Among the many things as Chair, I've been working on celebrating our awesome faculty, staff, and students at @sandiegostate.bsky.social Biology in newsletters. Here're volumes 1 and 2, featuring the labs of @doc-brock.bsky.social and Gretchen Goodbody, the Director of our Coastal & Marine Institute!

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And here is a GitHub repo where we hope to keep minimally working examples up to date! github.com/Global-Ecolo... #iNaturalist #CommunityScience #Biodiversity #Ecology #BiodiversityData

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Do you use #iNaturalist data in research—or advise students who do? We put together a practical guide to using iNaturalist data in scientific research, covering how to access, acquire, analyze, and attribute the data, with examples in R and Python. Paper: doi.org/10.1093/bios... #ecology

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In the Brock lab, we don’t believe in zero days! Lab postdoc Dr Hayley Crowell snags a gopher snake on the sidewalk after 2 1/2 hours of searching Juniper Canyon. 🐍

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In honor of the upcoming #FatBearWeek, here are a few photos of PhD students @hconwell.bsky.social and Max Zeltsar sampling ~150 historic brown bear specimens at the Smithsonian with our collaborator Michael Campana! 🐻 this was an incredible sampling effort and we can’t wait to share what we find🕵️‍♀️ 🧬

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