Mangroves, vital for protecting coastlines and storing carbon, are making an unexpected comeback due to increased legal protections and public awareness of their importance. Since 2010, the rate of mangrove loss has slowed down, with more forests being restored than destroyed.

Connectivity job opportunity: trustcareers.si.edu/postings/cb8... "postdoctoral researcher to lead the development of next-generation landscape connectivity science, advancing modeling approaches that integrate high-resolution remote sensing, machine learning, and circuit- & network-based methods. "

HAPPY PRIDE from California Native Plants and the Luong Lab!!! 🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 This 2026 Flag from our lab features 152 california native plants! Did you know California is a Biodiversity hotspot with over 6000 native plants? How many plants can you name or spot? 🧐 #CaliforniaNativePlants

🚨New paper alert 🚨 In a 13-year experiment in longleaf pine savannas, we tested when passive recovery works, and how active interventions can help it along. 🧵 Read it here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We're searching for a postdoc fellow to conduct research on biological nitrogen fixation in boreal forests! The postdoc will join a dynamic and fun research group in Umeå. Deadline Aug 27th. Reach out if you have any questions! www.slu.se/en/about-slu... @michael-gundale.bsky.social

The list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2027 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/MAGd4ohyPeoY... students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely! 🧪

HUGE kudos to SSE leadership for spearheading collective action against OMB's proposed rule. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🧪 Societies matter!! Support them with your engagement, conference attendance, and choice of journals. SSE members: please consider signing these letters! SSE non-members: please consider joining ☺️

Call your reps -- blue, red, purple, it doesn't matter -- about the proposed OMB science funding rule. The house can stop this. Let them know it matters for your district.

🚨SSE members: check your inbox!🚨 SSE has sent an important email regarding the OMB's proposed overhaul of federal grant regulations--changes that could affect peer review, publishing, conferences, professional societies, international collaborations, and more. @sse-evolution.bsky.social

Came work with me at the emerging UC Merced Earth Institute. We have two open positions for a: 1) Grant Writer aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF02181 2) Communications and Outreach Coordinator aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF02180 Please share with your networks, and reach out if u have questions I can answer.

"Human teams and AI-assisted teams performed similarly on most tasks, but humans caught more critical errors" "...human expertise remains essential for reliable scientific validation."

The White House Office of Management and Budget is moving to take more control of billions of dollars in federal grants. Critics say the proposed change would jeopardize the integrity of U.S. science. n.pr/4uNA78T

We have an unusual situation this year: we have more mentors than usual for our current number of Singletons! Please share the link with your network! We will match up as many as we can! #ASMicrobe #MicroSky 🦠🧪🔬

This week, I’m starting a new series exploring careers for natural scientists. First up: Program Manager. 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/UZmh0ez

In our intro article, we review recent contributions on the ecology & evolution of wild plant pathogens 🌱🦠🌳 and introduce the articles in this theme issue, emphasizing their relevance to agriculture 🌽🌾🧑‍🌾 and the broader field of disease ecology 🦇🦌🦋🤒👩‍⚕️: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

Atmospheric CO₂ of 340 ppm

Dear colleagues, PLEASE submit a comment against OMB's proposed rule. Elizabeth wrote great guide on drafting a comment. To submit it, go to www.regulations.gov/search and search for OMB-2026-0034. It will take time & effort to write a good comment, but a worthwhile effort to save our profession.

Stephen Miller’s pathological hatred of immigrants has made stupidity and cruelty official policy across every department of the federal government. “Only American citizens and green card holders can be airport janitors” is ridiculous. This man legally worked there for almost 30 years!

Great WaPo article on the **10,000** huge diesel generators at Virginia's data centers permitted to emit 13,000 tons of NOx. The article is based on data crunched here at Sierra Club (1/9) @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

This piece by @jtimmer.bsky.social does an outstanding job of contextualizing OMB's latest attack on American science. Current OMB policy is already choking American science, as this WSJ op-ed points out. The status quo is moribund. www.wsj.com/opinion/get-...

A proposed OMB rule taking effect government-wide on October 1 would hand the White House budget office far more say over which research grants get funded, opening the door to political control of science. This petition asks Congress to investigate and block it before it lands.

The University of Washington Department of Microbiology seeks to hire an Assistant Professor, Tenure Track. apply.interfolio.com/185622 We're interested in mechanistic approaches to study physiology and/or pathogenesis of bacteria and viruses, as well as microbial community interactions.

Applying for a green card? We want to understand how the new USCIS on "adjustment of status" is affecting you. Tell us a bit about yourself and how we may reach you. We will not use any information without your permission. Email: [email protected] or Signal: AdrianMa.10

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

I offer a heartfelt Thank You to these authors. This made me smile and cry all at once. I so very much appreciate you taking the time to compile the information on the federal scientist exodus, and talk about why that is important. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Delighted to see this out in its final form! doi.org/10.1093/isme... We established a discussion group focussed on the history of community ecology and how it informs our understanding of microbiota. This review distils those discussions to provide a guide for microbiologists entering the field

Reptiles with longer Wikipedia pages tend to be bigger. The relationship is a power law with exponent = 0.85. I guess humans really like writing about big lizards? The longest article is the Komodo Dragon.

The impact of this on academia will be devastating. We have so many international scholars getting green cards via their employment (myself included). Having to leave their jobs for weeks and months for a consular application is going to be so disruptive.

'Taiwan Travelogue' author hopes book can be read in China. Yang Shuang-zi, tells AFP she hopes her International Booker Prize-winning novel can one day be read in China and facilitate dialogue about the "future Taiwanese people want" u.afp.com/SRz2

"Science is not simply a sequence of tasks that can be optimized....The scientific system thrives on inefficiency: redundant efforts, failed attempts, and divergent paths. These are not costs to be eliminated but sources of discovery." Excellent essay! ⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The path of scientific discovery is akin to the creative process of art, which is never (meant to be) linear or straightforward.

About 400 years ago, beavers were hunted to extinction across Britain. Now they're being reintroduced as little climate warriors, as communities harness their dam-building skills to mitigate flooding. n.pr/3RyMzdN

The New York Times is now parody of itself. Universities that focus on what we do in our day-to-day lives that resonates with people beyond ourselves? My dudes, have you ever been to a regional public university or any campus that isn't Harvard?

Highlighting super-interesting academic research and trying to make it understandable and useful for a wider audience — without sacrificing nuance and integrity! — is just about my favorite thing I do on my channel

NEW: ArXiv, the open-access repository of preprint academic research, will ban authors of papers for a year if they submit obviously AI-generated work. www.404media.co/new-arxiv-ru...

Colors and patterns of California seaweeds #SciArt #PhycologyFriday

scientists found a new fish and LOOK AT IT 🦑🌊🌏🧪 they named it Snuffleupagus because it's covered in shaggy orange elongate skin filaments www.linkedin.com/pulse/meet-s...

Four years ago today 🌿 Giliastrum acerosum, our Bluebowls, blooming at Comanche National Grassland #nativeplants

Proposals due Monday at 5 pm EDT!

Please share with your trainees (will be useful for both undergrads and grad students!)

NSF grantmaking update Last week (5/4) New grants: 836/3480 — 24.0% of avg. Obligations: 810 mil/1.96 bil — 41.5% of avg. This week (5/11) New grants: 903/3637 — 24.8% of avg. Obligations: 1.5 bil/2.06 bil — 72.8% of avg. Data: grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

We are hiring @umichmicroimmuno.bsky.social ! Tenure-track assistant professor position in our Microbiology and Immunology department. We are especially looking for someone working in bacterial pathogenesis

It's #WorldCarnivorousPlantDay! The clinic will be hosting a booth at the Carnivorous & Exotic Plant Symposium & Expo (www.carnivorousplants.org/about/CEPExp...) & the organizers have offered 2 free 1-day tickets. See details in the ad's ALT text! 🚨This is a 24-hour deal so please share+tag soon 🚨

So proud of Dr. Asia Kaiser for her ESA Murray F. Buell Award & recently defending her PhD! Asia is an outstanding scientist & seeking a postdoc (urban ecology, insect biodiversity, bees, agroecosystems, & synthetic control/stat methods). Please connect w Asia w opportunities. Please boost! 🐝🌎🧪🥒🏙️🌱

So cool to see amazing colleagues, past and present, honored!

Heartbreaking loss of a colleague, fellow mushroom enthusiast, and friend. cnas.ucr.edu/news/2026/05...