Gabrielle Ripa

Finally published my undergraduate research! Chinese privet can alter leaf litter dynamics and herpetofaunal community composition in southern bottomland hardwoods. 🍃🐸

www.herpconbio.org/Volume_20/Is...

Chinese Privet poses a threat to southern U.S. floodplain forests and the wildlife that depend on them, particularly herpetofauna. Check out this recent publication led by ISC affiliate @gnriparian.bsky.social 🐸🦎

www.herpconbio.org/Volume_20/Is...

This week, our Director and several affiliates have been representing the ISC at the North American Invasive Species Management Association Annual Conference - one of the premier gatherings for #invasivespecies professionals across North America!

@invder.bsky.social @gnriparian.bsky.social

‘Energy dominance’ meets migration: All Wyoming corridors overlap with proposed oil and gas leases - WyoFile A Bureau of Land Management auction planned for next summer could test the state’s migration policy to an unprecedented degree.

A BLM auction next summer could test the state's migration policy to an unprecedented degree.

"We simply can't lease and allow development in our big game migration corridors if we want our kids and grandkids to have the same hunting and wildlife viewing opportunities that we've enjoyed."

📢 Virginia Tech is hiring! 📢 Please reshare and promote!

We are seeking an economist for a research & teaching position at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor level in applied economics with a focus on #invasive species.

For more info & to apply ➡️ careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us...

250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR bill The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 250 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...

The budget bill currently in the Senate would put 258 million acres of public land up for sale, including recreation areas, wilderness study areas, critical wildlife habitat and more. www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

@invder.bsky.social, @gnriparian.bsky.social, and Harrison Miles participated in Cocktails & Conversations at the U.S. Botanic Garden. Speakers discussed how climate change is affecting weeds, #invasiveplants, and #restoration in the D.C. area. It was an engaging and inspirational evening! 🌳🌱

NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

How bad will it be? Catastrophic.

Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.

But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.

Speak up now before it is too late.

(inflation adjusted $-s below)

🌍🎨 Calling all artists! Submit your work to Ripples of Change, an immersive exhibit celebrating how communities are addressing global environmental challenges. Submissions due by May 23. All mediums welcome!

More Info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#GCCatVT #SteppinOutBlacksburg

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

🔔BREAKING🔔

The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.

This is censorship disguised as oversight.

Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.

This article articulates how I’ve been feeling recently. I’m about a year out from finishing my PhD and it’s hard to stay motivated when I don’t know what awaits me on the other side. My dream of a federal agency career is currently paused… www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I want everyone to just take FIVE MINUTES, and take a look at this extremely well put together project 2025 tracker.

www.project2025.observer

We're less than a month in.

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**

* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

I’m learning how to make ginger beer from a local farm!

Yes, I have the coordinates for all 20 paired sites. I’m in the early stages of analysis but would definitely consider some spatial component.

Researchers study soundscapes to monitor invasive plants Every landscape has its sounds. Spring peeper frogs squeak to echo their fellow musicians. Crickets and cicadas thrum their tune in a concert of thousands. And migratory birds on their

A new article just came out about part of my dissertation research on how invasive plants could change the way environments sound! www.bayjournal.com/news/growth_...

Looking for a PhD student to work on a project that combines invasive species, restoration, rewilding, mega herbivores, conservation, and recreation.

#bioinvasions