How many fires > 100,000 acres will there be in Oregon this week?

New article! We went to Tucson for a few weeks back in 2019 and looked at some plants and took quite a few soil samples. We found that buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) invasion was associated with lower plant diversity, and soil carbon. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) invasion is associated with reduced plant diversity and changes in carbon storage in the Sonoran Desert

Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) is a perennial bunchgrass, invasive in arid ecosystems of the United States, Australia, and Mexico. Buffelgrass invas…

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Is Charles de Gaulle the worst airport?

--Paper-- Fires of Unusual Size: Future of Extreme and Emerging Wildfire in a Warming United States (2020–2060) Disproportionate growth in maximum fire size suggests that changes in fire weather will amplify extreme events beyond increases in ignition frequency alone www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/9/...

60-yr long time series of changes in local environmental conditions across habitat types (forests, grasslands, shrublands & wetlands) using plant species ecological indicator values #EIVs to track back those changes: increase in N-demanding & shade-tolerant species ⬇️ shorturl.at/RAHGc

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Fuel architecture drives shoot flammability link.springer.com/article/10.1... @azajmahmud.bsky.social @schwilk.org

Members of Apache tribe take sacred land case to Supreme Court. "For the Apaches, Oak Flat holds a direct connection to their creator, making it a foundational part of their religious beliefs. Oak Flat is also the [location] of a large copper deposit." www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

Apache women make last-gasp attempt to save sacred land at SCOTUS

A group of Apache women filed an emergency request at the Supreme Court to prevent a sacred religious site from being swallowed by a massive copper mine.

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Getting early to the zoom meeting is great because when else during the day do you get time to practice making funny faces at the camera

🍁Funding for new PhD students ($40k/yr) & postdocs ($70k/yr) coming from outside Canada. Contact me if interested in #Ecophysiology at #UBC in #Vancouver! Possible topics: leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimate, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology, more! michaletzlab.org Please share!

iDiv and @uni-jena.de are recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in Trait-Based Community Ecology and Modelling. Highlights: 🔺Full-time (100%, 40 h/week) with the option to reduce to 80% 🔺Fixed-term for 2 years 🔺Salary up to E13 TV‑L 📆 Apply by: 29 March 2026 www.idiv.de/career/job-o...

💰 Fully Funded | Geoarchaeology Postdoc 2026 | Maastricht University, Netherlands 🔬 Early Helladic roofing tiles research | Geoarchaeology + Geochemistry + Fieldwork Greece 🎓 PhD Required ⏳ Deadline: 13 Mar 2026 🔗 higherjobz.com/geoarchaeolo... #Postdoc #Geoarchaeology @maastrichtu.bsky.social

Geoarchaeology Postdoc Netherlands 2026 | Fully Funded | HigherJobz

Fully funded Geoarchaeology Postdoctoral Position at Maastricht University, Netherlands. Apply by 13 March 2026. Open to PhD holders.

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Minneapolis residents are facing a growing food crisis. Fear from ICE is keeping families—especially elders, parents, and the homebound from groceries. Feed Minneapolis funds trusted local food shelves and kitchens, with a goal of feeding 10,000 people in 2 weeks. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fe...

Donate to Support Feed Minneapolis: Urgent Food Relief, organized by Andrew Behrman

FEED MINNEAPOLIS A COMMUNITY IN CRISIS NEEDS YOU NOW Minneapolis r… Andrew Behrman needs your support for Support Feed Minneapolis: Urgent Food Relief

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For the day. Rusavskia elegans showing its heart to the world (a bit of a dark heart 😐). NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Aarhus University is hiring for 8 new positions! Individual job details below!👇 #ScienceJobs

Job opportunities in Flagstaff! Manager, Restoration Ecology & Forest Resilience careers.nau.edu/jobs/manager... Manager, Wildfire Insurance and Resilient Economies (WIRE) careers.nau.edu/jobs/manager...

Manager, Restoration Ecology & Forest Resilience - Flagstaff, Arizona, United States

Special Information This position is an on-site position which requires the incumbent to complete their work primarily at an NAU site, campus, or facility with or without accommodation. Opportunities...

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We are seeking a 3+ year postdoc in ocean modelling, to work on an exciting project investigating underwater tsunamis in Antarctica. More about the project here: www.polomints.ac.uk Read more about the post here: lnkd.in/eBjndZPv Please share and help connect us with the best candidates!

10,000 years of snow avalanche activity in western Norway! ❄️ cp.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

Are you a community ecologist interested in fire ecology? Come join our group! Postdoc position for project FEVER, that aims to understand how fire affects biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and biogeochemical cycles in Mediterranean forests @umramap.bsky.social.

Took me way too long to realize that its super easy to just merge pdfs in R rather than fussing with Adobe #rstats library(pdftools) pdf_combine( input = c("file1.pdf", "file2.pdf"), output = "merged.pdf" )

Fast-growing trees are set to dominate the #forests of the #future — but at a cost🌳 Our Nature Plants (@natplants.nature.com) study shows a global shift toward "sprinter" tree species, while slow-growing, functionally critical #trees face elevated #extinction risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global functional shifts in trees driven by alien naturalization and native extinction - Nature Plants

This study finds that native tree extinctions and alien naturalizations are pushing forests towards fast-growing, resource-demanding species. This global shift could affect carbon storage and ecosyste...

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Species shift their ranges in response to climate change, but many can't keep up. The resulting "community-climate disequilibrium" can impair ecosystem function and cause counterintuitive dynamics, like short-term gain but long-term loss onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Linking Community‐Climate Disequilibrium to Ecosystem Function

When turnover in species composition lags behind the pace of climate change, community-climate disequilibrium increases. We, for the first time, explicitly link this disequilibrium to ecosystem funct...

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Postdoctoral Researcher – CNRS, France Full-time postdoc in Environmental Sciences, Nanopesticides & Sustainable Agriculture Eligibility: PhD Deadline: 4 February 2026 Apply: higherjobz.com/postdoctoral... #AcademicJobs #EnvironmentalScience #PostdocFrance @cnrs.fr

Postdoctoral Researcher Environmental Sciences CNRS France | HigherJobz

Apply for the Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Sciences at CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, France. PhD required. Deadline 4 February 2026.

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You can specify relative position in ggplot with I(x) I(y). E.g. annotate("text", x = I(.5), y = I(.5), label = "hello!") will place the text in the middle of the plot. This, combined with alignment arguments is like 87% of the magic for me.

Fully Funded PhD in Anthropology, History & Sociology – University of Jyväskylä, Finland. PhD role in Sustainable Rural Futures, combining anthropology, history & sociology research. Deadline: 15 Feb 2026. Apply: higherjobz.com/fully-funded... #AcademicJobs #PhDJobs #AnthropologyJobs #HistoryJobs

Fully Funded PhD in Anthropology, History & Sociology - Jyväskylä

Apply for a fully-funded PhD in Anthropology, History & Sociology at University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Deadline 15 Feb 2026.

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Plant traits matter in fire ecology! "On average, deciduous forests lose less than half as much carbon to wildfire combustion as conifer forests per unit burned area" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Increased deciduous tree dominance reduces wildfire carbon losses in boreal forests - Nature Climate Change

More frequent fires in the North American boreal are causing shifts from conifer to deciduous forests. This study finds that when deciduous forests burn, their carbon losses are driven by weather, but...

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Alongside the residencies, several events are already planned this year: - Summer School – Unifying Mathematical Models of Biodiversity, July 5–11 intp.science/en/summer26.... - Interdisciplinary Science School, Sept 7–12 - Autumn School - Syntheses in Theoretical Community Ecology, Oct 12–17 🌐🧪🌍

Nice paper by Demarest et al examining effects of thinning treatments ponderosa pine forests in the Colorado Front Range esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....