Morgan Tingley
@mwtingley.bsky.social
Professor @UCLA @UCLAEEB
Studying ecological effects of global change (range shifts, #phenology, and #wildfire) on #birds and occasionally other organisms. Proudly LGBTQ (he/him)
Tweets entirely my own
Studying ecological effects of global change (range shifts, #phenology, and #wildfire) on #birds and occasionally other organisms. Proudly LGBTQ (he/him)
Tweets entirely my own
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POSTDOC JOB AD: I'm hiring a Bayesian ecologist to build a (IMO, extremely fun) model of humpback whale spatiotemporal dynamics in California
2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin.
ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin.
ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
Fredston Lab: Postdoctoral Scholar
University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucsc.edu
October 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
POSTDOC JOB AD: I'm hiring a Bayesian ecologist to build a (IMO, extremely fun) model of humpback whale spatiotemporal dynamics in California
2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin.
ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin.
ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
Less than 1 month left to submit abstracts for what is always the *best* conference on climate change impacts on biodiversity. Intimate conference size but truly global participation; highly recommend for 1st-timers and returnees.
✨🌏 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 🌏✨
⏰ Deadline: November 10, 2025
🗣️ Oral Presentations | 📋 Poster Presentations
🔗 Guidelines & Submissions: www.speciesonthemove.com/abstract/inf...
🇹🇼 Can't wait to welcome you to #Taiwan!
#SpeciesOnTheMove #SOTM2026 #Taiwan #SunMoonLake #ClimateChange #Biodiversity
⏰ Deadline: November 10, 2025
🗣️ Oral Presentations | 📋 Poster Presentations
🔗 Guidelines & Submissions: www.speciesonthemove.com/abstract/inf...
🇹🇼 Can't wait to welcome you to #Taiwan!
#SpeciesOnTheMove #SOTM2026 #Taiwan #SunMoonLake #ClimateChange #Biodiversity
October 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Less than 1 month left to submit abstracts for what is always the *best* conference on climate change impacts on biodiversity. Intimate conference size but truly global participation; highly recommend for 1st-timers and returnees.
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And THREE stood up!
Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact.
When we join together and fight back, WE WIN!
No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent.
LET’S GO!
#DefendHigherEd
@aaup-penn.bsky.social
And THREE stood up!
Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact.
When we join together and fight back, WE WIN!
No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent.
LET’S GO!
#DefendHigherEd
@aaup-penn.bsky.social
Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment
With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.
www.thedp.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🚨🚨🚨
And THREE stood up!
Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact.
When we join together and fight back, WE WIN!
No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent.
LET’S GO!
#DefendHigherEd
@aaup-penn.bsky.social
And THREE stood up!
Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact.
When we join together and fight back, WE WIN!
No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent.
LET’S GO!
#DefendHigherEd
@aaup-penn.bsky.social
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🪶🌎🧪 New research on birds and wildfire by IBP and our partners at NPS and UCLA. You can read about it here: birdpop.org/pages/bl...
(@mwtingley.bsky.social)
(@mwtingley.bsky.social)
October 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
🪶🌎🧪 New research on birds and wildfire by IBP and our partners at NPS and UCLA. You can read about it here: birdpop.org/pages/bl...
(@mwtingley.bsky.social)
(@mwtingley.bsky.social)
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I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.
It's especially for journalists covering this story!
Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.
It's especially for journalists covering this story!
Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.
Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com
October 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.
It's especially for journalists covering this story!
Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.
It's especially for journalists covering this story!
Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.
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Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no.
Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.
Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.
October 2, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no.
Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.
Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.
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Farewell to Jane Goodall 🌿 A pioneering scientist whose groundbreaking work with primates transformed how we understand ourselves. She showed how research and advocacy can unite, inspiring generations.
Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.”
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Farewell to Jane Goodall 🌿 A pioneering scientist whose groundbreaking work with primates transformed how we understand ourselves. She showed how research and advocacy can unite, inspiring generations.
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The GRFP announcement from NSF cuts out an entire cohort of 2nd year students from consideration, without warning. This is so deeply unfair that it warrants a formal protest from the scientific community. If someone wants to work with me to craft an open letter and solicit signatures, LMK.
New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The GRFP announcement from NSF cuts out an entire cohort of 2nd year students from consideration, without warning. This is so deeply unfair that it warrants a formal protest from the scientific community. If someone wants to work with me to craft an open letter and solicit signatures, LMK.
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There is so much in the news cycle these days that the complete dismantling of the Forest Service -- so *our* forests can be auctioned off to Big TImber -- is unfortunately getting little air play. But if this happens, US landscapes may be almost unrecognizable in a decade, and never coming back. 🌍
Using an emergency declaration, Trump’s timber production executive order would ease environmental protections so as to greatly expand logging in the national forests.
A report from our friends at @highcountrynews.org:
A report from our friends at @highcountrynews.org:
The dismantling of the US Forest Service is imminent
The public has less than a week remaining to comment on the administration's plans.
www.motherjones.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
There is so much in the news cycle these days that the complete dismantling of the Forest Service -- so *our* forests can be auctioned off to Big TImber -- is unfortunately getting little air play. But if this happens, US landscapes may be almost unrecognizable in a decade, and never coming back. 🌍
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For @cassalalia.bsky.social, a Crested Jayshrike! Thanks so much for the #Waymakers donation!
To donate and request a bird: act.theyoungcenter.org/a/birdsbeyon... . Include your bsky name if you want a ping!
Every dollar helps support unaccompanied immigrant kids in the US!
🎨🪶 #SciArt #BirdArt
To donate and request a bird: act.theyoungcenter.org/a/birdsbeyon... . Include your bsky name if you want a ping!
Every dollar helps support unaccompanied immigrant kids in the US!
🎨🪶 #SciArt #BirdArt
August 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
For @cassalalia.bsky.social, a Crested Jayshrike! Thanks so much for the #Waymakers donation!
To donate and request a bird: act.theyoungcenter.org/a/birdsbeyon... . Include your bsky name if you want a ping!
Every dollar helps support unaccompanied immigrant kids in the US!
🎨🪶 #SciArt #BirdArt
To donate and request a bird: act.theyoungcenter.org/a/birdsbeyon... . Include your bsky name if you want a ping!
Every dollar helps support unaccompanied immigrant kids in the US!
🎨🪶 #SciArt #BirdArt
A bunch of wonderful scientists are working to study how the LA fires in January impacted our local nature. We had a great time working with @brookejarvis.bsky.social and @nytimes.com on this beautiful article.
feat. @kendallcalhoun.bsky.social @ltkelly.bsky.social et al.
feat. @kendallcalhoun.bsky.social @ltkelly.bsky.social et al.
What the Bloom After L.A.’s Wildfires Reveals About Our Ecological Future
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
A bunch of wonderful scientists are working to study how the LA fires in January impacted our local nature. We had a great time working with @brookejarvis.bsky.social and @nytimes.com on this beautiful article.
feat. @kendallcalhoun.bsky.social @ltkelly.bsky.social et al.
feat. @kendallcalhoun.bsky.social @ltkelly.bsky.social et al.
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As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for:
1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature.
2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…
1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature.
2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…
For some scientists fighting partisan attacks, the goal is to defend their work from political interference. But in retaliating, @katherinejwu.com reports, they also run the risk of advancing the narrative that they want to fight.
Scientists Are Caught in a Political Trap
Fighting back against the Trump administration means they start to look more like activists.
bit.ly
August 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for:
1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature.
2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…
1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature.
2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…
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"The Roadless Rule Explained: How the Last Unbroken Forests Could Be Lost Forever. For 25 years it has protected 59 million acres of wild forest. The latest repeal puts them all at risk." 🌏 morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/the-roadle...
The Roadless Rule Explained: How the Last Unbroken Forests Could Be Lost Forever
For 25 years it has protected 59 million acres of wild forest. The latest repeal puts them all at risk.
morethanjustparks.substack.com
August 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"The Roadless Rule Explained: How the Last Unbroken Forests Could Be Lost Forever. For 25 years it has protected 59 million acres of wild forest. The latest repeal puts them all at risk." 🌏 morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/the-roadle...
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Are you planning on attending the @amornith.bsky.social (American Ornithological Society) #AOS25 meeting in St. Louis this year?
I'm making a Starter Pack of attendees so we can easily follow each other. Attending the meeting and want on the list? Comment here or DM me! go.bsky.app/3dybD1a
I'm making a Starter Pack of attendees so we can easily follow each other. Attending the meeting and want on the list? Comment here or DM me! go.bsky.app/3dybD1a
August 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Are you planning on attending the @amornith.bsky.social (American Ornithological Society) #AOS25 meeting in St. Louis this year?
I'm making a Starter Pack of attendees so we can easily follow each other. Attending the meeting and want on the list? Comment here or DM me! go.bsky.app/3dybD1a
I'm making a Starter Pack of attendees so we can easily follow each other. Attending the meeting and want on the list? Comment here or DM me! go.bsky.app/3dybD1a
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NEW: A federal judge has demanded NSF explain in court how the UCLA grant suspensions are not in violation of her June order that restored grants to UC scientists
August 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
NEW: A federal judge has demanded NSF explain in court how the UCLA grant suspensions are not in violation of her June order that restored grants to UC scientists
😑
Breaking: NSF is suspending roughly 300 grants with UCLA, following a DOJ finding on Tuesday that the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."
July 31, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Birds are dinosaurs who shrugged off a couple apocalypses. Some eat bone marrow. Some drink nectar. They outswim fish in the sea. They smile politely at gravity’s demands.
I am grateful to see them. I am grateful to feed them. I am grateful to know them.
I am grateful to see them. I am grateful to feed them. I am grateful to know them.
July 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Birds are dinosaurs who shrugged off a couple apocalypses. Some eat bone marrow. Some drink nectar. They outswim fish in the sea. They smile politely at gravity’s demands.
I am grateful to see them. I am grateful to feed them. I am grateful to know them.
I am grateful to see them. I am grateful to feed them. I am grateful to know them.
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It's incredibly distressing, because - my lab needs funding but look, realistically, I'll be okay - but the entire generation of people who were going to move into this research space are just completely orphaned. There's no way to start a lab on this now. Funders need to pivot back to funding.
July 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It's incredibly distressing, because - my lab needs funding but look, realistically, I'll be okay - but the entire generation of people who were going to move into this research space are just completely orphaned. There's no way to start a lab on this now. Funders need to pivot back to funding.
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One thing very few people know, even in the climate-health research space, is that - in addition to NIH / NSF / NASA / EPA blocking any new research on climate change and health - all the philanthropies have decided to take NGO-shaped roles rather than fund research, and so they aren't stepping in.
July 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
One thing very few people know, even in the climate-health research space, is that - in addition to NIH / NSF / NASA / EPA blocking any new research on climate change and health - all the philanthropies have decided to take NGO-shaped roles rather than fund research, and so they aren't stepping in.
I normally think about #fire from an ecological perspective, so really enjoyed thinking about the role of fire in the evolutionary past and future with @ltkelly.bsky.social. Take a look, it's a short read!
What are the evolutionary implications of changes in fire regimes for animals?
We explore this in our new paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social
📖 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
with @mwtingley.bsky.social @jgpausas.bsky.social & team
#Biodiversity #FireEcology #EcoEvo 🔥🦎🧬
We explore this in our new paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social
📖 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
with @mwtingley.bsky.social @jgpausas.bsky.social & team
#Biodiversity #FireEcology #EcoEvo 🔥🦎🧬
July 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I normally think about #fire from an ecological perspective, so really enjoyed thinking about the role of fire in the evolutionary past and future with @ltkelly.bsky.social. Take a look, it's a short read!
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This is a pretty good article, with comments from @weatherwest.bsky.social and me.
abcnews.go.com/US/extreme-w...
abcnews.go.com/US/extreme-w...
Extreme weather events like Texas rain are more likely to occur due to climate change, scientists warn
Climate change is likely to make extreme weather events like those experienced in Texas occur more intensely and more frequently, scientists are warning.
abcnews.go.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:44 AM
This is a pretty good article, with comments from @weatherwest.bsky.social and me.
abcnews.go.com/US/extreme-w...
abcnews.go.com/US/extreme-w...
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It is difficult to describe just how disastrous it would be if just-released NOAA budget proposal (or even large portions) were to be enacted: It would involve a wholesale dismantling (decimation, really) of entities relevant to weather, climate, & ocean research & prediction.
July 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
It is difficult to describe just how disastrous it would be if just-released NOAA budget proposal (or even large portions) were to be enacted: It would involve a wholesale dismantling (decimation, really) of entities relevant to weather, climate, & ocean research & prediction.
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Oh you've never heard of piculets before? The mini woodpeckers? Well here ya go- have a Rufous Piculet. Your life is now that much cuter. You're welcome.
📷 Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok, eBird
📷 Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok, eBird
June 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Oh you've never heard of piculets before? The mini woodpeckers? Well here ya go- have a Rufous Piculet. Your life is now that much cuter. You're welcome.
📷 Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok, eBird
📷 Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok, eBird
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In a time when support for junior scientists is disappearing, how can you plan for a career in STEM? I think it starts by thinking of science as a big map with many routes and destinations, instead of a pipeline. 🧪
scienceforeveryone.science/p/career-pla...
scienceforeveryone.science/p/career-pla...
Career planning in an era of scientific disinvestment
Know not just the destination and the route, but all the other features on the map
scienceforeveryone.science
June 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
In a time when support for junior scientists is disappearing, how can you plan for a career in STEM? I think it starts by thinking of science as a big map with many routes and destinations, instead of a pipeline. 🧪
scienceforeveryone.science/p/career-pla...
scienceforeveryone.science/p/career-pla...