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

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

In temperate trees, growth–survival trade-offs are surpisingly weak and restricted to late-successional stages. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Congratulations to Kauane Bordin for leading the analysis, and US FIA colleagues for an amazing data set: 12,035 (!) long-term plots

🧢 Dodgers WIN 💙

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.

😢 RIP Jane Goodall

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in federal grant funding that it froze at the University of California, Los Angeles.

😮 How a severe population bottleneck brought human ancestors close to extinction Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition | Science www.science.org/doi/full/10....

New Tansley Insight in New Phytologist: The path toward a unified plant trait space: synthesizing plant functional diversity. Why a common trait space matters, how to build it, and what it enables. With @e-beccari.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph.... #PlantTraits #FunctionalDiversity

🎉🆕📰🎉: Diversity patterns and knowledge gaps of Atlantic Forest epiphyllous bryophytes: a highly neglected group doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

Lula: Brazilian Democracy and Sovereignty Are Non-Negotiable www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

Our paper just dropped! 🌿💧 We studied how mangrove plants adjust water relations & growth under rising salinity — a key issue as climate change drives sea level rise. Brazilian science from the Amazon mangrove. #Mangroves #ClimateScience #WomenInSTEM academic.oup.com/treephys/art...

Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

www.nature.com/articles/s41... How climate change and deforestation interact in the transformation of the Amazon rainforest: “…Over the past 35 yrs, deforestation has accounted for approximately 74% of the ~ 21 mm dry season−1 decline and 16.5% of the 2°C rise in max surface air temp.”

🎓 Please join us for a PhD in Remote Sensing of Vegetation Structure at Aarhus University. It's a great place to live and work, and an inspiring university to do research 😊 phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...

Great article in the NYTimes about our comment to the DOE about their climate report. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/c...

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#Tree stems accumulate biomass by adding volume of certain density. Which factor is more important? Using tropical #treering data we found: diameter increment explains biomass growth at short term; wood density at long term.🌎🌐🍁 #dendrochronology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"This is not the future the American public desires or deserves."—Seth Berkley @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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New PhD position in Plant Ecophysiology🌳 Study how atmospheric & soil drought shape tree carbon & water relations at the VPDrought experiment in Switzerland. Start Jan 2026. Apply here: m.refline.ch/273855/1759/... @wslresearch.bsky.social

Scientists’ role in defending democracy | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

At least 96 students who had planned to conduct graduate research in the United States have changed their intended destination, citing hostile immigration and science policies go.nature.com/3HBh8ej

Exclusive: The Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from UCLA cnn.it/3UPtS3V

Scientists decry Trump energy chief’s plan to ‘update’ climate reports: ‘Exactly what Stalin did’ [yeah, that was me] | Mark Oliver for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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unbelievable!! Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

There are many ways of destroying the integrity of #science. But one of the most critical is deleting data or failing to collect data or firing the people or destroying the instruments that collect the data that contradicts your preconceived notions. www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

Trump administration takes aim at satellite that measures carbon dioxide and crops www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

The White House has instructed NASA to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.

Plasticity in climate change responses - just published in Biological Reviews What in the role of phenotypic plasticity as an adaptive response to climate change? Looking at mechanisms from the subcellular to the community and ecosystem levels. With Stollewerk, @davidboukal.bsky.social, et al.

How do tropical #trees deal with droughts? The answer is published today in @science.org Our pantropical #treering analysis revealed 2.5% growth reduction during #drought years. Yet, growth declined by >10% in 1/4 of 500 study sites, and in hotter & drier regions. doi.org/10.1126/scie... 🌍🍁🌐 (1/4)

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Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

Update: A Trump administration effort to block all funding that flows to outside health researchers was scrapped Tuesday evening after senior White House officials intervened www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"Forests in the Brazilian Amazon damaged by fire remain ~2.6 °C hotter than intact stands & the extra heat can linger for >30 yrs. The findings suggest that fire alters tropical forests in ways that weaken ability to tolerate climate stress & store carbon."🌏 news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/07/25/b...

Wood density variation from Andean to Amazon forests. Congratulations to William Farfan‐Rios for leading this compelling analysis in @journalofecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Bolsonaro ordered to wear ankle tag over fears he may abscond as coup trial nears end

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Our new paper today in Tree Physiology 🎉 Unveiling the integration of above- and below-ground tree carbon-hydraulic traits in Amazonian trees across hydrological niches url: academic.oup.com/treephys/art...

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...

Global satellite views illuminate our understanding of how rivers forge their paths, which is crucial for sustainable and safe land management along densely populated waterways. Learn more this week in Science: scim.ag/4lDTOuK

"Women climate scientists are connected, productive, and successful but have shorter careers" Accessible, though paywalled at doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🧪

If you all could preserve “criterion” as the singular and “criteria” as the plural, I’d take it as a great personal kindness. Thank you for your attention to th *is crushed to death by a plummeting Acme anvil* #copyediting