Theresa Laverty
@theresalaverty.bsky.social
Conservation scientist and Asst Prof at NMSU | Population/community ecology, social-ecological systems, bats, R-stats | Lab website: https://lavertylab.org/ | She/her
Many congratulations to @hollywhited.bsky.social for successfully defending her master's thesis yesterday! Holly led a study on lesser long-nosed bat foraging ecology and tracked their movements using the Motus wildlife tracking system. Stay tuned for more on our research in these upcoming months
New paper in @annalsapplbio.bsky.social – "Overcoming environmental constraints to high-yielding eastern cottonwood productivity in the southeastern United States" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Overcoming environmental constraints to high‐yielding eastern cottonwood productivity in the southeastern United States
The rising demand for biomass highlights Populus deltoides as a productive woody species. A 6-year study in Sumter County, SC, assessed the effects of irrigation, fertilization, and clonal variation ....
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In the scorching Namib desert, a small black beetle surprises scientists by sprinting across the sand in extreme heat. theconversation.com/a-namib-dese... #EnvironmentAndEnergy
A Namib desert beetle runs to stay cool: how scientists solved the puzzle of this unique and speedy species
A Namibian desert beetle cools down by running in the sun.
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Does body size predict abundance the same way in all environments, as predicted by the Metabolic theory of Ecology? Our new study challenges this assumption. Read it here: 📄 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Biodiversity modulates the cross‐community scaling relationship in changing environments
Organismal abundance typically declines with increasing body size, with metabolic theory predicting a universal size–abundance slope of –0.75. Using protist microcosms across gradients of species ric...
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Got my dog a friend from the shelter this week. Zoe is adjusting to life with our other cattle dog, Bruce
Finally using {pins} #rstats package to share heavy files that can't be shared among collaborators through GitHub, and it works like a breeze! Supports data versioning, cache, etc. Thanks @posit.co Here using Google Drive to share files, but can use many different servers, see pins.rstudio.com
The first student in my lab group successfully defended their graduate work today! Many congrats to Iona Rohan (coadvised by @jenniferfrey.bsky.social) for her MS work analyzing the effects of wind energy on the habitat use of terrestrial mammals in central NM. Stay tuned for our findings!
Reminder: two more days to apply for this opportunity!
Theresa Laverty@theresalaverty.bsky.social · 11mo agoDo you like acoustic data, community ecology, and desert oases? Apply for a PhD in my lab to investigate the role of ephemeral water sources (i.e., playa lakes and tinajas) in structuring desert bat (and maybe bird) communities. Visit lavertylab.org/join-the-lab for more. Applications due October 1
Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...
CA Biology job alert My unit at the CA Dep of Fish and Wildlife is hiring a permanent position to write 5 year reviews for species listed under the CA Endangered Species Act. Based in West Sacramento, currently 2x week in office. I am happy to answer questions calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...
Alrght everybody, get your Tin Can Telephones out. We need your help! We reach new people by word of mouth. Send all your educator friends this pic! Teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, etc! We offer our program for free, so we need help getting the word out without advertising $$.
The solicitation is finally up! Good luck to everybody applying this year (and those with mentees applying) - it's an extremely tight turnaround but very glad to see this. 🧪🌎
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Meade Krosby@meadekrosby.bsky.social · 10mo agoAn NSF Graduate Research Fellowship helped launch my career - the next generation of scientists deserves the same opportunity, just as Americans deserve the benefits of a well-supported scientific pipeline. But this year's solicitation is MIA. Please take a minute to speak up for the program👇
Do heat waves happen in rivers? How do river heat waves (RHW) compare to air heat waves (AHW)? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Here we show: 1) RHWs occur less frequently & intensively but last twice as long as AHWs; 2) RHW have risen much faster than AHWs. Congrats to Dr. Kayal Sadayappan!
New paper out in Biofpr: "Environmental metrics of ethanol production improve with increased biomass yield and carbohydrate content in Populus trichocarpa" scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Environmental metrics of ethanol production improve with increased biomass yield and carbohydrate content in Populus trichocarpa
When selecting economically and environmentally advantageous genotypes for domestication in a biofuel supply chain, variability of cell-wall composition within a feedstock population and its impact o....
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Glad that my state recognizes the benefits of vaccines!
#BREAKINGNEWS 🦇🌍 The world now has 1,500 recognized bat species! 🎉 The global list at www.batnames.org just hit this milestone. New bats are found through fieldwork in remote places & genetic discoveries. Amazing biodiversity news! #Bats #Biodiversity #BatsNeedFriends
Great work from Nate's lab on Madrean Sky Island specimens!
Nate Upham@n8upham.bsky.social · 11mo agoWhen & where have species of bats, rodents, & shrews been collected across the 54 mountains of the Madrean Sky Islands? Damien Rivera in our lab led this effort to find out! New preprint "Uncovering historical small mammal biodiversity among the Madrean Sky Islands" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This is a very fast turn around this year and it seems the solicitation still isn't up. Get going on those GRFP proposals ASAP and hope for minimal changes to the requirements/qualifications!
Megan Barkdull@meganbarkdull.bsky.social · 11mo agoWhile full solicitation isn’t up, looks like we have 2025 proposal deadlines for the GRFP: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
New in @globalchangebio.bsky.social- "Which Plant Traits Increase Soil C Sequestration? Empirical Evidence From a Long-Term Poplar Genetic Diversity Trial". We sampled soils & roots from 24 black cottonwood genotypes in a 13-y.o. Center for Bioenergy Innovation common garden. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Which Plant Traits Increase Soil Carbon Sequestration? Empirical Evidence From a Long‐Term Poplar Genetic Diversity Trial
This study measured soil carbon concentrations and stocks in a 13-year-old poplar common garden study, exploring the degree to which soil carbon storage is affected by biological diversity or attribu...
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Do you like acoustic data, community ecology, and desert oases? Apply for a PhD in my lab to investigate the role of ephemeral water sources (i.e., playa lakes and tinajas) in structuring desert bat (and maybe bird) communities. Visit lavertylab.org/join-the-lab for more. Applications due October 1
This guy is playing it right. We need to back him up!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11mo agoPritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.
our paper on how light pollution affects bird vocal behavior is out today in Science!! w/ @brentpease.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Though classes started this week, we are still far from the end of summer in the Southwest. Here's a glimpse of one of the many gorgeous monsoon sunsets from last month
URM faculty received 7% more negative votes & were 44% less likely to receive unanimous votes from P&T committees -evidence that P&T decision-making processes contribute to the sustained underrepresentation of URM faculty in tenured faculty positions www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Underrepresented minority faculty in the USA face a double standard in promotion and tenure decisions - Nature Human Behaviour
Masters-Waage et al. report that underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in the USA face barriers in the promotion and tenure process, receiving more negative votes and fewer unanimous positive decisi...
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Just a reminder to swing by BCC 343 at 8:45am tomorrow if you want to learn about long-distance movements of lesser long-nosed bats! #ESA2025
Theresa Laverty@theresalaverty.bsky.social · 12mo agoEnjoying the cool weather in Baltimore this week for #ESA2025. Come hear about the long-distance movements of lesser long-nosed bats that my colleagues and I have been documenting this Thursday at 8:45am (COS 128 - Behavior: Migration and Movement 1). Please don't be afraid to say hi!
New paper on #bat #windturbine interactions is out: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
