I think about this post every day 🧪

The cover of @jxbotany.bsky.social is my painting of Tulip Poplar, a North-American native & global street tree that was the focus of our paper visualising freezing spread & freeze-thaw embolism in leaves! A lovely way to finish this multi-year mutli-country project 🔗below @brodersenlab.bsky.social

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Mamdani quotes Eugene V. Debs, who earns a roar of approval just at the mention of his name.

High #temperature acclimation of #photosystem II in land plants #TansleyReview by @bposch.bsky.social et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @hultinelab.bsky.social #PlantScience #photosynthesis

Applications are now open for two two-year UBC Biodiversity Postdoc Fellowships biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and.... $77,000 /y + benefits and $7000 /y research funds.

Join us on campus & online on Thursday, 30 October 2025 at 1pm for a seminar by Josef Garen, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University. Details: rb.gy/2pdjbo

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🧪🌐🌾

US Government accounts have arrived on Bluesky. Block on sight. Protect your digital space. Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them. The detach quote function will come in very handy here…

WOW! Our survey of scientists who stopped using Twitter and started using Bluesky is now the #1 most-shared on social media article in the history of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology! Thanks for reading it, everyone! @sicbjournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪

are economic valuations of ecosystem services a slippery slope? or worse, a trick? here is a case study for pondering, told in a creative way by my colleague John Van Stan 🧪🍁🌐 doi.org/10.1093/bios...

This looks to be a fundamental theoretical advance by @jpodwyer.bsky.social et al. Using linkage disequlibrium-based Ne to back out σ² and then predict fluctuation sizes from a single temporal snapshot is a real advance for broad application 🧪🌐https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu6396

The Agrawal lab is moving! This January we will be setting up shop at #UBC in Vancouver, in the department of #Zoology! We are actively recruiting at all levels, especially masters and PhD students. These position are #funded! Please send anyone interested my way!

Hi all! If you are a PhD or soon to be PhD looking for a postdoc in plant thermotolerance, I would love to discuss project ideas for the University of Utah Wilkes Center Postdoc Fellowship, app due late Jan 2026! Msg me if there is interest. Tnx! wilkescenter.utah.edu/funding-oppo...

An ancient yew tree in Scotland that is half the age of the Holocene has caught our attention. What a privilege to be in the presence of one of the oldest trees in Europe. @ymalhi.bsky.social explains the significance of this giant. @naturerecovery.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social

Alpine ridges 💚⛰️

My default explanation for sudden changes in a time series is change in measurement. So glad to see another example, sent to me by a colleague who shares my cynicism. Short, clear explanation of Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Which is important to the story.

A drone image of an Amazonian forest in Brazil 🍂🔷💜🌳 Each tree crown has been highlighted with a different colour using Meta's Segment Anything model. This was part of a review into remote sensing methods for tropical forest restoration.

Did you know that it's officially #PeerReviewWeek? 📑💭 Whether you're looking to learn more about #PeerReview for the first time or want to brush up on some best practice tips, check out our free guide below 👇 https://f.mtr.cool/eoffzyiudg

An article I peer reviewed a while ago was just published yesterday. Very happy to participate in the wonderful human project that is science 💚

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

One of our most spectacular trees in autumn is baldcypress, with its glorious deep orange color in late fall. Baldcypress is not only interesting as a deciduous conifer, but also as our eastern redwood and as the longest-lived of all trees in the east. Enjoy the story at Our Trees.

Sorry I can't shut the fuck up about what RFK Jr is doing, but I just get mad when I think about having to tell my kid that there used to be safe and effective ways to prevent disease, but a man who sounds like a piece of wobbling sheet metal took them away to unburden everyone's mitochondria

We can't wait to hear Dr.Brian McGill's talk for this month's Funk lecture! Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/se...

Thank you @octoqueenphd.bsky.social for the opportunity to ramble about #evolution, #plants, #Disability I hadn't realized HOW much plants have impacted my day-to-day and shaped my view of the world. Take a listen and keep your eyes out for more "Unwell to Begin With" - a FANTASTIC podcast name.

What drives photosynthesis temperature sensitivity? New #GCB paper from #MichaletzLab grad #JosefGaren uses #FAsTeR to show it's 1‑day weather, not traits, origin climate, or phylogeny! www.researchgate.net/publication/... @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca @globalchangebio.bsky.social

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...

Field work in the BC temperate rainforest is hard, but these perfectly ripe red huckleberries helped a lot along the way!

The ground squirrels living on the shore of Alleyne Lake are kind of fearless..

I think the biggest mistake I've made in my academic career so far is using Mendeley to manage my references... @elsevierconnect.bsky.social for the love of god please discontinue this shockingly bad software ASAP and spare future researchers the pain of having to switch to Zotero

Please share! Our lab is recruiting a PhD student to join us starting fall 2026. Our group is broadly interested in plant molecular evolution and comparative genomics. More info about our lab and grad programs at Colorado St. is available on our lab website. sites.google.com/site/danielb...

We see here a self-styled "honest broker" with decades of experience in downplaying climate change presenting an age-old climate denial trope: using *annual* rainfall data as argument against an increase in *extreme* rainfall. Does he *really* not know better? Or assume his readers won't? 🧵1/5

🚨 New R package! 🚨 balancR provides tools for data balancing + robust scaling analysis, based on our recent Global Ecology & Biogeography paper: doi.org/10.1111/geb.... Co-developed with my PhD advisor @seanmichaletz.bsky.social Check it out 👉 michaletzlab.github.io/balancR/

POSTDOC: Interested in Systems Analysis & addressing Global #Environmental Challenges? Austrian Academy Sciences is funding 25 4-year postdocs for US-based researchers. @iiasa.ac.at can host these #fellowships! Deadline 15 Sept 2025. More info: stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/en/fellowshi...

Celebrating Canada Day in typical B.C. style, with a nice scramble across the high ridge connecting Mt. Cook and Mt. Weart! #canadaday #garibaldiprovincialpark #armchairtraverse

thinking about plant diversity + soil organic matter with Šárka & Gerrit was fun! "We hypothesize that: (i) net effects of plant diversity on C contents are the most positive, and result in accrual of both POM and MAOM, for soils whose C storage is limited primarily by plant inputs, and ..."

Climate warming is not a recent phenomenon; it has had detectable impacts on plants for at least 134 years! The onset of phenological plant response to climate warming @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🌎🌿🌐🌳 🍁 #PlantBiology @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csic.es

Submit an abstract to our #AGU2025 session "Heat and Microclimate Impacts on Plant Functioning: From Molecules to the Biosphere" (agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...) @nicolebison.bsky.social @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social @bposch.bsky.social @agu.org @agubiogeosciences.bsky.social @gec-agu.bsky.social

There are excessive heat warnings in a lot of places right now, so just a reminder - although your instruments do not generally like a cool drink of water, you do need that. Please do not let your Overly Honest Methods include "measurements were halted due to heat exhaustion".

🌆🌱 City lights stretch the seasons New research shows that artificial light at night (ALAN) has a stronger impact than temperature on extending plant growing seasons in cities – especially by delaying the end of the season. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44... #SciComm 🧪 #LightPollution

The infamous West Lion. I didn't make it to the summit but this view is always worth the effort. #beautifulbritishcolumbia

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

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.

You’re probably why it takes so long for your paper to get reviewed and your excuses are bad dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/y... 🧪

New paper out in PCE, coauthored with my PhD advisor @seanmichaletz.bsky.social - check it out!

The word is out officially, now: SoilTemp has finished its transformation into 'The MEB-network' - a fully-fledged research network that goes far beyond just being a database. And boy, does that make me proud! Let me show you all the ways you can get involved here: the3dlab.org/2025/05/31/s...

Scene from a lovely ride along the Seymour River #randonnée

In Ep 221, "Anti-Science Mugging on the Right and the Ascent of American Anti-Intellectualism" we detail demagogues' favorite faux populist schtick of taking scientific studies out of context and mocking them, often with help from mainstream media. w/ Brenda Ekwurzel, Union of Concerned Scientists

🧪 Attention those with terminated grants, including for NSF, NASA, EPA, NIH, etc: Let Congress know about the impact of terminations via this form: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela... Only Dem staff on the House Science Committee will have access (unless if you explicitly state otherwise).

The magnificent North Cascades #trailrunning