Mike Alonzo

@2aspirins Listening now. Good stuff!

Fall vibes on my latest mix: on.soundcloud.com/gfsWxB4FxVGYTV…

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We argue that inclusion of diverse species and plant functional type mixes in moderate resolution analyses have led to some overstatement of the impact of urban heat on the timing of start and end of season.

For all you urban ecosystem or forest phenology folks still hangin' on the twitter, check out our new article using near-daily PlanetScope images in DC to monitor individual tree phenology. authors.elsevier.com/a/1h0FNB8ccyXGD

@doctorjackpine @Matthew_Fagan @lauraduncanson

Any drone researchers out there have access to (or know someone who has access to) a non-DJI drone that can fly a light hyperspectral camera? We're partnering with NASA for flights this summer but can't fly with a Chinese drone... 🤦‍♂️

I am hiring a lab manager together with twitterless Marcio Nunes. Long-term position with competitively salary and full benefits. Appliation is due on Jan 30. explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/5244…

@doctorjackpine Makes me sad. I was a longtime enthusiast. Now I gotta figure out how to battle Frontier re: a $326 single carryon bag charge. But I didn't pay for the right to speak with them...

@davebinnig Is your problem with "Barbie McMansion" or with the move towards following instructions vs. free build? Bothers me a bit that creativity is lower and the sets come with hyperspecialized pieces, limiting reuse.

@grantdmckenzie That is quite a shift at the Master's level. But I guess MA/MS programs don't really need an "intellectual core". They just need to promise you riches.

Some interesting data points. aag.org/the-state-of-g…

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@grantdmckenzie Genius. Or as they say in Germany, "genius". Which, translates back to english as, "genius".

@malonzo47 Just translate the entire document to German and then back to English. Problem solved.

I'm writing a "brief lit review" for a proposal. It has maybe 90% content overlap with the background section of an article for which I was first author. It would be REALLY silly to rewrite this from scratch. Can I just say: "lightly adapted from Alonzo, 2021"? #AcademicTwitter

@NotherEcologist Sounds like more than the zero work I wanted to do here...😁

@malonzo47 I would write the background in brief or summarize it, then write see Alonzo 2021 for detail background.

@CaraSteger Sounds like a bunch of BS to me. This is just the sad state of reviewing these days.

Is it ethical to reject a manuscript based on such a biased review?

We just received a single review for a paper that says our work (interdisciplinary conservation science) is "better suited to a humanities journal". The other major flaw they cited was that they are personally skeptical of the guiding concept we used. @AcademicChatter

@NinjaRv1 Cool. Should I be surprised by how little spatial clustering there appears to be (other than along the border in blue)? Like, how are panhandle neighboring counties so rarely similar?

I learned this morning my vaccine poster placed third in the URISA Texas student poster competition as well as crowd favorite. It's like I told my advisor: Ugly posters CAN win competitions!