Tidal marsh vegetation survives extreme storms better than expected, with only ~30% average biomass loss. The findings help predict marsh survival during major storms, reducing uncertainty around nature-based flood protection. 🌍🧪 @natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Enabling global prediction of marsh vegetation survival during extreme storms - Communications Sustainability

Tidal marsh vegetation withstands extreme storms with only 30% average biomass loss, as flexible stems survive better than rigid ones, based on experiments using waves up to 2 m high and a predictive ...

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International students in the US would face a $100,000 price tag to work a science job in the country after graduation under a proposal made public yesterday by the Trump administration go.nature.com/4AWqQi8

US proposes $100,000 charge for international students to do post-graduate work

Proposed rule would choke off a crucial STEM talent pipeline, policy specialists say

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We are hiring! 🧪 Tenure-track position in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Great colleagues, nearby mountains, and of course a certain lake... Application info: nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external... www.unr.edu/biology #evolution #EEB #ecoevo #evolsky #academicjobs

I am hiring a Postdoc on Plant Ecophysiology to join our new group at U Nebraska. The link below has the full ad and instructions for applying. Please share widely! #botany #botanyjobs #ecophysiology #ecophysjobs #globalchange employment.unl.edu/postings/102...

I am also looking for new graduate students and will have a postdoc ad out soon. Ping me if you are interested in any of these positions! #botany #ecophysiology #ecosystems #globalchange

Nick Smith@nickgregsmith.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am hiring a full-time lab technician for my new lab at UNL. The full position description can be found at: employment.unl.edu/postings/102... The position is for 1 year, with renewal possible for up to 2 additional years. Pay is $23.50/hour. Please share!

Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

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"When my guests come over, it’s gonna be like BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air, and my house is full of mutant fucking squash." buff.ly/pykYN6f

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.

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Open position! Postdoc project on snow modelling and Arctic ecosystems ❄️🌿🌡️💧 3-yr position with assistant prof @niittynen.bsky.social at @oulu.fi ! See the link and apply by 15.10.2026 oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/fi/what:job/...

Postdoctoral Researcher in snow and microclimate processes of cold-climate ecosystems

We are now looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher in snow and microclimate processes of cold-climate ecosystems for a 3-year fixed-term position to join us in the Faculty of Technology, Water, Energy a

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Oak Ridge National Lab is hiring 3 postdocs for an upcoming project related to ecosystem resilience along the US Gulf Coast. One position is empirical biogeochemistry and the other two are AI/ML and geospatial modeling focused. jobs.ornl.gov/search/?q=eg... 🌎

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Find egret at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Oak Ridge National Lab is hiring 3 postdocs for an upcoming project related to ecosystem resilience along the US Gulf Coast. One position is empirical biogeochemistry and the other two are AI/ML and geospatial modeling focused. jobs.ornl.gov/search/?q=eg... 🌎

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Find egret at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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It's the time of year when Jews all around the world gather together and commemorate one of the greatest Onion headlines of all time. theonion.com/jews-to-cele...

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

Tenure-track assistant professor position in #ecology at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington: apply.interfolio.com/190454

Some well deserved recognition for soil science!

Nature@nature.com · last mo.

This year’s Ig Nobels include a biomechanics prize for creating a precise definition of kissing and a soil-science award for investigating what happens if you bury and then dig up 1,000 pairs of underwear. go.nature.com/4zUQyTB

I might be biased a bit, but this is a really neat paper. An elegant quantitative evidence of how a given soil's water retention behavior emerges from texture & structure together, not from texture as a base that structure simply modifies. HABIT outperforms Rosetta for predicting water retention.

Teamrat@teamrat.bsky.social · last mo.

Our new paper on an interpretable pedotransfer function is out. Traditionally, PTFs predict the parameters of water retention models. This new model predicts water content directly and exposes its internal attention weights for interpretation. doi.org/10.1029/2025... #SoilScience #MachineLearning

Our new paper on an interpretable pedotransfer function is out. Traditionally, PTFs predict the parameters of water retention models. This new model predicts water content directly and exposes its internal attention weights for interpretation. doi.org/10.1029/2025... #SoilScience #MachineLearning

Interpretable Soil Water Retention Prediction Using Hierarchical Attention Networks With Uncertainty Quantification

Existing pedotransfer functions cannot reveal which soil properties control water retention at different soil moisture states Direct prediction with attention mechanisms achieves superior accurac...

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Great piece from @sciencebails.bsky.social and others! Support your local society journal!

AGU (American Geophysical Union)@agu.org · last mo.

In a new @eos.org piece, the 1st cohort of Early Career Editorial Fellows in JGR: Biogeosciences reflect on their experience and what they've learned over the past 2 years. 🔗 eos.org/editors-vox/... #AGUPubs #Publishing #Academia #STEM @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social

Thrilled to announce that my department - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - at the U of Arizona will likely be hiring for a tenure-track position in "Population and Community Ecology" this fall. Watch this space for more details and official announcements coming soon ... #Ecology #EcologyJobs 🌐🌾🧪

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 1: It's carbonate-vs-carbonate with copper-rich #Azurite against zinc-rich #Smithsonite. Which has your vote? VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Pernilongo! Another great portuguese animal name

Aves do Brasil@avesbrasil.bsky.social · last mo.

🇧🇷Pernilongo-de-costas-negras 🌎Himantopus mexicanus Conservação: Pouco Preocupante O pernilongo-de-costas-negras é uma ave charadriiforme da família Recurvirostridae. Também conhecido como perna-de-pau e maçaricão. 📷 Rogério Rumão

Perhaps most insidious is the headline suggestion that only manual laborers deserve unions. I've represented workers across all industries - fire fighters, white collar government employees, parks guides, customs inspectors, janitorial staff, mortgage agents. Guess what, they all needed a union.

I wrote about Dolly Parton in my latest @nytopinion.nytimes.com column. Thank you. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...

Opinion | The Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote Was Herself (Gift Article)

She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.

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It's so sad to see ecosystems being obliterated both because of their intrinsic beauty and their role in the larger web of life and connections. Including, of course, mitigating the effects of climate change.

As Texas Destroys Its Wetlands, the Risk of Devastating Flooding Increases

Thousands of acres have been decimated to make room for development and urban sprawl, alarming residents and climate experts.

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cool things Dolly Parton did that you may not have known: a thread. supported families after the Gatlinburg fires:

Tina Vasquez@tinavasquez.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When the Gatlinburg Wildfires happened in 2016, Dolly gave impacted families $1,000/month to help them get back on their feet. This included my father-in-law, who lost everything in the fire. Dolly gave children in TN free books each month, from birth to the age of five. She was a goddamn saint.

Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

Anyone else hear the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald every time they see this?

Canadian History Ehx@cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)

"How could you forget? It’s not like orientation takes place on a completely random date, some arbitrary period of time before the first day of school." buff.ly/Gh5LyEF

I’m Beginning to Think You Don’t Care About the Forty-Eight Pencils I Need for School Orientation Tomorrow

“How could you forget? It’s not like orientation takes place on a completely random date some arbitrary period of time before the first day of school.” 8/28/23

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🚨HIRING NEWS🚨 Come be my colleague! The Dept of Chemistry & Biochemistry at UC Merced is hiring for two positions in Biochemistry! One is at the assistant professor level and the other is open rank... if you have questions, let me know! Link: aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF02218

2 Positions - One Assistant Professor Ladder Rank & One Open Professor Ladder Rank (Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Biochemistry)

University of California, Merced is hiring. Apply now!

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Oh hello there. Who's in Men's Health today with an essay about kids and AI? It's me! Also, that art! www.menshealth.com/trending-new...

The AI Revolution Is Coming for Kids. But Maybe It’s the Parents We Need to Worry About More.

“When I’m online, it’s not kids sharing all the slop. It’s my generation,” writes author Chuck Wendig.

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