to help protect forests from wildfires.
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marie martin @mellenmartin.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
new pub out — Yosemite is a perfect (and picturesque) place to show how heterogeneity can shape species distributions and foraging patterns. Grateful to Yosemite NP, Levi & Sacks labs & @roguedogs.bsky.social for their collaboration 💗
A two row figure displaying the occupancy patterns of bobcats, cougars, coyotes, gray foxes, and martens (top row) in Yosemite and how canopy cover, heterogeneity in canopy cover, and topography/snowpack (bottom row) shaped these patterns of occurrence. A two panel figure diet patterns of bobcats, cougars, coyotes, gray foxes, and martens via composition of major prey groups detected through high-throughout sequencing (left figure) and how inter specific diets overlapped in niche space (right panel)
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Oikos @oikosjournal.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
🌄🥩Landscape heterogeneity shapes the spatial and diet partitioning of a montane carnivore guild 📷 © Jennifer Hart vist.ly/47zke #Competition #DetectionDogTeam #HierarchicalModeling #HighThroughputSequencing #IntegratedOccupancyModel #NichePartitioning #NonInvasiveSampling
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
We have a new paper developing methods for looking at bird-fire macroecology. What’s most fascinating to me is that the magnitude *and* direction of fire effects can vary enormously across a species range. Stationarity is dead!! Long live non-stationarity!! doi.org/10.1002/fee....
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Evaluating macroecological fire impacts on bird populations
Fire regimes are context-dependent, as are the ways that animals respond. However, most information on animal responses to fire comes from short-term local field studies, which are hard to extrapolat....
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Phil Manlick @pmanlick.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
🚨 New Paper in Eco Apps 🚨 - Our research team at USFS PNW Research Station used a long-term adaptive management experiment to test the effects of forest thinning on wildlife habitat in the Tongass National Forest 🧵 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Unfortunately for Americans who want to not experience things like "bubonic plague," we also can't write NIH or NSF grants about this kind of thing anymore. I dunno, seems important
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Phil Manlick @pmanlick.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Spent last week in the field measuring veg and tagging seedlings in our small mammal exclosures at HJ Andrews experimental forest. Bit of a surreal landscape following the 2023 Lookout Fire.
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Resistance Rangers @resistancerangers.altgov.info · 03/06/2025
“Things are not OK,” Heatley told OPB on Monday. “This is not a normal situation. This is a paradigm shift that is having repercussions that will last for at least a generation.”
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Crater Lake superintendent resigns, citing staff shortages
Since he started at Crater Lake in January, Kevin Heatley has seen Crater Lake’s permanent workforce cut in half, and onboarding seasonal staff was delayed by a month. "Things are not OK," he said.
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Zack Steel 🪶🦇🌲🔥 @zacksteel.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
www.hcn.org/issues/57-6/...
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As Trump comes after research, Forest Service scientists keep working - High Country News
Scientists describe how they’re preparing for the upcoming field season despite the challenges.
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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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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
“Should AI be allowed to review papers or grant proposals” always reveals a thing I think people don’t understand about algorithmic bias 🧵
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This is why the media’s credulous boosterism for Colossal is so dangerous. “Innovation, not regulation” is tech-bro propaganda. It’s the false promise that any problem can be solved with some future breakthrough that will enable the same people who got us into this to profit from the solutions.
A tweet by Sec. Doug Burgum:


The mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is to work with others to “conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.”

The Department of the Interior is excited about the potential of “de-extinction” technology and how it may serve broader purposes beyond the recovery of lost species, including strengthening biodiversity protection efforts and helping endangered or at-risk species.

The Endangered Species List has become like the Hotel California: once a species enters, they never leave. In fact, 97 percent of species that are added to the endangered list remain there. This is because the status quo is focused on regulation more than innovation.

It’s time to fundamentally change how we think about species conservation. Going forward, we must celebrate removals from the endangered list - not additions. The only thing we’d like to see go extinct is the need for an endangered species list to exist. We need to continue improving recovery efforts to make that a reality, and the marvel of “de-extinction” technology can help forge a future where populations are never at risk.

Since the dawn of our nation, it has been innovation – not regulation – that has spawned American greatness. The revival of the Dire Wolf heralds the advent of a thrilling new era of scientific wonder, showcasing how the concept of “de-extinction” can serve as a bedrock for modern species conservation.

The Dire Wolf revival carries profound cultural significance as it embodies strength and courage that is deeply encoded within the DNA of American identity and tribal heritage.

Breakthroughs of this nature will inspire leading minds and future generations of innovators to chase the impossible, capture it, and unleash its potential!

The Department of the Interior looks forward to a vibrant future full of innovation that advances core missions such as wildlife conservation.
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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Looking for someone that can lead the Indigenous Stewardship Network and help progress a new era if indigenous stewardship throughout California. jobs.gusto.com/postings/ind...
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Network Director (Remote - California Based) at Indigenous Stewardship Network
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David Green, PhD @ecologistgreen.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
#PeerReview is too important to let it get destroyed by AI. We need to be making it easier for scientists to evaluate each other's work, while also making the process fun and engaging. This is possible with collaborative peer review like what we've built @stacksjournal.bsky.social. #SciPub
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AI is transforming peer review — and many scientists are worried
Artificial intelligence software is increasingly involved in reviewing papers, provoking interest and unease.
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Erin Sauer @sauerscientist.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Excited to share the news that I have accepted a TT assistant professor position at @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social in the Dept of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources! I will be recruiting a postdoc and grad students soon for my wildlife disease ecology lab, so check back in here!
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Best way to find a typo in a paper is to read the draft carefully 100 times, print it, mark it up, submit it, get it accepted, have copy editors review it, read it again, finalize it, get it published, and then proudly share it will all of your close colleagues
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
“Within protected areas, there is an urgent need to rethink what we are protecting: the current landscape conditions or the landscape dynamics that generate those conditions.” New paper in BioScience “Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes” Link: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
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Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes
Abstract. Protected areas form the backbone of modern conservation. However, the current policies and practices in protected areas reinforce a static view
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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Hey #RaptorResearch folks- I'm handling a cool natural history note about raptors being attacked and killed by snakes. Anyone interested in reviewing? @arjundevamar.bsky.social @jonathanslaght.com @fletcherecology.bsky.social @janetngbio.bsky.social @shannonskalos.bsky.social etc...
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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
One of the first endangered California condors released by the Yurok Tribe, Pey-noh-pey-o-wok, has died from lead poisoning in a remote part of Redwood National Park. Stop using lead shot! Get the Lead Out: www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/ge... Article: www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti...
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‘Huge blow’: Youngest California condor in flock killed by lead poisoning
The Yurok Tribe said the condor, from a flock in Redwood National Park in Humboldt County, had a lead air gun pellet in its gizzard.
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
“Bioregional‐scale acoustic monitoring can support fire‐prone forest restoration planning” out now in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. doi.org/10.1002/fee....
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Ok so this is some good news?? www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Populations of large-diameter trees are increasing across the United States | PNAS
Large-diameter trees provide vital ecological functions in forested ecosystems. Old, large-diameter trees may also be vulnerable to climate-driven ...
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Wildlife & Conservation at Uni Freiburg @wild-ecol-cons.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
PhD Position Alert (planned start August 2025)! 🎓 🐭If you are you interested in studying small mammal population dynamics in Norway at @uniinnlandet.bsky.social then check out and apply for this exciting position: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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PhD position in small mammal population dynamics (275731) | University of Inland Norway
Job title: PhD position in small mammal population dynamics (275731), Employer: University of Inland Norway, Deadline: Wednesday, April 2, 2025
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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
thanks so much for the press release about our new urban coyote movement study, @calacademy.bsky.social !! 🧪🌎 www.calacademy.org/press/releas...
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New Study Finds Urbanization and Human-driven Inequities Shape Coyote Behavior in Los Angeles
Research unveils wealth, pollution, and population density are strong predictors of coyote movement.
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Cara Appel @cappel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Here's a porcupette for you, Alie "this one word is the thin string holding up my sanity in 2025" Ward (also same) @ologies.bsky.social
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Tim Bean @timothybean.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
PORCUPINES, the official mascot of anybody who wants friends but doesn't know how to make them
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marie martin @mellenmartin.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
scientists who genuinely believe that if we were less vocal about social issues the state of science would be more stable are working pro bono for politicians who convince their constituents trans people and immigrants are the ones making their lives shitty. idealistic at best, disingenuous at worst
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Brian Rolek @brols.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The Peregrine Fund is seeking a GIS specialist. Join an awesome team that's making the world a better place. peregrinefund.org/sites/defaul...
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David Green, PhD @ecologistgreen.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I think the biggest lie being told right now is that one of the wealthiest countries in the world cannot afford to invest in science, education, and the environment.
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David Green, PhD @ecologistgreen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is incredibly frustrating and sad.
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Andy Boyce @andyjboyce.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Just received an illegal stop work order on 2 BLM grants to restore riparian areas within grasslands for the benefit of wildlife and producers. These people can fuck all the way off regardless but if this project is getting caught in their ChatGPT keyword searches... just about everything must be.
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marie martin @mellenmartin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
same thing starting to happen at NPS. this shit is disgraceful
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Amanda Monthei @amonthei.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I resent that people are saying it's just "desk jockies" who were fired from the Forest Service. No. These were field techs and timber markers and people who served on militia fire crews as a collateral duty. They're also the people that keep IMTs running. Logistics, comms, planning, READs etc.
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