Does @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social 's Ecolog-L listserv stop working? Haven't received any messages for about one week.

Water use efficiency (iWUE) is related with water availability. Our recent @natcomms.nature.com paper shows that this relationship has been strengthened over the past decades. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator. 🧪🌎

There are 6 Forest Service research stations that also manage research labs, 80 experimental forests, a forest product laboratory, & the International Institute of Tropical Forestry. This is the most extensive natural resource research operation in the world--a hidden crown jewel of our country. 2/

Excellent piece by @kristinayoung.bsky.social on the critical threat facing the USGS's Southwest Biological Science Center. We must rally and fight this senseless attack on science!!

Fun time writing for @theconversation.com ! Please share! Controlled burns reduce wildfire risk, but they require trained staff and funding − this could be a rough year theconversation.com/controlled-b...

It's important that science continues, now more than ever. Hence I am happy to share our recent paper which shows the slowing of post-mortality forest recovery @natplants.nature.com. With great colleagues including @smmunson.bsky.social @wmhammond.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our new research shows that forest recovery from tree mortality has slowed in recent decades. This reduction is primarily associated with rising temperatures and increased water scarcity. Recovery of forest canopy water content lags behind that of vegetation greenness www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our March issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/... Featuring research on: 🌲boreal forest resilience 🦠microbial community invasion 🧬evolutionary divergence of X–Y chromosome genes Cover shows a micro-CT scan of the humpback #anglerfish from Miller et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global Ecology starter pack was full, a Vol. 2 was needed! here it is 🕺 👉 scientists working on biodiversity, ecosystems, and conservation at a large scale, both terrestrial and marine realms go.bsky.app/L37W5uH Already 30 fellows in, who’s next ? reply to be added, share to spread 🌈 🌐🧪🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁

🚀 Global Ecology feed Digest #8 Jan 20-27, 2025 - 33 posts ✨For the lazy (yes we are) & friends who don't like social media (yes they can) but might benefit from Global Ecology feed, here’s a online DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share ! 🌈 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Reminder: They're trying to demoralize you, and they're doing a great job of it. Part of resisting is making time for joy despite the attempts to make you feel this is not the time for it. Love your people. Dig the art that speaks to you. Go to the places where life flows into you. You deserve joy.

January reading finished... reading is curing. #onebookamonth

In a newly published Agricultural and Forest Meteorology paper, we developed a method that successfully migrates eddy covariance based carbon flux measurements to thousands of meteorological stations. Led by postdoc Dr. Wenqiang Zhang. Check out the paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interesting new paper on inference with observational data in ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them. Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is. Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙

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ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

Forest gain is not the mirror symmetry of forest loss. We knew this for their biophysical effects. We now also know this for resilience - the gain of the same amount of forest cannot compensate for the loss in forest resilience. Check out our new paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution: rdcu.be/d6kUI

Research suggests that deep roots are beneficial for temperate #grassland species subjected to longer periods without rainfall, when #plant-available water is lacking in shallow #soil layers but remaining in deep soil layers besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

NASA JPL chief Laurie Leshin says that over 150 staffers at the research center have lost their homes in the LA fires; the lab has set up a relief fund to help them out, which you can support here: caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema...

#JPL has so far been safe as well thanks to round the clock work of our first responders. But over 150 JPLers have lost homes that we know of so far. We are raising funds to support them through Caltech! Please consider supporting: caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema... Thank you!

Finally finished this 696-page book before the end of December - thanks for the long holiday of this month. For next months I should challenge much shorter books! #onebookamonthchallenge

Interesting angel! 👍👍

The IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment Report Media Launch starts NOW! 📢 JOIN US ONLINE ⬇️💻 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikmT...

🚨 OUT NOW 🚨 📚 The @ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment Summary for Policymakers is now available! ➡️ Explore the most comprehensive assessment ever of the interconnections between biodiversity, water, food, health & climate. 🌏 Options for a just & sustainable future! www.ipbes.net/node/85582

Glad to share our new paper which examines the divergence between plants and animals in phenological stages, derived from analyzing hundreds of thousands of citizen science data records. The work is led by Dr. Weiguang Lang www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Done with this semester's teaching!! Grading next week while at AGU

Really cool on plant-water relationship with fire!

Interested in how and where trees move water? I'm hiring a plant ecophys postdoc to study hydraulic redistribution in Indiana forests. If you'll be at AGU and want to discuss, please reach out! jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/postdoc...

We have an open postdoc position in the Quantitative Ecosystem Dynamics lab at UC Berkeley: forms.gle/Nx1EHYiCv3yR... in the areas of ecohydrology, land-atmosphere interactions, and global change ecology. Please spread the word!

While November was quite disappointing, it might be a good idea to self-comfort with reading. I chose Steven Pinker's "The Better Angels of Our Nature" as my to-read for December. Quite curing, right? #onebookamonth

Very interesting work!

Shout out to my dear friendS!!

"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations" www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Exciting opportunity: APLUS Lab is seeking a PhD student in sustainable land use! 🌱 Apply via gradsch.hku.hk/prospective_... and indicate me as your potential advisor. Applications open through April 2025; first-round deadline: December 1, 2024. Join us to create a sustainable land future! 🌍

Colleagues, please help spread the word: I am accepting a PhD or MS student, preferably on dryland ecology, through ecology.colostate.edu/apply/. If you're interested, please indicate me as your potential advisor in application. No need to email me though. Fee waived when submitted on 12/1.