Tyson Wepprich

@tysonwepprich.bsky.social

1K followers 840 following 150 posts

Biologist in Oregon, forest mgmt, fire ecology, insect population trends, butterflies, biocontrol, climate change, SEIU member, he/him

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Environmental science 50%

Agriculture 23%

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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 4d

What are the most pressing questions
about the status of #insects? Our survey is available here in multiple languages: bit.ly/insectquestions! #insect #entomology #biodiversity

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 4d

Right now, Oregonians should listen very hard to @opbkmhdcreators.bsky.social union. The voices you hear on the radio at OPB are generally poorly-compensated, some working two jobs, and the wage gap between the CEO and the actual journalists is a gap of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Benjamin Wildermuth @bmwildermuth.bsky.social · 6d

New study on arthropod declines @natecoevo.nature.com 🪲

In two time series @jena-experiment.bsky.social & @bexplo.bsky.social we show how community (dis)assembly underpins local biomass declines.

It mostly boils down to species loss, with identity losing relevance.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tyson Wepprich @tysonwepprich.bsky.social · 14d

Fun fact that St. Louis metro has 10.1 governments per 100,000 residents (Table 1)

Brian Highsmith @bhighsmith.bsky.social · 14d

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

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Charlotte H. Chang @harpactes.bsky.social · 14d

Incredibly proud of my former student, Rohan Gowda Thanh Quang. His new paper in 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩: 𝘌𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 analyzed $128B in US climate investments & finds that 𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘁-𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 - especially nature-based solutions. Results in 🧵: 1/9

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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 14d

Even your older nature photos can help scientists today! As long as you know when and where you took the photos, you can post your nature sightings on iNaturalist anytime — and they'll still contribute to science and conservation. Got anything in your camera roll to share? 👀

A close-up photo of bright green moss. White text reads "Your old nature photos can help scientists today."

A photo of a small garden snail perched at the center of a yellow flower. White text reads "As long as you know the dates and locations where you took them, you can post your older photos of wild nature to iNaturalist! Older records of nature can (and do) contribute to ongoing science and conservation efforts — just like new ones do. What's in your camera roll?"

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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · 14d

Disturbance interactions have profound consequences for forest health, yet remain poorly understood.

Here we use DAGs to differentiate #Synergisms, #CompoundDisturbances & #NetworkEffects and review the impacts of climate change.

Final version out now! 🧪🌐🍁🌱
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Brian Highsmith @bhighsmith.bsky.social · 14d

Tyson Wepprich @tysonwepprich.bsky.social · 17d

2015 was the year of rants against AIC apparently. Maybe Cade, Brian S. "Model averaging and muddled multimodel inferences." Ecology 96.9 (2015): 2370-2382.

Tyson Wepprich @tysonwepprich.bsky.social · 17d

Fieberg & Johnson 2015: Multimodel inference or models with management implications?

Tyson Wepprich @tysonwepprich.bsky.social · 17d

First I thought that was way too much coriander, but I guess that's cilantro leaves in the UK. Maybe that's why it's grams?

Reposted by Corey T. Callaghan, Jesse M. Alston, Tyson Wepprich

Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 18d

We churned through over 100 million radar samples to quantify the structure of migration through the airspaces across the United States: Just out in Ecology esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Tyson Wepprich @tysonwepprich.bsky.social · 20d

Noting that I'm talking about land-use change in the USA, here deforestation == sprawl for development which peaked in the 90s. While pesticide use changed drastically in the 90-00s with glyphosate and neonicotenoids

Tyson Wepprich @tysonwepprich.bsky.social · 20d

My view echoes points made by van Klink & Crossley, but I wanted to point out that (similar to Monarch butterflies) the timeframe of a population trend needs to match the environmental changes influencing it. Paper has interesting results wrt temperature trends in Northern sites linked to declines.

screenshot of text: Ten years might also be too short a time to see trends in insect numbers, adds Tyson Wepprich, an ecologist at the Oregon Department of Forestry not involved in the research. That’s particularly true because two of the biggest proposed culprits in insect declines—deforestation and agricultural pesticide use—were on the rise well before 2012, he says. Digging further back in time, potentially by repurposing older weather radar data, will be key to studying long-term, large-scale trends, Wepprich says. “Then you could start getting into those questions.”

Tyson Wepprich @tysonwepprich.bsky.social · 20d

Writeup by Katherine Kornei here showing the excitement and reservations from scientists not involved in the study: www.science.org/content/arti...

Radar data find no decline in insect numbers—but there’s a catch

Study of continental U.S. sees stable population of bugs, but it may be missing important pieces of the puzzle

www.science.org

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John Hammond @hydrohammond.bsky.social · 20d

“Universal hydrological trends post‑wildfire are obscured by local watershed variability”
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

#Hydrology #Wildfire #WatershedProcesses #Streamflow #WaterResources

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Mike Kaspari @mikekaspari.bsky.social · 20d

NOTE: No detectable change in *activity density*: they measure bugs that have dispersed into the upper atmosphere. That is quite a few steps from abundance.

Consider (just one) scenario: abundance declines but warmer temps promote flight activity.

The Achilles’ Heel of malaise, pitfall traps…

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Tyson Wepprich @tysonwepprich.bsky.social · 20d

New paper by Tielens, Stepanian, & Kelly uses weather radar to monitor flying insect communities across the USA over 10 years. Detected no change in density over 2012-2021, with lots of station to station variation. #openaccess paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🌐🧪🪲🪳

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Julia Shumway @jmshumway.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks to all of you fantastic readers, we're about 5% of the way to our end-of-year fundraising goal after launching this campaign a few hours ago! Help the Capital Chronicle keep covering Oregon: oregoncapitalchronicle.com/donate/

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Zach Urness @oregonoutdoors.bsky.social · 24d

In October 2023, there was a mass die-off of kokanee during the first drawdown of Green Peter Reservoir. Floating dead fish everywhere. It was ugly. Turns out, many fish survived and at least 500 reached the ocean and have returned transformed into sockeye salmon. Nature! tinyurl.com/4r8pr5n2

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Esme Ashe-Jepson @esme-ashe.bsky.social · 26d

My latest paper is now published in an issue! We showcased the incredible scientific contributions that local and amateur naturalists make for research on long term change! 💚🌍
doi.org/10.1111/icad...

Local entomologists shine a light on moth communities: The value of amateur records in cataloguing long‐term change

Written records associated with museum collections are often underutilised. We use two new macro-moth collections donated to the University Museum of Zoology (Cambridge) to investigate long-term cha...

doi.org

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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 28d

Spread the word: we are providing multiple $5k awards for grad & undergrad research on invertebrate conservation !! In addition to our continuing DeWind Award (for Lepidoptera research), we now have the 1st annual BanDrosky Award (for any invert in decline). Details in thread🧵 ⤵️

“Applications are Open for Xerces’ 2026 Student Research Awards”. Up close with an ambush bug as it hides in wait on a purple flower.

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Brittany Barker @brittanysbarker.bsky.social · Nov 5

Check out presentations by me and my collaborators at Entomological Society of America meeting in Portland, OR (Nov 9-12)! Topics will cover weevils, biocontrol, modeling, and ecological genomics. @entsocamerica.bsky.social
#IPM #Weeds #InvasivePests #Entomology #Weevils #Model #Forecast #EntSoc25

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Shawan Chowdhury @shawan-chowdhury.bsky.social · Nov 3

Check out our new insect decline paper. By analysing 36 yrs of German ground beetle distribution data, we show:
- ~80% of species have declined, with significant declines for >50%.
- The decline was similar across species traits and threatened status.
doi.org/10.1111/ddi.... @consbiog.bsky.social

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Doug Bock Clark @dougbockclark.bsky.social · Oct 30

Few people outside North Carolina have heard of Paul Newby, the chief justice of the state’s Supreme Court.

But Newby has had a huge impact on America and his state. He’s done this with the goal of delivering what he’s called “biblical justice, equal justice, for all.”

THREAD 👇

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cascadiarconf.bsky.social @cascadiarconf.bsky.social · Oct 27

🚀 Planning for the 2026 Cascadia R Conference is underway!

If you’re passionate about the R community in the Pacific Northwest (and beyond), we’d love to have you involved.

👉 Fill out our Volunteer Interest & Availability Form to sign up:
🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#rstats #DataScience

Cascadia R 2026 Volunteer Sign-Up form

Thanks for volunteering to help organize Cascadia R 2025! Please use this form to let us know your interests, availability, and how you’d like to be involved. We’ll use this to match folks to committe...

docs.google.com

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · Oct 24

Here's a convenient countdown clock for when UCLA has to give up the DoJ letter to the @uclafa.bsky.social. Follow along with me, why don't you!

countingdownto.com/countdown-pa...

UC/UCLA must give DoJ letter to UCLA FA Countdown Clock

countingdownto.com

Tyson Wepprich @tysonwepprich.bsky.social · Oct 23

Matt Levine's "Money Stuff" crossover with entomology: 2012 Texas property tax exemption for non-native honeybees caused bee farms (in residential yards) to quadruple. Sucks to be a native pollinator. www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/a...

Texas a leader in beekeeping

Over the last decade, Texas has quietly become a leader in beekeeping, boasting more bee farms than any other state.

www.nbcdfw.com

Tyson Wepprich @tysonwepprich.bsky.social · Oct 23

TIL about the Cyclocrane invented in the 80s for aerial logging. Did not pan out. Great video showing its test flights in Tillamook, Oregon www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiU7...

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Street Roots @streetroots.bsky.social · Oct 23

In Corvallis, Rev. Jennifer Butler created a microshelter program at her church despite neighborhood complaints. Butler is one of a handful of Corvallis residents working toward service and shelter options in Oregon's most rent-burdened city.

Challenging the idyllic image of Corvallis are the more than 500 people experiencing homelessness in Benton County

The most rent-burdened city in the state struggles with limited shelter beds and neighborhood complaints, while some work toward homelessness solutions

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