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Kate McGinn

@kate-mcginn.bsky.social

Visiting Professor studying the effects of climate change on wildlife using bioacoustics, movement ecology, and ecophysiology. Professional and recreational hooter | she, her, hers Colorado College | kmcginn@coloradocollege.edu

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gavin jones@ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’m looking to recruit a postdoc to join my research group at University of Iowa to work on disturbance ecology and biodiversity! Start date flexible, lots of opportunity for skill development, collaboration, and mentorship. Will review applicants in mid-August! Link: gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

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BIG NEWS! The Jones Lab will be relocating to the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability (SEES) at the University of Iowa in Fall 2026. Our work on disturbance ecology and conservation sc…

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Kate McGinn@kate-mcginn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Baby owl season! Banding these little Flammulated owl nestlings before they fledge in a few days and become nearly invisible and inaudible for the next few months. They’ll be fully independent by October, when they will fly south to Mexico/Central America for their first fall migration.

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Kate McGinn@kate-mcginn.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🦉🔥🌲 New Paper 🌲🔥🦉 We used a novel dataset by Dr. Anu Kramer, bioregional passive acoustic monitoring, and Bayesian occupancy modeling to examine the relative effects of disturbances on the distribution spotted owls in the Sierra Nevada. Give her a read! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fuels management mitigates megafires to the benefit of old forest species

Climate change and fire exclusion have changed disturbance regimes in forest ecosystems globally. In many seasonally dry forests, fuels management can…

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Kate McGinn@kate-mcginn.bsky.social · last yr.

Me and my Ecology students to a trip out to Hoosier pass to learn about the climatic drivers of tree line and work on our field identification skills. We brought our class mascots Clarke and Tony with us to boost morale!

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@aoc.bsky.social · last yr.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@aoc.bsky.social · last yr.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 2y ago

Trump is offering all federal workers a buyout with seven months’ pay to shrink the government—but that’s not the whole story. Reports reveal some employees are being pressured to resign or face termination under the guise of organizational restructuring. In short: take the buyout or be fired.

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Trump administration’s rebranded Schedule F policy aims to reclassify federal employees in policy roles as at-will, removing civil service protections. This will politicize agencies by allowing dismissals based on political alignment.

Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Yes, wildfires have always happened in California, but climate change is making them worse" by David Knowles for @yahoonews.com: www.yahoo.com/news/yes-wil...

Yes, wildfires have always happened in California, but climate change is making them worse

As the narrative of the Southern California wildfires has shifted to identifying the causes behind what could prove to be the most expensive natural disaster in U.S. history, a common refrain has emer...

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