Undergrads & new grad students - NOW is the time to start thinking about applying for the @nsf GRFP! A thread of advice I've accumulated on how to write a successful application...🧵 #AcademicChatter #phdchat #NSFfunded #STEM #scicomm #sciencetwitter #NSFGRFP 1/20

Aiming for a #career in #ecology but not sure which options exist or which skills you need? Do you have such students seeking advice? Check out our new Ecology and Evolution paper:onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec… We know this feeling well so we created a fun game to explore ecology career paths! >>

More than 80 endangered blue, humpback and fin whales are killed by ships each year along the West Coast. This technology aims to drive that number to zero. nyti.ms/3S59usw

In celebration of Dreamforce, we have made an additional gift of $60M to UC Santa Barbara, one of the world’s most important marine centers.  The new donation is the largest ever for ocean science at UCSB. ❤️🌊 nytimes.com/2022/09/21/sci…

A tool called Whale Safe, recently launched by a group of scientists, is working to give the mammals a fighting chance by getting ships to slow down when whales are present, just as cars slow down in school zones.

really exciting work done by talented husband!

#Postdoc alert❗️Announcing The Schmidt Environmental Solutions Postdoctoral Fellowship @UCSantaBarbara 🌊🌍🌳. Deadline Dec 15. Please RT & apply!

#JobAlert❗️ Passionate about #data & the #environment? Exciting opportunities in a new program UC Berkeley to use science to make a difference for planet & people 🌍

Enormous hiring initiative by Forest Service open now for 5 days. Includes carnivore research lead, wildlife ecologist, botanist, fire ecologists, and many other GS-12 and 13 positions. usajobs.gov/job/709807600

Coral bleaching can degrade reef resilience! In our new paper published in Ecology, we modeled how different disturbances (tropical storms and coral bleaching) shape coral reef recovery, finding that bleaching more readily drives shifts to algae-dominated reefs.

Cats 🐈‍⬛ 🐈 kill 1.85 billion birds 🦜🕊🪶 every year in the #US But no calls for cats to be banned Buildings 🏢 kill 675 million birds Vehicles 🚛🚙 214 million birds We poison ☠️ 72 million birds Wind turbines kill just 328,000 and #climatechange deniers want to ban them!

Download our free database of POSTDOC fellowships. 373 different types of postdoc fellowships. For each entry, we provide description, deadline, $ amount, and eligibility. Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-op…

Students interested in maybe getting a Federal job one day, have a look at the coursework requirements for these Federal job series. Wildlife folks, you can use course syllabi to argue that you've met botany with courses not specifically about plants, but better to be sure!

Thank you nature for spreading the good word on the University of California Ann S. Bowers Womens Brain Health Initiative. Change starts now. cc: Julian Anna Nowogrodzki Only 0.5% of neuroscience studies look at women’s health. Here’s how to change that nature.com/articles/d4158…

Women’s health is understudied and underfunded (Nature 2023) and these are not new problems. The male body has been treated as the standard in science for centuries – dating back to antiquity, when women were described as unknowable.

Calling all PhD and postdoctoral scholars with a love for sea otters and a knack for modeling! We’re hiring a Postdoctorate Researcher in Sea Otter-Fisheries Modeling.🦦📊 Learn more & apply at recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02661 by January 3rd, 2024.🌟 #SeaOtter #JobOpportunity #Postdoc

Please join us in beautiful Santa Barbara! recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02635

Fishing shortens food chains esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ea… in Ecological Applications w/ Fiorenza Micheli Hillary Young & Rob Dunbar

AND he’s a GIS nerd advocating for geographic literacy to advance equity and environmental justice? ABSOLUTELY.

UCSB EEMB is *thrilled* to be hiring a Terrestrial Global Change Biologist (asst prof level). Please apply by 1 Nov. I can't wait to welcome a new colleague into our vibrant and growing department! Please share widely! #unicornjob🦄 recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02500