End-of-year data update to the SRBD (global soil respiration database) github.com/bpbond/srdb

Just in time for the holidays - new lab paper out by Wiles et al that presents a new mapping of climate-driven ecotonal shifts in Michigan over the last 11,000 years and assesses whether ecotonal systems are more sensitive to climate change. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

End-of-year data update to the SRBD (global soil respiration database) github.com/bpbond/srdb

From ancient humans to modern woes, these are the stories that stuck with our News editors this year. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/3LbtbRp

First PhD chapter from student Colleen Mills (not on Bluesky) just appeared in PCE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you are interested in ecohydrology and soil-plant-water relationships under drought, here's the chance to join a great team.

Looking for: postdoc on quantitative history of China; postdoc on measuring wildfire fuels with LiDAR; PhDs on modeling fire in the boreal forest and the Pacific Northwest; MSc’s on earth system science; interns in many topics. Check it out!

Earlier today I listened to a podcast where someone described their work "using a new AI method such as clustering". The relevant Wikipedia page has citations from the 1930s. And how is your day going?

🌟✨New paper: Check out our New Phytologist Tansley review on how changing precipitation patterns (changes in amount, intensity, & frequency of ppt already being observed due to climate change) affect soil organic matter dynamics. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @ghezzehei.bsky.social

Finally out in @natcomms.nature.com ! Drawing on one of the world’s oldest forest research trials, we found that trees growing faster also accumulate more somatic epimutations, supporting the idea that longevity and slow growth help preserve genomic fidelity. 🌳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A great (pre-)christmas gift: our synthesis paper in Ecology Letters just got published! 😊 Thanks, @elsa-abs.bsky.social, @arjunchakrawal.bsky.social, @lucianachr.bsky.social, Pierre Quévreux, and @manzonilab.bsky.social for the great collaboration!! Open access article: doi.org/10.1111/ele.70278

Just before the Xmas break🎉 In @journalofecology.bsky.social and led by Anvar Sanaei, we provide insight into #trait coordination across 90 common and future European #tree species👇 doi.org/10.1111/1365... @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de

The {spatialRF} R package is back from the dead 🧟 Version 1.1.5 🚑, now available on CRAN, patches issues introduced by recent API changes across several dependencies. A development roadmap for the coming months is available here:: blasbenito.github.io/spatialRF/ar... #rstats

With no disrespect to the good folks at posit.co, I'm super tired of authors using #rstats for their scientific analyses but only citing RStudio in their papers; I see this regularly as an editor.

Announcing '#Anthromes and terrestrial carbon: From the deep past to net-zero' – a new joint Special Collection from Plants, People, Planet and New Phytologist 👇 📚 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/anthrome... @ultracricket.bsky.social @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social @ymalhi.bsky.social

First AGU was successful! #AMF #AGU25 #NewOrleans #PlantEcophys Thanks to @nickgregsmith.bsky.social @texastechlib.bsky.social @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social @schmidtsciences.bsky.social

Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

📣 Exciting opportunity: The Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology at the University of Göttingen is looking for two internationally experienced researchers for open-topic postdoc positions. See here for more details on the jobs: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/704255.html

📣I’m recruiting a postdoc to join my team in the new Center of Excellence in Peatlands, Climate Change and Ecological Restoration (PeatResC) at @aalto.fi . Theme: remote sensing of peatlands. Read more about the job here: www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...

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

At #AGU25, tree ring scientist Caroline Leland of LDEO shared her research on dshared research on climate sensitivity of wood from Siberian Pine and Larch in North-central Mongolia to improve or build upon reconstructions of long-term climate. ➡️ Lamont at AGU25: https://lamont.columbia.edu/agu25

Job Alert 🚨 : Two-year Postdoc in Redox Biogeochemistry of Coastal Soils available. Focus on oxygen, metal and carbon cycling in the rhizosphere. shorturl.at/NybzX Start date: April 1st 2026, or upon mutual agreement. Salary: ~82 000 CHF/yr Deadline: Jan 5

I have had the great privilege of being a visitor at NCAR for the past ~3 yrs & can tell you that the people there care deeply about making community-driven & useful tools and providing climate & weather info needed for US and global decision-makers, and are just genuinely good & caring people. 1/n

Pay us money for the privilege of becoming a walking advertisement for The Onion. https://store.theonion.com/products/americas-finest-news-source-since-1988-t-shirt?variant=43500099502149

This @ect-uk.bsky.social post is so nice to see! I am immensely proud to have managed to lead such an exciting, holistic and well-design project over nearly 15 years.

Excited to announce that our latest #SurvivalOfTheDeepest paper was just published! Read more about it here ⬇️

To help #SaveNCAR, read our update below and visit this @aguscipolicy.bsky.social page, where you can find email text and a call script to share with your representatives. agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...

#AGU25 folks, there is a rapid- response town hall TODAY on the #NCAR dismantling at 1 pm, La Nouvelle Orleans ballroom C (per an AGU media advisory)

#ICYMI GIS Day welcomed more than 50 Maryland high school students to our High School Open House for a firsthand look at geography in action, from research talks to hands-on mapping. Learn more: go.umd.edu/hs-open-hous...

A decade ago, we published our highly cited "Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands" paper in Ecohydrology. Today the sequel just dropped! "Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands 2: Peat Depth as a Control on Peatland Resilience" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 1/3

NCAR’s Mesa Lab is literally a science castle dedicated to understanding our planet in an open and collaborative way, and leading the world in that effort. We cannot let this happen.

As someone not with NCAR, I use NCAR-based software everyday to help identify and track regions of excessive precipitation to help NWS forecasters protect lives and property. NCAR is extremely valuable and we need them.

As we hear news of the Trump administration looking to dismantle NCAR, the nation’s preeminent climate research center in Boulder #climate

Attendance at US-based science conferences is bouncing around this year but generally down. #AGU25 has ~10k fewer this year! I explored these trends for @nature.com — including solutions to keep conferences local & productive: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

….and my poster is up! Although you won’t get the pleasure of talking to me about it until 5pm tomorrow 🌱 #BES2025 #WetWoodlands #ForgottenForests #SwampScience #Peatlands

TODAY is the first of two @geolatinas.bsky.social meetups at #AGU25 @agu.org hosted by Lina, Katalina, Tamara, & Ana María, dear leaders in our community 💜👏🏽 Stop by room G114 @11:00 am to connect w/other Latinamerican geoscientists, share opportunities, & importantly, share your story. ALL welcome!

Canadian Society of Soil Science is on bluesky! Give them a follow: @cssssoils.bsky.social

At #AGU25 this afternoon, I have a poster on a fun, new project: "Global patterns of optimal photosynthetic strategies" (B23R-1986; 14:15-17:45) I could use some input from the community on this! Come chat with me about "why photosynthesis be like that"! agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...

If you’re at #AGU25, come by our Town Hall tomorrow at 1PM in 243-244. After the National Climate Assessment was disbanded, a bunch of us got to work to advance climate assessment. We’re the editors of a new U.S. climate assessment collection, & need your help: eppro01.ativ.me/appinfo.php?... #AGU25

Hey #AGU25, check out our session "Vegetation Canopies: Physiology, Structure, Function" happening soon! It starts in ~35 minutes at 14:15 in Room 260. We have a bunch of great talks lined up! agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...

🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!

New in AGU Advances: a community vision for a sustained, actionable greenhouse gas observing system. We highlight how tighter integration of top-down and bottom-up approaches can sharpen attribution and bring carbon information closer to management scales. doi.org/10.1029/2025... #GHG #Carbon

Implementation and Evaluation of Emission‐Driven Land‐Atmosphere Coupled Simulation in E3SMv2.1 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Working with dendrometers or curious about dendrometer research? 🌱🌐🍁🌳 🚨 Join the Global Dendrometer Network 🚨 We’re building a global community using dendrometers to study plant growth, stress, phenology & more. Sign up for updates on meetings, data calls & more 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚨New paper!🚨 Models predict trees like beech will migrate north as climate warms, but rarely consider tree reproduction. Jessie shows these “refuges” are exactly where climate warming will disrupt seed production the most. They may not be such great climate refuges after all. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

After giving my TED Talk, I was invited to speak to the amazing Manoush Zomorodi on NPR's TED Radio Hour about how AI is transforming conservation science. As a lifetime @npr.org listener this was such a bucket list thing for me! I had a blast! Link to listen: www.npr.org/2025/11/28/n...

🌱 Delve deeper into the ecology of soil with "The Ecology of Soil: From communities to ecosystems", a fascinating new book release from our Executive Editor Richard Bardgett! 🪱 Read more: buff.ly/6A4abeW

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