#ARISSummit2026 call for sessions is now open until 11/21! The theme of Summit 2026 is “Impact by Design” and will be virtual, March 30-April 1. Submit your session proposal now: umsystem.infoready4.com#freeformComp...

A great opportunity to Join Harvard Forest as a Senior Scientist to lead eddy flux work with your very own towers in a place that is deeply connected to ecosystem ecology! @fluxnet.bsky.social @fluxnetecn.bsky.social @agubiogeosciences.bsky.social @cznews.bsky.social @uslter.bsky.social

JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @uslter.bsky.social Please repost!

“... those National Science Foundation dollars make it directly into our local communities and economies. Those dollars also directly support many of the natural resources and waterways that hold high value for us.” New Trout Lake Station (NTL) documentary: www.wpr.org/news/trout-l...

Next step in a really nice bit of translational ecology, kick-started by a (very modest) bit of seed funding through the APEAL project (lternet.edu/engaging-com...) @johnbesley.bsky.social

New England's famous fisheries rely on tiny but mighty plankton. 😋🎣 That's why scientists keep a close eye on the offshore food web that fuels the region's marine economy through the @nes-lter.bsky.social 📲 Find more reasons we need science—and science needs us: go.whoi.edu/together

"Useless" and/or "silly" federally-funded research has turned the United States into the world’s leader in science and technology over the past 75 years. Such science is under attack throughout the federally-funded agencies in the United States. More at: www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%...

New research from Michigan State University, led by agricultural systems scientist Bruno Basso, addresses a major problem in agricultural carbon markets: how to set an accurate starting point, or “baseline,” for measuring climate benefits. msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/07...

🏔️❄️ Measuring mountain snowpack at strategically selected hotspots consistently outperforms broader basin-wide mapping in predicting water supply in the western United States. Team led by Mark Raleigh (Oregon State) includes Karl Rittger (INSTAAR) news.oregonstate.edu/news/targete...

Thank you @nhpr.org for sharing this great story from Ari Daniel featuring work by @dartmouthcollege.bsky.social researchers including @mirandazamm.bsky.social. 🧪

"Changes in natural systems often occur so gradually that they remain undetectable within a human lifetime. Long-term ecological research...distinguishes random fluctuations from systemic shifts and reveals mechanisms that unfold only over extended periods." phys.org/news/2025-09...

📢 Post doc! Want to join our team? We are looking for 3 post docs in biodiversity science, genetic indicator assessment, and ecological statistics for a fixed term of 2 years! Come unravel the drivers and consequences of global change on biodiversity with us! DL 24.9. #universityofhelsinki

A successful undergraduate research experience (URE) program run through ‪@osuceoas.bsky.social @oregonstate.edu incorporated alternative design features to meet the needs of students who don’t typically have access to time-intensive field or lab-based UREs. eos.org/science-upda...

Please spread the words. This is the third annual AP search in our department to extend the junior faculty cohort!

Distinguished scientist (and LTER stalwart) Alan Knapp talks about his long career in research and the evolution of science. source.colostate.edu/the-art-of-r...

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

LTER's August Community Call call will discuss the APEAL Project's (lnkd.in/gBdEaGV5) approach to thoughtfully and ethically expanding and deepening interaction with local communities. Engaging Local Communities August 27, 9 am -10 am PT Registration open to all, but required (lnkd.in/gCDJSbtv)

MSU Plant Bio is hiring a new herbarium director! Our herbarium is a wonderful resource on campus and I'm excited to have the opportunity to make it even better by bringing in a new director. Details here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

✨🍁Now Open! 🍁✨ The application for the Fall 2025 Young Voices of Science Program is now open through Friday, September 5th! Please share with your community! Application Form: forms.gle/Q7PvvNWQowF9... 🔗No need to be a student to apply! #science #sciencecommunication #scicomm

Another excellent article by @lyndamapes @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social, this one focused on one of my favorite species - Swainson’s Thrush. So nice to see the HJ Andrews @uslter.bsky.social linked to wintering grounds in Costa Rica. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Applied & environmental microbial scientists are central to addressing today’s global challenges. Submit your session proposal for the ASM Applied & Environmental Microbiology Meeting at #ASMicrobe 2026 by 2 p.m. ET on Aug. 5. Learn more: asm.social/2wC

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💡Apply for AGU travel grants, travel fellowships and research grants! 📚 These programs provide support for students, helping cover costs and educational expenses associated with attending #AGU25 or participating in early career-building activities. ➡️ Apply by 13 August: buff.ly/RWwTRvl

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

The publications collected in this month's LTER Network News really demonstrated the wide range of impactful research the LTER does. Here's the list: mailchi.mp/lternet/lter...

🤔How does defunding #oceanscience jeopardize US ntl security? Hear from #WHOI's @pdemenocal.bsky.social, @scrippsocean.bsky.social Dir. Margaret Leinen + Ret. Admiral John Richardson in @washingtonpost.com: go.whoi.edu/ocean-science-national-security #TogetherforScience @savensf.bsky.social

AGU session submission deadline: July 31. Lots of LTER-relevant ones, esp.: Catchment and Critical Zone Science–Understanding Ecosystems through Monitoring, Analysis, and Experimentation (agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...) @hubbardbrook.bsky.social @niwotridgelter.bsky.social @mcm-lter.bsky.social

New to the LTER? Our next community call is an introduction to the network! Learn about who we are, what we do, and how to get involved. Next Wednesday, July 23, at 9am PT/noon ET. Register below! lternet.edu/events/2025-...

A great new pub from our 2017 Synchrony synthesis working group shows that competition increases population synchrony in the short term, but reduces population synchrony over long timeframes. A great example of why we need long-term research! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Even if you’re unaware of the data being collected on Niwot Ridge, you’ve surely benefited from it.” boulderreportinglab.org/2025/07/15/n... Nancy Emery: What long-term science in Boulder’s alpine is teaching the world about mountain ecosystems - The Boulder Reporting Lab

"By June, the Interior of Alaska is a balmy 70 degrees, willows and wild rose are blooming, the mosquitos are out, and the Midnight Sun is at its peak. The field season might be short, but like everyone in Fairbanks they know how to make the most of it." New blog from @bnzlter.bsky.social!

Great to see this @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social by Lynda Mapes on post-fire "reorganization" at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest and LTER! @uslter.bsky.social

Always a pleasure to see others recognize the value of our network. "[The LTER Network] has enabled scientists to get answers that have led to key policy decisions, from amending the Clean Air Act to prevent acid rain to preserving old-growth forests." Lynda Mapes for the @seattletimes.com

New paper! from Aiyin Zhang, Gil Pontius & colleagues describing a new method to map and quantify gross rather than net patch dynamics in a landscape, demonstrated for PIE marsh and pond change over 2 time intervals spanning 75 yrs @clarkuniversity.bsky.social @uslter.bsky.social #NSF rdcu.be/evcei

We'll be at the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social #ESA2025 meeting in #Baltimore this summer! Check out our ⭐Ecological Data Synthesis Workshop⭐ on Sunday, August 10th, which we're putting on with NEON and EDI. There's still time to register! Do it through the ESA app. See you there!

Really excited for this new round of synthesis groups. This one, especially, is the first to emerge from our new synthesis skills for early career researchers course.

AI-curious? LTER information managers share how they are using AI for research from image recognition to metadata standardization to literature discovery and website creation. #AIforall lternet.edu/stories/leve...

Listening First: How KBS is Expanding the Reach of Conservation Research lternet.edu/stories/list...

Attending the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social #ESA2025 meeting in #Baltimore this summer? Join us for an #EcologicalDataSynthesis #Workshop on Sunday, August 10th! I'll be helping out, alongside folks from @uslter.bsky.social #NEON and #EDI. #Synthesis #TeamScience

Synthesis science is a powerful tool to answer global ecological questions. But how to get started? Check out our ESA Short Course, Ecological Data Synthesis: A Primer on Essential Methods and Team Science, at ESA this year. Put on with EDI and NEON! Course site: lter.github.io/eco-data-syn...

Some studies might not paint full picture of how plants respond to climate change | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Great work from the Palmer LTER!

1 more week until application reviews start for this postdoc position. Please share!

This is so cool! #nsffunded curiosity about an unexpected, random bit of DNA that kept turning up in ocean samples led to the discovery of an organelle that could allow plants to generate their own fertilizer from the atmosphere. #curiosity-to-impact www.nsf.gov/science-matt...

Are you going to #ESA2025 and do you want free, continental-scale biodiversity data? Tools to access, quickly explore, and work with NEON and LTER datasets in your R environment? Check out our short course: events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det... @uslter.bsky.social @cyverse.bsky.social

Data Jam 2025 projects are in and they are fabulous! This year we had students Grade 5 - 12 sharing their work, practicing making sense of data and communicating the story they see. Students are creative and clever. @uslter.bsky.social @whoi.edu #nsffunded

Happy 50th anniversary to the MBL Ecosystems Center long-time home of @pie-lter.bsky.social, @toolikfieldstation.bsky.social Arctic LTER, and @harvardforest.bsky.social LTER. So sorry to miss the party! @mblscience.bsky.social

Check out today’s YouTube release, Hidden in Plain Site: Long-Term Research Reveals 20 Million Acres of US Midwest Croplands Ripe for Biodiversity. Special thanks to the Bureau of Land Management, the USDA Forest Service, Esri, and @uslter.bsky.social. New content every Friday! Link in profile.

New open access article connecting coastal radar surface ocean velocities with satellite ocean color to disentangle phytoplankton dynamics #UVA #Antarctic @uslter.bsky.social @usocb.bsky.social 🌊 @jgroceans.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

We've been teaching students across the network synthesis science for the past year, and they've used their skills to do actual synthesis science in four group projects. Next Thursday, they present their work! Tune in to the SSECR Final Symposium on May 22 at 10am PT/1 ET. Register below!