Daniel Karp

Yo #teamfish, major dream job alert!

Assistant Professor of Fish Ecology University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

Job Alert! Assistant Prof of Fish Ecology at
@wfcbucdavis.bsky.social, with a focus on freshwater and anadromous coldwater fishes. This is a wonderful and supportive place to work. Please share with your fishy friends! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07351

Come join our amazing department!!!!

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

NSF GRFP solicitation is finally up. Life Sci deadline extended to Nov 10 but 2nd year grad students no longer eligible www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Just found out Karen's had >50 applications come in during the first four days.

Completely unprecedented in all the hiring we've ever done.

I guess this shows the state of the wildlife job market right now. Really sad.

The amazing Karen Gallardo-Cruz is looking for a field technician to study Barn Owl responses to tractor noise!

The position will be in Lodi, CA this spring/summer (mid-March to late-June). $20-23/hr and housing provided. Check out the job ad here:

karp.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/u...

www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Human development, societal stability and bird capital predict global tourist eBirding activity Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

New paper 🚨
We studied drivers of birdwatching tourism globally using @teamebird.bsky.social data, bird distributions, and socioeconomic data. Published in @peopleandnature.bsky.social with @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social, @rswamper.bsky.social. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Ok bird people. The neighbors cat keeps hunting birds in our yard and just killed one (LEGO) right in front of the kiddo. Beyond nicely talking to the neighbor (which I've done), anyone have suggestions for best sprays, deterrents, etc? Thanks so much!

our paper on how light pollution affects bird vocal behavior is out today in Science!!

w/ @brentpease.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Absolutely amazing afternoon in the Galapagos with the kiddo's favorite bird! Courtship displays, weird behaviors jockying for mates, and babies. Magical!

Tropical biodiversity loss from land-use change is severely underestimated by local-scale assessments - Nature Ecology & Evolution Analysis of data on 971 bird species in natural habitat and cattle pasture in Colombia finds that near-national-scale losses of bird diversity greatly exceed losses recorded at the local scale, sugges...

Analysis of data on 971 bird species in Colombia finds that near-national-scale losses of bird diversity greatly exceed losses recorded at the local scale, suggesting that extrapolations from local studies will severely underestimate biodiversity losses
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

Bird of the day... Week? Season?!

Great morning out with Julian Tattoni helping out with his molt study in SF!

Look into the lab assistant series. 10 percent benefits for short term hire

UC Davis Team Breaks ‘Big Day’ County Record with 173 Birds The wind was whipping across a dark, open field near the southern edge of Yolo County when two small burrowing owls suddenly burst into flight. For a team of birders from UC Davis, the birds marked th...

Amidst all the heaviness out there, so fun to share a wonderful story about our record-breaking big day a month ago!

Thanks so much to Tiffany Dobbyn of @ucdavisnews.bsky.social for writing this!

caes.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davi...

Anya Brown is investigating microbes’ critical role in coral reefs Her research team’s contributions could hold promise for coral adaptation and conservation.

Anya Brown - @dranyabrown.bsky.social, marine scientist at @ucdavis.bsky.social & Nat Geo Explorer, studies how coral microbes shape reef resilience. “It’s the kind of thing that unites so much of life on Earth,” she says. 🌊🪸🐠

Read more in Nat Geo: www.nationalgeographic.com/impact/artic...

Fun day at the Cosumnes River MAPS station... Caught and got to handle my first Red-shouldered Hawk! (With all necessary permits and permissions)

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

How bad will it be? Catastrophic.

Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.

But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.

Speak up now before it is too late.

(inflation adjusted $-s below)

The goal is plainly and literally to cut the number of people involved in basic science in the US by 70%

Just absolutely devastating

@ucdavis.bsky.social faculty do so much important research!

@dskarp.bsky.social #academicsky #ucdavisresearch #goaggies

From Labs to Lives UC Davis researchers describe the impact of their work and the life-altering consequences if federal funding for medical research were reduced or eliminated.

Karp’s work helps farmers adopt win-win practices that support biodiversity, food safety and sustainable agriculture.

Learn more about Karp's USDA-funded research, visit ucdavis.edu/labs-to-lives.

#FromLabsToLives | #SaveResearch

Headshot of Daniel Karp against a dark blue background with white text that reads, "From Labs to Lives: How Research Funding Solves Real World Problems" and his quote, "Without federal funding, we lose not only critical research that helps protect our food and wildlife, but also the people being trained to carry this work into the future."

At UC Davis, Daniel Karp leads studies on how we can protect wildlife while growing abundant, healthy safe food. His USDA-funded research shows that removing natural habitat from farmland—often done to reduce foodborne illness—can actually make things worse.

YouTube video by UC Davis From Labs to Lives: Daniel Karp, Ph.D

Thanks so much to @ucdavis.bsky.social for organizing the 'Labs To Lives' initiative, explaining the importance of federally funded research.

I was thrilled to go on and talk about some of the federally funded work that has supported my lab: youtu.be/sw97KYR7JNE?...

Job alert: Ian Grettenberger and I are hiring a postdoc to work at UC Davis and study conservation biocontrol in CA lettuce.

Apply by June 1, with a late summer or early winter start date.

The job ad is here: dkarp.faculty.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/u....

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Mistletoe-bearing trees positively influence bird foraging patterns across urban and natural environments - Urban Ecosystems Worldwide, parasitic mistletoe species have become successful inhabitants of urban forests, despite novel host trees and communities of potential avian dispersers compared to natural habitats. Though ...

In these crazy times, I'm thrilled to share this paper, led and developed by the amazing Kees Hood (as an undergrad!), exploring interactions between birds and mistletoe in urban and seminatural environments.

Check it out!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What really gets me about the 'dire wolves' isn't whether or not we brought back an extinct species (we didn't). But that this is being spun as conservation.

Scrolling down colossal.com, you see these screen grabs.

In no world is de-extinction the solution to these issues!!!!!

Amazing! Huge congrats and so richly deserved :)