Jesse Alston
@jessealston.bsky.social
Computational mammalogist at the University of Arizona. Public land and Green Bay Packers enjoyer.
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After cursing at clumsy paste(...) constructs for years, why am I only now learning about the glue package? https://glue.tidyverse.org/
Byebye
paste("Iteration: ", iter, ", value: ", val, sep="")
Hello
glue("Iteration: {iter}, value: {val}")
#rstats #tidyverse
Byebye
paste("Iteration: ", iter, ", value: ", val, sep="")
Hello
glue("Iteration: {iter}, value: {val}")
#rstats #tidyverse
November 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
After cursing at clumsy paste(...) constructs for years, why am I only now learning about the glue package? https://glue.tidyverse.org/
Byebye
paste("Iteration: ", iter, ", value: ", val, sep="")
Hello
glue("Iteration: {iter}, value: {val}")
#rstats #tidyverse
Byebye
paste("Iteration: ", iter, ", value: ", val, sep="")
Hello
glue("Iteration: {iter}, value: {val}")
#rstats #tidyverse
On this Giving Tuesday, please help our professional society that gives nothing to students and charges the highest annual dues among peer societies by donating so we can spend more money on lobbyists to continue to fail on our signature policy initiatives
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
On this Giving Tuesday, please help our professional society that gives nothing to students and charges the highest annual dues among peer societies by donating so we can spend more money on lobbyists to continue to fail on our signature policy initiatives
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If you're interested in working with me on a master's or PhD with questions related to genomics, biodiversity, and climate change, I'd love to chat about the CAMBIUM fellowship! There's an informational webinar next week and applications are due December 1st.
Join us on Nov 18 at 2:30 PM MST to learn about CAMBIUM grad fellowships in biodiversity informatics & climate change @uarizona.bsky.social. For incoming Fall 2026 students interested in big data, ecology, evolution, climate adaptation & more. Register: events.trellis.arizona.edu/en/f44lNu67/... 🌵🧬🌐
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
If you're interested in working with me on a master's or PhD with questions related to genomics, biodiversity, and climate change, I'd love to chat about the CAMBIUM fellowship! There's an informational webinar next week and applications are due December 1st.
Thought this was good inexactscience.substack.com/p/university...
University education as we know it is over
Take-home assignments are dead, "one prompt away" is one prompt too far, and what we should do next
inexactscience.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Thought this was good inexactscience.substack.com/p/university...
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Join us on Nov 18 at 2:30 PM MST to learn about CAMBIUM grad fellowships in biodiversity informatics & climate change @uarizona.bsky.social. For incoming Fall 2026 students interested in big data, ecology, evolution, climate adaptation & more. Register: events.trellis.arizona.edu/en/f44lNu67/... 🌵🧬🌐
November 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Join us on Nov 18 at 2:30 PM MST to learn about CAMBIUM grad fellowships in biodiversity informatics & climate change @uarizona.bsky.social. For incoming Fall 2026 students interested in big data, ecology, evolution, climate adaptation & more. Register: events.trellis.arizona.edu/en/f44lNu67/... 🌵🧬🌐
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The CAMBIUM NSF NRT is recruiting PhD students @uarizona.bsky.social! Fellowships for interdisciplinary training in biodiversity big data to adapt to & mitigate climate change impacts. Great fit for evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, plant adaptation, ecology & more. cambium.arizona.edu 🧬🌐🌎
October 24, 2025 at 5:19 AM
The CAMBIUM NSF NRT is recruiting PhD students @uarizona.bsky.social! Fellowships for interdisciplinary training in biodiversity big data to adapt to & mitigate climate change impacts. Great fit for evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, plant adaptation, ecology & more. cambium.arizona.edu 🧬🌐🌎
If anyone’s looking to get me a birthday present…
Hi friends! It's that time again. From today through Thanksgiving weekend, all prints on my website are 25 percent off, including a big old print of my recent mural painting in Tonasket! Go get you something nice 🦋 www.etsy.com/shop/HiddenD...
October 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
If anyone’s looking to get me a birthday present…
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1 week left to apply to our Postdoc job with our lab using AI to analyze camera trap images at the NC Museum of Natural sciences and NCSU and in collaboration with Wildlife Insights https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223025
October 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
1 week left to apply to our Postdoc job with our lab using AI to analyze camera trap images at the NC Museum of Natural sciences and NCSU and in collaboration with Wildlife Insights https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223025
Worth considering www.nber.org/papers/w34313
Understanding and Addressing Temperature Impacts on Mortality
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
October 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Worth considering www.nber.org/papers/w34313
Added some @cmikesspinmove.bsky.social style inspiration to my office door yesterday
October 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Added some @cmikesspinmove.bsky.social style inspiration to my office door yesterday
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My lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.
October 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
My lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.
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Opportunity to join our team. Open to African students at Masters or PhD level.
October 14, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Opportunity to join our team. Open to African students at Masters or PhD level.
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Just finished a first draft of an ecological power analyzer app. Been watching students struggle to figure out sample sizes. Hope this helps. Fork it, steal it, use it. Mostly accurate. Work in progress. ufduttonlab.github.io/peep-power/
PEEP - Power Estimator for Ecological Planning | Statistical Power Calculator
PEEP: Your friendly companion for sample size calculations and power analysis in ecological research. Professional tools for field studies, experimental design, and grant proposals.
ufduttonlab.github.io
October 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Just finished a first draft of an ecological power analyzer app. Been watching students struggle to figure out sample sizes. Hope this helps. Fork it, steal it, use it. Mostly accurate. Work in progress. ufduttonlab.github.io/peep-power/
I’ve read far too many of the replies to this and regrettably none of them mention the perfect country/western song
I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.
Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?
Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?
October 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I’ve read far too many of the replies to this and regrettably none of them mention the perfect country/western song
Very cool paper that I was lucky to be a part of. Worth reading in depth because in addition to describing updates to a vital resource for mammal research, it also includes a brief history of collections-based mammalogy
How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge.
doi.org/10.1093/jmam... @ConnorBurgin1 @n8_upham
The Mammal Diversity Database 2.0, listing 6,759 mammal species and 50,230 species-level synonyms
doi.org/10.1093/jmam... @ConnorBurgin1 @n8_upham
The Mammal Diversity Database 2.0, listing 6,759 mammal species and 50,230 species-level synonyms
October 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Very cool paper that I was lucky to be a part of. Worth reading in depth because in addition to describing updates to a vital resource for mammal research, it also includes a brief history of collections-based mammalogy
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The American Society of Naturalists is looking for a new Editor-In-Chief to begin Jan 2027. Info here:
www.amnat.org/announcement...
www.amnat.org/announcement...
Call for new Editor-in-Chief (2027–2030)
<p>The ASN is seeking applicants for Editor-in-Chief, to begin in January 2027</p><br/>
www.amnat.org
September 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The American Society of Naturalists is looking for a new Editor-In-Chief to begin Jan 2027. Info here:
www.amnat.org/announcement...
www.amnat.org/announcement...
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Reminder: two more days to apply for this opportunity!
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
September 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Reminder: two more days to apply for this opportunity!
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NSF GRFP solicitation is finally up. Life Sci deadline extended to Nov 10 but 2nd year grad students no longer eligible www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
NSF GRFP solicitation is finally up. Life Sci deadline extended to Nov 10 but 2nd year grad students no longer eligible www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Is that good?
On offense, there's a bigger gap between the Packers and No. 2 than between No. 2 and No. 8.
On defense, there's a bigger gap between the Packers and No. 2 than between No. 2 and No. 9.
On defense, there's a bigger gap between the Packers and No. 2 than between No. 2 and No. 9.
The Packers are the first team to finish a week No. 1 in both offensive DVOA and defensive DVOA since the 2014 Broncos after Week 13.
September 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Is that good?
New preprint out of my lab on dikdik behavior. Hoping to join @adamtford.bsky.social in the elite circle of biologists who have published on these guys doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Human shields alter antipredator behavior in Guenther's dik-dik (Madoqua guentheri)
Human activities affect landscape use by wildlife, with many predators actively avoiding areas near humans. In human-occupied areas, prolonged habituation to human activity could therefore lead to rel...
doi.org
September 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
New preprint out of my lab on dikdik behavior. Hoping to join @adamtford.bsky.social in the elite circle of biologists who have published on these guys doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Hello mammalogists!
A reminder that the Black and Indigenous Scholars Award in Mammalogy is now accepting applications for awards of up to $1500 to support the further development of mammalogy by Black/African American, African, and Indigenous individuals.
A reminder that the Black and Indigenous Scholars Award in Mammalogy is now accepting applications for awards of up to $1500 to support the further development of mammalogy by Black/African American, African, and Indigenous individuals.
Black and Indigenous Scholars Award in Mammalogy | American Society of Mammalogists
www.mammalsociety.org
September 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Hello mammalogists!
A reminder that the Black and Indigenous Scholars Award in Mammalogy is now accepting applications for awards of up to $1500 to support the further development of mammalogy by Black/African American, African, and Indigenous individuals.
A reminder that the Black and Indigenous Scholars Award in Mammalogy is now accepting applications for awards of up to $1500 to support the further development of mammalogy by Black/African American, African, and Indigenous individuals.
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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!
While full solicitation isn’t up, looks like we have 2025 proposal deadlines for the GRFP: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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!
No cap, that classwide delayed and confused chuckle just hits different
i bet it feels amazing to be a middle aged college professor and say stuff like "napoleon wouldn't stay in his lane so the duke of wellington locked in" to a survey course of a hundred bored 18 year olds
September 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
No cap, that classwide delayed and confused chuckle just hits different