Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

Extensive mortality of the IUCN Red-listed species Korean fir (Abies korean) on Mt. Halla, Jeju Island, South Korea. The cause is unclear but may relate to lower winter snowpacks and early spring temps. Situation seems similar to yellow-cedar (Callitropsis nootkatensis) in the Pacific Northwest.

Remember that time when we lived through the three hottest years in around 125,000 years & no one was talking about it?

Huge congrats to @rafaelcr.bsky.social for his excellent PhD defense yesterday! Rafa has made large contributions to our understanding of local adaptation to drought in Douglas-fir and the underlying genomic architecture of climate adaptive traits as part of the CoAdapTree project.

Hard to think of a clear depiction of climate politics in Canada than provincial premiers calling for more pipelines and deregulation of oil and gas development as climate-amplified wildfires rage in their own provinces. #cdnpoli

Genomic signatures of climate-driven (mal)adaptation in an iconic conifer, the English yew (Taxus baccata L.) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.29.656833v1

"The Great Wave" of carbon dioxide (CO₂) #ClimateChange #ScienceArt Graphic produced by robbieandrew.github.io

Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years: Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... All data available: www.grene-net.org/data #MOILAB @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi.org 🧵👇

Are you interested in the genomic basis of repeated adaptation? The RepAdapt group now has >70 members working to re-run their whole genome shotgun datasets through a common SNP calling pipeline, sharing VCFs, and working together to analyse data. Please contact me if you'd like to contribute!

I'm hiring! Postdoc available in my lab in Ecological Genomics. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/... I will start reviewing applications mid-July. 🧪🧑‍🔬🖥️🧬🦑. Please share widely, thanks!

Great news - we will be searching for a tree physiologist (tenure track) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, UBC Forestry, later this year. Stay tuned! (Please share.)

Brilliant new paper by Jill Anderson and colleagues using 9 years of transplant experiments and integral projection models to predict the capacity of populations for adaptation and persistence under new climates in Boechera stricta. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A lot of Americans don't know this, but the winner of the Canadian election will be required live in a small cottage located in the backyard of the palace where the viceroy to the King of England lives. The cottage just recently got a new wifi router, which was very exciting for all Canadians.

🚨 #job 🚨: The Department of Forest Ecology and Management at the Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU, is hiring a full-tenure Professor in silviculture with a focus on silvicultural systems, mainly in boreal forests. 🗺️ Umeå, Sweden 📅 Apply by: 29 April 2025 ➡️ www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Hello Bluesky! Good to see you all again! Job alert: I'm looking to recruit a postdoc interested in working at the interface of AI and wildlife ecology, supported by the AI for Biodiversity Change (ABC) Global Center. Apply by April 15, 2025. gaynorlab.weebly.com/join-us.html

It's grant result season for 🇨🇦 students. If successful: well deserved & take time to celebrate your achievements! If unsuccessful: you're in good company & take time to celebrate your hard work & putting yourself out there! In my experience, icecream or a new plant is great in either scenario.

Poilievre pulling a Trump & Musk & making clear he will cut funding to anything he considers “woke” in federal public service & university research - like anything to do with climate science. As Danielle Smith made clear, Poilievre is “in sync” with Trump. We can never let him win. #TeamCarney

UBC, in lovely Vancouver, continues to welcome admissions applications from international students: account.you.ubc.ca/s/apply-ubc.

US friends, a good explanation of how very much we understand the elephant sleeping next to us.

Join the Solutions Summit on April 16th! See the progress of four interdisciplinary groups working on climate solutions related to agroecological transitions, heatwave forecasting, large language models used with IPCC reports, and carbon offsets. This event is supported by @picscanada.bsky.social

See the event schedule for the UBCO Climate+Water Research Symposium- with a plenary on water justice, and panels on ecosystem resilience and on watershed governance. Join in person on April 9th, or watch the plenary broadcast to UBC Vancouver. Register here- climatesolutions.ubc.ca/news-and-eve...

Exciting Job Opportunity! UBC is hiring an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Transdisciplinary Wildfire Sciences. Accepting applications until April 30. ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...

French researcher was denied entry + expelled after US border agents found private messages criticizing Trump’s policies. His devices were searched at random. ⚠️ Travel Tip for all energy folks: If heading to the US, assume your devices may be searched. Never thought I will give this advice 🔌💡

Please share 🧪 We seek 2 postdocs to work on Vancouver Island marmots in the following areas : 1 - demographic models. 2 - conservation genomics. Positions based at UNBC, working with MRF. Full details here marmots.org/recovery-eff... #conservation #jobs

The comic we needed, but substitute a conifer for a lungfish.

Canadians snub the U.S., with nearly 500,000 fewer travellers crossing the border in February. The number of trips hasn't been this low since the #COVID19 restrictions era, by John Paul Tasker www.cbc.ca/news/politic... via @cbcnews.ca

Looking for a postdoc in 🇨🇦? Liber Ero Fellowship liberero.ca * Applied conservation science * Leadership training * Open to int’l applicants * Due Nov 1 🌎🧪🦤

It's unhealthy to freak out about everything Trump does that's terrible for the climate, but gutting the observatory at Mauna Law would be particularly terrible. It's the best documentation on Earth of all the carbon we've spewed into our atmosphere. www.staradvertiser.com/2025/03/11/b...

US/Canada vehicle crossings saw a pronounced drop in year over year volumes of Canadian residents, especially in the same-day segment. In total this February there were about 350k fewer Canadian residents crossing into the US than the year prior (23% drop). Not much change for US resident crossings.

For the first time in human history -- not just in recorded history, but in the 3+ million year existence of modern humans -- carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere has just breached 430 parts per million. We are in a climate emergency.

Huge kudos to everyone who showed up and stood up for science in the US today! Cheering you on from north of the 49th parallel.

Final recap! 2024 Highlight #3: On International Women’s Day, a shout out to the amazing women I had the honour of writing this review with @sallyaitken.bsky.social and Hayley Tumas. We hope it is a helpful primer for the incredible research in this field www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

We need to build a movement to have maybe a 50/50 chance of stopping full fascism. The path is to unite over the realization that the billionaires are the enemy... this is a life-or-death class war. Here's a piece I wrote: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An analysis of forest plant traits from across the tropical Americas suggests that forests are not changing fast enough to keep up with #ClimateChange. Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/3QLYhyc

A timely update to a surprisingly timeless classic. Thank you @thejeffdouglas.bsky.social and everyone involved for this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lzh...

We have a new paper out today, where, among other things, we find evidence that a locally adaptive chromosomal inversion likely trapped an even older inversion along its path to becoming the supergene it is today. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

You can’t overstate the historic importance of today’s speech to both American and Canadian citizens by Canada’s Prime Minister. Please watch it and share it wherever you live, but especially if you’re in the United States. You need to know what Trump is doing, and why. youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w

The $200-billion agreement to protect nature is a ray of hope. Canada played a leading role and showed we can address more than one crisis at once. We need to act on #TrumpTariffs & must safeguard a livable planet for future generations at the same time. #bcpoli #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/science...

So that's the beginning of the end for US Old Growth Forests then, prepare for massive biodiversity and carbon loss, here billed as the opposite www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 🌎

Bioinformatics Job Opportunity Research Associate / Staff Scientist Vancouver Canada Join the Silent Genomes Project to provide an outstanding genetic variation database for Indigenous peoples of Canada to improve rare disease diagnosis tinyurl.com/bm4ptux3 Priority to Canadians Please repost

I think about this map a lot. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...

The opportunity to submit NOIs for Solution Scholar projects closes on February 28th! If you are a UBC faculty member from any discipline with an idea for a climate solutions project, learn more and apply here: climatesolutions.ubc.ca/solutions-sc...

Chaos in the USDA gene banks. A new chief gets fired. Then reinstated. www.science.org/content/arti...

Have an idea for a climate solutions-oriented project? We want to hear it! We are accepting NOIs from UBC faculty members across disciplines for the 2025-2026 Solutions Scholars program until Feb. 28th. Have questions? Come to our Q&A session on Feb. 13th! climatesolutions.ubc.ca/solutions-sc...

As the climate changes, the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events is rising. Our next Climate Conversation on Compound Hazards will feature experts with the Disaster Resilience Research Network sharing their expertise. Register here for Feb. 26th: climatesolutions.ubc.ca/news-and-eve...

This is a great opportunity for anyone looking to gain research experience as a lab technician. Gina is an outstanding mentor!