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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 4h

Some peak fall Populus tremuloides up in Colorado

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Impressive tropical storm potential brewing now for the desert southwest "...this will not be your classic Monsoonal thunderstorms. It will be deep tropical moisture.." 👀https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/p.php?pil=AFDTWC&e=202609282207

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IEM :: AFD from NWS TWC

AFD issued by NWS TWC at 28 Sep 2026 22:07 UTC

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GGBN @ggbnoutreach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Congrats to the NEON Biorepository at Arizona State University for receiving funding from NSF to co-lead a project aimed at creating a national resource for sequencing and analysing the DNA of important species! news.asu.edu/20260924-env...

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Decoding important wildlife DNA | ASU News

There is a wealth of knowledge to be found in the DNA of our nation’s spectacular wildlife. A team of researchers co-led by Arizona State University will create a national resource to sequence and ana...

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Remnants of hurricanes #Odalys and #Polo will send immense amounts of water vapor into the South-Central U.S. this week. Forecasts call for 1-in-10 to 1-in-25 year amounts of rain in a three-day span in parts of Arizona and New Mexico. September may end as Albuquerque's wettest month on record.

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please pass along: I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab. We study physical ecology, macroecology, and biodiversity — spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested 🧪🌐🌾

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

LLMs could be the end of the “shut up and calculate” approach to fundamental physics. (Not that Kyle is part of that.) When the computer is better at calculating than you are, you might be forced to actually think about things.

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Late September snow on the high peaks of the San Juan Mountains #Colorado

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 24/09/2026

come on down to Big Jim’s Value LLMs where we’ll get you the brains to fit your budget

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"... The very sharp-sighted always find discrepancies and are able to say that there is no generality, only a spectrum of special cases. This diversity of outlook has proved useful in every science, but it is nowhere more marked than in ecology." - R.H. MacArthur 1968 🧪🌐

Ecological patterns, about which we construct theories, are only interesting if they are repeated. They may be repeated in space or in time, and they may be repeated from species to species. A pattern which has all of these kinds of repetition is of special interest because of its generality, and yet these very general events are only seen by ecologists with rather blurred vision. The very sharp-sighted always find discrepancies and are able to say that there is no generality, only a spectrum of special cases. This diversity of outlook has proved useful in every science, but it is nowhere more marked than in ecology.
Robert MacArthur (MacArthur 1968)

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A good reminder "Data science" isn't Science..."Without models, mathematical or conceptual, data are just noise...science advances only if it can provide explanations...there is an area where petabytes of information can be used...But don't call it science" link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪🌐

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The end of theory in science? - EMBO Reports

EMBO Reports -

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Was wondering if some UK resident can help us study for the residency exam. Letter B is correct, right?

Study card “The values and principles of the
UK
Which of the following is a responsibility you will have as a citizen or permanent resident of the UK?
Select ONE answer
二）
A Using your car as much as possible
B
Visiting your local pub regularly
C Keeping an allotment
D
Looking after the area in which you live and the environment”

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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

V happy about this one (@brentcemerson.bsky.social @biodiversitysmns.bsky.social @hernmoral.bsky.social)et al Species have survived on oceanic islands for Mya despite occupying small geographic areas, facing environmental calamities and having low Ne. We discuss this w/ a focus on conservation. 1/2

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - Nature

Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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The end of theory in science? - EMBO Reports

EMBO Reports -

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 23/09/2026

Watch the changes in 100 years of changing June-July-August temperature anomalies over land areas through 2026 (second highest on record)... Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.1.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Systems Ecology, a new journal launched today, "run by researchers, for researchers, and is free to read and free to publish, with no article processing charges" systems-ecology.org/index.php/se...

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Systems Ecology

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

making this my new email autoreply

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Here's how totally f***ed up this administration is: RFK Jr. is raising an alarm about completely fictional chemicals in the atmosphere, while he and the rest of the Trump administration are calling the chemicals that ARE literally changing the planet's #climate a "hoax."

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Drew Peltier @peltierdrew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We are recruiting for a postdoc position (now / soon!), located in Flagstaff, AZ at NAU. We are particularly interested in a flux person. Please come join a fun multi-institutional team where we make very funny, definitely cool jokes about p-values.

Job ad describing an advertised postdoc position in carbon cycle science at NAU in Flagstaff, AZ supervised by Kiona Ogle.

people standing in front of a forested NEON flux tower.

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 15/09/2026

🚨 Breaking News | The Department of Homeland Security’s widely criticized rule limiting how long international students can stay in the country won’t take effect Sept. 15 after a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit challenging... Read the full story ➡️ bit.ly/4j3rtjs

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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology - Stanford University, California, United States

The Department of Biology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. A successful candidate will conduct research that asks fundamental que...

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tucson sunset is going to Tucson sunset....

Photo of an electric sunset with clouds and sky and the silhouette of a street with vegetation with palms and street lamps. Sunset colors paint the clouds brilliantly, making them seem more defined in shades of orange, magenta, and blue.

Photo of an electric sunset with clouds and sky and the silhouette of the horizon with mountains in the distance. Sunset colors paint the clouds brilliantly, making them seem more defined in shades of orange, magenta, and blue.

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 14/09/2026

Obituary: Robert Ricklefs (1943–2026) www.nature.com/articles/s41... Polymath ecologist whose research and textbooks integrating ecology and evolution have inspired generations of students. Free to read: rdcu.be/D33fLgYcv4Ba

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Robert Ricklefs (1943–2026) - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Polymath ecologist whose research and textbooks integrating ecology and evolution have inspired generations of students.

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Data Scientist job - Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), data-management, computational, and bioinformatics assignments supporting research in tropical biology, ecology, and forestry. #ecologyjobs 🧪🌐🌾 trustcareers.si.edu/postings/8a2...

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Data Scientist (Bioinformatics), IS- 1560- 11

Job Opening: Data Scientist (Bioinformatics), IS- 1560- 11 at Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

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Friends of the Earth U.S. (Action) @foeus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is expected to announce the repeal of greenhouse gas pollution limits for coal and gas power plants today. We condemn this move as anti-science, inhumane, immoral, and dangerous. foe.org/news/stateme...

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Statement from Friends of the Earth U.S.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is expected to announce the repeal of greenhouse gas pollution limits for coal and gas power plants today.

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Brynn Paulsen, PhD @brynnpaulsen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Excellent breakdown with ways to take action NOW 👇

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Tomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely..." This is the way forward @tcddublin.bsky.social

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Spot the Desert Bighorn sheep in the Sonoran Desert #Tucson (several minutes prior I almost hit him on my bike while he crossed the trail climbing up to the ridge)

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Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A fab analogy 👇

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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

To ensure that Indigenous peoples' rights and knowledge are recognized in scientific data and scholarly publishing, a team of Indigenous scholars led by professor @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social has established Guidelines for the Governance of Indigenous Peoples' Data in Scholarly Publishing.

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New Guidelines Created for Publishing Indigenous Data | Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Scholars seek to ensure Indigenous peoples have governance rights to data.

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jessamine finch @seedystudies.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

📣 New York Botanical Garden is seeking a career-track Restoration Ecologist! 🥾 develop ext. funded, field-oriented, collections-informed, & collaborative research program 📨 Optimal consideration: Sep. 25 (open till filled) 📆 Start: Jan. 1, 2027 (negotiable) 🤑 $87.5k jobs.jobvite.com/nybg/job/o8s...

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New York Botanical Garden is looking for Assistant Curator, Restoration Ecology.

New York Botanical Garden is looking for Assistant Curator, Restoration Ecology. Learn more or Jobvite a friend.

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Andreas Nord @cyanistesnord.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Interested in animals and temperature? 🗻🏜🐦🦭 Join the Third Lund Thermal Biology Symposium 27-29 Oct. Talks range social sciences and medicine to evolutionary biology and physiology. Workshop in conservation physiology on 30 Oct. All free. Travel grants. Register 👇 www.biology.lu.se/lundthermal2026

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Animal health, reproduction and survival in the age of humans 27–29 October 2026

Lund University.

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Washingtonia filifera is a palm of oases in the desert. The marcescent leaves are a favorite daytime roost for owls and other nocturnal wildlife. Gardeners often remove the skirts of cultivated palms because they are a fire hazard or “harbor vermin.” #marcescent #Arecaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Photo of a group of palms with palmate leaves and dense skirts of dead leaves. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Climate change increases deadly heat risk in Southern Europe. Across 34 countries, 2022-like heat mortality events were 26.5× more likely in Southern Europe than under pre-industrial conditions, ~10× the European average. Risk rises sharply with warming. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Extreme event attribution for heat-related mortality due to anthropogenic climate change across Europe - Nature Health

A method combining extreme event attribution with epidemiological models shows that extreme heat-related mortality events in Southern Europe are 26.5 times more likely than in pre-industrial times, wi...

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DaggaRoosta @daggaroosta.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Understanding the transformer architecture of the system helps here. LLMs aren't just summoning the next word. They're simultaneously trying to summon the next sentence, the next paragraph, etc., and it goes 90+ layers deep. That may not be "reasoning" but it may very well be a lot like "thought" \1

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Jenn @ Charge To The Parks 🔌🔋🛻 @chargetotheparks.com · 30/08/2026

Put your map over Lake Ontario (you might need to clear the app cache). Open the menu. Select "help and feedback". Report this as an error. It lets you highlight what's wrong.

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nufcnuf @nufcnuf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#NSF set to fund lowest grant count since early 1980s The self-inflicted wounding will not stop until morale improves. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

NSF has announced the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) (due in October) 🧪🌐https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/grfp-nsf-graduate-research-fellowship-program/nsf26-526/solicitation

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Eleven years ago today 🌿 Gentiana parryi, our Parry's Gentian, blooming above the East Portal #nativeplants

Deep blue five-lobed flower with black-dotted throat

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azcentral @azcentral.com · 05/09/2026

Trail cameras captured the clearest images yet of Cinco the jaguar. He's one of five jaguars known to have roamed Arizona in the last 15 years.

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'Cinco' is on the move again. Meet all 5 jaguars spotted in Arizona

Trail cameras captured the clearest images yet of Cinco the jaguar. He's one of five jaguars known to have roamed Arizona in the last 15 years.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Applications for the New Phytologist #TansleyMedal for excellence in #PlantScience are now open! 👇

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daniel cadena @cdanielcadena.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

our in memoriam piece, celebrating the academic life and multifaceted, seminal scientific contributions of the great bob ricklefs is now out in the american naturalist www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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In Memoriam: Robert E. Ricklefs (1943–2026) | The American Naturalist: Vol 0, No ja

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Kids, in other words… long, synchronized, relatively prime cycles partition time. They minimize repeated interactions among cohorts while allowing each cohort to appear periodically in overwhelming numbers and likely oversaturate their predators. #temporalnichepartitioning

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

When local dominance is governed by a dominance-tolerance tradeoff #SharedPreferences 🧪🌐

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Environmental drivers of local abundance–mass scaling in soil animal communities #allometry #scaling 🧪🌐https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/oik.09735

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Environmental drivers of local abundance–mass scaling in soil animal communities

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