Ecologist, “socially maligned, known hater of birds and birding”, etc: https://gavinmjones.com
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Dani Owens successfully defended her MSc thesis yesterday on American pika population change in Glacier NP (eep!) Crushed it 🔥 Dani will be starting her PhD at U Iowa in my lab in the fall, continuing her work on pikas. She’s kind, driven, and whip-smart. Possibly born above the tree line. So proud!
There’s live music in the airport and I can’t tell you how much I do not want live music in the airport
Went to watch the giants play the brewers tonight in Milwaukee
Airport is overstimulating enough smh
Dani Owens, my first (!) graduate student (co-advised w/ @mhurteau.bsky.social) is defending her MSc thesis on June 9. Dani’s work on pikas in Glacier National Park has been impressive in so many ways. Come see what she has been up to, and what comes next!
recruiting a couple new grad students to start in january, please share! www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities
Closing on the sale of our house in Albuquerque this morning and it’s literally at the Hamlin Hamlin and McGill law office from better call Saul
Fun fact: Mendel originally planned to breed mice but the abbot at his monastery took offense at the idea of a priest having anything to do with sex, so Mendel switched to peas. Mendel was grateful that "the bishop did not understand that plants also have sex.”
Yesterday Dani Owen’s successfully defended her thesis on Pika in Glacier NP, advised by @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social and then we celebrated. She knocked it out of the park!
The Department of Biology at the University of Iowa is hiring an evolutionary ecologist at the assistant professor level for fall 2027. Come and be my colleague!
jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...
