Join our team! The UW–Madison Aquatic Sciences Center, which administers both Wisconsin Sea Grant and the Water Resources Institute, is hiring an Associate Director for Outreach and Engagement. https://jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/associate-director-for-outreach-and-engagement-madison-wisconsin-united-states

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

So much to reflect on in this book, thanks , Juli for mentioning it. Lots of wisdom.

juli g pausas@jgpausas.bsky.social · 4d ago

Foreword “For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech”

A dangerous heat wave will bring record-breaking temperatures to parts of the Western U.S. this weekend, prompting warnings for people to stay inside and heightening wildfire risks in areas that already are dry or burning. https://to.pbs.org/452eNRL

Heat wave expected to bring record-breaking temps, heighten wildfire risk to parts of Western U.S.

A ridge of high pressure is holding heat close to the ground — what’s known as a heat dome — from Arizona to Montana, though the good news is that it will be relatively short-lived, National Weather S...

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The future of science won't be shaped by AI alone — it will be shaped by the choices researchers make about using it. A new @issuesinst.bsky.social article explores how researchers can integrate AI into the scientific process while preserving the principles that make science trustworthy. 🧵

Early defoliation, leaf browning and wilting and shedding of green leaves in Switzerland (Jura) and Southern Germany (Black Forest) - beech but also cherry and maple affected - heat and drought stress - and no rain forecasted for the next weeks. This is not unexpected - this is climate change!

Gavin is a great mentor and collaborator and does very cool science. Apply early and often 🦉🌎🌐

gavin jones@ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 4w ago

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/

New guidance directs Interior employees, including park staff, not to confirm deaths or the severity of injuries in national parks. Coalition Board Member Alexandra Picavet warns this “prescriptive and in some ways threatening guidance” will not be effective. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Internal memo orders staff not to reveal deaths in national parks

Guidance issued by the Interior Department instructs National Park Service staff not to confirm deaths, the severity of injuries or other details.

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We will soon be advertising a 3-year postdoctoral position at Bristol aimed at enhancing our modelling capacity to better characterise vegetation recovery & legacy effects following fire. Please keep us in mind if this is your speciality 😀 🔥🌳 🌱

I was struck when I corrected data for inflation and population growth. In no way is Trump policy a correction of some overreach. The Biden years were middling for science funding in the 21st century. This is retrenchment to a time before most Americans were born. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... 🧪

Reminder about this webinar tomorrow!

Ecological Society of America@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our final episode of the season is next week! Join Aaron and our guests Rich Pouyat & Alex Neal for reflections on building a career as an ecologist and how to navigate a meaningful, successful pathway. June 9 at 2:00 PM ET! https://ow.ly/ck2P50Z77MN

The top Democrats on a Republican-led congressional committee that historically opposes most U.S. interactions with China are slamming President Donald Trump for firing all the members of the board that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/43Usj9i

Democrats on House China committee decry dismissal of National Science Board

Letter also blames Trump for letting China surpass United States in research spending

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I am working on my public comment. All scientists should do so, this would be devastating to US science and the innovation and leadership that has been a real gold standard.

Peter Griffith@carboncyclist.org · 2mo ago

Re OMB proposed rules on grants: You’ve got to admire how thoroughly they studied the conduct of science in order to create rules that would destroy the system. They did their homework

Good report via @npr.org “NPR would like to hear from more people with information about federal agencies and the proposed reorganization of the Forest Service.” Contact “Chiara Eisner, at ceisner@npr.org, or contact her on the end-to-end encrypted platform Signal, here. Her username is: ceis.78.”

KJZZ Phoenix@kjzz.org · 2mo ago

The Forest Service is trying to shut down research hubs because it says it needs to live within its means. But the agency plans to close facilities that cost less than $1 to rent while keeping open one that costs $1 million.

The U.S. research community is asking the Senate to do something it hasn’t done in more than 3 decades: Hold a hearing on the president’s nominee to lead the National Science Foundation before voting on whether to confirm him. https://scim.ag/4dWgoxE

Research groups want Senate to vet Trump’s nominee for NSF head

A hearing would air questions about James O’Neill’s qualifications to lead the agency

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Born #OnThisDay in 1951 was astronaut and physicist Sally Ride. Ride became the first American woman to go into space as part of NASA's seventh space shuttle mission, and was the third woman overall to go into space. #WomenInSTEM https://bit.ly/4dH5k6b

Democrats in Congress are criticizing President Donald Trump’s unprecedented firing of all members of the National Science Foundation’s governing board—and demanding answers on what the administration plans to do next. https://scim.ag/3R288TX

Democratic lawmakers demand Trump explain—and reverse—termination of NSF’s governing board

Letters from Senate and House of Representatives question purge of the National Science Board

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Climate change is shifting the competitive balance between tree species. The result: Up to 25% of Europe’s forests could experience a change in the dominant tree species in the 21st century. New insights from a deep learning-based meta-model trained on 135 million data points doi.org/10.1038/s432...

On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...

This should be good!

Ecological Society of America@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Meet our #ESA2026 New Phytologist Keynote speaker! María Uriarte is Professor of Ecology, Evolution & Environmental Biology at Columbia University Her talk will address research & management challenges in the face of disturbances like human development & climate change. https://ow.ly/S1sb50YYXkn

🚨 4 fellowship opps w/ the U.S. EPA #GreatLakes National Program Office! 🌊 Gain hands-on experience in #GreatLakes monitoring, restoration, field sampling on the R/V Lake Guardian, #scicomm, data analysis & more. 📍Chicago, IL ✍️ Apply by May 29 🔗 zintellect.com/Opportunity/...

Congratulations @bjenquist.bsky.social -- Robert H. MacArthur Award for Meritorious Contributions by A Mid-Career Ecologist! 🎉https://esa.org/blog/2026/05/06/ecological-society-of-america-announces-2026-award-recipients/

Very proud of @nathankiel.bsky.social for leading this major contribution and including our senior honors thesis student. Check out what happens if trees do not come back after fire! (It is OA) #Yellowstone #FireEcology

Nathan Kiel@nathankiel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I am grateful that a recent publication I led in collaboration with Eileen Mavencamp and @monicagturner.bsky.social received this year’s W.S. Cooper Award from the Ecological Society of America! More info in the press release below, and check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

When fires occur under extreme conditions, as those in NW Iberia last summer (doi.org/10.1111/gcb....), even highly managed pine woodlands burn! Pinus pinaster woodland used for resin extraction, Molezuelas fire, El Teleno, León, Spain 🧪🌍🔥🌳🍁 wildfire

“It is perhaps beyond obvious that the Trump Administration would look at a forest and see board feet of timber. But the gutting of the Forest Service couldn’t come at a more inopportune moment.”

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 4mo ago

Ahead of what is predicted to be a dangerous wildfire season, the Trump Administration gutted the Forest Service by closing its regional headquarters along with most research facilities and experimental forests. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/QDMl4y

Worth the read, happening in other agencies as well as NASA. Loss of scientists, congressional funding not being dispersed. Artemis II is still great (!) but can’t mask attacks on science. NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

Opinion | NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess

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We are hiring! Interested in doing a PhD and excited about forest management, ecosystem services, simulation modeling and beta diversity? Come work with us @edfm-tum.bsky.social at @tum.de, full job ad here: cloud.edfm.ls.tum.de/index.php/s/...

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”

U.S. Forest Service unveils extensive closures of research facilities

Cost-cutting move is expected to cause resignations and turmoil

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Not only will you work on birds, but also bats, skinks, geckos & frogs. This research would come up with conservation strategies & a climate change extinction risk atlas for #NewZealand. Applications close 27th April 🦜🦇🦎🐸

Nic Rawlence@nicrawlencenz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Want to do a PhD @universityofotago.bsky.social on climate impacts on #NZ vertebrates w/ Michael Knapp, @plubbe.bsky.social, @atennyson.bsky.social & me? Comes w/ fully funded scholarship & will investigate climate extinction risks using genomics & niche modelling evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...