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Nate Hooven

@nhooven.bsky.social
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Ecologist and PhD student studying snowshoe hares. Interested in wildlife habitats, forest landscapes, movement ecology, and quantitative methods. nhooven.github.io

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A Black-capped Chickadee checks a seed head for anything tasty.
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Nate Hooven @nhooven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Something positive for your afternoon - first woolly bear of the season!
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Nate Hooven @nhooven.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh look, a great reason not to engage with your paper! (This makes me sick)
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Dannyboy wildlife @dannyboywildlife.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Canada lynx
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Benedetta Catitti @bcatitti.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🚨Preprint alert! 🚨What if your study animal doesn't know the landscape yet? Standard movement models such as SSA assume it does. In our new study we let it learn instead, and put "learner" against "omniscient" head to head (1/4) doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Joey Hinton @joeyhinton22.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Professors need to drag and shame their colleagues for serving as advisors to Colossal. This grift isn't possible without laundering it through their expertise. Gullible investors are why so much real estate was allocate to selling ideas, because Colossal won't deliver on their promised products.
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I understand that rescinding the #RoadlessRule will facilitate logging, but I think the below framing misstates the issue (since it’s already possible to log IRAs). The virtue of roadless areas isn’t that they prevent timber harvest—it’s that they prohibit *roads*! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/c...
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Trump Administration Moves to Allow Logging in Pristine National Forests
The move to repeal the ‘roadless rule’ would pave the way for road construction and logging in nearly 45 million acres of untouched back country.
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Nate Hooven @nhooven.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A lot has been said and written about poor quality figures in scientific papers, but something I’ve noticed a lot recently are low resolution (very pixelated) figures in respected journals! It makes me sad when they would otherwise make for nice data visualizations.
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Nate Hooven @nhooven.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
#ggplot2 users / spatial folks: any recommendations for maintaining high quality plots that include both vector graphics AND raster maps? Any of my normal plots get saved as .svg so I can scale later if needed, but obv. with rasters that won’t work. I’d prefer not to lose quality for either.
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Nate Hooven @nhooven.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The Sinlahekin fire in Okanogan County, WA has been spreading westward and is now bearing down on three of our hare study units. Wishing the best to the bunnies and curious what these familiar places will look like afterward.
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Benjamin Larue, Ph.D. @benjaminlarue.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
📢 Nîkanêse Wah tzee Stewardship Society is hiring a Restoration Director to lead their multi-year caribou habitat restoration program in Klinse-Za Park, BC. Hybrid, $90-120K, closes Aug 20. Amazing opportunity!
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Restoration Director
We are looking for an experienced and collaborative leader to help guide our multi-year caribou habitat restoration program.
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Nate Hooven @nhooven.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Before Jimothy, there was EDGAR: we caught a newborn elk back in 2021 with a stunted neck, probably due to a congenital defect. We named the little guy “Edgar” and while sadly he was not long for this world, we got a chance to learn about his condition which is rarely documented in wild animals. 1/6
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Karen R. Lips @karenrlips.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Toward a research agenda for actionable ecological science
Click on the article title to read more.
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Nate Hooven @nhooven.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Loomis State Forest, northern WA
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Nate Hooven @nhooven.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Great, now I can’t use the one pdf map I uploaded to Avenza nor can I add points, tracks, etc. unless I “upgrade” to a paid account. I used this app for free during my entire PhD field work. Anyone using alternative free mapping apps these days?
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
That would be me ca.news.yahoo.com/retired-biol...
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Retired biology professor criticizes caribou funding
Retired biology professor Marco Festa-Bianchet describes $25 million Quebec-Ottawa caribou protection funding deal as a 'smokescreen'. (July 3, 2026)
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Nate Hooven @nhooven.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Looking forward to diving into Roger Powell’s Home Ranges of Animals (only have the ebook, sadly). Loving the chapter art already!
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Nate Hooven @nhooven.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
A landscape missing its caribou… Salmo Basin, WA/ID
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Nate Hooven @nhooven.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Reminds me of the “adaptive fetal sex ratio” idea from long-lived mammals, except that predicts more males when times are good (partly because males tend to be larger and more expensive to produce). Females are larger in raptors so this makes sense!
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
A mama Wood Duck and her ducklings, resting on lily pad roots.
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Nate Hooven @nhooven.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Using tools to learn how to program is one thing, but I’m worried that we’re replacing the pursuit of a deep understanding of nature (that can only come from field experience and well-developed hypotheses) with contextless prediction machinery. Par for the course with modern ecology!
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Nate Hooven @nhooven.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Lepus taking “leaps” across the landscape!!
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Nate Hooven @nhooven.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Some accidental “Rt” - a raster depicting which study site each pixel on the landscape is closest to
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Nate Hooven @nhooven.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Still amazed by this feeder bird!! (rufous hummer)
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Why are the natural-history illustrations in Richard Scarry’s I AM A BUNNY (1963) as precise and well-drawn as those in any field guide? 😭
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Happy Mother's Day! 📷: American Mink mom with her two kits
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Nate Hooven @nhooven.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Felt nice to get out today in the Clearwater NF
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Nate Hooven @nhooven.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Glacier lilies out in the Palouse
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Nate Hooven @nhooven.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Now that I’m in data analysis mode, my diel activity pattern is pretty dang bimodal
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
As long as I live, I'll never understand how "it should be easier for wealthy corporations to poison the water my family drinks and the air my family breathes" became a popular political position with half the country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump’s EPA to roll back rule limiting hazardous mercury from coal plants
Environmental groups warn that weakening air toxics and mercury standards will lead to higher health-related costs
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Nate Hooven @nhooven.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Wishing good luck to all the snowshoes surviving out there
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Oh no, I outsourced all of my intellectual and educational responsibility to a tech bro’s content-stealing bullshit machine and it didn’t end well www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.
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Nate Hooven @nhooven.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I really enjoyed reading this paper, and the data visualization gets an A+!
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Sophie Gilbert @sophielgilbert.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Like 2025, my 2026 resolution is to use zero gen-AI* It's bed for our cognitive function It's bad for our social lives, because it's algorithmic and addictive It's bad for our environment Nope *I'm ok with task-specific AI, like computer vision models for remote sensing of the environment
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a woman in a silver jacket is standing in front of a group of dancers and says " my sign is " .
ALT: a woman in a silver jacket is standing in front of a group of dancers and says " my sign is " .
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