Dan McGlinn

Stay strong Dylan!

Your yard doesn’t have to be a sterile hellscape of turf grass.

Shrubby desert with sunrise kissed golden mountains behind. Faint rainbow links mountains with silver clouds

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.

Wow! 🤩

A close up of the Duke Energy sign with their name and logo on the side of a gray, square building. A skyscraper looms in the background, unable to fit into the frame.

More than 200 businesses and nonprofit groups have joined prominent climate scientists in pressing North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein to challenge Duke Energy’s huge expansion of fossil fuels.

Duke Energy is one of the world’s worst climate polluters.
Learn more ➡️https://bit.ly/46wM5cd

Lawsuit Launched to End Widespread Cow Grazing Damage to Tonto National Forest’s Endangered Animals TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Maricopa Bird Alliance today filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to end years of illegal c...

The Center today filed a 671-page notice of intent to sue federal agencies to end chronic, multi-year, and often severe damage from cattle grazing to almost all of the streamside critical habitat for endangered species on the Tonto National Forest.

biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

imagining what all of the badass organizers i know could do with these funds

Biological Reality sticker Kiss-cut stickers featuring a clownfish! If the female clownfish dies, the dominant male will trans his gender and become the breeding female. These stickers are approximately 3 inches across.

My official line of "eat shit, transphobes" merch blackmudpuppy.myshopify.com/products/bio...

its tidy - everything must be in the lines

Beautiful and interesting paper!

New paper! (arxiv.org/abs/2503.14093) I haven’t been this excited about one in a while, and I think the theory @mhab.bsky.social develops here will be a big step forward for the field. Why? Let me explain 🧵...

Causal Inference With Observational Data and Unobserved Confounding Variables As ecology tackles progressively larger problems, we are moving beyond the scales at which randomised controlled experiments are feasible. Using observational data for causal inference raises the pro...

OK, #causalinference #ecology folk - my paper with the even excellent @lauradee.bsky.social on causal inference with observational data is now out in Ecology Letters! 🌍🧪🌊

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

ahh try the readcube format-- j/k :P

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... 🧪🌎

Musk claims Social Security is a "gigantic magnet to attract illegal immigrants."

In fact, immigrants here illegally do not collect Social Security. But they pay $25.7 billion a year into it, a recent study found, so these undocumented workers are actually subsidizing Americans.

Yes

Air, an extremely fast R formatter We are thrilled to announce Air, a new R formatter.

@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉

With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest.

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...

Kansas reckons with large tuberculosis outbreak as health officials hamstrung Experts fear consequences of Trump’s restrictions on CDC as state sees one of largest outbreaks ever recorded in US

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It's not gone away, the link is right here: www.climate.gov/news-feature...

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.

Smashed records.

Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

Wow, just wow.
V different approach reveals numerous problems in Scientific Reports - cf deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-o...
I do hope @springernature.bsky.social will start to publish reviewer reports and editor info as we suggested

🌿 Half a Century of Plant Community Changes in Non-Forest Habitats 🌿

Our new article in Global Change Biology, led by Klára Klinkovská, reveals how the plant species composition in treeless vegetation has changed over the last 50 years.

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

Pink and blue pin flags in a field

Pink and blue pin flags in a field

Pink and blue pin flags in a field

How do rare plant species respond to habitat fragmentation?

We've been testing this question for the past 18 years, through demographic studies of a half dozen longleaf pine savanna groundlayer species in the SRS Corridor Project fragmentation experiment 🧪

Photo of the front page of the paper - showing animals and plants and people encircled across the globe - There needs to be more emphasis on the ecological component of One Health as we consider the problems of biodiversity loss, climate extremes, habitat fragmentation, and emerging disease. Image credit: Shutterstock/BeataGFX.

Important piece by Gittleman - “It’s impossible to separate human health from health of the natural world. Ecology is the unifying science that integrates knowledge..[the] One Health approach is unlimited, exciting, & necessary for the health of life on our planet” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪🌎🌐🌾

We'll be measuring and tracking adoption of synthetic alternatives to #horseshoecrab blood at the world’s 50 largest pharmaceutical companies via a new scorecard.

Over 1 million crabs are bled alive annually for use by the biomedical industry.

Get more: bit.ly/3DaK4aA

Me, a somehow still-naïve professor: This exam question essentially asks students to recap a point I made on a single discrete slide during the lecture, it should be a layup for them

Student: [300 words on topics from a totally different lecture]