🐆 🐆 Ph.D. announcement is here! Come join our fun & talented team. Deadline for full consideration is Sep 29. Full position posting: shorturl.at/MJVUY Please share widely! 🐆 🐆

I’m a ggplot2 girl through and through but I don’t know how some people prefer base r for data visualization. So here is a link with a collection of base r tips and tricks to use for data viz. E/dif plot has a link to a blog with step by step instructions r-charts.com/base-r/

Mt. Rainier National Park is hiring a wildlife biologist who will also provide support to North Coast and Cascades Network Parks. We've been working with folks here on bats and white-nose syndrome, wolverines, and Cascade red foxes, so lots to do! usajobs.gov/job/806661600

Anonymize a GitHub repository for double-blind peer review. I just learned about this - a great solution to the clumsy situation of providing data/code but also (trying) to remain anonymous! 😎 anonymous.4open.science

What #benefits and #conflicts do experts see with #urban #wildlilfe? Our paper "The frequent five" is out in People and Nature by British Ecological Society! Read here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Freie Universität DBU Leibniz-IZW Ecological Dynamics Universität Freiburg

"Possum take the wheel" shall now become my new mantra when testing out some new code for a project.

My latest paper with AhlersAdam Mason Fidino, PhD Ty Werdel Travis Gallo just got published. Check it out here: Mesopredators have differing influences on prey habitat use and diel activity in a multipredator landscape - Ecosphere esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

This paper is VERY important. We sampled raccoons, skunks, and opossum for rodenticide throughout #Chicago and detected it IN EVERY SINGLE ONE, even opossum joeys weaning on their mother! Check out this thread for more details.

Humans put lots of rodenticide out onto the landscape to manage rat populations. This has unintended consequences for other species. In #Chicago EVERY skunk, opossum, and raccoon had rodenticide present in their system. Check out this thread for more details!

A streamlined submission process makes it easier for us to share all of our findings! I'm excited about how Stacks Journal is moving peer review forward. Take a look!

JOB ALERT: Assistant Prof of Wildlife Ecology in our wonderful department WFCB_UCDavis. Join our supportive, happy, and productive community. I can't rave enough about my experience here. Feel free to reach out with questions and please share widely! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06725

Please RT! 🦌🦨🐁🔥🔥 Join our lab! MS/PhD opportunity to study how mammals respond to large-scale prescribed fire. Starting Spring '25. Deadline: Oct 7.

Are you a wildlife ecologist who’s tired of visually assessing activity overlap plots to see how one species affects another’s activity? Well do I have news for you! We recently developed a model to quantify such effects AND the model allows for predicting activity patterns!

Interested in statistical ecology? We're looking for a new professor to join our team! We offer beaches, sunshine, cake, and a friendly collaborative working environment*. * One of these not guaranteed... ☀️🌧️ Deadline for applications: 23 Oct vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/28…

Just completed my standard 'start a new project' phase. First, I code things up in nimble and it won't work. Then, I move to JAGS and it does works. TBH it's likely just cos I understand the error messages in JAGS much more than nimble. Ones of these days I'll use you nimble!

So jealous that Maureen Murray and Kaylee Byers, PhD got to meet the NYC rat czar!

Your semi-regular reminder that if you write, or teach scientific writing, or are interesting in scientific writing - I keep a list of writing resources you or your students may find helpful. scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/writing-resour…