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We're looking for a postdoc to join our group working on long-term dynamics of wading bird colonies in the Everglades with a focus on either cross-scale drivers of wading bird breeding activity and success or automated drone-based monitoring of nest success using aerial imagery and computer vision.

https://doi.org/10.59350/n0a60-3bn11

Weecology is hiring a postdoc! Do you or someone you know love wading birds, spatiotemporal data, or using remote imagery to monitor nature? If the answer to any of those is yes, then check out our ad, this might be a good fit!

https://jabberwocky.weecology.org/2026/04/15/postdoc-job-ad-wading-bird-ecology-in-the-everglades/

Portal Regime Shift Update: How bad can it get?

A new update on the regime shift at our long-term study site from
@skmorgane@mastodon.social

"...shows our kangaroo rats losing their battle with the forces of dryness, but if you squint real hard you might be able to see them pushing themselves back up. Maybe."

https://doi.org/10.59350/4y0w5-cqa22

Portal Regime Shift Update: How bad can it get?

Well, 2025 was a wild ride. The lack of updates on the potential regime shift at Portal isn’t because it fizzled, but because . And Portal was not immune to . Maybe I’ll write a separate blogpost on our months-long side quest investigating whether the site had been stealth-bombed with herbicide (evidence so far indicates we escaped but others were not so lucky), but today is about rodents and change.

https://jabberwocky.weecology.org/2026/01/26/portal-regime-shift-update-how-bad-can-it-get/

DeepForest 2.0!

It is with great excitement that we release DeepForest 2.0! This is the first major release since the project took shape in its current form. The codebase has been updated to match modern machine learning workflows, including better command line tools, configurations and package management. These improvements will help users scale research projects quickly, test out new ideas and make their work more reproducible and long-lasting.

https://jabberwocky.weecology.org/2025/11/04/deepforest-2-0/

New update on the regime shift at our long-term study site. With a little levity thanks to
@skmorgane@mastodon.social

"No species was safe, and populations began to drop like characters in a George R.R. Martin book. Only kangaroo rats... were making a valiant stand against the forces of dryness"

https://doi.org/10.59350/edw4y-e0370

Regime Shift: A Winter of Grim

Every episode in a tv series starts with a recap. So... Previously, on Portal: the Regime Shift -- In fall of 2024, one of the ruling families of Portal -- the Desert Pocket Mouse (Chaetodipus penicillatus for my mammalogy friends) -- fell from favor with no warning. With each passing month, hopes for a recovery faltered and then…

https://jabberwocky.weecology.org/2025/03/12/regime-shift-a-winter-of-grim/

Regime Shift Status: Ongoing?

When last we left our rodent community at Portal, things were still...weird. Recap: In fall of 2023, one of our most abundant species, Chaetodipus penicillatus (Desert pocket mouse), experienced a population crash right before their seasonal torpor for the winter. Had they hibernated early or had we really lost individuals? We could only wait and see what happened in the spring.

https://jabberwocky.weecology.org/2024/12/02/regime-shift-status-ongoing/

Interested in using computer vision to help understand, manage, and conserve nature? We looking for someone to join our team to work on models, software, and community outreach in projects using airborne imagery to monitor and understand nature at scale.

https://jabberwocky.weecology.org/2024/11/14/were-hiring-a-computer-vision-developer/

Unlike other social media platforms Mastodon isn't funded by ads and venture capital. As a result it currently costs $139/month to run the https://ecoevo.social/ server.

If you're enjoying https://ecoevo.social/ and can afford to support the server please consider joining us in donating here:

https://opencollective.com/ecoevosocial

PhD Student Opening: Small Mammal Community Dynamics

Interested in understanding how ecological systems change through time? Morgan Ernest’s Lab at the University of Florida has an opening for a PhD student to start Fall 2025. The new student will work with our long-term field site in Portal, Arizona to study biodiversity dynamics of mammals and plants to understand and predict changes in species abundances and biodiversity in response to changing climate and biotic…

https://jabberwocky.weecology.org/2024/10/02/phd-student-opening-small-mammal-community-dynamics/

Things we(ecology) like(s) 2

* (Blog post) MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier by @pluralistic@mamot.fr

* (Blog Post) State-Space Vector Autoregressions in mvgam by Nick Clark

* (Software) neonutilities by @dr_lunch@ecoevo.social & the NEON Data Science team

https://jabberwocky.weecology.org/2024/09/30/things-weecology-likes-2/