Thinking of making submitting an accurate comment an extra credit assignment in my upcoming fall course…

Are climate models overestimating the role that northern forests play in storing carbon? New @pnas.org research says yes. eos.org/articles/war...

Hot take. The government isn’t subsidizing university budgets. Universities are lending subsidized expertise to research and development that contributes to the public good. It’s called partnership.

New #FATESmodel postdoc in Oslo! Come and join our team :) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Postdoctoral Research Fellow in terrestrial carbon cycle modelling (281332) | University of Oslo

Check out this brand new fellowship from the Simon’s Foundation in Ecology and Evolution. Incoming grad students this year are eligible to apply. No citizenship restrictions. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

URGENT! Contact your senators today to advocate to fund science agencies and programs! The Senate Appropriations Committee & its subcommittees are writing appropriation bills for the federal FY26 budget now. Here's how you can help: esa.org/esablog/2025...

We are advertising a 28-mo postdoc on hybrid #ecoengineering in #saltmarshes @ University College Cork, @ucc.ie 🇮🇪🇪🇺. Ref no 087274. EU & @marineinst.bsky.social funded BLUESHORES Project. State date: 1st Sept 2025. Salary: €45,847–€52,339. 🌱🌊🦀🐌 See link: universityvacancies.com/university-c...

Briefly wandered over to The Other Place to gauge the response to the NASA budget devastation to encounter a bunch of gleeful 'we spend too much money, so this is great.' TO BE, ONCE AGAIN, PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE BUDGET REQUEST MOVES ALL THIS MONEY TO DEFENSE. IT SPENDS IT. NO MONEY IS SAVED.

If you see this post a flower💐 Pink lady slipper in Vermont.

Thanks @docaharper.bsky.social Indeed we have one (now and another one soon) postdoc position open. To integrate Earth Observation data and land surface models (JULES) to quantify carbon stocks & fluxes across European and global ecosystems. jobs.exeter.ac.uk keyword: Q01368

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

For every dollar of federal research funding in the United States, universities generate between $2.30 and $3.00 of economy activity, much of that in local communities. That doesn’t even include the return on investment of getting a college or graduate degree, which research also dollars support.

Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden

Postdoc opportunity studying carbon cycling in warming exp in Puerto Rico (www.forestwarming.org). 12-month appointment (may be extended) Remote work possible ($72,000/y). Links for details and application - questions to Dr. Tana Wood ([email protected]). www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/....

Launched a newsletter YESTERDAY and I'm not only posting essays there, but also trying to do some of the news aggregation there I used to do on Facebook. Like this. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/week-three-t...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

@riverepfl.bsky.social is seeking postdocs performing research on mountain stream biogeochemistry. Please, see advertisement below.

please share: We seek a postdoctoral researcher to join a collaborative team of ecologists in studying the integrated nature of forest functions that are critical for productivity, water and energy usage, and nutrient cycling.

Last chance to apply for the postdoc/junior lecturer position in our group --> Deadline Jan 30th.

Researchers found 15 people in Kansas City who had changed their mind about climate change, and asked them why. Fascinating! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

SoCal friends, I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this. A few things I wish I’d known as we evacuated ahead of a wildfire (that took our home in 2021) 🧵

A great place to do research AND be a kid!

Global boreal forests are heading for a unimodal state of open canopy forest (30 to 50%), increasing the risk of forest fires & substantial releases of stored carbon www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Hey #StatsSky, what are you favorite papers to cite when you need to justify something that is obvious (I once had a reviewer ask we justify the use of logistic regression on a binary outcome) or when you need to push-back on silly reviewer requests (e.g., asking for p-values in table 1)?

Went to visit #winter and by mistake went 8+ miles and 1000+ feet. Phew. #TrappFamilyLodge #Vermont

This job sounds super cool - Field Ecology Technician/Lead Field Ecologist in the Forest Futures Lab www.caryinstitute.org/about/career...

From the department of in-case-you-missed-it, 2024 edition: "Reconciling carbon quality with availability predicts temperature sensitivity of global soil carbon mineralization" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Congratulations to Weiwei Wang (early career researcher) on her paper in Science out today - 'Canadian forests are more conducive to high-severity fires in recent decades' largely due to increases in fuel aridity. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The snow down low is (mostly) gone and we’ve got ice needles. #Vermont #winter

Please share this Summer 2025 PAID INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY w/ undergraduate students! Bee-HERO gives students the chance to study bee parasites/viruses at the Centre for Honey Bee Research in Uppsala, Sweden. See 🧵 and Bee-HERO website for details - www.sacredheart.edu/academics/co... 🧪🐝

Still time to renew that passport! And if you’re in the DC area, there’s a Legal Gender Marker Clinic on Jan. 3 Just a quick reminder that you can still renew your U.S. passport and ask for it to be expedited and you miiight get it back before the inauguration. Here's the State Department page on…

This Code Switch episode about the Palestinian students shot in Vermont last year was moving. Student activists across the US are still dealing with the aftermath of administrators in/actions Bummed that Notes from America is ending just when I started getting into it. www.npr.org/2024/12/25/1...

Winter break project.

OK, here is a very rough draft of a tutorial for #Bayesian #SEM using #brms for #rstats. It needs work, polish, has a lot of questions in it, and I need to add a references section. But, I think a lot of folk will find this useful, so.... jebyrnes.github.io/bayesian_sem... (use issues for comments!)

Warming #winters making us work hard! #climatechange #biogeochemistry

Sparked by a question by @mud-maik.bsky.social: 2014 I published a study that nicely demonstrats how much particulate organic matter #POM can be contained in a small size fraction <6.3µm!!!, many people now bluntly call mineral-associated organic matter #MAOM, check it out: tinyurl.com/POMvsMAOM

Yes Cats! #UVM #CardiacCats #dogs

I don’t miss taking 40ish 1+ m deep soil cores but I do miss hanging out with this awesome woman. Such cool stuff going on at La Brea Tar Pits!

Join our faculty! We have an opening for an ecosystem ecologist, through @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social. Open rank. Please help spread the word! careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

We are hiring a postdoc in my lab @colorado.edu to work on this NSF CAREER proposal (tinyurl.com/cak8dkza) to quantify how and when global change (drought, warming) alters the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning. Job here: colorado.avature.net/searchhub/Jo... 1/2

Catamounts are heading to penalties in the NCAA Tournament for the 3rd time in program history and first time since 2007. Tune in on @ESPNU or @ESPNPlus at go.uvm.edu/dec13 #LetsRally | #MCollegeCup

Heading to 2nd OT in Cary! Catamounts are 3-0 over the last three seasons in extra session in #NCAA Tournament. Tune in on #ESPNU or #ESPNPlus at go.uvm.edu/dec13 #LetsRally | #MCollegeCup

Wednesday’s rain on snow tried to take #Vermont #winter down but Sleepy Hollow hangs on.

Very happy to report that I did NOT run today as #winter in #Vermont gives a little ❄️

My amazing brother’s podcast made @nytimes.com top 10! Excellent story on the ongoing effects of the Deepwater Horizon spill. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/a...

APPLY & Share: Join our community at the University of Michigan Biological Station in the spring/summer term. We are hiring instructors for ecology & microbiology & a leader for our 10-week research program. careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

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!

Happy to report my next run could be a ski 🤞🤞🤞#Winter in #Vermont

Yes Cats! Also when is #UVM #soccer going to get on Bluesky??

Well, if I can’t have spring I’d like some of this please.