Traveling to the northern reaches of upper Michigan today. You would simply not believe the volume of Edmund Fitzgerald content I’m being served
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Traveling to the northern reaches of upper Michigan today. You would simply not believe the volume of Edmund Fitzgerald content I’m being served
Wake up babe sesame street just dropped some new iconic scicomm
October 21, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Wake up babe sesame street just dropped some new iconic scicomm
In such a beautiful piece about cultural burning, I was able to share a bit of my own work on how “good fire” can bring a host of benefits to wildlife and forests. Thanks @sadbumblebee.buzz for including me. And what a great spotlight on fire as a form of art, deeply human.
In June, the @washingtonpost.com sent me and @byaliceli.bsky.social to witness cultural burns in California. We learned how they encourage beneficial vegetation, reduce wildfire risk, and provide traditional food and craft sources for tribes in the Klamath region.
🎁: wapo.st/3J7BQTL
🎁: wapo.st/3J7BQTL
How indigenous practices can help protect forests
The Post followed cultural burning practices, an Indigenous tradition now permitted under California law and used to help protect forests from wildfires.
wapo.st
October 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
In such a beautiful piece about cultural burning, I was able to share a bit of my own work on how “good fire” can bring a host of benefits to wildlife and forests. Thanks @sadbumblebee.buzz for including me. And what a great spotlight on fire as a form of art, deeply human.
Gaussian, beta, Poisson
University general counsel, university trustee, university president
October 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Gaussian, beta, Poisson
My beard has crossed the size threshold where random dudes will give me a “hell yeah” in public
September 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
My beard has crossed the size threshold where random dudes will give me a “hell yeah” in public
Got soaked on my bike home today like a cartoon character with a cloud directly over my head
September 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Got soaked on my bike home today like a cartoon character with a cloud directly over my head
Absolutely love this study. This is the type of creative experimentation we need to understand fire adaptations in animals. Huge kudos to Chris et al!
New paper out today with @biodiversityguy.bsky.social and @lizardlab.bsky.social
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
From anecdote to evidence: experimental validation of fire-cue recognition in Australian sleepy lizards | Biology Letters
Fire has shaped the evolution of both plants and animals. Animals exposed to fire throughout their evolutionary history are predicted to exhibit behavioural adaptations that enhance survival during fire. Here, we investigated whether Australian sleepy ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
September 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Absolutely love this study. This is the type of creative experimentation we need to understand fire adaptations in animals. Huge kudos to Chris et al!
Last summer while doing surveys in Glacier NP we found PLASTIC HAIRBRUSH BRISTLES in a pika haypile in a remote part of the park. Why?? How?? We don’t know. So of course we speculated about it in a short natural history note.
Link: doi.org/10.1898/NWN2...
RG: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Link: doi.org/10.1898/NWN2...
RG: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
September 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Last summer while doing surveys in Glacier NP we found PLASTIC HAIRBRUSH BRISTLES in a pika haypile in a remote part of the park. Why?? How?? We don’t know. So of course we speculated about it in a short natural history note.
Link: doi.org/10.1898/NWN2...
RG: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Link: doi.org/10.1898/NWN2...
RG: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
my new computer has two versions of the outlook app. “Outlook” and “Outlook (classic)” , this is cursed
September 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
my new computer has two versions of the outlook app. “Outlook” and “Outlook (classic)” , this is cursed
We have a new paper developing methods for looking at bird-fire macroecology. What’s most fascinating to me is that the magnitude *and* direction of fire effects can vary enormously across a species range. Stationarity is dead!! Long live non-stationarity!!
doi.org/10.1002/fee....
doi.org/10.1002/fee....
Evaluating macroecological fire impacts on bird populations
Fire regimes are context-dependent, as are the ways that animals respond. However, most information on animal responses to fire comes from short-term local field studies, which are hard to extrapolat....
doi.org
September 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We have a new paper developing methods for looking at bird-fire macroecology. What’s most fascinating to me is that the magnitude *and* direction of fire effects can vary enormously across a species range. Stationarity is dead!! Long live non-stationarity!!
doi.org/10.1002/fee....
doi.org/10.1002/fee....
This is well researched. But I bristle at the idea of this as a “scientific standoff.” A hallmark of science is that there are almost always contrary paradigms challenging the dominant one. But you have to know when the weight of evidence is on different planets.
news.mongabay.com/2025/08/old-...
news.mongabay.com/2025/08/old-...
Old forests, new fires, and a scientific standoff over active management
This is the second installment of Mongabay’s coverage of active management tools for forest fires. Read Part 1. Photographs of forests in the western U.S. from the mid-1800s show a starkly different r...
news.mongabay.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This is well researched. But I bristle at the idea of this as a “scientific standoff.” A hallmark of science is that there are almost always contrary paradigms challenging the dominant one. But you have to know when the weight of evidence is on different planets.
news.mongabay.com/2025/08/old-...
news.mongabay.com/2025/08/old-...
Statisticians love writing papers titled “A simple introduction to _____” followed by the most impenetrable and byzantine prose you have ever seen
September 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Statisticians love writing papers titled “A simple introduction to _____” followed by the most impenetrable and byzantine prose you have ever seen
Whenever I need a little dopamine hit I remember how the senior academic who bullied me throughout grad school and publicly demanded I retract my “bad science” made a wikipedia page for *himself* that has a warning banner at the top: “may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for academics”
September 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Whenever I need a little dopamine hit I remember how the senior academic who bullied me throughout grad school and publicly demanded I retract my “bad science” made a wikipedia page for *himself* that has a warning banner at the top: “may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for academics”
I further regret to inform you form you there is an MDPI journal called Wild
I regret to inform you there is an MDPI journal called Ecologies
August 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I further regret to inform you form you there is an MDPI journal called Wild
I regret to inform you there is an MDPI journal called Ecologies
August 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I regret to inform you there is an MDPI journal called Ecologies
Doing some writing, fell down a google scholar hole, just found myself typing “plant radiations during the Carboniferous” and I may have lost the plot
August 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Doing some writing, fell down a google scholar hole, just found myself typing “plant radiations during the Carboniferous” and I may have lost the plot
Gonna skoot out some threads of recent papers that my alter ego refused to publicize
August 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Gonna skoot out some threads of recent papers that my alter ego refused to publicize
Listening to the hit song ‘liquidize’ on the new album ‘moisturizer’ by the band ‘wet leg’
August 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Listening to the hit song ‘liquidize’ on the new album ‘moisturizer’ by the band ‘wet leg’
Ok bug ppl… WHAT am I looking at here (Albuquerque NM). I’ve had multiple ppl send me videos of these THIS MORNING. Is this the beginning of the insect takeover
August 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Ok bug ppl… WHAT am I looking at here (Albuquerque NM). I’ve had multiple ppl send me videos of these THIS MORNING. Is this the beginning of the insect takeover
This is bananas. Our world is so beautiful and mysterious
This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
August 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
This is bananas. Our world is so beautiful and mysterious
Working on a paper with @fletcherecology.bsky.social, happened to turn on an album I listened to lots during my postdoc in his lab at UF. You know how music can transport you sometimes? Anyway, exciting work about habitat fragmentation and habitat heterogeneity loading…
July 31, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Working on a paper with @fletcherecology.bsky.social, happened to turn on an album I listened to lots during my postdoc in his lab at UF. You know how music can transport you sometimes? Anyway, exciting work about habitat fragmentation and habitat heterogeneity loading…
FS research currently being brought to its knees because we discovered “dancing pickle” emoji in microsoft teams chat
July 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
FS research currently being brought to its knees because we discovered “dancing pickle” emoji in microsoft teams chat
I love the energy of ppl who don’t put “ornithology” or “avian ecology” as areas of interest on their google scholar profiles, and instead just go with “birds”
July 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I love the energy of ppl who don’t put “ornithology” or “avian ecology” as areas of interest on their google scholar profiles, and instead just go with “birds”
Good bye Tony pancake
July 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Good bye Tony pancake