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I study trees in Panama.
https://striresearch.si.edu/forest-biology/
New publication on stomatal decoupling led by Zhaoguo Wang. I first noticed decoupling in temperature response curves in 2016 (
tinyurl.com/k6dnhn94
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Omg. WTF is Happening?
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks
#ProudBlue
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Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila
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Recruiting a postdoc through Dartmouth's Society of Fellows Program co-mentored with Michael Cox with specialization in forest carbon dynamics, climate policy, and nature-based solutions Apply by January 4th!
apply.interfolio.com/176741
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Lab technician Alicia got us all these T-shirts, with a picture by
@kalimiddleby.bsky.social
. we ARE the Warming Things (up) Lab, and now we have beautiful shirts to show it! Very grateful for the creativity and generosity we have in the team!
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Trevor Caughlin
3 months ago
new PhD position available! The student will develop remote sensing tools to support land management in the western United States, contributing to ongoing USDA-funded research on monitoring and restoring mesic and riparian ecosystems. For more details, please see:
caughlinlab.com/join-the-lab/
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Join the lab! – Caughlin lab
https://caughlinlab.com/join-the-lab/
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This is wild:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Shadow scholars: inside Kenya’s multibillion-dollar fake-essay industry
Sociologist Patricia Kingori is helping to expose contract cheating by scholars in high-income countries.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03399-5?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20251127&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CONR_41586_AWA1_GL_DTEC_054CI_TOC-251127
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New paper w. Chris Doughty & Ben Wiebe on some fun experiments a forest canopy in Panama: Experimental manipulations of albedo and mortality of upper canopy leaves in a tropical forest diverge from earth system model results:
tinyurl.com/22kzdj3z
Press release:
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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Iris Hordijk
3 months ago
There is a PhD position available at
@w-u-r.bsky.social
on seed dispersal and succession! You will be based at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and conduct fieldwork in tropical forests in Mexico on plant-animal interactions. Deadline to apply: 3rd of December
shorturl.at/sLVOU
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PhD position on 'Seed dispersal shapes tropical forest succession' (Seeds 4 Success)
https://shorturl.at/sLVOU
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Franciska de Vries 🟥
3 months ago
🚨 Job alert 🚨 Come work with us as a postdoc modelling the impacts of climate change on plant-soil interactions and C sequestration! Apply here before the 3rd of December:
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Check out this video of the project you will be working in:
vimeo.com/1133112953?s...
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This is "KligrasV5_ENG" by Nyah Yentl van Koningsveld on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
https://vimeo.com/1133112953?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci
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New Phytologist
4 months ago
High
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#TansleyReview
by
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nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@hultinelab.bsky.social
#PlantScience
#photosynthesis
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New paper led by
@bposch.bsky.social
out in
@newphyt.bsky.social
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nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land plants
The effect of high temperature on plant performance and survival is a topic of great interest given the ongoing rise in global heatwave frequency, duration, and intensity. The temperature at which ph....
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70661
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It's odd to be furloughed while my whole lab can remain active (because they're not federal/on Panamanian payroll/fellowships). At least they're having fun by moving me to "former members" on our lab's bulletin board...
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Times are a changing, also in the lab - Forest Biology
Roxana is starting a new phase in her career, as a PhD student in Chris Smith-Martin’s lab at the University of Minnesota, where she’ll be joined by former Forest Biology lab intern Andrés Rojas. We’r...
https://striresearch.si.edu/forest-biology/2025/08/19/times-are-a-changing-also-in-the-lab/
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It finally happened: I was invited to review a manuscript from my own lab, a 3-author paper with me as senior author...
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We welcome back Ibrahim Salman, who will start his postdoctoral fellowship in the Forest Biology lab today!
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Tropical forests are heating up. Can they cope?
Scientists are pushing plants beyond their comfort zone to test their resilience to warming
https://www.science.org/content/article/tropical-forests-are-heating-can-they-cope
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Jalene LaMontagne
9 months ago
I'm hiring a postdoc! Themes: long-term data, plant reproduction, mast seeding, synthesis, macosystems biology. Also, reproducible tesearch. Target submission deadline: 22 June (for priority review). 1-2 year position, $60K/year. 🌲 🌲 🌲
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
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Post Doctoral Fellow - Plant Ecology - HigherEdJobs
Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.
https://www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/details.cfm?JobCode=179134910
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Great seminar by lab visitor and incoming postdoc Ibrahim Salman on the effects of environmental stress on plant-pollinator interactions!
9 months ago
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Carl T. Bergstrom
9 months ago
Harvard today, your institution tomorrow. It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America. All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.
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9 months ago
I have two open postdoc positions in my lab that include opportunities to collaborate with
@alecaborsuk.bsky.social
and researchers at the Salk Harnessing Plants Initiative. If you’re interesting root system architecture or photosynthesis modeling see below:
campuspress.yale.edu/brodersenlab...
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PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS – Brodersen Lab
https://campuspress.yale.edu/brodersenlab/prospective-students/
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I made tiramisu in food containers to look like the leaf-warming boxes we're using in an experiment we've almost finished setting up. Lots of work, but worth it! (Both the experiment and the tiramisu)
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10 months ago
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Geetha Iyer
10 months ago
Ok, bear with the shaky-cam (it is my signature special effect as an overenthusiast), but would you take a look at this blessed date palm? Rosy-faced lovebirds, common pigeons, and gila woodpeckers (I think?) all nesting in the same date palm tree crown. Phoenix, AZ.
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Terry McGlynn
10 months ago
They are dismantling our entire research apparatus, piece by piece. Make sure everybody knows what they are doing. Call your reps whatever color your district is and demand more action.
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Another aspect of being in the Netherlands: I just received my first ever traffic fine for driving 4 kilometer per hour too fast on my way to the hospital. €45,-
10 months ago
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Spending a few weeks in my hometown, helping out my parents after my dad had surgery. Enjoying the bicycle infrastructure and the abundance of spring flowers (wild garlic yields excellent pesto!)
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Fons van der Plas
10 months ago
Two PhD positions available at Wageningen University on resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes. Supervision will be by my great colleagues
@iris-hordijk.bsky.social
@amandataylor.bsky.social
@dominic-martin.bsky.social
@lucianachr.bsky.social
and Merel Hofmeijer.
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PhD position - Resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes
https://www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/phd-position-resilience-of-biodiversity-and-ecosystem-functioning-across-landscapes.htm
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It's good to be home
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You got to be fucking kidding me! No $$$ for climate modeling because young people experience climate anxiety? Since when does this government care about mental health anyway?
www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
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Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...
https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2025/04/ending-cooperative-agreements-funding-princeton-university
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Randall Munroe
11 months ago
Tariffs
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
11 months ago
The chills I got reading this Incredible writing.
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The Panama Canal’s other conflict: Water security for the population and the global economy
Two-thirds of the Panama Canal watershed’s freshwater goes to operate the locks. The country plans to build another reservoir to funnel in more water, but hundreds of homes stand in the way.
https://theconversation.com/the-panama-canals-other-conflict-water-security-for-the-population-and-the-global-economy-253100
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My hard copies of the BCI book have arrived! 98 chapters of plant and ecosystem science. "All" I need now is a comfy chair, a pot of tea, and no distractions for a week. Downloadable here:
smithsonian.figshare.com/articles/boo...
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As Trump rewrites even America’s history, institutions have two choices – submit or find ways to resist | Charlotte Higgins
The Smithsonian’s museums have been ordered to root out ‘divisive narratives’. It’s part of a pattern: the battle lines are now clear, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/31/donald-trump-america-history-museums-smithsonian-institution
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Timothy Snyder
11 months ago
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-read-by-john-lithgow
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Dr. Jennifer Glass (she/her)
11 months ago
Yes!!! Finally a university leader standing up publicly for what is right. No to anticipatory compliance. Thank you UMich Dean Carlos F. Jackson: may you be an inspirational for many others.
mailchi.mp/04bd06b0c03c...
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DEI will Continue at the Stamps School
https://mailchi.mp/04bd06b0c03c/deans-email-for-march-28-2025?e=2797698bc9
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Lauren Wolfe
11 months ago
This is unabashed fascism. Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding to programs with 'improper ideology'
apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding to programs with 'improper ideology'
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”
https://apnews.com/article/trump-smithsonian-executive-order-improper-ideology-558ebfab722f603e94e02a1a4b06ed4d
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Jay Jinsing Falk
11 months ago
A year ago
@drscottataylor.bsky.social
and I got obsessed with a very fuzzy hummingbird chick that hatched on top of a leaf in the Panamanian forest. We wrote a paper about how it might be mimicking toxic caterpillars! Read about it here, or Carl's link below!
stri.si.edu/story/caterp...
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Geetha Iyer
11 months ago
🧵New pub alert! This one is very close to my heart. I teach creative writing and this time last academic semester, I rage-wrote an experimental piece about how important human writing (and all other self-expression) was in a world where ChatGPT and other LLMs pretend at human expression:
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ForestPlots
12 months ago
En nuestro nuevo artículo en Science liderado por @jeaggu, descubrimos que los bosques tropicales están cambiando - pero no lo suficientemente rápido como para seguir el cambio climático.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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(the LI-6800 is) working hard on this holiday (Carnival), while I read a book, drink coffee, and eat indulgent almond tart with cognac-roasted plums...
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Trevor Caughlin
12 months ago
please share: I am recruiting for a PhD student to join my lab for fall 2025. I am interested in finding someone who is passionate about applying models to study plant ecology. Potential study systems include urban environments, sagebrush steppe, and tropical forest.
caughlinlab.com/join-the-lab/
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Dr Ecology 🌲
12 months ago
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 The Slate Plant Ecology Lab @ Ohio State University is seeking a Full-Time Senior Research Technician w/ plant ecophysiology experience to manage seed-based laboratory research projects. $17.31 - 22.77/hr Deadline: Feb 28 🌎🌾🧪🌱🌿🍁🌲🌳🍄🪴🥼
#GenerationRestoration
#JobAlert
#PlantScience
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Research Senior Technician
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https://osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/job/Columbus-Campus/Research-Senior-Technician_R122550-2
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Morning coffee delivery
about 1 year ago
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
about 1 year ago
It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
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Lucas Cernusak
about 1 year ago
James Cook University has advertised a position for an Associate Professor of Ecosystem Processes Research. Please find full details here:
careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/associa...
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Associate Professor, Ecosystem Processes Research - Townsville, QLD, Australia
Are you ready to lead cutting-edge environmental research and make a global impact? James Cook University (JCU) is seeking an accomplished and visionary Associate Professor in Ecosystem Processes Rese...
https://careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/associate-professor-ecosystem-processes-research-townsville-qld-australia
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Dr Lars Markesteijn
about 1 year ago
New fully-funded PhD project "Ecologically-based temperate rainforest restoration: effectiveness for biodiversity recovery, carbon sequestration and resilience". We are now advertising to recruit to this PhD researcher post:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Ecologically-based temperate rainforest restoration: effectiveness for biodiversity recovery, carbon sequestration and resilience at Bangor University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Ecologically-based temperate rainforest restoration: effectiveness for biodiversity recovery, carbon sequestration and resilience at Bangor University, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/ecologically-based-temperate-rainforest-restoration-effectiveness-for-biodiversity-recovery-carbon-sequestration-and-resilience/?p182301
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Today we're celebrating that both Roxana and Andrés got accepted into the PhD program of the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at the University of Minnesota!
about 1 year ago
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Paulo Menezes-Silva
about 1 year ago
🔥Can heatwaves leave a thermal leaky legacy?🔥 Check out our latest paper on gmin dynamics during and after thermal stress🍃📄 Extremely proud of my student Viviane! Special thanks to
@hcochard.bsky.social
@torresruizjm.bsky.social
@martijnslot.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
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Leaf minimum conductance dynamics during and after heat stress: Implications for plant survival under hotter droughts
Temperatures above a critical threshold can increase leaf minimum conductance after cooling, evidencing a “thermal leaky legacy effect” that can reduce pla
https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiaf026
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Global Change Biology
about 1 year ago
Leaf Photosynthetic and Respiratory Thermal Acclimation in Terrestrial Plants in Response to Warming: A Global Synthesis 📄
https://buff.ly/3CsVtm7
#photosynthesis
#climatewarming
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