I finished grad school 15 years ago, been teaching at the college level for 18, I'm tenured with an endowed chair, I've written two books, the most recent of which made a year's best nonfiction list, and my father just asked if I'm "doing a school project," so no that never ends

Playing in water ... aren't deadly heatwaves fun? cnnbrasil.com.br/nacional/sensa…

Someone casually said to me ‘I think you are focusing on the negatives and not the positives’. Yes, there are some positives but the reality is we are not turning this situation around. People cannot believe that our leaders would be doing so little if it really was that serious.

I was nervous posting my graphic showing 2.01°C because breaking 2°C is a huge event and I didn't want to get it wrong. Then Leon Simons (looking up) posted the one below from Nov. 17 showing 2.06°C, and it relieved 100% of the stress. Different data sets, same result. 2°C breached.

#NewPaperAlert! Stoked to share our pub on the migration phenology of songbirds tracked with the #MotusWTS network as they travel through North America in spring, now published in Journal of Animal Ecology! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… 🧵

Bird species' responses to habitat changes vary according to the geographical distribution range and local environmental suitability. See results obtained by a great group of colleagues with 81 Atlantic Forest species in sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Breaking news! The planet once again touched the 2.0°C barrier for a single day yesterday. On tenterhooks awaiting the definitive graphic from Copernicus ECMWF

6. That's it, that's the tweet.

New paper out today! Male pathology can drive transmission without sex-based differences in behavior. Congrats Erin Sauer 🐸 ! Journal of Animal Ecology UArkansas Research besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

First theoretical dissection of scale-dependent biodiversity change to its 3 parts + a big empirical example. Francois, thanks for all the patience, endless discussions, and hard work, I've learned a lot. Congrats for your 2nd PhD chapter published! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec…

What a difference 40 years makes! Tale of two years, both strong El Nino’s. Left: 2023 Sept-Nov departure from normal. Right: 1982 same. You see the 1982 El Niño over the East Trop Pacific, but otherwise the globe is more balanced. That’s how much Earth has warmed in 4 decades!

Thinking about supporting artists this year instead of just buying gifts on amazon?? Every year I make wildlife calendars with my photography, and the new batch is in featuring families (in honor of me becoming a dad). They are $20 with free shipping, DM to get one (or more)

Widespread record temperatures 20C (36F) above average throughout the Northern hemisphere.

Its beginning to look a lot like Climate Christmas 😔 Image of the season 🔥

New encounter on the academic job market. Has anyone done one of these "on demand" interviews where you log in, the system asks you questions and it's recorded and the search committee watches later? How was it?

My sex-biased transmission study with DuRantLab is now in issue and on the cover of this month’s Journal of Animal Ecology 📸: Jeremy Cohen, PhD

Happy #wrensday

Are all birds shrinking with #climatechange? In the mountains of Tanzania we (Morgan Tingley *find me on BlueSky* + Bill Newmark) find that birds are actually increasing in body size over almost four decades! Check out our paper in Ecography (nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec…) UCLA EEB UCLA Life Sciences

Recent wildlife around Fayetteville Arkansas