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Wildfire and Drought Alter the Ecology of Jaguars and Co‐Occurring Mammals in the World's Largest Wetland

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A Vancouver Island marmot pup watches you intently. What are they thinking? Are they thinking about how much they need YOU to apply your incredible research skills to saving their species? No. At least probably not. But they do need it, even if they are not thinking it. Is this a fantastical and highly inaccurate description of the inner monologue of a small marmot really "descriptive alt text?" We think so. For the record, the marmot is resting its forelegs on a surprising diamond shaped rock, both on a larger moss covered stone with grasses in the background.

Reminder: We are seeking TWO Postdoctoral Fellows for conservation research of the critically endangered Vancouver Island marmot: a population & habitat viability modelling & a conservation genomics position in partnership with @unbc-nresi.bsky.social More info marmots.org/recovery-eff... #consgen 🌎

Assistant Professor/Avian Ecology and Management - Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States Position Title: Assistant Professor/Avian Ecology and Management Employee Classification: LC Faculty TT/TN 9m College/Division: Agricultural,Consumer & Env Sci Col Department: 303500-FISHERY AND W...

Seeking a new assistant professor in Avian Ecology and Management to join the Dept of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology at New Mexico State University. Please share!

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JOB ALERT! We are hiring two seasonal field technicians for mid July - mid October to conduct research on mule deer in the Santa Monica Mountains, CA. The project is a collaboration between UC Davis and NPS. Ungulate capture experience preferred. Please share! jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

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One of the coolest ways to learn #RStats by doing is swirl (swirlstats.com). It's a free R package that runs interactive lessons right in your R console, letting you practice as you learn. I loved it when I was starting out! #datascience #rladies

Hi All, please share widely, we're looking for technicians to help with our research on mule deer response to fire in the Santa Monica Mountains! This is an awesome team, exciting study, and fantastic location :)

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There is a very significant chance that the entire Research and Development program at the US Forest Service is going to be dismantled in the coming weeks. This is going to be devastating and will hamstring our ability to manage public lands and the wildlife that depend on them.

Folks are telling me that archived doesn't necessarily mean cancelled, but also that panel this year has been cancelled. I haven't been able to get in touch with the program officers yet.

Ugh. I heard today that LTER was archived, but it's not cancelled. It sound like you know this for sure? I have a very sad postdoc right now that I'd love to give some hope...

Such a bummer. I'm assuming this means there is no hope for current proposals.

The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases NSF program has been archived. Huge loss. Does anyone know if the current proposals in the queue for funding will not be reviewed or are panels still happening?

That’s so funny. I had exactly the opposite reaction. I thought it was great to engage with disagreement. Maybe they’ll go home and think it over and their perspective will broaden. Plus there was a lot of support

I get that. Any one of us over there will do little, but I wonder about the whole community pushing back to sway narratives, thoughts, ideas, and so on. But you're right, the experience there is poor

I accept that. I'm not active there, or here really, any more. But I really want to fight right now, so maybe I'll try to make the case for science over there. Perhaps social media is not the way, but I can't help but think that if we were all back there fighting, it would be a start

I really don't know. Someone just came in my office crying that they are losing their job, possibly the whole coop unit. I want to fight and this is not a good place to fight. This is a good place to console maybe though.

I fear that, especially now, scientists getting off Twitter where we can engage with the general public and instead siloing ourselves here is a very big mistake. We need to share what we do and why it's important with the broadest possible audience.

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

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Department Head The Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences is seeking a Department Head. This is a full-time (1.00 FTE), 12-month, professional faculty position. The Department of Fisheries, Wil...

Our department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences at Oregon State University is hiring a new Department Head. Any full profs out there wanting to lead us?!

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This is the bullying I was worried about when moving over here.

Whoa, that’s terrible! Very surprising

Episode #203 Ellen Dymit - Sea Wolves on the Katmai Coast - The Wolf Connection Ellen Dymit is a doctoral student at Oregon State University and is one of the researchers who has studied coastal sea wolves along the Katmai Coast in Alaska in 2021. The majority of her findings det...

PhD student Ellen Dymit talked about her coastal wolf research in Katmai National Park on the Wolf Connection Podcast.

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Week 2 of tracking Deer 665's fall migration. She made a rather large movement during the first couple weeks of November. Many deer often stopover before leaving the foothills and heading south to winter range. Will be interesting to see if 665 does the same.

Drones as a potential hazing tool to prevent wolf depredations on livestock With wolf recolonization and reintroduction into parts of their historic range in the United States, wolves killing livestock (depredation) has become…

And here is a new paper by my grad student Lori and Dustin about some of the work on drones for hazing wolves 🐺 that is referred to in the article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

**FORESTGEO STAFF SCIENTIST POSITION!** We are hiring a Research Ecologist to focus on Central and South American Forest Dynamics, to be based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Smithsonian staff scientist positions are excellent, as is the ForestGEO team! Come be our colleague!

If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in a crazy group of monkeys at U of Edinburgh . Do reach out with questions!
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New paper: the risk disturbance literature is full of examples of humans changing animal behavior, but how often do these changes affect populations or communities? TLDR it’s much muddier than you might expect. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Really proud of this paper and the opportunity to work with the Stacks! I definitely recommend it for folks trying to break out of the toxic for-profit publishing groups.