*Job alert* Within our recently funded collaborative project focusing on assisted migration of #mountain #plant species, we are looking for a #PhD candidate based at ETH Zürich. For further details and instructions, see the job ad: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP... Please repost! 🧪🏔️🌿

Please share: PhD scholarship opportunity in mathematical ecology on the value of information for improving ecological management, open to international students, with a great team @hugepossum.bsky.social, Katriona Shea, Kate Helmstedt, & me at UQ, Australia 🌍 🧮, study.uq.edu.au/study-option...

Pierre Poilievre's plan for Canada is shockingly Trump-ish www.desmog.com/2025/04/23/r...

Not to minimize the horrible stream of news these days but flowers.

Looking for a quantitative ecology #postdoc? Check out this opening on time-series modeling of estuarine food webs - based in my group @natureatcal.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ State agency scientists. Apply ASAP - review of applications starts Apr 4. More info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04818

🚨 Junior Professorship Job Offer! 🚨 Join @cerege.bsky.social as a Junior Professor (CPJ) 2025 to study Pleistocene & Holocene paleoenvironments and human settlements. A unique opportunity to explore past landscapes and their impact on societies! Job ad here : nuage.osupytheas.fr/s/GoSt7kcKMp...

Trump-Doge preparing to end the Keeling curve monitoring (that has tracked atmospheric CO2 since 1950). This attack on science would amount to a crime against humanity I think! www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Scenes from #coastal #fieldwork this week in a long-term #silviculture trial of #redalder, 32 years old. This trial is part of the @oregonstate.edu hardwood silviculture coop. Moss, rain, alder bark beetles, sapsuckers, first wee skunk cabbage, sun, rainbows...we had a mix of it all!!

Help our friends at the NSF: Seeking scientists based in California who are willing to attest to direct harm caused by NSF firings. If you’re in the science world, please RT this to widen the net— a lawsuit on the unjust mass firings needs these comments. (comment briefly here and I’ll follow up!)

Recommended listen: To mark International Women’s Day, Costa Rican diplomat and former UN climate chief, Christiana Figueres, was joined by top climate scientist Dr @katharinehayhoe.com on her @outrageoptimism.bsky.social‬ podcast to discuss why ignoring women endangers the climate.

We didn't expect to be running satire written by the former head of the EPA, but this is Trump 2.0 and, well, here we are.

OMG, get a life!!!! True or not (most likely) what is the friggin obsession with Canada and the relatively meagre amount of drugs that cross the border?! Look after your own house: gun violence, rampant racism, lack of access to healthcare, literacy, ... Large and small issues, you got a lot.

The New Mexico Reforestation Center is hiring a director. We are looking for a dynamic leader that can develop and execute a plan to establish NMRC as a leader in science-based reforestation. Please help advertise the position and reach out if you have questions. careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/dir-new...

NEW EPISODE of #FireEcology Chats! 🔥🎙️ Bob Keane joins Charlotte Reemts to discuss how oak-juniper woodlands respond to crown fires in Fort Cavazos, and how that affects species like the endangered golden-cheeked warbler. #SNFECO @science.nature.org Listen here: ow.ly/T3pV50V5EC8

I'm #hiring: PDRA to join my #ukriflf project to understand how forest structure, function and dynamics are linked in Europe, using high resolution remote sensing data (TLS, UAV-LS). Based in Cambridge. Please share! 🌳⚡🛰️🌲 Full details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50447/ #pdra #forests #lidar

We're hiring! Concordia University (Montreal) has a position open in Synthetic Biology and Biomanufacturing. Looking for expertise in synthetic biology, bioengineering and bioprocessing with an applied focus on sustainability, food security, or human health: www.concordia.ca/artsci/about...

This is heartbreaking.

BREAKING: The USDA, under DOGE orders, has accidentally fired staff working to combat bird flu. It’s now trying to rehire them. It follows the accidental firing of nuclear safety staff last Friday. And the accidental firing of FAA’s experienced aviation safety staff. Incompetence will be deadly.

🚨 #job 🚨: The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), is hiring a full-tenure Professor in silviculture with a focus on silvicultural systems. 📅 Apply by: 29 Apr 2025 ➡️https://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/work-at-slu/jobs-vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=12044&rmlang=UK #ForestScience

The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!) democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

Satellite Observations Reveal a Positive Relationship Between Trait‐Based Diversity and Drought Response in Temperate Forests 📄 https://buff.ly/4gBgsRr @helfenstein.earth

Many areas are seeing record snowfall this winter, thanks to global warming--or rather, global weirding! How so? It hasn't been cold enough for lakes other than Erie to completely ice over yet. As cold air sweeps across them, it's picking up moisture and dumping massive snowfall on the other side.

The Faculty of Environment and Natural Resource, University of Freiburg invites applications for a Full Professorship (W 3) for Fire Ecology in the Department of Forest Sciences. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

The devastation wrought by the US administration on so many federal programs is agonizing and rage inducing to witness. This years #wildfire season just got a Lot scarier. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/c...

The detachment and utter mockery of reality is not laughable it's goddamned terrifying. www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...

Low pressure system west of northern California is rapidly "spinning up" (deepening) and getting that "textbook" mid-latitude cyclone look on satellite imagery this afternoon. This is the major storm slated to bring rain/wind/SoCal debris flow impacts tomorrow (Thu). #CAwx

Tesla sales plummeting in Europe. Canada, let's do this too. There are plenty of other EVs out there that are not built by a Nazi. #TariffsOnTeslas www.ft.com/content/ea23...

So happy to see this new collection out! It was great working with CJFR's (now former) Editors-in-Chief on this. The Introduction, by Dr. Ellen Macdonald and Dr. Sylvie Gauthier, is free access and definitely worth a read. All four invited Perspectives papers, and many more, are #OpenAccess. 🧪🌎🌲

And in another new paper out today, lead author Cari Leland shows how tree-ring proxies and wood anatomy track a transient synoptic scale cold snap across northwestern North American in the late summer (late July to early August) of 1959 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1/4 We have a new paper in Forest Ecology and Management! We modeled bark beetle caused tree mortality as a function of host basal area for eight bark beetle species across the western US. With Jeff Hicke, Chang Gyo Jung, and @mhurteau.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples. 1. Women are credited less in science than men. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW EPISODE of #FireEcology Chats! 🔥🎙️ Bob Keane joins @drericasmithwick.bsky.social to discuss how managers in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States can safely put prescribed fire back into the landscape to address local issues. #SNFECO Listen here: fireecology.org/feco-podcast...

So looking forward to reading this paper on fire deficits and how #treerings helped crack the case. I also love this #infographic

"Towards a global understanding of tree mortality" in @newphyt.bsky.social It was fun and productive participating in this review by the International Tree Mortality Network nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Vapor pressure deficit (VPD) is rising, impacting ecosystems worldwide. But what drives VPD changes—🌡️ or 💧? Do hot vs. dry VPD affect carbon & water fluxes differently? Johnston et al. (2025) looked at 26 climatically diverse sites to find out! 🔗: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Interesting postdoc position open in Helsinki: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

In better news my latest bake is delicious.

Grad students & postdocs doing #ClimateChange research @ BSU, OSU, PSU, UM, UW, WSU and WWU — You can now APPLY for NW CASC's 2025-26 Research Fellowship Program - supporting climate adaptation research + training in actionable science! Proposals due 3/10 bit.ly/2025-nwcasc-rfp 1/5

A sadly relevant new paper led by Ellis Margolis with a long list of distinguished authors in fire ecology and fire history: 'Spatiotemporal Synchrony of Climate and Fire Occurrence Across North American Forests (1750–1880)' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Colleagues at ECCC are forecasting 1.45 ± 0.10°C above pre-industrial levels for 2025, slightly cooler than the record high temperature of 1.55°C of 2024 but virtually certain to be hotter than every year on record prior to 2023 #climatechange Full story at climatedata.ca/2025-forecas...

🧪The Japan Meteorological Agency global average surface temperature value for 2024 has been posted. The annual anomaly of the global average surface temperature in 2024 was +0.62°C above the 1991-2020 average, and was the warmest since 1891.

To understand how climate change affects natural ecosystems we need to know how warming influences species interactions. In our newest paper we show that predator-prey interactions fundamentally change across latitude leading to context dependent effects of warming. 🧪 doi.org/10.1111/oik....

🧪🌲 Norway spruce trees can "learn" from drought! #Trees exposed to experimental #drought developed better resilience to natural drought later on. Important finding for #forest management in a changing #climate! https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00468-024-02595-6

I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣

Embracing the literal darkness as we have arrived in winter in the Northern Hemisphere. I wish some days to like the bear, and sleep the dark days and nights away. Some photos of a recent trip to NW BC and home on the BC south coast.

To every guy who came into the comments on my Gisele Pelicot article to yell “not all men” at me and demand I give due deference to the good guys… It’s time to be quiet. Investigation uncovered more than 70,000 users in Telegram group chats admitting to raping women & sharing tips to sedate them 🧵