Passing of a great colleague, Sandy Echternacht. Very kind, passionate for science, and an effective advocate for students. He'll be deeply missed. www.knoxnews.com/obituaries/p...

Excited to share our paper in @pnas.org with Aldo Compagnoni and Tom Miller ! Climate change may push dioecious plants toward female-biased sex ratios which will impair seed production. Ignoring this feedback underestimates range shifts. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The Georgia Coastal Ecosystems Long-Term Ecological Research program is looking for a postdoc with expertise in wetlands and biogeochemistry. Please pass this along to likely candidates!

Increasing Prevalence of Plant‐Fungal Symbiosis Across Two Centuries of Environmental Change 🔗 buff.ly/b7IL4MJ @joshuacfowler.bsky.social @jmoutouama.bsky.social

#TansleyInsight: #Invasive #EctomycorrhizalFungi: belowground insights from South America @nahpo.bsky.social & @martin-nunez.bsky.social 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue @uh.edu

The ASN (American Society of Naturalists) is seeking Diversity Committee members! Are you an ASN member? Want to make the EEB community a better place? Like being in Zoom meetings with people who have cute dogs? Consider applying! www.amnat.org/announcement...

Have thoughts for a special symposium at the Virtual Evolution meeting (May 20-22, 2026)? The @asn-amnat.bsky.social is looking for proposals! Click here to pitch your idea or find out more: www.amnat.org/announcement... #Evol2026

Come work at the UMich Biological Station as a Michigan Fellow (you don't have to be a biologist)! Apply today: societyoffellows.umich.edu/uncategorize...

We are hiring a full time lab technician to assist with several long-term richness/biodiversity/microbe/drought/restoration manupulation experiments at the KU field station. Applications due this week! Please share. Job Posting - Research Technician share.google/GsSTtiW4rIm5...

#Genotype × genotype interactions in a plant–microbe #symbiosis 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 👆 A #Commentary by Kerri Crawford & Claudia Franco on this article by Hanley et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Applications are NOW OPEN for Smith Fellows conservation research Fellowships beginning in 2026! View the Proposal Guidelines and apply here: www.smithfellows.org/join-us

🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar. Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Job opportunity! Excited to share that we have an opening for a research technician position to help with our research on phenological shifts & species interactions in amphibian communities. (please help spread the word!) More details here: emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Wonderful news!! I cannot be happier😊 Congratulations Agostina!!!

New paper out in New Phytologist! We show that how we define species in AM fungi is flawed — and propose a better, reproducible approach. Grateful to my brilliant co-authors Nicolas Corradi and Franco Magurno for bringing me in and pushing my thinking. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Proud to present the first data paper from the lab, published today in @pnas.org. We describe a new mechanism for CLE peptides as local symbiosis-amplifying signals, promoting plant interactions with beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Congratulations @sagarbashyal.bsky.social et al.!

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

In case you missed it while it feels like the world is 🔥burning🔥 down around us: The deadline (Feb 21) is approaching for submitting a pitch to ASN for a special symposium at Virtual Evolution!

Is your NSF grant on this list? Reach out if so! Ted Cruz released a list of grants flagged for DEI or "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda" from his Oct. report. NSF is using keywords from that report for their review, though Cruz's list is likely larger. www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council

Professors have "too much power" in Texas. Not sure whether to scream or laugh!

Have thoughts for a special symposium at the Virtual Evolution meeting (May 29-30, 2025)? The ASN is looking for proposals! Click here to pitch your idea or find out more: www.amnat.org/announcement... #Evol2025

Have an idea for a symposium at the 2025 SSE/ASN/SSB virtual conference (May 29-30)? The ASN Symposium Committee wants to hear it! Proposals are due February 21. You can find out more here: www.amnat.org/announcement...

Postdoctoral position, Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER. The postdoc will analyze existing long-term (25 y) data sets on plants and invertebrates at ten sites collected by the GCE-LTER. gce-lter.marsci.uga.edu/public/app/a...

Postdoctoral position, Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER. The postdoc will analyze existing long-term (25 y) data sets on plants and invertebrates at ten sites collected by the GCE-LTER. gce-lter.marsci.uga.edu/private/app/...

🌾🌱🧪🦠🌍 New study out today! Please share! Meta-analysis of 302 globally sourced AMF inoculant trials. Only 12% of commercial products both boosted crop growth and had effective root colonization by mycorrhizal fungi. #soilscience #PlantScience #mycosky nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The STEGG-INTERACT Research and Mentoring for Post-baccalaureates program is now accepting applications for our 2025-26 cohort! Application deadline is March 1, 2025. Program runs June 2025 - May 2026 at University of Houston, Rice University, and Texas A&M.

Shit timing, but I want to share the results of a great collaboration with folks all over the country to understand why a crazy sex determination polymorphism exists. The gist: we provide further evidence that ecological factors are important for the evolution of sex determination. 🧵

JOB ALERT! UH Earth and Atmospheric Sciences is hiring an Assistant/Associate Prof position in Coastal Resiliency. Lots of people at the UH, including me, are thinking about coastal processes, so it will be great to have a new coastal colleague. Come join us! uhs.taleo.net/careersectio...

WTF. The electric company in Texas doesn't have a map of outages so people have been using the Whataburger App to figure out who lost power. This is like when Homer was using the Krusty Burger map when they got lost at sea.

Have an idea for a special symposium? The American Society of Naturalists invites you to submit proposals for a symposium at our Asilomar meeting in Pacific Grove, CA (Jan 2025). Proposals due: July 15. See attached call for details! Pls RT. @asn-amnat.bsky.social

Early deadline to the apply to the STEGG-INTERACT postbacc research program is Feb 15! Get those applications submitted before then to get full consideration. This is a great chance to gain PAID research experience in evolutionary genetics. uh.edu/nsm/stegg-in...

I’m a Professor at Northern Illinois University. My lab uses community ecology and synthesis to study how best to repair damaged nature and conserve imperiled species. I’m looking for PhD students for next year; get in touch if you’re interested! #HiSciSky #AcademicSky

For those students writing a GRFP proposal, the key part is: "Electronic systems for proposal preparation and submission will remain available for use, i.e., Research.gov and Grants.gov; however, proposals will not be processed until normal operations resume."

I'm on an NSF grant panel later this year - we were just told access to proposals will not be available during a shutdown. FYI, if you're reviewing right now - download!