EEB Mentor Match is now open! But apps due soon (8/17). Mentees: get help applying for grad school or fellowships in ecology & evolution. Mentors: senior grads, post-docs, or faculty in these fields willing to give advice Org by Diversity Cmte of @asn-amnat.bsky.social Pls share! eebmentormatch.com

EEB Mentor Match

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Applications for the @sfiscience.bsky.social Santa Fe Institute's amazing Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships, including the Omidyar Fellowships, are now open. The deadline for applications is September 30th.

Howdy #ESA2026 folks! Hit the hay early and check out tomorrow morning’s 8AM aboveground-belowground interactions session in Room 250D. I’ll be talking about mechanisms driving AM fungal-mediated impacts of garlic mustard on native plant physiology at 9AM. See you there!

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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!

1/4 In today's funding climate, every grant and fellowship matters. Based on feedback from our GSAC Community Check-In Survey, we're building a growing hub of graduate & postdoctoral funding opportunities and job boards to make them easier to find. 🧵

Trying to finish up my #ESA2026 talk. Here's the current version of the last slide for anyone interested. Talk is Thursday at 8:30 in 255A.

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

Careers on the tenure track on Weds. 1:30PM at @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social in Career Central w/ Julia Bigwood (moderator), Jessica Gurevitch, @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social, Matt McCary and me. Promises to be good opportunity to learn with one another! Come check it out.

This is the academic freedom jurisprudence we've been waiting 100 years for law.justia.com/cases/federa...

Pernell v. Commissioner of the FL State Board of Education, No. 23-10616 (11th Cir. 2026)

Florida enacted a law prohibiting public university professors from endorsing or promoting certain ideas related to race, color, sex, and national origin in classroom instruction. The law, known as th...

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🚨 Article alert! 🚨 Happy to share that our new paper, titled "The negative effects of an allelopathic invader on native plant photosynthesis are amplified after tree canopy closure" is now available at @funecology.bsky.social! Link (Open Access): besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The negative effects of an allelopathic invader on native plant photosynthesis are amplified after tree canopy closure

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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🌿Are you teaching or learning plant modeling? Discover our latest article type: Methods for Plant Modeling articles describe software, tools, models, and other resources in an accessible way, making them suitable for educational use. 📰 See the collection at buff.ly/P1GV8q6

What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.

Four postdoc positions - Evolutionary Dynamics and Genomic Ecology (BCI EDGE)integrating population & evolutionary genomics, community ecology, metabolomics, & long-term forest dynamics to investigate the evolutionary processes maintaining tropical forest diversity stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... 🧪 🌐 🌾

BCI Evolutionary Dynamics and Genomic Ecology project

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We're running our Vegetation Canopies session again this year at #AGU26. If you're a Botanist working at any scale using any methodology, please consider submitting an abstract to the session! If you have questions, feel free to reach out. Hope to see you in SF! agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...

Steve Pacala and Rob Socolow definitely have some questions to address, and the reporting is fantastic and disturbing. But there are substantial complexities that need to be explored as well. revkin.substack.com/p/a-new-look...

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For a generation, people learning how to address global warming were taught the ideas in the “Wedges” paper. What they didn’t learn: “Wedges” was significantly shaped by oil giant BP — a company responsible for causing climate change. New, @propublica.org @drilledmedia.bsky.social

Been wondering why NSF isn't spending most of its FY26 appropriation? A $1.5B tech initiative may be the reason. And big cuts to hundreds of research programs could be just the beginning of the bad news. www.science.org/content/arti...

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

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I am hiring! My former postdocs have all gone on to great ongoing roles, so I am now looking for 2 new postdocs in dynamic vegetation modelling: Modelling vegetation-fire interactions in Australia Modelling Australian vegetation distributions Details linked below - please share!

🌱New blog by Yuzhi Zhu, Cai Wenjia, Ruijie Ding + @nickgregsmith.bsky.social on new approaches to help us understand how carbon is allocated across scales, from leaves and roots to whole ecosystems, bringing together theory, experiments and modelling. research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/un...

Understanding Carbon Allocation Across Scales: Highlights from the LEMONTREE Science Meeting - Lemontree

Highlights from the latest LEMONTREE science meeting exploring carbon allocation across scales, from roots and leaves to forests

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🎉Congrats to @stineb.bsky.social et al whose @newphyt.bsky.social Tansley Review on C + N cycles has been recognised as one of the Top 10 most viewed papers of 2024! Check out our blog on why it resonated, and how we continue to build on this work 👇 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/le...

LEMONTREE in the Tansley Review’s Top 10 Most Viewed: Reflecting on Our Carbon–Nitrogen Synthesis - Lemontree

LEMONTREE recognised as one of the top 10 most viewed papers published in New Phytologist in 2024 for our review paper: Empirical evidence and theoretical understanding of ecosystem carbon and nitroge...

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If photosynthetic efficiency changes with temperature and climate, then our predictions of ecosystem productivity and future carbon uptake may need updating. We break down the science behind the paper in our latest blog 👇 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/en... @victorflo.bsky.social

Environmental Controls on Photosynthetic Efficiency: New Insights from Global Ecosystem Data - Lemontree

New LEMONTREE research reveals that photosynthetic quantum efficiency is not fixed but varies predictably with temperature and climate, offering new insights for improving ecosystem and climate models...

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🌿New paper out in @newphyt.bsky.social led by David Sandoval showing the max quantum yield of terrestrial photosynthesis is not fixed. It follows a universal bell-shaped response to temperature that varies with climate adaptation. Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/nph.... @victorflo.bsky.social

Environmental influences on the maximum quantum yield of terrestrial primary production

Temperature and aridity effects on terrestrial ecosystems' intrinsic quantum yield.

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🌱Do leaves and roots follow the same strategy? New research led by Yuzhi Zhu in Ecology Letters shows that leaf and fine root traits in subtropical forest plants are largely decoupled, with independent above- and below-ground resource strategies. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Non‐Correlated Variation of Leaf and Fine Root Traits in Subtropical Forest Plants

Using coupled above- and below-ground trait sampling on individuals of co-existing species, we quantified relationships between 18 leaf and fine root traits in two environmentally contrasting subtrop...

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My former colleague Min Chen, now at @uwmadison.bsky.social , has a great "Proposal Coauthor Tool" uw-gcrl.github.io/coauthor_tool/

#LEMONTREE @egu.eu Back L-R: Ruijie Ding, Sandy Harrison, Colin Prentice, Haoran Liu, David Sandoval, @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social, Jaideep Joshi, Ning Dong. Front L-R: @giulimeng.bsky.social, Jierong Zhao, Sophia Cain, Mendgi Gao & @nickgregsmith.bsky.social. ©Franz Pfluegl #EGU26, www.fotograf.at.

Two final LEMONTREE talks this afternoon at #EGU26 🌿 📍Room 2.95 🗣️ Helin Zhang – multi-tracer constraints on photosynthesis 🗣️Giulia Mengoli– predicting net ecosystem exchange using eco-evolutionary optimality research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/le... @giulimeng.bsky.social #EGU #EarthScience

LEMONTREE AT EGU 2026 - Lemontree

Attending the 2026 EGU conference we have three PIs, four PDRAs, four PhD students, and six collaborators. Here’s we share what's happening throughout the week

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This afternoon, head to room N1 for PhD student Sophia Cain's talk on: Annual litter fuel load estimation from optimality-derived litterfall and decomposition dynamics.https://research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/lemontree-at-egu-2026/ #egu2026

If you are at #EGU2026, join us today for a fantastic line-up of talks and posters from the team🌱 📍BG1.11 (Orals): Room 1.85/86 📍BG3.3 (Orals): Room 1.15/16 📍Posters: Hall X1 Details🔗https://research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/lemontree-at-egu-2026/ @nickgregsmith.bsky.social @giulimeng.bsky.social

It's almost time for #egu2026. We've got 17 members of the #lemontree team heading to Vienna to share their research. Check out the blog for all the details👇 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/le... #egu #vienna

LEMONTREE AT EGU 2026 - Lemontree

Attending the 2026 EGU conference we have three PIs, four PDRAs, four PhD students, and six collaborators. Here’s we share what's happening throughout the week

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🌽📢Just out in @plantecophys.bsky.social : "Experimental Evidence for Coordinated Leaf Trait Responses to Elevated CO2 in Five Common Crop Species" led by LEMONTREE PhD student Astrid Ode. Check it out👇 www.sciltp.com/journals/Pla...

Experimental Evidence for Coordinated Leaf Trait Responses to Elevated CO2 in Five Common Crop Species

Understanding leaf trait responses to changing atmospheric CO 2 concentrations ([CO 2 ]) is essential for land- surface modelling. Eco-evolutionary optimality ( EEO ) theory predicts coordinated respo...

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🌱One to check out- our latest blog for our research on how EEO explains the acclimated temperature response of photosynthesis! research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/th...

A new explanation for how photosynthesis acclimates to warming - Lemontree

A new New Phytologist study led by Wenyao Gan shows that thermal acclimation of photosynthesis emerges naturally from eco-evolutionary optimality theory. Using the sub-daily P model, the research expl...

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Optimality explains shifts in photosynthetic temperature optima Gan et al. @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...