Scissortail flycatcher, not very common in my neighborhood, but very common in the surrounding area
10.02.2026 20:30
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Scissortail flycatcher, not very common in my neighborhood, but very common in the surrounding area
Woody Guthrie's New Year's resolutions for 1943: Don't get lonesome. Beat fascism. Love everybody. Wake up and fight.
My sign today.
I occasionally scroll through the home page on LinkedIn, just to see the absolutely deranged things business influencers come up with. Recently, these influencers seem like they have shifted to being AI influencers, and oh man have they lost the plot on reality.
Woody Guthrieβs New Years Rulinβs. 1. Work more and better 2. Work by a schedule 3. Wash teeth if any 4. Shave 5. Take bath 6. Eat good β fruit β vegetables β milk 7. Drink very scant if any 8. Write a song a day 9. Wear clean clothes β look good 10. Shine shoes 11. Change socks 12. Change bed cloths often 13. Read lots good books 14. Listen to radio a lot
2nd page of Woody Guthrie's New Years Rulin's 15. Learn people better 16. Keep rancho clean 17. Dont get lonesome 18. Stay glad 19. Keep hoping machine running 20. Dream good 21. Bank all extra money 22. Save dough 23. Have company but dont waste time 24. Send Mary and kids money 25. Play and sing good 26. Dance better 27. Help win war β beat fascism 28. Love mama 29. Love papa 30. Love Pete 31. Love everybody 32. Make up your mind 33. Wake up and fight
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Woody Guthrie's List of 33 New Yearβs Resolutions: Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running
William Bond challenged the idea that forests are natureβs default, arguing grasslands & savannas are ancient ecosystems.
As mass tree-planting boomed, he warned that blanket afforestation can harm biodiversity and water systems. His work pushed conservation to start with how landscapes function.
He runs for days while hunting but a three mile jog around the neighborhood and he acts like he's dying
I see we have arrived at the bread and circuses stage of this administration
Really cool work lead by my FWS colleagues but definitely highlights the challenges this species face and the long road ahead of this species to recovery
Further, we show APC numbers are highest when more of the landscape had been burned in the years prior, likely because fire created critical brood habitat. But this effect was weakened by drought, suggesting current management may not be as effective with more drought under climate change
New research from my group! First quantitative look at population trends for the critically endangered Attwater's prairie-chicken. Using 20 yrs of count data we show a small increase in population size, but the population is still critically small with only about 100 birds per year
I've been trying to outline a letter to the editor/ perspective type paper the last few weeks that makes this case and hits on mant of your points, writing is hard but that is why we need to embrace it not automate it!
π―, I've been making this argument a lot lately. The cycle of reading/writing that goes into putting together a paper is one of the most important ways we grow as scientists and when we get to test our understanding. Automating that process takes away our ability to do our our job as scientists!
One of the funniest reactions to reviewer comments on a manuscript I've ever heard is "We're trying to give them a bourgeois paper, but the reviewer just wants a plebeian paper"
Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...
Yeah, I've noticed the last few citations some of my papers have gotten have been very off topic (architecture and engineering). After skimming some of them I think all of these have been the result of AI π
Finally, some analysis on the legality of RIFs during a shutdown. According to this article it is not legal but Iβd love to see other legal experts weigh in.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Fed scientists are patriots, pass it on.
I don't know of any better way to describe my mental state these days than "I hope my models aren't as broken as I am"
And their four letter AOU code is unfortunately DICK. They were also by far the most common birds during bird surveys for my grad school field work, so every morning started with this song as we drove to the field site.
open.spotify.com/track/4laxor...
As an oklahoma resident this is extremely on brand for our state.
It's Friday and I have no motivation to work on these occupancy models. Only the time tested combination of terrable gas station coffee and built to spill will get me through this.
our paper on how light pollution affects bird vocal behavior is out today in Science!!
w/ @brentpease.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Just got this draft cover for the 2nd edition of our book. It will be available soon!
not VIFs specifically, but I recently posted this list of papers I like about "why you shouldn't worry about multicollinearity so much": github.com/idworkin/McM...
Some actual good news for once?
www.eenews.net/articles/for...
Good thread about historical fire and Indigenous fire use in N. America π₯
Wrote a thing: ...at the heart of it is another Trumpian Big Lie, that immigrants are a burden and menace. We need to fight the false story with a true one: this country needs its immigrants and they are a blessing and an enrichment of what this country is and in many ways its heart and soul.
I'm relatively new to serving as an editor at journals and this is hands down the most discouraging part. The number of reviews I've gotten that just blindly accept very flawed papers with no feedback for the authors is suprising...
A significant portion of my time as a federal scientist has been spent looking at how visitor access affects wildlife at one of our wildlife refuges, with results being pretty conclusive that it is negative for a number of species. Frustrating that we don't even listen to our own scientists anymore
Roads, as ever, are the routes of all evil. #roadecology