This year, like 2017, California has had an unusually hot & dry fire season. Most of the largest and most destructive wildfires in CA history have happened under such conditions. Climate change is making this situation worse. #CaliforniaFires #ClimateChange

Attn #rStats folks with #occupancy experience: We’ve hit a snag involving single-species, multi-season #DynamicOccupancy using #unmarked package in R. Reply via DM to Samantha Cady if you can help and THANKS! 🧐🐦

“The question is no longer what the benefits of diversity are, but how we can best support the potential benefits of diversity.” go.nature.com/2BaiqrB

The Loss Lab is recruiting an MS student to lead the 1st before-after control-impact study of a window film designed to deter #birdcollisions. Grad position starts Fall '19 & student would ideally begin fieldwork in Spring wfscjobs.tamu.edu/jobs/ms-positi… #urbanecology #birds #ornithology

I’m excited to report that the O’Connell Lab’s latest (and my first!) paper “Species-specific and temporal scale-dependent responses of birds to drought” is available for first look! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc… Tim O'Connell Loss Ecology Lab

ecospat: an R package to support spatial analyses & modeling of species niches & distributions onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec… #rstats Stats for bios Simply Statistics Nordic Society Oikos

Hey birders! Participate in this survey about birder attitudes towards conservation. It's short! It's easy! It helps out one of our board members! Thanks! boisestate.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6r…

EARLY VIEW Species‐specific and temporal scale‐dependent responses of birds to drought Samantha Cady Tim O'Connell 📝buff.ly/2ZeTIj1

As a sassy birder™️ I will die on this hill: let people call birds whatever they please as long as they aren’t hurting them! Correcting folks comes across as super obnoxious and dismissive. Team Seagull/Canadian Goose forever!!

MANUSCRIPT ACCEPTED!! I’m going to be a published scientist y’all! I’m especially thankful for this paper b/c I was able to collaborate with 2 amazing women in my dept, Sirena L. & Samantha Cady! Thanks to my advisors Loss Ecology Lab and Bruce Noden for supporting my side project!

But not where fish can find refuge from warming in colder deeper water.

Megan Roselli Corey Riding In new J of Medical Entomology paper Megan Roselli found many studies don't report where on birds tick searches occur & that not searching whole bird misses large % of ticks bit.ly/2Qo3L3U Megan led this neat side-collaboration w/ #NREM grad students Sirena L., Samantha Cady

"I started keeping track of window-killed birds in 1993. One day I stumbled (almost literally) across five collision victims along one façade of a single building in a corporate office park." Don't miss the first AOS blog post of 2020! #ornithology americanornithology.org/taking-a-close…

We have a new co-authored CDC_EIDjournal paper on prevalence of Rickettsia in Oklahoma ticks. Led by Bruce Noden (Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology) & w/ Megan Roselli, we found high Rickettsia prevalence & some of 1st regional records of R parkeri (agent of spotted fevers) bit.ly/2GcXphD

Samantha Cady talking scales of habitat selection and #hotspots of use for #NorthernBobwhite #quail in western Oklahoma. #OKNRC #InternationalDayOfWomenInScience

New paper out in Urban Ecosystems led by lab alum Megan Roselli! Megan studied role of #Birds in carrying #Ticks across an #Urbanization gradient, found high % of birds w/ ticks (24%!) & changes in tick infestation across gradient #UrbanEcology #Ornithology link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Looking for ocean temp data? This map shows where and by how much monthly SST differed from the 1981-2010 avg. climate.gov/maps-data/data…

Birds in California are laying eggs earlier in the spring to cope with climate change #ResearchHighlight go.nature.com/2zIUUCn

Great Atlantic article on the emergence of tracking technologies #ornithology theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

#eBird tracks are available on *free* #eBirdMobile for both iOS and Android now! Auto-calculate distance and duration of your checklists—all you have to do is enjoy the birds! What do your tracks look like? ebird.org/content/ebird/…