Jake Mikic
@jakemikic.bsky.social
Restoration ecologist and science communicator based in Wisconsin🌱
MS Environmental Conservation | Nelson Institute at UW-Madison
Views and opinions expressed are my own | he/him
MS Environmental Conservation | Nelson Institute at UW-Madison
Views and opinions expressed are my own | he/him
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A couple weeks remain to submit your proposals to our conference panel at POLLEN in Barcelona next summer about the future of restoration - due December 5. nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...
P108: From global restoration goals to people's visions for the future: Capturing diverse imaginaries of ecosystem restoration
We intend to have paper presentations with an introduction to set the agenda
nomadit.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
A couple weeks remain to submit your proposals to our conference panel at POLLEN in Barcelona next summer about the future of restoration - due December 5. nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...
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I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
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This morning, there was a public hearing at Bessemer City Hall in Alabama to discuss the zoning of a new data center, which would likely cause the extinction of a newly-discovered small endemic fish, the Birmingham Darter. Best of luck to the fish people. abc3340.com/news/abc-334...
'We have to act fast': Petition filed to protect rare fish from proposed data center
The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to secure Endangered Species Act protection for the Birmingham
abc3340.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This morning, there was a public hearing at Bessemer City Hall in Alabama to discuss the zoning of a new data center, which would likely cause the extinction of a newly-discovered small endemic fish, the Birmingham Darter. Best of luck to the fish people. abc3340.com/news/abc-334...
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Restoration ultimately aims to recover complex ecological systems with many interdependent species at large scale
To understand the driving processes, we combined experiments & modelling
Finding a trade-off between species recovery and food-web complexity
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
To understand the driving processes, we combined experiments & modelling
Finding a trade-off between species recovery and food-web complexity
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Restoration ultimately aims to recover complex ecological systems with many interdependent species at large scale
To understand the driving processes, we combined experiments & modelling
Finding a trade-off between species recovery and food-web complexity
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
To understand the driving processes, we combined experiments & modelling
Finding a trade-off between species recovery and food-web complexity
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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It is the ecological and ritual season of burning. The most salubrious time to burn. Coarse stems--even seeds--stand. Terricolous lichens and bryophytes survive. Larvae rest cosy in their galls. The stage is set for next season's abundance. #Prairie #Savanna #RxFire #MukwonagoRiverOakBarrens
November 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
It is the ecological and ritual season of burning. The most salubrious time to burn. Coarse stems--even seeds--stand. Terricolous lichens and bryophytes survive. Larvae rest cosy in their galls. The stage is set for next season's abundance. #Prairie #Savanna #RxFire #MukwonagoRiverOakBarrens
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pretty worrisome that it’s 60° in November in Minnesota
November 15, 2025 at 4:02 AM
pretty worrisome that it’s 60° in November in Minnesota
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This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Huge scoop from Ed, who had several years of financial reports leaked to him. OpenAI has been over-reporting their revenue. The company is even less profitable than we knew.
Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported.
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft
As with my Anthropic exclusive from a few weeks ago, though this feels like a natural premium piece, I decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked or f...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Huge scoop from Ed, who had several years of financial reports leaked to him. OpenAI has been over-reporting their revenue. The company is even less profitable than we knew.
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The tech billionaire’s climate pivot is cowardly—and profoundly unhelpful.
Respectfully, Bill Gates needs to shut up
The tech billionaire's climate pivot is cowardly—and profoundly unhelpful.
www.motherjones.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The tech billionaire’s climate pivot is cowardly—and profoundly unhelpful.
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections
go.nature.com/4hJ4d7K
go.nature.com/4hJ4d7K
Powerful new antibiotic that can kill superbugs discovered in soil bacteria
Nature - Surprise discovery could pave the way for new treatments against drug-resistant infections.
go.nature.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections
go.nature.com/4hJ4d7K
go.nature.com/4hJ4d7K
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perfect optics event to hold right as 40 million americans will increasingly struggle to get food with SNAP benefits expiring
November 2, 2025 at 5:36 AM
perfect optics event to hold right as 40 million americans will increasingly struggle to get food with SNAP benefits expiring
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Our 2025 State of the Climate Report was just published in BioScience by scientists from around the world including @michaelemann.bsky.social @petergleick.bsky.social This video (2 minutes) shows the key highlights: doi.org/10.1093/bios...
November 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Our 2025 State of the Climate Report was just published in BioScience by scientists from around the world including @michaelemann.bsky.social @petergleick.bsky.social This video (2 minutes) shows the key highlights: doi.org/10.1093/bios...
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Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
October 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
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My lukewarm take on this is I question why we continue to platform (mostly? Exclusively?) men who made a lot of money in one area for their views/advice in other totally unrelated areas.
Bill Gates has a new memo out calling for a “strategic pivot” on climate change, downplaying “doomsday” talk to focus on filling enormous post-USAID budget gaps in global health and vaccine funding. I got an early glimpse of his thinking last week:
7 New Takes From Bill Gates on Climate ‘Doomsday’ Talk and Global Health
“I mean, God bless the Europeans for caring about climate.”
heatmap.news
November 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
My lukewarm take on this is I question why we continue to platform (mostly? Exclusively?) men who made a lot of money in one area for their views/advice in other totally unrelated areas.
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“Indigenous people are the stewards of much of the remaining standing forests and contain the hope that these precious places can be preserved.”
Not said in the best way, but it is absolutely right that honoring Indigenous land kinship is the right and necessary thing to do.
Not said in the best way, but it is absolutely right that honoring Indigenous land kinship is the right and necessary thing to do.
Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’
Indiana Jones star calls US president one of history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
“Indigenous people are the stewards of much of the remaining standing forests and contain the hope that these precious places can be preserved.”
Not said in the best way, but it is absolutely right that honoring Indigenous land kinship is the right and necessary thing to do.
Not said in the best way, but it is absolutely right that honoring Indigenous land kinship is the right and necessary thing to do.
For halloween im going to dress up as a "not mad scientist, just a disappointed scientist"
October 31, 2025 at 4:28 AM
For halloween im going to dress up as a "not mad scientist, just a disappointed scientist"
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October 31, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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A bleak report, but one with a tinge of optimism if we can just, you know, stop burning the planet... www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
22 of Earth's 34 'vital signs' are flashing red, new climate report reveals — but there's still time to act
Earth's systems are nearing tipping points that could plunge the planet into a "hothouse" regime — but there's still time to prevent that from happening, scientists say.
www.livescience.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
A bleak report, but one with a tinge of optimism if we can just, you know, stop burning the planet... www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
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They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
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"Due to a variety of circumstances...many science projects will never be finished, despite years of invested resources and effort. By carefully and strategically documenting scientific work achieved, components of unfinished projects can be salvaged and preserved to benefit future researchers." 🧪
When goodbye comes too soon: How to wrap up science projects quickly
Science projects are designed and funded on the scale of years, so what happens when researchers need to finish prematurely? This Community Page discusses solutions for quickly documenting partially f...
journals.plos.org
October 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
"Due to a variety of circumstances...many science projects will never be finished, despite years of invested resources and effort. By carefully and strategically documenting scientific work achieved, components of unfinished projects can be salvaged and preserved to benefit future researchers." 🧪
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New this week:
* Assistant Professor of Biology, Wildlife, Mammalogy, Ecology & Conservation @mariettacollege.bsky.social
* Assistant/Associate Professor in AI for Environmental Modeling/Forecasting @utah.edu
Get started! www.esacareercenter.org/jobs/
* Assistant Professor of Biology, Wildlife, Mammalogy, Ecology & Conservation @mariettacollege.bsky.social
* Assistant/Associate Professor in AI for Environmental Modeling/Forecasting @utah.edu
Get started! www.esacareercenter.org/jobs/
October 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
New this week:
* Assistant Professor of Biology, Wildlife, Mammalogy, Ecology & Conservation @mariettacollege.bsky.social
* Assistant/Associate Professor in AI for Environmental Modeling/Forecasting @utah.edu
Get started! www.esacareercenter.org/jobs/
* Assistant Professor of Biology, Wildlife, Mammalogy, Ecology & Conservation @mariettacollege.bsky.social
* Assistant/Associate Professor in AI for Environmental Modeling/Forecasting @utah.edu
Get started! www.esacareercenter.org/jobs/
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I am BEGGING scientific instrumentation manufacturers to stop sending instruments with software on CD-ROM disks
Especially field equipment... NO LAPTOP HAS THAT ANYMORE
Especially field equipment... NO LAPTOP HAS THAT ANYMORE
October 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I am BEGGING scientific instrumentation manufacturers to stop sending instruments with software on CD-ROM disks
Especially field equipment... NO LAPTOP HAS THAT ANYMORE
Especially field equipment... NO LAPTOP HAS THAT ANYMORE