Brian Hiller
@bhiller.bsky.social
Wildlife Prof., lover of all things fishing, birds, & baseball.
This morning I took my Ornithology lab to watch Greater Prairie chickens boom in NW MN. They did not disappoint! This bird was about 20 yds from my feet. (Sound up!!)
April 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This morning I took my Ornithology lab to watch Greater Prairie chickens boom in NW MN. They did not disappoint! This bird was about 20 yds from my feet. (Sound up!!)
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Amphibian migration season is coming this spring. Remember to drive slow!
March 6, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Amphibian migration season is coming this spring. Remember to drive slow!
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"A little disturbance but we're okay with that."
March 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
"A little disturbance but we're okay with that."
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As I read comments on social media posts about NOAA, I am calling on all of my broadcast media friends to do a story about everything that NOAA does for the public.
March 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
As I read comments on social media posts about NOAA, I am calling on all of my broadcast media friends to do a story about everything that NOAA does for the public.
Please pass this announcement around your networks. We're seeking a non-game wildlife biology faculty member. Email me with questions.
jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
Assistant or Associate Professor of Wildlife Biology | Natural Resources Job Board
jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu
March 4, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Please pass this announcement around your networks. We're seeking a non-game wildlife biology faculty member. Email me with questions.
jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
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The firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are “going to affect safety of flight, safety of shipping, safety of everyday Americans,” Admiral Tim Gallaudet, who was acting NOAA chief during the first Trump term, told the AP. “Lives are at risk for sure.”
Firing workers from US weather and oceans agency risks lives and the economy, former agency heads warn
NOAA's 301 billion weather forecasts every year reach 96% of American households.
buff.ly
March 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are “going to affect safety of flight, safety of shipping, safety of everyday Americans,” Admiral Tim Gallaudet, who was acting NOAA chief during the first Trump term, told the AP. “Lives are at risk for sure.”
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Welp this is horrifying. These researchers quantified the "stratigraphy" of plastic waste used in Common Coot nests. Using expiration dates, they found one nest that contained 635 (!!!) pieces of trash, including plastic dating back to 1991.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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February 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Welp this is horrifying. These researchers quantified the "stratigraphy" of plastic waste used in Common Coot nests. Using expiration dates, they found one nest that contained 635 (!!!) pieces of trash, including plastic dating back to 1991.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Trump and Elon just began firing hundreds of NOAA workers serving “mission-critical and life-saving roles.”
These climate experts and forecasters are crucial to tracking natural disasters like hurricanes.
Make no mistake, their terminations will cause preventable deaths.
These climate experts and forecasters are crucial to tracking natural disasters like hurricanes.
Make no mistake, their terminations will cause preventable deaths.
Hundreds of weather forecasters fired in latest wave of DOGE cuts
Federal workers who were not let go said the afternoon layoffs included meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the U.S.
apnews.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Trump and Elon just began firing hundreds of NOAA workers serving “mission-critical and life-saving roles.”
These climate experts and forecasters are crucial to tracking natural disasters like hurricanes.
Make no mistake, their terminations will cause preventable deaths.
These climate experts and forecasters are crucial to tracking natural disasters like hurricanes.
Make no mistake, their terminations will cause preventable deaths.
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Folks, this isn't complicated!
Someone who says "of course I support protecting the environment," but then slashes the budget of the *Environmental Protection Agency*, does not actually support protecting the environment!
There's no need to pretend there's some secret brilliant principle here!
Someone who says "of course I support protecting the environment," but then slashes the budget of the *Environmental Protection Agency*, does not actually support protecting the environment!
There's no need to pretend there's some secret brilliant principle here!
February 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Folks, this isn't complicated!
Someone who says "of course I support protecting the environment," but then slashes the budget of the *Environmental Protection Agency*, does not actually support protecting the environment!
There's no need to pretend there's some secret brilliant principle here!
Someone who says "of course I support protecting the environment," but then slashes the budget of the *Environmental Protection Agency*, does not actually support protecting the environment!
There's no need to pretend there's some secret brilliant principle here!
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Every single Democratic governor and attorney general needs to do this -- if only to make it clear to voters *right now* that the firings and funding freezes that are about to hurt their states badly are the work of Trump-Musk in Washington.
Get ahead of this now, or get blamed for it later.
Get ahead of this now, or get blamed for it later.
Arizona AG Kris Mayes, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez, and Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE funding freezes across the country."
The first will be in Phoenix March 5.
The first will be in Phoenix March 5.
February 27, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Every single Democratic governor and attorney general needs to do this -- if only to make it clear to voters *right now* that the firings and funding freezes that are about to hurt their states badly are the work of Trump-Musk in Washington.
Get ahead of this now, or get blamed for it later.
Get ahead of this now, or get blamed for it later.
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National Forest Service
193 MILLION acreas
154 National Forests
20 National Grasslands
Firing Forest Service workers will negatively impact communities near National Forests as well as hurt those who want to partake of the beauty and wonder of our National Forests
Trump & Republicans don't care
193 MILLION acreas
154 National Forests
20 National Grasslands
Firing Forest Service workers will negatively impact communities near National Forests as well as hurt those who want to partake of the beauty and wonder of our National Forests
Trump & Republicans don't care
February 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
National Forest Service
193 MILLION acreas
154 National Forests
20 National Grasslands
Firing Forest Service workers will negatively impact communities near National Forests as well as hurt those who want to partake of the beauty and wonder of our National Forests
Trump & Republicans don't care
193 MILLION acreas
154 National Forests
20 National Grasslands
Firing Forest Service workers will negatively impact communities near National Forests as well as hurt those who want to partake of the beauty and wonder of our National Forests
Trump & Republicans don't care
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The Lesser Prairie-Chicken is the focus of new bills in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, with some legislators seeking to permanently remove the species from the Endangered Species Act (ESA). 🪶
If successful, this effort will be catastrophic for this icon of the American West. 🧵
If successful, this effort will be catastrophic for this icon of the American West. 🧵
February 7, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The Lesser Prairie-Chicken is the focus of new bills in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, with some legislators seeking to permanently remove the species from the Endangered Species Act (ESA). 🪶
If successful, this effort will be catastrophic for this icon of the American West. 🧵
If successful, this effort will be catastrophic for this icon of the American West. 🧵
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We collectively haven’t been taking the plans laid out by Project 2025 seriously enough. They want to destroy NOAA so people won’t know that climate change is happening. It sounds stupid and alarmist if you haven’t been paying attention.
Project 2025 plan calls for demolition of NOAA and National Weather Service
The call to dismantle the United States' vital weather department has raised the hackles of experts who say NOAA provides not only important free data but also life-saving information.
www.latimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 10:17 AM
We collectively haven’t been taking the plans laid out by Project 2025 seriously enough. They want to destroy NOAA so people won’t know that climate change is happening. It sounds stupid and alarmist if you haven’t been paying attention.
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I wonder if people know we’re about to lose college sports unless Congress takes action? Maybe then people will finally start caring about the attacks on higher education? Has anyone told the sports betting community?
Maybe there’s already a pool going for which universities go under first.
Maybe there’s already a pool going for which universities go under first.
February 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I wonder if people know we’re about to lose college sports unless Congress takes action? Maybe then people will finally start caring about the attacks on higher education? Has anyone told the sports betting community?
Maybe there’s already a pool going for which universities go under first.
Maybe there’s already a pool going for which universities go under first.
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Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
February 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.