Mira Sytsma

Today, May 26 2020, will forever be remembered as the day that I discovered dholes. WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF DHOLES? TODAY IS THE BEST DAY! But also a sad day bc I wasted 28 years of my life NOT looking at pictures of dholes! Also absolutely pronouncing it "d-hole" in my head..

Novel research by @mirasytsma et al., investigates the impacts of contemporary glacial recession on the successional dynamics of terrestrial mammals. Read the full article in Journal of Animal Ecology: doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

Here, we showed that mammal communities increase in diversity over time, but these changes don't necessarily track changes in habitat. Body size/dispersal ability/landscape connectivity may also play key roles in shaping mammal communities post-disturbance.

The glacial recession that formed @GlacierBayNPS opened up new habitat for recolonization by plants and animals. But while studies of plant community succession are fundamental to ecology, post-disturbance successional patterns of wildlife communities remain poorly understood...

🚨new paper🚨 with @LauraPrugh and other amazing non-twitter co-authors! We investigated successional patterns of terrestrial mammals following the most rapid and extensive deglaciation event in the world since the Little Ice Age. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

How do surviving trees respond following severe #MountainPineBeetle outbreak? We explore this in our new paper out in #LandscEcol! 🌲🪲 Huge thanks to co-authors @JennaEMorris @michelle_agne MikeBattaglia @Brian_J_Harvey rdcu.be/c0iE8

New paper! 📢 The second chapter of my PhD was just published in @MethodsEcolEvol 🤯 @andyroyle_pwrc and I developed a multievent mark-recapture model that accounts for state assignment errors in both sampling and diagnostic protocols in disease models! 🧑‍🔬doi.org/10.1111/2041-2…

Check out the paper, here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Fan girling over the fact that Joel Berger has anything to say about our recent paper: "provides the first quantitative evidence, in my impression, on responses of species of wildlife when exposed to people in these low-density situations" #wildlife #conservation

#ParkScience update! Glacier Bay researchers find wildlife in National Parks can be impacted by even just a few people. University of Washington and Glacier Bay scientists studied wildlife with 40 motion-activated cameras across ten sites in Glacier Bay.

🚨new paper🚨 How much outdoor recreation is "too much" for wildlife? We found that nearly any level of human activity altered wildlife behavior in @GlacierBayNPS Excited to share this work and THANK YOU to @UW_SEFS co-authors @LauraPrugh @LabGardner besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Escaped the PNW heat wave by summitting the tallest hill I could find in Washington... An epic few days on Rainier🥰 #PNWheatwave #pnwheatwave2021 #MtRainier #MtTahoma #mountaineering

Just found out my dad has a twitter?? And GOOD JOB @SytsmaAnneliese!!! You're the best sister and doctor ever!

@oldenoughtosay Crow is..... special

#SocialDistancing #patiodesign

@SytsmaAnneliese 😂😂😂

RT my year-old tweet to give props to my parents who were doing social-distancing patio design before it was a thing @mirasytsma

Educators of all kinds pls help! What is the best platform for building courses online?? I want to transform an in-person, multi-day polio surveillance training into an online course My team, @WHO, the @gatesfoundation & the future of polio eradication need your input 🙏

Huge news out of Alberta. A new $7M wildlife overpass will help to keep people and wildlife safe in the Rockies. rmotoday.com/canmore/wildli…

@morss_alex @PvtJoeker This🙌 after finishing grad school and getting offers for several different full time positions in wildlife ecology that only paid minimum wage (with no benefits) I left the field🤷‍♀️

In the spirit of Halloween I wanted to remind everyone what the scariest photo on the internet is 😱