Kevin McCluney

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Newsroom Explore past press releases and news by The Nature Conservancy in the United States and around the globe.

A new report from @nature.org suggests that for every $1 spent on H2Ohio wetlands, it produces $8 in economic benefits for the state of Ohio. Very proud of the contribution of #BGSU scientists to monitoring these wetlands, including our lab.

#BGSUWater

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Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)

NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) is back!!!

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Today we remember Alice Ball, an African American chemist who developed the 1st effective treatment for leprosy prior to antibiotics. After Ball died at 24, a male colleague stole her research. Ball was not recognized until a historian found her original thesis. Feb 28 is Alice Augusta Ball Day

They used to poach this rare bird. Now, they save them. After decades of political unrest, former poachers and community members rallied to protect the Bengal florican.

In Manas National Park, India, Bengal floricans are making a comeback. Critically endangered, their recovery owes much to former poachers now working as protectors, supported by local communities and nonprofits.

Learn how conservation transforms lives: https://ow.ly/c5t450XqtOW

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.

If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

#sciencematters

Did you know your choice of coffee can help migratory birds? ☕

By choosing bird-friendly coffee, you support sustainable farming practices that protect vital habitats for migratory birds. 🐦

👉 Learn more with Environment for the Americas : https://www.migratorybirdday.org/

Infographic explaining the importance of preserving small wetlands, highlighting cost-effective solutions, threats, and protection strategies with illustrations of wetlands and people.

Wetlands are rare and exceptional, even small ones.

Intrinsically valuable, they also:
🌱 Offer habitat for plants, insects, amphibians and birds
🌊 Absorb stormwater, buffering against floods
🌍 Filter and reduce pollutants, improving water quality

Learn more with the Convention on Wetlands 👇

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

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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.

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