The #Macroecology lab and alumni are so grateful to be at the #Botany2026 meetings in #Tucson ! What a fantastic meeting

BREAKING NEWS! The Senate has paused the OMB rule that would put Trump appointees in charge of federal spending. Next step - Contact your MoC and tell them to permanently REVOKE THE RULE: zurl.co/1SXEN Article: zurl.co/23mF8

Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul

Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.

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Check out latest from the lab - research led by @jocelynavarro.bsky.social !

Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · 4w ago

Ploidy level predicts differences in minimum leaf conductance in quaking #aspen, Populus tremuloides New #AJB research by @jocelynavarro.bsky.social, Roxanne Cruz-de Hoyos, John Powers, Benjamin Wong Blonder, Brian Enquist doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #Salicaceae #polyploidy

👀 what a first PhD paper! - looks like a major breakthrough discovery

Quentin Bacquelé@quentinbacquele.bsky.social · 2w ago

1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:

For those going to #Botany2026 with interests in evo-devo or eco-phys, check out the symposium “Eco-Evo-Devo: Plant Climatic Resilience at the Intersection of Ontogeny and Fitness” on Wednesday where we’ll be exploring the overlap of these topics!

“We also propose that the total human population of the area in 100–300 ad was 1.25–3 million people. If similar results are found elsewhere in Amazonia, the …current Amazonian …biodiversity and even some modelling of the global climate should be re-evaluated” 🧪 🌐 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Over 20,000 precolonial earthworks in the Southwest Amazonia - Nature

Using canopy-penetrating LiDAR data, the northern part of southwestern Amazonia appears to contain as many earthworks as previously estimated for the whole of Amazonia.

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My alma mater (College of the Atlantic) is hiring faculty in Field Ecology, Agroecology, and Chemistry. If you're looking for a very cool small liberal arts college on the coast of Maine with a strong environmental focus, check it out (happy to answer questions!): www.coa.edu/human-resour...

Career Opportunities | College of the Atlantic

Career opportunities at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor Maine.

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Enjoyed working with @veritasium.bsky.social on this video on scaling and the hidden math that governs life. A nice introduction to the pervasivness of scaling in biology and an introduction to #MetabolicScalingTheory youtu.be/tL9Lw250spc?... 🧪🌾🌐

Why does every mammal get 1 billion heartbeats in their life?

YouTube video by Veritasium

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The PhUnFETTy Lab will have a large showing at this week's #ESA2026. Come check out the cool work we've been doing!

Today at #ESA2026's Awards Ceremony in Salt Lake City, we celebrate this year's award recipients, recognizing outstanding research, teaching, mentorship, & service in ecology! 🧵

Always share a data dictionary along with your data so that people aren't guessing what a variable represents. There are many options for creating one (see thread for examples). Choose which one works best for you and share it alongside your data files. :)

Does anyone have informed perspectives on this paper? Seems important if true, important to refute if false. "Our results provide the first observational evidence that low clouds have partially offset recent warming, ... " agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Spread the word! My lab group is hosting a workshop tomorrow at #ESA2026: Ecological Theory for Everyone: A practical introduction to engaging with theory in your own research for those with little or no theoretical experience 1:30pm, Room 254B events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det...

Any Plant Functional Trait Course alumni going to be at the #ESA2026 or #BSA2026 meetings? Would be great to meet up and catch up! plantfunctionaltraitscourses.w.uib.no 🌐🌾🧪

Height does not impair the hydraulic system of the tallest tropical Dipterocarp trees www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... - good to see our #MetabolicScalingTheory predictions we made for scaling of hydraulic resistance and xylem anatomy hold up in some of the tallest trees #allometry #megabiota 🧪🌾🌐

Height does not impair the hydraulic system of the tallest tropical Dipterocarp trees

Half of the aboveground biomass in forests is stored in a disproportionately small number of very tall trees. These giants are predicted to be more vulnerable to drought-induced damage because height ...

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Arizona's premier academic publisher, the University of Arizona Press puts out ~55 books annually, including The Botanical Odyssey of Richard S. Felger, a portrait of one of plant science's great minds. Learn more: uapress.arizona.edu 🌵 Find them soon at Booth #208 at #Botany2026!

Also on the topic of ecophys - there are still spots in our LiCor workshop on Sunday afternoon! We just got off a planning call, it's going to be awesome! Come learn all about how to measure and troubleshoot weird stuff (i.e., not corn leaves). #Botany2026

Plant Ecophys (BSA)@bsa-ecophys.bsky.social · 2w ago

Botany 2026 is a week away! Make sure to check out our #bsaecophys sessions: Talks Tuesday August 4: Ecophys I - 8:00 to 12:00 pm Ecophys II - 1:30 to 5:30 pm Wednesday August 5: Ecophys III - 8:00 to 9:45 am Phys - 10:15 to 12:00 pm Hope to see you all at #Botany2026

Not sure whether I can keep up with managing #Botany2026 conference posts on four platforms…. So this is my vote for making bsky the “official” one for next week.

When I advise my faculty colleagues to diversify their funding beyond their traditional NSF/NIH grant portfolio, this isn't quite what I had in mind, but maybe where we're headed www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/s...

‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research

A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.

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The Torrey Botanical Society, founded in New York City in 1867, is the oldest botanical society in the Americas. It is dedicated to advancing botany through research, education, and public engagement. Stop by the Torrey Botanical Society booth (#222) at #Botany2026 to learn more and get involved!

I'm joining Rutgers DEENR in a tenure-track faculty position this fall! I'll be recruiting a quantitative postdoc in climate change wildlife ecology (start fall 26 or jan 27) and PhD student doing bioacoustics to study avian responses to extreme weather (start fall 27). More- www.gcmelab.com/join-us

Trump just shrunk Bears Ears by 91% and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 90%. Bears Ears was the first national monument co-managed by tribes. Five tribes spent years building that partnership. It's been walked back. 100,000+ archeological sites now exposed to mining and drilling.

Prevent damaging changes to the federal grant process Submit your comments by July 13, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. ET www.aps.org/initiatives/... 🧪🌐

Comment on OMB proposed rule for federal financial assistance

Make your voice heard on the Office of Management and Budget's proposed federal grant funding changes and defend the scientific community from this existential threat. Submit your comments by July 13,...

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RIP Stack Overflow

Toby Nangle@tobyn.bsky.social · 3w ago

Humans don’t ask humans questions anymore - great piece on vibe-coding & its consequences by @samlearner.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/cec8...

One of the largest temperature anomalies anywhere in the world last month was across western Siberia, with departures well above 5°C greater than the 1981-2010 average. This area also has very strong warming trends, partially related to decreasing seasonal snow cover. Data from ERA5 reanalysis.

The incredible vulnerability that reproduction poses for plant species in a warming world. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The incredible vulnerability that reproduction poses for plant species in a warming world

Generalized plant responses to heat stress across whole-plant and reproductive scales.

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"NSF employees are now concerned that the $1 billion of withheld funds will not be released. If they are not, the combination of withheld funds and clawbacks would result in funding cuts of more than 30% for most directorates compared with their planned spending for 2025"

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 4w ago

New: The National Science Foundation is preparing to claw back some $500 million in funds from some of its core science programs in physics, math, computer science, and engineering in order to fund a project from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

The Administration's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a proposed rule that threatens to reshape how scientific research is funded and conducted in the U.S. We encourage our AGU community to speak up submit your comment by 13 July: spklr.io/63328EPEn2

There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...

Here’s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science

Proposed federal rules would rely on political appointees to decide how a lot of U.S. science gets done. History shows the consequences of such actions.

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New job--please share! Looking for a postdoc to deep learning methods for identifying plant species from drone imagery. The two year position offers a salary of $78,000 and the option to be based in Boise, Idaho, or Burns, Oregon. For more info: caughlinlab.com/join-the-lab/ #postdoc #drones #ai