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Tyson Wepprich
@tysonwepprich.bsky.social
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Biologist in Oregon, forest mgmt, fire ecology, insect population trends, butterflies, biocontrol, climate change, SEIU member, he/him

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Michael Caterino @mcaterino.bsky.social · 1d
North Carolina Natural Heritage Program just posted two invertebrate biologist jobs (one aquatic, one terrestrial) to work on species of concern in Hurricane Helene-affected areas. We'll probably be collaborating with whomever they hire. Details here:

nc.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NC_Car...
Biologist - L&W65042657 HYBRID
Agency Dept of Natural and Cultural Resources Division Division of Land , Water Stewardship Job Classification Title Environmental Specialist I (NS) Position Number 65042657 Grade NC12 About Us The No...
nc.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com

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Elakha Alliance @elakhaalliance.bsky.social · 2d
Searching for something tangible to do to make a difference in your community 🤔? Look no further! Join us for a Wildlife Conservation Letter-Writing Party in #Eugene or #Portland coming up in the next several weeks.

#seaotters #1percentforwildlife #oregon #wildlife #wildlifeconservation

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Tyson Wepprich @tysonwepprich.bsky.social · 2d
oh no! I'm fascinated by one of its former projects and would gladly put a big tarp over that hole. bsky.app/profile/tyso...
tysonwepprich.bsky.social Tyson Wepprich @tysonwepprich.bsky.social · Oct 23
TIL about the Cyclocrane invented in the 80s for aerial logging. Did not pan out. Great video showing its test flights in Tillamook, Oregon www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiU7...

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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 3d
New on Entomology Today: A simple rubbing technique borrowed from grade-school art class offers a quick and effective way for scientists to measure damage to trees caused by bark beetles—and an accessible tool for engaging the public in forest entomology.
When Art Meets Science: A Rice-Paper Rubbing Technique for Measuring Bark Beetle Damage
A simple rubbing technique from grade-school art class offers an easy way for scientists to measure damage to trees caused by bark beetles.
entomologytoday.org

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Brittany Barker @brittanysbarker.bsky.social · 4d
📣Corvallis is a forming a new R-Ladies group and hosing their first event on Jan 22 at 5:30 pm at Common Fields. Details and an RSVP for the event are here: www.meetup.com/rladies-corv...

Please share widely!

@weare.rladies.org #Rstats #Rlang #R #oregon

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Emily Benson @erbenson1.bsky.social · 9d
Ever wish rocks could tell you their stories? Geologist and writer Marcia Bjornerud imagines how 10 Wyoming rocks would describe the world as it was when they formed for @highcountrynews.org's Deep Time issue: www.hcn.org/issues/58-1/...
Meet the oldest rock in the West - High Country News
An urban geologist goes to downtown Seattle and finds a rangeof rocks rivaling any assembled by plate tectonics.
www.hcn.org

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Julian Olden @oldenfish.bsky.social · 9d
National assessment of river protection in the U.S.

Article: doi.org/10.1038/s418...
Policy Brief: doi.org/10.1038/s418...
Rivers Explorer: map.myriver.americanrivers.org

Collaboration b/t American Rivers, Conservation Science Partners, Univ WA @americanrivers.bsky.social

Thread 👇 | DM for PDF
Image of river protection status in the United States

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Trevor Carter @trevorstreetalk.bsky.social · 10d
Anyone out there have thoughts on how to remove duplicates from NIFC fire polygon data? There are a lot of observations that aren't 100% matches (spelling errors, slight name differences) but are clearly the same fire. I don't think using an erase in terra will work because data span multiple years

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Tyson Wepprich @tysonwepprich.bsky.social · 19d
oh wow, mdpi special issue invitation on monarch butterfly conservation edited by a crank with very particular opinions about how they shouldn't be listed. thatsbait dot gif

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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · Dec 19
Now that we're at the end of the year, it's time to rave about my favorite science and nature writing of 2025. If you're looking for holiday reading material, here are 12 stories I loved from around the web, all free to read:
#SciComm #ScienceWriting #Bestof2025

ianrosewrites.com/2025/my-favo...
My Favorite (Free) Science Writing of 2025 - Ian Rose
ianrosewrites.com

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · Dec 19
Today at @unbreaking.org we have a big update to our page on transgender healthcare. A TIMELINE!!! And the explainer has been rewritten to be clearer and easier to follow (if not any less soul crushing).

If you need a primer on all the ways this administration is attacking gender affirming care:
Transgender Healthcare: Explainer — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org

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Emily May @emtomology.bsky.social · Dec 18
New study: backyard mosquito sprays lead to insecticide levels high enough to kill pollinators, and sprays travel easily into neighboring yards. stacksjournal.org/article/ande...
An initial assessment of risk to pollinators from mosquito control in residential settings - Stacks Journal
Peer-reviewed research - An initial assessment of risk to pollinators from mosquito control in residential settings
stacksjournal.org

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Zach Urness @oregonoutdoors.bsky.social · Dec 18
Today’s incoming atmospheric river could bring one of the bigger flooding events of the past decade in Oregon, NWS meteorologists said, with around 16-18 streams currently forecast to see some level of flooding. Wind and wet soils could also bring widespread outages: tinyurl.com/34fptzsy

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · Dec 16
Fun collab w an awesome group of ecologists, led by Jenn Williams and Tom Miller! Linking Climate and Demography to Predict PopulationDynamics and Persistence Under Global Change dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Linking Climate and Demography to Predict Population Dynamics and Persistence Under Global Change
Predicting how climate change will affect the population dynamics and ultimately persistence of plant and animal populations is a grand challenge in biodiversity science and global change biology. Co...
dx.doi.org

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · Dec 16
ICYMI (I did): homeowners in WA State filed a class action law suit against big oil companies for skyrocketing insurance rates caused by climate harms, including forest fire risks and flooding. 1/
Homeowners Sue Oil Companies as Climate Damage Drives up Insurance Rates - Inside Climate News
The class-action lawsuit is the first of its kind to target Big Oil over rising home insurance costs.
insideclimatenews.org

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Tyson Wepprich @tysonwepprich.bsky.social · Dec 16
Is that a long lag time for movement after the clearcut by Weyerhaeuser about 15 years ago?

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Jeff Moore @utahgeohaz.bsky.social · Dec 16
Massive landslide Friday closes Highway 229 between Siletz and Kernville, damaging homes and sending debris into river:
lincolnchronicle.org/massive-land...
📷ODOT
An aerial photo from the Oregon Department of Transportation shows the top of the hill above the Siletz River where Friday morning’s landside began before hitting residential properties below and ending up in the river.

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Jamie C. Weir @jamiecweir.bsky.social · Dec 15
Very pleased to announce that my recent paper in Oecologia "Trophic generalism in the winter moth: a model species for phenological mismatch" won the journal's 2024 Ehleringer Prize for student research! 🏆

You can read more about the paper and the award below 👇

link.springer.com/journal/442/...

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · Dec 10
I started getting reports of an unseasonal Joshua tree bloom in the last few weeks, and looking over records on @inaturalist.bsky.social it's pretty widespread! So we're putting out the call for folks to record this "bonus bloom" and help us study it 🌿

lab.jbyoder.org/2025/12/10/w...
Weird wet weather has Joshua trees flowering early — or late? Help the Yoder Lab map this “bonus bloom” to understand why
A flowering tree in Yucca Valley, CA, observed by iNaturalist contributor wanderingmojave on December 9. A tree with lots of flowers in Tehachapi, CA, observed by iNaturalist contributor tina9294 o…
lab.jbyoder.org

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Tyson Wepprich @tysonwepprich.bsky.social · Dec 10
Mississippi seems to have a long-term increasing trend in test scores, which is great! Probably not due to a silver bullet switch in reading that happened partway through the long-term trend.

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Tyson Wepprich @tysonwepprich.bsky.social · Dec 10
Essential pairing for this reading is a statistician examining the potential biases in the MS miracle: statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/01/h...

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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · Dec 9
Did you consume too much depressing news on your timeline? Here's your palate cleanser from @dradriansmith.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJNa...
Caterpillars Are THE BEST! Here’s why.
YouTube video by Ant Lab
www.youtube.com

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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · Dec 4
What are the most pressing questions
about the status of #insects? Our survey is available here in multiple languages: bit.ly/insectquestions! #insect #entomology #biodiversity
A QR code for the survey

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · Dec 3
Right now, Oregonians should listen very hard to @opbkmhdcreators.bsky.social union. The voices you hear on the radio at OPB are generally poorly-compensated, some working two jobs, and the wage gap between the CEO and the actual journalists is a gap of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Benjamin Wildermuth @bmwildermuth.bsky.social · Dec 2
New study on arthropod declines @natecoevo.nature.com 🪲

In two time series @jena-experiment.bsky.social & @bexplo.bsky.social we show how community (dis)assembly underpins local biomass declines.

It mostly boils down to species loss, with identity losing relevance.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Tyson Wepprich @tysonwepprich.bsky.social · Nov 24
Fun fact that St. Louis metro has 10.1 governments per 100,000 residents (Table 1)
bhighsmith.bsky.social Brian Highsmith @bhighsmith.bsky.social · Nov 24
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

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Charlotte H. Chang @harpactes.bsky.social · Nov 24
Incredibly proud of my former student, Rohan Gowda Thanh Quang. His new paper in 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩: 𝘌𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 analyzed $128B in US climate investments & finds that 𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘁-𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 - especially nature-based solutions. Results in 🧵: 1/9

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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · Nov 24
Even your older nature photos can help scientists today! As long as you know when and where you took the photos, you can post your nature sightings on iNaturalist anytime — and they'll still contribute to science and conservation. Got anything in your camera roll to share? 👀
A close-up photo of bright green moss. White text reads "Your old nature photos can help scientists today." A photo of a small garden snail perched at the center of a yellow flower. White text reads "As long as you know the dates and locations where you took them, you can post your older photos of wild nature to iNaturalist! Older records of nature can (and do) contribute to ongoing science and conservation efforts — just like new ones do. What's in your camera roll?"

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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · Nov 24
Disturbance interactions have profound consequences for forest health, yet remain poorly understood.

Here we use DAGs to differentiate #Synergisms, #CompoundDisturbances & #NetworkEffects and review the impacts of climate change.

Final version out now! 🧪🌐🍁🌱
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...