Super important paper showing the startlingly low number of active plant taxonomists in the world, and in particular in some of the most biodiverse regions! Definitely a study I'm adding to my reference manager!

Please pass along - We've extended the CAMBIUM fellowship deadline to December 15! Our NSF NRT supports new grad students to harness biodiversity big data to adapt to & mitigate climate change impacts. Great fit for evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, ecology & more. cambium.arizona.edu 🧬🌐🌎

in "General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally", we provide key insights into species’ vulnerability to environmental change and the processes that structure biodiversity at global scales. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We are glad to share our recent article pulbished in @pnas.org, where we we demonstrate that plant species that occupy larger geographic ranges tend to have broader climatic niches and are more likely to achieve high local abundances.

@hadley.nz , you’re so real for this 😭🙌 Lowkey spent my whole day glowin’ up my code with the new `genzplyr` pack — it’s giving ✨clean syntax✨ fr. hadley.github.io/genzplyr/ind...

USF told us how much they think we’re worth: an extra $15-22 per paycheck. That’s insulting, unacceptable, and after inflation amounts to a pay DECREASE that keeps Masters GAs BELOW the federal poverty line. We deserve better, and we’ll keep fighting for it📢📢📢

USF’s proposed raise of 2% can’t buy much: here’s a few things this money CAN’T buy. If you think we’re worth more than half a tank of gas every two weeks, drop something else you can’t buy with 2% in the comments⬇️⬇️⬇️

BREAKING: Graduate Assistants at USF deserve more, and people are noticing. Check out this article about our fight for fair wages in the @tampabaytimes.bsky.social this morning!🗞️

▶️‼️𝐀 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐍𝐀𝐅, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰‼️◀️ esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 1️⃣ it now contains 16,429 plant taxa 2️⃣ removal of outdated data & errors 3️⃣ 117,229 new records 4️⃣ 31% increase in the number of geographic regions

My first PhD paper is out! It describes the fluxible #rstats package, a toolbox to process and quality check #ecosystem #gasfluxes in a reproducible and automated way. @unibergen.bsky.social @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @bjerknes.uib.no @li-corenv.bsky.social @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

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🧪🌐🌾

Cool new work coming out of the Mahli lab! Once again, strong evidence that losing the big animals is a big deal! Energy flows reveal declining ecosystem functions by animals across Africa | Nature share.google/CGLck9p0D5At...

The fact that New College of Florida is the first University to sign Trump's compact speaks volumes about both the pathetic states of both New College and the Trump administration.

A universal thermal performance curve arises in biology and ecology doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

One in six species on Earth experienced extraordinarily high temperatures across more than 25% of their range in 2024--the hottest year on record. For most, this was the second year of extreme heat, likely compounding risks. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Hottest year in recorded history compounds global biodiversity risks | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... What species and regions experienced no-analogue conditions? How well can we predict them? How often are species hit again and again?

Our own Vigdis Vandvik will be Coordinating Lead Author on the upcoming seventh #IPCC report, co-leading the chapter on climate change, #biodiversity, #ecosystems and ecosystem services on land and in freshwater. A big, challenging, and very exciting task! @vvandvik.bsky.social shorturl.at/07NJf

fluxible R package CRAN update (v1.3.0): new functions, vignette for tent setup, various fixes, and a logo! 1/4 #rstats #ecosystemgasfluxes #carbonfluxes @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @hilaryrosed.bsky.social @jonastrepel.bsky.social @martabaumane.bsky.social @kristabirk.bsky.social

2024 was the hottest year on record, but how bad was it? Our new paper shows that one in six terrestrial vertebrate species were exposed to unprecedented temperatures across at least 25% of their range! @pnas.org #climatechange #news #conservation www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Interested in #Biodiversity #Informatics? Cool new work led by Xiao Feng examines the current state of the field and proposes how to improve things! doi.org/10.1093/bios...

Tree species exposure to novel climates in #Florida by end-of-century. The green dot indicates @usf.edu's Tampa campus. Data are from our new paper in @pnas.org (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...)

New in @pnas.org we assess future #climate exposure for 32,089 species of #trees🌳 🔹69% face unprecedented climates in ≥10% of range 🔹In taiga & Amazonia >50% of local tree diversity exposed 🔹 31% of species retain >90% of range in stable climates -> important climate refugia♨️ doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

The total amount of public land that Trump wants to make available for sale is equivalent to more than TWICE the size of CALIFORNIA. All to pay for tax cuts to some of the richest people in world history.

We're going to find out why a Christian nationalist “Appeal to Heaven” flag—linked to Jan. 6 and evangelical extremism—was flown on a federal building. We’re filing a FOIA request to get answers from the SBA.

Cool new #OpenScience dataset focusing on #seed #traits in #China led by Hao-Yu Wang! doi.org/10.1111/nph.... The paper, data, and code are all readily available (CC-BY), and the code makes good use of R markdown to document the analyses used in the paper.

Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

On June 15 in 1940, the USSR occupied Lithuania. The USSR did not care about international treaties. Deportations, murders, and terrors followed for the next 50 years. Russia took on USSR's legacy, waging wars against its neighbours, yet to be contained.

Everyone is awesome! Happy Pride Month!

Sen. Alex Padilla was forcefully removed and handcuffed for daring to ask a question at a Kristi Noem press conference — a chilling abuse of power. We've previously warned about her extremist religious views and the danger she poses to our country. ffrf.org/news/release...

A monumental taxonomy unification effort has just been published - thanks to all those who've collaborated for years to make this happen! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/avi...

🧵New paper + open database drop! The Marine Organismal Body Size ( #MOBS ) Database is now live—85,000+ marine species, from plankton to whales, with standardized size data. A huge leap for biodiversity, conservation, and climate science. #science #marinelife onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Wonderful new trophic #rewilding poster: naturbeskyttelse.dk/2025/05/22/n... #restoration #biodiversity #megafauna #natureart

Publication out on the effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests in natcomms.nature.com‬rdcu.be/enby2

Proposed cut to NSF Biology budget is 70%. 70%. Seventy. Call your senators & reps nonstop. Give them numbers on NSF impact for state/district. tableau.external.nsf.gov/views/NSFbyN... explain this will decimate the economy if their districts, especially if it has a major research univ. 🧪

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

“All of science is underfunded—and now we really mean it.” Former NSF Director France Córdova on the future of American science. My piece for Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Interested in #OpenScience, #reproducibility, #FAIRdata, #GBIF, #biodiversity data, and #AI? In November, we are organizing a course for early career ecologists in the home of the reindeer! 🌱🏔️🐑🦌🦋🦇🐞🌾💻 www.uib.no/en/rg/EECRG/...

Slava Ukraini www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

New preprint from the lab! 🧪 Maria Isabel Arce-Plata et al. track 20 years of Species Habitat Index change for 237 species of birds, 68 mammals, and 450 plants in the tropical dry forest of 🇨🇴. Forest conversion to pasture was the largest driver of habitat loss. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

I've started a website with simple graphs tracking how the US economy is doing in terms of unemployment, economic sentiment, and inflation. It will be updated monthly as new data come in. Feedback is welcome! #EconSky usbarometer.com

Today, we remember Romas Kalanta, a herald of freedom. 52 years ago, a 19 year old student set himself on fire in the streets of Kaunas shouting "Freedom for #Lithuania!".

🇱🇹 Deputy FM Gabija Grigaitė-Daugirdė welcomed the historic decision by the CM of @coe.int to establish a Special Tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine: "This will be the first tribunal since Nuremberg to address the crime of aggression – the source of all other international crimes."

The licoread #rpackage helps you import raw #Licor datafiles into #R, and is now on #CRAN. Conveniently it seemlessly works together with the #fluxible package to calculate your fluxes. @jogaudard.bsky.social is on a roll! #rstats #li-cor

“The NSF can be understood not only as a catalyst of scientific promise for national purpose, but also as a guarded response to fears about centralized control over knowledge and thought, shaped by the dark shadows of the Third Reich and the emerging Red Scare.”

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

A shout out to our Plant Functional Trait Courses (#PFTC) offering hands-on training in trait-based ecology & #openscience plantfunctionaltraitscourses.w.uib.no @vvandvik.bsky.social @ymalhi.bsky.social @seanmichaletz.bsky.social @maitner.bsky.social Aud Halbritter