Chhaya Werner, PhD
@restoration.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at Southern Oregon University. Studying plant ecology, restoration, and fire ecology. she/her
For those who haven't heard of this yet, the fastest/easiest way to reduce indoor air pollution from wildfire smoke is to get a basic 20x20 box fan, and slap a single 20x20 air filter (make sure it's very high MERV) on the back. No tape or anything, it just sticks to the back of the fan.
Our synthesis on the effects of wildfire on spotted owls is now live in Wildlife Monographs. Which is cool but can we talk about this cover???? 🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉🔥🦉 @kate-mcginn.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/wmon...
A new identification guide highlights the diversity of butterflies at Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, home to 120 documented species. Organizers hope the guide will inspire appreciation for pollinators as butterfly populations continue to decline. ashland.news/new-guide-ce...
New guide celebrates 120 butterfly species at Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument - Ashland News - Community-Supported, NonProfit News
A new identification guide highlights the diversity of butterflies at Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, home to 120 documented species. Organizers hope the guide will inspire appreciation for pollin...
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Applications are open for the 2027 Smith Conservation Research Fellowship! This postdoc supports early-career scientists advancing innovative, applied conservation research across the U.S. & territories. conbio.org/publications/scb-news-blog/smith-fellows-2027-call-for-proposals-announced
Hooray for good news, and native bee photos!
Ashland.news@ashland-news.bsky.social · 4w agoNo pesticide-related bee kills have occurred in Oregon since 2021, according to a recent Oregon State University report — a significant improvement compared to over a decade ago when the state faced alarming numbers of bee deaths linked to pesticides. ashland.news/fewer-oregon...
This person is right and they should say it.
Steve Haley@niborris.bsky.social · last mo.Look, I feel like one time we tried blowing up a whale and it didn't go so well, but scientific rigor requires a repeatable experiement. It's basically a scientifically moral imperative to blow up another one; otherwise, we're just engineers.
Southern Oregon University’s 100th commencement ceremony Saturday provided a grand sendoff to more than 900 graduates. ashland.news/sou-hosts-10...
SOU hosts 100th commencement - Ashland News - Community-Supported, NonProfit News
Southern Oregon University’s 100th commencement ceremony Saturday morning provided a grand sendoff to more than 900 graduates. Mortarboards festooned with flowers and personal touches soared into the ...
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Seastar baby boom! 🌊⭐️👶🏼💥 #MarineLife 🦑 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Metapopulation‐scale resilience to disease‐induced mass mortality in a keystone predator: From stasis to instability
Mass mortality from disease epidemics challenges the resistance and resilience of populations and communities. Assessing the impacts and consequences of such events is crucially dependent on long-ter....
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The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2mo agoSix months ago, Bruce Menge’s team published exciting research — five-legged sea stars were undergoing a significant “baby boom.” In short, something rare and wonderful was happening on the Oregon Coast:
This is true for academic papers too!! Can confirm, it feels good to cheer on peers and also helps me remember their paper better!
M.R. Robinson@mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.
Amy Angert and I are recruiting 2 temporary field technicians to assist with demographic surveys across the range of scarlet monkeyflower in California and Oregon. Perfect for recent graduates who are considering applying for grad school. Apply here: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/231.... Please share!
Temporary Plant Ecology Field Technician - CA/OR
The Sheth evolutionary ecology lab in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina; USA) and the Angert Lab in the Departments of Botany an...
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HAPPY PRIDE from California Native Plants and the Luong Lab!!! 🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 This 2026 Flag from our lab features 152 california native plants! Did you know California is a Biodiversity hotspot with over 6000 native plants? How many plants can you name or spot? 🧐 #CaliforniaNativePlants
You can learn so much about a person by noticing what they joke about. This is the president of our National Academy of Sciences.
Eos@eos.org · 2mo agoDoing so will make research more reliable, trustworthy, and efficient, she said. “Robots work 24 hours a day. Your graduate students probably only work 20, so this is an advantage."
Happy Publication Day to Jared D. Aldern, Theresa Lynn Gregor, and all of the "Landkeeping" contributors! "Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships" is now available from your favorite booksellers or directly from OSU Press! beav.es/f8s #CulturalBurning #TEK
There are no words to describe the joy this brings. A Condor back in Oregon skies. Just a lot of gratitude for all the work from the Yurok Tribe, National Park Service, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's on the Northern California Condor Restoration Program. www.oregonlive.com/environment/...
Condor flies into Oregon for first time in over 120 years
A 2-year-old female condor named B9 traveled 80 miles through southern Oregon during a four-day journey in May, marking a historic milestone for the critically endangered species managed by the Yurok ...
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🇺🇲🔭 The federal science workforce - our patriot scientists - "𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘳, 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥." Proud to reflect on how special federal scientists are to America's soul. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Federal scientists, a great American invention: a letter to our federal colleagues
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I offer a heartfelt Thank You to these authors. This made me smile and cry all at once. I so very much appreciate you taking the time to compile the information on the federal scientist exodus, and talk about why that is important. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Federal scientists, a great American invention: a letter to our federal colleagues
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Getting to work in the regrowing Klamath reservoirs is such an incredible source of joy. The river is so clean and beautiful this year, and look at those willows! I've loved seeing the osprey move in this year following the abundance of salmon
The New York Times is now parody of itself. Universities that focus on what we do in our day-to-day lives that resonates with people beyond ourselves? My dudes, have you ever been to a regional public university or any campus that isn't Harvard?
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3mo agoIn @nytopinion.nytimes.com The problem on college campuses is not just that students lack civility, Michal Leibowitz writes, but that “our college education does almost nothing to develop the sense that what we do in our day-to-day lives resonates with people beyond ourselves.”
Such a devasting loss 💔 If you are able to, consider donating to support Adriana's family 👇🏽 www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Donate to Support for Jovani Catalan & Family, organized by Ivette Guzman
Dearest friends and family, We have set up this page to support Jovani Catalan and h… Ivette Guzman needs your support for Support for Jovani Catalan & Family
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Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe@aaberhe.com · 3mo agoProf. Adriana Romero-Olivares, UC Riverside, was doing incredible work on how fungi and ecosystems respond to global change. A rising voice, a dynamic scientist and educator, a young mother, wife and daughter gone far too soon. A huge loss. Her family, students and community are in my thoughts.
The decision to make is (1) do you get your grant killed by text analysis tool or (2) killed in study section by not describing your science well? Also, does this cover biosketches because now with sciENcv it’s impossible to censor your work without removing it entirely and looking unqualified.
Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 3mo agoSharing this screen grab from a friend at NIH (with permission). This is a checklist program officers have to complete before a grant can be awarded. The first question: "Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?" 🧵1/3
Prof. Adriana Romero-Olivares, UC Riverside, was doing incredible work on how fungi and ecosystems respond to global change. A rising voice, a dynamic scientist and educator, a young mother, wife and daughter gone far too soon. A huge loss. Her family, students and community are in my thoughts.
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
I sighed again. I was having a lot of opportunities to do it and I think I was getting good at it.
For the First Time in the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas - Yale E360 share.google/MHqujR4WDrUK...
For the First Time in the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas
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My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service. The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.
‘It’s just madness’: Trump administration to close three-quarters of Forest Service research stations
Between funding cuts, facility closures, and the inevitable resignations that will follow, there’s virtually no way for the Forest Service to continue to do research at its current level or quality, w...
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Registration for Ontario #Ecology, #Ethology, and #Evolution Colloquium closes TOMORROW, April 10th! #OE3C Plenaries from Drs. Jesse Popp, Nancy Chen & Mélanie Guigueno! CCOVI tour and #wineTasting #workshops #GuidedHikes #PhotoContest + more! @brocku.ca
As a fire scientist, I am devastated for my many good friends and colleagues who will be affected by the mass closure of so many research stations and offices. Many will leave the agency. USFS has pioneered so much foundational fire science. The consequences of this will be catastrophic.
