Epstein files reveal deeper ties to scientists than previously known www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Benito 😍❤️💙🤍 www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

Are you a community ecologist interested in fire ecology? Come join our group! Postdoc position for project FEVER, that aims to understand how fire affects biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and biogeochemical cycles in Mediterranean forests @umramap.bsky.social.

Payment‐based open access is biasing ecology against participation from the Global South nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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From the upcoming #AppsPlantSci #PlantDispersal issue: A comprehensive review on methods to study fruit traits by @linhnchemeco.bsky.social et al Unlocking fruit dimensions: Quantification of functional traits driving plant–frugivore interactions bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Common preservatives used to keep food safe and extend shelf life may be linked to a higher risk of several cancers and type 2 diabetes, according to two recent studies: https://cnn.it/4rfUB7S

As we breach 1.5 °C, we must replace temperature limits with clean-energy targets www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🌍 Need support to attend IAVS 2026? Good news - the application deadline has been extended to 10 February 2026!

Tree diversity is changing in the Amazon and Andes. Belen Fadrique leads our analysis in @natecoevo.nature.com w/ 400 plots + 40 years of RAINFOR records. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Hot, drier, more fragmented forests are losing species. Many in the Andes + western Amazon are gaining them.

Amid these dark moments, something important is beginning to shift. It's clearly the result of healthy political pressure - which we must sustain, and build.

Led by Roel Brienen, our paper in @natcomms.nature.com "Contrasting pathways to tree longevity in gymnosperms and angiosperms" is finally out and formatted. Other bluesky folks contributing to the paper were @yellowbuckeye.bsky.social and @rmtrr.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...

NSF has just put out a call for 'concepts' on how to evolve weather forecasting & computing related parts of NCAR. The word climate *does not appear* in this document, but it does ask for ideas on "Ownership of the NSF NCAR Mesa Lab building for private use" Call for input by March 13....

U.S. Formally Withdraws From World Health Organization www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Massive update to the Global Wood Density Database out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer. What an amazing community resource! 🧪🍁🌐 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Nice to see strong support in Congress: “In an 82-15 vote, the Senate approved a minibus budget bill to fund agencies involved in science and the environment, among other issues, through Sept. 30. The bill passed in the House last week by a vote of 397 to 28.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Twin Special Issue "History of Vegetation Science" in the Journal of Vegetation Science and Vegetation Classification and Survey - call for abstracts vegsciblog.org/2026/01/13/t... @iavs5.bsky.social

Forest Diversity, Biodemography and Global Change post-doc opportunity, ERC project led by Lalasia Bialic-Murphy apply.refline.ch/273855/1824/... Individuals with skills in demographic or species distribution modeling, large language models or functional trait interpolation are encouraged to apply.

Small understory #trees increase growth following sustained #drought in the #Amazon Mateus C. Silva, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience Summary also available in Portuguese.

the loss of human–nature interactions... ‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Soil water availability and climate drive leaf demography of woody plants in the Brazilian savanna doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

Congress set to reject Trump’s major budget cuts to NSF, NASA, and energy science | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Our #OA meta-analysis on ecological predictors of plant responses to sequential herbivory is out in @newphyt.bsky.social. It was an enjoyable collaboration with Zoë Delamore & Erik Poelman from @w-u-r.bsky.social and Zoë did a great job leading the project nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I am honored to have received the 2025 Tansley Medal @newphyt.bsky.social! Thank you to everyone who pushed, challenged, and supported me along the way to complete the underlying work.

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"Science Under Siege -- the NCAR Development" | My new commentary: michaelmann.net/science-unde... #ScienceUnderSiege

Given all the insane things that the Trump regime has done, nothing should surprise us. But I’m still shocked and angry that they are going to dismantle NCAR.

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

It's like on the eve of WWII we decided to stop funding R&D into weapons systems to develop advanced aircraft, ships, and tanks. Climate change is going to kick our butts if we lose NCAR (and NOAA) at a time when climate change is increasing extreme weather events capable of crashing the economy.

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Can't pass ACA extensions but don't worry. We're going to probe whether Lyme disease is a US bioweapon instead.

Prioritizing carbon reserve over growth: how aging trees mitigate carbon starvation risk nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Commentary by Fang highlighting the recent work by Zhang et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/YWNADQ...

Grant cuts, arrests, lay-offs: Trump made 2025 a tumultuous year for science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

impressive! what a cutie 🐦

The RFK, jr effect.

🚨Join the International Dendrometer Network🚨 We're building a community of people using dendrometers to study tree growth, stress, resilience, phenology & more🌳🧪 Join our mailing list for updates, data calls & opportunities: forms.gle/SrdMLcg5BAN9... First meeting is Friday at 10:30CET - join us!

Climate science job opportunity @cerfacs in Toulouse :) cerfacs.fr/en/offer/ful...

LOVE IT Genius David Byrne 💕 youtube.com/watch?v=PNmc...

Vanishing experts, vanishing species: The taxonomy crisis Training a new generation of taxonomists is urgent and new research maps where help is most needed to close the skill gaps. www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. english.elpais.com/science-tech...

Important paper showing the dearth of plant taxonomists in the tropical countries that need them most www.cell.com/trends/plant...

🌳 Who Identified the Plants? Reclaiming Plant Identification Expertise in Vegetation Science - Bonari - 2025 - Applied Vegetation Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

47th New Phytologist Symposium: Extreme Heat – extending the thermal limits of life 2–5 June 2026 University of Córdoba, Spain Travel grant and selected speaker application deadline: 2 February 2026 Poster abstract deadline: 2 March 2026 www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps #PlantScience

Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup

Stopping the Greatest Threat to the Amazon, One Fire at a Time www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...