Claire Willing, UW asst. professor of environmental and forest sciences & current NW CASC Faculty Fellow, was just named a 2026 @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Early Career Fellow! Claire's research focuses on how microbes respond, and help plants cope with, environmental change. 🍄🌲🔥👉 bit.ly/4tirqCA

Congratulations to Dr. Tess Grainger @integrativebiology.bsky.social, named an Early Career Fellow with the Ecological Society of America! The fellowship recognizes ESA members who have advanced ecological knowledge & applications within 8 years of their doctorate. www.uoguelph.ca/cbs/news/202...

I feel incredibly honored to have been named an ESA Early Career Fellow! Thank you to my massive group of colleagues and friends who have helped to support me in this journey! Cheers to more exciting research in the years ahead!🍄🌲

I’m so pleased to be named a AAAS Fellow! I remember opening the original email thinking wow, which of my awesome faculty won this nice thing (a perk of being chair is getting emails like that) but it was me! www.washington.edu/news/2026/03...

NSF Update Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit. Now by Directorate... 1/11

Seattle renters, it's time to speak up! Share your renting experience with @mayorofseattle. The survey ends Feb 13th. Link in bio. #yourcity #seattle #thisisyourcity #seattlerenters

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

A secret fascist paramilitary regularly murdering people on the street seems like a better reason to shut down the government than health care tax credits. Just saying...

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Please repost! The LOC Lab @UCSB is recruiting a #PostdoctoralScholar in forest ecology and data science to develop data-driven models of forest resilience to compound disturbances (e.g., fire, drought, insects). 🌱🍁🌏🧪🌐 Applications due Feb 5 Apply here: www.landscapesofchangelab.com/were-hiring-1

The first chapter of my dissertation is finally published in @esajournals.bsky.social! We determined which microbial characteristics best explain soil nutrient cycling and their importance compared to plant and soil factors 🍄🌱 doi.org/10.1002/ecs2... @nahpo.bsky.social @k8eatherton.bsky.social

Super excited to have been named a NW CASC Faculty Fellow! We will be working with partners in eastern WA to study the role of post-fire fungi in forest recovery!🍄🌲🔥 Thanks to @nwcasc.bsky.social for this awesome support and training opportunity!

Get ready for Cairns! ICOM2026 (formally known as ICOM13) is now online. I’ll be there next year and I hope you’ll join us! (I’ve already planned my post-conference bike tour…in Samoa!). 🍄🚲🌊 icom2026.org

Is it all about timing? Read my latest article in @newphyt.bsky.social to find out how space and time shape the relationships among bacteria, ectomycorrhizal fungi, and land trees. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Seattle folks: Stand Up for Science this Friday!

Hey Washington folks: please take two seconds to contact your state legislators to oppose HB 1038, which would ban gender-affirming care for kids in Washington. Gender-affirming care saves lives. Stand up for trans kids!

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...

WA loses access to $200M in wildfire preparedness funding www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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

An overdue, poignant article by Rice et al. about how language and unchecked societal norms can damage the fabric of our academic institutions and exacerbate inequalities – a must read. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

My department is hiring a fungal biologist! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01990

Editing our script for episode4 of #TheClimateRestorers (www.theclimaterestorers.com) on #ecosystemrestoration& #civilizationalshift, the value of fungi for carbon & biodiversity is front of my blissfully overworked mind. UW colleague @clairewilling.bsky.social's paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs. I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A 'sum of their parts' usually happens when you inoculate plants with bacteria AND mycorrhizal fungi – but not always. Read our recent article in @ISMEComms to understand more. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

My department is hiring an assistant professor in plant/tree physiology/ecophysiology. Details here www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/...

The California Academy of Sciences @calacademy.bsky.social is looking for a new curator of botany! This is an endowed position (McAllister Chair) and our herbarium and botany department are world class. Check it out and feel free to send questions my way! us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...

hivemind! Starting a fresh benching account for the new lab and trying to decide on an organizational structure- do folks have strong feelings about organizing by project? by team member? something hybrid? Most folks will work on multiple projects, and most projects have more than one team member.