Dr. Desiree Andersen Bliss

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16TB collection of federal public datasets linked by data.gov, including over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, are now part of a new data vault project seeking to preserve vital research data.

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list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

National "50 States" anti-Trump protest planned for Feb 5: What to know There is a social media following creating protests at state capitols across the country on Wednesday.

www.newsweek.com/50-states-an...

Just downloaded all NIH reporter data 1985-2024, you can do it here, might come handy. Took me maybe 5', is 1 GB in size.
reporter.nih.gov/exporter

Update on Distribution and Conservation Status of Amphibians in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: Conclusions Based on Field Surveys, Environmental Modelling, Molecular Analyses and Call Prop... Determining the range, status, ecology and behaviour of species from areas where surveys and samplings are uncommon or difficult to conduct is a challenge, such as in the Democratic People’s Republic ...

This was a super cool one - we collaborated with researchers from N. Korea, and my part was to model potential distributions of amphibian species across the country:

Predicting global climatic suitability for the four most invasive anuran species using ecological niche factor analysis Invasive species have a massive impact on their environment and predicting geographical zones at risk of invasion is paramount to the control of furth…

First author paper from my dissertation on global mapping of invasive anurans:

Yellow sea mediated segregation between North East Asian Dryophytes species While comparatively few amphibian species have been described on the North East Asian mainland in the last decades, several species have been the subject of taxonomical debates in relation to the Yell...

Continuing with articles...here is one I did a small bit of modeling for:

Climate change-based models predict range shifts in the distribution of the only Asian plethodontid salamander: Karsenia koreana - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Climate change-based models predict range shifts in the distribution of the only Asian plethodontid salamander: Karsenia koreana

My most highly cited paper to date (I am technically co- first author and did most of the modeling on this): Climate change-based models predict range shifts in the distribution of the only Asian plethodontid salamander: Karsenia koreana

Spatio-temporal characteristics and predictions of the endangered leopard cat Prionailirus bengalensis euptilura road-kills in the Republic of Korea Road-kills negatively impact wildlife populations, especially those that are threatened or small in size. The increase of linear structures such as ro…

Spatio-temporal characteristics and predictions of the endangered leopard cat Prionailirus bengalensis euptilura road-kills in the Republic of Korea

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Secondary human impacts on the forest understory of Ulleung Island, South Korea, a temperate island - Journal of Ecology and Environment Oceanic islands are biologically important for their unique assemblages of species and high levels of endemism and are sensitive to environmental change because of their isolation and small species so...

My master's thesis publication: Secondary human impacts on the forest understory of Ulleung Island, South Korea, a temperate island
Fun fact: the title originally ended with "in the Sea of Japan" but I published in a Korean journal, so calling it the Sea of Japan was a big no no.

First dispersal event of a reintroduced Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) in Korea
doi.org/10.15298/rusjtheriol.18.1.06

Population trend inferred from rural surveys for calling anurans in Korea

I almost never posted back on the bad place, but here I go. Starting at my first, I am going to (attempt to) share all my research on here: Urban heat island effect on cicada densities in metropolitan Seoul

Too competent