Dr. Marta Jarzyna
@majarzyna.bsky.social
Macroecologist and biodiversity scientist studying multiple dimensions of biodiversity in a warming world @EEOB_OSU. She/her. jarzynalab.com
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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A reminder that we will be hosting Dr. Mark Costello for @biogeography.bsky.social Funk seminar next week, July 29. You don't want to miss it! Register below.
The International Biogeography Society@biogeography.bsky.social · 4w agoJuly's Funk Seminar will be given by Dr. Mark Costello! In both terrestrial and marine systems, the latitudinal biodiversity gradient appears bimodal, peaking in mid-latitudes- but the drivers of this pattern vary across systems. Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ju...
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.
NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative
A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency’s budget is already squeezed and it struggling to clear a backlog of grant applications.
nature.com
Check out our new paper in GEB, led by @andrebellve.bsky.social and with help from @reymiyajima.bsky.social, on spatio-seasonal variation in avian dietary attributes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Spatial and Seasonal Variation in Avian Dietary Strategies
Aim Diet is a fundamental aspect of vertebrate life history, shaping survival, recruitment, and fitness. While spatial variation in avian dietary characteristics has been studied, seasonal dynamics ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
250 million years ago there was a massive release of greenhouse gases and ok sure it led to the extinction of most life on earth but after that we got dinosaurs
Scott Waldman@scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 4w agoThe White House has reconstituted the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which tracks climate change and produces the National Climate Assessment. The Trump version will focus on "positive" climate effects and be used to protect fossil fuel companies from lawsuits. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
The next newsletter of @biogeography.bsky.social is out! Check it out to learn about exciting happenings in the world of biogeography.
The International Biogeography Society@biogeography.bsky.social · last mo.The next TIBS newsletter is now available. We have a variety of events and opportunities in biogeography to share with you, including opportunities to work with TIBS or our journal, Frontiers of Biogeography! Check it out here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ne...
Check out our new vegetation structure product for the eastern US, led by @chenyangwei.bsky.social. It’s a nice collection of wall-to-wall vegetation structure metrics and I hope people find it useful.
Chenyang Wei@chenyangwei.bsky.social · last mo.Excited to share our new open-access paper in Environmental Research Communications! We fused NASA GEDI LiDAR with optical, radar & environmental data to map 11 forest structural metrics at 30 m across 1.17M km² of eastern North America. 📄Paper: doi.org/10.1088/2515... #GEDI #LiDAR #RemoteSensing
A reminder that FoB is still looking for a new editorial team. Check out the solicitation if you are interested.
The International Biogeography Society@biogeography.bsky.social · 2mo agoFrontiers of Biogeography, the scientific journal of The International Biogeography Society, is seeking new editors to join the team! If interested, please see the solicitation here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ap...
Climate change strengthens the case for a high seas fishing ban biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php...
Climate change strengthens the case for a high seas fishing ban
Calls to ban high seas fishing have long been justified on biodiversity, economic, equity, and carbon mitigation grounds. A new study reports that even under a low emission climate change scenario, ap...
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What is the long-term history of fire in the Amazon Basin and how have humans shared fire incidence? This newly published paper addresses these questions --- The pyrogeography of Amazonia: a Holocene perspective biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php...
The pyrogeography of Amazonia: a Holocene perspective
Amazonian forest fires rarely, if ever, ignite and spread in the absence of humans. The first colonization of people into South America happened in the late Pleistocene, and by 10,000 years ago, human...
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Our society's @biogeography.bsky.social journal, Frontiers of Biogeography, continues its strong performance and keeps increasing in citation scores. Consider supporting our society by submitting your wonderful work to FoB!
Robert J. Whittaker@rjwhittaker.bsky.social · last mo.Frontiers of Biogeography Retains Q1 Ranking, New Scopus CiteScore of 5.7 biogeography.pensoft.net/news/1291
Exclusive: The National Science Foundation is trimming this year’s budgets for hundreds of its traditional basic science programs by roughly 20% to 30%, even though its overall budget is down just 3%. https://scim.ag/4xY2KCm
Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say
Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year
science.org
Here's a segment on Democracy Now yesterday, where I talk about my forced resignation from NASA this week, how this administration has been dismantling science, and how we're still in so much danger from global heating. www.democracynow.org/2026/6/10/pe...
“I Was Just Forced to Resign from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory”: Climate Scientist Peter Kalmus
We continue to follow the impact of the Trump administration’s ongoing assault on scientific research in the United States with an update from climate scientist Peter Kalmus, who says he has been forc...
democracynow.org
Since January, I have gotten 8 desk rejections. Is this a new normal and a response to a deluge of AI-enabled papers journals are now receiving and/or dwindling availability of reviewers, or is our science not seen as novel enough (the latter I don't want to believe is true 😆)?
Still all quiet on the #NSF front. No new awards in the past week. REMINDER: We still are hearing of trickles of terminations, suspensions, and money being held back from grantees, which NSF isn't reporting. We need your help - please report! 🧪 grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...
Noam Ross@noamross.net · 2mo agoNSF seems to have stopped making new awards last week. There have been no new awards from any directorate since Weds, June 3. Even with the slow pace of new awards this year, there's been a consistent trickle. Something stopped the flow. grant-witness.us/funding_curv... #NSF 🧪
You don’t want to miss this upcoming @biogeography.bsky.social Funk lecture! Sign up below.
The International Biogeography Society@biogeography.bsky.social · 2mo agoDr. Julie Aleman will be giving this month's Funk Biogeography Seminar! Join us on June 24th to learn more about the dynamics and mechanisms of tropical ecosystem stability through time. Learn more about the seminar and and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ju...
If you’re interested in editorial work and want to contribute to our society @biogeography.bsky.social, consider applying to become a new editor of our society’s journal!
The International Biogeography Society@biogeography.bsky.social · 2mo agoFrontiers of Biogeography, the scientific journal of The International Biogeography Society, is seeking new editors to join the team! If interested, please see the solicitation here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ap...
In the latest play from Project 2025, the Trump Administration has announced plans to dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), a $368 million network of more than 900 instruments that continuously monitor the ocean. This is a deliberate destruction of critical scientific infrastructure.
Yesterday—4 days after OMB released its proposal to revamp all federal funding—there were 3500+ comments. Today there are nearly 4,500. Our story on the damage the proposal could inflict on science and the researchers pushing back. Reported w/@marilenharo.bsky.social:
White House proposes vast overhaul of US science funding: what you need to know
The Trump administration’s proposal aims to improve transparency in federal funding, but critics fear the proposed rules would politicize research
nature.com
Proposed changes by the Trump administration to rules that govern how federal dollars are spent "would inevitably lead to unlegislated reductions in funding and damage US leadership in science, both in academia and industry," writes H. Holden Thorp in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/4uK0fBj
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Scott Rich, Ph.D.@richcompneuro.bsky.social · 2mo agoTop story on the @nytimes.com app. A big sign that this all-important story is breaking into mainstream consciousness.
Very pleased to share this new paper from our lab, led by Jessica Barton! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... With co-authors Ivy Widick, Benjamin Zuckerberg, Courtenay Strong, and @majarzyna.bsky.social. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). #Macrosystems #NSFfunded #UMSLBiology
An Ecological Dipole in North American Mast‐Eating Small Mammal Dynamics
Ecological dipoles are patterns in plant and animal indices of opposite extremes, and many ecological dipoles may exist. We discovered a novel ecological dipole in seed-eating small mammals in North ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
There's some chatter about whether avoiding the phrase "climate change" in an NSF grant constitutes censorship or dishonesty or cynicism or capitulation to fascism or whatever. I thought I'd share my perspective as someone who has grappled with with this (both now and back in 2017-2020).
I am begging people looking to make major donations to universities to either 1) care as much about academics as they do sports, or 2) make unrestricted gifts instead. Signed, A faculty member at a university with brand new athletic facilities and crumbling teaching and research infrastructure
Update on NSF grant funding: As of April 27, NSF has spent money on 737 new grants for FY26. Avg. for '21–25 at this point is 3303, so NSF is at about 22%. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.
Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future
The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...
insidehighered.com
Reminder of tomorrow's Funk lecture by Dr. Damaris Zurell, hosted by @biogeography.bsky.social. It's not too late to register. Hope to see you all there!
The International Biogeography Society@biogeography.bsky.social · 4mo agoDr. Damaris Zurell (University of Potsdam) will be giving April's Funk Biogeography Seminar! What does forward-looking biodiversity modeling look like? What can it tell us, and what needs more work? Learn more and register at: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ap...
Position of interest for plant evolutionary biologists: two assistant professorships are now open in the System Earth Science (SES) department at Maastricht University! Interested? See the details here, or visit the QR code: vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Venlo-As...
New paper in Frontiers of Biogeography! The authors look at plant, animal, and fungal biodiversity in the Neotropical cloud forests and identify seven well-supported regions of endemism. Check it out here: doi.org/10.21425/fob...
On the identification of areas of endemism in the Neotropical montane cloud forests: A comparative review
Neotropical montane cloud forests are terrestrial ecosystems characterized by a consistent high humidity from clouds or mist. Geographically, these forests occur along the Andes, Mesoamerica, and the ...
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