Just out in PNAS! We used multi-taxon data to model virtual forest landscapes. Forest withdrawn from timber harvesting are needed in a much higher share than they currently are in Europe, and extensive forests contribute less than expected to multi-taxon diversity. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. https://scim.ag/3KlQkQk

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

The influence of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program really cannot be overstated. The fact that there is still no solicitation for this year is unfair to students and risks damaging the future of American science. Please take 30 seconds to sign the open letter to US STEM Leadership 🧪🌎

Nice article talking about our new NSF-funded radiocarbon and stable isotope facility (The TIME Lab - Tree-Ring Innovations in Mass Spectrometry of Earth Systems) in the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona! science.arizona.edu/news/univers...

Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that’s a problem for aquatic life and people doi.org/10.64628/AAI... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Sequoia sempervirens (redwood; world's tallest tree) is well adapted to high-intensity crown fires (eg 2020), but Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia; world's most massive tree) is adapted to surface fires only! bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪🌍🔥🌿🌳🔥🪴 @botsocamerica.bsky.social

💡 Submit an abstract to an #AGU25 late-breaking session! Submissions will be accepted through Wednesday, 5 November. 👉 Learn more about these two late-breaking sessions and submit your abstract today: buff.ly/JEKRhUP

Working on a talk slide that may irritate every other scientist in the room... with apologies to @xkcd.com

📢 Funded PhD opportunities for UK candidates in beautiful Edinburgh. Get in touch if you're interested in a PhD on understanding the mechanisms of soil carbon cycling and the role of microbes. We work in different ecosystems: peatlands, forests and agricultural soils. Please repost/spread the word.

The DIAMOND project has made an important milestone: the first draft release of six open integrated assessment models (IAMs) that are emblematic in both scientific and policy processes. Now is the chance to contribute and provide feedback! preview.mailerlite.com/y7x9l4x1r1

📢 New Peatpedia post! A brief intro to #peatland soils, peat fossils, and moss piglets. Moss piglets! Microscopic creatures wriggling in the moss. I got very distracted doing background research on them, so a future post will be dedicated entirely to moss piglets! open.substack.com/pub/peatpedi...

Logging changes the composition of the organic matter in nearby streams, making the organic matter more reactive. According to the authors, these changes are enough to flip logging from a carbon-sink to carbon-neutral or even a carbon-source. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Extended deadline! Submissions welcomed until 1st December to the npj biodiversity collection: Impacts of Global Change on Polar Terrestrial Biodiversity 🐻‍❄️🐧 Edited by: @annebeejay.bsky.social, Daly Noll Vergara, Luis Pertierra and me www.nature.com/collections/...

[email protected] is presenting on “Role of Water Chemistry in Shaping Soil Biogeochemistry in Upland Coastal Forests” at the next COMPASS-FME seminar on September 25, 2025 (12pm ET/9am PT) 🎉 Register here: lbnl.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Hope to see many of you on Zoom! Please repost!

So much appreciation for the Canadian government employees who poured this much love into soil survey art. Thanks @geodermatologist.bsky.social for pointing me towards this goldmine!

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

The people I work with are not stupid people and our climate predictions of 30 years ago of global warming have proved to be accurate. Just saying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨 They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏 This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.

[email protected] is presenting on “Role of Water Chemistry in Shaping Soil Biogeochemistry in Upland Coastal Forests” at the next COMPASS-FME seminar on September 25, 2025 (12pm ET/9am PT) 🎉 Register here: lbnl.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Hope to see many of you on Zoom! Please repost!

Trump directives have undermined a 75-year history of independence and threaten the agency’s vaunted track record for excellence. https://scim.ag/3VryMEP

Fibre-optic cables (also used for internet) can be used as a novel means of continuous measurements of #forest #microclimate in space and over time, at 25-cm spatial and 1-minute temporal resolution New paper @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Looking for a postdoc, and interested in river-coastal linkages, #remote sensing, and time series analysis? Come work with us @natureatcal.bsky.social on an exciting project led by @rachelspatial.bsky.social! CC @sfs-src.bsky.social @aslo.org @cerfscience.bsky.social ‪‪@caseagrant.bsky.social‬

📄 New paper out in @journalofecology.bsky.social ...where we show an unexpectedly high variation in litter decomposition rates within a 9-ha forest, despite keeping macroclimate, vegetation and litter quality constant! 🍃🍂🦠🪱🌲 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Very interesting paper on fungal [necromass] traits and soil organic matter priming onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Do heat waves happen in rivers? How do river heat waves (RHW) compare to air heat waves (AHW)? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Here we show: 1) RHWs occur less frequently & intensively but last twice as long as AHWs; 2) RHW have risen much faster than AHWs. Congrats to Dr. Kayal Sadayappan!

Beautiful updated #bryophyte #phylogeny!

Via @bsulman.bsky.social , GBC has a special issue on "Changing biogeochemical cycles along the land-to-ocean aquatic continuum" agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

For a peat to form you don't just need wet conditions you also need stagnant conditions link.springer.com/article/10.1... Our new study follows the thermodynamic profiles to show how fens and bogs significantly differ in when they become closed. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social

A hydrology paper review on PBS: Introducing the latest study on large scale water storage declines globally derived from GRACE satellites over the last 20 years. Drying has intensified since 2014. Study by Chandanpurkar in Science Advances here: doi.org/10.1126/scia... youtube.com/watch?v=YD65...

🥁New paper from Northeastern Mtn🏔️ Network❗️The patterns of herbivory & resource utilization vary along elevational gradients & affect tree seedling 🌱 survival, thus shaping species range shifts. @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social @appmtnclub.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s100...

Buh-bye Disney+. You can bend the knee without my dollars.

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃 www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

Methane efflux from desert soils https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.19.677267v1

"Assistant Professor - Plant Resilience to Climate Change at University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA *Application Deadline: 11/1/2025" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20250919_UCB.pdf #PlantSciJobs

Was just sent this photo: the oldest-documented Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda) is still kicking. First scientifically aged in 1992, this lovely is now rapping up its 260 year (260 years at being 1/2 m or so tall; phot by J. Scheff)

Deep water sampling on Seneca Lake has commenced! Excited to check out the gas concentrations at the bottom of the lake 👩‍🔬

YES to checking citations (and having read what was cited, and correctly citing what the paper actually said.)

Just like NOAA provides weather info for communities, NOAA should provide free, credible, & actionable information about a range climate impacts. For some climate hazards, they do. But not yet for future rainfall. Our new paper provides a workaround until they do. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

"The researchers were told that unless scientific journals had already returned proofs — the final step in the academic publication process — the studies would be subject to a new review process, the two employees said."

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Proud to share our paper: Drought intensity shapes soil legacy effects on grassland plant and soil microbial communities and their responses to future drought, out now in @globalchangebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... (1/n)

Our paper Genomic diversity of the African malaria vector Anopheles funestus was published in Science today! It features inversions, selection in action, museum specimens and putative new ecotypes. doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Our new working group is tackling hygiene challenges that were previously taboo, creating practical solutions and mandatory training for the workforce. Moving beyond the stereotype to welcome diverse talent. Because polar science needs every perspective 🧊

🖥️ From New Phytologist: Leaf inclination is key to modeling canopy function. A new study shows terrestrial LiDAR methods outperform photography, offering more complete and reliable estimates. (Brian N. Bailey) ▶️ nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience #LiDAR

"Treating careful scholarship as somehow less important than the acquisition of data can adversely affect the reliability of the scientific record and consequently, the course of science," writes H. Holden Thorp in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/4mqrKet

We mourn the passing of our Editor-in-Chief Steve Long. His vision to establish one of the first journals dedicated to Global Change over 30 years ago was truly ahead of its time. Through GCB, researchers have demonstrated that biology and ecosystems are not simply victims of global change..

New paper in Nature Climate Change! What are the costs of increasing disturbances? Find out in this amazing contribution by @johannesmohr.bsky.social! Great to see this out and congrats Johannes on such a nice first PhD paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Come work with us! In two week's time, application deadlines close for eight fully funded #PhD positions who will be working together on understanding and mitigating global change impacts and feedbacks from mountains: cmt.w.uib.no/open-positio...