IBA abstract accepted! Excited to potentially go to Italy and hang out with bear researchers next fall! I’ll be done with my field seasons, and have more data to talk about (:

Talking about study design recommendations and considerations for black bear monitoring today at #NEAFWA ! I really like conferences this size.

I feel numb. What’s happening around us is horrific and I feel like we aren’t talking about it enough in some of our circles.

Families of two men believed to have been killed in military strike on boat sue US government over 'unlawful' attacks | CNN Politics As the US military began launching strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean last year, a young Trinidadian man who was in Venezuela for work was searching for a way home, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday.

In October, the Trump administration bombed a civilian boat, killing Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo as they were traveling home to Trinidad and Tobago.

We’re suing the government on behalf of their families to get justice for these murders.

Federal troop deployments to US cities cost taxpayers $496M and counting The Trump administration's deployment of federal troops to six U.S. cities has cost taxpayers about $496 million through December.

Tell everyone you know

HALF A BILLION $

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Alaska Peninsula brown bear cubs, Lake Clark National Park

Soon it'll be time to start sharing my Year in Review content, including my "Not Quite Best" and my favorite images and moments of the year. I wonder where these cubs will show up on the list?

I feel like I'm going insane.

The president let loose 2 absolutely unhinged racist rants this week that sounded directly out of klan rallies and his allies clapped and laughed and everyone else was like, oh he's nuts moving on.

Personally + professionally, I truly don't know how to address this.

I need to attempt science communication again. I was once so good at social media, networking, etc. I’ve fallen off a bit with Twitter becoming X. Anyways, what’s the trendy science thing lately? I am behind lol

I would move back to East Africa for good. Some days I dream about it. Maybe one day.

Politics is local Indignity Vol. 5, No. 194

"He presents [NYC] as a fundamentally good place...He makes it sound as if people are a part of something, and as if they have the ability to make that thing better. If anyone's searching for a winning way to talk about democracy, they could try to do the same." www.indignity.net/politics-is-local/

I think a lot about the time I got up from my tent in Kenya to go outside and I saw an African Hedgehog. That was something I will never erase from my mind. Some day I hope to be back in Kenya as a researcher.

I love this game so much. You can also play with friends!

This is such a valid question and I have no idea the answer to it. It’s just so strange.

Texas cracks massive deer smuggling ring - The Wildlife Society A wildlife smuggling bust unveils a statewide black market in captive deer trafficking and regulatory fraud

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On a black and white game cam, three javelinas are browsing corn while a raccoon sits on one of their backs. The lighting produces laser-eyes in the raccoon, who is secretly one of the X-Men.

A raccoon knight on a javelina steed. "Onward, Pigasus! Let us show them the meaning of haste". Motion blurred, black and white game cam shot.

South Texas game cam catches a raccoon riding a javelina (Dicotyles tajacu).

The deer feeder corn attracts a lot of other species, but maybe we should worry about them all teaming up against us?

(📷: Jeff Davis, TAMU-Kingsville alumni forum)

An illustration of a beagle, walking with its nose to the ground. The illustration is simple, with blues taking the place of dark colours on the dog. The background is flat beige.

#SciArtSeptember Day 23: Scouting
Working dogs use their noses to find target species during conservation projects.
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#beagle #dogs #sketchbook #drawing

Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation; National Forest System Lands The U.S. Department of Agriculture is initiating an environmental impact statement (EIS) and rulemaking concerning management of inventoried roadless areas on approximately 44.7 million acres of Natio...

TODAY is the deadline to submit public comment on Trump’s proposal to rescind the Roadless Rule, which would expose 45 million acres of national forest to permanent roads and their attendant environmental ills. Register your disapproval here:

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

#roadecology

In this landscape-oriented photo, an osprey flies overhead -- the sky behind is a denim blue. The bird is majestic, its wing feather's splayed out like fingers reaching for the heavens. It's tail is pointed back straight. The sun comes through its wing feathers, giving them an amber glow. The look on the bird's face is one of abject panic, with total bug eyes that suggests the bird just shit its pants, except birds don't (generally) wear pants, which instead suggests that the bird just read the news and was like, "oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck." Photo by me, Chuck Wendig

Today's "everything is bad so let's pause for a second to regard nature and take a breath that isn't poisoned by our fear of a collapsing democracy" pic -- an osprey flying overhead. Photo by me.

Why do we have to have workday when it literally does not help anyone out ever

I want to be a great scientist for many many reasons. At this moment, I want to be known to the point that Joe Jonas knows me. Lmfao three things about me: I love dogs, wildlife, and the Jonas brothers.

Two people wearing backpacks stand together in a large open meadow with conifer forests and mountains in the background.

Scat from an adult wolf on the forest floor. A black lighter is next to the scat for scale.

Woman holds a broken skull from a long dead bull elk while standing in a forest.

A scat from a wolf pup sits in a matted down patch of grass in a meadow where pups have been playing. Pine trees and willow shrubs in the background.

One last outing this field season with my incoming graduate student. We collected genetic samples from wolf scat and hiked through some beautiful country. Looking forward to the start of the semester and getting this project officially started!

Diving into the world of genetics and wowowowow it’s pretty incredible what we can do huh

TWS Journals We developed predictive models of pup-rearing habitat (i.e., den and rendezvous sites) that could help guide future population monitoring efforts of Mexican wolves. Mexican wolves selected den sites ...

‼️New 🐺 paper‼️We developed models to predict highly suitable den & rendezvous site habitat for Mexican wolves in AZ & NM. These models will be used to guide future monitoring as the population continues to grow. #OpenAccess #JournalOfWildlifeManagement wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The WildCo Lab @wildco.bsky.social is recruiting 2 postdocs in quantitative ecology to work on mammal population estimation and monitoring from camera trap data. 🐺🐻🦌📷📈
Please share the word or apply to join us at UBC in lovely Vancouver, Canada!
wildlife.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/0...

I miss when we could connect and network on Twitter. It’s not the same here. I am grateful for my network I made on there though. It has helped me
More than yall know.

Cam trap photo of a male looking over a female bear who has her ears back in a submissive position. Both in front of a barbed wire hair snare corral.

I thought I’d share a photo from one of our sites on the MD black bear project. A big male and female pair hanging around our snare. They both were a bit pre occupied to go in, except the female was more curious. Fingers crossed she comes back and goes in. Some younger bears went in though!!

I really love Meidase brand cameras.

Hey! Check out a snippet of our project!! Maryland and DC Bears 👀

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We started building hair snares yesterday! Black bear hair snares will be used to determine density and movement estimates that will better understand the Maryland black bear population. I have a team of 10 and so far they are dedicated wonderful humans ❤️