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John P. Vanek, PhD Profile picture
@wild_ecology
Jul 23, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Look at this absolute chonker of a tiger salamander larave (aka sallywog) my awesome interns found! #UrbanEcology Image
Also, I understand that some people don't like the use of "my" to denote interns, students, etc. But "the interns I hired, trained, and supervise" seems too impersonal and clinical.
Open to suggestions.
I should also point out while technically an internship according to HR (who knows why) this is a full blown *paid* job with responsibility and 95% unsupervised work after training.

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@gabbspalomo is doing a great job highlighting the work of others, so I thought I'd return the favor #TWS2020

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*assuming it's your choice, isn't hurting your mental health, or you are neglecting other aspects of your life.

BUT, saying anything more than 40 hours a week is wasted time that you shouldn't need if you were better at time management is a slap in the face to many.
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It's 2020. What can @ssarherps do to get Herpetological Review, probably the most influential journal in our field, indexed on Google Scholar?
Yes, the Endnote library is super helpful and clearly took a ton of work. But that's a 1990s solution to a 2010 problem.
While I'm at it, can we please finally merge @HerpLeague and @ssarherps so we can differentiate the niches of Herpetologica and JHerp and avoid having to join two nearly identical organizations?
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Happy to announce our new paper "Anthropogenic factors influence the occupancy of an invasive carnivore in a suburban preserve system" is now out in Urban Ecosystems!

View it open-access (temporarily) here rdcu.be/b47dO or keep reading for highlights!

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We used camera trap data from a long-term (10 year) wildlife monitoring program to look at patterns of free-ranging domestic cat occupancy across a network of suburban nature preserves.

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Why cats? Well, domestic cats are one of the world's most damaging invasive species. They are responsible for excessive deaths, extirpation, and extinctions of many native species. They can even spread disease to marine mammals (via feces and runoff)!

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