Dr. Holly P Jones

Top of the photo in white text reads: "BREAKING OVER 680 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES MEMBERS, INCLUDING 10 NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES, ENDORSE IMPEACHING RFK JR." Below that in black text is a statement reading: "We, the undersigned Members of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering, writing in our private capacities, endorse the Articles of Impeachment introduced in the House of Representatives on Dec 10, 2025 by Representative Haley Stevens." Below that is the red "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE " logo. Below that is a link in white text reading: "standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr".

BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
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We're Hiring! We're looking for a postdoc with bioinformatics/modelling skills to join us in an exciting microbiome ecology project in Manchester (deadline 1st March) www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

White face storm petrel running in water un bay of plenty ( Tauranga , New Zealand)

Yesterday took a tour in Tauranga ( New Zealand)bay of Plenty to see dolphins, yet encounter this cute white face storm petrel literally dancing or running on water
#birdofthday #birdoftheworld #birdpins #birdseenin2026 #seenin2026 #birdsofnewzealand #birdofbluesky #birding #photography

An invasive appetite: Combining molecular and stable isotope analyses to reveal the diet of introduced house mice (Mus musculus) on a small, subtropical island House mice (Mus musculus) pose a conservation threat on islands, where they adversely affect native species’ distributions, densities, and persistence. On Sand Island of Kuaihelani, mice recently bega...

And I have done research on Midway Atoll though never got to visit :/

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Fun fact: I interviewed at UHawaii - Manoa but didn’t get the job. It’s such a beautiful place but I don’t know if we could’ve afforded to live there comfortably.

Prescribed or controlled burns, when done right, reduce fuel loads and the chances for uncontrollable wildfires, which are another beast entirely and mostly caused by a combo of climate change, invasive grasses, and people.

Ding ding ding! I didn’t meet him either though.

Thanks for inviting me @rovingnaturalist.bsky.social 😊

Bumper sticker that says good fires prevent bad ones. Sticker that says veterans supporting prescribed fire Pennsylvania Prescribed Fire Council

Did a terrible job of taking photos of any of Penn State‘s beautiful, snow covered campus today but did snap this awesome office door.

Also had a blast meeting all the ecology folks and sharing a little about my lab’s research :)

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I think there are a lot of academics who were knowingly attended dinners and lunches where they knew Epstein would be in the 2010s that are telling themselves that actually it's cool because it's not like they're pedophiles but by the 2010s he was an unrepentant convicted pedophile, folks

Men, it's worth pondering that these academic men are the same ones that teach young women straight out of school. These are the men given academic authority over young women's careers.

It's really challenging for young women to negotiate the minefield of creepiness these men create for them.

Congratulations!! What cool ideas and a beautiful wedding spot.

I sell prints, canvases and posters of my work at rhenyard.darkroom.com and use proceeds to further my practice and support local mutual aid efforts. I'm keenly aware as a Black wildlife photographer how few of us are in this space, and I'm hoping my work sparks wonder & further interest 🪶📸🎨

ashley posted about 1 person who volunteered their skymiles to help ICE detainees get home again

multiple others then offered to donate theirs

so she put together a form

~27 hours later, good folks have donated over 5 MILLION MILES

the country may suck. but many of its people are good 💖

Really enjoying #BES2025. Things I appreciate:
- Morning plenaries (gets people in on time, doesn’t leave morning speakers w/ empty rooms)
- Good length coffee breaks (30 min!)
- Vegan lunch served on site
- Posters across all career stages & spread across rooms
- Strong presence of journals/editors

But more to come! Was a huuuuge effort just to get the dataset and do basic descriptive work, so we haven’t had a chance to get into many of the more interesting social-ecological questions!

There’s also been pretty concerted efforts to plant in equity deserving and low canopy areas in recent years, so that may play into it too (if we’re just thinking about species richness, for example)

Thanks! We’re in the process of looking at that now. Very preliminary results show that it’s much weaker than we might expect from the literature, but I think there may be some interactions with urban form that we need to consider to tease out the patterns.

Send the ECRs our way :)

Also I really enjoyed your talk yesterday! Such cool work. I was wondering if you've found evidence for the luxury effect but you may have answered that question indirectly in the final one where I think it was something like the patterns aren't clear w richness/abundance?

Hey #BES2025, especially #ECR folks. Do you have a research project and are wondering about a target journal for it? Come up to platform 5 during posters tonight for speed review! You can get feedback f an editor. If your work has management implications, it would fit at @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social

Despite having outstanding scientists like Sandra, our scientific system is being defunded and is in deep crisis under the current government. #CONICET #Argentina

Sandra Diaz' talk at #BES2025 was one of the best keynote's I've seen. She managed to weave art, storytelling, and cutting-edge interdisciplinary functional trait ecology together to show us the importance of connecting with people when we do our science. A great start to the conference!

#BES2025 come talk to us about how to make grey literature more accessible at lunch today :)

View of Ferris wheel and Edinburgh sign at Edinburgh Christmas market

View of Scottish War Memorial at Edinburgh Castle

In Edinburgh for #BES2025 and am excited for the workshop @urban-sci.bsky.social and I are doing tomorrow on creating open Grey Literature principles. Come join us 1:15-2:15 at Platform 5!

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Attending #BES2025 in Edinburgh & interested in incorporating grey literature into evidence base? @dochpjones.bsky.social & I are giving a workshop on 16 Dec at 13:15. Learn about what @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social are doing to include grey literature in management & policy. Help guide its development!

Fantastic new review out highlighting the importance of #seabirds and the Circular Seabird Economy, for healthy marine- terrestrial ecosystems globally, and for local communities reliant on marine resources. 📚🏝️🐟

@dochpjones.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @nickajgraham.bsky.social @nature.com

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To help usher in Halloween, let’s take a look at some recent articles from Journal of Applied Ecology that explore different spooky animals and their environments! Bats are probably the first creat…

🎃 How are you celebrating spooky season? Help usher in Halloween with this blog post of some of our spookiest publications this year... If you dare! 👻🧪

🏰 Read the blog here: appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/10/30/2...

Thanks for posting about our work! Here’s a thread about it if anyone wants to know more with a link to a version that’s not behind a paywall.

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Just learnt a new concept and phrase - the "circular seabird economy", and love it. This is economy in the true sense, related to ecology and real world *limited* resources (rather than imaginary, unlimited ones, what politicians and the rich people they serve have convinced us "economy" is).