Forecasting is hard, but it is much better to do it with friends 🤗 👇Come meet some new ones, or reconnect with some old ones, at the EFI 2026 Conference in Toronto (Aug 4–7, 2026) 📢 Abstract submissions and travel scholarships are open until April 15

Putting aside issues like company policy on AI use, and the question of whether an AI could write better material than a slightly-above-average (?) writer such as myself, why does using AI not make any sense for me?

🌲Two open postdocs positions in ecosystem fluxes with @cirad.bsky.social The positions - one focusing on carbon allocation, the other on water use efficiency - are based in Montpellier, France. Deadline for applications is 13th April 2026. Read more: www.icos-cp.eu/about/opport...

🚨 Hiring a postdoc (2 years)! We’re looking for someone with skills in data science, remote sensing, or computer science: 🛰️ Build next-gen nighttime light products 🦅 Link light spectra to migration & collision risk Apply or reach out! aeroecolab.com/opportunities

My research group is looking for two new phds!

*Sharing code for research publications* Here's the process that I've ended up with, through various collaborators like Robert Forkel, @simongreenhill.bsky.social , Stephen Francis Mann and others. Not perfect perhaps, but works pretty ok. A student asked, so I made this illustration.

New evidence suggests oxygen wasn’t the primary culprit behind 300-million-year-old mega-bugs. The data indicate such bug behemoths could exist today but likely don’t because bats and birds would quickly eat them into extinction. Let’s celebrate birds. #Paleontology 🧪🧪 New at @science.org

Exciting research environment in a great team and a lovely working space

Lighting small fires to prevent big ones: Georgia's high country forest research Great little piece on what Georgia has been up to for one of her PhD chapters. www.lincoln.ac.nz/news-and-eve...

Exciting new work from Taylor et al in J of Clim. showing tree-ring PDSI reconstructions can identify compound drought-heatwave events in regions with strong land-atmosphere coupling. Clever disentangling of temp and ppt in PDSI recons! journals.ametsoc.org/downloadpdf/...

🌲Please share JFR new paper: A 1000-year tree-ring chronology from Pinus californiarum in Baja California, Mexico | Journal of Forestry Research | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Amazon rainforest was hit with two severe droughts during 2023–2024. Models suggest that just over half the forest will not recover within seven years, which is the maximum time between droughts in recent decades. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/BKQ150YySOw

Climate Impacts in Scenarios: Time to Close the Loop agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Just spotted! - the rare and elusive tenure track position. This one in forest conservation genetics in my department - Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State. Help spread the word! jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/178...

update on the experiment my colleague John Harte started almost 30 years ago www.theguardian.com/environment/...

With the expansion of the journal’s scope, the Editor-in-Chief of Earth’s Future appoints three Deputy Editors to oversee new thematic areas.🌍️ 🔗 Learn more in @eos.org: buff.ly/2pMpFyZ #AGUPubs #ClimateChange #Climate #Sustainability #ClimateResilience #SciencePolicy @wileyecology.bsky.social

We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social

Excited to see our Seasons paper published in L&O Letters this morning! In this @gleonetwork.bsky.social project we grappled with how to analyze seasons and seasonality in lakes over large spatial scales and amid global change doi.org/10.1002/lol2...

Abstracts for #Botany2026 🍃 are due on April 13th! If you work on gas exchange (CO2, H2O), carbon dynamics (photo., NSCs), and water relations 💧on organs different from LEAVEs, submit your abstract to the Non-foliar Gas Exchange Colloquium @bsa-ecophys.bsky.social: www.xcdsystem.com/botany/progr...

Are you working on groundwater related research? We just published a dataset of >200.000 groundwater time series tagged with multiple data flags and combined with meteorological, hydrological, geophysical, vegetation, and anthropogenic variables. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper in PNAS that came out today: Unprecedented Amazonian rainforests damage during the 2023–2024 droughts. Read our paper for details: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The @nationalacademies.org Awards for Excellence in #scicomm have honored some of the best thinkers & creatives I know, like @chanda.blacksky.app @neillewisjr.bsky.social @cbo.bsky.social Top award: $40,000. Deadline: April 3. Explore & apply www.nationalacademies.org/programs/NAE...

Apply now! Hit me up with questions about studying at the University of Vienna

📢 Call for Expression of Interest – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship (MSCA PF) We are looking for a candidate to develop a proposal on: Nitrogen cycling in arid and/or drought-affected ecosystems, with a focus on soil microbial processes (including fungi).

EDITORS WANTED AT ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS -QUANTITATIVE ECOLOGY -THEORETICAL ECOLOGY -ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY -EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY -MARINE ECOLOGY -PLANT ECOLOGY EDITORS FOR OTHER DISCIPLINES NEEDED TOO

Joint ESA-AGU special collection: Ecological Forecasting in the Earth System onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... Props to @rqthomas.bsky.social @careylab.bsky.social @sokole.bsky.social and colleagues for their leadership on this!

On the importance of soil texture for predicting future global soil respiration www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our latest work in @pnas.org shows something surprising: the latest generation of P-enabled vegetation models do not predict a higher CO2 response with P fertilisation www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Together with @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social & @monicagturner.bsky.social, we synthesized studies on post-disturbance forest reorganization. Key insight: Self-replacement is common across biomes, i.e., disturbances act as catalysts of change only under specific conditions doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Come work with us! We're hiring summer field technicians to conduct ecology research in the Colorado Rocky Mountains! nwt.lternet.edu/news/apply-n... @official-bweems.bsky.social @sacnas.bsky.social @fieldinclusive.bsky.social @geolatinas.bsky.social @500womensci.bsky.social #AISES #LGBTSTEM

Make sure to check the new blog from @fluxnet.bsky.social about the FluxART Celebration and Exhibit. It's awesome! fluxnet.org/2026/03/17/f...

*** Data set alert *** We are excited to share our new 3D forest dataset 🌲🌳🌿💻📊 121 terrestrial laser-scanning plots across Europe, all scanned using the same protocol and scanner! From pines to oaks and spruce, it’s a journey through the continent’s forests in millimeter detail. #TLS #Riegl

Wondering why NIH and NSF aren't making new grants? We explain what's happening at OMB. www.science.org/content/arti...

#JustOut The second paper of Vira Leng's PhD is finally out, congrats 👏 !! It is #openaccess and available here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ag... We monitored #nitrousoxide and #methane emissions during two full years in a long-term experiment in Cambodia, comparing different cassava-based cropping systems.

Many journals require data and code sharing. Yet code is still rarely shared and datasets are often hard to reuse. Our new paper introduces the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data & code quality control in ecology & evolution, developed by 26 experienced data editors. 📄 doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

"Widespread Higher Soil Respiration Rates at Nighttime Than Daytime Across Global Forest Ecosystems" in @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Protip: Those of us that have been doing this for a while can tell who hasn't put in the work. We won't ever tell you that, though. We just won't ever read your stuff or hire you. So go on and fill your boots, if you want. It's your tuition $

#WARR on 3/19, 11 am US EDT! note that US has changed to daylight time already. Drs. Sara Warix + Jennifer McIntosh, on weathering, groundwater, and more Register: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... archived #WARR recordings: www.cee.psu.edu/events/women...

Final version published @forestecosyst.bsky.social 📰A resilience dichotomy in mangrove forests: Native resistance versus exotic compensation to climatic and tidal extremes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 @emma-polman.bsky.social sampled soils and vegetation in a wetland-grassland system, and found that despite vastly different plant communities, wet grasslands did not differ from dry grasslands in top soil C stocks. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New paper led by Changhyun Choi from RyuLab@SNU @youngryel.bsky.social 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢-𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐥-𝟐 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐩𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 doi.org/10.1016/j.ag... The study analysed data from several #NEON forest sites and makes use of RS-derived tree species maps.

⚠️ New paper out in @journalofecology.bsky.social Our study highlights the mechanisms associated with the stronger drought resistance of subordinate species in grasslands 🌱☀️ @albertocanarini.bsky.social @andreasrichter.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au @westernsydneyu.bsky.social

AGU is sharply questioning the proposed breakup of NCAR here: "What problem, precisely, is this restructuring intended to solve?" 🤷‍♂️

Heather Turner's contributions to R are massive. It's great to see her now part of R Core. #RStats

Across Europe, climate-driven forest disturbances, such as wildfires and insect outbreaks, are expected to increase over the next century, according to a new large-scale modeling study in Science, substantially altering forested landscapes continent-wide. https://scim.ag/4uwZMmH

Just a couple more days! Get your comments in asap.

My latest for @science.org on the fraught future of NCAR as NSF's deadline nears. It can still go so many ways.

Looking for a post doc position? One more week left to apply for this 3-yr post doc position with me on Arctic shrubification and C balance, based in Helsinki: valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/post...

Tree Regeneration After Unprecedented Forest Disturbances in Central Europe Is Robust but Maladapted to Future Climate Change 🔗 buff.ly/M7hzSsm