Cat McClure, Ph.D.

Ecological synthesis including forest ecosystems, grassland, land use, climate change, time series, stability, ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, species interaction networks

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26

Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈

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#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats

I can’t promise this will be the last time I talk about inequity — or equity washing — in science. But after the multitude of responses to my Nature piece, I know something has shifted. Many came from the Global North. That alone feels like a small win. 👉 rdcu.be/eGEun

RALLY WITH US 💪‼️
"Save Our Science" Rally and March in Seattle with @defundmusk.bsky.social and @wallingfordindivisible.com

WHEN: September 15th, 2025 12:30pm
WHERE: Waterfront Park

MOBILIZE 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/seattlesos

I’m offering a free online crash course in scientific writing and publishing. Here’s how to join! The world of scientific writing and pubilshing is complex and confusing, and it can be hard for early career scientists to master. But don’t worry! I am an experienced and award-winning scien…

ICYMI: Next week I am leading a free online 2-hour crash course in scientific writing and publishing, perfect for graduate students about to write their first paper.

Learn more and sign up at the link below. Feel free to spread the word, all are welcome.

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Join AFS for our next Fisheries Community Check-in! This month's session will be held on September 3 at 1 pm ET. Register now: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/63b250...

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Check out this great article about developing our STEM workforce in a way that accounts for multiple ways of knowing, major life events, and different entry points -- just like a braided river!
Reimagining STEM Workforce Development as a Braided River:
eos.org/opinions/rei...

The US Undermines Science While the World Demands Climate Justice Thousands of peer-reviewed studies conducted over decades show that burning fossil fuels is driving climate change, with devastating consequences for people and ecosystems. That consensus is not in qu...

New blog from our colleague Dr. Delta Merner.
"In this moment, scientists, legal experts, and advocates must speak up to defend climate science, push back on disinformation, and preserve tools for accountability."

FEMA staffers warn Trump administration policies weakening disaster response thehill.com/policy/energ...

SIGN ON TO KATRINA DECLARATION HERE: www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina...

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!

We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.

Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Me securing a shark getting measured for a research workup

Posing with some friends as part of my Why Sharks Matter book tour.

Scientists of Bluesky, introduce yourselves by replying to this post and I’ll share it and help you get some followers!

I’m David, I’m based in DC and study shark ecology and conservation policy. I’m the author of “Why Sharks Matter.”

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Looking down into a bromeliad plant

Hi 👋 I'm Cat! I am a freshwater ecologist based in Fort Collins, Colorado. I study species interactions and what influences these interactions in many different aquatic systems -- fish, riparian plants, and (my favorite) bugs that live in tank bromeliads (see last photo).

These job ads have now been posted! 🎉

Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020

Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054

Please spread the word!

One of the most promising areas of cancer research is CAR T therapy, in which a "living drug" is made by modifying a patient's T-cells.

Research suggests that mRNA can improve the safety of CAR-T therapy because it prevents genome integration.

Don't listen to RFK's lies about mRNA being unsafe.

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ challenged in federal court hearing ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ challenged in federal court hearing

Thank you to Friends of the Everglades for standing up against “Alligator Alcatraz.”

mRNA vaccines are one of the most important tools we have for preventing future catastrophic pandemics because we can update them more quickly than any other vaccine technology in response to new emerging viruses & variants.

RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.

This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.

- Carl Sagan, Contact

Not a fan of moves like this? Add your name to the #EPA dissent letter.

And remind congress we can’t allow retaliation against the #EPA139.

www.standupforscience.net/epa-declarat...

the NOVA logo over a whirling black hole.

As a reminder, PBS NOVA is one of the coolest science entertainment platforms that we have today!

If you're thinking of unsubscribing from any other streamers today, or if you have the capacity in your wallet, you can sign up to donate a monthly gift to PBS here: donate.kqed.org/secure/kqedpbs

I agree! As an early career researcher I have received some fantastic reviews that have not only helped improve my research, but also provided new perspectives and information that helped me grow as an ecologist and researcher. I applaud these reviewers and hope more folks will take this approach!

Voices: Federal funding cuts to genetic research will be devastating for years to come Proposed cuts to the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation “would cause immense and largely irreversible damage to the successful American scientific enterprise,” write Jerry Kaplan and Dana Carroll in an op-ed.

Proposed cuts to the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation “would cause immense and largely irreversible damage to the successful American scientific enterprise,” write Jerry Kaplan and Dana Carroll in an op-ed.

PSA: It is ok — and necessary — to grieve right now

Wow. The EPA has placed 144 employees on administrative leave after the workers signed a public letter criticizing EPA leadership for disregarding scientific expertise and rolling back environmental and public health protections.

One of the most tragic things is that so many people that will be harmed by the Big Death Bill will be completely unaware about what just happened until it’s way too late and they can’t see a doctor or get a hospital bed in their time of need.

Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.

One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.

They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.

Trump’s budget bill is a disaster for public health.

It’s the biggest cut to health care in history.

12 million people will lose health insurance.

Hundreds of hospitals will close.

1 in 4 nursing homes will close.

Millions more families won’t have enough food.

Inside a Louisiana NPR station threatened by federal cuts: "Without it, people would die" Jeff Ferrell is the news director of Red River Radio and its only full-time news employee. He's also the on-air host, field reporter, writer and sound editor.

"You can't afford satellite TV, you can't buy cable, and they're alone. And so it is a lifeline. And what's great about this is that they feel connected," Ferrell said. "Public radio saves lives. The Emergency Broadcast System, without it, people would die."


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#Louisiana

As a recent participant in the program, I highly recommend it!

Join us Saturday, July 19, 2025, for a day of biodiversity fun on Île Perrot to #BlitzTheGap with iNaturalist! 🌿🐟 We’ll be targeting understudied aquatic species—plus there’ll be prizes, food, and great company.

We hope to see you there!