This week’s IBioS member Article Highlight! Dr. @naomibschwartz.bsky.social and colleagues recently published an article on “The responsible use of global remote-sensing datasets.” Read more about this article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“In this age of abundant remote-sensing data, global datasets are increasingly relied upon to analyse the planet at unprecedented scale and resolution. We offer three considerations on uncertainties and potential misapplications of global datasets, to ensure results appropriate for decision making.”

Two weeks left to apply for the Canada Excellence Research Chair in my department at UBC! Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions about the position.

UBC is recruiting a new Canada Excellence Research Chair in Ocean Ecological Modelling. This is a great opportunity for a mid-career scientist studying our changing oceans - CERCs are the best funded research chairs in the Canadian research system. research.ubc.ca/media/file/c...

Such a pleasure and a privilege to visit Edinburgh and participate in our first Tropical East Asian Savanna Network meeting! Looking forward to lots of exciting collaboration ahead.

Brilliant day this week on the Tropical East Asian Savanna Network workshop- out on Salisbury Crags with the Global Grassy Group practicing ground layer data collection and loving the #grasses! @s-eshelman.bsky.social @wieczor.bsky.social @naomibschwartz.bsky.social @royalsoced.bsky.social

My stellar dept @ubcgeography.bsky.social is searching for a Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk. This amazing faculty job for a senior ecosystem scientist comes with loads of research funds and a move to Canada! Read more and apply here: geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...

Excited to be visiting Edinburgh next week for the first Tropical East Asian Savanna Network meeting. If you’re interested in learning more about these fascinating and misunderstood ecosystems, join us via live stream (or in person if you happen to be in Edinburgh)!

In person event funded by @royalsoced.bsky.social June 24th at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 9:30-4:30 @thebotanics.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tropical-e... or online via teams: Meeting ID: 374 127 860 994 5 Passcode: Yq3je9Jo

More exciting speakers at the Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium! Dr Manichanh Satdichanh will be presenting on 'Farmer, fire and forest succession: A story of social-ecological system from Southeast Asia'. Join us on 24th June in person or online, for free! #savanna #conference #ecology 🌐🌏

I have an opportunity for a new PhD student in tropical tree ecophysiology in my lab. Some more details at the link below. Please pass along! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

My stellar dept @ubcgeography.bsky.social is searching for a Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk. This amazing faculty job for a senior ecosystem scientist comes with loads of research funds and a move to Canada! Read more and apply here: geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...

Finally pulled the trigger and updated my Vancouver tree map with newer data, now it contains not just street trees but also other public trees in e.g. parks. (Thanks Vancouver Open Data!) Handy when wanting to look up a tree while walking around town. mountainmath.ca/vantrees

New in @sciencemagazine, a review on Scaling plant responses to heat (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). Increased temperature along with acute heat waves threaten the ability of terrestrial vegetation to act as a carbon sink, but predicting how plants will respond to heat is challenging.

🚨 New paper, led by Cristina Barber. We used high-resolution aerial imagery to study tree mortality in a tropical landscape. Large, isolated trees were most likely to die--alarming finding! @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Realistic models of the potential for global reforestation suggest that it could absorb roughly 5% of human CO2 emissions. This is still worthwhile but nowhere near a solution on its own. New paper just published 🧪🌏🌐

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

I suspect someone may have already done this... I took the current NASA Earth fleet chart of operating and planned Earth observing missions and crossed out those recommended for cancellation in the President's budget request. It's disturbing.

Why has woody plant density been increasing in dryland ecosystems? In a new paper in @pnas.org we show that increasing tree density in pinyon-juniper woodlands could largely be a result of long-term population growth, rather than recent anthropogenic effects. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Tickets (free!) for the first Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium are available: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tropical-e... 200 word abstracts still welcome for talks (15/30min), deadline 30 May. Email for info / abstract submissions. See you 24 June @thebotanics.bsky.social ! #ecology #savanna 🌐🌏

The first Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium, funded by @royalsoced.bsky.social, will be 24 June @thebotanics.bsky.social. Free! Come along, or apply to present! 200 word abstracts welcome for talks (15/30min), deadline 30 May. Email for info / abstract submissions. @edinburghuni.bsky.social 🌐🌏

Postdoc alert! Looking for someone to join our new savanna zoogeochemistry project with @ymalhi.bsky.social and Mark Robertson. Please circulate widely! Contact me if interested. #ecosystemecology #largemammalherbivores #termites my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecr...

Drier, more seasonal climates strengthen coordination of hydraulic, leaf economic and reproductive strategies in subtropical forest tree communities vist.ly/3m23kct #LeafEconomicSpectrum #Rainforest #SeedSize

An attack on science. In plain sight. It would be great if Columbia University could give the GISS team space for *free*. That would be bold leadership!

This is incredibly cool: if you search for a condition that’s affected your family, the site returns stats on how much NIH has done for that disease, *and* a contact form for reaching out to tell your Members of Congress why you want to see them defend NIH. Pass it on!

Fantastic analogy

🌿 Our new study in @natplants.nature.com: Most European temperate forest plants are associated with semi-open, herbivore-shaped habitats—not closed-canopy #forests 🐎🌳🔆🌸 Highlights the need for trophic #rewilding in #conservation & need to avoid uniform dense #reforestation🌿 📄 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

One aspect of Trump’s antisemitism fig leaf I haven’t seen discussed: if you’re a Jewish student who DOES experience antisemitism, but doesn’t want to blow up your college or get your classmates deported, you basically have no choice but to stay quiet and suffer in silence. Trump did that.

Echoing Trump, Pierre Poilievre's election pitch includes pledge to end "woke influence" in university research. My story for @science.org 🧪 #cdnpoli www.science.org/content/arti...

At #UBC, in Vancouver, 🇨🇦, we are welcoming applications from folks as part of US applicant week - we recognize that many potential grad students may have had their offers revoked, and other complications - we have great research & fab colleagues - so check us out www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

The purpose of the deportations we have been seeing has not been to fight antisemitism, but rather to use antisemitism as a beachhead to eventually do away with foreign students altogether, using Jews as a pretext for a non-Jewish political agenda.

👀 Ok, if true this is a shocking way to blast through the forest canopy, remove lianas, & dominate "The idea that lightning strikes give almendros a competitive advantage-The almendro tree is so tolerant of strikes, in fact, that it may well be summoning lightning" www.science.org/content/arti... 🌐🧪

This is one of the most viscerally upsetting, intergenerational trauma-evoking images I have seen. I can’t stop thinking about it, much as I wish I could.

I really want our Canadian friends to see this. We are in here screaming to be heard. Huge numbers of people in the USA are organizing and mobilizing against this. Don't give up on us. #ElbowsUp #Canada

Hello Bluesky! Good to see you all again! Job alert: I'm looking to recruit a postdoc interested in working at the interface of AI and wildlife ecology, supported by the AI for Biodiversity Change (ABC) Global Center. Apply by April 15, 2025. gaynorlab.weebly.com/join-us.html

🚨 HUGE news from Canada's tricouncils who are harmonizing their scholarship & fellowship programs, upping the total number (huzzah!), and critically, allowing foreigners to apply for doctoral and postdoc fellowships. Want to work with me? Get in touch! 🇨🇦🧪⚒️ www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org Please share! #PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool

Observations from 3 #Sentinel2 satellites! Increased revisit frequency. Terrific news! “This configuration will enhance the availability of Sentinel-2 data, with additional Sentinel-2 observations on the same relative orbit, occurring 2 days apart from Sentinel-2B and 1 day apart from Sentinel-2C.”

Join us in congratulating Assistant Professor @naomibschwartz.bsky.social for receiving a 2024 UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship for her work on savanna vegetation Southeast Asia! 🥳 And congrats to all other Faculty Research Award recipients. 👏 Learn more: geog.ubc.ca/news/dr-naom...

I don't care how you feel about campus anti-Israel protests, or about antisemitism on campus. Fighting antisemitism cannot mean disappearing foreign citizens in the US on green cards for Wrongthink. It just cannot. Not in my name. Never. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

I am *much* less likely to speak out about any actual antisemitism I face on campus (which I have faced), knowing it will be exploited by the worst people in the US to spread racism against foreigners, Palestinians, and Muslims, and shut down higher ed. And I know I am not alone in feeling this way.

Reps. Jerry Nadler and Adriano Espaillat:   "Revoking federal grants to Columbia University isn’t about combating antisemitism... If the Trump administration were as serious about anti-Semitism as they claim, they would not have filled their ranks with unapologetic antisemites.”

Gut Shabbos and Shabbat Shalom to everyone who knows that the real way to combat antisemitism and build a more inclusive country for us all is to fight fascism together, not to allow Jewish safety to be weaponized by the state against other marginalized communities.

please share: I am recruiting for a PhD student to join my lab for fall 2025. I am interested in finding someone who is passionate about applying models to study plant ecology. Potential study systems include urban environments, sagebrush steppe, and tropical forest. caughlinlab.com/join-the-lab/

So excited to work with @jess-rickenback.bsky.social and colleagues to synthesize and advance research on Tropical East Asian Savannas!

JOB: Nature Director, @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social * Permanent, full-time 4-day week! * Salary $107-110k/yr * Vancouver, Montreal, or Toronto pref. * Apply by 17 March 2025 lnkd.in/gHTCB5Ne #ConservationJobs

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org