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Matthew Kauffman

@wyokauffman.bsky.social
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Wildlife Biologist. Zoology prof at Univ. of Wyoming. Lead scientist at Wyoming Migration Initiative. Fond of wild landscapes. Tweets my own. He/him/his www.migrationinitiative.org

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Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 16h
Migration of juvenile Sanderlings is not strategic - things just happen. wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/10/04/t... 🎂7️⃣ #ornithology
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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm hiring a postdoc to help build tools for inferring complex speciation histories with genomic data. strong computational skills are a must, but this is a training opportunity. 60K$+ salary, 2 years, details flexible. please reach out! (and repost) ad here: jobs.montana.edu/postings/53150
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Postdoctoral Researcher
The Department of Ecology at Montana State University is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Scholar as part of NSF-funded research on speciation under alternating cycles of gene flow and isolation (fundi...
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Jason GRIZZLED Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NGL, was pretty worried about this gull. 🧪
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Bergeron: many maternal and environmental variables affect individual reproductive success of female eastern grey kangaroos, but only average female body condition, population density and weather scale up to also affect population recruitment. 🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Weathering the storm: Most maternal and environmental drivers of individual reproductive success do not scale up to population recruitment in a large herbivore
Using 18 years of data on eastern grey kangaroos, we show that drivers of individual reproductive success often do not scale up to population recruitment. Birth asynchrony could buffer population rec...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
At the age of 90 year old, Czech former agricultural worker Agnes Kasparkova continued her 13 year project to decorate her small village with hand-painting traditional Moravian motifs on the local houses #womensart
Three images, one of a window surrounded by blue floral patterns on a white exterior wall, two other images of an elderly womam painting the designs
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Global Initiative on Ungulate Migration @migratinghooves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New migration maps just released! Red deer traverse steep slops in Germany's Berchtesgaden National Park and guanacos migrate along Argentina's impressive Auca Mahuida Volcano. Check out the maps in the Atlas of Ungulate Migration www.cms.int/gium/migrati... @cms.int
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
David Quammen's essay in The New York Times today closes with this paragraph. It's both a scientific falsehood, and an incredibly dangerous narrative. If you're willing to give me five minutes of your time, I'd like to explain why.
The Ebola virus doesn’t need to spill back. It abides in its reservoir host, and awaits its next opportunity. A virus can’t climb out of a bat or a monkey and fly off in search of human prey. It can only spill over. If humans left the reservoir host alone — not hunting it, not capturing it, not eating it, not exporting it live, not disturbing its forest habitat — the virus wouldn’t re-emerge in humans. It would remain where it is, harming no one. But of course that’s not what happens. And when viruses spill, they often spill into us, because the human population is such a big, busy target.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In an Uber. Driver having loud phone conversation with someone in Spanish. A little annoying, but it happens. He hangs up. Says, “Mi hermano. La Migra.” And starts weeping.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Here's an updated version of that chart. (Includes latest numbers from 2026, USGS, and the comparison is vs. 2015–2024 avg.)
Plot of science agency workforces. Peaks in '24 and declines in '25 and '26.
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/09/2026
There is no market for a paper-reading chatbot embedded with every scholarly article, much less a paper-reading chatbot that needs a disclaimer about how it does not in fact always read the paper correctly
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Matthew Kauffman @wyokauffman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
love it!
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 17/09/2026
The nomination for the 1987 mural, 'We the Youth' to become a part of the city's Register of Historic Places was approved in a Philadelphia Historical Commission meeting.
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Keith Haring’s famed Point Breeze mural moves one step closer to historic designation
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
i'm not sure if robert kraft quite grasps what he started
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, almost every plane that was over the North Atlantic when the second tower was hit was forced to land in Newfoundland. A call was on the radio: they needed folks who spoke various languages to come to the stadium to help organize the sea of humanity that just showed up at our door.
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Arlyssa D. Becenti ✍️🗞️ @abecenti.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Elon Musk's VoteSafe.org shares users' personal information. Here's how we know
Musk's America PAC funds the online voter registration hub.
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Matthew Kauffman @wyokauffman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Congrats Adam!
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Benjamin Larue, Ph.D. @benjaminlarue.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For caribou, mitigation in the arctic is too often wishful thinking. We need to move beyond assuming measures will reduce impacts and actually test whether they work. Great new study showing why evidence-based mitigation matters! 👇
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Testing the efficacy of industrial mitigation measures for caribou in the Arctic
As new energy projects are designed and implemented in environments around the globe, it is important to ensure that mitigation efforts for wildlife are scientifically validated for their efficacy. I....
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Jocelyn Poissant @jocelynpoissant.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🦌💩🦠 PhD opportunity! I am recruiting a fully-funded PhD student at the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine to study the causes and consequences of gut microbiome variation in caribou. Start date is flexible. Please share!
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Easily one of the most spectacular natural events I’ve ever seen: an endless river of Sooty Shearwaters along the Washington coast. These ocean-dwelling birds migrate 40,000 miles each year, foraging in massive flocks. This went nonstop for at least an hour. Best estimate is 100,000 birds.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If you haven’t read Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” now would be a good time…
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Just posting this because, as of yesterday, the US national debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time. The GOP: the party of fiscal responsibility. 🥴
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Outside the two federal races, the Freedom Caucus far-right wing is going down in flames in Wyoming tonight. There's been a big backlash against them since they took the state house majority last cycle. Tried to defund the university, got caught taking checks literally on the floor during session.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/08/2026
Eric Barlow, a rancher and state lawmaker, beat a Trump-backed candidate to win the GOP governor’s primary in Wyoming.
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Eric Barlow Wins Wyoming’s Republican Governor Primary Over Trump-Backed Candidate
Eric Barlow’s defeat of Megan Degenfelder, the state superintendent of education, again showed the limits of the president’s favor.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I know I'm the only sicko on here watching the Wyoming results, but for what it's worth, Trump's endorsee for governor is cruising to a double-digit defeat.
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Johannes Cunow @jcunow.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Reindeer not only eat plants, they also change what's happening in the soil. Reindeer induce lateral, vertical & functional shifts in root traits, alongside a more extreme soil microclimate, disproportionately affecting ericoids. doi.org/10.1002/oik.... #Reindeer #RootTraits #Microclimate #Ecology
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I worked on this story for ten years… and… he just… he tweeted it out.
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Reviewing manuscripts is a service, not a power trip.
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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
So many caribou walked by one of our trail cameras on the Hudson Bay coast it is almost impossible to count them all. It is interesting how the groups include calves of the year, cows, young males, and even big mature bulls as well.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This century-old tradition dates back to the 1850s when a bishop's daughter first trained the birds to pull a hanging rope for lunch. IG: @maddy.lee.98 Bishop's Palace in Wells, Somerset, England
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This research wouldn't have been possible without NASA Exobiology, which funded us to study the role ferns played in the recovery of life after Earth's most recent mass extinction. Under OMB's proposed rules, we wouldn't have been able to use grant funds to publish this paper (which is open access).
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Matthew Kauffman @wyokauffman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Great news!
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
America’s retreat from wildlife protection will be felt far beyond its borders
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America’s retreat from wildlife protection will be felt far beyond its borders
For more than half a century, the United States treated the protection of habitat as part of protecting endangered wildlife. The Endangered Species Act prohibited killing protected wildlife, and the…
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
📢 We’re hiring at Aarhus University! Tenure-track or permanent on vertebrate-driven #ecosystem processes, especially large #mammals w/in @econovoau.bsky.social's strong interdisciplinary environment spanning #ecology, paleoecology, biodiversity science & global change biology 🦬🌿🌍 ➡️More info below
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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
data visualization is my passion.
fox news showing weekly temperatures: 92, 92, 92, 94, 94, 92, 92, with a very strong gap between 94 and 92.
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Lukas Graf @graflukas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We just published a short comminication in Wildlife Biology. Link: doi.org/10.1002/wlb3... Using GPS telemetry data from 54 moose we show how using continuous information on forage abundance instead of categorical habitat covariates can improve inference on habitat selection.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Hey @chicagotribune.com Editorial Board: Why did you describe me as a “bomb-throwing influencer”? This is wrong, inflammatory, and racist. Change it. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/05/e...
So far, the Democratic Socialists of America's success has been confined in large part to deep-blue city districts. Meanwhile, in suburban areas and in statewide contests establishment Democrats generally are winning against progressive challengers. Chicago saw its own version of this dynamic in March in the hotly contested and crowded race to succeed retiring Rep. Jan Schakowsky in the 9th Congressional District. The bomb-throwing influencer Kat Abughazaleh, 27, won the portions of that district in Chicago's North Side lakefront neighborhoods, but suburban votes gave savvy
Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss the win.
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Nicholas Per Huffeldt @nphuffeldt.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
What a strange migratory divide. Do the populations even mix? 🪶 Many red-necked phalaropes breed on small ponds in West Greenland. Had no idea that they probably go to the western side of Central America. #Ornithology 🌍 www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...
Migration routes of the red-necked phalarope. Image from https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2019.00086/fullRed-necked phalarope female. Photo (c) N. Huffeldt
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Kyiv tonight 🇺🇲🇺🇦
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Harris: mountain goats are not all right, especially native populations. We often don't know why, yet few resources are devoted to their conservation. They tolerate very little harvest, and I suspect they are very vulnerable to climate change. 🧪 wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Our survey of states and provinces revealed that 13% of native mountain goat populations increased during the past 10 years, whereas 38% declined. For introduced populations, increases were roughly e...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/07/2026
Mamdani is trying to prevent New York’s power grid from failing, you idiot. 78° by choice is a lot better than 100° without electricity.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The best part about this story is I have no idea if it happened but it sounds like something I did 100%
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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 30/06/2026
Mel Sunquist -influential tiger biologist -has died. @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social beautifully describes Mel's legacy for @mongabay.com: "careful observation, sound science, and thoughtful mentorship were as important to conservation as the discoveries themselves." news.mongabay.com/2026/06/mel-...
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Mel Sunquist, field biologist and mentor to generations of conservationists
In the 1970s, studying wild tigers still involved more nerve than equipment. A biologist could not rely on camera traps, GPS collars, or satellite-linked data. To understand where a tiger went, what i...
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Deborah Weeks/A Woman for An Eternity @deborah-10.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ
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The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
“Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.“
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Best Twitter riposte of the day.
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