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Louis Santiago

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Plant eco-physiologist at UC Riverside and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute ecophys.ucr.edu

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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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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.
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Gerry Carter @gerrycarter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Please help us spread the word: Princeton University’s Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is hiring an Assistant Professor! I ❤️ this collegial and collaborative department full of inspiring people: eeb.princeton.edu/people Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/193474
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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
TWO JOBS in our department #IntegrativeBiology at #UTAustin! Evolutionary Biology and Organismal Mechanistic Processes, both very widely defined. Come join us! Application info here: apply.interfolio.com/193270
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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Plant Colleagues! Open job for Director of the Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center (PRC) at UT Austin. A great job for anyone addressing fundamental questions in evolution of plants and a commitment to herbarium administration and/or collections-based research. apply.interfolio.com/193263
a field of blooming bluebonnets, the state flower of Texas.
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Plant Ecophys (BSA) @bsa-ecophys.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Who’s excited for our #bsaecophys workshop tomorrow at #Botany2026 ? There are still a few spots open if there are still folks interested!
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Carlos M Herrera @cmhmaliani.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
De verdad os lo digo, leed este hilo porque es sencillamente excelente. 👇👇
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Diego A. Márquez @dmarquez.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Preprint with @lucascernusak.bsky.social, @florianabusch.bsky.social and Graham Farquhar! We show that mesophyll cell water status is the key signal regulating non-stomatal control of transpiration. We introduce a mechanistic model linking plant hydraulics and gas exchange. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Ralf Reski @reskilab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Associate/Full Professor- Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics- Integrative Biology, and Director- University of California Berkeley Herbaria, USA. #plantscijobs #plantscijob #plantsciencejob aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05405
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Associate/Full Professor- Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics- Integrative Biology, and Director- University of California Berkeley Herbaria
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Impacts of drought and drought legacies on plants + ecosystems -> Special Issue of our #PlantSci Journal #PlantBiology published recently onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14388677... Also read editorial from @chriswernerlab.bsky.social et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Special Issue: Impacts of droughts and drought legacies on plants and ecosystems: Plant Biology: Vol 28, No 3
Click on the title to browse this issue
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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Botany friends: cool job alert. We're searching for a new Director for the UC & Jepson Herbaria here at UC Berkeley. Share with nice people. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05405 🌿🌺🌵
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Associate/Full Professor- Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics- Integrative Biology, and Director- University of California Berkeley Herbaria
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Charlotte Grossiord @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Excited to share our new paper on leaf scorching. 🔥Early leaf browning during heat and drought is often interpreted as premature leaf senescence - but it may reflect rapid heat damage. Separating these processes is essential. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @wslresearch.bsky.social
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Nadine Ruehr @nadineruehr.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
🌲🌳 PhD opportunity: Forest Vulnerability to Hotter Droughts Interested in forest ecosystems, climate extremes & tree stress resilience? 🎓 Dual PhD (KIT 🇩🇪 + Melbourne 🇦🇺) 🔬 Plant Ecophysiology Lab, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 🇩🇪 🌍 +1-year research stay 🇦🇺 👉 Apply here: t1p.de/g39co
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Giai Petit @giai.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Finally published🙂🙂 A cellective multidisciplinary effort to understand what happens in trees attacked by bark beetles link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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From Colonization to Collapse: a Mechanistic Perspective on Tree Mortality by Bark Beetles - Current Forestry Reports
Purpose of Review Bark beetle outbreaks are intensifying under climate change, yet the links among drought stress, beetle attack and colonization, rapid tree mortality, and tree physiology, remain poo...
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I’m looking to recruit a postdoc to join my research group at University of Iowa to work on disturbance ecology and biodiversity! Start date flexible, lots of opportunity for skill development, collaboration, and mentorship. Will review applicants in mid-August! Link: gavinmjones.com/opportunities/
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BIG NEWS! The Jones Lab will be relocating to the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability (SEES) at the University of Iowa in Fall 2026. Our work on disturbance ecology and conservation sc…
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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
PhD position available: Predicting impacts of extreme heat on Australian forests The world is heating up and forests are starting to show the effects. Like maths? Love trees? Apply your skills to help understand and adapt vegetation to heat extremes! www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...
Infra-red image of trees in whole-tree chambers during a heatwave
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Keeping up with the heat: Long-term dynamics and plasticity of heat tolerance in a tropical plant community Georgia G. Hernández, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/AXS96W... Summary also available in Spanish. @martijnslot.bsky.social #PlantScience
A multi-panel grid plot with four vertical panels representing the years 2017, 2021, 2022, and 2023. The vertical axis lists 35 tropical plant species, and the horizontal axis measures leaf heat tolerance, T50, ranging from 48 to 54 Celsius. Within each annual panel, horizontal rows show a point for the median T50 value and a horizontal line for the 95 percent confidence interval, sorted from highest tolerance at the bottom to lowest at the top. Data points are color-coded by plant family: Cannaceae in light blue, Costaceae in dark blue, Heliconiaceae in light green, Marantaceae in dark green, Musaceae in pink, and Zingiberaceae in red. A thick vertical gray line cuts through the center of each annual panel to mark the overall community mean, which visibly shifts from its lowest point in 2017 to its highest peak in 2022.
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AEMET @aemet.es · 07/07/2026
🌡️ Junio de 2026, el 2º más cálido de la serie. Solo fue superado por el del año pasado. ➡️ De los 15 junios más cálidos, 13 han sido en el siglo XXI. 🌂 Fue también un mes muy seco: el tercer junio con menos lluvias desde que hay datos. + info 👉 www.aemet.es/es/noticias/...
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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
New paper by Hernández et al @newphyt.bsky.social using years of heat tolerance surveys of zingiberales in Costa Rica. *Interannual T50 variation wasn't related to temperature. *spp w high T50 had smaller internannual variation in T50. A trade-off? nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Keeping up with the heat: long‐term dynamics and plasticity of heat tolerance in a tropical plant community
Interannual variation in species’ heat tolerance (T50).
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Ávila-Lovera Lab @avila-loveralab.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
📣Unete a la #REDLEV en su próximo seminario mensual. Ernesto Martínes de AGROSAVIA nos hablará acerca de los cambios en reflectancia del dosel de papa en respuesta al déficit hídrico. No se lo pierdan! reuna.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Marylou Mantova @maryloumantova.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We found that differences in hydraulic function and residual transpiration help determine drought resilience, offering new insights for forest management, breeding, and predicting forest responses to climate change. @hcochard.bsky.social @wmhammond.bsky.social
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Plant Ecophys (BSA) @bsa-ecophys.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
As we gear up for #botany2026, we are looking for judges for the student presentations in the Physiology and Ecophysiology section. If you will be at the meeting and are willing to judge a few posters and talks, please contact: Brian Maricle bmaricle@svsu.edu #BSA #BSAEcophys
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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
If you sign a publishing agreement with Wiley, you agree that your work can be used for AI models. Other publishers probably do the same. As a federal employee, I can't sign that, so our ms is stuck. Publishers won't buckle for a few of us, so can't I publish anymore? What do universities say?
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Louis Santiago @santiago-ecofiz.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Today marks 20 years since I have worked as a professor at the University of California, Riverside, and I have some reflections 🧵
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/7) Soil fertility controls on tropical forest productivity and mortality: synthesis and roadmap nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Fig. 1 Conceptual map of links between soil fertility and forest carbon dynamics.
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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I am hiring! My former postdocs have all gone on to great ongoing roles, so I am now looking for 2 new postdocs in dynamic vegetation modelling: Modelling vegetation-fire interactions in Australia Modelling Australian vegetation distributions Details linked below - please share!
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Jeff Shima @drjeffshima.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Dream job alert: Terrestrial vertebrate biologist/ecologist (tenure-track) in New Zealand! Join us @ Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. Lecturer ≈ US Assistant Prof. NZ lifestyle, weird animals, & great colleagues Apply here: tinyurl.com/mubu7np8
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Ilaine S. Matos @ilainematos.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Job opportunity in Plant Science at Adelaide University in South Australia. Learn more at jobs.adelaide.edu.au/jobs/lecture...
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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
New publication on stomatal decoupling led by Zhaoguo Wang. I first noticed decoupling in temperature response curves in 2016 (tinyurl.com/k6dnhn94) and have been intrigued since. This study focuses on decoupling under experimental warming, showing interesting patterns www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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CREAF @creaf.cat · 04/02/2026
NOT ALL tropical forests store carbon equally 🌿 A new study reveals that riparian and cloud forests in #Nicaragua are true carbon super‑heroes🦸‍♀️, packing up to 4️⃣ times more #carbon than dry forests. Led by 🧑‍🔬@guillepeguero.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social and O. Lanuza (UNAN-Managua) Read more 📃👇
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Riparian and cloud forests are the ones that accumulate the most carbon in the Nicaraguan rainforest
New research reveals that tropical ecosystems richest in biodiversity also store more carbon.
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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
environment.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/news... Our new paper uses the Power of Plots to reveal how tropical forests are changing: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Forty years of tracking trees reveals changes in Amazon and Andean Forest diversity
New research reveals significant recent shifts in tree diversity among the tropical forests of the Andes and Amazon, driven by global change.
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Laura Cooper @transitionalform.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Massive update to the Global Wood Density Database out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer. What an amazing community resource! 🧪🍁🌐 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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W. P. Mueller @wpmueller.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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Predicting the fate of tropical forests under intensifying heat
Intense droughts have caused water stress and elevated mortality for trees in the Amazon, foreshadowing the future of tropical forests as the climate changes.
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Really interesting and confounding trend reported in Dynamic Ecology - ecology citations peaked in 2021 and have been declining since. Continued impact from the pandemic? 🧪🌐🌾 dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/s...
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Science (all of it) peaked in 2021
An ecologist friend* noticed that the annual number of times he’s been cited grew throughout his career up until 2021, when it peaked. It then declined for a couple of years straight. Then it…
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Ilaine S. Matos @ilainematos.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Fully funded PhD opportunity in my lab to study threatened plant species responses to drought and heat. This is part of mu recently funded DECRA fellowship.
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UCDavisPlants @ucdavisplants.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
🖥️ From Plant, Cell & Environment: A new psychrometric correction removes humidity-driven bias in LI-600 porometer readings, aligning stomatal conductance estimates with IR gas analysis. (Kyle T. Rizzo, Brian N. Bailey) ▶️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience
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A Psychrometric Temperature Correction for the Positive Bias Observed in Stomatal Conductance Measured by the Open Flow‐Through LI‐600 Porometer
The study showed that the LI-COR LI-600 porometer systematically overestimates stomatal conductance relative to LI-6800 gas exchange measurements, with the bias increasing at high stomatal conductanc...
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Jessica C. Huss @j2huss.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
One day in the lab, we accidentally discovered that the spines of a cactus 🌵 straighten when exposed to fog. I was intrigued and so were my collaborators. How does this work and what can be gained from it? Here are some of the answers in our new preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Check out our new pub led by lab postdoc, Dr. Brad Posch! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Owen Atkin @owenatkin.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Congrats to @bposch.bsky.social for leading the writing of the New Phytologist Tansley Review on High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land plants. @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land plants
The effect of high temperature on plant performance and survival is a topic of great interest given the ongoing rise in global heatwave frequency, duration, and intensity. The temperature at which ph...
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Herbarium specimens reveal shifts in species' elevational ranges Zu et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/VB8MUG...
Changes in upper range limits, lower range limits, and elevational range sizes of species distributions in the last seven decades.
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Ian Wright @ianjwright.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Exciting PhD opportunity advertised by superstar colleague Prof. Rachael Gallagher "Genomic and trait-based indicators of restoration success" (collaboration with Botanic Gardens of Sydney). See attached image. Contact Rachael directly for more information (email in advert). Closes 30th Nov.
PhD advert for Genomic and trait-based indicators of restoration success
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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
Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.
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Tom Pugh @tompugh.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
How can we explore the future of the world's forests? Understanding the demography of their trees is key. In We took the new gen of global demographic vegetation models and held their roots to the observations. Thanks @annemarie-es.bsky.social for leading! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Zach Urness @oregonoutdoors.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Drought and insects have killed an unprecedented number of Oregon’s Douglas fir trees during the last decade, costing billions in timber value, damaging infrastructure and ramping up wildfire danger. What is Douglas fir dieback? Where is it happening? What is being done? tinyurl.com/5n9amvx6
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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Effects of Soil and Atmospheric Drought on Intra-Annual δ13C Patterns in Tree Rings dx.doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpaf120
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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Hi all! If you are a PhD or soon to be PhD looking for a postdoc in plant thermotolerance, I would love to discuss project ideas for the University of Utah Wilkes Center Postdoc Fellowship, app due late Jan 2026! Msg me if there is interest. Tnx! wilkescenter.utah.edu/funding-oppo...
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Wilkes Center Postdoctoral Program - The Wilkes Center for Climate Science & Policy
Apply to become a postdoctoral scholar! This postdoctoral scholar program will help create the next generation of leaders in climate science and policy. It endeavors...
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Society for Tropical Ecology @soctropecol.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🚨 Do not miss the chance to submit your abstract to the European Conference of Tropical Ecology at Passau! The Call for Abstracts will stay open until 14 October 2025. 🚨 There are 18 exciting Thematic Sessions and one Free Session you can choose from.
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