Took me way too long to realize that its super easy to just merge pdfs in R rather than fussing with Adobe #rstats library(pdftools) pdf_combine( input = c("file1.pdf", "file2.pdf"), output = "merged.pdf" )

Fast-growing trees are set to dominate the #forests of the #future — but at a cost🌳 Our Nature Plants (@natplants.nature.com) study shows a global shift toward "sprinter" tree species, while slow-growing, functionally critical #trees face elevated #extinction risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Species shift their ranges in response to climate change, but many can't keep up. The resulting "community-climate disequilibrium" can impair ecosystem function and cause counterintuitive dynamics, like short-term gain but long-term loss onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌍 Need support to attend #IAVS2026? Funding for registration, accommodation, and transportation is available through the IAVS. 🌿 🗓️ Applications open: 1 Dec 2025 – 31 Jan 2026 🔗 For more info: 2026gijon.iavs-meetings.org/registration/ #IAVS2026 #VegetationEcology #TravelGrant

Postdoctoral Researcher – CNRS, France Full-time postdoc in Environmental Sciences, Nanopesticides & Sustainable Agriculture Eligibility: PhD Deadline: 4 February 2026 Apply: higherjobz.com/postdoctoral... #AcademicJobs #EnvironmentalScience #PostdocFrance @cnrs.fr

You can specify relative position in ggplot with I(x) I(y). E.g. annotate("text", x = I(.5), y = I(.5), label = "hello!") will place the text in the middle of the plot. This, combined with alignment arguments is like 87% of the magic for me.

Fully Funded PhD in Anthropology, History & Sociology – University of Jyväskylä, Finland. PhD role in Sustainable Rural Futures, combining anthropology, history & sociology research. Deadline: 15 Feb 2026. Apply: higherjobz.com/fully-funded... #AcademicJobs #PhDJobs #AnthropologyJobs #HistoryJobs

Plant traits matter in fire ecology! "On average, deciduous forests lose less than half as much carbon to wildfire combustion as conifer forests per unit burned area" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Alongside the residencies, several events are already planned this year: - Summer School – Unifying Mathematical Models of Biodiversity, July 5–11 intp.science/en/summer26.... - Interdisciplinary Science School, Sept 7–12 - Autumn School - Syntheses in Theoretical Community Ecology, Oct 12–17 🌐🧪🌍

Nice paper by Demarest et al examining effects of thinning treatments ponderosa pine forests in the Colorado Front Range esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

More information, apply: https://recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/3344/Description/2 #ecoevojobs #ecology ornithology #jobs #xp [7/7]

We paired #microclimate with #LiDAR to create 5m resolution temperature grids for the #BohemianForestEcosystem (NP Šumava and NP Bavarian Forest)🍁 Beside large microclimatic variability, our data reveals also systematic differences from #SoilTemp, #ForestTemp and #ERA5-Land doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Announcement: I will start as an assistant professor of ecohydrology at the University of Oulu starting from January. Snow, microclimate and Arctic-alpine ecosystems still on focus. Stay tuned for soon-to-be-opened Postdoc and PhD positions! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

There is a very cool postdoc position in the EnvStat group supervised by Elina Numminen. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Come work with us in beautiful Santa Barbara!

Postdoc in statistical ecology & evolution! Develop models bridging evolutionary theory with empirical data on sex differences in immunity and life history. Apply now! #postdoc #statistics #evolution #academicjobs #ecology jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Climate change has already reshaped the bioclimatic space of extreme events in the Arctic 🌐❄️ Arctic biodiversity has entered a new era of bioclimatic extremes w/ more droughts, greater winter-warming 📈 & more rain-on-snow events 💧❄️ shorturl.at/pQsVP Just published in Science Advances ⬇️

Sometimes you gotta just sit in the office all day listening to the same song on repeat

"I look great, and I’m feeling good. I know Kate Moss said, 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels,' but I bet she’s never eaten five-day-old Papa John’s crust after not getting out of bed for three full months." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-l...

Research Scientist position at the Cornell Biological Field Station: exciting opportunity for an aquatic ecologist/fisheries scientist to work with a 50+ year time series of fish and limnology data on Oneida Lake $90-95K/yr academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31352

I have a postdoc position in metagenomic exploration available in my group. Candidates with documented experience in phylo & metagenomics and preferably with petabase-scale data mining and GLM workflows are encouraged to apply. Come join us! 🧬🦠💻 Please repost Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

Our new MS on post-fire seeding is out! It turns out post-fire seeding at higher rates than typically used, and over multiple years gives a much greater chance of seeing success in dryland areas. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Shouldn't Maduro be immune to prosecution since all those charges are official acts while he was president? Or would that be breaking K-fabe?

Please RT: we are looking for a PhD student to work on macrogenetics and quantitative genetics of South African proteas. Amazing collaborative project with @plantecology.bsky.social @debbiemleigh.bsky.social & others, embedded in @terra-cluster.org. Dream project if you love molecular biodiversity!

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

New research: Being car-dependent is so awful that some people who drive everywhere still support restricting cars in urban areas. "Dissatisfaction with car-based mobility can foster openness to change – even among those most dependent on cars." doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

The pre-history of Borneo is poorly known. Archaeological evidence of ancient human presence on all sides make it almost certain that people went through Borneo. Perez-Cardenez et al. (2025) piece together the fragmentary evidence 🌏🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Interested in working on the theory of and concepts behind multiple factor impacts on ecological systems and beyond? Please send expressions of interest. Starting Jan 2026, I would be awarding up to three postdoctoral fellowships on this topic (12 months; 2,5K €) to drive progress on this topic.

Led by Adam Hanbury-Brown, we found that Sierra Nevada dry conifer forests will become carbon sources and shift to oak-dominated forests under 2.5 °C warming by the late 21st century, regardless of management. Uncertainty remains due to limited data for constraining key model parameters is.gd/dm9aPu

Just saw this new paper by Tang et al. out of NCAR :/... Excited to check it out! Emissions from burned structures in wildfires as significant yet unaccounted sources of US air pollution doi.org/10.1038/s414...

‪It has a name now 😜 Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed. ✅ zenodo.org/records/1808... ✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/

Christmas colors are not colorblind-friendly.

Just in case you need a palette cleanser from that video with the ice agents stealing that guy and stealing the food he bought for his family on Xmas Eve...

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Some consider the lack of weakening of the currents between Atlantic and Nordic Seas an argument against an ongoing #AMOC weakening. Here we show why the opposite is true: AMOC weakening causes a temporary increase in Nordic Seas overturning. 🌊 egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

So it turns out that @zotero.org now has an Android app. It works pretty good! Thanks!

New paper just dropped about sticks and carrots in climate policy: “Policy carrots alone do not dramatically reduce future emissions. Only with policy sticks are there unambiguous signals to substantially shrink the size of incumbent fossil fuel industries.”

"Bond’s work leaves behind an inconvenient lesson for an era of climate urgency: that speed is not a substitute for understanding, and that good intentions, applied without care, can erase ancient worlds as efficiently as neglect." A beautiful tribute to William Bond. Forever missed by many.

New research finds that marine environments with offshore wind turbines have higher levels of biodiversity and biomass. Turbines provide surfaces for barnacles, algae, and sea sponges, which can support an ecosystem. Things like this show we can design with nature, rather than against it. 🌎🧪🌐🏡

Rapid Global Deforestation Leaves Forest‐Dependent Raptors With Half of Their Suitable Habitat Remaining 📄 buff.ly/g0CHFXG

Telanthophora uspantanensis.

If you are in the US and you would like to send a message to your elected representative about the proposed dissolution of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, @agu.org makes it easy with a template here: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151... #AGU25

WATCH: If you really STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown & all the urban parts of your city, please watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes helped by #UrbanThree & @StrongTowns.org. And then please SHARE it as much as possible. youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI

Is dplyr the greatest R package ever made? Are there any other packages even in the discussion?

Agricultural soil carbon sequestration gets a lot of attention but let’s not forget that the best way to keep carbon in soils is to stop further expansion of agriculture into natural ecosystems. #WorldSoilDay

Wyethia scabra, our Whitestem Sunflower, blooming above Vermillion Falls #nativeplants #FallBackFlowers #FallBack to June 5 🌿

Trade secret: Put on some headphones, then don't listen to music. Carte blanche to ignore everyone and work in peace