Very pleased to be part of this super cool new paper led by William Hagan Brown in @globalchangebio.bsky.social looking at the impact of elevated CO2 on canopy temperatures in an oak woodland at the BIFor-FACE experiment dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

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Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

Night blooming cactus on my evening walk in Tucson tonight!

If you're looking for a faculty position at the intersection of ecology and computing (both broadly defined), please apply to this joint search between the CEE Department and the College of Computing at MIT: cee.mit.edu/people/share...

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

NYC and adjacent friends: I'm thrilled and terrified to be giving a public lecture in Manhattan at 6pm on Wednesday, 19 November. If you feel like coming into the city* for the evening, I'd love to see you there! *Yes, NYC = "the city" for Jersey girls. www.simonsfoundation.org/event/trade-...

Final version now available #AmJBot @botsocamerica.bsky.social Sequoia & Sequoiadendron: Two paleoendemic megatrees with different adaptive responses to high-severity fires bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Plants are not adapted to fire, but to fire regimes 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🪴 #ecoevo #wildfire

In our new report, based on the data, we suggest that we are hurtling toward climate chaos if trends continue. Thanks are due to my coauthors @michaelemann.bsky.social @petergleick.bsky.social and others. You decide if you agree by reading the paper for yourself here: doi.org/10.1093/bios...

The climate negotiations must be guided by science. This year’s “10 New Insights in Climate Science” report urges action over promises, warning that the world can no longer afford delays. Learn more: www.stockholmresilience.org/5.226014ea19...

🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences @unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳 Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

The deadline is fast approaching! We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll... Deadline: November 14th.

NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more. I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...

Ah... #TheQuesadillas in #Tucson is increasingly in my top 10 of lunch spots and quick burrito and/or tacos. Shout out to perhaps the best Birria in town

10 New Insights in Climate Science report is out now just ahead of #cop30

Excellent collection of climate data visualizations!

Global #fish #invasions transform #ecosystems. Until now a unified view was missing. Our Global Fish Invasion Database (GFID) fills this gap. 1538 spp across 193 countries. Led by Phillip Haubrock esj-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... #bioinvasions #InvasiveSpecies

Very interesting and we'll read in our upcoming lab journal club....

How can we explore the future of the world's forests? Understanding the demography of their trees is key. In We took the new gen of global demographic vegetation models and held their roots to the observations. Thanks @annemarie-es.bsky.social for leading! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This should be in the 'must read list' for 1st year grad students. Loved the quotes, spirit, and important message. I do worry that science is necessary but not sufficient against the current challenges though.

In our latest paper in PNAS, we ask: How can scientific progress be accelerated to meet the urgent challenges of the Anthropocene? We point to significant barriers in forecasting & prediction efforts for the biosphere 🧵👇 🧪🌎🦋 1/n www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #ScienceTwitter #Ecology #Anthropocene

@andrewlhipp.bsky.social gave a stirring talk promoting #NaturalHistory at the #Botany2025 @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social lecture. He has preprinted an essay based on this lecture which is worth a read if you need some hope in ecology. doi.org/10.32942/X2MS85

Still trying to find Macroecologists and other quantitative biodiversity types here so please let me know of anyone to add

Come join us in beautiful Britanny, France in May 2026 for a workshop that I am organizing with @lucievirevolte.bsky.social and @psudmant.bsky.social on Rapid host adaptations to infections: sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...

The CAMBIUM NSF NRT is recruiting PhD students @uarizona.bsky.social! Fellowships for interdisciplinary training in biodiversity big data to adapt to & mitigate climate change impacts. Great fit for evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, plant adaptation, ecology & more. cambium.arizona.edu 🧬🌐🌎

I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖

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Spoiler alert: it's better to have a good theoretical understanding and design appropriate statistical models than it is to throw zillions of superficially "okay, fine" models at a poorly specified (and often deliberately vague) target. A bit of good thinking >>> lots of poor thinking. Shocking!

How many plant species are buzz pollinated? After more than six years in the making, our paper on the convergent evolution of buzz pollinated flowers is out in @journal-evo.bsky.social. Thanks @draverbee.bsky.social @roszenil.bsky.social and all co-authors for your hard work! doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Despite broad political support, one third of the nation's Climate Adaptation Science Centers will wind down in coming days due to lack of funds. The Northeast, South Central, and Pacific Islands will be left without actionable science on drought, floods, wildfire, sea level rise and other hazards.

There is much wisdom and vision here ... "multiverse analyses require thorough, theory-based model selection. Otherwise, they become a “dangerous tool” that drowns valid models in misspecified ones, needlessly eroding trust in science." #TheoryShouldAlsoGuideModelSelection 🧪

POSTDOC JOB AD: I'm hiring a Bayesian ecologist to build a (IMO, extremely fun) model of humpback whale spatiotemporal dynamics in California 2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin. ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003

Interested in resource competition theory, mutualism, spatial patterns or temporal dynamics? I'll be giving a talk in the IITE online seminar series tomorrow summarizing our recent work on microbial cross-feeding that includes all these ingredients.

Court document reveals that the USGS Ecosystems Mission Area would be cut severely, and maybe entirely, along with critical natural resource management staff. This would be devastating for our public lands!

Evening dog walk are the best with a Sonoran Desert sunset #Tucson

I'm excited about the Ecological Society's new Fakhri A. Bazzaz and Steward T.A. Pickett Mentorship Award for Enhancing Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging in Ecology. Nominate your colleagues who have been outstanding mentors! Due Nov. 13 esa.org/about/awards... @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social

Nominate your outstanding senior colleagues for the Ecological Society of America's Eminent Ecologist Award! Nominations due Nov. 13. esa.org/about/awards...

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

ESA members! This is the final week to vote in this year's election. Check your email for a message from *ESA Election Coordinator* and follow the instructions to cast your ballot!

24 early-career ecologists from 13 African countries have arrived at Mpala Research Centre for the #EcologyMasterclass - two weeks of hands-on training in the Kenyan savanna to build skills, confidence and networks. @mpalarc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

Resurveyed Island Vegetation Reveals That Species Colonisation and Extinction Probabilities Are Linked to Traits #FunctionalTraits 🧪🌐🌾 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Assistant Professor - Plant Resilience to Climate Change at University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA *Application Deadline: 11/1/2025" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=job_10-16-25.pdf #PlantSciJobs

Hey, anyone teach a grad-level writing course? Looking for inspo in your syllabi, if you wouldn't mind sharing!

What a delight to revisit the stunning Hilma af Klint exhibition “What Stands Behind the Flowers” at MoMA yesterday, on the last day, before these beauties get packed up. “I will try,” she wrote, “to grasp the flowers of the earth.” Gorgeous Nature Studies—botanical drawings to feed the soul.

Postdoc Opportunity - Interested in plant scaling, quantitative botany, or theoretical plant biology? join our group to explore how plant form, function & scaling principles connect across levels of organization www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐

Amazonian hyperdominance exceeds expectations of neutral theory 🧪🌐🌾 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Really happy to see our new paper published in @natcomms.nature.com @science.org also wrote some text about it which provides a decent summary scienmag.com/amazon-droug...