🌲 We're hiring a postdoc! Join the Future Forests Excellence Cluster at Uni Freiburg to uncover the molecular basis of stress resilience in forest trees. Work with Douglas fir & sessile oak using epigenomics, RNA-seq, and more. 3-year position, TV-L 13. Apply now! 🧬🌿 uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

Hi #dendrometer community! 🌳 The #GlobalDendrometerNetwork website is live: globaldendro.org 📣Join our meeting on 29 May, 10:00 CEST to discuss the global metadata call, website & updates. 📧No invite but want to attend? ☎️Get in touch! @globaldendro.bsky.social #forestmonitoring

This is so true www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Another round of TLS scanning. Next step: combining crown traits with dendrometer signals ☝🏼

🌍 The Global Dendrometer Network is coming to EGU! Join our splinter meeting: 🗓️ May 5 | ⏰ 16:15–18:00 📍 Room 2.61 (SPM40) ✨ Network launch 🌱 Talks 🤝 Meet dendro people from around the world 👉 Sign up: forms.gle/kyAUzFgqW4Mk... (+ dinner after!) All welcome—spread the word! #EGU26 #Dendrometers

Increasing risks of post-experimental ecology Mentally filling this under "papers I wish I'd written" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”

These changes to the USFS, the loss of the regional offices and excellent long-term scientific research, will be devastating. I hope it can be stopped.

Sad but probably true. I feel for the colleagues in the U.S. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New paper out in Journal of Ecology! How do wood-inhabiting fungi recover after disturbance in boreal forests? We compared 2 chronosequences: 🔥 unmanaged fire (4–375 yrs) 🪓 managed clear-cut (1–109 yrs) Very different diversity trajectories! 👇 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Postdoctoral position in Forest Genetics at @uni-freiburg.de with a focus on local adaptation and/or stress reaction of trees. The position combines research and teaching (4 SWS), and offers the opportunity to develop an independent research profile (4+ years).

You gotta love these patterns! Grateful to the WSL for hosting me while I analyze my European beech samples from last year’s climate-chamber experiment 🌳 We exposed trees to contrasting VPD treatments (hot vs. dry air), and wood anatomy is a key feature. So stoked!

The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...

Great postdoc opportunity in Sweden!! With the one and only David Wardle 🧪🌐 www.umu.se/en/work-with...

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🌲 🌳 🌍 📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration? 💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models? 🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town? Come and join us at KIT! Application details: t1p.de/qctj7

Some researchers are now studying ecology without touching a single plant go.nature.com/3NaS1Bs

Season's greetings from all of us at New Phytologist and The New Phytologist Foundation!

Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.

Fieldwork flashback from the Kamniška Alps 🇸🇮 Fire-scarred black pines (Pinus nigra), some over 400 years old. Fire has been a frequent and long-standing process in these forests over the past centuries.

Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...

Finally out in @natcomms.nature.com ! Drawing on one of the world’s oldest forest research trials, we found that trees growing faster also accumulate more somatic epimutations, supporting the idea that longevity and slow growth help preserve genomic fidelity. 🌳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Currently analyzing QSM models of declining beech trees in northern Bavaria. Despite more favorable conditions in recent years, many continue to deteriorate due to the long-term impacts of severe drought stress. Fascinating to see how the structure reveals their struggle.

The next phase of mushroom season has officially begun here in Bavaria 🍄

We've launched our first large dendrometer monitoring sites as part of WestWARD! 🌲Excited to gain deeper insights into forest dynamics under climate stress - with 80+ dendrometers per site continuously tracking tree growth and water use. Learn more: www.lss.ls.tum.de/tgw/projects...