For the First Time in the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas

For the First Time in the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas - Yale E360 share.google/MHqujR4WDrUK...

‘It’s just madness’: Trump administration to close three-quarters of Forest Service research stations Between funding cuts, facility closures, and the inevitable resignations that will follow, there’s virtually no way for the Forest Service to continue to do research at its current level or quality, w...

My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service.

The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.

Poster for the Ontario Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution Colloquium registration which closes April 10. OE3C is at Brock University from April 30 - May 2. This is your last chance to register!

Registration for Ontario #Ecology, #Ethology, and #Evolution Colloquium closes TOMORROW, April 10th! #OE3C Plenaries from Drs. Jesse Popp, Nancy Chen & Mélanie Guigueno! CCOVI tour and #wineTasting #workshops #GuidedHikes #PhotoContest + more! @brocku.ca

As a fire scientist, I am devastated for my many good friends and colleagues who will be affected by the mass closure of so many research stations and offices. Many will leave the agency.

USFS has pioneered so much foundational fire science. The consequences of this will be catastrophic.

Nice! That makes sense

Hooray! What a great study to be implementing. I'm so excited to hear what you learn in the short and long term.

Is the "clumpy gappy" pattern randomly assigned locations, or are crews allowed to employ some decision-making on the ground?

This I Know Far Too Much About (that aren't theater or movies):

1. Mistletoe dispersal via bird diarrhea

2. Civil War history (not proud of this one)

3. Modeling all scientific phenomenon as a mass on a spring

*raises hand* Oregon here... 😬

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A one pager on honeybees, including illustrations in honey warm colors, and the text She's non native, she's everywhere, she eats everything, it's whatever And a mean girls joke: This girl the nastiest skank bee I've ever met. Do not trust her. She is a honeybee

I have this idea of doing a monthly bee id guide (The Bee-ther Report?) but I can't do this month without mentioning the most common bee you'll see out there

A drawing titled "Wild Rabbit vs. Easter Bunny". On the left, there's a wild cottontail bunny sitting down looking alert. On the right, there's a cartoonish Easter Bunny wearing a little polkadot vest and standing next to some colorful eggs. The wild bunny is labeled "Eyes on the sides of the head to watch for predators." and the Easter Bunny "Forward-facing eyes to hunt for meat." Wild bunny: "Active all year." Easter Bunny: "Only active in Spring - otherwise in diapause as a cyst?" Wild bunny: "Walks on four legs." Easter Bunny: "Unusual bipedal stance." Wild bunny: "Plain brown and white fur." Easter Bunny: "Distinctive vest-like markings." Wild bunny: "Gives birth to live young." Easter Bunny: "Steals and redistributes eggs; parasitic reproductive strategy?"

Few are brave enough to acknowledge the truth.

Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

Beautiful welcome to town view, love to see that smoke in the hills during this wet week 🔥💚

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."

The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

Let’s focus on R&D.

A list of cities hides the ties to our nation’s scientific prowess: USFS R&D sites are co-located w/ universities.

To illustrate: when a list says “Lexington, KY,” the name is: “Institute of Forest Health, University of Kentucky.”

It’s how the FS helped build brain power.

Yup.

👎 boo

This is the reality that trans academics live in. You think the job market is bad for YOU? Imagine what it's like for someone who can't safely work in over half of the country.

If you live in one of these red states, your department is missing out on amazing scientists. Science is political.

Bee-mimicking fly on a dandelion

We've been seeing lots of bumblebees but they're too busy checking out the world to settle for a photo. Please accept this morning's shiny "I'm a bee I swear" instead

Southern Oregon: all of the above

I have an ecology joke, but the punchline depends on the audience

Fully support PSU advocating for funding! But please do note the context -- SOU has gone through two rounds of intensive budget cuts prior to the ask for funding. This makes it sound like we just snagged a get-out-of-jail-free card, which is not our reality at all

View of Green Lakes Valley from Niwot Ridge.

Come work with us! We're hiring summer field technicians to conduct ecology research in the Colorado Rocky Mountains! nwt.lternet.edu/news/apply-n...

@official-bweems.bsky.social @sacnas.bsky.social @fieldinclusive.bsky.social @geolatinas.bsky.social @500womensci.bsky.social #AISES #LGBTSTEM

Occasionally sweatshirts as the weather requires

The Wayne Harrison Memorial Scholarship supports the academic and professional growth of students through funding research, management, or education projects related to wildland fire science. Applications are due April 15, and scholarships are awarded by May 31. https://ow.ly/wwBS50YsubN

A fitting end to teaching speciation in the last week of undergrad evolution. Darwin 1858 March 11th, definitely was running on empty in week 10 of the quarter.

Chalcidoid Wasps (Superfamily Chalcidoidea) Chalcidoid Wasps from Jackson County, OR, USA on March 8, 2026 at 01:52 PM by Chhaya Werner. 3-4 mm long, dark iridescent green, white or yellow bands on legs at joints

I don't know! I'm thinking potentially a small cuckoo wasp? But honestly I could be 100% wrong. I've posted an iNat observation so hopefully someone who knows more than me will chime in! www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Cucumber beetle -- bright green, with ladybug-like spots, on moss

Tiny bug of unknown type, iridescent green on page of insect guide

I did not succeed at Bugs on Flowers but I did manage Bug on Moss and Bug on Bug Book

USAJOBS connects job seekers with federal jobs across the United States and around the world as the official employment site for the federal government <h3>This position performs technical fieldwork supporting forestry programs, including collecting and analyzing forest resource data, assisting with timber sales, mapping, and forest inventories. Supp...

I’d appreciate if folks could share this seasonal forestry (non-fire) position, based at any BLM office in California, with current/former students (or anyone else who may be interested!):

www.usajobs.gov/job/857451400

Characterizing the heritability of cognitive and behavioural traits across development in domestic dogs Abstract. In humans, many behavioural and cognitive traits are moderately-to-highly heritable, with cognitive measures tending to increase in heritability

New dog paper out! 📢 #CanineScience

We used 2 timepoints of behavioral testing, a population pedigree, and genome-wide sequence data to estimate the heritability of various cognitive & behavioral traits in a population of assistance dogs. 🐕‍🦺🧬

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