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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thrilled to announce that my department - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - at the U of Arizona will likely be hiring for a tenure-track position in "Population and Community Ecology" this fall. Watch this space for more details and official announcements coming soon ... #Ecology #EcologyJobs 🌐🌾🧪

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Jonathan Coop @coopecology.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Our new paper asks the question: is there any precedent for recent, high-severity fires that have removed >100,000 acres of forests from northern New Mexico? Based on the locations of trees that recorded surface fires over the prior 500 years, the answer is, statistically speaking, "not a chance".

Formerly forested landscapes of the Jemez Mountains, NM. Burned in 1996 and 2011. Photo 2022.

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Drew Peltier @peltierdrew.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hey folks I am recruiting for a phd position in tree thermal physiology. 🌐🌾🧪 Ad below. Applications due Dec. 1st www.unlv.edu/graduatecoll...

1) PhD in tree thermal physiology to investigate the impacts of heat extremes on tree performance and survival. The PhD student would pursue independent research to identify the thermal limits to tree survival in natural forests and urban canopies. A major focus of the position is on studies using thermal cameras, field sampling of plant stress through metrics like water potential, and monitoring of tree mortality. The student would also have the opportunity to develop their own research questions and participate in the Southwest Climate Adaptation Center (SWCASC, https://www.swcasc.arizona.edu/about/overview).

Required qualifications:
• BS or MS in a related field (env sci, ecology, statistics, forestry, biology, etc.)
• Some knowledge of plant physiology
Preferred qualifications:
• Comfortable working in R
• Ecophys experience (e.g., water potential, gas exchange)
• Experience with thermal imagery
• Scientific writing experience

Applications due Dec. 1st through UNLV Graduate College:
https://www.unlv.edu/graduatecollege/apply Candidates can email Drew.Peltier@unlv.edu describing their interests in the position and relevant experience, including a CV. However: I am unable to assess candidate suitability before students have formally applied through the UNLV Graduate College.

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Trevor Caughlin @trevorcaughlin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Interested in deep learning in ecology? Apply for a postdoc position at Boise State! We are accepting applications until August 15th. I am at ESA, if anyone would like to have an in-person conversation about the position. #ESA #drones #postdoc #jobs

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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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Bob Shriver @bkshriver.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

New paper on post-fire seeding led by Martin Genova! Martin was co-advised by @dendromecon27.bsky.social and I.

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Actual good news! A past MS student of mine and @bkshriver.bsky.social had his first, first-authored paper accepted in Restoration Ecology today! It is about post-fire reseeding in the Great Basin. I will post a synopsis when it publishes. Congrats Martin (not on BlueSky)!

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Bob Shriver @bkshriver.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Writeup about Daniel and I's new project looking at traits and demography in western forests!

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I am giving a CalFire webinar tomorrow, Nov 25, at 3pm PDT on our work on Eastern Sierra post-fire forest regeneration, tree-shrub relationships, and cheatgrass invasion in the region (cue hissing noise). Register here! events.gcc.teams.microsoft.com/event/d08db5...

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Bob Shriver @bkshriver.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Join the Laughlin lab and our new NSF funded project! Awesome opportunity to visit forests across the western US and examine the functional basis of demographic responses to drought and wildfire.

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Drew Peltier @peltierdrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

1st pub from Phd student Alicia Formanack synthesizing tree ring widths in drought-killed trees to show that, nope, there are no universal patterns. We present a framework combining previously described syndromes: flashy, decoupled, or declining?🌏🌐 doi.org/10.1111/nph.... @newphyt.bsky.social

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Flashy, decoupled, or declining? Single theories fail to explain the diversity of drought mortality signals in tree rings

Growth patterns recorded in tree rings may predict drought ‘winners’ and ‘losers’. Past studies of drought-killed trees have produced conflicting evidence. Some show killed trees were highly respons...

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Bob Shriver @bkshriver.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

New paper led by PhD student Elise Pletcher! Forecasts from simple, density-dependent population models are highly transferable to new sites. Adding env. covariates does little to improve prediction in-sample and worsens forecasts out-of-sample. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Density‐dependent growth and dispersal can accurately forecast near‐term range shifts in a dominant dryland tree species

We found that the inclusion of external drivers such as climate conditions or topography generally did not improve forecast accuracy and that at multidecadal time scales, intrinsic population process....

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Trevor Caughlin @trevorcaughlin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

🚨 New paper, led by Cristina Barber. We used high-resolution aerial imagery to study tree mortality in a tropical landscape. Large, isolated trees were most likely to die--alarming finding! @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A map of tree crowns in southwestern Panama, showing satellite imagery of a tropical landscape

A scientist surveying trees in a pastoral landscape with a GPS unit

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 03/06/2025

Dioecious plants have separate male and female individuals, and temperature sensitivity may vary between sexes. A study of a dioecious grass species, Texas Bluegrass, shows that poleward shifts will be shaped by male heat intolerance. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Geographic projections of population viability predicted by the female-dominant and two-sex models. Maps show past, current, and future range shifts based on the predicted probabilities of self-sustaining populations. The last panel shows the difference in geographic projections of population viability between the female-dominant model and the two-sex model for each season.

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KinarNicholas.bsky.social @kinarnicholas.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Hydrology Paper of the Day @bkshriver.bsky.social on why woody plants are apparently more prevalent in dryland areas: long-term increases in tree population are responsible for more young trees, and low rates of tree establishment over the past 400 years in the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau.

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Jalene LaMontagne @jalene-lamontagne.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I'm hiring a postdoc! Themes: long-term data, plant reproduction, mast seeding, synthesis, macosystems biology. Also, reproducible tesearch. Target submission deadline: 22 June (for priority review). 1-2 year position, $60K/year. 🌲 🌲 🌲 www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

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Post Doctoral Fellow - Plant Ecology - HigherEdJobs

Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

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Jon Henn @hennhouse.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

There is still time to apply for this position! If you have some spatial modelling skills and interest in wildfire, please consider applying.

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Bob Shriver @bkshriver.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Why has woody plant density been increasing in dryland ecosystems? In a new paper in @pnas.org we show that increasing tree density in pinyon-juniper woodlands could largely be a result of long-term population growth, rather than recent anthropogenic effects. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

We begin reviewing applications next week!

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Dr. Elise Gornish @restorecal.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Hi Folks! Myself and the Barberan Lab at U of A are still looking for a PhD student to work on an NSF funded project exploring effects of fire and invasion on soil microbes. We are looking for someone to start in Fall! SOON! Email me if you are interested! PLS Repost! @EsaSeeds

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Matthew Hurteau @mhurteau.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The New Mexico Reforestation Center is hiring a director. We are looking for a dynamic leader that can develop and execute a plan to establish NMRC as a leader in science-based reforestation. Please help advertise the position and reach out if you have questions. careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/dir-new...

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Dir, New Mexico Reforestation Center - NMSU satellite location, New Mexico, United States

Position Title: Dir, New Mexico Reforestation Center Employee Classification: Dir,Research Division,III College/Division: Agricultural,Consumer & Env Sci Col Department: 301800-MORA RESEARCH CENTE...

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Fletcher Halliday @fletcher-h.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Please spread the word - I am looking for a postdoc to join my lab at @osubpp.bsky.social to study diversity and interactions of plants and pathogens in wild and working landscapes! More information here: agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu/diseaseecolo...

Here's a photo of my favorite grass host, Dactylis glomerata, infected with ergot and stem rust in the beautiful Swiss Alps

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Bob Shriver @bkshriver.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Our department at the University of Nevada is looking for a Chair to help lead us into the future! We are young and very research active applied ecology and environmental science department. Come join us!

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Rob Salguero-Gómez @robsalgo.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Postdoc position at the interface of plant population and community ecology at Ben Blonder’s lab at UC Berkeley, in collaboration w my lab at Oxford @oxfordbiology.bsky.social. Details aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04677

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Postdoctoral Scholar - Community Ecology – ESPM: Organisms and the Environment

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Fletcher Halliday @fletcher-h.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Interested in field ecology, genomics, and infectious diseases? Want to live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest? Then this job might be for you! We will start reviewing applications on 22 November and hope to have the position filled by the new year.

The grass, Dactylis glomerata, infected with a few different pathogens in the foreground with mountains and a rainbow in the background. Some of the work in our lab involves studying diseases in this plant across environmental gradients. Can you name both pathogens in the picture (hint - one is restricted to flowers and seeds and the other mostly infects the stems)

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Bob Shriver @bkshriver.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

@jblaszczak.bsky.social and I are recruiting a postdoc in quantitative ecology to model the population and community dynamics of benthic algal communities. Come join us in the beautiful eastern Sierra and Great Basin! Please share! More details here: nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external...

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Bob Shriver @bkshriver.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

For folks in the Reno area interested in Pinyon-Juniper, the BLM is holding a workshop on PJ ecology and management in early May. I, along with other researchers, will be presenting. You can register here: www.blm.gov/workshop-man...

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Emily J. Francis @emilyjfrancis.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

One week left to apply for this post-doc opportunity in my lab at Colorado State! Join us and work on cutting-edge wildfire remote sensing science to support fuel management with a great team! Apply by March 25 for full consideration

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Joanna Blaszczak @joannablaszczak.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

Heili Lowman is not on Bluesky so I want to share our new publication with @bkshriver.bsky.social, Bob Hall, Jud Harvey, Phil Savoy, & Charles Yackulic on macroscale controls on river resilience to flood disturbances out today in PNAS! Yay Heili! Check it out here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Predictors of maximum algal accrual rates. Wider, more frequently disturbed rivers recover faster. Upstream dams suppress recovery rates.

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Joanna Blaszczak @joannablaszczak.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

@bkshriver.bsky.social and I are looking for a postdoc to work with us on developing models to predict benthic cyanoHABs in rivers. Come work with us and others on developing cool models with diverse datasets! Details here: blaszczaklab.weebly.com/current-open... Please share! Deadline Nov. 15th

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Drew Peltier @peltierdrew.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Still looking for phd students. If you know a student interested in drought mortality, dendroecology, tree phys, or particularly NSC +14c, please reach out. A growing dept with broad expertise. Outdoors access in Las Vegas is pretty great. Also, giant glowing orbs? shorturl.at/lwxSW

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Bob Shriver @bkshriver.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

@jblaszczak.bsky.social and I are looking for a postdoc to work with us on developing models to predict and explain harmful algal blooms in rivers. Come work with us on developing cool models with diverse datasets! More details here: bit.ly/3MfqY4C

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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Come work with us (Hall Cushman and myself) at U Nevada, Reno! We are seeking a PhD student and post-doc to work on Whitebark pine in California. We are interested in its recruitment dynamics and interactions with fire and fuels treatments. We have 3 years of solid funding!

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Emily J. Francis @emilyjfrancis.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

PhD student opportunity in my lab at Colorado State University! Focused on quantitative integration of geospatial and field data to understand disturbance in western US forests. Involves collaboration with a great team including @mhurteau.bsky.social www.francisforestecologylab.com/opportunities

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Opportunities

We are recruiting! The lab is currently looking for a PhD student to start in Autumn 2024 (earlier start dates are possible). Interested individuals should read the PhD student announcement below and....

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Trevor Caughlin @trevorcaughlin.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

I am new here on bluesky, so here's an #introduction post! I am an Associate Professor at Boise State University. I run a research lab (caughlinlab.com) that works on spatial ecology, mostly in sagebrush steppe and tropical forests. In my free time, I enjoy hiking, reading scifi, and food

a man in glasses stands in front of sagebrush steppe

man with dog. Dog is wearing a rainbow flag. they are in front of the Idaho Capital Building.

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