Matthew Kauffman
@wyokauffman.bsky.social
Wildlife Biologist. Zoology prof at Univ. of Wyoming. Lead scientist at Wyoming Migration Initiative. Fond of wild landscapes. Tweets my own. He/him/his www.migrationinitiative.org
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
File this one under: Pretty Bad Ass. Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Nathaniel Rateliff, Tom Morello & company at Power on the People last night, ripping “Fortunate Son.”
Migration of juvenile Sanderlings is not strategic - things just happen. wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/10/04/t... 🎂7️⃣ #ornithology
I'm hiring a postdoc to help build tools for inferring complex speciation histories with genomic data. strong computational skills are a must, but this is a training opportunity. 60K$+ salary, 2 years, details flexible. please reach out! (and repost) ad here: jobs.montana.edu/postings/53150
Postdoctoral Researcher
The Department of Ecology at Montana State University is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Scholar as part of NSF-funded research on speciation under alternating cycles of gene flow and isolation (fundi...
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Ethan Linck@elinck.bsky.social · 2mo agograteful to have received the lab's first NSF grant to study cyclical processes of speciation with new theory and tools (applied to Melanesian birds). ad to come, but I'll be looking for a postdoc with computational biology chops—please reach out! (and repost) www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
Bergeron: many maternal and environmental variables affect individual reproductive success of female eastern grey kangaroos, but only average female body condition, population density and weather scale up to also affect population recruitment. 🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Weathering the storm: Most maternal and environmental drivers of individual reproductive success do not scale up to population recruitment in a large herbivore
Using 18 years of data on eastern grey kangaroos, we show that drivers of individual reproductive success often do not scale up to population recruitment. Birth asynchrony could buffer population rec...
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You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
At the age of 90 year old, Czech former agricultural worker Agnes Kasparkova continued her 13 year project to decorate her small village with hand-painting traditional Moravian motifs on the local houses #womensart
New migration maps just released! Red deer traverse steep slops in Germany's Berchtesgaden National Park and guanacos migrate along Argentina's impressive Auca Mahuida Volcano. Check out the maps in the Atlas of Ungulate Migration www.cms.int/gium/migrati... @cms.int
David Quammen's essay in The New York Times today closes with this paragraph. It's both a scientific falsehood, and an incredibly dangerous narrative. If you're willing to give me five minutes of your time, I'd like to explain why.
In an Uber. Driver having loud phone conversation with someone in Spanish. A little annoying, but it happens. He hangs up. Says, “Mi hermano. La Migra.” And starts weeping.
Here's an updated version of that chart. (Includes latest numbers from 2026, USGS, and the comparison is vs. 2015–2024 avg.)
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3w agoNew from Lauren Supplee at Can We Still Govern? The US government had gradually become better at producing and using evidence. This evidence-based infrastructure is largely invisible, important, and one more thing gutted by Trump. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-system...
There is no market for a paper-reading chatbot embedded with every scholarly article, much less a paper-reading chatbot that needs a disclaimer about how it does not in fact always read the paper correctly
The nomination for the 1987 mural, 'We the Youth' to become a part of the city's Register of Historic Places was approved in a Philadelphia Historical Commission meeting.
Keith Haring’s famed Point Breeze mural moves one step closer to historic designation
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i'm not sure if robert kraft quite grasps what he started
Una Mullally@unamullally.bsky.social · 4w agoThe Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
25 years ago, almost every plane that was over the North Atlantic when the second tower was hit was forced to land in Newfoundland. A call was on the radio: they needed folks who spoke various languages to come to the stadium to help organize the sea of humanity that just showed up at our door.
For caribou, mitigation in the arctic is too often wishful thinking. We need to move beyond assuming measures will reduce impacts and actually test whether they work. Great new study showing why evidence-based mitigation matters! 👇
Testing the efficacy of industrial mitigation measures for caribou in the Arctic
As new energy projects are designed and implemented in environments around the globe, it is important to ensure that mitigation efforts for wildlife are scientifically validated for their efficacy. I....
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🦌💩🦠 PhD opportunity! I am recruiting a fully-funded PhD student at the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine to study the causes and consequences of gut microbiome variation in caribou. Start date is flexible. Please share!
Easily one of the most spectacular natural events I’ve ever seen: an endless river of Sooty Shearwaters along the Washington coast. These ocean-dwelling birds migrate 40,000 miles each year, foraging in massive flocks. This went nonstop for at least an hour. Best estimate is 100,000 birds.
If you haven’t read Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” now would be a good time…
Just posting this because, as of yesterday, the US national debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time. The GOP: the party of fiscal responsibility. 🥴
Outside the two federal races, the Freedom Caucus far-right wing is going down in flames in Wyoming tonight. There's been a big backlash against them since they took the state house majority last cycle. Tried to defund the university, got caught taking checks literally on the floor during session.
Eric Barlow, a rancher and state lawmaker, beat a Trump-backed candidate to win the GOP governor’s primary in Wyoming.
Eric Barlow Wins Wyoming’s Republican Governor Primary Over Trump-Backed Candidate
Eric Barlow’s defeat of Megan Degenfelder, the state superintendent of education, again showed the limits of the president’s favor.
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I know I'm the only sicko on here watching the Wyoming results, but for what it's worth, Trump's endorsee for governor is cruising to a double-digit defeat.