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Plant ecologist. I can see the forest for the trees Associate Researcher @ UCLA My own views
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Julia Koricheva
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Our
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Camille Delavaux
8 days ago
I am honored to have received the 2025 Tansley Medal
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! Thank you to everyone who pushed, challenged, and supported me along the way to complete the underlying work.
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The New Phytologist Tansley Medal 2025 – Camille S. Delavaux
Click on the article title to read more.
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Michael E. Mann
9 days ago
"Science Under Siege -- the NCAR Development" | My new commentary:
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Science Under Siege -- The NCAR development | Michael E. Mann
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has played a key role developing the science of climate modeling and the measurement of climate observations going back […]
https://michaelmann.net/science-under-siege-the-ncar-development/
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David Ho
9 days ago
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.
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Trump Administration Plans to Break Up NCAR - Eos
The Trump administration is planning to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, one of the world’s leading climate and Earth science research laboratories, according to a statement fro...
https://eos.org/research-and-developments/trump-administration-plans-to-break-up-ncar
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Colin Carlson
9 days ago
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? 👇
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Dr. Jeff Masters
9 days ago
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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Carl T. Bergstrom
10 days ago
Can't pass ACA extensions but don't worry. We're going to probe whether Lyme disease is a US bioweapon instead.
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RFK, Jr.–Backed Lyme Disease Conspiracy Theory May Be Probed under New Bill
President Donald Trump is expected to sign a defense bill this week that orders an investigation into whether the U.S. military bioengineered Lyme disease
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-jr-backed-lyme-disease-conspiracy-theory-may-be-probed-under-new-bill/
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New Phytologist
10 days ago
Prioritizing carbon reserve over growth: how aging trees mitigate carbon starvation risk
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#Commentary
by Fang highlighting the recent work by Zhang et al.
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Grant cuts, arrests, lay-offs: Trump made 2025 a tumultuous year for science
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Grant cuts, arrests, lay-offs: Trump made 2025 a tumultuous year for science
How the Trump administration caused seismic disruptions to the world’s premier scientific superpower.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04051-y
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The best science images of 2025 — Nature’s picks
The Sun’s fiery surface, a tattooed tardigrade, rare red lightning and more.
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-025-03935-3/index.html?utm_source=Live
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impressive! what a cutie 🐦
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Jess Piper
13 days ago
The RFK, jr effect.
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Tommaso Jucker
17 days ago
🚨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:
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First meeting is Friday at 10:30CET - join us!
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Rosie Fisher
17 days ago
Climate science job opportunity @cerfacs in Toulouse :)
cerfacs.fr/en/offer/ful...
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Full-time Research Scientist Position in Climate Science - Cerfacs
https://cerfacs.fr/en/offer/full-time-research-scientist-position-in-climate-science/
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LOVE IT Genius David Byrne 💕
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David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PNmcF6eRE7w
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Botany One
25 days ago
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.
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Botany One
25 days ago
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...
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ForestPlots
25 days ago
Important paper showing the dearth of plant taxonomists in the tropical countries that need them most
www.cell.com/trends/plant...
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🌳 Who Identified the Plants? Reclaiming Plant Identification Expertise in Vegetation Science - Bonari - 2025 - Applied Vegetation Science - Wiley Online Library
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Who Identified the Plants? Reclaiming Plant Identification Expertise in Vegetation Science
This article advocates for the formal recognition of botanists who identify plants in scientific publishing, highlighting their essential role in ecological research and data integrity. It proposes p...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/avsc.70046
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New Phytologist
30 days ago
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
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The Guardian
about 1 month ago
Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup
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Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup
Ex-president to start serving term in 12 sq metre bedroom in police base in Brasília after time for appeals elapses Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been ordered to start serving his 27-year sentence in a 12 sq metre bedroom in a police base in the capital, Brasília, after his conviction for plotting a coup. The far-right populist, who governed Latin America’s largest democracy from 2019 until 2022, was handed the punishment in September after the supreme court found him guilty of leading a criminal conspiracy to stop his leftwing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, taking power. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/25/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-prison?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Stopping the Greatest Threat to the Amazon, One Fire at a Time
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
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Stopping the Greatest Threat to the Amazon, One Fire at a Time
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/climate/amazon-fire-paragominas-nepstad.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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The Guardian
about 1 month ago
Far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro arrested in Brazil
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Far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro arrested in Brazil
Politician reportedly taken from his villa into custody at a federal police base about 7 miles from the capital
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/22/far-right-former-president-jair-bolsonaro-arrested-in-brazil?CMP=bsky_gu&utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium#Echobox=1763809332
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Bill Gates’s climate comments are a dangerous distraction -- "People do not have to dismiss or exaggerate the climate threat to justify concerted action"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Max Larter
about 1 month ago
Resharing new paper
@newphyt.bsky.social
🧪 🌳We found a weak trade-off: drought resistant trees tend to be less frost-hardy & vice versa 🌡️🔥❄️ 🌲💪 Conifers are generally tougher than angiosperms🌺 🧐No "costs" related to fast-slow economics spectrum 🍃🌱 📖more:
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Weak global trade‐off between frost and drought resistance in trees
Drought and frost stresses play important roles in determining species distributions, especially at range margins. Understanding how stress resistance traits interact to determine vulnerability to c...
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70718
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AGU (American Geophysical Union)
about 1 month ago
#COP30
is underway! 🌎 Meet
#AGU
member Mercedes Bustamante, Global Environmental Change section leader and expert in climate and biodiversity. She shares insights on Brazil’s leading role in climate solutions and what she’s most looking forward to at COP30.
#Brazil
#ClimateAction
#Biodiversity
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Gabriel M. Moulatlet
about 1 month ago
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/...
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General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally | PNAS
A longstanding question in ecology asks whether or not species that achieve large geographic ranges also have large climatic niche breadths. Using ...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2517585122
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ForestPlots
about 2 months ago
The banks financing fossil fuel exploitation in the Amazon
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
about 2 months ago
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Martijn Slot
about 2 months ago
New paper led by
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@newphyt.bsky.social
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High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land plants
The effect of high temperature on plant performance and survival is a topic of great interest given the ongoing rise in global heatwave frequency, duration, and intensity. The temperature at which ph....
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70661
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Tomer Ullman
about 2 months ago
Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
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#DodgersWin
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#WorldSeries
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MeidasTouch
about 2 months ago
JUST IN: The U.S. Senate has voted 52–48 to overturn Trump’s 50% tariffs on Brazil. Five Republicans joined Democrats: Susan Collins (ME), Mitch McConnell (KY), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Rand Paul (KY), and Thom Tillis (NC). The measure is DOA in the House.
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Tom Pugh
2 months ago
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!
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New Phytologist
2 months ago
#Demography
, dynamics and data: building confidence for simulating changes in the world's forests 📖
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by Eckes-Shephard et al. @WIleyPlantSci
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David Bauman
2 months ago
🌳 New paper out in Ecology Letters! 🌱 Our latest study, led by Lukas Magee, shows that the “legacies” of trees continue to shape forests long after they die.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Ecology
#Forests
#Biodiversity
@umramap.bsky.social
@ird-fr.bsky.social
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Memories of Trees Past: Coexistence Implications of Legacy Conspecific Density Dependence
Negative density dependence persisted for up to 5 years after tree death, but with interspecific variation. Although stabilising niche differences were large, fitness differences–at the seedling life...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70197?af=R
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Forrest Fleischman
2 months ago
My department is hiring an assistant professor of forest regeneration. The University of Minnesota department of forest resources is a great place to work, I really really like it here, and hope we end up hiring someone I can collaborate with.
hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...
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Careers
The Department of Forest Resources at the University of Minnesota seeks outstanding applicants for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor faculty position focused on forest regeneration dynamics. This may include focus areas of early stand dynamics, forest genetics, climate-adaptive seed/tree selection, nursery systems, or environmental stress physiology, which may fall within broader disciplines such as silviculture, restoration ecology, or forest operations. This is a 9-month, full-time, tenure-track faculty position with research (50%) and teaching (50%) responsibilities. The successful candidate will have access to office and laboratory space in the department. The position is available beginning August 2026, with review of applications beginning December 8, 2025.ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities include but are not limited to:
https://hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370716
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Living in Shohei Ohtani’s world 🦄
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Annals of Botany
2 months ago
Breaking Plant Blindness, One Taylor Swift Song at a Time 🌸 Now in
@botany.one
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botany.fyi/dbmzro
Full paper:
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Nature
2 months ago
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.
go.nature.com/4hj9NNV
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Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.
https://go.nature.com/4hj9NNV
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Quarterly Review of Biology
3 months ago
The Quarterly Review of Biology turns 100! We are celebrating our anniversary with free-to-read articles from the archives, through 2026. Learn more:
ow.ly/xXli50X7Z5B
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The Quarterly Review of Biology: QRB 100th Anniversary
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ForestPlots
3 months ago
In temperate trees, growth–survival trade-offs are surpisingly weak and restricted to late-successional stages.
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Congratulations to Kauane Bordin for leading the analysis, and US FIA colleagues for an amazing data set: 12,035 (!) long-term plots
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🧢 Dodgers WIN 💙
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Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says
Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/06/carbon-offsets-fail-cut-global-heating-intractable-systemic-problems-study?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=869351bfad-nature-briefing-daily-20251008&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-33f35e09ea-50372792
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Jacquelyn Gill
3 months ago
Wiley had over $1.8 billion in revenue last year, but their new CEO decided to replace editorial assistants with AI. Our editor and reviewer profiles didn't even get transferred over from the old system; we've been assigned AI-generated keywords that editors need to "fix" to "improve" the algorithm.
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😢 RIP Jane Goodall
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