Jeff Atkins

I’m reminded of that tweet that says that men were able to successfully cast themselves as the less emotional gender by redefining anger as not an emotion

Some exciting news to share: very soon, NOAA Research will be hiring new federal employees into science positions across the agency! A couple of notes:

1) They will only be open on USAJobs for seven days.
2) Multiple positions at different sites may be in one posting.

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This is the thing AI is "good" at 🤣

Highly recommend Weapons. Best movie last year that I have seen so far.

Exciting announcement! My new department is launching a postdoc fellowship in quantitative biology. Fellows will be co-advised by two Bio faculty, one that is quant focused (not me) and one that is not (me???). I would love to co-sponsor a postdoc and build a collaboration so please reach out!

Grain of salt, and I am not a physician or a medical doctor, and yeah causation/correlation, that all said...this is still sound enough to be seriously concerning.

Maybe, but do consider they are just shit at comprehension.

I mean that depends on multiple factors.

I have questions

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In Central Europe, forest management shapes post-disturbance recovery mostly through what’s left behind (disturbance legacies 🪵🌱) than impacting forest growth rates 📈

+ Set-aside forests regrow canopy height as fast as managed forests

New paper out in ForEcolMngt 🌳 doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

This headline is 1000x better if you know nothing about minor league baseball.

WTF

Second maybe to the amount of time spent writing proposals, but generally, yes 🤣

I'm fortunate that fell to people with higher pay grades than me. I was tasked with demonstrating what the ecology lab exercises would look like, but the only ones who showed up seemed to be pre-health and one kid who was trying to convince their parents that they wanted to do forensic sciences

Old-growth Forest Research Assistants

We are seeking old-growth forest research technicians to study and document old-growth forests in Spring & Summer 2026 Virgina.

See the attached images for the job description and how to apply.

Yes, but is this a good thing? Have you met a BIRDER?

Two job opportunities with the @ipcc.bsky.social WG1 TSU:

Science Officer: www.ipcc.ch/2026/02/17/s...

AI Officer (deadline passed but will consider applications until the end of the week): www.ipcc.ch/2026/01/12/a...

🚨JOB alert🚨

We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.

Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology

⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026
🙏Please circulate widely

😊Come join us!

Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

No joke on the cars though. Seriously. My best question during Preview Day was "what do you even do with this ... *Gestures with hands*... Ecology stuff?"

This proposal is primarily being written to a soundtrack of Saxon Shore and Pelican and some Melvin Brewing beers.

Coarse woody debris is something I have wondered about.

Weird mix of highs and lows today.

🌱 Ignoring spatial heterogeneity biases estimates of competition & leads to incorrect predictions of competitive exclusion instead of species coexistence.
🔍 Read: buff.ly/Wnpb4DO

🌨️Deepened snow enhances grassland carbon use efficiency during growing season by modifying canopy structure and the related biophysical pathways that improve light capture for more photosynthetic inputs and reduce respiratory outputs☀️

🔍 Read: buff.ly/bVvQ3BF

Scott Galloway on The Bulwark:

““The Gini coefficient, zero means everyone has the exact same amount. A hundred means one person owns everything. The French Revolution and Marie Antoinette was when they were at 82.

We hit 83 this quarter.”

Really important for so many things. "The value of patient observation compounds over time but remains invisible to short-term metrics" has profound implications.

Manatees in the clear water of a springfed stream in Florida.

The University of Florida's School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences is looking for a Forest Hydrologist. This is a 9-month, tenure-track, 70% Research / 30% Teaching appointment.

11 years ago today I broke my tailbone sledding at Walker. Never forget or whatever.

I am a lousy biologist but half way decent ecosystems guy so I know nothing basically about animals or ape physiology. But otherwise super into it! 🤣 Bringing nothing to the table but enthusiasm