Our review outlining how we can better use climate data for understanding ecology and evolution— now published in TREE! I’ll give it a rundown after the holidays.

Friends, I hardly ever get to post this… Bryophyte faculty job!!! botany.ubc.ca/job-postings...

Plant taxonomy is disappearing - and so is our ability to protect species 🍂 Nearly half of countries have fewer than 10 plant taxonomists. Kew is working to close the gap, but we need more experts fast. Read the study’s key findings and what we're doing about it 👇 https://ow.ly/XhJo50XyGAa

🌿 Indigenous wisdom offers many ways: 10 diverse philosophies from around the world demonstrate how human-nature relationships can shift from domination to care. @IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment Read the report: https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change-assessment

Cladonia fimbriata, our Trumpet Lichen, seen Sunday at Deer Creek Canyon 🌿

Proximity to seabird colonies and water availability shape moss distributions in Antarctica vist.ly/4fqxk #SDM #Mosses #Biogeography

New study out in Ecology Letters 🌱🐑! Using long-term Åland monitoring data, we found that herbivory increases plant diversity across scales and flips the diversity–area relationship: a positive relationship is found in grazed sites while a negative one in ungrazed sites. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Would you like to study #functional trait diversity and biogeochemical dynamics in rapidly changing #tundra ecosystems? Then this #PhD is for you! 👇 You will do fieldwork in #Alaska, #Svalbard and #Italy and work with amazing Matteo Petit Bon. Apply by Dec 19 herbivory.lbhi.is/2025/11/19/p...

Study area shape matters when tracking species range shifts & we may underestimate longitudinal range shifts to the benefit of latitudinal range shifts, potentially undermining drivers other than T°C 🌡 🌐🌏🌎🌍🧪🐠🐍🦋🦉🦇🌳🌲 shorturl.at/prp63

🐘 New research - Large herbivores are linked to higher herbaceous plant diversity and functional redundancy across spatial scales ➡️ buff.ly/zqRgqqo @jonastrepel.bsky.social @joe-atkinson.bsky.social @andrewabraham.bsky.social @jessekalwij.bsky.social @jcsvenning.bsky.social @econovoau.bsky.social

🚨Job opportunity🚨 We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you! 🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

📢 Abstract submission deadline for the World Biodiversity Forum @worldbioforum.bsky.social in Davos is Nov 18! Join us for our session 'Understanding and caring for Arctic biodiversity together'. All regions, organisms and formats welcome! 🌿🦌🦋

In our new article led by Gabriele Midolo, published in Ecology Letters, we show that plant species richness in European plant communities generally decreased between the 1960s and 1980s. However, since the 1990s, this trend seems to have stopped or even reversed. dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Thrilled to be one of the plenary speakers for the @iavs5.bsky.social 68th #IAVS Symposium (Gijón, Spain, 22-26 June 2026) along legends like @jcsvenning.bsky.social @gmendietal.bsky.social @ftmaestre.bsky.social et al! Join us to discuss plants across taxonomic, spatial and temporal scales! 🌿

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🧪🌐🌾

Let the science begin! Spring has sprung in Antarctica, our aircraft have landed, and #RRSSirDavidAttenborough leaves the UK tomorrow. This season our teams will deliver more than 60 science projects at research stations, on the ship, and in remote deep field and marine locations. 🧵 1/4

Looks like a good guide - the general data cleaning part is a lean intro to some very common issues in all sorts of data. Would be great if every phd who touches raw data was offered a short course in these basics (in R or Python or whatever HipsterScript) cleaning-data-r.ala.org.au/2_general-cl...

Missed the 2025 SCAR Humanities & Social Sciences “Antarctica in Times of Change” conference? 🌎❄️ All recorded sessions are now online via University of Chile YouTube: scar.org/scar-news/sc...

How can the principles of open data and Indigenous Data Sovereignty be reconciled in collaborative wildlife conservation contexts? Tattersall et al. break down the key considerations here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... #WildlifeConservation #IndigenousDataSovereignty

Great to speak on @svtnyheter.bsky.social Dalarna 📺 about our latest Ecology Letters paper🌿! Local data from this region (Grövelsjön and Fulufjäll) showed some of the strongest responses in our entire dataset 💥🌍 #Ecology #ScienceCommunication www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...

🚨New paper 🚨@natgeosci.nature.com Greenlandification of Antarctica - comment by me + colleagues @dmidk.bsky.social @eo4cryo.bsky.social + @universityofleeds.bsky.social showing how Antarctica increasingly resembles Greenland- drawing on a mass of work from @esaclimate.bsky.social rdcu.be/eJiqJ

Our paper on #intraindividual trait variability is out! We studied #clonal #tundra #shrubs along elevation and latitude gradients to explore the sources of trait variability onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌱 New ecology paper: A large team led by Mariana García Criado (U Edinburgh) analyzed 1,100+ plots in the Arctic (40 years of data) to look in detail at how boreal plants are increasing on the tundra as the climate warms. Sarah Elmendorf (INSTAAR+EBIO) is a co-author. Read the thread ⬇️

Excited to welcome a passionate group of Arctic scientists to the 22nd International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) meeting at Nordens Ark, on Sweden’s stunning west coast!

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

Charlotte Walshaw & Dr. Gabriel Stefanelli-Silva report on their 2025 Science-Policy Fellowships. From turning long-term monitoring into policy insights to guiding Southern Ocean governance, their work linked science & decision-making. 🌱🛰️ Charlotte: bit.ly/4pZOiWz 🌊🧴 Gabriel: bit.ly/4nk71tT

We are calling for abstracts for the @worldbioforum.bsky.social session 'Understanding and caring for Arctic biodiversity together'. This will be an interdisciplinary, free-form session open to all taxa, regions and forms of knowledge. Submission deadline 18 Nov. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Amazing work led by @nanitundra.bsky.social on plant borealization across the Arctic - where, why and by whom using the ITEX+ database 🌱 dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Excellent work by Mariana and team! Wonderful to have such an incredible database that's shared to understand tundra dynamics.

Absolutely thrilled 🎉 to have contributed to this exciting paper, brilliantly led by @nanitundra.bsky.social 🌟 Such a joy to be part of this inspiring team! 🚀🙌

Boreal plants are moving into the #Arctic and reshaping #tundra landscapes 🌱❄️ A 🟢NEW STUDY🟢 led by @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social and @creaf.cat reveals shrubs and grasses from boreal forests are expanding north. So what? 👇

🌲 Boreal-tundra species drive Arctic plant borealization 🌲 Our new study in #EcologyLetters quantifies tundra plant borealization, assesses its main drivers and identifies the species & traits contributing to borealization. doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🧵 (1/6) 🌐🧪🌱🌍

Can we identify #functional traits that characterize #boreal and #tundra plants? Last week #NordBorN researchers met at @creaf.cat in Barcelona to address this question. Stay tuned for results! nordborn.lbhi.is?p=422 🌱 @nanitundra.bsky.social

Come work with us! In two week's time, application deadlines close for eight fully funded #PhD positions who will be working together on understanding and mitigating global change impacts and feedbacks from mountains: cmt.w.uib.no/open-positio...

Why are some species widespread while others are found only in small, isolated areas? A study in Nature Communications shows that species with narrow ranges, and thus higher extinction risk, are often island-restricted, poor dispersers, and have evolved relatively recently. #evosky 🧪

Los mapas no siempre están hechos de calles y coordenadas: también de recuerdos, emociones y experiencias. La psicogeografía lo estudia.

Please share widely! The Natural History Museum Denmark @nhmdk.bsky.social is offering a PhD fellowship in collection-based Natural History Research, focused on dark taxa & unknown species, pref. including representatives of Danish flora, fauna or geology. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Check out the Polar Early Career World Summit Synthesis Report, a summary of the input from 238 early career researchers. We were invited to co-create shared priorities relating to polar research planning, generating ideas leading up to the Fifth International Polar Year. zenodo.org/records/1699...

Hilo de los géneros de abejas silvestres que pueden verse en el Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid (RJB - @csic.es ) Cuando sea posible iré indicando las zonas y plantas donde es más fácil observarlas. Los iré poniendo en el orden en el que los "descubrí" para recuperar fotos de la cuenta de Twitter.

Super awesome new paper in #MEE describing #causal #detection of shifts in #biodiversity! So many great insights here—a must read for those interested in #causalinference And love Fig 3! Congrats team! @lsantinieco.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/2041...

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

A snapshot of our expedition to Finnish Lapland this summer, featuring bogs, bugs, a pink hula hoop, and of course, bryophytes and lichens 🌿 Thanks to funders @ec.europa.eu via POLARIN and #MSCActions, and to my brilliant colleagues @miguelvilloslada.bsky.social et al. for keeping morale high!

🚨 New TEB Lab blog post 🌱 @nanitundra.bsky.social tells us about her summer trip to Finnish Lapland for fieldwork! 🥾 www.temporalecology.com/post/an-unex...

Incorporating responses of traits to changing climates into species distribution models: a path forward A Viewpoint by Peng, et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Rapid Climate Acclimation (Not Traits or Phylogeny) Drives Variation in Photosynthesis Temperature Response 🔗 buff.ly/VCnOgU1 @seanmichaletz.bsky.social

In our new Nature Communications article led by Rashmi Paudel, we show that plant species that spread within their native range have a higher probability of becoming established outside their native range. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63293-6 🔗Sharable PDF link: rdcu.be/eEmQr

Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it: rdcu.be/eEcIt

This Sunday, 31 August 2025 is the last day to apply for the SCAR Visiting Scholar Scheme! 🌍❄️ The scheme supports scientists and academics (>5 years post-PhD) to undertake a short-term visit to another SCAR member country, offering or receiving training and mentoring. scar.org/fellowships-...

Plants are facing the #heat – from molecules to the biosphere –but predicting their responses isn’t easy. New @science.org paper w/ @mekevans.bsky.social & Jia Hu shows how plant responses to #warming can shift or reverse across #scales, and how new research can improve prediction. shorturl.at/mQB2c