Check out WaPo’s coverage of our work published last December!

A sad day for Brunonians

"Overlooked and extensive ghost forest formation across the US Atlantic coast" -- wow what a comprehensive analysis by Yeung, @xiyang.bsky.social et al. 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Next absurdity: Past or future collaboration with Chinese students and scientists would disqualify American researchers from access to funding. 🧪 #academicsky #psychscisky

What a pleasure to have a great science reporter willing to explore the swamps with us!! Great pre-read for a soon-to-be-out paper from #HenryYeung of the @xiyang.bsky.social lab

BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.

In #drylands, plants don’t grow randomly — they self-organize into disordered hyperuniform patterns that help them use water wisely & endure extreme aridity. A beautiful hidden logic of nature, revealed in a new @pnas.org study doi.org/10.1073/pnas... including #Maestrelab alumni

Over the past two years, the land carbon sink appears to have weakened dramatically, driving the largest one year jump in atmospheric CO2 on record in 2024. Is this the end of the land carbon sink? I asked around for @newscientist.com.

AI reveals vast 'ghost forests' along U.S. coast, work by Environmental Sciences PhD student, Henry Yeung. www.science.org/content/arti...

Our new perspective on what TLS can (& can't) do in forest research www.nature.com/articles/s41... - led by Eduardo Maeda w lots of great colleagues including @kimcalders.bsky.social @emilyrlines.bsky.social @louiseterryn.bsky.social @benjaminbrede.bsky.social (apols for any I don;t have @ for)

Good reporting on widespread Douglas-fir mortality in SW Oregon. I lived on the edge of the Ashland watershed mentioned in the article ca. 2012-2014. Even then I was seeing patchy mortality from crowding/drought that I knew would get much worse as temps warmed.

I joined a team of ecologists wading through the muck of the Carolina coast in search of "ghost forests" killed by rising seas for @science.org. We were guided by a a new map that reveals millions of dead trees standing along the East Coast, marking an overlooked consequence of climate change...

Based on this research by Henry Yeung et al. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

Some ghosts captured on camera:

Thanks to @jamesdinneen.bsky.social for writing this article published in @science.org today!

Electricity now costs 267% more (!!) for 1 month vs. what it cost 5 years ago near data center hotspots. Awesome reporting from Josh Saul @dinabass.bsky.social Leonardo Nicoletti @naurtorious.bsky.social Demetrios Pogkas (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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..

I'm happy to share a paper in Science Advances that makes the case for a weak land carbon sink, drawing upon JPL and Chloris biomass time series. To close the budget with a net land sink of 0.8 Pg C/y from 2000-2019, we propose increases in the ocean sink and decreases in fossil fuel emissions.

Amazing dataset!!! I can imagine a lot of new findings in the coming years as a result of this effort. Kudos to the team!

Postdoctoral position in Forest Monitoring available. Know your way around spatial datasets? Join us to help monitor changes in Australia's precious forest estate! @westsyduhie.bsky.social jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

Relevant to the #PRC10 audience.

Katrina Bennett, Hydrologist, Los Alamos National Laboratory Hosted By: Howie Epstein & Xi Yang “Improved subgrid distribution of snow-shrub-permafrost interactions in the Arctic” Thursday, September 4th, 2025 3:30 PM-4:30PM, Clark 108

Happy to share a new lab @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social paper: "Drought Response in Three Conifer Species Detected by Sap Flow and Proximal Thermal Remote Sensing" led by the amazing Daphna Uni w/ @mostafaj.bsky.social others @uarizona.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

I like big trees and I cannot lie. Great bit of work by @kimcalders.bsky.social @louiseterryn.bsky.social and colleagues using innovative climbing and scanning approach. Stunning illustration of tree structural and biodiversity complexity zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Good news for a change: Background mortality in unmanaged forests of Europe has not increased over past decades. Great work from the European Forest Reserve Initiative EuFoRIa, out in @journalofecology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

Professor Susanne von Caemmerer FRS and Professor Graham Douglas Farquhar FRS are jointly awarded the Royal Medal (Biological) 2025 for refining the ways we monitor and model photosynthesis in leaves from molecular to global scales. #RSMedals https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/royal-medals/

Reviewing this disinformation filled document was a colossal effort! See link in thread to sign up to receive the comment and press package.

**Fellowship opportunity (graduate/postdoc)** - The Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program is accepting applications through October 15. Postdoc fellowships have always received a 2nd year match from the host unit. Come join us! fellowships.si.edu/opportunity/...

Our "Joshua tree is CAM" paper is finally out: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Data collection started back in 2021, when we saw weird results in some RNAseq that made me stop and wonder if Joshua trees, long thought to be C3, were actually...CAM!

📢Just out! A new paper by the team in @pnas.org : Observed declines in leaf nitrogen explained by photosynthetic acclimation to CO2! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Maoya Bassiouni, @nickgregsmith.bsky.social @trevorkeenan.bsky.social et al.

That phony EPA 'climate report'? The good folks at @carbonbrief.org fact-checked it. Take a look, and then file a comment with the EPA. interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...

Around the world, the student visa landscape is undergoing a tectonic shift. My latest for @nature.com looks at the impacts on early career researchers—& country economies. One PhD student from China now plans to leave the US: “I want to work somewhere where I feel seen, valued and appreciated”

Terrestrial laser scanning can transform national forest inventories by adding new measurements and a 3D perspective. In our new paper we provide a pathway for implementing 3D forest surveys. 1/6 🧪🌎🌳🌲 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A new study in Nature Climate Change shows contrasting biological production trends over land and ocean. Led by Yulong Zhang at Duke. I am glad to be part of the team. The last study that looked at production over both land and ocean was published in 1998. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out our recent publication from Nature Geoscience and my first paper ever! Our results represent the first global assessment of the impact and drivers of rain-induced carbon pulses since their first official documentation in the 1950s as the Birch effect.

Liftoff! The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar mission has launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre. #NISAR will scan the entire globe twice every 12 days to measure changes in Earth’s ecosystems, cryosphere, and land surface. “It’s orbiting magic.” —Alex Gardner, NASAJPL eos.org/articles/tra...

Hey #ESA25 — please note our session OOS 28 - Advancing Ecological Understanding Through Ecosystem Manipulations: Past, Present, and Future events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det... — it's an awesome speaker list! please RT

Senate CJS bill is passed out of committee, with strong support for NASA and NSF (basically flat budgets) and strongly supportive language for many facilities. www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Interested in how plant intrinsic water-use efficiency (iWUE) responds to rising CO2? Our new paper shows that CO2-enhanced iWUE is mainly driven by reduced canopy conductance, while stimulation of ecosystem photosynthesis is less detectable given current data length. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We join with our VA AAUP Conference & UVa Faculty Senate in condemning the DOJ threats to withhold federal research funding in order to oust UVa President Jim Ryan for not bowing to political interference. We join with them in demanding an independent & public investigation into Ryan's forced exit.

International students enrich university communities and strengthen civic life. We must defend their place in global education, says Maia Chankseliani https://go.nature.com/3G8L2pI

The Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission launches today! Europe’s first geostationary satellite instrument for air quality will deliver hourly, high-resolution observations, significantly benefitting our #CopernicusAtmosphere Monitoring Service. Learn more: atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cams-looking...

NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward. I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.

#SaveNASA #SaveNASAscience

Our new perspective on the use (& misuse) of what we're calling virtual forests (rather than digital twins!), for forest change from space, led by @kimcalders.bsky.social w many great colleagues 🔭 🧪🔬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“The Trump Administration’s shameful and extreme political attacks against the University of Virginia undermine the rule of law, centuries of tradition, and all that UVA contributes to our Commonwealth." - @jonesjay bluevirginia.us/2025/06/uva-...

Dear Friends of Fluxes, join @ameriflux.bsky.social this year in Tucson, AZ for the AmeriFlux Annual Meeting! The meeting will happen from Oct 22-24. Virtual attendance for plenary sessions will be free. Submit abstracts by July 25

How well plants use their photosynthesized carbon? Using global eddy covariance observations and ecological theory, our study reveals the pattern of vegetation carbon use efficiency (CUE) worldwide! @fluxnet.bsky.social @natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...