An orca emerging from the depths of the ocean.

I saw orcas 😊

Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

GVL Visits Doodad Ranch! 3/27/2026 Graduate students Diana Munoz, Anderson Tate, and Carlos Esperanza spent the day at Doodad Ranch in Elverta, California with two main goals: obtain a genetic sample of a Western bluebird, an...

One of our PhD students, Carlos Esperanza, recently visited Doodad Ranch to collect a genetic sample for his Western Bluebird population genetics project!

Amazing lil guy

He keeps me grounded in these trying times 😅

I know people say touch grass a lot on here and while I'm in full support of spending time in nature, touch grass also means take a pottery class, go to a bar. Sit on a dock drinking cokes and skipping stones.

It just means get offline for a bit.

A round crochet black dog with brown markings. A tiny jalapeño bagel charm hangs from his mouth.

The skeeter's dog: A black lab mix with tan markings that looks much like a rottweiler but is not. His tongue hangs out happily as he sits on a rock with chaparral and a river behind him.

My awesome labmates made me a crochet replica of my dog and a polymer clay jalapeño bagel charm (prey item of my dog from the counter) to go with it 🥹

UCLA's Most Decorated Ecologist Just Got Fired : Here's the sequence In January of 2025, at the ICTP ICTS winter school at NCBS, Priyanga Amarasekare offered to take me and a few other students out for my birthday. She didn't have to do that.

Insightful summary of an extraordinary person being extraordinarily fired: "you don't silence a woman of color who raised concerns about racism by silencing her...The fingerprints are distributed perfectly across the system." www.linkedin.com/pulse/uclas-...

Love Neel's! Small, but so many options!

Canvas Unrolls AI Teaching Agent The new AI agent aims to save faculty time on “low-value tasks,” but stops short of fully automating grading. But some experts worry that the rise of agentic AI could lead to a dead classroom, where c...

Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Photo of a gray women's racerback tank top with an Orange-breasted falcon design

Photo of BRC director Sarah Mann showing two little kids a Barn Owl leg while on an education program

Photo of the BRC team cleaning bait boxes and filling them with Evolve Rat Birth Control as part of the #PoisonFreeBelize campaign

Photo of BRC director Sarah Mann with a Barn Owl that is going to be released from a Barn Owl box that can be seen in the background. This is part of the Barn Owl project that started several years ago and now is part of the bigger #PoisonFreeBelize campaign

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By buying the shirt you will be helping us with all our projects including the #PoisonFreeBelize project and our free on-site education programs!

#Birds #Raptors #bsnm 🪶

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A California Toad sitting on small gravel and plants looks at the camera with a disgruntled expression.

Record toad night: nine individuals.

METALLIC bird time

A California Toad on a dirt path looks forward at the camera with an expression of distaste for humanity.

We have been taking night bike rides near the river where we have encountered numerous cute lil guys (California Toads).

Nature's bouquet!

How CRISPR and Biotechnology Can Revolutionize Conservation Contemporary conservation management faces a variety of challenges. One of those challenges being the ability to identify species accurately when visual identification is unreliable. Conservation team...

Luis Alvarez, an undergraduate in the BioInnovation Group at UC Davis, wrote this article highlighting some of our work!

A black chicken with a big red comb looks at a double-screen work setup on a desk, plotting the ultimate mischief.

I have found an AI* agent that is as helpful to my workflow as the more conventionally used ones. Subscription costs** are reasonable as well.

* Avian Intelligence
** Bag of feed

The Na'abak is the most adorable critter I have learned of in a while

Have encountered this a disappointing number of times

The Alcatraz pair was gone last year 😔

Love some excellent giant gartersnake outreach!

I just learned leafhopper species have unique calls that can be heard if you attach a lil microphone to the plant they're on!

Wow, look at that! 😍

Russ Vought (piss man) tweet about doing piss man shit: The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

Officially reading this for our eDNA journal club next week 🙂 Exciting!

I love it

You captured the purples and blues perfectly 😍

It might be a False Tarantula? Always a treat to see!

Save the date for a Global #eDNA 🧬 conference! More details to come soon.

If you ever want to try CA, we have an eco listserv around Davis for finding roomies!

calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...