Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇

Accidentally turned myself into Makio from #demonSlayer

I was alone today so used a sagebrush to hold my phone. Yeehaw

It's called fieldwork, sweaty

The history of Nazis holding rallies in left-wing areas of Weimar Germany, instigating street fights, and then telling the press that only they could save Germany from the "violent communists" seems like an important thing for people to be studying right now.

I feel so stuck lately.
I have this passion for growth, and I've become so bogged down by my current position as well as the state of the world.

I need to make more art. Idk what yet.

An excited pyranees/border collie mix is running in a "superman" pose towards the camera outside. She is in full zoom mode. Growlies also activated. There's no stopping her now.

She comin!

Taylor swift's new album the life of a showgirl but she has a gar's head and it's the life of a showgar.

Don't worry, @solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social I did one for you too

Guess who got a cheap thermal scope 👀

Learned the 1500th bat species was recently named 🦇

Discussed bat vs rodent diversity with partner ♥️

He asked about capybara species...

Somehow that led to explaining the Devil's Corkscrew to him...

And now I'm looking up ancient weasels 😂

The wildlife field lost an amazing, kind, and inspiring biologist yesterday.

Dr. Daniel Combs

Your sense of humor and incredible empathy will be missed by many, many people.

I would never have made it this far in my career without you getting me started at TN Tech ♥️

Oh, to fly like a bird🦅💕

Can anyone explain why the path of smoke is magically broken by the 3 cities here on the map??
Moses Lake and two towns west and northwest of it are somehow yellow dots even though the AQI is 200 points higher everywhere else along the smoke trails...

I'm confused as hell.

Human-caused fire 2 miles south of my field site today 🙃 yay

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

Original photo is from @australianwildlife.bsky.social

A tiny Kangaroo Island Dunnart being held by a biologist. The small marsupial (mouse sized) is full of the most adorable panic you can imagine.

How your email finds me:

Right? It's so neat seeing old game trails and sagebrush clusters causing different heat patterns ☺️

Really eager to not live in the desert...

I ♥️ thermal imaging!!

Just found a dozen plastic tubes in our 20 acre enclosure so easily 😂

If anything happens to me before I get to travel to Australia and see some really awesome marsupial I will be so unfulfilled tbh

A very gay skeleton in sparkly heels holds a pride flag between their teeth, with one hand on one hip and one up behind their head

Off to a good start with the Halloween decorations around here

It's not a phase.

Do YOU wanna take the notes for me, sir???

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

I help gather population data on endangered Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbits and vaccinate the rabbits against RHDV2 🐇

Original abstract (August 2024 preprint): Despite widespread consensus that climate change poses a serious threat to global public health, very few studies have isolated the specific contributions of human-caused climate change to changes in morbidity and mortality. Here, we systematically review over 3,600 abstracts, and identify a dozen end-to-end impact attribution studies on human health outcomes published between 2016 and 2023. Based on these studies, we find that estimates of attributable mortality range from 10 to over 271,000 deaths, depending on timescale, spatial extent, climate hazard, and cause of death. We calculate that this loss of life amounts to up to US$ trillions in monetary value when using standard valuation approaches. So far, end-to-end attribution studies capture only a small fraction of the presumed global burden of climate change, with few studies addressing infectious and non-communicable diseases, and no subnational or event-specific studies focused on a location outside of Europe and the United States. However, the field of health impact attribution is poised to explode in the next decade, putting unprecedented pressure on policymakers to take action for human health. Published abstract (September 2025 publication in Nature Climate Change): Over the last decade, attribution science has shown that climate change is responsible for substantial death, disability and illness. However, health impact attribution studies have focused disproportionately on populations in high-income countries, and have mostly quantified the health outcomes of heat and extreme weather. A clearer picture of the global burden of climate change could encourage policymakers to treat the climate crisis like a public health emergency.

Third, the peer review process pushed us to de-emphasize all findings other than "literature to date is incomplete and biased," which undercuts the substantial and strong evidence we have that climate change is killing thousands of people each year. Here is our original versus final abstract:

I honestly only saw a few the whole time I was studying them. But the best spot is bottomland hardwood forests!

Also, I just miss watching the Lil armadillos bumbling around tbh

Thinking of uploading all my trail cam data from my master's work into Wildlife Insights to help train it in armadillo Identification 😂

Maybe get a small paper out of it on all the other neat creatures using the borrows as refuge.

We have a video of a squirrel running in right as a hawk came down!