Morgan Ernest
@skmorgane.bsky.social
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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November 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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ooof this feels like most every university rn
November 12, 2025 at 3:28 AM
ooof this feels like most every university rn
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…
November 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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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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
October 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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
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”
October 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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”
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.
October 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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.
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.
September 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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.
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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!
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September 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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!
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We are hiring! 6 years postsoc position (civil servant contract)! Last few days before the deadline! Please re-tweet!
Postdoc call in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling (up to 6 ya) at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We focus on modelling terrestrial plant communities, island biogeography, range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/CL1ny
Postdoc in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling with temporary civil servant status (“Akademische*r Rätin*Rat)
100%, A 13, Reference number: 2025/49
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June 18, 2025 at 6:36 AM
We are hiring! 6 years postsoc position (civil servant contract)! Last few days before the deadline! Please re-tweet!
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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...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Offre de post-doctorat en écologie (H/F)
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June 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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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All while corporate academic publishers enjoy 30-40% profit margins.
The publisher has cut their costs by outsourcing to this company, the company has cut their costs by using AI/low-paid staff instead of paying for a proper job, while I’ve spent hours & hours fixing the manuscript, so all the extra labour from cost-costing has fallen on me, the unremunerated author
May 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
All while corporate academic publishers enjoy 30-40% profit margins.
If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera. No cheating!
May 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera. No cheating!
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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.
BTW. If you’re a scientist and are feeling hollowed out, depressed, fried, frustrated, confused, and simply exhausted by everything, I understand you. You are perfectly sane and you are not alone.
April 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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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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! ✨✨✨✨
🌟Announcing the 2025 ESA Fellows and Early Career Fellows!🌟ESA's fellowship program recognizes the many ways in which our members contribute to ecological research, communication, education, management & policy. Learn more about this year's cohort: esa.org/blog/2025/04...
April 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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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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
And congratulations to the other Fellows and Early Career Fellows!
@conservation.cam.ac.uk @camzoology.bsky.social
🌟Announcing the 2025 ESA Fellows and Early Career Fellows!🌟ESA's fellowship program recognizes the many ways in which our members contribute to ecological research, communication, education, management & policy. Learn more about this year's cohort: esa.org/blog/2025/04...
April 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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
And congratulations to the other Fellows and Early Career Fellows!
@conservation.cam.ac.uk @camzoology.bsky.social
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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...
Primary reporting: www.chronicle.com/article/u-of...
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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April 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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...
Primary reporting: www.chronicle.com/article/u-of...
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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.
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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April 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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 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...
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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April 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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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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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April 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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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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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March 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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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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
March 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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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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.
Columbia was first, but it seems very likely they're going to effectively use the same playback to retract federal scientific funding. A new hit list from Trump's Dept of Ed. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
March 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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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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!
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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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March 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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/...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The next episode...uh, blog post...of Portal: the Regime Shift is up! The Desert Pocket Mouse was the first noble House...uh, Species...to fall, but will it be the last? Which Species will survive the carnage of poor rains to rule this parched land? jabberwocky.weecology.org/2025/03/12/r... 🧪🌎
Regime Shift: A Winter of Grim
Every episode in a tv series starts with a recap. So… Previously, on Portal: the Regime Shift — In fall of 2024, one of the ruling families of Portal — the Desert Pocket Mouse (Ch…
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March 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The next episode...uh, blog post...of Portal: the Regime Shift is up! The Desert Pocket Mouse was the first noble House...uh, Species...to fall, but will it be the last? Which Species will survive the carnage of poor rains to rule this parched land? jabberwocky.weecology.org/2025/03/12/r... 🧪🌎