Theresa Laverty

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Finished updating syllabus and lecture slides for my intro undergrad course on applied stats and R.

See them here: bit.ly/dss_instructors

Are you an instructor using DSS as your primary textbook? Email me for updated source files #rstats #AcademicSky

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They just started roasting them down here in Las Cruces. What I would do for some fresh fish with my chile... Nice catch!

Herculean effort by @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social and our incredible NPS colleagues to explore variation in wildlife responses to recreation across our National Parks. Come for the COVID-19 lockdown data, stay for the typologies of animal responses to human activity.

🧪Two weeks left to apply to this position! Note that posted starting date is a target and can be worked out. Questions? Contact me!

Steal this (updated) syllabus for Scientific Writing I’ve just finished the 3rd go-around of my Scientific Writing course.  When I first signed up to teach it, I was very scared, but now that I’ve been through it a few times, I’m quite pleased with h…

If you're teaching Scientific Writing this fall (especially if it's new to you!) and are getting worried about just how close the fall is getting: reminder that I share my syllabus and all my course materials. Here: scientistseessquirre...

Population/community ecologist asst prof here-- largely working on bats in deserts, but other species too: long-distance movements of migratory nectar-feeding bats, bottom-up and top-down effects of vegetation change on insectivorous bat food webs, and wind energy impacts on terrestrial mammals.

Increased drought drives avian community declines in the warm deserts of the United States The frequencies, intensities, and durations of extreme weather are increasing under climate change, furthering biodiversity loss. In the Southwestern …

New research from our lab documents important drought impacts on desert bird communities in the SW United States 🌎🐦

25 years of bird data across the Mojave & Sonoran deserts, show drought drives clear declines in bird abundance & species richness.
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Congrats, Julien! You'll be based in Lithuania now?

NMSU and UNAM colleagues at Quitobaquito Spring, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. From left to right, Mike, Holly, Theresa, Fer, Mayra, Gabby, Natalia, and Jayden

Ajo Mountain at sunset in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona

Lava flow in Reserva de la Biosfera El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar, Sonora, with some saguaro cacti scattered throughout

Lesser long-nosed bat with a passive integrated transponder (PIT) tag

Back home after a bat acoustic course two weeks ago in Tucson and bat fieldwork on both sides of the border last week. I love where my work takes me and the people I get to spend time with in the field

*All bat capture and handling is conducted under scientific permits

Diversity and seasonality of ectoparasite burden on two species of Madagascar fruit bat, Eidolon dupreanum and Rousettus madagascariensis - Parasites & Vectors Background Bats are important reservoir hosts for a variety of pathogens, some of which are transmitted by ectoparasite vectors including mites, fleas, lice, ticks, and bat flies (families Nycteribiid...

Out today in Parasites & Vectors, Angelo Andrianiaina led a paper in which we described the seasonal diversity and effect of climate on ectoparasites on two species of Madagascar fruit bat, Eidolon dupreanum and Rousettus madagascariensis doi.org/10.1186/s130... 🧪🦇

Super cool story featuring @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social and my Berger labmate Wes. Guardian dogs for the win!

Might need to check this out further...

Raining now!!! I must have brought the rain to Tucson. Taking Janet's acoustic course in Oro Valley this week.

Thanks to all of my wonderful coauthors on these papers for contributing to some really cool bat research and recommendations!

Sub-Saharan African protected areas (n = 7875) and bat occurrence records (n = 16907) of the 263 sub-Saharan bat species. Protected areas arefrom the December 2024 version of the World Database on Protected Areas layer (UNEP-WCMC & IUCN, 2024), and occurrence records were extracted from theAfrican bat database. (Figure 1 in our Conser Biol paper)

Out today in @conbiology.bsky.social, @ceciliamontauban.bsky.social led a paper in which we assessed bat representation in African protected areas. Threatened & data deficient species were absent from or rarely documented / predicted (species distribution models) in PAs (3/4) doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Female lesser long-nosed bat, captured about 1 year after tagging, with PIT tag partly extruded from skin. Photo by Winifred F. Frick. (Figure 4 in our JNABR paper)

In a paper led by Austin Waag in a Journal of North American Bat Research special issue on survey methods for monitoring bats, we discuss the use of passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags with some pros and cons from 5 ongoing studies (2/4) Full text here: www.eaglehill.us/NABRonline/a...

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Two new papers published this week! Open access links to papers and details below! (1/4) #bats 🧪🦇🧵

Dr Aaron Corcoran does some amazing work on bats and moths. He is looking for a bat person to work with him in Colorado Springs starting in September. Check the link for more information. This would be an amazing opportunity!
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John, Theresa, and Bruce (our dog) smile on the Santa Barbara Divide

No Fish Lake at sunset just below our campsite last weekend

Our cattle dog Bruce poses on trail above treeline below the Santa Barbara Divide in NM

Bruce--our dog--on alert atop some deadfall by our campsite

Wishing we were still offline and at alpine lakes... Glad to have traded fireworks for wildflowers for the holiday last weekend with @johnlfield.bsky.social and our cattle dog mix Bruce along the Santa Barbara Divide in the Pecos Wilderness. Successful first backpacking trip for Bruce!

Applications are NOW OPEN for Smith Fellows conservation research Fellowships beginning in 2026! View the Proposal Guidelines and apply here: www.smithfellows.org/join-us

Now is the time that I remind you that, while plague has been endemic in the western United States for 70+ years and this is a normal occurrence, our work does seem to strongly suggest climate change is increasing spillover risk onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

a screenshot of the Accessibility settings in bluesky. The options shown are: Alt text: - Require alt text before posting - Display larger alt text badges

today's a great day to make sure "require alt text before posting" is enabled in your settings and to continue to make bluesky more accessible and inclusive bsky.app/settings/acc...

The website www.globalchange.gov, which hosted the federally mandated US Global Change Research Program and all the National Climate Assessment reports and data, has been deleted.

The Nazis burned books, attacked universities, and crippled German science.
The MAGAs delete websites, attack universities, and cripple American science.

The website www.globalchange.gov of the mandated Global Change Research Program & all the National Climate Assessment reports has been deleted.

I am holding a roughly 3 month old red heeler mix pup, Bruce, at the humane society

The same red heeler mix pup, Bruce, a year later on a trail in front of the Organ Mountains

Bruce's first gotcha day: then and now. So glad to have this pup in my life. He's excited for @johnlfield.bsky.social to come back from TN soon!

Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students (INTERN) Program NSF’s INTERN program provides experiential learning internships in non-academic settings for graduate students with opportunities through research internships.

TIL that NSF has funding options for grad student funding to do internships with NGOs or companies:
www.nsf.gov/eng/intern

Oof hope it comes soon for Tucson too! They've been claiming this year was the most dust since the Dust Bowl in this area. Between that and smoke from the Trout Fire, my lungs will sure appreciate a break in the poor air quality these next few days

Nothing beats the first monsoon storm of the season. Loving the light show over Las Cruces tonight and looking forward to more lluvia tomorrow. Rain and a drop in temperatures are so welcome after this spring's dust

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

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