Had a new ocelot paper get accepted last week and a road ecology paper accepted today.

🚨 new publication 🚨 We documented three instances of a puma predating on wild California Condors at their roost site. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Observations of a puma predation on endangered California condors: Implications for species recovery

Reintroduction of endangered species is wrought with many challenges, but one often overlooked challenge is the threat of predation of naïve individuals. Individuals lacking the insight to avoid pred...

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The CDFW Mountain Lion Conservation Program is looking to hire a new scientific aid. Early Career Scientists are encouraged to apply! calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/... Deadline is Monday May 26!

Mountain Lion Program Scientific Aid

Looking to make a difference? Join our strong and mighty workforce. We offer benefits and growth opportunities and impact the lives of millions of Californians.

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"Why don't you buy a new centrifuge" Because everyone knows that any appliances in that shade of yellow will outlive you and your entire family, look at it

Looking forward to seeing folks at the 14th Annual WAFWA Mountain Lion Workshop this week

Repost from X: CDFW wrapped up wolf capture & collar operations recently in northern CA resulting in a record 12 wolves now outfitted w/ satellite collars. Collar data provides info to understand diet, dispersal, pack formations & help mitigate conflicts w/ ranchers wildlife.ca.gov/News/Archive...

The one thing I do miss on X and now seemingly here is the absence of amazing, novel and interesting papers that everyone is publishing. I realize things are hard right now but beacons of positivity and hard work help lift us up, as these are the efforts we pour our lives into.

I just got a report that a terminated employee from another agency got their job back after replying to the termination email with their good perf appraisal. If you are still connected, might as well try. It makes for good documentation if nothing else. Let me know. So far only this one anecdote.

Turbulence moving through rock over hundreds of year withering down and creating a path once over now through the rocks, the sun peering through the pines, the roar of water cascading down behind me from Bassi Falls. A gorgeous Saturday in the woods and perfect way to end November.

Earlier this year, Dr. Tom Yamashita led a paper “A multivariate approach to assessing landscape structure effects on wildlife crossing structure use” and we tested how landscape structure at WCS sites compared to the surrounding landscape and how structure affected bobcat detections @ WCS sites.

Reposting this but as an addition to the ocelot PVA published last week, earlier this year we published “Assessing ecological and socio-political factors in site selection for ocelot reintroduction in Texas” conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

If you are interested in #rstats, hierarchical modeling in ecology, and in particular occupancy models, then check out my blog! The one post that gets the most traffic is this one here on how to combine presence-only and detection/non-detection data. 🧪 masonfidino.com/bayesian_int...

Thanks, new followers! 😍 I mainly study human-carnivore conflicts. Starting a 'bluedive' 🧵 on my research. Starting with an oldie because many things we learned are still very true today (especially about misinformation & having a voice). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Human–Carnivore Interactions: Lessons Learned from Communities in the American West

Types, causes, and intensity of human–carnivore interactions are related to historical context, management policy, and human perception. We used four rural communities in the American West with var...

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I love waking up to seeing a manuscript accepted for publication

🚨🚨 new ocelot manuscript 🚨🚨 “Our study est the 1st pop viability model for an ocelot reintroduction plan anywhere across the species' wide geographic range, & it reinforces several key considerations for wildlife reintroduction efforts worldwide” esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

My concern with majority scientists removing themselves from X and only being here is the science and studies may not reach the the a large chunk of the general public as they have in the past. Thoughts?

Social perception of mesocarnivores within hunting areas differs from actual species abundance. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 🦊🐾🌎 #mammals #conservation

I’ll leave this here… From the president of the National Academy of Sciences www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Science is neither red nor blue

Long before the 5 November US presidential election, I had become ever more concerned that science has fallen victim to the same political divisiveness tearing at the seams of American society. This i...

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Hey Current/New Followers - I’m Jason Lombardi, Ph.D.; I’m a carnivore ecologist. CA DFW Mt Lion Cons. Program Lead Scientist & Gray Wolf Program Research Ecologist 🐺 IUCN Cat SG Red List Assessor; 🐆Texas Ocelot Reintroduction Project Partner

So this is where all the scientists went?

🚨🚨We are looking for a graduate student to experimentally test nonlethal tools to reduce depredation by mountain lions. Details here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Please share!🧪

🚩🚩 Position 2/2: Program Manager for the SPEC Lab Ocelot Research Program. See shorturl.at/LMN57 to apply. Deadline is November 12. Five years of experience in related tasks is **required** for this pay scale as per A&M rules, so pls have this reflected in your CV 🚩🚩

🚩🚩 Position 1/2: Postdoctoral Scholar in Ocelot Population Dynamics. See shorturl.at/MORY2 to apply. Deadline is November 12. Please help me spread the word! 🚩🚩

Check out the feature on our ocelot research published earlier this year that used SECR & LiDAR to estimate drivers of ocelot detectability and derived current population density and size estimates in a portion of the Ranch Ocelot Population in Southern Texas.

TWS2022: Private ranches host largest U.S. ocelot population - The Wildlife Society

Ocelot tracking in Texas reveals a wider tolerance for habitat type than previously thought

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Who benefits when science is #OpenAccess? #OAWeek

Aspens and Pines grace the bottom of the escarpment of the eastern Sierra Nevada, the windswept leaves laid strewn across the ground…

After living in East Texas from 2012-2015 and south Texas from 2016-2023 it’s soooo nice to wake up to fall colors, cool rainy weather in October

The Agassi Tree, the largest Giant Sequoia in Calaveras Big Tree State Park in the northern Sierra Nevada. This tree is "only" 250 feet tall, but it is over 25 feet in diameter six feet above the ground!

Go work with an incredible dataset and an awesome PI but in reality the chance to see Texas ocelots up close 😎. Plus for the cost of living, the pay is really good for a post doc.

Lisanne Petracca@lisannepetracca.bsky.social · 3y ago

🚩🚩 Position 1/2: Postdoctoral Scholar in Ocelot Population Dynamics. See shorturl.at/MORY2 to apply. Deadline is November 12. Please help me spread the word! 🚩🚩

Check out this awesome postdoc position. Cool research with an even cooler PI!

Lisanne Petracca@lisannepetracca.bsky.social · 3y ago

🚩🚩 Position 1/2: Postdoctoral Scholar in Ocelot Population Dynamics. See shorturl.at/MORY2 to apply. Deadline is November 12. Please help me spread the word! 🚩🚩