David Heit

I'm awaiting funding decisions but anticipate recruiting a PhD student for fall 2025 If ur @ #TWS2024, have interests & skills that align w/our lab, & want 2 talk, pls get in touch or stop by the poster session where I'll present on coyote work done w/@RolandKays & #SnapshotUSA

New Paper - @DavidRHeit's 2nd MS chapter is out! A review + mammal & bird case studies exploring nonlinearity in GLMs GLMs are "nonlinear" on the natural scale yet entail a linearity assumption, which can be confusing Read more (open access): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

@CaldwellAliya I have a small list from a class paper I did, I can email them to you!

good papers on queerness in nature (homosexual behavior, sexual diversity, etc)??????? drop em please:

Future modeling frameworks may be wise to consider not only individual-level selection coefficients, but also individual-level scales of effect.

New paper out in Landscape Ecology: The spatial scaling and individuality of habitat selection in a widespread ungulate 🦌 We found that selection coefficients varied widely, not only by spatial scale, but also by individual. doi.org/10.1007/s10980…

Of the suite of potential intrinsic and extrinsic factors we tested, study area, home range size, and % of forest cover w/in a home range predicted scale of effect for an individual.

We fit iSSFs to white-tailed deer at 65 spatial scales, and found that >57% of the time coefficients were both positive or negative, depending on the scale.

At #ESA2022? Interested in spatial ecology or modeling or resource selection or ungulates? Come check out @DavidRHeit's cool work on the spatial scaling of habitat selection today at 4:30pm in room 515A! [session COS 114 - Modeling 4]

Being inclusive doesn't guarantee we're being welcoming. We need to do more to make our campuses be both. I'm very proud of our Grad student recipients of the Kidder award and of Stonewall Grads for being recognized for their efforts. #thisisunh @UNH_GradSchool

Lions didn't beat orcas, orcas beat orcas #2022MMM

@biologistimo Hierarchical. Especially now that my research may involve hierarchical models.

What’s the hardest word for you to say aloud? Mine is anonymity. I can’t say that shit to save my life.

My webinar on Animal Movement Analysis in R is now available on Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=WELTpb…. Includes: • brief introduction to HMMs for animal movement; • discussion of some common challenges; • example analysis using momentuHMM on elephant data (feat. crawl/foieGras).

@LightcaPhD It's usually a lot of pets, but then someone has a really cool one and you think "Rats, should've thought of something better" haha

@DavidRHeit In my first seminar this semester everyone just talked about having a pet as a fun fact...which is what I'll use from now on. Why do fun facts have to be extreme like "I go skydiving" instead of "I got out of bed on time today" lmao.

You would think after probably 45 first-days of school that I would have established a go-to 'fun fact' for ice breakers

Pending final funding, I anticipate recruiting an MS student this fall to model moose populations using camera traps & drones in NH w/me & @UNH_SAD_rs Looking for stds excited for fieldwork, population modeling, & beautiful mountain scenery More info: mypages.unh.edu/moll-lab/oppor…

@abigailthiemkey Wow, theres just so much to unpack in that post

How does one even respond to this… was posted in my small town Facebook group. There are a lot of things wrong here 🙃

Feels strange watching these from across the country, but what a game!!! 💚💚

@cydneymandrew Congratulations, that's amazing!!!!!!

I have passed my thesis defense and have earned my master's in Fisheries and Wildlife with a certification in Gender, Justice, and Environmental Change. 🎉

Looking for a grad opportunity? I have a couple openings for students to work on soil nitrogen. Below is one of the positions, this one in agricultural nitrogen use efficiency. Description and instructions for those interested below. @seritafrey @daly_ab

The U.S. Department of Interior announced Wednesday the restoration of more than 18,800 acres of land, known as the National Bison Range, so it can be returned to Indigenous tribes in Montana. lakota.law/2SZeLJa