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Adam Mahood 🌻

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Plant and fire ecologist

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Such an essential piece. To share with students, trainees, and colleagues all around. (from 7 years ago) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Novelist Cormac McCarthy’s tips on how to write a great science paper
The Pulitzer prizewinner shares his advice for pleasing readers, editors and yourself.
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We did it
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hopefully this won't affect anyone in any way
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Adding some tidy functionality to mgcv! Might be worth checking out
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ArXiv Paperboy (Stat.ME+Econ.EM) @paperposterbot.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
arXiv📈🤖 Gratia: An R package for exploring generalized additive models By
arXiv:2406.19082v1 Announce Type: cross 
Abstract: Generalized additive models (GAMs, Hastie & Tibshirani, 1990; Wood, 2017) are an extension of the generalized linear model that allows the effects of covariates to be modelled as smooth functions. GAMs are increasingly used in many areas of science (e.g. Pedersen, Miller, Simpson, & Ross, 2019; Simpson, 2018) because the smooth functions allow nonlinear relationships between covariates and the response to be learned from the data through the use of penalized splines. Within the R (R Core Team, 2024) ecosystem, Simon Wood's mgcv package (Wood, 2017) is widely used to fit GAMs and is a Recommended package that ships with R as part of the default install. A growing number of other R packages build upon mgcv, for example as an engine to fit specialised models not handled by mgcv itself (e.g. GJMR, Marra & Radice, 2023), or to make use of the wide range of splines available in mgcv (e.g. brms, B\"urkner, 2017).
  The gratia package builds upon mgcv by providing functions that make working with GAMs easier. gratia takes a tidy approach (Wickham, 2014) providing ggplot2 (Wickham, 2016) replacements for mgcv's base graphics-based plots, functions for model diagnostics and exploration of fitted models, and a family of functions for drawing samples from the posterior distribution of a fitted GAM. Additional functionality is provided to facilitate the teaching and understanding of GAMs.
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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"Big fish = more mercury" is only half the story. Size matters because bioaccumulation is the key mechanism, but a bigeye and a skipjack of the same weight are not eating out of the same place. www.franciscoblaha.info/blog/2026/8/...
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What tuna tell us about the world's mercury levels — Francisco Blaha
By far the most-read posts I have ever written are not about IUU fishing, licensing, transhipment or any of the topics I actually work on. They are the ones about mercury in tuna and where the fish ...
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
How many fires > 100,000 acres will there be in Oregon this week?
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
New article! We went to Tucson for a few weeks back in 2019 and looked at some plants and took quite a few soil samples. We found that buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) invasion was associated with lower plant diversity, and soil carbon. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) invasion is associated with reduced plant diversity and changes in carbon storage in the Sonoran Desert
Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) is a perennial bunchgrass, invasive in arid ecosystems of the United States, Australia, and Mexico. Buffelgrass invas…
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Is Charles de Gaulle the worst airport?
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
--Paper-- Fires of Unusual Size: Future of Extreme and Emerging Wildfire in a Warming United States (2020–2060) Disproportionate growth in maximum fire size suggests that changes in fire weather will amplify extreme events beyond increases in ignition frequency alone www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/9/...
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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
60-yr long time series of changes in local environmental conditions across habitat types (forests, grasslands, shrublands & wetlands) using plant species ecological indicator values #EIVs to track back those changes: increase in N-demanding & shade-tolerant species ⬇️ shorturl.at/RAHGc
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Ooooh
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Progressive News Service @prognews.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Members of Apache tribe take sacred land case to Supreme Court. "For the Apaches, Oak Flat holds a direct connection to their creator, making it a foundational part of their religious beliefs. Oak Flat is also the [location] of a large copper deposit." www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
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Apache women make last-gasp attempt to save sacred land at SCOTUS
A group of Apache women filed an emergency request at the Supreme Court to prevent a sacred religious site from being swallowed by a massive copper mine.
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Getting early to the zoom meeting is great because when else during the day do you get time to practice making funny faces at the camera
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Sean Michaletz @seanmichaletz.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🍁Funding for new PhD students ($40k/yr) & postdocs ($70k/yr) coming from outside Canada. Contact me if interested in #Ecophysiology at #UBC in #Vancouver! Possible topics: leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimate, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology, more! michaletzlab.org Please share!
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
iDiv and @uni-jena.de are recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in Trait-Based Community Ecology and Modelling. Highlights: 🔺Full-time (100%, 40 h/week) with the option to reduce to 80% 🔺Fixed-term for 2 years 🔺Salary up to E13 TV‑L 📆 Apply by: 29 March 2026 www.idiv.de/career/job-o...
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Job Openings
Explore exciting career opportunities at iDiv. Join a modern, international, and innovative research centre in the heart of Germany.
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HigherJobz @higherjobz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
💰 Fully Funded | Geoarchaeology Postdoc 2026 | Maastricht University, Netherlands 🔬 Early Helladic roofing tiles research | Geoarchaeology + Geochemistry + Fieldwork Greece 🎓 PhD Required ⏳ Deadline: 13 Mar 2026 🔗 higherjobz.com/geoarchaeolo... #Postdoc #Geoarchaeology @maastrichtu.bsky.social
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Geoarchaeology Postdoc Netherlands 2026 | Fully Funded | HigherJobz
Fully funded Geoarchaeology Postdoctoral Position at Maastricht University, Netherlands. Apply by 13 March 2026. Open to PhD holders.
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Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Minneapolis residents are facing a growing food crisis. Fear from ICE is keeping families—especially elders, parents, and the homebound from groceries. Feed Minneapolis funds trusted local food shelves and kitchens, with a goal of feeding 10,000 people in 2 weeks. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fe...
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Donate to Support Feed Minneapolis: Urgent Food Relief, organized by Andrew Behrman
FEED MINNEAPOLIS A COMMUNITY IN CRISIS NEEDS YOU NOW Minneapolis r… Andrew Behrman needs your support for Support Feed Minneapolis: Urgent Food Relief
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Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
For the day. Rusavskia elegans showing its heart to the world (a bit of a dark heart 😐). NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends
Photo of an orange lichen growing flat on rock. There’s a hole in the rock which creates a hole in the centre of the lichen. The hole is in the shape of a heart which gives the impression that the lichen has a black heart at its centre.
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jobRxiv @jobrxiv.org · 12/02/2026
Aarhus University is hiring for 8 new positions! Individual job details below!👇 #ScienceJobs
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Job opportunities in Flagstaff! Manager, Restoration Ecology & Forest Resilience careers.nau.edu/jobs/manager... Manager, Wildfire Insurance and Resilient Economies (WIRE) careers.nau.edu/jobs/manager...
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Manager, Restoration Ecology & Forest Resilience - Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Special Information This position is an on-site position which requires the incumbent to complete their work primarily at an NAU site, campus, or facility with or without accommodation. Opportunities...
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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
We are seeking a 3+ year postdoc in ocean modelling, to work on an exciting project investigating underwater tsunamis in Antarctica. More about the project here: www.polomints.ac.uk Read more about the post here: lnkd.in/eBjndZPv Please share and help connect us with the best candidates!
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Polar Ocean Mixing by Internal Tsunamis
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
10,000 years of snow avalanche activity in western Norway! ❄️ cp.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
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Imma Oliveras Menor @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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.
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - M/F Postdoctorat projet FEVER: Fire effects on vegetation productivity and nutrient fluxes in Mediterranean ecosystems
Assurez-vous que votre profil candidat soit correctement renseigné avant de postuler
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Andrew Barnas @andrewbarnas.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Took me way too long to realize that its super easy to just merge pdfs in R rather than fussing with Adobe #rstats library(pdftools) pdf_combine( input = c("file1.pdf", "file2.pdf"), output = "merged.pdf" )
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Fast-growing trees are set to dominate the #forests of the #future — but at a cost🌳 Our Nature Plants (@natplants.nature.com) study shows a global shift toward "sprinter" tree species, while slow-growing, functionally critical #trees face elevated #extinction risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Global functional shifts in trees driven by alien naturalization and native extinction - Nature Plants
This study finds that native tree extinctions and alien naturalizations are pushing forests towards fast-growing, resource-demanding species. This global shift could affect carbon storage and ecosyste...
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Michael (Misha) Stemkovski @mishastemkovski.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Species shift their ranges in response to climate change, but many can't keep up. The resulting "community-climate disequilibrium" can impair ecosystem function and cause counterintuitive dynamics, like short-term gain but long-term loss onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Linking Community‐Climate Disequilibrium to Ecosystem Function
When turnover in species composition lags behind the pace of climate change, community-climate disequilibrium increases. We, for the first time, explicitly link this disequilibrium to ecosystem funct...
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Alessandra Fidelis @alefidelis.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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The International Association for Vegetation Science @iavs5.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
🌍 Need support to attend #IAVS2026? Funding for registration, accommodation, and transportation is available through the IAVS. 🌿 🗓️ Applications open: 1 Dec 2025 – 31 Jan 2026 🔗 For more info: 2026gijon.iavs-meetings.org/registration/ #IAVS2026 #VegetationEcology #TravelGrant
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HigherJobz @higherjobz.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Postdoctoral Researcher – CNRS, France Full-time postdoc in Environmental Sciences, Nanopesticides & Sustainable Agriculture Eligibility: PhD Deadline: 4 February 2026 Apply: higherjobz.com/postdoctoral... #AcademicJobs #EnvironmentalScience #PostdocFrance @cnrs.fr
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Postdoctoral Researcher Environmental Sciences CNRS France | HigherJobz
Apply for the Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Sciences at CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, France. PhD required. Deadline 4 February 2026.
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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 26/12/2025
You can specify relative position in ggplot with I(x) I(y). E.g. annotate("text", x = I(.5), y = I(.5), label = "hello!") will place the text in the middle of the plot. This, combined with alignment arguments is like 87% of the magic for me.
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HigherJobz @higherjobz.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Fully Funded PhD in Anthropology, History & Sociology – University of Jyväskylä, Finland. PhD role in Sustainable Rural Futures, combining anthropology, history & sociology research. Deadline: 15 Feb 2026. Apply: higherjobz.com/fully-funded... #AcademicJobs #PhDJobs #AnthropologyJobs #HistoryJobs
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Fully Funded PhD in Anthropology, History & Sociology - Jyväskylä
Apply for a fully-funded PhD in Anthropology, History & Sociology at University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Deadline 15 Feb 2026.
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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Plant traits matter in fire ecology! "On average, deciduous forests lose less than half as much carbon to wildfire combustion as conifer forests per unit burned area" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Increased deciduous tree dominance reduces wildfire carbon losses in boreal forests - Nature Climate Change
More frequent fires in the North American boreal are causing shifts from conifer to deciduous forests. This study finds that when deciduous forests burn, their carbon losses are driven by weather, but...
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Institut Natura e Teoria ※ Pireneus (INTP) @intp-science.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Alongside the residencies, several events are already planned this year: - Summer School – Unifying Mathematical Models of Biodiversity, July 5–11 intp.science/en/summer26.... - Interdisciplinary Science School, Sept 7–12 - Autumn School - Syntheses in Theoretical Community Ecology, Oct 12–17 🌐🧪🌍
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Nice paper by Demarest et al examining effects of thinning treatments ponderosa pine forests in the Colorado Front Range esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Understory plant species recruitment and expansion spur community shifts following forest restoration treatments
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n
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Mark Parrington @mparrington.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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Fire on Ice: The Arctic’s Changing Fire Regime - NASA Science
An increasingly flammable landscape combined with more lightning strikes is leading to larger, more frequent, and more intense fires than the landscape is adapted for.
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Ingolf Kühn @ingolfkuehn.eurosky.social · 15/01/2026
More information, apply: recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/V… #ecoevojobs #ecology ornithology #jobs #xp [7/7]
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Department of Geoecology @spacetimeeco.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
We paired #microclimate with #LiDAR to create 5m resolution temperature grids for the #BohemianForestEcosystem (NP Šumava and NP Bavarian Forest)🍁 Beside large microclimatic variability, our data reveals also systematic differences from #SoilTemp, #ForestTemp and #ERA5-Land doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Pekka Niittynen @niittynen.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Announcement: I will start as an assistant professor of ecohydrology at the University of Oulu starting from January. Snow, microclimate and Arctic-alpine ecosystems still on focus. Stay tuned for soon-to-be-opened Postdoc and PhD positions! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Jarno Vanhatalo @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
There is a very cool postdoc position in the EnvStat group supervised by Elina Numminen. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Statistical Ecology and Evolution
Postdoctoral Researcher in Statistical Ecology and Evolution
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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Come work with us in beautiful Santa Barbara!
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Piret Avila @piretavila.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Postdoc in statistical ecology & evolution! Develop models bridging evolutionary theory with empirical data on sex differences in immunity and life history. Apply now! #postdoc #statistics #evolution #academicjobs #ecology jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Statistical Ecology and Evolution
Postdoctoral Researcher in Statistical Ecology and Evolution
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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Climate change has already reshaped the bioclimatic space of extreme events in the Arctic 🌐❄️ Arctic biodiversity has entered a new era of bioclimatic extremes w/ more droughts, greater winter-warming 📈 & more rain-on-snow events 💧❄️ shorturl.at/pQsVP Just published in Science Advances ⬇️
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A new era of bioclimatic extremes in the terrestrial Arctic
Long-term climate data suggest that the Arctic is entering a new era of bioclimatic extremes threatening cold ecosystems.
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Sometimes you gotta just sit in the office all day listening to the same song on repeat
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/01/2026
"I look great, and I’m feeling good. I know Kate Moss said, 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels,' but I bet she’s never eaten five-day-old Papa John’s crust after not getting out of bed for three full months." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-l...
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I Lost Ten Pounds and All I Had to Do Was Eat Out of This Dumpster Like a Raccoon
Ladies, if you’re like me, you’ve tried every single human diet under the sun and none of them can get those pesky ten pounds off your stupid body....
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Research Scientist position at the Cornell Biological Field Station: exciting opportunity for an aquatic ecologist/fisheries scientist to work with a 50+ year time series of fish and limnology data on Oneida Lake $90-95K/yr academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31352
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Cornell University, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment
Job #AJO31352, WDR-00056101 Senior Research Associate, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Cornell University, Bridgeport, New York, US
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Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 @ettema.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I have a postdoc position in metagenomic exploration available in my group. Candidates with documented experience in phylo & metagenomics and preferably with petabase-scale data mining and GLM workflows are encouraged to apply. Come join us! 🧬🦠💻 Please repost Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
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Postdoctoral researcher Phylogenomics and metagenomics
Are you just as excited as we are about the fascinating world of microorganisms? Do you want to contribute to exploring and genomically characterize novel prokaryotic lineages? Do you have a PhD degre...
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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Our new MS on post-fire seeding is out! It turns out post-fire seeding at higher rates than typically used, and over multiple years gives a much greater chance of seeing success in dryland areas. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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