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Bernard Kim @bernardkim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Princeton EEB is running a very broad faculty search at the Assistant Professor level. Please consider applying to join us! This is a wonderful, collaborative, cohesive department with diverse interests and amazing colleagues. apply.interfolio.com/193474

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 15/07/2026

Compiling a global database of non-structural carbohydrates (NSCs) from >2,000 plant species, the authors show that evolutionary history explains a larger proportion of NSC variation than environmental controls 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Evolutionary history drives organ-specific variability in plant non-structural carbohydrates - Nature Ecology & Evolution

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 14/07/2026

The entirety of the Boundary Waters is being evacuated due to wildfires, led by eight fearless Wilderness Rangers paddling around to campsites. 1,000,000 acres. 2,000 campsites. 4 teams of rangers. 2 rangers per canoe.

Paddlers make their way towards the Fall Lake entry point of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness as wildfire smoke fills the air on Monday, July 13, near Ely, Minn. (Erica Dischino/For the Minnesota Star Tribune)

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Maddie Stone @themadstone.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I’ve spent more than a year reporting on how the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated academia over the last 30 years, shaping fundamental paradigms on how to address climate change. My first story in the new @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social series, “Carbon Captured”, is out today.

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

SFI Science Board Fellow Simon Levin (Princeton University) has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society. Since the 1970s, his work has been rooted in mathematical theories and models to better understand a range of environmental issues.

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Simon Levin named Fellow of the Royal Society

SFI Science Board Fellow Simon Levin (Princeton University) has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Society announced on May 27, 2026.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

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Exclusive: NSF puts new research grants to top universities on hold

US science funder once again restricts awards to Harvard University and other research institutions.

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timsearchinger.bsky.social @timsearchinger.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Many govts hope capturing carbon from power plants burning wood will cause "negative emissions." New Nature Sust. paper today finds this likely increases emissions for decades, generates no negative emissions within 150 years, and increase electricity costs ~3.5-fold. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Decades of increased emissions from forest-fuelled BECCS - Nature Sustainability

Governments are considering subsidies for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage fuelled by wood from existing forests. However, a transparent model estimates that this will probably increase emiss...

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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service. The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.

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‘It’s just madness’: Trump administration to close three-quarters of Forest Service research stations

Between funding cuts, facility closures, and the inevitable resignations that will follow, there’s virtually no way for the Forest Service to continue to do research at its current level or quality, w...

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 09/04/2026

Big opportunities for researchers 🌍 We are investing nearly €400 million to help researchers share their work and collaborate with the best scientific teams across the EU. The 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open. More: link.europa.eu/PNxpxw

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Mike Kaspari @mikekaspari.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

NSF LTER program “archived”. LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”. This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings. My heart is breaking.

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 06/02/2026

I feel like this is a great time to remind everyone that it's not even technically wrong to say that logistic regression is machine learning

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

If you, as a scientist, cannot be bothered to engage in the intellectual work of science, please quit your job and leave it to someone with skill and integrity.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

See this post and consider adding in if applicable, given the late breaking changes to the GRFP solicitation, excluding 2nd year grad applications + more, important to begin to assess if/what other 'criteria' are being used to return w/out review.

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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.

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National Academy of Sciences @nasonline.org · 26/12/2025

Just one week left to nominate for the 2025 Cozzarelli Prize! If you’ve read a @pnas.org paper this year that pushed its field forward, don’t miss the chance to to submit a nomination by January 2, 2026. Learn more and nominate: www.pnas.org/about/cozzar...

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Caroline Lehmann @caroaceae.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

"Bond’s work leaves behind an inconvenient lesson for an era of climate urgency: that speed is not a substitute for understanding, and that good intentions, applied without care, can erase ancient worlds as efficiently as neglect." A beautiful tribute to William Bond. Forever missed by many.

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William Bond, defender of grasslands

In recent years, one of the loudest ideas in environmental policy has been that trees are the planet’s universal remedy. Plant enough of them, in enough places, and carbon will be soaked up, water wil...

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Will Shoemaker @shoestrapped.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

An incredible ICTP initiative is our Postgraduate Diploma Programme. Rigorous one-year pre-PhD training for students from the Global South. I have personally seen this program transform the lives of those in the quant life sciences. Due Feb. 28 2026. Please share widely. www.ictp.it/news/2025/11...

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Call for Applications, Postgraduate Diploma Programme | ICTP

Are you a student who dreams of earning a PhD in physics or mathematics, but who lives in a country lacking such opportunities? ICTP could be your first step on the path to attaining a PhD.

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Or just don’t use acronyms. Acronyms are almost always bad for readers because of the cognitive and memory load. Acronyms are nice for typing when you’re in a hurry and don’t want to keep repeating lots of words. So just use find and replace to clean up your manuscript before submitting.

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Colin Beale @cmbeale.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

New paper out documenting research in protected areas across the African Savannah. We identify the widespread hot, wet savannah sites as understudied with 38% of all parks having no papers associated with them & 5 parks accounting for ~50% of all papers 🧪 1/3 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A map of Africa showing each savanna protected area as one of five possible savanna clusters grouped according to climate, soil, and landscape parameters and the various environmental groups they call into. There are lots of sites that fall into "Cluster 1" of hot, mosit savannahs, but litte research in these areas.

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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 20/11/2025

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 24/10/2025

I just saw this great climate video with Tim Robinson and Prof. Henri Drake. Tim's "We're all trying to find the guy who did this" skit is one of the funniest bits of all time and this one is also great. From @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social youtu.be/0O95kvMKPeQ?...

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You Expect Me To Believe That?!? Ft. Tim Robinson

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Greg Goldsmith @canopyinclouds.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

My colleague Sarah Batterman and others from @caryinstitute.bsky.social are organizing what looks like a great crash course on ecosystem ecology for graduate students at an exceptionally affordable cost:

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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Super excited about this new Open Rank tenure-track faculty search for the MSU Plant Resilience Institute. We successfully hired two excellent new faculty in our last search and we are hoping to build on that success with this search. careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Working/Functional Title Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System Position Summary The Plant Resilience Institute (PRI) at Michigan State University invites applications for multiple tenure-st...

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 28/08/2025

Our comment on the DOE CWG report is done. It tips the scales at 439 pages, approx. 3x longer than the DOE report. This is related to Brandolini's law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. Example: refuting one sentence.

DOE CWG STATEMENT (second paragraph of section 2.1.1, page 3): “Piao et al. (2020) noted
that greening was even observable in the Arctic.”
COMMENT: This statement implies that the Arctic greening signal was caused by elevated CO2
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however that is not the scientific consensus. Piao et al. (2020) attribute the greening trend in the
Arctic predominantly to growing season length driven by warmer temperatures (see also Y.
Zhang et al., 2022). Piao et al. (2020) also note that this positive impact of increasing
temperatures appears to have weakened over the past four decades, “suggesting a possible
saturation of future greening in response to warmer temperature” (see also comment on
greenness trends related to Section 2.1.1, first sentence of Page 4). It is also important to put
Arctic greening more broadly into the context of the carbon cycle and other impacts. While
above-ground plants may have displayed more leaf area over the past decades, rising
temperatures also thaw permafrost and drive accelerated decomposition in highly carbon rich
soils (Turetsky et al., 2020), a process which is expected to accelerate as climate continues to
warm (Miner et al., 2022). Thus even with Arctic greening, high latitude terrestrial systems may
become net carbon sources to the atmosphere, causing an amplifying feedback (Braghiere et
al., 2023). Other risks to the Arctic linked to higher CO2

levels and rising temperatures are not
mentioned in this report (Virkkala et al., 2025). The Arctic is warming at a rate of 2 to 3 times the
global average, leading to thawing of permanently frozen soils (permafrost), with downstream
impacts including loss of structural support for buildings and subsidence, threatening
communities, roads, runways, and other assets across Alaska (Manos et al., 2025; University of
Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Northern Engineering US Army Corps of Engineers Alaska District
& Laboratory, 2019).

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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Multiple ecology faculty positions at @notredame.bsky.social. Apply at apply.interfolio.com/171650. (1/2). 🌎🌐🧪

Multiple Early Career Faculty Positions in Ecology

The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for multiple, tenure-track assistant professor positions that will enhance existing institutional excellence in ecology. We are searching broadly for creative and collaborative individuals (1) working at any spatial scale, from local to global, in any system, (2) studying any level of biological organization, from genes to ecosystems, and (3) using any mode of inference, from empirical to theoretical. Applicants should demonstrate research excellence that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries; ongoing growth in the department will emphasize new hires that use quantitative and/or integrative approaches to study ecological processes. Postdoctoral experience is desirable in applicants. Successful candidates will engage with and benefit from UNDERC, Notre Dame’s 8000-acre environmental field station and home to NEON’s Great Lakes domain, superb on-campus chemical and genomic analytical facilities, an experimental research facility located close to campus, cross-disciplinary interactions through multiple centers and institutes including the Environmental Change Initiative, and a unique Interdisciplinary Graduate Training Program in Environment and Society. New faculty will benefit from Notre Dame’s recent campus-wide Strategic Framework that included the Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative. Modern research facilities exist in a new environmental research building, which opened in 2025.

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The University of Arizona is hiring a tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor in Physical Geography! Research specialities could include wildfire, climate and water resources, and/or natural hazards, amongst others. Please apply and join us! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

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Assistant or Associate Professor, Physical Geography (T/TE) (Updated)

Develop and maintain an active research program.Teach undergraduate and graduate courses.Develop advanced courses at the graduate level.Mentor and adv...

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Assistant Professor position in Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Stanford University. Applications due Sept 30, 2025 facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

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Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor in Traditional Ecological Knowledge

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Carla Staver @carlastaver.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Delighted to share that the Staver lab has moved to Princeton EEB (on July 1 — I’m a little late)!! Excited for new adventures!

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

A focus on the futures we will lose if the WH continues to dismantle research across agencies spanning the EPA, DHS, NIH, NSF, USAID, and DoD (via NASA Watch). When: Tuesday, July 8, 2025, 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET Where: Rayburn Foyer, Rayburn House Office Building nasawatch.com/congress/con...

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Congressional Event: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants

The Things We’ll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants.

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Carling Bieg @carlingbieg.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I’m also thrilled to announce that I will be starting a faculty position with @centreecomgmt.bsky.social @ U of Guelph this fall! I will be recruiting students & postdocs for 2026 - please reach out or come find me at #CSEE2025 if you’re interested in theory, global change & fisheries ecology 🐟

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Mike Kaspari @mikekaspari.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Talking Points Memo is on the HUD-->NSF story. I've subscribed to TPM since 2016, very much worth it. Here's a free article. They are looking for folks on the inside at NSF and HUD to help break open this story of flagrant corruption. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/on-th...

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On the Trail of the HUD/NSF Switcheroo and the Mystery of the Top Floor Sky Mansion

I wanted to update you on the story I flagged yesterday in...

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Dr Alessio Veneziano @aveneziano.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Ethical scientific journals and where to find them....here is DAFNEE, a #database of non-profit journals in #Ecology and #Evolution #EvoBio, to choose an ethical place where to publish your next articles! (1/2) dafnee.isem-evolution.fr 🧪 #science

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DAFNEE, a Database of Academia Friendly jourNals in Ecology and Evolution

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Carla Staver @carlastaver.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

JFC to the whole thread but this especially

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Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Lots of great suggestions here on how vegetation around your home can reduce fire hazard, in response to overly prescriptive laws. California plan to ban most plants within 5 feet of homes for wildfire safety overlooks some important truths about flammability theconversation.com/california-p...

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California plan to ban most plants within 5 feet of homes for wildfire safety overlooks some important truths about flammability

Hedges and trees may actually reduce home exposure to radiant heat and flying embers, but they must be well maintained. Two scientists who study how plants burn explain.

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Ecological Society of America @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

URGENT! Contact your senators today to advocate to fund science agencies and programs! The Senate Appropriations Committee & its subcommittees are writing appropriation bills for the federal FY26 budget now. Here's how you can help: esa.org/esablog/2025...

the U.S. Capitol building on an overcast day, looking ominous

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

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Carla Staver @carlastaver.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Casey Ryan and I wrote a fun little comment about how carbon finance mechanisms perversely incentivize savanna degradation, arguing that expanding concepts of Loss and Damage might be a better way to think about the effects of woody biomass carbon accumulation in open ecosystems (as in oceans!).

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‘Loss and damage fund’ for climate change needs broader remit | Nature

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Martha W. Alibali @marthaalibali.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

"Imagine the auto industry without 3D printing. NSF funded that. Artificial intelligence? NSF. MRI machines that help doctors diagnose you? NSF. Doppler radar technology that makes aviation safer by conquering wind shear? NSF. Duolingo‘s underlying programming? NSF. The internet itself? NSF."

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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/05/2025

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

$500 million is… less than 1.25% of the NIH’s 2024 budget. When I say there is no capacity to absorb the shock, I mean it.

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