Thanks!! 💚🎉🎊 Incredible and unmatched experience being part of the "Biodiversity Research Lab" at VCU and being mentored by the best ever PhD advisor, @hulshof.bsky.social. Tons of learning, science, and fun!

Catherine Hulshof@hulshof.bsky.social · 3w ago

Huge congrats to @pablolopezbust.bsky.social on successfully defending PhD! His work on dry forest seed dispersal at local to macro spatial scales provides new insight into these complex systems (even gomphotheres make a cameo!). Enhorabuena Dr. López-Bustamante!

My quote of the day You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable. Ta-Nehisi Coates

Happy to co-develop ideas related to machine learning, AI and tropical phenology for NSF's PRFB call. We are part of @cu-esiil.bsky.social tropical phenology working group VERDE, and have excellent starting resources, data, and questions to explore. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)

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Still thinking about this (from @ferrisjabr.bsky.social 's Becoming Earth): "a single gallon of gasoline represents 100 tonnes of ancient life, roughly equivalent to 20 adult elephants". I knew it was big, but never worked it out. A tank of petrol is a LOT of ancient life. +1 reason to electrify!

Fascinated by tropical phenology and looking for a PhD program? Happy to help with idea and proposal development: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution

The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

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🍁Spring is in full swing but early-flowering forest plants—“spring ephemerals”—like skunk cabbage, trout lily, & Dutchman’s breeches are facing warming climate & high deer pressure as I & others discuss in this new piece👇 #EARTHWEEK2026 @sunyesf.bsky.social greatmountainforest.org/the-understu...

The Understudied Understory: Spring Ephemerals and the Changing Forest

A walk in the woods in April can feel confusing. The twiggy canopy and leaf-brown forest floor look like November, while the bright sun seems to indicate summer has arrived. During this brief window ...

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Pringamosa, Malamujer, Bull nettle, whatever you call it, it’s left us all with some itchy, "warm" memories from the field. 🌿 Check out this short story on Cnidoscolus urens, a beautiful herb of the tropical dry forest! 🎙️#scicomm #tropicalecology @phippsconservatory.bsky.social

Catherine Hulshof@hulshof.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Pablo just keeps hitting it out of the park. 🎉@pablolopezbust.bsky.social youtu.be/2x9k4407jsI?... #scicomm #tropicalecology @phippsconservatory.bsky.social

Pablo just keeps hitting it out of the park. 🎉@pablolopezbust.bsky.social youtu.be/2x9k4407jsI?... #scicomm #tropicalecology @phippsconservatory.bsky.social

Herbs in Action Pablo Lopez Bustamente, Bull nettle

YouTube video by SLB Radio Productions

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New lab pub from Proyecto ALTA in ACG, Costa Rica: Forest type and leaf habit mediate thermal and drought tolerance across a tropical elevational gradient #NSF doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Forest type and leaf habit mediate thermal and drought tolerance across a tropical elevational gradient

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

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🌎🌐🍁It’s been a pleasure to work with @pablolopezbust.bsky.social @nybg.bsky.social! The data on dry tropical forest seed traits that he assembled @hulshof.bsky.social lab @ VCU with the help of our undergrads @sunyesf.bsky.social is invaluable. What a great experience for the students too!

Catherine Hulshof@hulshof.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It's great to see students thrive. Pablo's work on tropical seed traits and dispersal has taken him across Neotropics, Caribbean, and New York too with @dovciak-lab.bsky.social. Stay tuned for more work from Pablo. #NSFfunded Enhorabuena @pablolopezbust.bsky.social news.vcu.edu/article/clas...

Functional trait adaptations drive enhanced post-hurricane resilience on serpentine soils. New lab pub. #PuertoRico #HurricaneMaria #NSFfunded #PuertoRicoScienceTechnologyResearchTrust #InternationalInstituteofTropicalForestry onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Functional Trait Adaptations Drive Enhanced Post‐Hurricane Resilience on Serpentine Soils

This study reveals that tropical plant communities on nutrient-poor serpentine soils exhibit unexpectedly high resilience to hurricane disturbance. By integrating trait-based ecology, remote sensing,...

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What a great experience! With Martin’s support @dovciak-lab.bsky.social and a wonderful collaboration, we measured seed masses for around 9,000 seeds and over 1,000 tropical dry forest species at the NYBG herbarium @nybg.bsky.social. Thanks so much, Martin! 🌿🔬"

Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻@dovciak-lab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🌎🌐🍁It’s been a pleasure to work with @pablolopezbust.bsky.social @nybg.bsky.social! The data on dry tropical forest seed traits that he assembled @hulshof.bsky.social lab @ VCU with the help of our undergrads @sunyesf.bsky.social is invaluable. What a great experience for the students too!

Thanks so much! It's been such an amazing experience working under the guidance of Dr. Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social. Her support has been incredible in helping me to pull these project ideas off and become a scientist. #BiodiversityResearchLab #SeedEcology #LatinxInStem #TropicalForest 🌎🌿🌵

Catherine Hulshof@hulshof.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It's great to see students thrive. Pablo's work on tropical seed traits and dispersal has taken him across Neotropics, Caribbean, and New York too with @dovciak-lab.bsky.social. Stay tuned for more work from Pablo. #NSFfunded Enhorabuena @pablolopezbust.bsky.social news.vcu.edu/article/clas...

🌿🌵🎶 Ecucha el sonido del bosques! Gracias por compartir!for #DataSonification #ForestSound #ForestEcology #Science+Art #SciComm

Catherine Hulshof@hulshof.bsky.social · 4mo ago

¿Cómo suena un bosque cambiante? 🌳🎼 Conozcan el trabajo de @pablolopezbust.bsky.social Sonificación de datos de 30 años de dispersión de semillas en un bosque seco #ForestGEO en #CostaRica ¡Apoyado por beca Botany in Action Phipps y NSF! 🍃 Escúchalo aquí: www.pablolopez-bustamante.com/forestition

🌿🌵🎶 listen to the forest succession sound! Thanks for spreading the word! #DataSonification #ForestSound #ForestEcology #Science+Art #SciComm

Catherine Hulshof@hulshof.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What does a changing forest sound like? 🌳🎼 Check out work by @pablolopezbust.bsky.social Data sonification of 30 years of seed dispersal patterns from a #ForestGEO dry forest in #CostaRica Supported by Botany in Action Phipps grant and NSF! 🍃 Listen here: www.pablolopez-bustamante.com/forestition

🌎🌐🍁Exciting experiment completed! 🌱 Our lab helped MS student Daniel Wehner wrap up a greenhouse study on how arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculum from understory plants may aid sugar maple seedling establishment in high-elevation ectomycorrhizal forests under climate warming. Stay tuned for results!

🐝Learn about insects and climate change in our next webinar! 🦋Aprende sobre insectos y cambio climático en nuestro próximo webinar. 🐞Aprenda sobre insetos e mudanças climáticas no nosso próximo webinar. 📅 Marzo 18 | ⏰ 12 PM EST 🔗 Más info: forms.gle/cAxq3Yum5Dgf... @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social

Inside Appalachia is hiring storytellers across the region as part of their Folkways Storytelling Corps. Super cool program if you are interested: wvpublic.org/about-us/job...

Inside Appalachia Folkways Reporting Corps (Contract)

Organization: West Virginia Public BroadcastingLocation: RemoteEmployment Type: Contract The Inside Appalachia team is expanding its Folkways Reporting

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Nearly 50% of Earth's land cover and upwards of 70% of Biodiversity Hotspots are extreme environments. Yet many ecological theories fail in these habitats. Here, we explain why and showcase what extreme environments can tell us in a world of new extremes. #Fulbright dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

Extreme environments in a world of new extremes

Extreme environments, whether defined by climate, soils, or disturbance, at landscape or micro-scales, are prevalent across Earth's surface and have long served as crucibles for ecological and evolut...

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👀 Global maps of 37 plant #FunctionalTraits as defined in the TRY Plant Trait Database with a resolution of 1 km and a global extent 🌐🧪 📏🧮🌮 global-traits.projects.earthengine.app/view/global-...

🌐🌎 Conspecific adult trees interact w/microsites to affect forest regeneration across climate-sensitive temperate-to-boreal forest biome transitions as shown by @nathankiel.bsky.social in an insightful analysis of our extensive forest demography data @sunyesf.bsky.social. Link in comments.

Looking for some interesting ecological data sets for some class projects. Want to go past the typical sets and expand some options. Ideally not large but not tiny, no time series, and include at least three factors. Let me know if you got any leads!

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A bit ago there was a paper or thread making the rounds arguing against Bonferroni correction when looking at many correlations. Anyone remember source?

"Seeds that germinate when exposed to light are called positively photoblastic" www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) An Overview of Environmental Cues That Affect Germination of Nondormant Seeds

PDF | For a successful germination and plant growth, seeds must germinate at the right time. Seeds must become nondormant and must fulfill the seed... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

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Where does everyone send their tropical plant samples for species identification using DNA barcoding? Guelph?🙏 Leaves are preferable, but if the leaves are too high for pole pruner, what then? Cambium? Thanks for any leads.

Come work in Richmond, Virginia. Assistant Professor, Earth Systems Science @ VCU. vcujobs.com/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor, Earth System Science, School of Life Sciences and Sustainability - VCU Main Campus, Virginia, United States

Unit: College of Humanit and Sciences MBU Department: School of Life Sci & Sustainability Duties & Responsibilities: The School of Life Sciences and Sustainability (SLSS) at Virginia Commonwea...

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Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

Excited to launch Big Red Pen, grant review services, because NSF funding is only getting tougher, but strong proposals still rise to the top. I have decades of NSF success and 10 years of panel experience. Let’s get funded. #NSF from #GRFP to #CAREER. biodiversityresearchlab.com/grant-review

Grant Review — Catherine Hulshof, PhD

NSF grant review consulting for biology, life sciences, and STEM fields from GRFP to CAREER and everything in between

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🥁New paper on microclimate vulnerability under changing climate 🌦️ & forest structure 🌳. Forest structure can buffer or amplify climate warming! Congrats to Joanna Lumbsden-Pinto @sunyesf.bsky.social, @brookhavenlab.bsky.social, @sunyofficial.bsky.social. 🌐🌍 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Microclimate vulnerability under coupled effects of changing climate and forest structure

Understanding how forest structure affects microclimate is crucial amidst global warming, especially in biodiversity hotspots such as the North Americ…

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