PEACHH Lab (@benrlee.com) at ETSU is recruiting a PhD with exciting projects relating to phenological mismatch, ecophysiology, forest ecology. Highly recommend working with Ben!! www.peacchlab.com/opportunities

🚨 Please repost widely!🚨 I am recruiting a PhD student to join my lab next fall to work on forest and climate change ecology projects in southern Appalachia! Come join me in one of the most beautiful, biodiverse, and understudied parts of North America. Details below and happy to answer questions

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...

we got JOBS, museum jobs in Pittsburgh! Collection Manager for mammals: us251.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...

Spring 😌

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

Today's Sugarbush snow report (since taken down, but circulating widely and emailed to thousands). Love to see it. www.reddit.com/r/vermont/co...

Ice jam at one of my field sites 🧊 excited to see what the riparian zone looks like after this action Redbank Creek in PA

Donate to help support my staff & students, impacted by the pause on federal funding, who train producers & private citizens to monitor #soilhealth & support #conservation programs that make #farming & #ranching sustainable. Matching funds. Search i-CLEER broncogivingday.com/pages/home-2...

Yinz ready to stand up for science?

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

Does anyone on bluesky have experience bear-proofing environmental data loggers (specifically PAR and soil moisture) without compromising functionality? Bears at our sites have extensively damaged seed and camera traps already, so hoping to get ahead of them this year.

NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We used surveys of LGBTQ scientists and their straight cisgender peers to find evidence that feeling comfortable to disclose your sexual orientation in the workplace results in greater research productivity Paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour... Explainer: lab.jbyoder.org/2022/03/02/n...

Attending #AGU24 next week? Come chat knotweed and soil N cycling with me!! 🌿 My poster is Dec 11 afternoon at board 1612.

In the July 2024 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Primers in the Plant Sciences: Phenological escape and its importance for understory plant species in temperate forests @benrlee.com, @ajyancy.bsky.social, @jmheberling.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

London Plane trunk is disfigured as the tree grows around various metal objects in tree bed.

AOP and OA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Primers in the Plant Sciences: Phenological escape and its importance for understory plant species in temperate forests @benrlee.com @ajyancy.bsky.social @jmheberling.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience

Evaluating the definition & distribution of spring ephemeral #wildflowers in eastern North America New #AJB research by @ajyancy.bsky.social, @benrlee.com, Sara Kuebbing, Howard Neufeld, Michelle Elise Spicer & @jmheberling.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #biodiversity

Perfect timing as ephemerals come and go in the north temperate world! NSF REPS project of @ajyancy.bsky.social 😊🌸

Our new paper led by @ajyancy.bsky.social (her 1st 1A paper!!) w @jmheberling.bsky.social, Michelle Spicer, Sara Kuebbing + Howie Neufeld is out now in #AJB. We wanted to know where the greatest diversity of #spring ephemeral #wildflowers were, so first we had to define spring #ephemerality (1/)

Friday morning in the field 🌸😍

Ok *now* it's starting to really look like an early spring - we are seeing plant response to the really warm winter and early spring, esp in the middle of the country. This is the 6-day forecast for the "start of spring," with some locations 4wks early now #phenology www.usanpn.org/data/maps/spring

Spring is here

sad news - Duke University decided to dump their herbarium, which has over 800,000 plant specimens, one of the largest among in America, and includes many type specimens of Lady Gaga ferns. What a shame. Please stop Duke admins for making this horrible mistake!!

Happy Groundhog Day! Punxatawny Phil predicted an early spring, and USA-NPN maps & data agree in much of the country. #NaturesNotebook observers report leafout and flowering in many locations and NOAA's CPC predicts that for much of the country, warm temps are on the way! usanpn.org/news/article...

Really excited that the primer in plant sciences we wrote for @ijpsjournal.bsky.social is coming out in time for the spring bloom! Curious about spring phenology and why it's critically important to understory plants? Give it a read! 🌱🌎

JA and OA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Primers in the Plant Sciences: Phenological escape and its importance for understory plant species in temperate forests @benrlee.com, @ajyancy.bsky.social, @jmheberling.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #Plant Science

Arguably more exciting than Spotify wrapped… my year of iNat obs! www.inaturalist.org/stats/2023/a...

Our work picked up by NPR’s Here&Now yesterday! www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

It’s been a good week!! Started off with GSA in the burgh and hosting a friend. 1/?

New preprint led by @ajyancy.bsky.social (it's her first paper!!) with @jmheberling.bsky.social, Howie Neufeld, Sara Kuebbing and Michelle Spicer. If you've seen a presentation of mine in the past year, it was probably about this work on spring ephemeral phenological strategy! 🌱🌎

‘tis the season

Spent the weekend on Sycamore Island checking out the freshwater mussels and islands of the Allegheny River #musselcamp