reject and resubmit decisions for which the journal also demands final high res figures

🚨The Global Dendrometer Network 🌐🍁🌱🧪 is now officially on bluesky! Follow us and sign up for the mailing list to receive updates and become part of this rapidly growing community! Our official website will follow soon!

Now it's the public safety power shutoff - community water system nexus. Powering down to reduce fire risk leads to water boil notice in northern Arizona -- no actual wildfire needed! www.knau.org/knau-and-ari...

PhD opportunity- fully funded with stipend, fees and project costs covered. Explore the role of phosphite in treating kauri dieback disease. Applications due 8th May. Please spread the word! newzealandecology.org/phd-explorin...

I am hiring a new postdoc to work on an ecosystem modeling project with colleagues in hydrology, computer science, and the social sciences, including @mojisadegh.bsky.social If you want to do impactful work to understand the forest-water relationship, apply: www.hurteaulab.org/blog/ecosyst...

🌲🌳 PhD opportunity: Forest Vulnerability to Hotter Droughts Interested in forest ecosystems, climate extremes & tree stress resilience? 🎓 Dual PhD (KIT 🇩🇪 + Melbourne 🇦🇺) 🔬 Plant Ecophysiology Lab, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 🇩🇪 🌍 +1-year research stay 🇦🇺 👉 Apply here: t1p.de/g39co

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

Drought a huge concern this summer. Palmer drought severity index (PDSI) by state for March 2026 had 6 states with their worst drought on record, with 22 others experiencing a top-10 worst drought. Only Michigan had an above-average lack of drought. From: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...

futurism.com/artificial-i... Reposting this filter that turns google ai summary off. Has been life changing for me.

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

Gantt chart? More like Cantt chart.

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

Saw this cool mariposa lily (?) complete with matching pollinator. And a lot of globe mallow.

Too many scientists are publishing generalized frameworks. In this study we present a novel framework for understanding generalized frameworks

does anyone want to talk to me about frost rings? -Why are they not shared within cores from the same tree? -Are frost rings more likely in tree with recent insect defoliation?

Striking signal for much above-normal temperatures across California, the Great Basin, northern Rockies and Desert Southwest from March 15-20. Temperatures will be more typical of summer than early spring (potentially 25 degrees above normal) in many areas and monthly records could be shattered.

Finished reading this wonderful novel this morning. Felt unintentionally timely.

As a public service, I thought I'd offer a little constructive criticism of the most popular styles of bike racks, since it appears that the entities that manufacture and install these racks are clueless about the needs of actual bike riders.

Trees can be killed by beetles during drought without obvious reductions in chemical defenses. Perhaps related: first measurements of D14C in exuded oleoresin (as far as I know) show resin C is up to 10 years old. academic.oup.com/treephys/art...

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

Plodding along through the 1950s

My colleagues Calvin Farris (NPS) and Ellis Margolis (USGS) led a landmark study in paleofire reconstruction. In addition to showing that fire management can restore past fire regimes, the demonstrated methods are a first in dendrochronology. 1/6 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

More grim news about the West's snow drought: 🛰️ Lowest Feb. 1 snow cover in the satellite record (since 2001) 📉 Record-low Feb. 1 statewide snowpack in Oregon, Colorado, and Utah ⚠️ “A Dry, Warm January Leaves the West With the Worst Snowpack in Decades” www.drought.gov/drought-stat...

Scientists have long relied on tree rings to learn about solar storms. A Tansley review published this week shows that trees don’t all record this carbon in the same way. Understanding those differences is key to interpreting Earth’s history of space weather. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

this is so cool. the linked video is also wild

Back in 2021, I was trying to make "SUP" dendro a thing for us wetland/coastal investigators. We hypothesize this pond was created by a fault scarp ~200 years ago, drowning the cedars, and changing the landscape of Bainbridge Island, WA! doi.org/10.1130/B383... #DendroDating #TreeHistory

PostDoc position in #dendrochronology at U of Giessen (Germany) to work on medieval climate and societal changes in the Caucasus. Dream position: a great international team to work with, super research topic and amazing field sites. www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns... #PostdocJobs #AcademicJobs

Great piece in AZ Water Agenda explaining options in draft EIS for managing Colo River water in drier future. Though I suspect future hydrology will be even worse than pictured, this may be drastic enough to finally get the attention of people here in AZ! azwateragenda.beehiiv.com/p/the-cost-o...

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Anybody know why there are no P monticola (western white pine) data on the ITRDB? There are some older studies (doi.org/10.2307/1934...). Are they just mixed up with sugar pine? @firescar.bsky.social @acsank.bsky.social @rmtrr.bsky.social @thetreecorener.bsky.social

New study provides the evidence for the pervasive presence of cryogenic vacuum distillation artefacts in leaf water and identifies deuterium exchange between organic matter and water as the primary underlying mechanism; @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

You probably heard the US admin is threatening to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research: but did you know they already froze funding for the 9 regional Climate Science Adaptation Centers? From tracking invasives to helping tribes with drought, here's why the CASCs matter ⬇️

AGU has a Congressional email and call script up on NCAR:

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

I started getting reports of an unseasonal Joshua tree bloom in the last few weeks, and looking over records on @inaturalist.bsky.social it's pretty widespread! So we're putting out the call for folks to record this "bonus bloom" and help us study it 🌿 lab.jbyoder.org/2025/12/10/w...

Earth's largest land animals are limited by salt. Sodium availability constrains the density and distribution of elephants, giraffes and rhinos across Africa, and offers a new explanation for the so-called 'missing megaherbivores'. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free access: rdcu.be/eTPY2

If you are a dendrochronologist, you will also find this depressing.

I had missed this article earlier. An example of what we're losing, in terms of science that could make a difference for people in this time of climate crisis. Just one relatively small research group at one university (my own #NorthernArizonaUniversity). Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Happy Nevada day to all who celebrate. I see some people who have dressed up in spooky costumes. I don't totally understand what this has to do with Nevada, but to each their own.

magnolia trees are pretty cool

The megadrought currently sucking the Southwest dry is having far-reaching impacts on wildlife, especially migratory birds. The elegant trogon is one of them. With arid conditions intensifying, the birds are producing few young, leading to population declines that worry researchers. 🌎

Cool piece, highlighting some of the impacts of the recent wildfires on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, as well as impacts of shutdown in slowing recovery.

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

Join the Laughlin lab and our new NSF funded project! Awesome opportunity to visit forests across the western US and examine the functional basis of demographic responses to drought and wildfire.

Thank you to the @lasvegassun.bsky.social and reporter @hillarylvsun.bsky.social for a terrific story on research into underground ecosystems that could inform the search for life beyond Earth. Read the story: bit.ly/drinasa #NSHE #NASA #DiscoverDRI #UNLV #UNR

🚨 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

Chunk, a 1,200-pound behemoth with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat Bear Week contest — his first win after finishing in second place three previous years.

It's possible I will recruit a PhD student this year: If you are interested in tree physiological ecology, Bayesian modelling, carbohydrates, hydraulics, or desert/arid ecology please email with a description of your experience. Application deadline December 15. www.unlv.edu/graduatecoll... 🌏

1st pub from Phd student Alicia Formanack synthesizing tree ring widths in drought-killed trees to show that, nope, there are no universal patterns. We present a framework combining previously described syndromes: flashy, decoupled, or declining?🌏🌐 doi.org/10.1111/nph.... @newphyt.bsky.social