Moving our Lab over to #BlueSky! Come join the growing #HumanDimensions and #ConSocSci community! https://t.co/cSY7PgkIzC

If anyone's left here, we're hiring: TT Asst. Prof. of Nat. Resource & Water Policy! Please email w/?s eg if the description fits you. Check out the position & apply here: https://t.co/cxjTXzVS9P #HumanDimensions #Conservation #Sustainability #Environment #ConSocSci #SocEcoSys

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Reality is often distorted through the lens of identity.

"Scientific management" doesn't mean what you think it means. Values are orthogonal to knowledge. What 'is' does not tell us what 'ought' to be. https://t.co/7gWAvXbBMC

How NOT to keep people away from a bear on campus: "ALERT: There is a bear by the library RIGHT NOW! Please don't go see it."

One of my first #HumanDimensions of wildlife students is out there getting it done! https://t.co/ZhlEy32KtW

“When a passenger attempts to board the plane early with the wrong group, the new system will give an “audible signal” to the gate agent, according to the airline.” https://t.co/0eAxw4FINR

Famous grizzly bear, 399, was fatally struck by a vehicle in Snake River Canyon, south of Jackson, WY on Oct. 22, 2024. The bear's identity was confirmed through ear tags & a microchip. We are working with state & local agencies to gather more information. https://t.co/if6cF42fDx

Still some time to apply for this postdoc position working with me to advance our knowledge of what makes protected areas work

Our lab is looking for a postdoc to do NSF-funded research at the intersection of #UrbanEcology, #SocialJustice, citizen/community science, and spatial statistics. Remote and in person options available. Please share widely! https://t.co/ewIz9bpK4D

📢I am recruiting a PhD student in applied quantitative ecology .@FCFCMontana .@umontana to work on large mammal monitoring. More information: https://t.co/i9VGQnWuVV

These findings open our eyes to important ways social relationships drive people's behaviors that can prevent or respond to environmental change! Huge congrats to @HollyNesbitt!! and our @NSF team @FCFCMontana @umontana and @UNLincoln 10/10

Holly's results showed that although risk perceptions of woody encroachment were high, they were not associated with more Rx fire. Info deficit debunked again! Instead, producers relied on certain types of networks to gain social support needed to burn land safely! 9/

Producers can adapt to these changes by mechanically removing trees, or they can attempt a transformation back to grassland through widespread use of prescribed fire. But Rx fire is rare due to institutional, resource, and social/cognitive constraints 8/

Here, the grassland biome is shifting to a woodland, particularly dominated by juniper, because of fire exclusion, land use change, and climate change. 7/

To answer this question (and others), Holly combined social network data and remotely sensed ecological data along a transect of vegetation transition in Nebraska, the heart of the US Great Plains Biome. 6/

We were curious how these social network characteristics might help explain adaptive and transformative behaviors in a social-ecological system undergoing widespread change. Would networks matter at all, less than or more than perceptions of the change/threat? 5/

Social networks have different characteristics that can relate to their resilience in unique ways. Even in a large network people may only connect to the same type of people, whereas others may have connections who are different from themselves and from each other! 4/

Enter the Ego Network! Instead of mapping an entire open network (challenging if not impossible), Holly employed an ego-network approach that seeks to understand connections and relationships from each actor's perspective. 3/