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WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

Amphibians and reptiles face the greatest threats from agriculture - but can hedgerows help? This new article discusses strategies for redesigning agricultural landscapes in India for 'ecological intensification', while maintaining productivity. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

'Environmental Conservation', the international journal of interdisciplinary environmental science, is now on Bluesky to share articles and information. We are looking forward to reconnecting with researchers and making new contacts on the platform, so please share this, follow us, or get in touch.

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

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This is a very scary time for early career scientists like people looking for/who are postdocs and new faculty trying to get funding. Any words of encouragement to share for people in this category?

Prof @forrestf.bsky.social of NRSM, Univ. of Minnesota seeks an English-Hindi speaking #PhDstudent for Participatory Planning for Sustainable #LandscapeRestoration in the Western #Himalaya. Interested, or know of someone? Tight turnaround, 28 Jan! #studentships #jobs

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Survival in adult males down to <20% annually in infected animals. So far recruitment is keeping up—but how long will that last?

We are advertising a fully-funded, genuinely interdisciplinary @netgain.bsky.social PhD at the interface of ecology, ethics and statistics, exploring the nuances of wild salmonid conservation. Deadline January 31st. (1/3)
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I figured it out. Bottom line folks: always return to your model diagram!!

Are we using this platform for #Rstats help yet? I’m trying to figure out why my stochastic population simulation is running away instead of declining steadily like it does in the matrix format. Any #populationecology or #statisticalecology folks who can help? 🧪

The Crown, The Wheel of Time also used this style! Once you notice it it’s all over

Beaver? Otter? Muskrat? A Field Guide to Freshwater Mammals Wondering how to tell a beaver from a muskrat or an otter from a mink? Matt Miller has tips for IDing common and uncommon freshwater mammals.

Wildlife watching tips: what is that mammal swimming around in the river?

#mammalwatching #wildlife

One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction - Nature A global multi-taxon extinction risk assessment of freshwater fauna for The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species finds one-quarter of species to be at high risk of extinction.

One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction | Nature

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Second request:

If you are a professional scientist or science communicator who is at least 18 years old and uses social media (including Bluesky) for professional purposes, please consider taking this survey. 🧪🌎 #SciComm

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I’m really proud of this work with
#USGS — what can #USFWS do about #ChronicWastingDisease on the National Elk Refuge? And what are the potential socioeconomic consequences? pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2024/511...

Update, per @lafd.bsky.social:

"The LAFD is NOT requesting assistance from the public. The message was misconstrued. We are running a recall for our OWN LAFD members ONLY. Thank you."

“I think we should all publish a little less, but publish more substantive, thoughtful works” I say aloud as I scrawl out my 19th least-publishable-unit of the year

Consider the methods for peak flood identification in hydrology literature?

Kiddo made a “delivery police car plane” out of cardboard and inadvertently created this dystopian horror not even bezos has dared fashion 🥲

baby’s first omnitheater

we should be concerned about the impacts of social media on kids and teens, but i don’t think we’re worried nearly enough about what it’s doing to middle aged people and seniors

Merry Christmas everyone!

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#USDA confirmed 5 more #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy cow herds today, 4 in California & 1 in (shocker!) Texas. First new herd in Texas since mid-Sept.
National total: 865 herds in 16 states. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...

No tech in this case, just my effort hauling it over the finish line. But “window of opportunity “ may be closing making this paper less impactful by the time I could finish

Scientists, how do you combat sunk cost fallacy thinking in your research? If project x has been a lot of work so far and needs more work to be published, without that work it’ll be mothballed … how do you know when to pull the plug vs invest more to get it over the finish line? #AcademicChatter 🧪

We are hiring a postdoc in my lab @colorado.edu to work on this NSF CAREER proposal (tinyurl.com/cak8dkza) to quantify how and when global change (drought, warming) alters the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning. Job here: colorado.avature.net/searchhub/Jo... 1/2