Morgan Ernest

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It’s finally cooling off here and it’s been a long week, so definitely time for a pot of @sagenatural.bsky.social’s Miracle Max’s Chocolate Elixir

Trying to process a meeting where I feel like leadership basically said: “our ship has been boarded by pirates but other ships are sinking so this is pretty good”

PSA: It’s natural to crave control during unprecedented times. If rearranging deck chairs brings you calm, that’s fine, but please make sure you’re not forcing other people to rearrange deck chairs when they need to be bailing out the ship or helping people into life rafts.

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Returned from a trip to the field. Made me appreciate the finer things in life…like no internet! Seriously, go touch some dirt. It’ll (probably) be good for you.

Join me! We're hiring a TT position for interdisciplinary #DataAnalytics Program @ Denison University. Looking for someone who intersects with #SportsAnalytics in their research -- health, performance, biomechanics, media, economics, education.. Happy to answer Qs!
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We are hiring! 6 years postsoc position (civil servant contract)! Last few days before the deadline! Please re-tweet!

Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

All while corporate academic publishers enjoy 30-40% profit margins.

If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera. No cheating!

Conversely, if you are not feeling hollowed out, depressed, fried, frustrated, confused, and simply exhausted by everything, you may need to ease up on the Xanax.

Huge congrats to @elenalitchman.bsky.social on being elected an ESA Fellow!! 🧪🌊🦠 She does inspiring and foundational work in trait-based ecology, working across scales from phytoplankton in lake Baikal to the human microbiome. And, she's a super kind and caring mentor -- so, so, well deserved! ✨✨✨✨

Really honored and humbled to be selected as an ESA Fellow.

And congratulations to the other Fellows and Early Career Fellows!

@conservation.cam.ac.uk @camzoology.bsky.social

DeSantis involved in University of Florida canceling dean search UF canceled a nearly complete search for a new dean. The governor's office stated that they were involved and implied the cancellation was related to claims that the four finalists were "ALL radical D...

The University of Florida canceled a nearly complete search for a new dean. A spokesman for the governor's office stated they were involved & implied the cancellation was related to claims the four finalists were "ALL radical DEI progressives."

Primary reporting: www.chronicle.com/article/u-of...

a woman is making a peace sign with her hand and the words `` stay strong '' behind her . Alt: a woman is making a peace sign with her hand and the words `` stay strong '' behind her .

Shout out to all the hard working program officers and administration staff holding on at the NSF (and other federal agencies). Your work is appreciated and more meaningful with every passing day.

UF student detained by ICE, facing deportation - The Independent Florida Alligator Felipe Zapata Velásquez, a 27-year-old food and resource economics third-year international student, is currently being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

A UF student is being deported for traffic violations and the number of “we are aware of…”messages from our administration is…zero. www.alligator.org/article/2025...

Protests

I'd really like better coverage of protest numbers from yesterday. I'm seeing estimates of 1 to 5 million, but then news headlines that say "thousands protest across America." Please update with your city info if you have a published estimate: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Of all the institutions/organizations I'm part of the one most rising to the moment to defend scholarship and education is the @aaup.bsky.social. They are organizing & in court defending campus speech, the Dept of Ed, & grant funding. US Faculty - please join today to help defend higher education.

Hundreds of Columbia students in the streets demanding Trump release Mahmoud Khalil & Leqaa Kordia — and demanding that Columbia repeal its expulsion of Grant Miner, president of the Student Workers of Columbia-UAW

Until universities realize that their only hope is collective action and hiding will not save you, we're going to see them go after waves of institutions.

Long‐term community change through multiple rapid transitions in a desert rodent community While studies increasingly document long-term change in community composition, whether long-term change occurs gradually or via rapid reorganization events remains unclear. We used Latent Dirichlet A...

What a fun read this afternoon of the wonderful Christensen et al (2018). Just really cool use of a tool based on word concordance to characterize community change!

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Thanks! We had fun with that one

@mikekaspari.bsky.social @jeffollerton.bsky.social thanks for your comments on the blog post! I replied over at the site

Regime Shift: A Winter of Grim Every episode in a tv series starts with a recap. So… Previously, on Portal: the Regime Shift — In fall of 2024, one of the ruling families of Portal — the Desert Pocket Mouse (Ch…

The next episode...uh, blog post...of Portal: the Regime Shift is up! The Desert Pocket Mouse was the first noble House...uh, Species...to fall, but will it be the last? Which Species will survive the carnage of poor rains to rule this parched land? jabberwocky.weecology.org/2025/03/12/r... 🧪🌎

Please call and write to your congresspeople to emphasize the importance of NSF to basic science, education, and businesses. Here's a link to a handy document you can use to look up NSF dollars and impact in your state!

Science at Risk: Protect NOAA Scientists & experts: Add your name to this open letter calling on Congress and the Trump administration to ensure that NOAA and its sub-agencies remain fully funded and staffed, and that the independ...

Join me in signing this open letter calling on Congress and the Trump administration to ensure that NOAA and its sub-agencies remain fully funded and staffed. act.ucsusa.org/4kajJuk

Flyer about virtual graduate student flash talks hosted by the ecological forecasting initiative early career association. Talks are February 25th 2025, 1:00-2:30 PST.

Flyer about a hands on workshop for forecasting beetle abundance hosted by the ecological forecasting initiative early career association. The workshop is on March 4th, from 1-2:30 pm PST.

Do you know any students that might be interested in ecological forecasting? The @ecoforecast.bsky.social student/early career association is hosting two workshops on how to get involved. Both are targeted to early career (e.g., undergraduate) audiences, but open to all!

Fellow Mammalogists.

As many of you are aware, science is in a state of turmoil in the United States. Recent efforts to drastically reduce government workforces and research funding for science will lead to many adverse consequences for Earth’s remaining natural ecosystems.

The show must go on. What I told my students: the only thing we can do is focus on our work and help each other. This is the Uncertainty Era. We've been here before, this won't end soon, we will get through this together.

A draft manifesto coming.

Wel, no surprise that Coyne used his blog (whyevolutionistrue) to argue with the SSE/SSB/ASN letter about definitions of sex. I'm not going to engage deeply with the letter here. Like any committee-drafted text it reflects compromises; I agree with some phrasing but some could have been clearer 1/N