I became a wildlife ecologist because I wanted to use my expertise and credibility to talk about nature in the media without having to shy away from identity and the politics that often come along with it. Thank you to the Seasons 2 & 3 guests. Congrats @PBSNature ๐
I am an experienced field biologist and/or dog trainer. Will I still benefit from the course? YES! We have designed this course to help novices, veteran SAR handlers, and experienced ecologists understand the nuances of working with conservation dogs. (10/x)
Pic: @RaeWynnGrant
With my mother. Daddyโs funeral.
He wasnโt assassinated because he wanted his children to be judged โby the content of their character.โ
But for dismantling racism, poverty & militarism.
He wanted corrective measures to eradicate racism, not the delusion that it doesnโt exist.
This bear paced the border wall for three hours in distress. Cut off from millennia-old pathways that connect mountains and streams and springs and bears to life itself. This is the now-gone wild world. The freedom to roam is severed. Life is walled.
Let's talk about #periods while doing #fieldwork. How do you handle them? Tampons and ziploc bags? Menstrual cups? Period panties? Suppressing them? My inquiring mind wants to know...
Breaking the menstruation taboo to make fieldwork more inclusive https://t.co/fHHsj86Aty
According to the latest CDC COVID-19 wastewater data, we are currently in the second-biggest surge of the pandemic.
It will peak in the next week, with ~2 million infections per day. During this surge, ~100 million people total (~1 in 3 people in the US) will likely get COVID.
Berkeley Wildlife is hiring 2-3 postdocs to help with CA wolf recovery research. Looking for folks interested in (a) managing a field campaign, (b) analyzing wolf movement data, and/or (c) investigating social dimensions of wolf-livestock interactions. https://t.co/sNIjZBozRC
In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, we are spotlighting 15 Black environmental leaders who are shaping many of today's most important conversations about #EnvironmentalJustice and driving cutting-edge research into ecosystems, planetary science, wildlife, and more. A thread: ๐งต