Brian S. Arbogast

I am a mammalogist, biogeographer & conservation biologist at UNC Wilmington, NC USA & Assistant Director of Wildsumaco Biological Station, Ecuador.

[Susan Simpson @TheViewFromLL2]

Updated map of places where a toboggan is a hat (and may or may not also be a sled). The smudges are the hat-disputed territories.

New Mexico, Kansas, and Michigan: watch out. It's coming for you. Be like Louisiana and Illinois and resist.

[Brian S. Arbogast @bsarbogast]

#asmboulder

[E. Claire Watersmith @ecwatersmith]

If you want to hear about the lovely woodland jumping mouse and are at #ASMBoulder, stop by my talk tomorrow at 11 AM to hear about their population genetic structure in the southern Appalachians!

[Brian S. Arbogast @bsarbogast]

@Nature_Darling Very sorry that happened to you, but you have the right attitude! Sometimes things are out of your control and you just have to roll with them. Tech gremlins get us all sooner or later!

[Sharlene Santana @SESantanaM]

🚨New paper alert🚨 – We demonstrate how phyllostomid bats radiated via an early burst, a pattern that is only apparent in traits linked to diet:
The hierarchical radiation of phyllostomid bats as revealed by adaptive molar morphology
https://t.co/OlStKHqT7a
@CurrentBiology

[Brian S. Arbogast @bsarbogast]

Link to Commentary: https://t.co/4W2LB0II3l

[Brian S. Arbogast @bsarbogast]

Desert Dugongs and Grunge Marmots: When Range Maps go Wrong
Roll out thousands of digital range maps for mammals on an easily accessible web platform and refer to them as “expert maps,” but don’t actually vet the maps, so that many are of poor quality and not “expert” at all.

[Jennifer K. Frey @JenniferKFrey]

I am seeking a PhD student to investigate Habitat, Connectivity, and Climate Resilience of Conifer Forest Carnivores and Key Prey in the Southern Rocky Mountains of northern New Mexico. With @wildlandsnetwrk
Come Join Us!
https://t.co/GOYZrrgZsh

[UNCW Biology & Marine Biology Department @UNCW_BaMB]

Have you heard about the WildSumaco Biological Station in Ecuador - a partnership between UNC Wilmington, Francis Marion University, and the Wildsumaco Wildlife Sanctuary?

The Assistant Director is our very own, Dr. @bsarbogast

Check it out here
https://t.co/KQvYBqVRTr

[UNCW Biology & Marine Biology Department @UNCW_BaMB]

Congratulations to our grad students, Alex DeLuca & Claire Watersmith!🎉They have each been awarded a grant from the American Society of Mammalogists👏It will be put towards their research on the conservation genetics of small mammals of the spruce-fir sky islands (Appalachians)

[Brian S. Arbogast @bsarbogast]

@gabbspalomo That’s a tough call. Teaching Workshops etc. cant hurt and they might help quite a bit at institutions that value teaching. At UNC Wilmington (R2 University) we would look o favorably on it. Pubs are still important, but we still value quality teaching.

[Brian S. Arbogast @bsarbogast]

Commentary on problems with range maps for mammals on the Map of Life. Note the example for the Olympic Marmot below. Take-home point: maps from MoL should be vetted carefully before being used.

https://t.co/4W2LB0II3l

[Brian S. Arbogast @bsarbogast]

Also read Resonse by Marsh et al.

Response to Arbogast and Kerhoulas
Charles J Marsh, Yanina V Sica, Nathan S Upham, Walter Jetz
Journal of Mammalogy, gyae019, https://t.co/5PgE5W5on8

[Roland Kays @RolandKays]

Like working with camera trap pictures and data? join the #SnapshotUSA team this year Aug-Feb @NationalZoo in Front Royal VA

[Roland Kays @RolandKays]

Love me some arboreal camera trapping videos!

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Flying squirrels taking off
https://t.co/LziHIQjEJv

[Brian S. Arbogast @bsarbogast]

@RolandKays @treeshrew13 Thanks, Roland!

[Brian S. Arbogast @bsarbogast]

@rojeda_ricardo @treeshrew13 Thank you!

[Jessica Light @je_light]

Congratulations @bsarbogast, recipient of the 2023 Grinnell Award. Whoo-hoo!!! #imc13

[melissa hawkins @treeshrew13]

We are about content not flare here, congrats to @bsarbogast so will deserved! We miss you in Anchorage! #IMC13