📢 We have an open position for a postdoc to join my lab. It's a great position @animecol-uu.bsky.social, fully salaried for 2.5 years with all benefits. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)

How can we explore the future of the world's forests? Understanding the demography of their trees is key. In We took the new gen of global demographic vegetation models and held their roots to the observations. Thanks @annemarie-es.bsky.social for leading! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

Please pass along - Our CAMBIUM NSF NRT provides fellowships to support new PhD students at @uarizona.bsky.social To train & prepare a new generation of scientists to harness the revolution in biodiversity big data to adapt to & mitigate the impacts of climate change. cambium.arizona.edu 🧪🌐🌾

Online now: Grassy trees: the neglected hybrids for sustainability

How many plant species are buzz pollinated? After more than six years in the making, our paper on the convergent evolution of buzz pollinated flowers is out in @journal-evo.bsky.social. Thanks @draverbee.bsky.social @roszenil.bsky.social and all co-authors for your hard work! doi.org/10.1093/evol...

#Postdoc in #landscape ecology with me How does plant species traits influence communities responce to environmental change? An unique re-survey data set from the UK will be used to explore & test hypotheses about dispersal and persistence 🧪🌍 Apply 30th of November su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

A year-long experiment in a wet tropical #forest found that 4°C of warming boosted soil CO2 emissions by 42-204%. These high rates suggest tropical #soils may release more #carbon under future warming than #climate models predict. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Disappointed about some of the words that don’t make it into the Spelling Bee dictionary…

Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c

StanCon 2026 in Uppsala, Sweden statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/13/s...

Postdoctoral Position – University of Basel, Switzerland Project: Global status, trends, drivers & impacts of non-native plant species in mountain ecosystems Eligibility: PhD in related fields Deadline: 13 Oct 2025 🔗 Details: higherjobz.com/postdoctoral... #Postdoc #AcademicJobs #Ecology @unibas.ch

Great PhD opportunity with an excellent supervisor: Quantify traits of tree species across the western US to determine how tree populations and forest communities will respond to drought and fire. plant-traits.net/lab-openings/

🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26 Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈 👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8 #Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats

Apply online by November 1st! Wiko Early Career Call for fellowships 2026/27 in the #NaturalSciences and #LifeSciences. Gain time to think during a 3–5 month #fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin – Institute for Advanced Study: wiko-berlin.de/fellow-werde... #cfa

Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Application deadline in less than a week! Apply to join the Uppsala Human Evolution team!

Climate change is reshaping forest growth 🌳🌡️💧 Water and temperature control growth timing. Warmer winters make some species start growing earlier. Hot, dry summers may shorten growing seasons. New paper out @globalchangebio.bsky.social led by a former PhD student @csic.es shorturl.at/5Gn8a

The Naturhistoriska riksmuseet seeks a Tenure-Track group Leader (DDLS fellow). Deadline: Nov 15. Benefits include 17 M SEK in start-up funds. More info: https://www.scilifelab.se/career/research-fellowship-in-data-driven-evolution-and-biodiversity/ #job

Convocatoria GEOTREES geo-trees.org Ofrece oportunidades de trabajo en los sitios GEOTREES para estudiantes e investigadores en sus inicios de carrera. Más información aquí. geo-trees.org/downloads/GE...

Plant species–habitat networks in a mosaic landscape of restored and fragmented tropical forests 🌲🌏 Highlights the role of species interactions and their correlated traits such as dispersal syndromes in promoting landscape-scale connectivity 📊🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

*Job alert* We have a 5-year postdoc position on #mountain non-native species & #macroecology in our group @unibas.ch. Great opportunity to join us! Details here: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen/postdoc-position-in-mountain-macroecology/6c5a8906-354f-43c6-bc9b-1156d21725a5 Please share!

New research just dropped! Revisiting Paradigms Related to Root Hydraulic Limitation Under Drought is now available—challenging classic hydraulic-fuse models and outdated assumptions about root embolism, xylem safety-efficiency trade-offs, and ABA signalling. doi.org/10.1007/124_...

Ever wonder about what spatial scale of biodiversity #eDNA 🧬 samples capture? We did. So we used data from the 16-ha Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot 🇵🇷 to investigate the spatial scale of soil eDNA samples for tree🌴🌳 diversity. (Please share with #eDNA folks!) www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Super excited about this new Open Rank tenure-track faculty search for the MSU Plant Resilience Institute. We successfully hired two excellent new faculty in our last search and we are hoping to build on that success with this search. careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT! Find the positions here: su.varbi.com

Looking for a #postdoct for a NSF project integrating ecosystem productivity, hyperspectral remote sensing and airborne LiDAR to test prominent hypothesis of the effect of #biodiversity on #forest #productivity @fluxnetecn.bsky.social @ngaps.bsky.social Apply at: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

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....

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

✨ Exciting work out now in PNAS from DiverSea coordinator Glenn Dunshea and colleagues. The analysis methods developed here in tropical soils are broadly applicable for integrating #eDNA datasets with other survey data & appraising eDNA classification performance, including in #marine research.

We have a #Tansley review out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by Becky Banbury Morgan in which we put forward a new framework that aims to explain how and why edge effects on forest structure vary across ecosystems and through time 📜 doi.org/10.1111/nph....

🚨 Postdoc opportunities! 🚨 We’re looking for postdocs in 🌿 biodiversity science, 🧬 genetic indicator assessment, and 📊 ecological statistics. Join us in unraveling the drivers & consequences of global change on biodiversity — and be part of a supportive & collaborative environment! DL 24 September

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University* We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5 su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

🎓 Please join us for a PhD in Remote Sensing of Vegetation Structure at Aarhus University. It's a great place to live and work, and an inspiring university to do research 😊 phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...

It isn't too late to submit an abstract for the @biogeography.bsky.social meeting in Aarhus in January! They just extended the deadline to 8 September. Hope to see you there!

Apologies in advance if you know but if you add " -ai" to the end of any Google search it doesn't do that standard ai summary. Saves on the rubbish and a tiny wee bit "greener" on the energy use front

Sunday mushrooming

#Tree stems accumulate biomass by adding volume of certain density. Which factor is more important? Using tropical #treering data we found: diameter increment explains biomass growth at short term; wood density at long term.🌎🌐🍁 #dendrochronology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I am recruiting a postdoc to work for 2-3 yrs on our NSF-funded project aiming to investigate plant migration and river connectivity with the closure of the Isthmus of Panama. Leading publications, fieldwork in CR & Panama, applying and expanding phylo. & pop.gen tools👇 www.nybg.org/about/work-w...

Come work with us! Fully funded #PhD position in global change ecology - working in a cross-disciplinary cohort of 8 PhD students studying mountains in transition. 🧪🌐🏔️ @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Our previous work in #AmacayacuFDP forest shows that small changes in topography drive 1️⃣ tree species distr. doi.org/10.1007/s111... 2️⃣ drought-related #treemortality doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... 3️⃣ and some (not all) branch, leaf & stomatal traits besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... But...

...What about the key processes behind species’ habitat associations (tree growth & mortality)? 🌱🌳 New paper by my MSc student tests “best-at-home” & “resident-advantage” hypotheses in ~80k trees (352 spp.) across valleys, slopes & ridges in #AmacayacuFDP and found that....

Ever wonder about what spatial scale of biodiversity #eDNA 🧬 samples capture? We did. So we used data from the 16-ha Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot 🇵🇷 to investigate the spatial scale of soil eDNA samples for tree🌴🌳 diversity. (Please share with #eDNA folks!) www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

We are recruiting‼️A permanent university lecturer position in BIOSTATISTICS is available at @helsinki.fi Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Great colleagues, excellent infrastructures and startup support 🙌🏻 DL 14 September jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

🌳Plants adjust #hydraulics under #drought, but not enough. 📰New paper out in @natecoevo.nature.com led by @ramirezval.bsky.social "Limited plastic responses in safety traits support greater hydraulic risk under drier conditions" 🔗👉http://t.ly/K-vdy @irnase.bsky.social

**Fellowship opportunity (graduate/postdoc)** - The Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program is accepting applications through October 15. Postdoc fellowships have always received a 2nd year match from the host unit. Come join us! fellowships.si.edu/opportunity/...

Late summer harvest in Uppsala (no, not the Amanita)

Applications are open for SFI's 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships If you’ve recently earned a Ph.D. in any scientific field and want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research, consider applying. Deadline: October 1, 2025 Apply here: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

🚨New paper out in PNAS🚨 Soil eDNA reflects regionally dominant species rather than local composition of tropical tree communities 🧬🌿🌳🌺🧬 We asked about the spatial scale of biodiversity captured by samples of DNA from tropical soils #Luquillo #eDNA. A short 🧵.... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...