Anyone know if wild carnivores can get alpha-gal syndrome (red meat allergy) from lonestar ticks? 🧪🐺

Commissioned a fun graphic from a colleague for our project on intrinsic versus extrinsic drivers of vital rates!

Thrilled to share that my first dissertation chapter is now published at Ecology! dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... We embed TPCs into population dynamics to show how changing temperatures' ordering — not just its distribution — increases extinction risk (i.e. heatwaves matter!) @esajournals.bsky.social

Journal of Statistical Ecology is on Bluesky! A new journal at the interface between ecology and statistics jse.centre-mersenne.org Published in diamond open access

Bad EAB news from ODF: emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle whose larvae kill ash trees, has turned up in three new Willamette Valley spots this month: a parking lot just east of I-5 in Tualatin, one outside Newberg, and a private residence in Silverton.

Yesterday, stratus clouds flowed northward along the California coast, filling in bays as it passed.

Ecologists! Check out this AWESOME paper using the newer (to us, anyway) Synthetic Control technique in combo w/ @inaturalist.bsky.social to show hurricane impacts on bees. From Asia Kaiser, @julianresasco.bsky.social, and @lauradee.bsky.social 🌍🧪 #causalinference www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Synthetic control methods enable stronger causal inference using participatory science data in cities - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Synthetic-control analysis applied to iNaturalist records identifies a decline in bee observations in the 2 years following Hurricane Ida in Philadelphia, while three conventional analyses of the same...

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So proud of Dr. Asia Kaiser for her ESA Murray F. Buell Award & recently defending her PhD! Asia is an outstanding scientist & seeking a postdoc (urban ecology, insect biodiversity, bees, agroecosystems, & synthetic control/stat methods). Please connect w Asia w opportunities. Please boost! 🐝🌎🧪🥒🏙️🌱

Ecological Society of America@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🏆 ESA is proud to announce its 2026 award recipients, honoring outstanding contributions to ecology through research, teaching, mentorship, sustainability, and service Learn more about the award recipients in our full announcement: https://ow.ly/WYZX50YVyJI

The astonishing rate of March snowmelt in Colorado River Basin continues, and is now well into record-low territory (even, it appears, relative to pre-SNOTEL era). And the extreme regional heatwave is only slowly fading, with unprecedented March melt continuing in meantime.

Dental Formulas xkcd.com/3213/

This mountain snow in the U.S. West is desperately needed--snowpack has reached record low levels for time of year in many locations & will fall even further behind until early next wk, when there will likely be *some* recovery. TBD just how much; the existing deficits are huge.

Join us for an @smtpb.bsky.social workshop on Modern Coexistence Theory. We'll cover mathematical foundations, the theory of partitioning, and data-based applications. Featuring @swatipatel.bsky.social, Nick Kortessis, & Lauren Shoemaker. Zoom link here: smtpb.org/event-6426026

Satellite Imagery xkcd.com/3173/

Meet Alex Pavlik, our master’s student! 🦫 Co-advised by our PI Dr. Doney and lab partner Dr. Taylor Foerster, Alex is pursuing a degree in Wildlife Science at @oregonstate.edu and researching narratives surrounding wolves in Oregon. Website link in bio for more about Alex! #Wolves #SocialScience

I wrote about the Reiser brothers and their hilarious, disgusting Listers documentary for Slate: slate.com/culture/2025...

One of the Funniest Documentaries of the Year Is Streaming for Free on YouTube

Listers is a journey into the dark and cringy heart of one of the world’s most peculiar hobbies.

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iNaturalist Animals and Plants xkcd.com/3118/

Me making small talk at the function

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I thoroughly enjoyed @lauradee.bsky.social ‘s talk on using causal inference to improve ecology and conservation research! It is great inspiration as I start thinking about how to mesh causal inference, population modeling, and species interaction modeling for my upcoming PhD.

Very excited this paper is now out in Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #causalsky

Laura Dee@lauradee.bsky.social · 2y ago

Foundations and future directions for causal inference in ecological research, forthcoming w/ @katherinesiegel.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/4mm57zzd. We wrote it based on our experience teaching causal inference to ecologists w/ some stuff we wish other papers had reviewed to share w/ the students 1/n