Democrats in Congress are criticizing President Donald Trump’s unprecedented firing of all members of the National Science Foundation’s governing board—and demanding answers on what the administration plans to do next. https://scim.ag/3R288TX

Climate change is shifting the competitive balance between tree species. The result: Up to 25% of Europe’s forests could experience a change in the dominant tree species in the 21st century. New insights from a deep learning-based meta-model trained on 135 million data points doi.org/10.1038/s432...

On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...

This should be good!

🚨 4 fellowship opps w/ the U.S. EPA #GreatLakes National Program Office! 🌊 Gain hands-on experience in #GreatLakes monitoring, restoration, field sampling on the R/V Lake Guardian, #scicomm, data analysis & more. 📍Chicago, IL ✍️ Apply by May 29 🔗 zintellect.com/Opportunity/...

Congratulations @bjenquist.bsky.social -- Robert H. MacArthur Award for Meritorious Contributions by A Mid-Career Ecologist! 🎉https://esa.org/blog/2026/05/06/ecological-society-of-america-announces-2026-award-recipients/

Very proud of @nathankiel.bsky.social for leading this major contribution and including our senior honors thesis student. Check out what happens if trees do not come back after fire! (It is OA) #Yellowstone #FireEcology

When fires occur under extreme conditions, as those in NW Iberia last summer (doi.org/10.1111/gcb....), even highly managed pine woodlands burn! Pinus pinaster woodland used for resin extraction, Molezuelas fire, El Teleno, León, Spain 🧪🌍🔥🌳🍁 wildfire

“It is perhaps beyond obvious that the Trump Administration would look at a forest and see board feet of timber. But the gutting of the Forest Service couldn’t come at a more inopportune moment.”

Worth the read, happening in other agencies as well as NASA. Loss of scientists, congressional funding not being dispersed. Artemis II is still great (!) but can’t mask attacks on science. NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

We are hiring! Interested in doing a PhD and excited about forest management, ecosystem services, simulation modeling and beta diversity? Come work with us @edfm-tum.bsky.social at @tum.de, full job ad here: cloud.edfm.ls.tum.de/index.php/s/...

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”

Not only will you work on birds, but also bats, skinks, geckos & frogs. This research would come up with conservation strategies & a climate change extinction risk atlas for #NewZealand. Applications close 27th April 🦜🦇🦎🐸

Excellent piece on wetlands, one of the habitats that experienced large losses and provides key #EcosystemServices

New paper in Ecosystems led by @biogeobob.bsky.social! Fun NSF-funded collaboration tracing the immediate & delayed whole-stream respiration of dissolved organic carbon using 13C-glucose & 13C-fescue leachate additions + 13C-DIC analyses w/ Michelle Baker & Stephen Plont. 💧🌎

These changes to the USFS, the loss of the regional offices and excellent long-term scientific research, will be devastating. I hope it can be stopped.

Today is the unofficial end of the California rainy season and the last official snowpack survey. There's basically no snow, and the reason is #climatechange. “This particular year is as clear an indication of the influence of climate change as anything we’ve seen” www.latimes.com/environment/...

Check out the new issue of ECOSYSTEMS, great studies in ecosystem ecology across a wide range of systems and scales. We welcome your manuscripts! Top-notch editorial board, quality reviews, timely publication. @steve-carpenter.bsky.social @springernature.com link.springer.com/journal/1002...

1/5 NEW paper alert! 🧪🔥 A lot of you know that snowpack is currently at a record or near-record low in many watersheds in the western US. A logical question is thus: how will the low snowpack affect wildfire in the coming months? Read the thread for key findings ...

⏰ Three weeks left to apply to our Summer School on Blue-Green Biodiversity, a joint effort by @eawag.bsky.social and @wslresearch.bsky.social. 💧🌳 Join us in Davos to learn more about aquatic & ecosystems from an interdisciplinary lens. biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/de...

Extreme global climate outcomes are possible even at 2°C of warming In our new Nature study led by @bevacquae.bsky.social with Jakob Zscheischler and @janasillmann.bsky.social, we show that even moderate warming of 2°C could lead to extreme outcomes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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....

Fair to say that the Western U.S. heatwave has reached record-shattering status, with dozens of locations breaking all-time March monthly heat records & some now approaching *April* records. Swath of record heat extends clear from Pacific to Great Plains, & from Canada to Mexico.

Well put, Gavin-I will use this in my fall graduate seminar, we discuss these issues! @uwmadscience.bsky.social

@wernerrammer.bsky.social et al. have developed a cool new tool to visualize forest simulation output. EcoViz offers both photorealistic and symbolic visualizations of future forest trajectories. Looking forward to using this in science communication! @ecography.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

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

What the National Center for Atmospheric Research means to the atmospheric sciences physicstoday.aip.org/news/what-th...

As climate and disturbance regimes change, forest reorganization is key to maintain the forest carbon sink. Great new work led by @christinadollinger.bsky.social w/ @monicagturner.bsky.social, @akkym.bsky.social and many others. dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Great postdoc opportunity in Sweden!! With the one and only David Wardle 🧪🌐 www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...

@monicagturner.bsky.social @goodgracious23.bsky.social

I’m sick about this. Priceless artifacts and useful information. Gone. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

A researchers’ propensity for risky projects is passed down to their doctoral students — and stays with trainees after they leave the laboratory go.nature.com/4sHq58H

Great opportunity (and a lovely city, too)

Congrats @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social as a member of your PhD committee. So fun to see folks thrive!

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing #academicSky theconversation.com/the-5-stages...

New technologies are revolutionising ecology, with more data than ever available at our fingertips. But what are the costs and perils of ecologists doing less field work? Interviews with several BES members in this fascinating @nature.com article

Here's the full list of international organizations and UN entities and treaties that the US yesterday announced it is withdrawing from. It includes the IPCC, the UNFCC, IUCN, and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). 🌏🌐

Leadership in a scientific society helps you grow professionally, sharpens skills & builds your network while you advance our work. Now is your chance -- Governing Board, Board of Prof Cert & standing committee nominations due 2/2! https://ow.ly/3ROV50XTEu4 (photo: Past Presidents at #ESA2025)

A study in Science reveals an extensive precolonial agricultural landscape in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, suggesting Indigenous American communities cultivated maize intensively between 1000 and 1600 CE, despite a cold climate and marginal growing conditions. https://scim.ag/49voBGO

This paper contains some good arguments about an issue that concerns me a lot when I hear my colleagues talking about LLM use in developing their research: Whose ideas are you presenting as your own? (Though the fatalist argument the authors make at the end of paper is disappointing/bizarre.)

@globalecoguy.bsky.social isn't just an expert on hundreds of climate solutions; he’s also an expert at making complex ideas digestible. That's why he was awarded Climate One's 2025 Schneider Award for Outstanding Science Communication. Hear from Foley live onstage on the latest from Climate One:

*In Defense of Severe Fires* academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... My review of Hutto's book, BioScience @aibsbiology.bsky.social Severely burned forests are “magical places that seem to harbor plant & animal species & visual experiences found under no other forest conditions" PDF: DM 🧪🌎🔥🌳🍁🌱 wildfire

Yes this is true!

Yes! We should all do this much more.

Please contribute! We neex broad input, different forest types, and an array of natural disturbances to see how disturbance regimes are changing.

Important commentary re logging and fire

A study from Oregon State University and the U.S. Forest Service found the four-day extreme heat event scorched more than 1,000 square miles of tree canopy.