It finally happened: I was invited to review a manuscript from my own lab, a 3-author paper with me as senior author...

We welcome back Ibrahim Salman, who will start his postdoctoral fellowship in the Forest Biology lab today! striresearch.si.edu/forest-biolo...

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...

Great seminar by lab visitor and incoming postdoc Ibrahim Salman on the effects of environmental stress on plant-pollinator interactions!

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.

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...

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)

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.

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.

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,-

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!)

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.

It's good to be home

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...

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

The chills I got reading this Incredible writing.

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...

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...

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...

This is unabashed fascism. Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding to programs with 'improper ideology' apnews.com/article/trum...

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...

🧵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:

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/...

(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...

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/

🚨 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

Morning coffee delivery

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)

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...

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...

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!

🔥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...

Leaf Photosynthetic and Respiratory Thermal Acclimation in Terrestrial Plants in Response to Warming: A Global Synthesis 📄 https://buff.ly/3CsVtm7 #photosynthesis #climatewarming

I finally made a lab website! striresearch.si.edu/forest-biolo... Here you can see who are the awesome people I get to work with, and the sort of things we're doing. I'll post news, opportunities and new publications here.

Hey, @li-corenv.bsky.social, what does this sound mean? 😉

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... New meta-analysis on plant thermal acclimation in @globalchangebio.bsky.social, led by Ting Wu. Some patterns emerged, but a small # of studies + a large range of methods = it's still hard to draw conclusions. More, and standardized experiments are needed.

Just some of the work I've done this week (apart from all the sitting/standing behind my computer). Basically, just cakes and plant ecohpys, and I'm ok with that

Herbivores: 1 Ficus insipida: 0

New paper on leaf heat tolerance in the next issue of Plant Biology. It challenges the assumed correlation between fluorescence-derived T50 measured soon after a temperature treatment, and leaf necrosis: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... The title basically is the abstract, but... (1/3)

Come and be my colleague in Panama! forestgeo.si.edu/forestgeo-st...

Late-breaking job ad: The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, USA) is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Evolutionary Biology!!! More details below. Please repost!

🚨We are recruiting one or more new Lecturers/Senior Lecturers in Biological Sciences (broadly defined, including ecology & global change) here in Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social Apply and spread the word - Bristol is a wonderful place to live and work! Feel free to get in touch with questions.

Here is a link to "Warming effects on trees on Barro Colorado Island", the chapter I wrote for the BCI book: smithsonian.figshare.com/articles/cha...

Using remote sensing to study climate impacts on vegetation? Consider submitting an abstract to "CCS.18: Monitoring Climate Change Impacts on Vegetation" 2025 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium is coming to Brisbane, Australia Aug 3-8 Submission due by 10 January 2025!