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Nate Swenson

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Tree biologist, Gillen Director of UNDERC at Notre Dame www.swensonlab.com underc.nd.edu

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Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Transformative opportunity for postdocs @hhmi-science.bsky.social #HannaGray Fellows competition opens 11/3/2026 but you can get started NOW: view application components, establish eligibility, and unlock example applications and other resources www.hhmi.org/programs/han...
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Postdoc-Faculty Transition Program | Hanna H. Gray Fellows | HHMI
The Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program supports postdoctoral scientists as they launch careers in academic science, equipping them to pursue scientific research at the highest levels and to recruit, mentor...
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Huge faculty recruitment effort at the University of Chicago -- a division-wide, open-rank search looking to hire about 20 faculty across 5 research areas in biology. Come be our colleague! Full announcement: uchicago.app.box.com/s/ckih9zv3rj...
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 09/08/2026
A paper in Nature Cities shows that data centers are an overwhelmingly urban phenomenon, with 97.5% of facilities situated in metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas, challenging the prevailing narratives of ‘rural cloud expansion.' go.nature.com/4ghtx5w #AI 🧪
This is figure 1, which shows spatial distribution of US data centers.
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Steve Pennings @stevenpennings.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
In experiments, high plant diversity usually leads to high ecosystem function and stability. But in nature, the same factors that determine plant species diversity may also affect stability. This means the results of BEF experiments don't always apply to natural systems. doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
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A salinity gradient mediates plant diversity–function–stability relationships across a coastal marsh landscape
Ecosystem function and stability are often positively related to species richness in experiments, but in nature, abiotic gradients may over-ride or obscure the effects of richness on function and sta...
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Physics Today @physicstoday.aip.org · 14/07/2026
Increased emissions from wildfires in the past decade have reversed earlier progress made in decreasing US surface-level ozone pollution, a new analysis finds.
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Wildfire emissions reverse declines in US surface ozone levels
A dataset of daily ozone concentrations with high spatial resolution enables researchers to identify the reversal.
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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Preparing for a long, hot, and fiery summer. Record low snowpack across the west, a looming El Nino, & DOGE driven layoffs, reorgs, and continuing chaos at Fed agencies spell trouble for the region's forests (& for all of us who like to breathe). @insideclimatenews.org @peteraldhous.com
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Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s Fire Season - Inside Climate News
With a puny snowpack in the Western mountains and a widespread drought, the nation is a tinderbox. A reorganization of federal firefighting efforts and the departure of many staff qualified to join th...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/05/2026
Beating the Dallas Stars is extra sweet for old heads who remember the North Stars. Congrats to the Wild.
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Charlie Anderson @candersonlab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Penn State Biology is hiring! We have an opening for a tenure-line faculty position in plant biology - if you'd like to pursue awesome science in a supportive and interdisciplinary community of researchers, consider applying! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...
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Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Plant Biology
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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Pablo López Bustamante @pablolopezbust.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🌿🌵🎶 Ecucha el sonido del bosques! Gracias por compartir!for #DataSonification #ForestSound #ForestEcology #Science+Art #SciComm
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Science Magazine @science.org · 16/03/2026
"In our culture, preferring an algorithm to a trainee feels like a betrayal of the academic mission." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/4bjmEwT
An illustration of a person sitting at a desk looking at a face on a laptop screen and a couple people. Hedline is, "Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student."
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Andrew Hacket-Pain @andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
Seedling growing in the forest
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Lara K. Mahal @glycocode.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
We're hiring! Please spread the word. We have an opening for an Assistant Professor in Plant Synthetic Biology for Strategic Resources Research. See ad for details – and apply to join us here in Athens, GA! 🪴 #PlantBiology #SyntheticBiology #PlantScience #AcademicJobs #UGA
Faculty job ad for a position in Plant Synthetic Biology for Strategic Resources Research in the Department of Plant Biology at the University of Georgia.
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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs
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Nate Swenson @nateswenson.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
provost.nd.edu/news/notre-d... An exciting opportunity for postdocs here at Notre Dame. I would excited to mentor anyone outstanding candidate in temperate or tropical forest ecology. Pass along to folks looking for a position in 2026!
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Notre Dame opens applications for 2026 Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship program
The University of Notre Dame is accepting applications for the next cohort of…
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Sandra M Durán @sandramduran.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Looking for a #postdoct for a NSF project integrating ecosystem productivity, hyperspectral remote sensing and airborne LiDAR to test prominent hypothesis of the effect of #biodiversity on #forest #productivity @fluxnetecn.bsky.social @ngaps.bsky.social Apply at: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
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Steve Voelker @thetreecorener.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
New Tenure Track Position in Data Science or Biostatistics with us here at MTU is live. We have great people here in a fantastic location that is probably a lot cooler (temperature-wise) than wherever you live during summer! www.employment.mtu.edu/en-us/job/49...
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Assistant Professor, Environmental Data Science & Biostatistics | Michigan Technological University
Explore career opportunities at Michigan Technological University located in Houghton, MI. Browse and filter job listings to find the perfect fit and learn more about each position.
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Jonathan Overpeck @greatlakespecktwo.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Here we go again - remember that breathing wildfire smoke isn’t good for your lungs, heart, or brain. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
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Dense smoke from Canadian wildfires is blowing into U.S.
Wildfire smoke from Manitoba, Canada, will blow across two dozen states through Saturday, reducing air quality and creating hazy skies.
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Nature @nature.com · 28/05/2025
Countries must cooperate to seize a once-in-a-generation opportunity to become the top destination for scientists, says Maria M. Mota go.nature.com/43KTTGV
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Europe can capture the US brain drain — if it acts fast
Countries must cooperate to seize a once-in-a-generation opportunity to become the top destination for scientists.
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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Great news - we will be searching for a tree physiologist (tenure track) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, UBC Forestry, later this year. Stay tuned! (Please share.)
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Dr. Suzanne Le Menestrel @drsl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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Matt Johnson, PhD @mossmatters.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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Trump funding cuts threaten the lives of plant libraries
Plant libraries hold essential clues about climate change -- but with funding cuts aimed at research and education, their future is at stake.
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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
"The memo from the secretary of agric has the effect of declaring 60% of all national forestlands to be in a 'state of emergency', thereby lifting requirements for public comment & protection of endangered species & cultural resources before logging." 🌏 www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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More details surface in Trump administration plan to cut national forests
Memos from the Trump administration are increasing pressure to cut more national forests for timber and forest health.
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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Ten week paid #NSF #REU #internship at the HJ Andrews #LTER in Oregon working on forest #microclimate and fungal symbiont effects on seedling success. Hosted by @osubpp.bsky.social. Review begins 4 April. 🧪🌎🍄 More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Newest round open: www.hhmi.org/news/hhmi-op...
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HHMI Opens National Competition for Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program | HHMI
The program provides up to $1.5 million in support for early career scientists across up to eight years, spanning postdoctoral training through the transition to starting a lab as faculty.
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Want to lead a world-leading #biology department - see open position to head our dept international.au.dk/about/profil... @aarhusuni.bsky.social 🐋🌴🦇🦠 #ecology #evolution #physiology of #animals & #plants #aquaticbiology #microbiology #botany #conservation #rewilding #restoration, #ecosystems🐎🌐🌸🪰💩🌦️🐻‍❄️
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Aarhus University is seeking a head of the Department of Biology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences (NAT) - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Biology, Aarhus University
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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Late-breaking job ad: The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, USA) is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Evolutionary Biology!!! More details below. Please repost!
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TT Assistant Professor of Plant Evolutionary Biology
The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in Plant Evolutionary Biology. This position is a 9-month, ten...
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Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
🧪 Join us in Tucson! We will begin reviewing applications on December 9 for our tenure track faculty position on the genomics of resilience @uofa-eeb.bsky.social! Apply here: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
A photo of a mountain road covered in snow with a rock wall on the right side and tall conifer trees on both side of the road. A bright orange sunset is in the background of the photo. Taken on Mt. Lemmon in the Santa Catalina Mountains above the city of Tucson, Arizona.
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Chris Catano @chriscatano.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I am accepting applications for a PhD student to join my lab at the University of California, Riverside. If you are interested in plant community ecology, ecosystem function/stability, global change, or restoration, please contact me. Fully funded position available. See my website for more details.
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Nate Swenson @nateswenson.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
An afternoon at the Art Institute of Chicago. Pictures of people taking pictures of a picture that some are trying to look at in real life! Choose your own adventure for making a memory 🧐
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Imran Rahman @imranrahman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Job alert! Director of Oxford University Museum of Natural History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKV017/d...
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Director of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History at University of Oxford
Recruiting now: Director of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Nate Swenson @nateswenson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
My latest with Vanessa Rubio on the functional ecology of tropical forests - groups, traits and 'omics, oh my! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The functional underpinnings of tropical forest dynamics—Functional traits, groups, and unmeasured diversity
In this review, we discuss fundamental life history trade-offs that have been elucidated via traits, how these may or may not be linked to tropical tree “guilds” or functional groups, and how this in...
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Belen Fadrique @belenfadrique.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Exciting updates! In January 2025 I will start at University of Liverpool as a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow. I will build a team to work on montane forests across the tropics! Several positions (tropical and temperate) coming up soon! Join our growing forest ecology group at Liverpool!
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