Kevin McCluney
@mcclunatory.bsky.social
#Ecologist studying aspects of #GlobalChange in #aquatic and #terrestrial ecosystems at Bowling Green State University in OH, USA. Host of BGSU Science Café. He/him/his
https://blogs.bgsu.edu/mccluneylab/
https://blogs.bgsu.edu/mccluneylab/
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Wetlands are rare and exceptional, even small ones.
Intrinsically valuable, they also:
🌱 Offer habitat for plants, insects, amphibians and birds
🌊 Absorb stormwater, buffering against floods
🌍 Filter and reduce pollutants, improving water quality
Learn more with the Convention on Wetlands 👇
Intrinsically valuable, they also:
🌱 Offer habitat for plants, insects, amphibians and birds
🌊 Absorb stormwater, buffering against floods
🌍 Filter and reduce pollutants, improving water quality
Learn more with the Convention on Wetlands 👇
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Wetlands are rare and exceptional, even small ones.
Intrinsically valuable, they also:
🌱 Offer habitat for plants, insects, amphibians and birds
🌊 Absorb stormwater, buffering against floods
🌍 Filter and reduce pollutants, improving water quality
Learn more with the Convention on Wetlands 👇
Intrinsically valuable, they also:
🌱 Offer habitat for plants, insects, amphibians and birds
🌊 Absorb stormwater, buffering against floods
🌍 Filter and reduce pollutants, improving water quality
Learn more with the Convention on Wetlands 👇
This is an excellent write up about findings from our H2Ohio wetland monitoring. 🧪🌎🌱💧
insideclimatenews.org/news/2310202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2310202...
Ohio Has Invested Millions in Wetlands to Catch Nutrient Runoff From Farms. A New Report Suggests It’s Working. - Inside Climate News
The annual report from the H2Ohio Wetland Monitoring Program found all of the wetlands examined successfully trapped nutrients and shed new light on possible best practices.
insideclimatenews.org
October 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
This is an excellent write up about findings from our H2Ohio wetland monitoring. 🧪🌎🌱💧
insideclimatenews.org/news/2310202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2310202...
New pub! 5 yrs in the making, the result of dedication of an awesome interdisciplinary team, the paper lays out a new approach to link social, ecological, and evolutionary processes that influence urban animals, through traits, aiming to improve management. 🌎
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
An integrated social–ecological–evolutionary–phenotypic (SEEP) approach to understanding animal responses to urbanization
Humans play key roles in shaping the structure and processes of ecosystems globally, especially in cities. This recognition has prompted a recent focus on understanding urban systems via interactions....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
New pub! 5 yrs in the making, the result of dedication of an awesome interdisciplinary team, the paper lays out a new approach to link social, ecological, and evolutionary processes that influence urban animals, through traits, aiming to improve management. 🌎
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Come work with me! We are hiring a new TT Aquatic Ecologist (Assistant Professor), affiliated with my department and the Center for Great Lakes and Watershed Studies. Please spread the word. Thanks!
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Assistant Professor - Biological Sciences
The Department of Biological Sciences at Bowling Green State University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position with a start date of August 2026. This is a full-time, 9-mo...
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October 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Come work with me! We are hiring a new TT Aquatic Ecologist (Assistant Professor), affiliated with my department and the Center for Great Lakes and Watershed Studies. Please spread the word. Thanks!
🌎
www.schooljobs.com/careers/bgsu...
🌎
www.schooljobs.com/careers/bgsu...
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(Bee) Sex in the city: As part of a recent study led by Muzafar Sirohi, we explored how urban conditions might be influencing the timing of bee emergence and the sex ratios of different species. Read more about it here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/08/08/b...
#pollinators #bees #biodiversity #ecology
#pollinators #bees #biodiversity #ecology
(Bee) Sex in the city: a new study shows how urban life skews pollinator populations
Bees are among the most important pollinators in the natural world, quietly sustaining ecosystems and food production. While honeybees often steal the spotlight, a vast number of solitary and primi…
jeffollerton.co.uk
August 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
(Bee) Sex in the city: As part of a recent study led by Muzafar Sirohi, we explored how urban conditions might be influencing the timing of bee emergence and the sex ratios of different species. Read more about it here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/08/08/b...
#pollinators #bees #biodiversity #ecology
#pollinators #bees #biodiversity #ecology
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EVs Pay Off Their Carbon Debt in Just 2 Years — After That, It’s No Contest
Electric cars now emit up to 71% less than gas vehicles — and every mile makes the gap wider. www.autoblog.com/news/evs-pay...
Electric cars now emit up to 71% less than gas vehicles — and every mile makes the gap wider. www.autoblog.com/news/evs-pay...
EVs Pay Off Their Carbon Debt in Just 2 Years | BEV Lifecycle Benefits
Discover how U.S. battery electric vehicles offset their higher manufacturing emissions within 2 years of driving and deliver 41–71% lower lifetime greenhouse gases than gas cars.
www.autoblog.com
July 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
EVs Pay Off Their Carbon Debt in Just 2 Years — After That, It’s No Contest
Electric cars now emit up to 71% less than gas vehicles — and every mile makes the gap wider. www.autoblog.com/news/evs-pay...
Electric cars now emit up to 71% less than gas vehicles — and every mile makes the gap wider. www.autoblog.com/news/evs-pay...
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Let’s talk about weather balloons—a.k.a. radiosondes—and why recent cuts to NWS staffing and balloon launch schedules are putting the public at risk (eg., Deaths in Texas). No satellite or model can replace what these humble balloons do. Here's why. 🧵
July 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Let’s talk about weather balloons—a.k.a. radiosondes—and why recent cuts to NWS staffing and balloon launch schedules are putting the public at risk (eg., Deaths in Texas). No satellite or model can replace what these humble balloons do. Here's why. 🧵
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I think most people (myself included) don’t have an intuition for orders of magnitude (e.g., the difference between millionaire and billionaire).
One way to appreciate this is time, since we all experience it. Here's the difference between a thousand, a million, and a billion seconds.
One way to appreciate this is time, since we all experience it. Here's the difference between a thousand, a million, and a billion seconds.
September 18, 2024 at 10:29 AM
I think most people (myself included) don’t have an intuition for orders of magnitude (e.g., the difference between millionaire and billionaire).
One way to appreciate this is time, since we all experience it. Here's the difference between a thousand, a million, and a billion seconds.
One way to appreciate this is time, since we all experience it. Here's the difference between a thousand, a million, and a billion seconds.
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Photographed a LOT of handsome salticids in Costa Rica, but these Anasaitis canalis males were the fanciest! ✨💙 Very difficult to shoot - not just tiny - but super skittish too!
In situ, stack (3 shots?), Pentax, Laowa 25mm
Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica - ground level, shaded areas w/ tree cover
In situ, stack (3 shots?), Pentax, Laowa 25mm
Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica - ground level, shaded areas w/ tree cover
June 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Photographed a LOT of handsome salticids in Costa Rica, but these Anasaitis canalis males were the fanciest! ✨💙 Very difficult to shoot - not just tiny - but super skittish too!
In situ, stack (3 shots?), Pentax, Laowa 25mm
Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica - ground level, shaded areas w/ tree cover
In situ, stack (3 shots?), Pentax, Laowa 25mm
Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica - ground level, shaded areas w/ tree cover
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If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
June 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
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In case you couldn't bear to read all the way to the end (understandable), here is the proposed picture for the BIO Directorate.
May 31, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Meet Eupholus geoffroyi, a beetle 🪲 from New Guinea that glows blue through structural coloration 👉 microscopic scales bend light to create its shimmer! 🌈
Feeding on yam leaves, it shapes plant-herbivore dynamics in tropical forests.
#Biodiful 🌍
photo (c) Chien C. Lee
Feeding on yam leaves, it shapes plant-herbivore dynamics in tropical forests.
#Biodiful 🌍
photo (c) Chien C. Lee
May 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Meet Eupholus geoffroyi, a beetle 🪲 from New Guinea that glows blue through structural coloration 👉 microscopic scales bend light to create its shimmer! 🌈
Feeding on yam leaves, it shapes plant-herbivore dynamics in tropical forests.
#Biodiful 🌍
photo (c) Chien C. Lee
Feeding on yam leaves, it shapes plant-herbivore dynamics in tropical forests.
#Biodiful 🌍
photo (c) Chien C. Lee
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“The NSF can be understood not only as a catalyst of scientific promise for national purpose, but also as a guarded response to fears about centralized control over knowledge and thought, shaped by the dark shadows of the Third Reich and the emerging Red Scare.”
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
May 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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The Merlin Bird ID app wouldn’t exist #WithoutNSF. 🪶
I've been taking early walks in the park to watch and listen to birds for my sanity, and the Merlin Bird ID app has been indispensable for identifying bird songs.
Merlin was funded by a grant from the NSF, the science funding agency that Trump is trying to destroy.
www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
Merlin was funded by a grant from the NSF, the science funding agency that Trump is trying to destroy.
www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
May 4, 2025 at 4:30 AM
The Merlin Bird ID app wouldn’t exist #WithoutNSF. 🪶
1/5 of pollinators and 1/3 of bees in North America at risk of extinction 🧪🌎
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
April 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
1/5 of pollinators and 1/3 of bees in North America at risk of extinction 🧪🌎
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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When you're just starting out in scientific research, formalizing your causal questions and how they connect to hypotheses, study designs, predictions, and results can be confusing. 🧪
With that in mind, I've tried to put together a guide/templates:
pavliclab.org/tips-for-bui...
With that in mind, I've tried to put together a guide/templates:
pavliclab.org/tips-for-bui...
April 16, 2025 at 2:29 AM
When you're just starting out in scientific research, formalizing your causal questions and how they connect to hypotheses, study designs, predictions, and results can be confusing. 🧪
With that in mind, I've tried to put together a guide/templates:
pavliclab.org/tips-for-bui...
With that in mind, I've tried to put together a guide/templates:
pavliclab.org/tips-for-bui...
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Looking for a quantitative ecology #postdoc? Check out this opening on time-series modeling of estuarine food webs - based in my group @natureatcal.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ State agency scientists. Apply ASAP - review of applications starts Apr 4. More info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04818
Postdoc Employee – Quantitative ecology – ESPM: Organisms & The Environment
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
March 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Looking for a quantitative ecology #postdoc? Check out this opening on time-series modeling of estuarine food webs - based in my group @natureatcal.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ State agency scientists. Apply ASAP - review of applications starts Apr 4. More info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04818
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"The wildlife Nextdoor: Socioeconomics and race predict social media carnivore reports" is out in Science of the Total Environment. @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social, Christopher Schell, and I looked at how people post about coyotes and black bears on Nextdoor.
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
April 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"The wildlife Nextdoor: Socioeconomics and race predict social media carnivore reports" is out in Science of the Total Environment. @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social, Christopher Schell, and I looked at how people post about coyotes and black bears on Nextdoor.
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
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I’ve had 1k new followers this week, 2k overall. Humble but not insignificant
If half the people here bought a garden journal, ~$19, it would pay for 3 months of our mortgage, giving me time to find a new job because my grants were frozen
Great example of how coming together makes a difference ✊
If half the people here bought a garden journal, ~$19, it would pay for 3 months of our mortgage, giving me time to find a new job because my grants were frozen
Great example of how coming together makes a difference ✊
Flipping through my new garden journal! Check it out at Lulu Publishing www.lulu.com/shop/cory-hu...
April 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I’ve had 1k new followers this week, 2k overall. Humble but not insignificant
If half the people here bought a garden journal, ~$19, it would pay for 3 months of our mortgage, giving me time to find a new job because my grants were frozen
Great example of how coming together makes a difference ✊
If half the people here bought a garden journal, ~$19, it would pay for 3 months of our mortgage, giving me time to find a new job because my grants were frozen
Great example of how coming together makes a difference ✊