I'm so happy to announce version 2.0.0 of my #Rstats package WeightIt is out on CRAN! New features: censoring weights, multilevel propensity scores, improved weights for continuous treatments, bias-reduced ordinal and multinomial models, M-estimation in subgroups Check out the website below!

Weighting for Covariate Balance in Observational Studies

Generates balancing weights for causal effect estimation in observational studies with binary, multi-category, or continuous point or longitudinal treatments by easing and extending the functionality ...

ngreifer.github.io

More on the Trump / Kratsios "Golden Age of Science" report, from @theverge.com

The tech-broification of American science has officially begun

Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ of American science starts with dismantling it, while funneling billions into AI. 

theverge.com

This is one of those videos that reminds me of that tweet: “Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”

i love when a press release headline sounds like it was written by an aggrieved fish

At a brewery. It's trivia night. The question was "what z word is the term for a fertilized egg?" Guy down the bar says "zembryo"

Are you a landowner? Make sure your lad has beaver inclusive practices! I love learning about topics outside of my own area of research! #NACCR2026 #wildlifeconservation

The most stressful part of my trip to ##NACCR2026 is now over. I figured out how to pay for the bus.

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www.latimes.com/california/s... The Trump administration rolled back the Endangered Species Act on Friday, slashing protections to the habitats of endangered species and paving the way for more drilling and mining. 🧪🌎

Trump slashes wildlife protections, putting endangered California animals at risk

The Trump administration rolled back the Endangered Species Act on Friday, slashing protections to the habitats of endangered species and paving the way for more drilling and mining.

latimes.com

I submitted my comment on the dangers of finalizing the OMB rule. Have you? Tomorrow, July 13 is the deadline!

Sarah Gollust@sarahgollust.bsky.social · 4w ago

Did you write your comment yet on the OMB rules on federally funded science yet? No? Don’t worry, you can do it this weekend. Here are some resources that can help you get started.

If your University's business cards suck, you can design your own. No one can stop you.

Sent off the #NACCR2026 poster for printing. Come by if you have suggestions about linking models together in a user friendly way.

Come say hi at #NACCR2026! We have some great #consocsci content going on! Don't forget to join us for the @scbsswg.bsky.social business meeting!

SCB Social Science Working Group (SSWG)@scbsswg.bsky.social · last mo.

Interested in #ConSocSci? Attending #NACCR2026? Leveraging Social & Behavioral Sciences for Conservation & Restoration 📅 July 14 🕥 10:30–12:00 📍 N208-C @scientistsophia.bsky.social @fosonline.bsky.social @nature.org @arizonastateuni.bsky.social @universityofga.bsky.social @uwmadison.bsky.social

when you never learned the salmon life cycle

We're excited to join colleagues from across #conservation and #restoration at #NACCR2026 in Milwaukee this July! If you’re attending, we hope you'll join us at any of our 3 events to strengthen #scicomm skills, exchange ideas, and build connections. Learn more: buff.ly/CMYTtFT

Beavers play an important role in creating habitat connectivity for terrestrial mammals, and their dams are favoured over other structures. 🧪🌍

Beaver Trust@beavertrust.org · 2mo ago

Beaver dams become bridges for mammals! 🦫🦊 Research by Daniel Arah -a student from @glasgow.ac.uk - highlights the role beavers play in creating connectivity in wetland habitats. To read more about Daniel’s research, find his poster on our website. 👇 🔗 tinyurl.com/3mceesk7

These are really cool 🧪 www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Five winning images of scientists at work

From sky to sea, and then back to the lab, here are the top images from Nature’s 2026 photo competition.

nature.com

On Friday I took my *luckiest* and *most disgusting* wildlife shot so far: a California sea lion (Z. californianus) puking up a bunch of rocks! 🤮🪨 That's right - many pinnipeds use gastroliths. The gastroliths are in mid-air! 🦖🐬🦑 #nature #photography #sealion

Scientists Capture First Photo Evidence of Dwarf Island Fox Not Seen in 20 Years https://gizmodo.com/scientists-capture-first-photo-evidence-of-dwarf-island-fox-not-seen-in-20-years-2000768699

Scientists Capture First Photo Evidence of Dwarf Island Fox Not Seen in 20 Years

The Cozumel dwarf fox has lived on the island for thousands of years, but much about it remains a mystery.

gizmodo.com

I found some cool coasters in our office supplies cabinate.

I have been collecting funky folk-art fish figurines on various trips & finally strung them together to make a reef fish mobile that reminds me of snorkeling as they spin in the breeze 🐟🐠🎏 🤿 🌊

New way to view these Data Centers that are draining the communities they implant themselves in... draining resources for slop

📢 New IMR study on movement patterns of #BaskingSharks shows that sharks tagged above the #ArcticCircle in #Norway perform repeated large-scale movements to subtropical waters and actively use the water column across habitats.🧵 1/5 👉 doi.org/10.3354/meps... @whoi.edu @thembauk.bsky.social

Marine Ecology Progress Series@meps-ir.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🦤🌐🧪 Year-long satellite tracking of basking sharks revealed ~14,000 km migrations spanning 30° latitude. This includes a transatlantic journey from Norway to the Caribbean highlighting the need for pan-latitudinal research. #FeatureArticle bit.ly/meps15153 @cakloecker.bsky.social

10 yrs after our first paper on spotted owls & “megafires”, here is the granddaddy of them all: a Wildlife Monograph. >30 yr of detection/non-detection data across >1500 territories (796 burned) and movement data from 171 GPS-tagged owls. Conclusion: big hot fire bad doi.org/10.1002/wmon...

TWS Journals

For the past few decades, northern and California spotted owls (SPOW) have declined across much of their range in response to habitat loss and fragmentation and have faced threats associated with the...

doi.org

Neat study on how the removal of fencing along the Trans-Mongolian Railway allowed Asiatic wild asses to recolonize their historic range. Now we need more permanent wildlife crossings to help these guys out. #fenceecology #roadecology www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

All works of prose, fiction or non-, could benefit from the incorporation of a sturgeon.

Lilah Sturges@lilahsturges.com · 3mo ago

Writers: what’s a solid piece of *craft* advice you wish you’d known sooner? Mine is this: when making writing decisions, always stop and ask yourself what is best for the SCENE. What are the scene’s goals? Does this sentence, this paragraph, this line of dialogue serve those goals? If not, fix it.

Happy Earth Day, everybody! (Poster by me with some NASA public domain photos)

Almost 60 percent of the lifetime diets of taimen in Russia's Tugur River is *adult chum salmon*. Imagine what a bad-ass freshwater fish you have to be to just inhale salmon like they're mayflies. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...