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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 9h

In such a beautiful piece about cultural burning, I was able to share a bit of my own work on how “good fire” can bring a host of benefits to wildlife and forests. Thanks @sadbumblebee.buzz for including me. And what a great spotlight on fire as a form of art, deeply human.

Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 16h

In June, the @washingtonpost.com sent me and @byaliceli.bsky.social to witness cultural burns in California. We learned how they encourage beneficial vegetation, reduce wildfire risk, and provide traditional food and craft sources for tribes in the Klamath region.

🎁: wapo.st/3J7BQTL

How indigenous practices can help protect forests

The Post followed cultural burning practices, an Indigenous tradition now permitted under California law and used to help protect forests from wildfires.

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 2d

Gothic, CO

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 8d

Gaussian, beta, Poisson

Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 8d

University general counsel, university trustee, university president

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 8d

The only thing better is if the dodgers get eliminated

gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 9d

I was watching the game with my father in law and said THE SAME THING. Like ok cool guys who tap the plate 3 times hit the ball 13% harder? Just wait until they tap it 10-15 times baby

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 11d

Fats pancake

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 13d

Congrats!!

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 14d

I’ll be first in line… congrats Rob!!

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 20d

My beard has crossed the size threshold where random dudes will give me a “hell yeah” in public

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 26d

Very cool. Would not have guessed those were the same species! Crazy

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 26d

Also we love to see no context bur oaks 🤝🤝🤝

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 26d

Why are they so different?

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 27d

Got soaked on my bike home today like a cartoon character with a cloud directly over my head

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 27d

Absolutely love this study. This is the type of creative experimentation we need to understand fire adaptations in animals. Huge kudos to Chris et al!

Chris Jolly @ecolojolly.bsky.social · 28d

New paper out today with @biodiversityguy.bsky.social and @lizardlab.bsky.social

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

From anecdote to evidence: experimental validation of fire-cue recognition in Australian sleepy lizards | Biology Letters

Fire has shaped the evolution of both plants and animals. Animals exposed to fire throughout their evolutionary history are predicted to exhibit behavioural adaptations that enhance survival during fire. Here, we investigated whether Australian sleepy ...

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 28d

Tenure cannot protect u when u go that hard

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 28d

Yale professor proves elusive theorem

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 28d

I’m ready. I’m waiting

gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 29d

Last summer while doing surveys in Glacier NP we found PLASTIC HAIRBRUSH BRISTLES in a pika haypile in a remote part of the park. Why?? How?? We don’t know. So of course we speculated about it in a short natural history note.

Link: doi.org/10.1898/NWN2...

RG: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 29d

I regret to inform you that the new Sabrina carpenter album is fire

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · Sep 9

Okay new mexico… I see you 👀👀

www.governor.state.nm.us/2025/09/08/n...

www.governor.state.nm.us

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · Sep 7

Yurt life best life?

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · Sep 5

my new computer has two versions of the outlook app. “Outlook” and “Outlook (classic)” , this is cursed

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · Sep 5

This is giving “achievement unlocked” 🔓

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · Sep 5

We think this has important implications for bird conservation and management. Optimal fire management to maximize benefits to birds is going to look different across geographies. Our work takes a step toward understanding these complexities!

A 💯 collaboration between Cornell Lab of O 🐥 and USFS 🌲

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · Sep 5

Which results in these incredibly insightful visualizations showing how bird-fire relationships vary spatially in their magnitude and, sometimes, direction (see the goshawk!!). This shows us that the effect of fire in one part of a species range might be completely different in another. Wowowowow

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