Michael Mahon, PhD

Postdoc. Quantitative community ecologist. Great Lakes fish ecotox; freshwater biodiversity trends. Opinions are my own. He/him.

[Michael Mahon, PhD @GlobalWorming19]

Working with US federal stream fish and invertebrate data just got easier! finsyncR (fish and invertebrate synchronizer in R) was made public yesterday! The package generates datasets covering 27 years and 8000+ sites, with consistent sampling methods. https://t.co/fgs6MRNu1I

[Michael Mahon, PhD @GlobalWorming19]

@NWSduluth 6.5”, ~10 am, E 27th and Superior St., Duluth.

[USGS EROS @USGS_EROS]

Please join us this Thursday, on October 24, 2024, at 1:00 pm CDT to hear about the new Annual National Land Cover Database (NLCD), a revolutionary product suite that will provide greater insights into environmental change. Sign up here: https://t.co/HYOBZ9bewr

[Frederik De Laender @frederikDL]

Come work with us. A permanent prof position with lots of freedom in the heart of Europe

[Maya Contreras @mayatcontreras]

Even Jill Stein’s Twitter account goes pretty silent every four years and then picks back up when she’s running for office again. Such an unbelievable scammer. I get if you’re frustrated by two-party system, our policies, but holy sh-t, she’s a grifter.

[Michael Mahon, PhD @GlobalWorming19]

@JoeyBernhardt @FishBaseProject @NEON_sci Federal stream biomonitoring datasets (fish and macroinverts), easily accessible via finsyncR: https://t.co/fgs6MRNu1I

[Midterms are Nov. 3rd 2026. Go register voters @usrbinr]

Emergency #rstats broadcast for those that use ggplot with power point.

[Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social @Cghlewis]

When someone tells me they think a dataset will be quick to clean.

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

What do tax cuts for the rich do?

They increase inequality.

They have no effect on economic growth or unemployment.

"Our results provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy."

[Michael Mahon, PhD @GlobalWorming19]

My office for the day.

[One Health - U of Guelph @OneHealthUofG]

In this @Nature article, Mahon et al. investigated the impact of global change drivers on infectious diseases.

Biodiversity loss, chemical pollution, climate change, and introduced species increase disease-related harm, while urbanization reduces it: https://t.co/pjxYCw3Och

[Michael Mahon, PhD @GlobalWorming19]

Day 1 of @USGS Powell Center working group in the books! (Re)introductions and lots of great discussions!

[Michael Mahon, PhD @GlobalWorming19]

Our global meta-analysis on environmental drivers of infectious disease came out this week. Excited to share this work! It was a big team effort! Coauthors included, but not limited to @rumschsl @drjerbs @fletch_halliday @alexiskorotasz @SarahKnutie

[nature @Nature]

Nature research paper: A meta-analysis on global change drivers and the risk of infectious disease https://t.co/Rc5dDJBaiO

[Guardian Science @guardianscience]

Biodiversity loss is biggest driver of infectious disease outbreaks, says study https://t.co/1pskDeOHf6

[Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum. @diarmidcl.bsky.social @DiarmidCL]

New study in Nature confirms that if we want to avoid the next pandemic - we should stop destroying biodiversity, heating and polluting the planet. Just one more reason to go for a greener, healthier future.

https://t.co/VUQd2SROB9

https://t.co/DY8kUpYrP8

[Michael Mahon, PhD @GlobalWorming19]

@AaronGleeman Should we call the sausage recipient a wiener winner?

[Michael Mahon, PhD @GlobalWorming19]

@MattAshton81 Other indicators as in algae and water quality? Algae, no, because of difficulties in harmonizing their taxonomy. Water quality harmonization can be done with the “TADA” package (https://t.co/E5t5mvozIY).

Our focus was providing cleaned and ready to use community matrices.

[Michael Mahon, PhD @GlobalWorming19]

Working with US federal stream fish and invertebrate data just got easier! finsyncR (fish and invertebrate synchronizer in R) was made public yesterday! The package generates datasets covering 27 years and 8000+ sites, with consistent sampling methods. https://t.co/fgs6MRNu1I

[Michael Mahon, PhD @GlobalWorming19]

This package has been a labor of love over the past 3 years. Grateful for my collaborators and coauthors on the package: @rumschsl, @doctorjonesie, @ryan_hill29, and Twitterless Ethan, Stefan, and Terry.

[Michael Mahon, PhD @GlobalWorming19]

We have extensive package and function documentation and vignettes to ensure ease of use. Please reach out if you have any questions!

[Michael Mahon, PhD @GlobalWorming19]

Manuscript with detailed workflows, data-based decisions, etc. is just about ready for submission and is available upon request.