Super excited that my NSF CAREER proposal was funded! We will work on urban biodiversity in the next 5 years. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
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Daijiang Li
@djli.bsky.social
Ecologist. Assistant Professor at University of Arizona. Global change. Biodiversity, Phenology, Urban Ecology, Phylogeny. https://www.dlilab.com
Turning a new leaf: PhenoVision provides #LeafPhenology data at the global scale New in #AppsPlantSci by @er1ngrady.bsky.social, @djli.bsky.social, @rdinnager.bsky.social, et al doi.org/10.1002/aps3... @inaturalist.bsky.social @floridamuseum.bsky.social #botany #citizenscience #computervision
Excited to share our new paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on data and code archiving at @britishecologicalsociety.org journals. TL;DR: Data archiving rates are high, code archiving rates are low, documentation needs to be improved! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....
Data‐ and code‐archiving in the British Ecological Society journals: Present status and recommendations for future improvements
Data- and code-archiving are important components of open science, as both make research more transparent, reproducible, accountable and credible, allowing future researchers to build on previous ...
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Evolving nature-based solutions for urban resilience. An important topic for urban sustainability, just published today, led by amazing @malberti.bsky.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Evolving nature-based solutions for urban resilience
Despite growing investments in nature-based solutions for urban resilience, their design often overlooks a fundamental biological process: evolution. Populations of organisms that sustain nature-based...
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Need to get a phylogeny? Try the R package `rtrees`. It has multiple taxon groups, and just got a speed up (~40x faster than `V.PhyloMaker2` for plants). github.com/daijiang/rtr...
🚨 Two major iDiv calls are now accepting applications! 🔹 iDiv Synthesis Centre Working Group Call 🔹 iDiv Fellowship Programme Call 🔗 More info, application criteria + deadlines: www.idiv.de
iDiv - Integrative Biodiversity Research
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Wondering why NIH and NSF aren't making new grants? We explain what's happening at OMB. www.science.org/content/arti...
Analysis: Why the research money isn’t flowing from NSF and NIH
White House review of agency spending plans for this year is causing delays
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Excited to share our new review in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com, coauthored w/allstar postdocs @vale-alaasam.bsky.social @annainthefield.bsky.social @anthonysnead.bsky.social Bridging island biogeography & evolutionary processes, we explore how eco-evo dynamics play out in the urban mosaic rdcu.be/e4tcj
Eco-evolutionary dynamics shaping biodiversity in the urban mosaic
Nature Reviews Biodiversity - The urban mosaic is a complex assimilation of habitats, biotic and abiotic factors with eco-evolutionary influence on local and regional biodiversity. In this Review,...
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Curious what would they choose to proceed to the full proposal stage for the Simons Collaborations Grant in Ecology and Evolution; they said that there is about 3% of the teams will be invited #rejection
🇨🇦PM Carney just schooled our cowardly European leaders at #Davos. This speech was clearly aimed at them: "We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be." "What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6)
New World Economic Forum Global Risks data provides a stark warning: While short-term crises dominate headlines, "Biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse" jumps to the 2nd highest risk over the 10-year horizon. The long term is sooner than we think. Science-based policies via IPBES are crucial.🌍
Calling #NaturesNotebook participants! We have an opportunity for 18 observers to be interviewed by undergraduate students at UCLA this spring. The observer profiles will be featured on the @usa-npn.bsky.social website and in future newsletters. Interested? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Sign up to be interviewed by science writing students this spring
We have an opportunity for 18 Nature's Notebook observers to be interviewed by undergraduate students in a science writing course at UCLA titled "Science Writing for Public Engagement and Community Sc...
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Excellent excellent resource!
Natalie Cooper@nhcooper123.bsky.social · 8mo agoExcited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
Here, There and Everywhere: Widespread Non‐Native Plants in the World's Urban Ecosystems - Super fun project to collaborate on! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Here, There and Everywhere: Widespread Non‐Native Plants in the World's Urban Ecosystems
Aim To (a) produce a list of the most widespread naturalised non-native plant species across cities of the world; (b) explore whether cities on different continents are invaded by the same group of .....
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The CAMBIUM NSF NRT is recruiting PhD students @uarizona.bsky.social! Fellowships for interdisciplinary training in biodiversity big data to adapt to & mitigate climate change impacts. Great fit for evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, plant adaptation, ecology & more. cambium.arizona.edu 🧬🌐🌎
Come to work with us! We are looking for neuroscientists with AI expertise. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor of Computational Neuroscience (RISE AI) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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Who is going to #ESA2025? Would be great to meet people there!
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The effects of urbanization on species interactions - Nature Cities
Cities are renowned for catalyzing human interactions, but their effects on urban species are less clear. This Perspective argues for such a focus, and proposes a framework for studying interactions b...
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Really excited to see our perspective on how urbanization affects species interactions out in Nature Cities, hoping to inspire more research on this topic. Hard team work led by former postdoc Pablo Moreno-García. Feel free to discuss! rdcu.be/eyjBj www.nature.com/articles/s44...
📢 Just out in Nature Cities: Legacy effects of religion, politics and war on urban evolutionary biology with co-author LEC postdoc Dr. Carlen 🔗 rdcu.be/ewmqV #UrbanBiodiversity #Evolution @nature.com
In this review at Nature Cities, led by @ecarlen.bsky.social we explored how religion, politics and war drive urban wildlife evolution by shaping environmental conditions and selective pressures. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Legacy effects of religion, politics and war on urban evolutionary biology - Nature Cities
Cities affect biological evolution, but traditionally researchers focus on the biophysical influence of urban environments. Instead, this Review explores how the social processes of religion, politics...
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Really cool work!
Brian J. Enquist@bjenquist.bsky.social · last yr.Hey, good to see #Saguaros (Carnegiea gigantea ) at the Desert Laboratory on #TumamocHill, in #Tucson featured on the cover - work from several colleagues on role of microsite variation on regeneration bsapubs-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy4.library.arizona.edu/toc/15372197... 🌾🧪🌵
📖Published📖 Dinnage et al. describe PhenoVision, a new machine learning modelling pipeline utilizing iNaturalist occurrence records and associated field images of plants to enable scalability of phenology data via the automation of flower and fruit annotations 🌸 🍒 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/biapYFR
Another day testing the limits of resilience. The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels. Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels. The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.
‘This is bull——”: National Science Foundation employees protest HUD's takeover
Dozens of National Science Foundation employees crowded the agency’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, Wednesday to protest the news that the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, w...
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🌈 Celebrating diversity at #iDiv! This week —and every week— iDiv affirms that diversity in all its forms strengthens science, community, and collaboration. 🧬
