Coming home in 2 weeks!

Say hi to Walter, the newest member of Ellen Audia and mine’s family!

Please share this job opportunity with anyone who is interested! An opportunity to lead a component of an NSF grant at a unique biological station! careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/5185…

Flawed model leads U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to deny protection to the Gopher Tortoise. Please RT -- We want to raise awareness on this issue so that FWS is compelled to reverse its decision. Read about it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.gecc…

After several delays, Department of Government Efficiency has finally posted its purported savings. Why did it take so long to create a simple webpage with a 1000-row table? Who knows! Let's dig in. Headline number: $55B saved. They list the savings per nixed contract. This should be easy to verify then. 🧵

I know it’s field season when my camera roll starts to look like this:

Today was for 20+ year old Blanding’s

One of the biggest and one of the smallest Blanding’s I’ve caught this year! The big one has about 2 decades on the small one

Nothing hits quite like finding a new population of these guys

Proofs are up for my latest pub in Evolution Journal! It’s a big ol’ analysis of how sex-ratio reaction norms vary with local climates within and among turtle species with TSD. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1093/evolut…

Hey #JMIH2025, interested in temperature-dependent sex determination? Come to my talk at 1:30 today, right at the beginning of session 18!

Check out our latest #paper in Journal of Animal Ecology, British Ecological Society. We pulled together a massive dataset and used simulations to establish what a “typical” #turtle body size distribution should look like and how different life history traits impact it. 1/4 doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…