Bouteloua gracilis, PhD
@tarbonemountain.bsky.social
Wildlife biologist| 🐦🦬🌲🦃🐔 | cycling | birding| bird dogs
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Finally, some analysis on the legality of RIFs during a shutdown. According to this article it is not legal but I’d love to see other legal experts weigh in.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Russ Vought's directive to fire federal workers during a shutdown is blatantly illegal
Vought’s memo is political intimidation, not valid administrative guidance, says Rep. James Walkinshaw.
www.msnbc.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Finally, some analysis on the legality of RIFs during a shutdown. According to this article it is not legal but I’d love to see other legal experts weigh in.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Fed scientists are patriots, pass it on.
September 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Fed scientists are patriots, pass it on.
I don't know of any better way to describe my mental state these days than "I hope my models aren't as broken as I am"
A colleague working through stats problems in my office just sighed and said “I hope my models aren’t as broken as I am” and I’m considering getting that as my next tattoo.
September 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I don't know of any better way to describe my mental state these days than "I hope my models aren't as broken as I am"
And their four letter AOU code is unfortunately DICK. They were also by far the most common birds during bird surveys for my grad school field work, so every morning started with this song as we drove to the field site.
open.spotify.com/track/4laxor...
open.spotify.com/track/4laxor...
September 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
And their four letter AOU code is unfortunately DICK. They were also by far the most common birds during bird surveys for my grad school field work, so every morning started with this song as we drove to the field site.
open.spotify.com/track/4laxor...
open.spotify.com/track/4laxor...
It's Friday and I have no motivation to work on these occupancy models. Only the time tested combination of terrable gas station coffee and built to spill will get me through this.
September 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
It's Friday and I have no motivation to work on these occupancy models. Only the time tested combination of terrable gas station coffee and built to spill will get me through this.
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our paper on how light pollution affects bird vocal behavior is out today in Science!!
w/ @brentpease.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
w/ @brentpease.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
August 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
our paper on how light pollution affects bird vocal behavior is out today in Science!!
w/ @brentpease.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
w/ @brentpease.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Just got this draft cover for the 2nd edition of our book. It will be available soon!
July 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Just got this draft cover for the 2nd edition of our book. It will be available soon!
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not VIFs specifically, but I recently posted this list of papers I like about "why you shouldn't worry about multicollinearity so much": github.com/idworkin/McM...
github.com
July 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
not VIFs specifically, but I recently posted this list of papers I like about "why you shouldn't worry about multicollinearity so much": github.com/idworkin/McM...
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Some actual good news for once?
www.eenews.net/articles/for...
www.eenews.net/articles/for...
Forest Service research survives in House spending bill
Republican appropriators also set aside a White House request for a new wildfire agency at Interior.
www.eenews.net
July 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Some actual good news for once?
www.eenews.net/articles/for...
www.eenews.net/articles/for...
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Good thread about historical fire and Indigenous fire use in N. America 🔥
I was in British Columbia last month to learn about wildfires, which got me thinking about how we see the forests around us, and how it is not necessarily good thinking. 1/x
July 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Good thread about historical fire and Indigenous fire use in N. America 🔥
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Wrote a thing: ...at the heart of it is another Trumpian Big Lie, that immigrants are a burden and menace. We need to fight the false story with a true one: this country needs its immigrants and they are a blessing and an enrichment of what this country is and in many ways its heart and soul.
Immigrants: A Love Letter
It has never been easy to be an immigrant to the United States – for most economic, linguistic, and cultural barriers make life here a struggle, even if they were escaping a worse life elsewhere. The ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
July 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Wrote a thing: ...at the heart of it is another Trumpian Big Lie, that immigrants are a burden and menace. We need to fight the false story with a true one: this country needs its immigrants and they are a blessing and an enrichment of what this country is and in many ways its heart and soul.
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Roads, as ever, are the routes of all evil. #roadecology
I took portraits of the animals killed on the access road to the Everglades ICE prison.
July 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Roads, as ever, are the routes of all evil. #roadecology
After a stressful week and a lot of uncertainty getting out with the dog was much needed.
June 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM
After a stressful week and a lot of uncertainty getting out with the dog was much needed.
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This isn’t over—we can still stop the GOP bill. I’m staying in the fight for every baby who shouldn’t go hungry. Every senior who shouldn’t get kicked out of a nursing home. Every American who shouldn’t lose their health care.
Now is the time to call your senators.
Now is the time to call your senators.
Look Up Your Senators' Numbers
Call your senators today and demand that they vote NO on this bill.
ewar.ren
June 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This isn’t over—we can still stop the GOP bill. I’m staying in the fight for every baby who shouldn’t go hungry. Every senior who shouldn’t get kicked out of a nursing home. Every American who shouldn’t lose their health care.
Now is the time to call your senators.
Now is the time to call your senators.
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June 26, 2025.
Senators:
@jeff-merkley.bsky.social
@amyklobuchar.com
@murray.senate.gov
@heinrich.senate.gov
Told USDA:
(1) “immediately cease” plans to reduce USFS staffing
(2) send impounded FS funds to states and communities as required by law.
Appreciate a follower who passed this on.
Senators:
@jeff-merkley.bsky.social
@amyklobuchar.com
@murray.senate.gov
@heinrich.senate.gov
Told USDA:
(1) “immediately cease” plans to reduce USFS staffing
(2) send impounded FS funds to states and communities as required by law.
Appreciate a follower who passed this on.
Merkley, Murray, Heinrich, Klobuchar Demand Immediate Halt to Forest Service Reorganization, Funding Cuts - Merkley
Washington, D.C. – Senate Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chair Patty Murray (D-WA), Senate Energy and Natural...
www.merkley.senate.gov
June 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
June 26, 2025.
Senators:
@jeff-merkley.bsky.social
@amyklobuchar.com
@murray.senate.gov
@heinrich.senate.gov
Told USDA:
(1) “immediately cease” plans to reduce USFS staffing
(2) send impounded FS funds to states and communities as required by law.
Appreciate a follower who passed this on.
Senators:
@jeff-merkley.bsky.social
@amyklobuchar.com
@murray.senate.gov
@heinrich.senate.gov
Told USDA:
(1) “immediately cease” plans to reduce USFS staffing
(2) send impounded FS funds to states and communities as required by law.
Appreciate a follower who passed this on.
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Today is a major victory for our public lands. Thank YOU for your incredible outpouring in defense of our American birthright. Because of you, the lands that we cherish will remain OURS.
And to those already plotting to go after our public lands another way: Don’t. Unless you like losing.
And to those already plotting to go after our public lands another way: Don’t. Unless you like losing.
June 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Today is a major victory for our public lands. Thank YOU for your incredible outpouring in defense of our American birthright. Because of you, the lands that we cherish will remain OURS.
And to those already plotting to go after our public lands another way: Don’t. Unless you like losing.
And to those already plotting to go after our public lands another way: Don’t. Unless you like losing.
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Senator Lee, under pressure from colleagues and the public (that’s all of you!) has officially removed his land sale provision from the big abomination of a bill.
June 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Senator Lee, under pressure from colleagues and the public (that’s all of you!) has officially removed his land sale provision from the big abomination of a bill.
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During my first field season, my mentor—to their lasting credit—sat me down over a couple of pitchers of Schlitz in an Ogallala dive bar.
They said “You make it in this bizness either by being a genius or by working your ass off.
Mike, I’m no genius and neither are you.”
Pure gold.
They said “You make it in this bizness either by being a genius or by working your ass off.
Mike, I’m no genius and neither are you.”
Pure gold.
IMO the way you get a PhD is to just put your head down and work your ass off, while having the luck to avoid toxic PIs and get a grant here and there. Doesn’t mean you’re smart, more likely you’re too dumb to quit.
June 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
During my first field season, my mentor—to their lasting credit—sat me down over a couple of pitchers of Schlitz in an Ogallala dive bar.
They said “You make it in this bizness either by being a genius or by working your ass off.
Mike, I’m no genius and neither are you.”
Pure gold.
They said “You make it in this bizness either by being a genius or by working your ass off.
Mike, I’m no genius and neither are you.”
Pure gold.
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Where is the "I'd rather be launched into the sun" option
June 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Where is the "I'd rather be launched into the sun" option
New paper!
Here we use remote sensing to quantify the habitat associations of the black-capped vireo in Oklahoma and Texas.
academic.oup.com/condor/artic...
Here we use remote sensing to quantify the habitat associations of the black-capped vireo in Oklahoma and Texas.
academic.oup.com/condor/artic...
Shrub cover and height determine the density of Vireo atricapilla (Black-capped Vireo) at two national wildlife refuges
Abstract. Determining habitat associations for shrubland bird species can be challenging because of the structural and compositional complexity of shrublan
academic.oup.com
June 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
New paper!
Here we use remote sensing to quantify the habitat associations of the black-capped vireo in Oklahoma and Texas.
academic.oup.com/condor/artic...
Here we use remote sensing to quantify the habitat associations of the black-capped vireo in Oklahoma and Texas.
academic.oup.com/condor/artic...
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“The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation joined 43 other hunting, fishing and wildlife conservation organizations in a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer encouraging them to keep federal public land sales out of the budget reconciliation bill.”
RMEF Urges Senate to Keep Federal Public Land Sales Out of Budget Reconciliation Bill
The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation joined 43 other hunting, fishing and wildlife conservation organizations in a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate [...]
www.www.rmef-prod.eba-g4mzppwp.us-west-2.elasticbeanstalk.com
June 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
“The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation joined 43 other hunting, fishing and wildlife conservation organizations in a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer encouraging them to keep federal public land sales out of the budget reconciliation bill.”
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Protesters formed a human banner at Ocean Beach during the "No Kings" protests in San Francisco. The protest is among thousands of nationwide demonstrations that took place today against Trump.
📸: Photo by @santiagomejia.bsky.social
#NoKingsDay
📸: Photo by @santiagomejia.bsky.social
#NoKingsDay
June 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Protesters formed a human banner at Ocean Beach during the "No Kings" protests in San Francisco. The protest is among thousands of nationwide demonstrations that took place today against Trump.
📸: Photo by @santiagomejia.bsky.social
#NoKingsDay
📸: Photo by @santiagomejia.bsky.social
#NoKingsDay
Great turnout out in Oklahoma City for #nokingsday despite the pouring rain!
June 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Great turnout out in Oklahoma City for #nokingsday despite the pouring rain!