Come work with us - The School of Natural Sciences at Trinity College Dublin is looking for a tenure track assistant professor in plant biodiversity and conservation 🧪🌏🌾 my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui... Drop me a message if you want to chat about what it's like to work here or live in Ireland.

New PhD position in tree ecophysiology at BiFoR-FACE (Uni of Birmingham) 🌳 Looking at tree carbon and water dynamics under elevated CO2 and warming 🌡️ Start Jan 2026. See more info here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/376950

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

We created an urgent petition about the #GRFP eligibility changes - please sign and share if you can! bsky.app/profile/omfi...

I love that this particular bristlecone looks like a dragon

Travel to Japan has inspired a new line of research into causes of mortality in really small, really old trees…

Today was a hard day for Ph.D. students who found out that they can no longer apply for NSF's prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. "Devastating“ was how one student described it to me. #GradSchool #NSFGRFP www.science.org/content/arti...

These fellowships should be accessible to ALL students, not just those who come from elite undergraduate institutions who get a lot of mentoring support before they even start graduate school. Maybe some of Trump's $20 billion Argentinian bail-out money could be repurposed to invest in US students?

NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. https://scim.ag/3KlQkQk

Science news article about 2nd year grad students being unceremoniously dropped from the GRFP eligibility with no explanation or warning: www.science.org/content/arti...

Cutting 2nd year PhD students from NSF #GRFP applications is devastating. Here's my GRFP story: 🧵As a first-gen student, I didn't know what the GRFP was when I got accepted to a PhD program. I was 34, had 3 kids, and left a six-figure job for $18k/yr TA stipend. By the start of my second year (1/7)

A very cold and rainy meeting with forest owners this morning at the Charvols Arboretum in Haute-Loire, France 🌲🌳🌧️ We had a lot of interesting discussions about our dendrometer network and which trees we should plant in the coming years!

I can't help it, I just think they are so cute. Living in Scotland means I'm constantly lagging behind on our walks as I stop to get a closer look. Does everyone react that way when they see a bryophyte? 💚 Nice work here 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Bryophyte gene family space

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

Was just sent this photo: the oldest-documented Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda) is still kicking. First scientifically aged in 1992, this lovely is now rapping up its 260 year (260 years at being 1/2 m or so tall; phot by J. Scheff)

We mourn the passing of our Editor-in-Chief Steve Long. His vision to establish one of the first journals dedicated to Global Change over 30 years ago was truly ahead of its time. Through GCB, researchers have demonstrated that biology and ecosystems are not simply victims of global change..

Today we celebrate the 20th anniversary AGU’s JGR: Biogeosciences!🎉 For two decades, the journal has published original research, methods, and data articles on the biogeosciences of the Earth system. 🔗 Learn how to submit: buff.ly/RcwG5Ty #AGUPubs @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social

Our fall semester #EucPhys project has me dreaming about a sabbatical in Australia someday. Just need to do that tenure thing, then find someone willing to host me 🫣

Bottom line: most tree species around the world will not be able to migrate fast enough to persist in their current locations under a rapidly changing climate. 🌎

High tree diversity exposed to unprecedented macroclimatic conditions even under minimal an…... by @bjenquist.bsky.social @jcsvenning.bsky.social published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences using @gbif.org mediated data: #CiteTheDOI: ✅ https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420059122

A fire raging through the Sierra National Forest has burned through part of a grove of giant sequoias. @lilaseidman.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/... @latimes.com

Last segment of field work for this year, surveying Pinus mugo stands (which can be quite challenging to navigate!) to understand the spread and impacts of the invasive pathogen Lecanosticta acicola. Great to have such a wonderful field crew, led by @michaelmaroschek.bsky.social and Barbara Araujo!

The MSU Plant Resilience Institute is excited to launch an open rank tenure-track faculty search! We're seeking creative, collaborative researchers to join the PRI faculty to investigate plant responses to environmental challenges. 🌱 Apply now: careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista... #PlantSciJobs

Drought sensitivity in eucalypts is climate‐adapted and consistently influenced by wood density - great work by PhD student Victoria Perez-Martinez at @deannicolle1.bsky.social Currency Creek Arboretum during the Tinderbox drought besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Postdoctoral position in Forest Monitoring available. Know your way around spatial datasets? Join us to help monitor changes in Australia's precious forest estate! @westsyduhie.bsky.social jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

Our op-ed in the Santa Fe New Mexican today highlights the potential losses from closure of the nine US Forest Service Regional Offices, namely local leadership knowledge and capacity, experienced people, and priceless documentary records: www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_v...

🌴 RESEARCH ☀️ The distinctive glaucous color of E. horridus leaves arises from structural coloration of epicuticular wax crystals and their optical interplay with underlying dark, chlorophyll-rich tissues, revealing UV adaptation - Nobusawa et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Looking forward to meeting many of these folks in December. I'm a Lead Author in WGII for the regional chapter for Aotearoa and Australia.

Sampling success at the @arnoldarboretum.bsky.social with @alyssakullberg.bsky.social and Thibaut. What an amazing place to work! If you have temperature thresholds data and want to join forces, let us know! You'll make us and @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social happy.

Can tropical rainforest trees keep their cool? Now out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social we explored whether intraspecific variation in leaf energy balance was a result of adaptation to local climate. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

www.nature.com/articles/s41... How climate change and deforestation interact in the transformation of the Amazon rainforest: “…Over the past 35 yrs, deforestation has accounted for approximately 74% of the ~ 21 mm dry season−1 decline and 16.5% of the 2°C rise in max surface air temp.”

What drives photosynthesis temperature sensitivity? New #GCB paper from #MichaletzLab grad #JosefGaren uses #FAsTeR to show it's 1‑day weather, not traits, origin climate, or phylogeny! www.researchgate.net/publication/... @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca @globalchangebio.bsky.social

Happy to share a new lab @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social paper: "Drought Response in Three Conifer Species Detected by Sap Flow and Proximal Thermal Remote Sensing" led by the amazing Daphna Uni w/ @mostafaj.bsky.social others @uarizona.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Spread the word 😃 Our department has an open position at the Assitant Professor level 🌱

Our department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049

One of the most famous Dracaena spp is D. cinnabari, the dragon’s blood tree, endemic to Socotra, a tiny island off the Horn of Africa. The species epithet & common name refer to the red resin. 📷: James Bailey CCBYNC4. #Dracaena #Asparagaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

CANADA HEAT WAVE Intense heat spreads North and East to Alberta and Northwest Territories with temperatures >33/34C north of 60N latitude. This will just get worse with an early autumn heat wave which will rewrite climatic history by breaking multiple WORLD RECORDS. Stay tuned

New research led by Nicole Lau, past MSc in my group: ‘Over a decade later, soil C stores are resistant to extensive tree mortality’ 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The mid-story cottonwoods shutting down. I’m guessing some of these won’t make it.

#AcademicJobs 🧪

A long-major heatwave is setting up for Central & NW Canada with temperatures 15-20 degrees C (30F plus) warmer than normal late next week into next weekend. That means widespread 30-35C high temps (85-95F) way up north even near the Tundra. Climate change has made these events more intense/ likely

Another page of birds is done. Some punks. And for today's I dared to try a new position. #birds #AvianAugust #illustration #progressoverperfection

Jalene LaMontagne, colleagues win 2025 Robert P. McIntosh Award from the Vegetation Section of the Ecological Society of America for research on community synchrony in seed production. #ESA #LTER #MastSeeding blogs.umsl.edu/news/2025/08...

Michigan State University is hiring a new Director of our herbarium! This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution Please consider applying and help spread the word! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

Our students are back on campus, and it's the perfect time to explore the #Colorado State #University Trial Gardens after Public Evaluation Day! 🌸🌿 Immerse yourself in the beauty of plants right here on campus in Colorado. #Agriculture #Horticulture #Botany #Garden #AgSky #AcademicSky 🌾🌱🧪

The cottonwoods in the bosque in Albuquerque are in trouble. The mid-story trees start senescing their leaves a couple of weeks ago. The largest tree are now starting to turn. The drought and heat are bad this year.

40°C is the new 30°C in France...! 🔥🥵 Mostly unknown before 1980 (5 occurrences) 📉 Skyrocketing since 2019 (180 occurrences) 📈

I love these towering, iconic trees - they’re very vulnerable to rising temperatures - we must stop burning fossil fuels #Eucalyptus #AusPol #ClimateChange www.theguardian.com/environment/...

MSU Plant Bio is hiring a new herbarium director! Our herbarium is a wonderful resource on campus and I'm excited to have the opportunity to make it even better by bringing in a new director. Details here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

🌲 What if a terrestrial laser scanner cost ~€2k, and still delivered reliable forest data? We built one. And it works. → DBH accuracy ~1.5 cm → Tree height ~1 m → Open hardware + open software Accessible 3D forest monitoring Wherever you are, get in touch 🌍 Preprint: bit.ly/3HneatY #LiDAR