Bake Off this season has taught me that over the pond they are going sleeveless all the time and have completely given up on buttoning the buttons on shirts.

The idea that feminism in any form ruined the workplace is ridiculously absurd. Feminism, and for that matter equity across all gender and sexual identities, is a huge net positive for guys too. Strict gender roles and dichotomies handcuff everyone.

Finally getting around to playing Starfield and I now have confirmation Bethesda makes one game. Different settings, different characters, one game. A good game. But one game.

These quotes from Watson get wilder and wilder.

We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT

Looking for a postdoc with a specialization in forest carbon dynamics, climate policy, and nature-based solutions. The fellow will work at the intersection of forest ecology and environmental policy, investigating the effectiveness of forest carbon offset programs

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate. Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections. buff.ly/nTvLlFI

What a relief. 💙

Most major theories in ecology assume some sort of equilibrium, but only ~half of empirical tests acknowledge it & even fewer observed it in their system. Does this matter? How did the idea become so pervasive in ecology anyway? Find out in our new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Side by side, before and after, shows how Melissa’s Cat 5 winds stripped and mowed down trees, turning lush green vegetation to brown. Only the strongest storms can strip trees bare. #jamaica #melissa

NPR continues their weird and creepy pronatalist stances. It's becoming non-stop.

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

It's great to see the kids so excited and R and coding.

Forest measurements are more important than ever. “Dedicated teams working in the field to collect vital ground-truth data are essential to the success of our missions” - Simonetta Cheli #ESA Director of Earth Observation. Find out more in our latest newsletter. sway.cloud.microsoft/pdXbVpmWR2Io...

For those who may be interested Ameriflux Youtube posted the Fluxnet Early Career Webinar on Writing & Peer Review Process for Early Career Researchers www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwBM...

deadtrees.earth — An open-access and interactive database for centimeter-scale aerial imagery to uncover global tree mortality dynamics. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Led by @cmosig.bsky.social

🌲 Very happy to share our new study on where, when, and why trees die across the range of 3 major southern US pines: Pinus taeda, P. palustris, and P. elliottii (loblolly, longleaf, and slash pine). 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/geb.70141 @ird-fr.bsky.social @umramap.bsky.social @ulbrecherche.bsky.social 🧵1/9

Benchmarking nine vegetation demographic models: what works, what doesn’t, what’s next... @annemarie-es.bsky.social @george.hurtt.bsky.social ‪

Weapons is a pretty amazing and amazingly odd movie.

i mean i don't think you can separate any of this discussion from the fact that so many of the participants are men who clearly have hang-ups about their inability to perform a certain kind of blue collar masculinity

Does anyone have a suggestion for an online, non-AI tool to compare the similarities between two documents?

How do we define #forestdegradation in different ecosystems? We are looking for papers that tackle the complexity of measuring degradation in temperate and boreal forests. Details ▶️ buff.ly/1aULXb4 #EnvironmentalScience #CallForPapers

A fabulous #postdoc opportunity to work with my colleague Nick Ward at PNNL on forest trace gas cycling, studying a poorly constrained component of the Earth system! Please share widely: careers.pnnl.gov/jobs/10985?l...

Nominate your outstanding senior colleagues for the Ecological Society of America's Eminent Ecologist Award! Nominations due Nov. 13. esa.org/about/awards...

A great opportunity to Join Harvard Forest as a Senior Scientist to lead eddy flux work with your very own towers in a place that is deeply connected to ecosystem ecology! @fluxnet.bsky.social @fluxnetecn.bsky.social @agubiogeosciences.bsky.social @cznews.bsky.social @uslter.bsky.social

Just out in PNAS - Been thinking about these three graphs for nearly a decade with a great team of smart colleagues. We finally have a story to tell that makes these interesting observations make sense. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

My department is hiring an assistant professor of forest regeneration. The University of Minnesota department of forest resources is a great place to work, I really really like it here, and hope we end up hiring someone I can collaborate with. hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...

UVA says no to the compact

Badass

“Only 2% of the public land agency workforce works in D.C. Most employees live in communities next to public lands across the United States. They have careers and benefits that enable them to spend $ to support their communities while they take care of public lands.”

I'm not sure I've ever filled out a voting ballot so unenthusiastically.

West Wing

New from the group: Across 100 oak savannas and five states, we show how management structures groundlayer plant diversity by modifying canopy openness, with context dependent effects based on spatial scale and soil attributes esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🌎 Support for Long-Term Ecological Studies Matters Now More Than Ever I am excited to share our new paper: “Long-term ecological studies must continue: insights from a dryland transition zone” co-authored with Huong LE, Ph.D. and Scott Collins. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 1/5

Registration for experts interested in serving as Expert Reviewers and providing scientific comments on the First Order Draft of the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities is now open! Read more 🔗 www.ipcc.ch/2025/09/17/p...

School board candidate forum… let’s goooo

The Geology Dept at WWU is hiring an Assistant Prof in Hydrology! Come be my colleague in a great department! More info in the attached flyer, and at hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...

💧Calling all hydrologists💧Montana State University is hiring an assistant professor of water systems science, broadly defined but with connections to groundwater/subsurface processes. Please spread the word! jobs.montana.edu/postings/48829

🏆 Congratulations to @lamont.columbia.edu tree ring scientist Ed Cook, recipient of the Roger Revelle Medal from @agu.org for outstanding contributions in climate science! #AGU25 ➡️ Learn more about Cook and this prestigious honor: www.agu.org/user-profile...

This totally tracks 🤣

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Judaculla Rock! Love this place and miss Cullowhee.

"Admittedly, research grant funding is not the most riveting topic to come before this Court. However, the Court has come to appreciate that, as Defendants readily admit, basic research is an 'essential' service that universities provide to the federal government and so to the American people."

Apply to become the next MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow! These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here: eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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/

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