Meg McEachran, PhD
@megmcea.bsky.social
Postdoc in wildlife, disease, ecology, conservation, decision analysis with UMass and USGS. #CWD focus. New to this whole bluesky business. Opinions my own.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
April 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
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Amphibians and reptiles face the greatest threats from agriculture - but can hedgerows help? This new article discusses strategies for redesigning agricultural landscapes in India for 'ecological intensification', while maintaining productivity. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Giving the cold shoulder: why and how do we conserve farmland herpetofauna in India? | Environmental Conservation | Cambridge Core
Giving the cold shoulder: why and how do we conserve farmland herpetofauna in India?
www.cambridge.org
January 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Amphibians and reptiles face the greatest threats from agriculture - but can hedgerows help? This new article discusses strategies for redesigning agricultural landscapes in India for 'ecological intensification', while maintaining productivity. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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'Environmental Conservation', the international journal of interdisciplinary environmental science, is now on Bluesky to share articles and information. We are looking forward to reconnecting with researchers and making new contacts on the platform, so please share this, follow us, or get in touch.
January 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
'Environmental Conservation', the international journal of interdisciplinary environmental science, is now on Bluesky to share articles and information. We are looking forward to reconnecting with researchers and making new contacts on the platform, so please share this, follow us, or get in touch.
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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
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This is a very scary time for early career scientists like people looking for/who are postdocs and new faculty trying to get funding. Any words of encouragement to share for people in this category?
January 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This is a very scary time for early career scientists like people looking for/who are postdocs and new faculty trying to get funding. Any words of encouragement to share for people in this category?
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Prof @forrestf.bsky.social of NRSM, Univ. of Minnesota seeks an English-Hindi speaking #PhDstudent for Participatory Planning for Sustainable #LandscapeRestoration in the Western #Himalaya. Interested, or know of someone? Tight turnaround, 28 Jan! #studentships #jobs
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
January 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Prof @forrestf.bsky.social of NRSM, Univ. of Minnesota seeks an English-Hindi speaking #PhDstudent for Participatory Planning for Sustainable #LandscapeRestoration in the Western #Himalaya. Interested, or know of someone? Tight turnaround, 28 Jan! #studentships #jobs
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Survival in adult males down to <20% annually in infected animals. So far recruitment is keeping up—but how long will that last?
#CWD decimating southwestern Wisconsin deer herds, officials say
The exact degree of population declines, however, will depend on local hunter harvest and recruitment rates, the report authors say.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
The exact degree of population declines, however, will depend on local hunter harvest and recruitment rates, the report authors say.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
January 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Survival in adult males down to <20% annually in infected animals. So far recruitment is keeping up—but how long will that last?
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We are advertising a fully-funded, genuinely interdisciplinary @netgain.bsky.social PhD at the interface of ecology, ethics and statistics, exploring the nuances of wild salmonid conservation. Deadline January 31st. (1/3)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
January 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
We are advertising a fully-funded, genuinely interdisciplinary @netgain.bsky.social PhD at the interface of ecology, ethics and statistics, exploring the nuances of wild salmonid conservation. Deadline January 31st. (1/3)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
I figured it out. Bottom line folks: always return to your model diagram!!
Are we using this platform for #Rstats help yet? I’m trying to figure out why my stochastic population simulation is running away instead of declining steadily like it does in the matrix format. Any #populationecology or #statisticalecology folks who can help? 🧪
January 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
I figured it out. Bottom line folks: always return to your model diagram!!
Are we using this platform for #Rstats help yet? I’m trying to figure out why my stochastic population simulation is running away instead of declining steadily like it does in the matrix format. Any #populationecology or #statisticalecology folks who can help? 🧪
January 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Are we using this platform for #Rstats help yet? I’m trying to figure out why my stochastic population simulation is running away instead of declining steadily like it does in the matrix format. Any #populationecology or #statisticalecology folks who can help? 🧪
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One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction | Nature
One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction - Nature
A global multi-taxon extinction risk assessment of freshwater fauna for The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species finds one-quarter of species to be at high risk of extinction.
buff.ly
January 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction | Nature
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Second request:
If you are a professional scientist or science communicator who is at least 18 years old and uses social media (including Bluesky) for professional purposes, please consider taking this survey. 🧪🌎 #SciComm
Please help us to share it.
umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
If you are a professional scientist or science communicator who is at least 18 years old and uses social media (including Bluesky) for professional purposes, please consider taking this survey. 🧪🌎 #SciComm
Please help us to share it.
umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
January 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Second request:
If you are a professional scientist or science communicator who is at least 18 years old and uses social media (including Bluesky) for professional purposes, please consider taking this survey. 🧪🌎 #SciComm
Please help us to share it.
umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
If you are a professional scientist or science communicator who is at least 18 years old and uses social media (including Bluesky) for professional purposes, please consider taking this survey. 🧪🌎 #SciComm
Please help us to share it.
umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
I’m really proud of this work with
#USGS — what can #USFWS do about #ChronicWastingDisease on the National Elk Refuge? And what are the potential socioeconomic consequences? pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2024/511...
#USGS — what can #USFWS do about #ChronicWastingDisease on the National Elk Refuge? And what are the potential socioeconomic consequences? pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2024/511...
pubs.usgs.gov
January 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I’m really proud of this work with
#USGS — what can #USFWS do about #ChronicWastingDisease on the National Elk Refuge? And what are the potential socioeconomic consequences? pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2024/511...
#USGS — what can #USFWS do about #ChronicWastingDisease on the National Elk Refuge? And what are the potential socioeconomic consequences? pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2024/511...
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Update, per @lafd.bsky.social:
"The LAFD is NOT requesting assistance from the public. The message was misconstrued. We are running a recall for our OWN LAFD members ONLY. Thank you."
"The LAFD is NOT requesting assistance from the public. The message was misconstrued. We are running a recall for our OWN LAFD members ONLY. Thank you."
January 8, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Update, per @lafd.bsky.social:
"The LAFD is NOT requesting assistance from the public. The message was misconstrued. We are running a recall for our OWN LAFD members ONLY. Thank you."
"The LAFD is NOT requesting assistance from the public. The message was misconstrued. We are running a recall for our OWN LAFD members ONLY. Thank you."
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“I think we should all publish a little less, but publish more substantive, thoughtful works” I say aloud as I scrawl out my 19th least-publishable-unit of the year
January 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“I think we should all publish a little less, but publish more substantive, thoughtful works” I say aloud as I scrawl out my 19th least-publishable-unit of the year
Kiddo made a “delivery police car plane” out of cardboard and inadvertently created this dystopian horror not even bezos has dared fashion 🥲
January 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Kiddo made a “delivery police car plane” out of cardboard and inadvertently created this dystopian horror not even bezos has dared fashion 🥲
baby’s first omnitheater
December 27, 2024 at 6:36 PM
baby’s first omnitheater
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we should be concerned about the impacts of social media on kids and teens, but i don’t think we’re worried nearly enough about what it’s doing to middle aged people and seniors
December 26, 2024 at 4:45 PM
we should be concerned about the impacts of social media on kids and teens, but i don’t think we’re worried nearly enough about what it’s doing to middle aged people and seniors
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Merry Christmas everyone!
December 25, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Merry Christmas everyone!
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#USDA confirmed 5 more #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy cow herds today, 4 in California & 1 in (shocker!) Texas. First new herd in Texas since mid-Sept.
National total: 865 herds in 16 states. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
National total: 865 herds in 16 states. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
December 18, 2024 at 2:18 PM
#USDA confirmed 5 more #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy cow herds today, 4 in California & 1 in (shocker!) Texas. First new herd in Texas since mid-Sept.
National total: 865 herds in 16 states. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
National total: 865 herds in 16 states. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
Scientists, how do you combat sunk cost fallacy thinking in your research? If project x has been a lot of work so far and needs more work to be published, without that work it’ll be mothballed … how do you know when to pull the plug vs invest more to get it over the finish line? #AcademicChatter 🧪
December 17, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Scientists, how do you combat sunk cost fallacy thinking in your research? If project x has been a lot of work so far and needs more work to be published, without that work it’ll be mothballed … how do you know when to pull the plug vs invest more to get it over the finish line? #AcademicChatter 🧪
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We are hiring a postdoc in my lab @colorado.edu to work on this NSF CAREER proposal (tinyurl.com/cak8dkza) to quantify how and when global change (drought, warming) alters the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning. Job here: colorado.avature.net/searchhub/Jo... 1/2
December 11, 2024 at 3:54 PM
We are hiring a postdoc in my lab @colorado.edu to work on this NSF CAREER proposal (tinyurl.com/cak8dkza) to quantify how and when global change (drought, warming) alters the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning. Job here: colorado.avature.net/searchhub/Jo... 1/2
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The postdoc will 1) use causal inference, experimental and observational data to quantify how, when, and why drought and warming alter biodiversity, species composition, and subsequently ecosystem functioning, and 2) help co-lead a distributed graduate seminar 1/3
December 11, 2024 at 3:56 PM
The postdoc will 1) use causal inference, experimental and observational data to quantify how, when, and why drought and warming alter biodiversity, species composition, and subsequently ecosystem functioning, and 2) help co-lead a distributed graduate seminar 1/3