Matt Wuensch
@mattwuensch.bsky.social
Wildlife ecologist | Mammal landscape use and resource selection | Postdoc at Michigan State University | Keen on wild places and the things that inhabit them | he/him
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Folks, backcountry hunters and anglers are flooding the lines today - the goal is 25,000 calls and emails opposing public land sales. They’ve got a handy tool to contact your reps here. Make your voice heard! www.backcountryhunters.org/take_action?...
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Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is the voice for our wild public lands, waters and wildlife.
www.backcountryhunters.org
June 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Folks, backcountry hunters and anglers are flooding the lines today - the goal is 25,000 calls and emails opposing public land sales. They’ve got a handy tool to contact your reps here. Make your voice heard! www.backcountryhunters.org/take_action?...
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I'm looking for a postdoc in quantitative ecology / macroecology to start in summer/fall 2025 in my lab at Oklahoma State University. Please spread the word
www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities
www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities
May 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I'm looking for a postdoc in quantitative ecology / macroecology to start in summer/fall 2025 in my lab at Oklahoma State University. Please spread the word
www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities
www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities
Words cannot describe what we'll be losing if these cuts go through.
Feared this was coming. It will suck to lose the job I have loved for 19 years. If this goes through, it will gut the science capacity that helps us understand and conserve fish, wildlife, and our natural world. Expecting the RIF notices to go out end of this coming week.
Fate of Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit staffers — Matt Kauffman, Anna Chalfoun and Annika Walters — remains unclear, but Trump administration cuts have led to widespread suspicion that their days on the job are numbered.
May 17, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Words cannot describe what we'll be losing if these cuts go through.
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JOB ALERT! We are hiring two seasonal field technicians for mid July - mid October to conduct research on mule deer in the Santa Monica Mountains, CA. The project is a collaboration between UC Davis and NPS. Ungulate capture experience preferred. Please share! jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
Mule Deer Field Technician | Natural Resources Job Board
jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu
April 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
JOB ALERT! We are hiring two seasonal field technicians for mid July - mid October to conduct research on mule deer in the Santa Monica Mountains, CA. The project is a collaboration between UC Davis and NPS. Ungulate capture experience preferred. Please share! jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
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Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏
April 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏
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Trump Signs Executive Order Making Official Language Of U.S. Remedial English
Trump Signs Executive Order Making Official Language Of U.S. Remedial English
WASHINGTON—In a move designed to promote unity and establish efficiency at the federal level, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday making the nation’s official language remedial Eng...
theonion.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Trump Signs Executive Order Making Official Language Of U.S. Remedial English
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The black-footed ferret has been coming back from the brink of extinction thanks to the work of US government scientists. They just got fired. www.vox.com/down-to-eart...
This animal is on the edge of extinction. Trump just fired the people trying to save it.
Job cuts and frozen funding could inch one of the world’s rarest species even closer to extinction.
www.vox.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The black-footed ferret has been coming back from the brink of extinction thanks to the work of US government scientists. They just got fired. www.vox.com/down-to-eart...
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Of course many federal workers can just “find another job”. But the point is that the jobs we do are done for the *public good*. There are no private sector corollaries. We do things that are largely not profitable and that is on purpose. We do work that benefits everyone, if sometimes indirectly.
February 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Of course many federal workers can just “find another job”. But the point is that the jobs we do are done for the *public good*. There are no private sector corollaries. We do things that are largely not profitable and that is on purpose. We do work that benefits everyone, if sometimes indirectly.
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That’s how you write a headline, people.
February 19, 2025 at 5:29 AM
That’s how you write a headline, people.
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Fellow Mammalogists.
As many of you are aware, science is in a state of turmoil in the United States. Recent efforts to drastically reduce government workforces and research funding for science will lead to many adverse consequences for Earth’s remaining natural ecosystems.
As many of you are aware, science is in a state of turmoil in the United States. Recent efforts to drastically reduce government workforces and research funding for science will lead to many adverse consequences for Earth’s remaining natural ecosystems.
February 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Fellow Mammalogists.
As many of you are aware, science is in a state of turmoil in the United States. Recent efforts to drastically reduce government workforces and research funding for science will lead to many adverse consequences for Earth’s remaining natural ecosystems.
As many of you are aware, science is in a state of turmoil in the United States. Recent efforts to drastically reduce government workforces and research funding for science will lead to many adverse consequences for Earth’s remaining natural ecosystems.
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Are there Canadian and European job boards/list-serves like ECOLOG and the Texas A&M job board?
February 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Are there Canadian and European job boards/list-serves like ECOLOG and the Texas A&M job board?
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New paper out led by Ilaria Greco in @plosbiology.org : Landscape-level human disturbance results in loss and contraction of mammalian populations in tropical forest. A huge effort with a global team! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Landscape-level human disturbance results in loss and contraction of mammalian populations in tropical forests
Tropical forests hold most of Earth’s biodiversity and a higher concentration of threatened mammals than other biomes. This study uses a standardized pan-tropical dataset of 239 mammal species from 37...
journals.plos.org
February 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
New paper out led by Ilaria Greco in @plosbiology.org : Landscape-level human disturbance results in loss and contraction of mammalian populations in tropical forest. A huge effort with a global team! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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NSF PRFB POSTDOCS:
Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs.
If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite
Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs.
If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite
January 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
NSF PRFB POSTDOCS:
Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs.
If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite
Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs.
If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite
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If you are searching Google scholar to try and find a paper, but the paper doesn’t exist: that’s the paper you need to write
January 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
If you are searching Google scholar to try and find a paper, but the paper doesn’t exist: that’s the paper you need to write
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I am recruiting two funded graduate students (1 MS, 1 PhD) to join the lab and the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences program at Oregon State University!
If you are into population ecology and a combination of fieldwork and modeling - then check this out!
Please share/repost widely!
If you are into population ecology and a combination of fieldwork and modeling - then check this out!
Please share/repost widely!
January 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I am recruiting two funded graduate students (1 MS, 1 PhD) to join the lab and the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences program at Oregon State University!
If you are into population ecology and a combination of fieldwork and modeling - then check this out!
Please share/repost widely!
If you are into population ecology and a combination of fieldwork and modeling - then check this out!
Please share/repost widely!
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Whenever I see misinformation on here related to topics in which I have expertise, I struggle to choose between the two paths:
(1) Correct the misinformation, or;
(2) as a mentor once advised me, “don’t wrestle with pigs, because you’ll get dirty and they love it.”
I usually pick the latter.
(1) Correct the misinformation, or;
(2) as a mentor once advised me, “don’t wrestle with pigs, because you’ll get dirty and they love it.”
I usually pick the latter.
December 24, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Whenever I see misinformation on here related to topics in which I have expertise, I struggle to choose between the two paths:
(1) Correct the misinformation, or;
(2) as a mentor once advised me, “don’t wrestle with pigs, because you’ll get dirty and they love it.”
I usually pick the latter.
(1) Correct the misinformation, or;
(2) as a mentor once advised me, “don’t wrestle with pigs, because you’ll get dirty and they love it.”
I usually pick the latter.
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Fuck.
Trump to discuss ending childhood vaccination programs with RFK Jr.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in an interview published on Thursday said he will be talking to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services, about ending childhood vaccination programs.
www.reuters.com
December 13, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Fuck.
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I'm fully in favor of just filling everyone's feed with camera trap photos of hungry bears.
December 4, 2024 at 1:03 AM
I'm fully in favor of just filling everyone's feed with camera trap photos of hungry bears.
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An exciting PhD opportunity to investigate the migration strategies of a fascinating tropical #seabird with a unique long-term geolocator dataset and great supervisory team! 🤩
www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🔗
#ornithology #seabirds #RoundIslandPetrels
www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🔗
#ornithology #seabirds #RoundIslandPetrels
November 29, 2024 at 12:34 PM
An exciting PhD opportunity to investigate the migration strategies of a fascinating tropical #seabird with a unique long-term geolocator dataset and great supervisory team! 🤩
www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🔗
#ornithology #seabirds #RoundIslandPetrels
www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🔗
#ornithology #seabirds #RoundIslandPetrels
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Just remember that for the next few years you study the “long term variation and trends in weather conditions, typically over periods of 30 years or longer”
November 29, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Just remember that for the next few years you study the “long term variation and trends in weather conditions, typically over periods of 30 years or longer”