Northern Kenya: grandparents queue for food at schools, many people are now eating just twice a week, millions of herders have lost their livestock Nairobi:

Somehow pulled myself up and out of the deep dissertation-writing-rock that I've been living under this semester -- looking forward to connecting with those attending!

This picture is a testament to the rigour and interest on the problem of human-wildlife conflict and co-existence. It has been a warm confluence of cultures, identities, perspectives from all over the globe, that was able to build incredible consensus so quickly. #HWCC2023

As someone who is utterly un-creative when it comes to thinking about journals to submit to, is there just… one giant spreadsheet for ecological journals somewhere? 😬

New preprint out today! We comment on the importance of considering ecological and social contexts when rewilding for C storage. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vie… Mary Burak Dr Kaggie Orrick @NathalieRSommer @Diego_EllisSoto Schmitz Lab

Starting TODAY, I'm recruiting undergrads, grads, and post-docs to my 🎉 new 🎉 lab at UF Department of Biology!! Interested in how microbiomes influence animal or environmental functioning and how they affect one another and biogeochemical cycles? Reach out! I'll have paid postings soon. 🙏

The @wildlifeevoeco lab is looking to recruit a cohort of up to four students at either the PhD or MSc level… Come work with us Memorial University!!! Pls RT! weel.gitlab.io/static/docs/WE…

Hey, that's me! Very excited to have my first first-author paper published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution! This paper is based on my MS thesis work on spatial drivers of anticoagulant rodenticide exposure in Northeastern forest carnivores at SUNY ESF Jacqui Frair

How can conservationists rewild the carbon cycle? 📣🌳🔄 This paper provides considerations to design and monitor such programs, and to weigh social-ecological trade-offs. Mary Burak @kristyferraro @kagglerock @diego_ellissoto @nathaliersommer Schmitz Lab doi.org/10.1002/pan3.1…

📢Applications are still open for these graduate positions on large mammal monitoring in Montana!

We published a short article on The Conversation, connected to our giraffe study which came out earlier this year. The article deals with species concepts, giraffes, and why all of this is a bit of a mess. theconversation.com/how-many-giraf…