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stacksjournal.bsky.social
🦨 Ever wonder how skunks decide where to live in urban landscapes like Chicago?

New research from @masonfidino.bsky.social, @lizalehrer.bsky.social, & @sbmagle.bsky.social from @lpzoo.org used nearly a decade of data to find out! 🦊🌍🧪

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July 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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seanmichaletz.bsky.social
Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool
March 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
FINE: TL;DR 🦑🧪🌎

Plastic pollution is a problem.

People should use less plastic when they can

Straws became a culture-war flashpoint and are not the biggest source of plastic pollution.

Everyone talks about this, especially solutions, wrong.

Some people absolutely need plastic straws.

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whysharksmatter.bsky.social David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Feb 11
You People are gonna make me do my “as an ocean conservation scientist, you’re thinking about plastic straws wrong” rant again, aren’t you?
an older man in a red cardigan says i got a lot of problems
ALT: an older man in a red cardigan says i got a lot of problems
media.tenor.com
February 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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smwadgymar.bsky.social
Can/should undergraduates engage with the primary literature in classes? ✅

Are there many articles appropriate for undergraduate learning? ❌

Am I frustrated by this every single semester? ✅ x1000

A solution: Publish a primer w/ @ijpsjournal.bsky.social! #PlantScience 🧪🌍

bsky.app/profile/ijps...
ijpsjournal.bsky.social International Journal of Plant Sciences @ijpsjournal.bsky.social · Feb 23
As some of you know, in 2024 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social launched a new series of occasional papers: Primers in the Plant Sciences. You can learn about the philosophy behind the Primer series and browse all of the published and in press Primers here:

www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ijp...
February 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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pec-exeter.bsky.social
Where are all the field studies?

This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer.

A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork)
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Extinction of experience among ecologists
Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining. We call for greater attention to this ongoing loss of direct field experience within the ecology community, as it could have widespread consequences for science and education, ultimately hindering efforts to address the ongoing biodiversity crisis.
www.cell.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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hollykirk.bsky.social
Boosting this to the science and ecology feeds because it's cool! 😎
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Great work @sarahmccg.bsky.social
December 18, 2024 at 11:58 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Did you know that you can get trained in IUCN Red List assessment for free online?

I have my undergrads do this as a semester-long assignment to understand policy-relevant science. You can do it too! 🧪🦑🌎

www.conservationtraining.org/course/index...
The IUCN Red List categories and criteria The IUCN Red List logo
December 19, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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louisathelast.bsky.social
Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this
spavel.bsky.social Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Jul 6
Well this is grim
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
December 10, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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aurigny.bsky.social
@alderneywt.bsky.social 🌍🧪 #seabirds
olliepadget.bsky.social Ollie Padget @olliepadget.bsky.social · Dec 4
!PhD opportunity! We are recruiting a student to use biotelemetry and modelling to understand bycatch in Europe's most endangered seabird, the Balearic shearwater. If you are interested come to our online Q&A session on 12th Dec. See advert below!
December 5, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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galateainthewild.bsky.social
Advent Sci-Fact 4:

New headlights hurt moths!

Unlike us, moths can’t blink in bright light. Moths are more likely to fly erratically towards pulses of cool toned phosphor-LEDs, compared with warmer and RGB lights. Meaning new headlights are more harmful.
Paper: tinyurl.com/29avcnnx

#SciComm 🧪🌍
Diagram showing a moth flying towards a car with cool toned headlights, and a moth staying still next to a car with warm headlights. In the corner is a photograph of a cute yellow moth face on to the camera flapping it's wings. It is perched on someone's hand. Text reads: New headlights hurt moths! Moths fly erratically towards cool phosphor LEDs, more than warm and RGB LEDs. In a bubble in the top right corner, text reads "Did you know? Many artifical lights are harmful to insects at night" The background is black.
December 4, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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brendangodley.bsky.social
Please share with likely candidates: Iapetus Doctoral Training Partnership-Diversifying Talent Scholarship Scheme (via @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social)
Part of the DTPs ongoing commitment to Equality Diversity and Inclusion. 🌍🧪
www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
December 1, 2024 at 8:06 AM
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wellmanneredxs.bsky.social
'We cannot ignore the interdependence of all things in nature, especially the things we cannot see like microbes and fungi' - Mia Maltz from Uni of Connecticut

Thanks for sharing @mdettinger.bsky.social

#GoodGreenNews
mdettinger.bsky.social Mike Dettinger @mdettinger.bsky.social · Nov 11
When Mount St Helens erupted in 1980, ash buried everything for miles around. Scientists dropped gophers onto selected areas for just 24 hrs. The soil & plant cover benefits from fungi & bacteria dug up from under the ash that one day are still visible 40 years later.

news.ucr.edu/articles/202...
The 24-Hour Gopher Experiment That Brought Life Back to Mount St. Helens
Scientists released gophers onto a plot of land two years after the eruption obliterated the landscape—and the results were magical.
gizmodo.com
November 30, 2024 at 9:31 PM
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exetermarine.bsky.social
Exciting PhD opportunity with @plymouthmarine.bsky.social and @exetercec.bsky.social. This position a NERC GW4+ DTP, aiming to identify and assess the risk of plastic pollution to marine ecosystem services. 🦤🧪🌍

APPLY - www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
DEADLINE: 13th of January.
The background is navy blue. An image of marine litter underwater is shown on the left, bordered by a medium blue stripe curving down and out to the bottom left. In white, bold text down the right hand side of the image reads: "PhD Opportunity". Below this, in regular, "Assessing the risk of consumer plastics to marine ecosystem services. Lead Supervisor Dr Samantha Garrard (PML, Sea and Society). Additional supervisors Dr Sarah Nelms (University of Exeter, Centre for Ecology and Conservation), Dr Matthew Cole (PML, Marine Ecology and Biodiversity). Below is a pinned location icon, medium blue, with 'Plymouth Marine Laboratory' to the right, in white. Below is a calendar icon, medium blue, with 'Apply by 13th January 2025' to the right, in white. At the bottom left of the page is PML's logo. At the bottom right is the University of Exeter's logo.
November 25, 2024 at 10:50 AM
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globalecoguy.bsky.social
We have heard a lot of buzz about how feeding seaweed — and other dietary supplements — to cows can reduce their methane emissions, and help address climate change.

Sounds great, right?

But the results to date are really disappointing.

drawdown.org/insights/are...
Are livestock feed additives the future or folly?
In 2022, I gave a presentation about climate change solutions to the Canadian Parliament. During that meeting, I had the opportunity to hear a presentation from a beef producers group about how they i...
drawdown.org
November 20, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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yellowbuckeye.bsky.social
Wow. Being a department colleague with Dr. Turner and others in such a cool community?! This will be an excellent position
November 21, 2024 at 11:50 PM
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ecologyphd.bsky.social
🚨 FUNDING ALERT 🚨
🌎🌿🌳🧪🌾
#GenerationRestoration
#RestoreHabitat
#Reforestation
andrewlhipp.bsky.social Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · Nov 20
Grants available from the International Oak Society for oak research and conservation. This year's call prioritizes:

Habitat restoration
Ex-situ conservation
Field survey and population monitoring
Education
Population reintroduction and reinforcement

www.internationaloaksociety.org/content/oak-...
Oak Conservation and Reach Fund: Call for Proposals 2024
At least 110 species (>25%) of the world’s estimated 425 oak species are threatened with extinction. In response to this worrying statistic, the International Oak Society created the Oak Conservation ...
www.internationaloaksociety.org
November 20, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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misterduncan.bsky.social
Want to fix a major invasive species problem on a river?

You need software, you need data & it helps to have data visualisation.

Are you a community group that looks after a river or any other local ecology? Get in touch and help me beta test & make this really useful for you!
Logging invasive himalayan balsam on the River Frome in data visualisation
November 19, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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biologicalrecording.co.uk
The taxonomic biases in biodiversity data are growing over time. The amount of data we are collecting is growing, but the biases get bigger. We need to make a conscious effort to study the understudied!

#SciComms #Science #Taxonomy

🧪 image from Troudet et al 2018

@natureportfolio.bsky.social
November 19, 2024 at 9:54 AM
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funkminister.bsky.social
🎉 We're hiring at @scifri.bsky.social and you can work with me! 🧪 Come join our team of producers and spark science curiosity for everyone. Apply now! Or ask me questions if you have em! www.sciencefriday.com/job-program-...
Job: Program Associate, Audience Experiences
This position will plan and execute engaging events and educational experiences that foster meaningful connections with our audience.
www.sciencefriday.com
November 19, 2024 at 1:37 AM
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dominic-martin.bsky.social
Why not doing my first Bluesky post advertising a PhD position?

We are looking for a PhD researcher working on social and ecological #restoration effectiveness in #Madagascar based at Wageningen University & attached to the #Demand4Restoration project. Apply by 3.12.!

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
PhD position - Tree-based restoration in biodiversity hotspot Madagascar
www.wur.nl
November 18, 2024 at 9:37 AM
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johnfocook.bsky.social
Just published a paper in Nature Scientific Reports where we've trained a model to automatically detect logical fallacies in climate misinformation - part of our project using AI to debunk climate myths www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A technocognitive approach to detecting fallacies in climate misinformation - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A technocognitive approach to detecting fallacies in climate misinformation
www.nature.com
November 14, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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isabellaoleksy.bsky.social
We're hiring! Work with
@jbaron4.bsky.social @mishafredmeyer.bsky.social, and I to synthesize 40+ years of biogeochemical data from lakes across the southern Rocky Mtns. Pay range $65-75k, negotiable start date jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Postdoctoral Associate
https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/?jobId=56233…
April 29, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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saocousins.bsky.social
Three (!) positions as Assistant Professor in #Biodiversity
We hope to get one to our department #biogeography
A super recruitment within Life sciences. Maximum of 7 since PhD 🌍🧪
#biodiversity #academic #climatechange #lifescience #ecology #StockholmUniversity
Please re-🦋
www.su.se/english/news...
Faculty of Science is recruiting Assistant Professors in Biodiversity - Stockholm University
Faculty of Science is recruiting Assistant Professors in Biodiversity - Stockholm University
www.su.se
November 12, 2024 at 3:37 PM