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Jonathan Myers

@jamyersecology.bsky.social
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Ecologist exploring biodiversity from local to global scales | Professor at Washington University in St. Louis | 🌲🌴🌱🏔🦉🌎🔥🎶 🚲 ⚽️ ♟ 🌲 myersecologylab.com 📷 jonathanmyers.smugmug.com

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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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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🌿 New paper! The forest herb layer can account for up to 80% of plant diversity, yet remains understudied. I’m glad to have contributed to this Yale-led collaboration identifying 100 questions to advance forest herb-layer ecology. What did we miss? 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Santiago Claramunt @sclaramunt.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I am recruiting a #postdoc to work on assembling and analyzing #genomes of the amazing Furnariidae. Let’s unlock the secret behind their #evolution. The official application portal will be available soon at www.uno.edu/careers. Feel free to contact me for details at sclaramu@uno.edu
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The International Biogeography Society @biogeography.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Join us on May 27th for the next Funk Biogeography Seminar! Dr. Michael Landis from Washington University in St. Louis will be speaking about the use of phylogenetic models to explore the biogeography of the past. Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ma...
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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Honored to have one of my photos on the cover of @nature.com And thrilled to be part of this #ForestGEO study led by Yuanzhi Li and Chengjin Chu 🌴 🌳 🌐 doi.org/10.1038/s415... Photo caption: Sunrise over a tropical forest near Danum Valley Field Centre, Sabah, Malaysia
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Plant Resilience and #Conservation for a Changing Climate.” 🌱 Phenotypic & genetic bases of variable #drought stress response in a widely adapted allotetraploid species By Wen-Hsi Kuo, Linda Small & Kenneth Olsen doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #climatechange
Author of the paper is working on a drought-stress treatment of white clover in a greenhouse.
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St Louis CITY SC @stlcitysc.com · 10/05/2026
SANGY ⚡️
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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Many thanks to Xugao Wang, Zikun Mao and their research team for a wonderful visit to the Institute of Applied Ecology, Research Station of Changbai Mountain Forest Ecosystems, and Changbaishan Chinese Forest Biodiversity Network (CForBio) & Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) site 🌲 🌐
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Marko Spasojevic @m-j-spasojevic.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
We are hiring an Associate Director of UC Riverside Natural Reserve System. Come join us! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02257
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Academic Coordinator II/Associate Director of UC Riverside Natural Reserve System
University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!
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The Anfield Wrap @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
📈Mohamed Salah joins Steven Gerrard with the most goals in a Merseyside Derby in the Premier League (9) Legend
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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
New study led by Sean McHugh (@phyllurus.bsky.social) now out in @systbiol.bsky.social! Sean's approach models how species gain and lose biome affinities over time, both in terms of where they *do* live (e.g. movement) and where they *could* live (e.g. adaptation) doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
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A Phylogenetic Model of Established and Enabled Biome Shifts
Abstract. Where each species actually lives is distinct from where it could potentially survive and persist. This suggests it is important to distinguish e
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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Happy to share our new paper—led by Ethan Abercrombie in collaboration with Adam Smith @earthskysea.bsky.social and Lyle Usdin @washu.edu—exploring responses of small-mammal communities to a century of climate change in the Sierra Nevada mountains 🏔️ 🐿️ doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
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Santiago Claramunt @sclaramunt.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
📣 Grad student wanted PhD position in avian evolution, with emphasis on phylogenetics, macroevolution, Neotropical radiations, flight and dispersal. Based at the University of New Orleans (soon to be LSU New Orleans). Start: September 2026. Contact me if interested. claramuntlab.org
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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Happy to share this paper from the Madidi Metabolomics Project, led by Sierra Chadwick & Brian Sedio, and made possible by the Madidi Project, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social and WashU @livingearthcollab.bsky.social 🌴 ⛰️ doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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Chemical properties of foliar metabolomes represent a key axis of functional trait variation in forests of the tropical Andes
Abstract. Plants interact with their environment through diverse specialized metabolites that protect them from abiotic stressors, like drought or radiatio
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Belen Fadrique @belenfadrique.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Very happy to share this new article on Andes-Amazon tree diversity change. We found that over the last 4 decades, tree richness changed differently across the Andes-Amazon regions. Thanks to the many researchers across the world who made this possible! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Keep reading!
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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Tree diversity is changing in the Amazon and Andes. Belen Fadrique leads our analysis in @natecoevo.nature.com w/ 400 plots + 40 years of RAINFOR records. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Hot, drier, more fragmented forests are losing species. Many in the Andes + western Amazon are gaining them.
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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Year 14 of seed-trap collections complete! 🌳 Tyson Research Center ForestGEO Plot #ForestEcology #ForestGEO #SeedDispersal #TysonResearchCenter
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Jim Dalling @dallingjim.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
We are coming up on the closing date for an Assistant Professor of Mycology/Plant-fungal Interactions in the Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois - apply before November 1st! See the link below for more details: www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
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Assistant Professor- Department of Plant Biology - HigherEdJobs
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Mike Moore @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙 Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
Lake Agnes in State Forest State Park
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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Gaps in the groundcover plant community from burning trees - Longleaf Pine Ecosystem, The Jones Center at Ichauway, Georgia 🔥 🌱 #FireEcology #LongleafPineEcosystem #PrescribedFire
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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Enjoyed a wonderful visit to the longleaf pine ecosystem at The Jones Center at Ichauway. Many thanks to David Mason for hosting me, @jefferybcannon.bsky.social for a tour of the Ichauway Forest Dynamics Plot & ForestGEO site, and The Jones Center community for a great seminar visit. 🔥 🌱 🌼
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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Apply to become the next MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow! These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here: eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
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Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
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Andi Kautt @akautt.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Reposting this open postdoc position with more detailed specifications. Couldn't find the right fit in the first round—not due to lack of strong candidates, but because we're looking for someone whose expertise matches a specific project. More details in the job ad. Apply! tinyurl.com/2uskxyrp
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - Biology
Position Summary A postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Andreas Kautt in the Department of Biology on the Danforth Campus at WashU in St. Louis. The Kautt Lab studies the mechan...
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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Happy to share this commentary on our new paper in @pnas.org, led by William Farhan-Rios, exploring responses of tropical tree communities to climate warming from the Amazon to Andes Mountains 🌴 ⛰️ 🌐 An uphill struggle for tropical forest trees | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Michigan State University is hiring a new Director of our herbarium! This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution Please consider applying and help spread the word! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
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Andrea Case @andreacase.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Please share — Michigan State Plant Biology is searching for an Herbarium Director! Tenure stream, open rank faculty position balancing research, teaching, service, and admin responsibilities. Join us! Reach out to me or @emjo.bsky.social with questions! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
A big congratulations to William Farhan-Rios on this paper in @pnas.org, featuring a study of tropical-forest change over four decades along the Amazon-to-Andes elevational gradient in Bolivia and Peru 🌴 ⛰️ 🌐 @mobotgarden.bsky.social @livingearthcollab.bsky.social 1/3 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Amazonian and Andean tree communities are not tracking current climate warming | PNAS
Climate change is shifting species distributions, leading to changes in community composition and novel species assemblages worldwide. However, the...
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Jen Heemstra @jenheemstra.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
First copies of my book are here!! As a new faculty member, I realized that in addition to my research job, I also had a leadership job…and I wasn’t prepared for that. This book is the guide I wish I’d had then, with the goal of helping others now.   jenheemstra.com/book
Picture of a smiling person holding up a copy of a book.
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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
A big congratulations to Dr. Ethan Abercrombie on his PhD defense! 🎉
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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
A collage of research-team shirts from the Forest Biodiversity Team, Tyson Research Center (2014-2025) 🌳 #ForestEcology #TysonResearchCenter
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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Herbarium director position opening at Oregon State University ‪@osu-herbarium.bsky.social‬ Great opportunity for herbarium- and field-trained botanists at any rank. bpp.oregonstate.edu/bpp/about/op...
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Open Positions
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Joey Bernhardt @joeybernhardt.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨ Please spread the word! www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us #CSEE2025
A blue poster describing opportunities to join the Bernhardt Lab -- for more information please see https://www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us
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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
A big congratulations to Dr. Anna Wassel on her PhD defense! 🎉
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Monique WeemStar @moniqueweemstra.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Shout-out to Hans Reijnen for beautiful footage of the @gdfcf.bsky.social, and the EduMedia department @w-u-r.bsky.social who did an amazing job creating a virtual tropical soil environment! Feel free to use to inspire your students! #ecology #roots #tropicalforest #costarica #tdf
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Congratulations to Sarah Swiston for winning the @asn-amnat.bsky.social Student Poster Award at #Evol2025 for her poster "EMPIRE: The ellipse model for phylogenetic inference of range evolution"
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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
A great start to the field season - Forest Biodiversity Team, Tyson Research Center, Summer 2025 🌳 🔥 🌱 #ForestEcology #FireEcology #ForestGEO #TysonResearchCenter
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Jeffery Cannon, Landscape Ecology Lab @jefferybcannon.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Please share! JOIN THE LAB! We are looking to recruit a motivated reserach technician to assist with field research on restoration and lidar data collection in #longleaf pine at the beautiful @thejonesctr.bsky.social Apps due July 6 jonesctr.org/wp-content/u...
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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Trilobite fossil - Mount Stephen Fossil Beds - The Burgess Shale, Yoho National Park, Canada
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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
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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Check out this excellent Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) podcast interview with Lyle Usdin—a recent Environmental Biology graduate @washu.bsky.social & member of our research team—featuring his reflections on the OTS African Ecology & Conservation course 🐘 open.spotify.com/episode/3o50...
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On the Trail of Science, Tracks and Trajectories of Lyle Usdin
On the Trail of Science: Tracks and Trajectories · Episode
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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
A big thanks to the organizers, group leaders, and participants of the second-annual Amphibian & Reptile Count for a great field experience at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica 🦎 🐍 📸 credit: Organización para Estudios Tropicales (OET) / Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)
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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Happy to be back at La Selva for an Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) institutional-representative workshop. My last visit was over 20 years ago as a graduate student in the OTS fundamentals course (Tropical Biology: An Ecological Approach)🌴 📸 credit: Kyle Harms
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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Just sharing an idea for a lab meeting. Last week I asked everyone to select and present a paper from PLOS '10 simple rules' series. There are 100s of topics available. We discussed rules for good leadership, getting grants, data handling etc. It worked quite well! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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Search Results | PLOS Computational Biology
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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Want to understand grasslands? Look at the bigger picture Great writeup of @chriscatano.bsky.social's recent paper showing how arrival rates of individuals and species alter community assembly locally, influencing diversity patterns over time and across scales natsci.msu.edu/news/2025-05...
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Want to understand grasslands? Look at the bigger picture.
Michigan State University researchers from the Brudvig Restoration Ecology lab are attempting to solve a longstanding question in community ecology: how do regional and local factors jointly determine...
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Jonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career. predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...
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What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers
Thirty three reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.
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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
A big thanks to Marko Spasojevic @m-j-spasojevic.bsky.social for hosting me for a seminar visit at UCR and a great day visiting field sites at the San Jacinto Forest Dynamics Plot (San Jacinto Mountains) and the Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center (Colorado Desert) ⛰️ 🌳 🌵
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I'm excited to share a new paper, led by Marta Jarzyna and Leo Ohyama, on regional species pools-- a fundamental concept in ecology and biogeography that is poorly defined and understood, but which is essential for understanding and protecting biodiversity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Emergence and Dynamics of Regional Species Pools
The Importance of the Regional Species Pool The regional species pool—the set of species capable of entering a local community—is a foundational concept for understanding ecological processes that o...
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Isaac Lichter Marck @ca-naturalist.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Join us July 27th the day before #Botany2025 for a free phylogenetic biogeography workshop in RevBayes! Taught by @landismj.bsky.social +Sarah Swiston (WUSTL), Felipe Zapata (UCLA), and myself, with surprise guests! Details: www.botanyconference.org/workshops/wo...
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Jhan C. Salazar, PhD @jhancsalazar.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
After 6 long years, lots of ups and downs, and being far from family, I’m defending my PhD thesis on May 6 at 12:00pm CT - just 16 days away! Still a bit to go, but wanted to share. De Puerto Tejada y Cali para el mundo.
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BIOTROPICA @biotropica.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Interested in integrating art and biology at the university level? Feel free to join this free online symposium!
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