Kevin McCluney

Ohio Has Invested Millions in Wetlands to Catch Nutrient Runoff From Farms. A New Report Suggests It’s Working. - Inside Climate News The annual report from the H2Ohio Wetland Monitoring Program found all of the wetlands examined successfully trapped nutrients and shed new light on possible best practices.

This is an excellent write up about findings from our H2Ohio wetland monitoring. 🧪🌎🌱💧

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An integrated social–ecological–evolutionary–phenotypic (SEEP) approach to understanding animal responses to urbanization Humans play key roles in shaping the structure and processes of ecosystems globally, especially in cities. This recognition has prompted a recent focus on understanding urban systems via interactions....

New pub! 5 yrs in the making, the result of dedication of an awesome interdisciplinary team, the paper lays out a new approach to link social, ecological, and evolutionary processes that influence urban animals, through traits, aiming to improve management. 🌎

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Assistant Professor - Biological Sciences The Department of Biological Sciences at Bowling Green State University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position with a start date of August 2026. This is a full-time, 9-mo...

Come work with me! We are hiring a new TT Aquatic Ecologist (Assistant Professor), affiliated with my department and the Center for Great Lakes and Watershed Studies. Please spread the word. Thanks!

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Biology students at BGSU research key aspect of Ohio wetlands implementation BGSU students are studying how different plants behave in wetland environments, giving scientists an idea of which species mitigate harmful algal blooms.

We’ve been lucky to work with a great group of people on this project!

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(Bee) Sex in the city: a new study shows how urban life skews pollinator populations Bees are among the most important pollinators in the natural world, quietly sustaining ecosystems and food production. While honeybees often steal the spotlight, a vast number of solitary and primi…

(Bee) Sex in the city: As part of a recent study led by Muzafar Sirohi, we explored how urban conditions might be influencing the timing of bee emergence and the sex ratios of different species. Read more about it here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/08/08/b...
#pollinators #bees #biodiversity #ecology

EVs Pay Off Their Carbon Debt in Just 2 Years | BEV Lifecycle Benefits Discover how U.S. battery electric vehicles offset their higher manufacturing emissions within 2 years of driving and deliver 41–71% lower lifetime greenhouse gases than gas cars.

EVs Pay Off Their Carbon Debt in Just 2 Years — After That, It’s No Contest
Electric cars now emit up to 71% less than gas vehicles — and every mile makes the gap wider. www.autoblog.com/news/evs-pay...

Let’s talk about weather balloons—a.k.a. radiosondes—and why recent cuts to NWS staffing and balloon launch schedules are putting the public at risk (eg., Deaths in Texas). No satellite or model can replace what these humble balloons do. Here's why. 🧵

The image presents a comparison of time represented in seconds: 1 thousand seconds is approximately 17 minutes, 1 million seconds is about 11.6 days, and 1 billion seconds is roughly 31.7 years.

I think most people (myself included) don’t have an intuition for orders of magnitude (e.g., the difference between millionaire and billionaire).

One way to appreciate this is time, since we all experience it. Here's the difference between a thousand, a million, and a billion seconds.

Photographed a LOT of handsome salticids in Costa Rica, but these Anasaitis canalis males were the fanciest! ✨💙 Very difficult to shoot - not just tiny - but super skittish too!

In situ, stack (3 shots?), Pentax, Laowa 25mm

Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica - ground level, shaded areas w/ tree cover

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.

The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Cut a Major Ecology Program

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/c...
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Proposed cut to DEB is 89.6%

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Meet Eupholus geoffroyi, a beetle 🪲 from New Guinea that glows blue through structural coloration 👉 microscopic scales bend light to create its shimmer! 🌈

Feeding on yam leaves, it shapes plant-herbivore dynamics in tropical forests.

#Biodiful 🌍
photo (c) Chien C. Lee

Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It. The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and...

www.propublica.org/article/noaa... 🧪🌎

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Interesting… I feel like many people hate investment bankers, so that one surprises me. The other too make sense to have increased. I’d still be surprised if being an engineer was more prestigious than a medical doctor. But again, clearly I don’t have a handle on it.

I clearly don’t have a good handle on this. Which professions are higher prestige now?

Thanks for sharing… this makes it clear that my personal perception that MDs still have high prestige doesn’t mean that prestige hasn’t decreased.

Definitely not surprised that sexism still influences prestige, sadly.

I agree that it likely is harder to be an MD now, but is that the same as prestige? Maybe how we define prestige influences our answer to this.

I’d like to say medical doctors… maybe one could argue that their prestige has declined a bit in recent years, but that could be common to the general erosion of prestige of all “experts” or the politicization of COVID rather than a gender shift. But this opinion isn’t based on data or research.

The Merlin Bird ID app wouldn’t exist #WithoutNSF. 🪶

Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows (Gift Article) Reducing federal support for research and development could cause long-run economic damage and reduce government revenue.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

How Healthy Is Tofu? (Gift Article) It’s touted as a nutritional star, but concerns about soy have been raised in the past. Here’s what experts say.

www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/w...

Awesome!

1/5 of pollinators and 1/3 of bees in North America at risk of extinction 🧪🌎

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When you're just starting out in scientific research, formalizing your causal questions and how they connect to hypotheses, study designs, predictions, and results can be confusing. 🧪

With that in mind, I've tried to put together a guide/templates:
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Postdoc Employee – Quantitative ecology – ESPM: Organisms & The Environment University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

Looking for a quantitative ecology #postdoc? Check out this opening on time-series modeling of estuarine food webs - based in my group @natureatcal.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ State agency scientists. Apply ASAP - review of applications starts Apr 4. More info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04818

"The wildlife Nextdoor: Socioeconomics and race predict social media carnivore reports" is out in Science of the Total Environment. @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social, Christopher Schell, and I looked at how people post about coyotes and black bears on Nextdoor.

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I’ve had 1k new followers this week, 2k overall. Humble but not insignificant

If half the people here bought a garden journal, ~$19, it would pay for 3 months of our mortgage, giving me time to find a new job because my grants were frozen

Great example of how coming together makes a difference ✊

Ephemeral Wetland Macroinvertebrate Communities Across Climate Regions Share Similar Functional Trait Composition Despite Near‐Total Taxa Replacement Community assembly in aquatic habitats is heavily influenced by hydrology, but understanding the influence of other habitat conditions is also critical. Most studies focus on comparisons of geogra...

1st pub from our NSF Ephemeral Wetland Invertebrate Macrosystem project! High taxonomic turnover, suggesting low dispersal despite potential and/or strong local filtering. However, high similarity in functional traits. 🧪🌎

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