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Jonathan Myers

@jamyersecology.bsky.social

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Ecologist exploring biodiversity from local to global scales | Professor at Washington University in St. Louis | 🌲🌴🌱🏔🦉🌎🔥🎶 🚲 ⚽️ ♟ 🌲 https://myersecologylab.com 📷 http://jonathanmyers.smugmug.com

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 2d

Apply to become the next MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow!

These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here:

eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

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Andi Kautt @akautt.bsky.social · 6d

Reposting this open postdoc position with more detailed specifications. Couldn't find the right fit in the first round—not due to lack of strong candidates, but because we're looking for someone whose expertise matches a specific project. More details in the job ad. Apply!

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Postdoctoral Research Associate - Biology

Position Summary A postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Andreas Kautt in the Department of Biology on the Danforth Campus at WashU in St. Louis. The Kautt Lab studies the mechan...

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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · 20d

Happy to share this commentary on our new paper in @pnas.org, led by William Farhan-Rios, exploring responses of tropical tree communities to climate warming from the Amazon to Andes Mountains 🌴 ⛰️ 🌐

An uphill struggle for tropical forest trees | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · Aug 22

Michigan State University is hiring a new Director of our herbarium!

This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution

Please consider applying and help spread the word!

plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

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Andrea Case @andreacase.bsky.social · Aug 20

Please share — Michigan State Plant Biology is searching for an Herbarium Director! Tenure stream, open rank faculty position balancing research, teaching, service, and admin responsibilities. Join us! Reach out to me or @emjo.bsky.social with questions!

plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · Aug 19

Leslie Cayola, Alfredo Fuentes Claros, Maria Loza, Percy Nunez Vargas & @milessilman.bsky.social

And made possible by the Madidi Project (madidiproject.weebly.com), Andes Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Group (andesconservation.org) & Amazon Forest Inventory Network (rainfor.org)

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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · Aug 19

In collaboration with @kjfeeley.bsky.social, @sebastello.bsky.social, Jhonatan Sallo-Bravo, @ymalhi.bsky.social, Oliver Phillips, Timothy Baker, Alex Nina-Quispe, Karina Garcia-Cabrera, Sasan Saatchi, John Terborgh, Nigel Pitman, Abel Lorenzo Monteagudo Mendoza, Rodolfo Vasquez, Norma Salinas,

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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · Aug 19

A big congratulations to William Farhan-Rios on this paper in @pnas.org, featuring a study of tropical-forest change over four decades along the Amazon-to-Andes elevational gradient in Bolivia and Peru 🌴 ⛰️ 🌐

@mobotgarden.bsky.social @livingearthcollab.bsky.social

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Amazonian and Andean tree communities are not tracking current climate warming | PNAS

Climate change is shifting species distributions, leading to changes in community composition and novel species assemblages worldwide. However, the...

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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · Aug 15

Congratulations!

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Jen Heemstra @jenheemstra.bsky.social · Jul 26

First copies of my book are here!! As a new faculty member, I realized that in addition to my research job, I also had a leadership job…and I wasn’t prepared for that.

This book is the guide I wish I’d had then, with the goal of helping others now.

jenheemstra.com/book

Picture of a smiling person holding up a copy of a book.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Apr 16

"During a time of tremendous environmental fear and uncertainty, we have found, to our immeasurable relief, our master teacher," writes Elizabeth Gilbert of Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Robin Wall Kimmerer: The 100 Most Influential People of 2025

Find out why Robin Wall Kimmerer is on this year’s list

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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · Jul 23

A big congratulations to Dr. Ethan Abercrombie on his PhD defense! 🎉

Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · Jul 16

A collage of research-team shirts from the Forest Biodiversity Team, Tyson Research Center (2014-2025) 🌳

#ForestEcology #TysonResearchCenter

Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · Jul 16

Congratulations!

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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thanks for visiting and an excellent talk! It was great to have you back out to Tyson.

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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · Jul 9

Herbarium director position opening at Oregon State University ‪@osu-herbarium.bsky.social‬ Great opportunity for herbarium- and field-trained botanists at any rank. bpp.oregonstate.edu/bpp/about/op...

Open Positions

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Joey Bernhardt @joeybernhardt.bsky.social · Jul 7

✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨

Please spread the word!

www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us

#CSEE2025

A blue poster describing opportunities to join the Bernhardt Lab -- for more information please see https://www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us

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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · Jun 28

A big congratulations to Dr. Anna Wassel on her PhD defense! 🎉

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · Jun 23

Congratulations to Sarah Swiston for winning the @asn-amnat.bsky.social Student Poster Award at #Evol2025 for her poster "EMPIRE: The ellipse model for phylogenetic inference of range evolution"

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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · Jun 21

A great start to the field season - Forest Biodiversity Team, Tyson Research Center, Summer 2025 🌳 🔥 🌱

#ForestEcology #FireEcology #ForestGEO #TysonResearchCenter

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Jeffery Cannon, Landscape Ecology Lab @jefferybcannon.bsky.social · Jun 20

Please share! JOIN THE LAB! We are looking to recruit a motivated reserach technician to assist with field research on restoration and lidar data collection in #longleaf pine at the beautiful @thejonesctr.bsky.social Apps due July 6 jonesctr.org/wp-content/u...

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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · Jun 16

Congratulations!

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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · Jun 11

Trilobite fossil - Mount Stephen Fossil Beds - The Burgess Shale, Yoho National Park, Canada

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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · Jun 3

Check out this excellent Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) podcast interview with Lyle Usdin—a recent Environmental Biology graduate @washu.bsky.social & member of our research team—featuring his reflections on the OTS African Ecology & Conservation course 🐘

open.spotify.com/episode/3o50...

On the Trail of Science, Tracks and Trajectories of Lyle Usdin

On the Trail of Science: Tracks and Trajectories · Episode

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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · Jun 2

A big thanks to the organizers, group leaders, and participants of the second-annual Amphibian & Reptile Count for a great field experience at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica 🦎 🐍

📸 credit: Organización para Estudios Tropicales (OET) / Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)

Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · Jun 1

Happy to be back at La Selva for an Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) institutional-representative workshop.

My last visit was over 20 years ago as a graduate student in the OTS fundamentals course (Tropical Biology: An Ecological Approach)🌴

📸 credit: Kyle Harms

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Jalene LaMontagne @jalene-lamontagne.bsky.social · May 29

I'm hiring a postdoc! Themes: long-term data, plant reproduction, mast seeding, synthesis, macosystems biology. Also, reproducible tesearch. Target submission deadline: 22 June (for priority review). 1-2 year position, $60K/year. 🌲 🌲 🌲
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

Post Doctoral Fellow - Plant Ecology - HigherEdJobs

Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

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Laynara F. Lugli @laylugli.bsky.social · May 20

Please delight yourselves in the magic of belowground research! wur.yuja.com/V/Video?v=89... Amazing video produced by the team of @moniqueweemstra.bsky.social from Wageningen University

Riddles in the Dark

In the dense and biodiverse San Emilio ForestGEO plot of Costa Rica, every tree tells a story. Not just above ground, but deep below the surface. Discover how different trees adapt to their environmen...

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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · May 7

Just sharing an idea for a lab meeting. Last week I asked everyone to select and present a paper from PLOS '10 simple rules' series. There are 100s of topics available. We discussed rules for good leadership, getting grants, data handling etc. It worked quite well!
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Search Results | PLOS Computational Biology

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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · May 3

A big thanks to Marko Spasojevic @m-j-spasojevic.bsky.social for hosting me for a seminar visit at UCR and a great day visiting field sites at the San Jacinto Forest Dynamics Plot (San Jacinto Mountains) and the Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center (Colorado Desert) ⛰️ 🌳 🌵