Tanya Fendler

I'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details: www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026...

Students collecting vegetation data in the Organ Mountains

Plants with soil and roots

Students collecting plants from forest understory

Hello! I’m recruiting three graduate students (MS or PhD) to start in summer or fall 2026 . Projects are broadly focused on the ecology, restoration, and management of rangelands, deserts, and forests. Please share!

Lab website: functionalrestoration.nmsu.edu

YouTube video by TVO Docs The Last Whitefish | Episode 1 | 4K | All Too Clear | TVO Original

A fascinating series worth watching again.
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Today was a great day at #ICFT
I had the privilege to present my research this morning, and I joined in on some song and dance in the evening at the banquet.

6 days of field work and likely the last until my next position. It's nice to get out of the office once in a while and relive why I chose this career path. It's also always a great time when working with the CFAAS crew at SIU.

Neglecting to consider mortalities can create bias in telemetry studies. The R package 'mort' identifies potential mortalities &/or expelled tags in passive telemetry arrays, filling an important gap in workflows when analysing passive telemetry data🐾👇
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Freshwater ecosystems under global change In this cross-journal Collection, we highlight papers that help deepen our ecological understanding of freshwater ecosystems and the threats they face from ...

⚠️ Freshwater ecosystems under global change ➡️ nature.com is encouraging the submission of studies that focus on natural freshwaters, including lentic (lakes, ponds), lotic (streams, rivers) and wetland systems. To learn more and/or to submit your study: www.nature.com/collections/...

Please share: (competitive) PhD funding in Strasbourg (France) to work on 🐧🔥:

Physiological and reproductive consequences of ‘warm’ environmental conditions on land in a sub-polar penguin species

Fieldwork in Crozet 🇹🇫 is forecasted (pending on HPAI situation)

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Linking ringed seal foraging behaviour to environmental variability - Movement Ecology Background Foraging rates directly influence animals’ energetic intake and expenditure and are thus linked to body condition and the ability to survive and reproduce. Further, understanding the underl...

New #OA paper in Movement Ecology using a combination of statistical models (HMMs & GAMMs) to understand environmental drivers of behaviour in Saimaa ringed seals. Very pleased to be invited to collaborate on this research! 🤓🦭 @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @uniuef.bsky.social
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Not a fish this week, but it's still an aquatic animal :)

AFS Introduced and Invasive Species Section invites abstract submissions for our symposium for #AFS2025. Students can also submit for our travel award. @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social @scifendler.bsky.social @mullyfish.bsky.social

A sketched an emerald shiner for this week's #FishSketchSunday. It's the most common shiner we catch during LTEF on the Ohio River.

Hey! Are you an American considering a PhD or a postdoc, and the funding / academic situation just went absolutely bonkers?

Canada's federal funding awards just added eligibility for international applicants if at Cdn institutions.

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Postdoctoral fellowship at Eawag, Switzerland. Independent position hosted in one of the research departments, including mine at Kastanienbaum.
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Are you a student presenting research on invasive species at the annual AFS meeting this year? If so, please see the flyer below for a travel award opportunity 🐟! @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social @sdsufishecology.bsky.social

Why DEI are important!

Peaceful protests are a great way to express our displeasure. We can also see just how many are on our side. Change happens when we the people speak up!

NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science

"downsizes" is a weak way of saying "forced to cancel dozens of programs, which jeopardizes future STEM careers of talented undergrads" @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

... but reading other people's experiences can hopefully lessen the loneliness and anger we feel.
Please DM me a paragraph or so along with whether or not you wish you remain anonymous. If not, please provide your name and position title.
Thanks!

📰 Request for newsletter content!

Hey, fish-heads! I'm a co-editor of the AFS education section newsletter, and I'd like to include your stories on how recent funding cuts have affected your teaching, graduate program, or experience as a student. These are difficult times to put it mildly... 🧵

Thank you #SCAS2025 for holding a great conference. I met some great people and learned a lot of mew things! Looking forward to next year!

Canadians on here actually being like "I can't believe how bad things are getting in the US" without acknowledging Alberta just passed some of the harshest anti-LGBTQ+ laws and are about to vote Doug Ford back into power.

Wakeup because the far right are in inside the building

Lake Erie, other Great Lakes could be hurt by federal cuts and hiring freezes Two of the biggest threats to the Great Lakes region’s $7 billion fishery — invasive carp and sea lampreys — will get worse if the Trump Administration’s ...

Lake Erie, other Great Lakes could be damaged by Trump’s funding cuts, hiring freezes

www.toledoblade.com/local/enviro...

State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE.

DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.

One of my favourite kinds of field work ❤️

YouTube video by Science Moms ByTheTime

Guess what - our Science Moms climate ad made this top ten best (upcoming) Super Bowl ads list! The only nonprofit ad on the list!

Warning: do not watch without a tissue

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Don't surrender to their language. It's not an "anti-DEI policy", it's Segregation.

If the tariff wars begin tomorrow, I would not put it past Trump to deport us, shut down the borders, or even hold us in prisons because we retaliated with our own tariffs.
I am afraid for my degree, career, health, and future. And I am afraid of half the Americans that voted for him.

Climate change by any other name is still climate change.
Government censorship can change or hide or remove words and reports, but will do nothing to alter the science and real impacts.
#climatechange
#censorship
Science not silence.

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY #medsky #IDsky #obgynsky #pedsky
CDC STI treatment guidelines have been taken down. They are archived here 👇
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