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Nate Hooven
@nhooven.bsky.social
Ecologist and PhD student studying snowshoe hares. Interested in wildlife habitats, forest landscapes, movement ecology, and quantitative methods.

https://sites.google.com/view/nathan-hooven/
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Oh no, I outsourced all of my intellectual and educational responsibility to a tech bro’s content-stealing bullshit machine and it didn’t end well

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.
www.nature.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 AM
I really enjoyed reading this paper, and the data visualization gets an A+!
Ortega: long-distance seasonal migrant mule deer gain more fat in summer, use more fat in winter, allocate more fat to reproduction, have higher survival and greater reproductive success. Rare survival cost of reproduction for nonmigratory does that twinned 🧪🔥 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 20, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Reposted by Nate Hooven
Like 2025, my 2026 resolution is to use zero gen-AI*

It's bed for our cognitive function
It's bad for our social lives, because it's algorithmic and addictive
It's bad for our environment

Nope

*I'm ok with task-specific AI, like computer vision models for remote sensing of the environment
a woman in a silver jacket is standing in front of a group of dancers and says " my sign is " .
ALT: a woman in a silver jacket is standing in front of a group of dancers and says " my sign is " .
media.tenor.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM