New article! We went to Tucson for a few weeks back in 2019 and looked at some plants and took quite a few soil samples. We found that buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) invasion was associated with lower plant diversity, and soil carbon. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Is Charles de Gaulle the worst airport?

--Paper-- Fires of Unusual Size: Future of Extreme and Emerging Wildfire in a Warming United States (2020–2060) Disproportionate growth in maximum fire size suggests that changes in fire weather will amplify extreme events beyond increases in ignition frequency alone www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/9/...

60-yr long time series of changes in local environmental conditions across habitat types (forests, grasslands, shrublands & wetlands) using plant species ecological indicator values #EIVs to track back those changes: increase in N-demanding & shade-tolerant species ⬇️ shorturl.at/RAHGc

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Members of Apache tribe take sacred land case to Supreme Court. "For the Apaches, Oak Flat holds a direct connection to their creator, making it a foundational part of their religious beliefs. Oak Flat is also the [location] of a large copper deposit." www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

Getting early to the zoom meeting is great because when else during the day do you get time to practice making funny faces at the camera

🍁Funding for new PhD students ($40k/yr) & postdocs ($70k/yr) coming from outside Canada. Contact me if interested in #Ecophysiology at #UBC in #Vancouver! Possible topics: leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimate, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology, more! michaletzlab.org Please share!

iDiv and @uni-jena.de are recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in Trait-Based Community Ecology and Modelling. Highlights: 🔺Full-time (100%, 40 h/week) with the option to reduce to 80% 🔺Fixed-term for 2 years 🔺Salary up to E13 TV‑L 📆 Apply by: 29 March 2026 www.idiv.de/career/job-o...

💰 Fully Funded | Geoarchaeology Postdoc 2026 | Maastricht University, Netherlands 🔬 Early Helladic roofing tiles research | Geoarchaeology + Geochemistry + Fieldwork Greece 🎓 PhD Required ⏳ Deadline: 13 Mar 2026 🔗 higherjobz.com/geoarchaeolo... #Postdoc #Geoarchaeology @maastrichtu.bsky.social

Minneapolis residents are facing a growing food crisis. Fear from ICE is keeping families—especially elders, parents, and the homebound from groceries. Feed Minneapolis funds trusted local food shelves and kitchens, with a goal of feeding 10,000 people in 2 weeks. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fe...

For the day. Rusavskia elegans showing its heart to the world (a bit of a dark heart 😐). NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Aarhus University is hiring for 8 new positions! Individual job details below!👇 #ScienceJobs

Job opportunities in Flagstaff! Manager, Restoration Ecology & Forest Resilience careers.nau.edu/jobs/manager... Manager, Wildfire Insurance and Resilient Economies (WIRE) careers.nau.edu/jobs/manager...

We are seeking a 3+ year postdoc in ocean modelling, to work on an exciting project investigating underwater tsunamis in Antarctica. More about the project here: www.polomints.ac.uk Read more about the post here: lnkd.in/eBjndZPv Please share and help connect us with the best candidates!

10,000 years of snow avalanche activity in western Norway! ❄️ cp.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

Are you a community ecologist interested in fire ecology? Come join our group! Postdoc position for project FEVER, that aims to understand how fire affects biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and biogeochemical cycles in Mediterranean forests @umramap.bsky.social.

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