Tristan Nuñez, PhD

Botanists of the Front Range / Central Rockies -- what's the best flora for this region? Is there an equivalent of Hitchcock for the PNW? Weber?

A nursery table full of tomato, pepper, broccoli, kale, and cabbage seedlings.

The laid-off scientist unemployment victory garden is well on its way...

Naturally dyed eggs ranging from violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, and orange-red.

A bit late, but, dye sources from L to R: red onion skins, hibiscus, red cabbage, turmeric and red cabbage, turmeric, and yellow onion skins.

Oh ****, Mike, very sorry to see this news. Hang in there!

Not just that, but it seems quite likely that for anyone who had relocation reimbursement, they will be on the hook for repayment.

Not very far from how FOIA works...

#forestservice employees who were recently terminated. We are working on a legal action. Please dm us. (We removed the previous post due to concerns about the form being spammed by bad actors) #nffe #unionstrong #holdtheline

L.A. is already getting fire recovery wrong. Two experts explain how to do it better Two wildfire experts argue that the L.A. destruction didn't have to be as bad as it was. The question isn't whether we can live with fire but how we can live with fire, they say.

This: "Many agencies, certainly federal agencies, assume that fire intensity determines community wildfire risk. But fire intensity has nothing to do with structure ignition vulnerability — how a home ignites." Dr. Jack Cohen, retired USFS in www.latimes.com/california/s...

Stephen Pyne: "I would like to think that these recent fires might be horrific enough to serve as a catalyst, but I’ve thought that for a couple of decades as urban conflagrations have built up in magnitude and damages."

Will check it out - thanks!

Thanks!

I'm looking for studies on the effect of tree replanting (post-harvest or post-fire) on landscape-scale fuels connectivity and fire size. Any suggestions?

Why clearing the brush around Los Angeles won't reduce the wildfire danger After thousands of homes were destroyed, many are looking for ways to make Los Angeles safer from wildfires. But clearing dense shrubs on the hillsides could actually make the fire danger worse.

Some factual coverage on LA fires-- "Wildfire experts say cutting down s CA's chaparral won't make the region safer from wildfire. In fact, bc of the local ecology, they say clearing vast swaths of native brush could actually make the landscape even more flammable." 🌏 www.npr.org/2025/02/11/n...

I have a better idea: Email tipline@cfpb.gov or DM @cfpb_tipline on X and tell President Trump and co-president Elon Musk to stop letting Wall Street scam you.

Musk fired America’s Vets

Tell the Senate to OPPOSE this harmful forestry bill! Tell your Senators to STOP a harmful logging bill called the "Fix Our Forests Act." Instead of actually helping forests, the bill makes it easier to log forests on public lands.

The "Fix Our Forests Act" -- a trojan horse bill that will ramp up commercial logging & eliminate public involvement from public lands decision-making -- has passed the House & needs to die in the Senate. Here's a simple way to weigh in on this important issue. act.sierraclub.org/actions/Nati...

Time too start a Procyonid version of Fat Bear Week!

I'd love to be added please - research program focused on climate impacts to biodiversity and the importance of connectivity for adaptation. Pubs: scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Would love to see a core sample of that one. Any fire scars?

This is so cool ... you can tell how old a hedge is (often) by how diverse it is.

Won't be there but would love to see your talk!

Super important contribution on seed dispersers and plant niche tracking -- very few studies of this kind have been done.

To be fair, I partake daily. ;)

AI / machine learning approaches are the ultra-processed foods of ecological modeling; colorful and addictive but you have no idea what the unintelligible ingredients are doing to your system.

To be fair, I partake daily. ;)

Yes, definitely interested. I should probably dust off Leopold's Thinking Like a Mountain for a re-read, but feel like there's got to be a 21st Century analogue somewhere.

Curious if anyone's written something (recently or long ago) on the importance of humility in the ecological & natural resource sciences?

Large fire-scarred ponderosa pine in western Montana

1/n 🧪🌏🔥
On the other site, I started what can only be considered a viral hashtag called #FireScarFriday. It's time to introduce #FireScarFriday to BlueSky!

What are fire scars and fire-scarred trees? Trees can often survive a #wildfire but are damaged by said fire. ...

Fascinating contrast with the frequent-fire forests of the SW U.S.: Frequent prescribed fires increase the negative effects of wildfire in Australia. "What we do by frequently burning forests is set them up for a big fall with the next fire."