Just banded and attached a transmitter to my first female mallard. Feeling happy and excited is an understate!!

February 11 is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. We'd like to introduce you to some incredible student researchers at U of Saskatchewan who are tackling important research questions related to North America’s wetlands and waterfowl. 🦆👇 #WSTEM #WomenInSTEM

it's photos like these that make me realize I'm doing what I was created to do. Thanks dad for sharing with me.

Help Ducks Unlimited bring this mallard to life! 🦆 This life-size LEGO® mallard concept was designed by one of Ducks Unlimited’s own engineers with a passion for LEGO® bricks and conservation. But we need your help to make this concept a reality! With 10,000 votes, the LEGO®

With the start of the next school year coming up, I've written a post on everything that I learned in the first year of graduate school (that no one tells you...). Please share this post with students who are starting grad school in the fall! cassidywaldrep.com/resources/grad…

BREAKING: Duck Numbers - Eastern Survey Area | The 2024 Waterfowl Population Status report also includes breeding population estimates for six common species groups from the ESA, covering eastern Canada and the northeastern states from Virginia to Maine, as well as status updates

TAKE A DATA & VIZ WORKSHOP at the Libraries! These free workshops introduce you to Python, R, and GIS, or just teach you visualization design. We offer a wealth of workshops all year long, so check out the schedule and sign up now! lib.ncsu.edu/workshops/cate…

I've been seeing some free seminars/workshops on twitter lately for science/coding. If you know of any, or are hosting some, will you please send my way? I want to colloate a list and make a blog post to share with students! I would like these to be online / over zoom.

It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on powerpoint and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!!

Turning my labor day weeked into a writing retreat to finally finish up my undergraduate manuscript. We already faced rejection, but with a bit of revamping, I'm hopeful my thesis will be recieved well by reviewers.

I collated some free online workshops for researchers/coders/wannabe scientists. Have a look! Includes workshops from... Proteintech Group WatSPEED at the University of Waterloo Ali Abdaal Reproducibility for Everyone Barrett Klein Dariia Mykhailyshyna cassidywaldrep.com/resources/free…

Had the privilege of banding and deploying transmitters with Kelsie, another member of the Weegman lab, in the Dakotas. Highlights include sitting in a blind for a rocket net shot, banding my first wigeon, wood duck, and green-winged teal, and seeing my first western grebe!

wow. what an amazing article. please please read this and realize the impact our words have on others.

I just wanted to take a minute to say that to anyone with a PhD, or anyone starting a PhD, you should be so proud of yourself and how far you’ve come.

Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍 NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations! all freely available in the public domain. Retweet and spread the message! bioart.niaid.nih.gov

usgs.gov/labs/bird-band… My project now has a notes from the field article from USGS. Check it out!!

February 11 marks the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (#IDWGS), and we'd like to take this opportunity to introduce you to some exceptional young women who are making their mark in STEM and empowering others along the way. 👇 loom.ly/1hmPoK4

Pre-copulatory behavior in wood turtle note just published in Herpetological Review. My second EVER publication out now. researchgate.net/publication/39…

New blog series: Field Diaries! 📖 In this series with Applied Ecol. Resources|Ecol. Solutions & Evidence, we're sharing stories across a range of different fieldwork experiences 💭 In our opening post, Cassidy Waldrep tells us about working with waterfowl across the Atlantic Flyway 🐦 appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/04/25/fie…

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!