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Morgan Ernest

@skmorgane.bsky.social
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Ecologist who is so enamored with long-term data I now run two separate long-term studies: the Portal Project in Arizona and a wading bird project in the Everglades. She/her

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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
2 #postdoc positions now live! 🐠🐡🐟 (1) #AI for #Ecology, (2) #Marine Field Ecology for AI-Enabled Behavioural Monitoring, & v soon (3) AI-Enabled #BehaviouralEcology for #Conservation Join our team, unlock #AnimalBehaviour as an early warning system. #Jobs @lec-reefs.bsky.social Links 👇
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Ecological Forecasting Initiative @ecoforecast.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
2-day Scientific Meeting on "Forecasting ecological dynamics" hosted by the Royal Society in London on 2-3 November 2026. Virtual and in-person attendance available. Advanced registration is essential. Find details at: royalsociety.org/science-even...
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Morgan Ernest @skmorgane.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Congrats, Brian! A well-deserved honor!
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Watch this space & spread the word. New @idiv-research.bsky.social synthesis working group & fellowship (ie Sabbatical) calls coming these days. Great funding opportunities to collaborate with researchers in and visit @idiv-research.bsky.social
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Morgan Ernest @skmorgane.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The universe has been sending us the same message! We've twice gotten notification of funded proposals while away on vacation. In our post-reality world, I choose to believe funding rates are higher when you take vacations🤣
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Morgan Ernest @skmorgane.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Department (home of @weecology.bsky.social) is seeking a new Department Chair. Are you interested in leading a plucky and friendly bunch of ecologists? Here's the ad: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
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University of Florida - Details - Professor and Chair - Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (WEC)
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Morgan Ernest @skmorgane.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🤮 Do NOT tell my university this. They would totally start doing this except make me calculate how much effort of the paper each grant supported and split it proportionally.
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Morgan Ernest @skmorgane.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Weecology is hiring a postdoc to work with my long-term, large-scale Everglades wading bird project. We have data on nest effort at multiple spatial scales over 30+ years for multiple species. We also do fun stuff w/ drones. Sound interesting? See our ad! jabberwocky.weecology.org/2026/04/15/p...
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Join Our Everglades Wading Bird Research as a Postdoc
Join our Everglades Wading Bird project as a postdoc researcher! Explore wading bird breeding, nest success, and drone monitoring opportunities.
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American Naturalist / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Murray et al. show that the fast-slow continuum of life history variation emerges as a contour of highest fitness in the face of catastrophic demographic disturbances, which rivals some classic hypotheses. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The American Naturalist classic cover
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Mike Kaspari @mikekaspari.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Ah the early 80’s war between experimental and comparative ecologists! It led to this gem by Jared Diamond on the four types of experiments in ecology: lab, field, time series, geo-comparisons. I started every Community Ecology class with it. Highly relevant…again. users.wfu.edu/silmanmr/bio...
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Elena Litchman @elenalitchman.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Happy to see our antifragility paper published! With @jonaswickman.bsky.social and @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social.
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Morgan Ernest @skmorgane.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
When I was young I thought true love was Romeo and Juliet. Now that I’m wiser, i know true love is someone scrubbing the toilets when you’re out of town because they know it will make you happy
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Ethan White @ethanwhite.weecology.org · 26/02/2026
"Planning to run a workshop under air raids and blackouts required us to think of many things not covered by The Carpentries Handbook." olexandr-konovalov.github.io/posts/2026/0...
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Resilient Carpentries: running a workshop in times of the war
On 20-21 January 2026 the Ukrainian Carpentries Community run the first everCarpentries workshop in Ukraine,making Ukraine the 72nd country in the world hosting The Carpentries workshops.
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Morgan Ernest @skmorgane.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I’ve bought mine!
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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
They just don’t get it - they’re trying to replace the part of our job we like the *most*. If they could make an AI tool to vibe-complete travel, reimbursement, and annual reporting paperwork they would make a fucking FORTUNE
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Morgan Ernest @skmorgane.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Thanks, @lfhuenneke.bsky.social . Portal continues to teach a masterclass in the unexpected. I just wish writing about the rodents struggling to survive in unprecedented conditions was a little less on the nose.
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Morgan Ernest @skmorgane.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I don't know who needs a break from the world to read about desert rodents, but I definitely needed a break from the world to write it. Nearly a year has passed, but here's an update on the unprecedented events over the past year at the Portal Project.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I'd like to note that none of these cost $$$
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Morgan Ernest @skmorgane.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Oooo, I’m looking forward to reading this!
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Ethan White @ethanwhite.weecology.org · 09/12/2025
"Sure Googlers [also faculty] had been willing to pull long hours, putting work before personal life and health, in order to realize the company's [university's] mission, but the quid pro quo those workers expected was for the company [university] to take that mission as seriously as they did."
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Enshittification
Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocen...
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Morgan Ernest @skmorgane.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
As a teen I could recite every line in this movie
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a woman in a leather jacket stands next to a young girl
Alt: Sigourney Weaver in a leather jacket stands next to a young girl who says they mostly come at night, mostly
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Morgan Ernest @skmorgane.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I’ve wondered if it thinks we’ve misspelled “species”? And it should be specy? It’s the closest I’ve gotten
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Morgan Ernest @skmorgane.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Omg your supposed to apply for that? No wonder I’m not in the academy! We can join together 🤣
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Morgan Ernest @skmorgane.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I just looked at mine. I also apparently study “specy”
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Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Join us for an @smtpb.bsky.social workshop on Modern Coexistence Theory. We'll cover mathematical foundations, the theory of partitioning, and data-based applications. Featuring @swatipatel.bsky.social, Nick Kortessis, & Lauren Shoemaker. Zoom link here: smtpb.org/event-6426026
Poster announcing the workshop.
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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Still think this was one of the best power moves of all time www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 12/11/2025
ooof this feels like most every university rn
bunch of executives on the deck of a ship with only one guy rowing and a quote "I don't understand, after so many budget cuts why dont we move faster?"
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Morgan Ernest @skmorgane.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Dreamt I was locked inside a ‘One flew over the cuckoo’s nest’ mental hospital that was on fire and I couldn’t escape. Funny how brains create dreams unrelated to reality…oh wait…
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Ethan White @ethanwhite.weecology.org · 30/10/2025
It’s finally cooling off here and it’s been a long week, so definitely time for a pot of @sagenatural.bsky.social’s Miracle Max’s Chocolate Elixir
An excited looking bespectacled bearded person holding a tin that says: Miracle Max’s Chocolate Elixir. Ingredients: fair trade roasted cacao nibs, turmeric, ginger, cinnamon, Sasparilla (all organic)
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Morgan Ernest @skmorgane.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Trying to process a meeting where I feel like leadership basically said: “our ship has been boarded by pirates but other ships are sinking so this is pretty good”
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Morgan Ernest @skmorgane.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
PSA: It’s natural to crave control during unprecedented times. If rearranging deck chairs brings you calm, that’s fine, but please make sure you’re not forcing other people to rearrange deck chairs when they need to be bailing out the ship or helping people into life rafts.
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Morgan Ernest @skmorgane.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Returned from a trip to the field. Made me appreciate the finer things in life…like no internet! Seriously, go touch some dirt. It’ll (probably) be good for you.
Shrubby desert with sunrise kissed golden mountains behind. Faint rainbow links mountains with silver clouds
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srsupp.bsky.social @srsupp.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Join me! We're hiring a TT position for interdisciplinary #DataAnalytics Program @ Denison University. Looking for someone who intersects with #SportsAnalytics in their research -- health, performance, biomechanics, media, economics, education.. Happy to answer Qs! apply.interfolio.com/172731
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Juliano Sarmento Cabral @jsarmentocabral.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
We are hiring! 6 years postsoc position (civil servant contract)! Last few days before the deadline! Please re-tweet!
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Offre de post-doctorat en écologie (H/F)
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Ethan White @ethanwhite.weecology.org · 27/05/2025
All while corporate academic publishers enjoy 30-40% profit margins.
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Morgan Ernest @skmorgane.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera. No cheating!
A woman standing happily next to bb8 the robot with a seated man and a teenager. Stickers over faces of teen and man are of funny monsters.
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Conversely, if you are not feeling hollowed out, depressed, fried, frustrated, confused, and simply exhausted by everything, you may need to ease up on the Xanax.
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Joey Bernhardt @joeybernhardt.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Huge congrats to @elenalitchman.bsky.social on being elected an ESA Fellow!! 🧪🌊🦠 She does inspiring and foundational work in trait-based ecology, working across scales from phytoplankton in lake Baikal to the human microbiome. And, she's a super kind and caring mentor -- so, so, well deserved! ✨✨✨✨
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Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Really honored and humbled to be selected as an ESA Fellow. And congratulations to the other Fellows and Early Career Fellows! @conservation.cam.ac.uk @camzoology.bsky.social
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ufwatch.bsky.social @ufwatch.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The University of Florida canceled a nearly complete search for a new dean. A spokesman for the governor's office stated they were involved & implied the cancellation was related to claims the four finalists were "ALL radical DEI progressives." Primary reporting: www.chronicle.com/article/u-of...
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DeSantis involved in University of Florida canceling dean search
UF canceled a nearly complete search for a new dean. The governor's office stated that they were involved and implied the cancellation was related to claims that the four finalists were "ALL radical D...
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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Shout out to all the hard working program officers and administration staff holding on at the NSF (and other federal agencies). Your work is appreciated and more meaningful with every passing day.
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a woman is making a peace sign with her hand and the words `` stay strong '' behind her .
Alt: a woman is making a peace sign with her hand and the words `` stay strong '' behind her .
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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A UF student is being deported for traffic violations and the number of “we are aware of…”messages from our administration is…zero. www.alligator.org/article/2025...
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UF student detained by ICE, facing deportation - The Independent Florida Alligator
Felipe Zapata Velásquez, a 27-year-old food and resource economics third-year international student, is currently being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Alexandra Sasha Wright @sashajwright.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I'd really like better coverage of protest numbers from yesterday. I'm seeing estimates of 1 to 5 million, but then news headlines that say "thousands protest across America." Please update with your city info if you have a published estimate: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Protests
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Ethan White @ethanwhite.weecology.org · 27/03/2025
Of all the institutions/organizations I'm part of the one most rising to the moment to defend scholarship and education is the @aaup.bsky.social. They are organizing & in court defending campus speech, the Dept of Ed, & grant funding. US Faculty - please join today to help defend higher education.
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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Hundreds of Columbia students in the streets demanding Trump release Mahmoud Khalil & Leqaa Kordia — and demanding that Columbia repeal its expulsion of Grant Miner, president of the Student Workers of Columbia-UAW
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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Until universities realize that their only hope is collective action and hiding will not save you, we're going to see them go after waves of institutions.
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Mike Kaspari @mikekaspari.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
What a fun read this afternoon of the wonderful Christensen et al (2018). Just really cool use of a tool based on word concordance to characterize community change! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Long‐term community change through multiple rapid transitions in a desert rodent community
While studies increasingly document long-term change in community composition, whether long-term change occurs gradually or via rapid reorganization events remains unclear. We used Latent Dirichlet A...
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Morgan Ernest @skmorgane.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Thanks! We had fun with that one
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