Thank you so much for your thorough response! This is incredibly insightful and helpful. I know I can get a little impatient, but you're so right about the marathon and keeping things practical. I'm excited to dive deeper and contribute to the field.

I'm pivoting toward academia a little later in life; I have a solid foundation in wildlife science/conservation biology but I want to get into landscape genetics research. What mistakes have you seen in these kinds of studies, maybe in peer review, that a novice should be aware of?

But also: It's just a fact that Boomers have more wealth than the gen before them, & also removed the structures that made it possible for their kids & grandkids to thrive in similar ways.

Mad about this? Great! You should be! Now get those systems to curtail wealth inequality back in place!

Citheronia regalis is my spirit animal 🤍🧡💛

It's a collage I put up in my classroom.

You mentioned mortgages. Do you anticipate a "carbon bubble"? When it bursts, will there be similar impacts to consumers?

If you want to read more about our thoughts on how behavioural ecology can be studied in fungi, see this paper I wrote with Lynne Boddy:

www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

If techbros want to pay farmers for soil conservation techniques like no-till and cover cropping, I'm all for it - even if carbon credits are a misleading practice. Do you think these companies could help provide data to improve models in the future or is it really just a waste of money?