Ashley Archer

•MSU & Purdue Alumna 👩🏼‍🎓🤍• Wildlife Biologist for DoD 🇺🇸 🦅 • Opinions my own • she/her/hers

[Ashley Archer @Archer6Ashley]

@MoreorLoess @creekthinker Always over! I can’t stand the traffic in the Chicago area. Safe travels.

[Ashley Archer @Archer6Ashley]

@abigailthiemkey Moved to the Bay Area, thought I knew what California is expensive meant. 2300/month rent 🫠

[Ashley Archer @Archer6Ashley]

@MustelidMay I finally secured a GS 11 biologist position in 2021. 150 applications. 3 interviews, 2 offers. It’s a numbers game. Keep going.

[Ashley Archer @Archer6Ashley]

@kbombycillidae Disagree. People are highly disconnected from where their food comes from. Nothing wrong with normalizing processing.

[UberFacts @UberFacts]

Cats are considered both an invasive species and superpredators due to their ability to quickly cause ecological damage

[Ashley Archer @Archer6Ashley]

@abigailthiemkey Okay so I just bought a shark apex vacuum on super clearance at Target. Best vacuum on the market. It picked up so much more than I even thought possible. And I vacuum every day + carpet clean 🥴

[Ashley Archer @Archer6Ashley]

@GradSkoolStrugs I was off work for a year post graduation due to pandemic and the job search. Ended up as a army biologist in CA. Much needed rest and gave a new perspective on work/life balance.

[Ashley Archer @Archer6Ashley]

@ecologyofgavin I’ve never missed a in person conference since becoming a wildlife student in 2014. I don’t know if I can reasonably afford this. I had a hard time paying dues in 2020 being unemployed and they offered no help and then shamed me. 🥹

[Carissa May, MSc🦡 @MustelidMay]

I do not claim to know all about science or Indigenous knowledge/cultures, but I do know that there are MANY forms of science and not all science follows the EXACT same methodologies or is written down.

Any real scientist knows this.

That's all I have to say.

[Aldo Leopold Foundation @AldoLeopoldFdn]

#WednesdayWisdom

Image Description: Aldo Leopold sitting on a Leopold Bench at the Shack preparing to write notes in his journal, c. 1946

[Coach Q @qthetrackcoach]

Thats one fat burrowing owl.

[Ashley Archer @Archer6Ashley]

@DavidLSherer I live in Alameda County. My rent is 2400 a month and it was the least expensive I could find. This is unacceptable.

[Ashley Archer @Archer6Ashley]

@Meredith_Seeley @AcademicChatter Not me as an indigenous person thinking for a second I’m going to get a good recommendation for beadwork 😂

[Ashley Archer @Archer6Ashley]

@Buddyboybudbud @FousekMichael @TheBattmobile @nerd4ecology I would agree. Depends on persistence. Over 8 months I applied to ~150 positions, 2 interviews, 2 offers. Started GS11. It’s a numbers game.

[Ashley Archer @Archer6Ashley]

@Trevor_Samaha @nerd4ecology Absolutely not. As a federal employee I started at 38/hr and I have my master’s plus experience.

[Anna Brose, MSc @alcesanna]

Researchers, I am ✨begging✨ you to comment your code as you write it, for the inevitable day when you share it with someone like me who can’t decrypt the fancy functions you wrote.

[Ashley Archer @Archer6Ashley]

@gabbspalomo Mia enjoying some sun on the patio with me. Good luck on your defense. Rooting for you!

[BillBowBaggins @baggins_bow]

The better I get at birding, the more I realize how bad I am at it.

[U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service @USFWS]

Meet CA's only freshwater turtle - the western pond turtle! They can be found throughout Puget Sound, Washington to northwestern Baja California, Mexico. https://t.co/YkTbiGfgP9

*Disclaimer: This turtle is being handled by a professional. Please keep wildlife wild. 📷USFWS

[NPR @NPR]

New evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 spreads explosively in American white-tailed deer, suggesting the animals could carry the virus indefinitely and spread it back to humans periodically.

The data is "very concerning," one scientist said.
https://t.co/7PoyvwUWlT