Tyus Williams
@sciencewithtyus.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at Berkeley l Carnivore ecologist l Author l Ace l SciComm l NSF GRFP Fellow l #AuDHD, #SciQFriday Founder, always curious l Venmo: Tyus-Williams He/Him
After having multiple productive conversations regarding free roaming domestic cat ecology at a conference in Italy, I realized that there should probably be a larger network for us as researchers to come together to discuss these things together and potentially facilitate collaboration 1/
Oh and did you know MOUNTAIN LIONS can purr? In fact, they're the largest cats on earth capable of doing so. You can thank Tyus Williams @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social for that little fun fact. Now wait until you learn how the presence of mountain lions ripples through an ecosystem!
Huzzah! After a lot of work, I'm happy to share that the results of my first chapter have been published and are available for your perusal. In this paper, I was interested in understanding how characteristics of urban environments influence the diel activity of cats academic.oup.com/jue/article/...
Housing proximity and vegetation cover affect diel activity patterns of domestic cats (Felis catus) in regionally protected shorelines
Abstract. Free-roaming domestic cats (Felis catus) are among the most impactful non-native species globally, causing the extinction of 63 endemic vertebrat
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With a dark sense of humor, it is both alarming and funny the way people continually use the foreboding future tense of entering fascism in this country when it’s literally already here people are like “it’s coming” or “I fear we are entering fascism”. I’m like NAH DUDE WAKE UP IT’S ALREADY HERE!
shrek from the movie shrek is standing in the dirt and looking at the camera .
ALT: shrek from the movie shrek is standing in the dirt and looking at the camera .
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I think people forget that you’re allowed to have an emotional response to something that bothers you even if it’s warranted, but you’re not allowed to abuse systems of power to suppress the voices of others simply because you don’t like the things they say. That’s called fascism.
Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 11mo agoTrump: "When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."
Trey Reed being found hanging on his college campus several days after an alt-right political figure was killed shouldn’t go over anyone’s head without at least a morsel of reasonable suspicion. In this current political climate? In this country? That’s not a coincidence it’s pattern recognition.
It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents. But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.
We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.
For folks pissed off at Disney-ABC for firing Jimmy Kimmel I do believe we can put pressure and win which we need any win right now. We have friends everywhere pass it around! bit.ly/boycottdisne...
TELL DISNEY-ABC to STOP BENDING TO THE ADMIN
DISNEY-ABC: STOP BENDING TO AUTHORITARIAN PRESSURE. WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE. A few hours ago, Disney-ABC yanked Jimmy Kimmel Live off the air—just hours after the FCC threatened the company over K...
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I find it insulting to the competence of humanity at large for any national power to claim they are great if their success was based on the backs of exploiting and destabilizing other nations around them. It’s hypocritical to an extent that should insult many, but it doesn’t sadly.
It’s been a while since I posted on here so here are some updates. Got back revisions on my first chapter manuscript I submitted, which is awesome. Crushed my presentation at a conference in Atlanta, Georgia. I received a continuing fellowship to cover my Fall semester. Things are going well!
Massive late response to this, but had so much fun at the conference and sharing some of my insights from the manuscript I’m developing from my research. This is probably one of the coolest insights that I’ve gathered from my research so far. Excited to share more!
Rachel Larson, PhD@rlarson92.bsky.social · last yr.From @sciencewithtyus.bsky.social: Cat temporal oscillation effect - cats alter their space use throughout the day to maximize access to resources (anthro subsidies in residential areas during day; natural areas at night to hunt prey) #IUWC2025
Fish biologists are the physicists of the vertebrate biology world. Just because you know every extant and prehistoric vertebrate extends from jawed fish doesn’t mean you always have to remind us. We get it, you guys came first! Lol
I’m continually unsurprised when straight white male politicians sit in a room and expose themselves for not having the moral foundations that they portrayed themselves to have when it comes to their political affiliation. This is so ridiculous. Why would you platform Charlie Kirk?
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · last yr.1. This morning, California Governor said he was in "complete alignment" with anti-LGBTQ+ hate-influencer Charlie Kirk of TPUSA on transgender sports. He also conceded on trans inmates and gender affirming care for youth. It's so much worse than being reported. Subscribe to support my journalism.
1. This morning, California Governor said he was in "complete alignment" with anti-LGBTQ+ hate-influencer Charlie Kirk of TPUSA on transgender sports. He also conceded on trans inmates and gender affirming care for youth. It's so much worse than being reported. Subscribe to support my journalism.
CA Gov Gavin Newsom "Completely Aligns" With Charlie Kirk On Trans Issues In Podcast
The California Governor, in the launch of his new podcast, announced that he completely aligned with far-right, ant-LGBTQ+ influencer Charlie Kirk on sports, and agreed on prisons and youth care.
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Establishment Democrats think that by alienating trans people they can appeal to a more moderate voter basis they tend to miss during elections, but all it does is secure that they’ll lose votes from their progressive basis, which is why they always lose. This is a dumb losing strategy.
Zinnia Jones 🐍🗡️@zinniajones.com · last yr.Gov. Gavin Newsom declared that he "completely aligned" with anti-LGBTQ Charlie Kirk on opposing trans women in sports, he opposed medically necessary transition care for prisoners, and he agreed with Kirk that trans youth treatment "should be off limits": www.erininthemorning.com/p/ca-gov-gav...
I think the most frustrating part about the situation we’re all dealing with is if the DNC had actually stood on progressive values they claim to have they would’ve endorsed Bernie Sanders in 2016 and maybe we could’ve avoided all this to begin with. Yet, here we are dealing with Trump once again.
This is your reminder that boycotting and economic pressure against someone who has corrupt interests towards our democracy works. In the end capitalists will always turn on each other.
Rude 8647 Fulk@rudefulk.bsky.social · last yr.Shareholders are using Musk’s own words against him, asking what five things he’s done for them in a reference to his DOGE team’s controversial email to federal employees. #FvckElon #TeslaTumbles fortune.com/2025/02/27/t...
The Trump Administration has abruptly pulled $4.5 million in Maine Sea Grant funds (via NOAA), which were used to protect Maine’s working waterfront and ocean ecosystems. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/01/m...
Maine Sea Grant in jeopardy after Trump administration terminates $4.5 million grant program
The move to discontinue the four-year agreement — which comes amid the White House's efforts to slash the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's budget — leaves the fishery organization’s p...
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Wtf is this headline?! Thrashing? Zelenksy stood up for himself and his people unapologetically to a political leader who makes a mockery of “diplomacy” that JD Vance dares to interrogate Zelensky over. This is headline is embarrassing and horribly misleading. apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump's Oval Office thrashing of Zelenskyy shows limits of Western allies' ability to sway US leader
President Donald Trump’s Oval Office thrashing of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy has laid bare the limits of a full-court press by America’s allies aimed at reshaping Trump’s determination to end Russi...
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we may be one of the few pubs that got this headline right Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal
President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance moved to betray a...
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JD Vance reminds me of bullies in high school that only feel bold enough to antagonize someone else when they have their squad around them but buckle under pressure when they experience pushback. The audacity to speak of diplomacy while aiding fascism in our current administration.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about? VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
To make those who dared to defy him suffer regardless of their occupation so people will be too terrified to protest against him again. His actions are an attempt to bend people’s will and a test to see who will comply and assimilate without refusal. This is how dictators operate without restraint.
Kari Debbink@karidebbink.bsky.social · last yr.My good friend’s cancer drug clinical trial was cancelled today because of Trump—2 years in. What the actual fuck is any of this for?
The depressing yet somewhat laughable reality of this admin is if Trump or Musk were filmed kicking a dog in 4k the public response in protest and uproar would be so violently aggressive it would be one of the most historic events we’ve witnessed in terms of public reaction. Think about that…
I’ve been saying for the past couple of weeks that the US will probably go into an epidemic in the next couple of years and the evidence is looking quite compelling.
sara g miller@saragmiller.bsky.social · last yr.NEWS: The FDA abruptly canceled its upcoming advisory committee meeting to select the strains for next year's flu shot. by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social
You can literally feel the misanthropy around you with everything going on in our current political climate. I don’t blame people either.
