We've just created an exciting new Phylogenomics Botanist role to join our vibrant team at Botanic Gardens of Sydney and help us build the NSW Plant Tree of Life! Applications close 26 Jan 2026: iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/phylogen... #botanicgardens #nswflora #nswptol #phylogenomics

Opportunity for UK-based ecologists 📣 Specialist environmental recruiter, Allen & York, is seeking ecologists with at least one full season of experience. They are working with leading environmental and multidisciplinary consultancies across the UK who are looking to expand their Ecology teams.

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

⚠️ OPEN POSITIONS The WSL Institute @wslresearch.bsky.social is looking for group leaders in: - #CommunityEcology apply.refline.ch/273855/1817/... - #ConservationBiology apply.refline.ch/273855/1813/...

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Partnering with over 90 farmers across Michigan, Dr. Christine Sprunger (@sprunger.bsky.social) is examining how land management practices impact soil health. Read more about her work to improve soil health, ecosystem diversity and crop productivity: www.canr.msu.edu/news/msu-res... #PlantScience

Research Scientist position at the Cornell Biological Field Station: exciting opportunity for an aquatic ecologist/fisheries scientist to work with a 50+ year time series of fish and limnology data on Oneida Lake $90-95K/yr academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31352

It’s official: I’m joining the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of Iowa as an assistant prof starting Fall 2026! I’ll be recruiting multiple grad students and postdocs to join my lab, so if you’re into disturbance ecology and conservation science… watch this space!

Apply by Jan. 15! The acclaimed MBL Logan Science Journalism fellowships immerse journalists, writers, producers & editors in biomedical or environmental research training. Get invaluable, hands-on experience with scientific discovery on Cape Cod!Apply at mbl.edu/sjp

Setting my out of office reply before going on sabbatical:

Let me understand you correctly, governments can care that people are being murdered?

And here's another resource to support undergraduate summer research placements, the @aspbofficial.bsky.social SURF program (summer undergraduate research fellowship) aspb-surf.secure-platform.com/a Final applications due Feb 6, so start looking now! #PlantSci

I tried to quickly figure out the closest thing to that that exists and got sidetracked gaping at 17th-century brassica illustrations

UF Biology is searching for an Asst Prof in Evolution, Ecology of Infectious Disease - spread the word! @ufresearch.bsky.social @ufgeog.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

UNC-Wilmington is hiring 3 faculty positions: Assistant Professor of Invertebrate Biology: jobs.uncw.edu/postings/38056 Distinguished Professor of Marine Science: jobs.uncw.edu/postings/37951 Distinguished Professor of Marine Biology: jobs.uncw.edu/postings/38009

Meet the 2026 team for the ESA Southwest Chapter! 🌵☀️ We're super excited to serve our community and support your science in any way we can! Got questions or ideas? Send them our way! Stay tuned for introduction posts of each of our amazing new leaders!

Build your skills, your network, and your career as an ecologist! @harvardforest.bsky.social Harvard Forest Summer Research Program in Ecology lternet.edu/opportunitie...

The first time Furnando, the grey fox, has seen our Christmas lights (which we put up yesterday). 🎄 #mammals

Thrilled to share that I recently got a position of an Assistant Professor/SciLifeLab Fellow at Stockholm University, where I will continue my work on #lichen symbiosis. The lab opens in April 2026, and if you are interested in joining please get in touch! #newPI

⚠️ Postdoc position on the #AgroForageTreeProject Economic assessment of inovative grassland-based livestock production #economist #agriculture #postdoc #agroforestry @agroscope.bsky.social

Check out this new Letter to the Editor of the #AJB! "We propose moving away from using imprecise terms like 'gender' in plant reproductive biology, and instead adopting terms that are scientifically accurate, contextually clear, and free from political connotations." doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

Would recommend! As an AE at Journal of Ecology I feel like BES does a great job of trying to make the experience smooth and gratifying.

Happy 5th December, World Soils Day!! Please take a moment to think about your local patch of soil - whether it's your garden, a local park or even a nearby forest. Is the soil is being looked after well there? If not, what can you do to protect it for future generations? 🧪🪱 #Soil #WorldSoilDay

WE GOT FERNS, folks. I hope you like ferns. If you don’t, just listen and you will like ferns. 🌿🌿🌿 Dr. Li is hilarious and charming and you will love him. And ferns. In conclusion: ferns. www.alieward.com/ologies/pter...

Toronyan, an apprentice river-boatman cat, is the mascot for Nagatoro Town in Saitama. His hat is decorated with the town’s flowers, cherry blossoms and wintersweet, and his eyes sparkle like the flowing Arakawa River.

My department at California State University Northridge is hiring! We're looking for a new colleague studying microbiology or molecular/cellular biology. I'm not on the search committee, but happy to answer questions about the department and campus, and life in LA buff.ly/Pc1KOaC

ESA pushed out a poll on how lack of federal funding is affecting the work of research scientists and I basically answered every question with "have you considered the loss of actual federal SCIENTISTS". i will just keep shouting into the void, its cool.

Another year, another successful white elephant lab party full of strategic theft 🐘🎁😇

I am recruiting graduate students for Fall 2026! The Microbial Ecosystems Lab @hot-mes-asu.bsky.social at ASU studies microbial interactions, spatial ecology, and imaging-driven microbiome science. If you love microbes, microfluidics, or single-cell analysis, let’s talk! www.microbialeco.systems

We are looking for a Head of Cell Biology here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social Vegetables. This is a permanent, full-time position located in Wageningen, Netherlands. jobs.kws.com/job/Wagening... #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJobs #PlantCellBiology #PlantBreeding #PlantSciJob #PlantScienceJob

Look babes, I know there's not been a lot to look forward to lately, but we gotta keep our spirits up. It's an imperative. And I know one small thing I can do to help So just to let you know we are about to be so back #jamvent

70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

“When researchers randomly displayed these flood risk estimates to 18M people browsing Redfin, those who saw the feature were more likely to search for homes w/ low flood risk, according to a working paper published in the Nat’l Bureau of Economic Research last Nov*.”🧪 * www.nber.org/papers/w33119

Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Dartmouth College Society of Fellows – Environmental Studies Come join myself and Michael Cox, as we recruit a postdoc with specialization in forest carbon dynamics, climate policy, and nature-based solutions! www.esacareercenter.org/job/2002606/...

If you live in Oconee County or southeast Clarke, you can vote in a special election today that can help swing the balance of power statewide. You can vote at the elections office downtown (155 E. Washington Street) from 8-5 Monday through Wednesday this week. athenspoliticsnerd.com/2025-special...

BSA’s 2026 awards cycle is now open! Kaplan Lecture, Corresponding Member, two $10k dissertation awards, and Graduate Student Research Awards—all with early 2026 deadlines. Join or renew now to be eligible and take advantage of these opportunities. www.botany.org/home/awards.html #BSAawards

🌟 WeINSPIREBio is hosting its first event! On Dec 4, we’re running a webinar: Structures of Success: Career Journeys of Women in Structural Biology If you work in SB, drug discovery, or just like hearing career stories from brilliant people, join us! And please share 🙏🏼 lnkd.in/ewjD5WPt #cryoEM

We are recruiting field technicians to contribute to a field study of adaptation to climate in Chamaecrista fasciculata in Raleigh/Chapel Hill, NC. My collaborators at UGA will soon post similar positions in Ithaca, NY and Archbold Biological Station, FL. Please share jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225...

everything is awful but I have one of the world’s greatest license plates ever made triangleblogblog.com/2024/09/04/e...

Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?

An arbuscular mycorrhiza from the 407-million-year-old Windyfield Chert identified through advanced fluorescence and Raman imaging 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Summary also available in French and Spanish. @nhm-london.bsky.social #PlantScience

I just wrapped up two projects with students working on automated license plate reader tech in the context of abortion and this is still more dystopian and horrific than anything we uncovered. The US is now a surveillance state with border patrol as the Gestapo. apnews.com/article/immi...

Gliophorus psittacinus - Parrot Waxcap for Mushroom Monday. Love the way these so often blend in with their surroundings so well you can hardly find them until their age gives them away #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKWildlife #Naturalist #Mycology #Nature #Naturalist

Good story on the records of those taken during the Chicago raids. Contrary to the administration's claims, few had records or reasons to be arrested. I know it's not surprising to many of us, but it's important that this type of in depth reporting is done so it's on the record.

We are delighted to let you know that your Plants, People, Planet article 'Demystifying Fungal Systematics: A Gateway to Fungal Literacy and Societal/Ecological Relevance Through Familiar Species' has been published on Early View. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Mike Collins (R-GA-10) is hot garbage.