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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 17h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 7h

We could get rid of half of the radiative forcing of climate caused by aviation if we could get airlines to stop making contrails, mostly by flying a few thousand feet higher or lower.

New open-access paper from a climate physics perspective.

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

A Stylized Study of the Climate Response to Longwave and Shortwave Forcing at the Altitude of Aviation‐Induced Cirrus

For the same magnitude of LW and SW forcing at the altitude of aviation-induced cirrus, climate sensitivity is larger when the forcing is imposed at high latitudes For the same change in concentr...

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Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture @yalecncc.bsky.social · 5d

📢📢📢 The application window is now open for YCNCC's Fall 2025 Postdoctoral Fellowship call. Details and application via the below link. We will start reviewing applications after 12/1. Please share widely!! naturalcarboncapture.yale.edu/opportunitie...

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 5d

Excellent, well-informed new podcast! Like a ship entering a storm, we’re now entering the overshoot - a world above 1.5 degrees C #globalwarming. This requires a whole new mindset,
explored by Laurie Laybourn.

Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 5d

Overshoot Episode 1: Uncharted Territory

If the world didn’t win, has it lost?

We meet the underdog diplomats who helped the world set the 1.5°C goal, and the champion sailors who can help us set a course for navigating what comes next

Listen to episode one now: open.spotify.com/episode/1bJl...

PART 1: Uncharted Territory

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Theresa Laverty @theresalaverty.bsky.social · 11d

Reminder: two more days to apply for this opportunity!

Theresa Laverty @theresalaverty.bsky.social · Sep 5

Do you like acoustic data, community ecology, and desert oases? Apply for a PhD in my lab to investigate the role of ephemeral water sources (i.e., playa lakes and tinajas) in structuring desert bat (and maybe bird) communities. Visit lavertylab.org/join-the-lab for more. Applications due October 1

Advertisement for a PhD assistantship in the Laverty Lab on bats, birds, and the role of ephemeral water sources. Applications are due 1 October 2025. Visit https://lavertylab.org/join-the-lab for more information

A playa lake at the Jornada Basin Long-Term Ecological Research site just north of Las Cruces (New Mexico). Photo by: Wiebke Boeing.

A tinaja in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (Arizona) with a mist net positioned along the shore in front of it

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Brooke Osborne (she/her) @brookebosborne.bsky.social · 17d

Yessss new paper is OUT! Scott Ferrenberg led this effort to tease apart "nurse plant" effects in the Chihuahuan Desert.

Spoiler alert: don't underestimate the power of a little shade in arid systems

@scottferrenberg.bsky.social

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Quantifying potential abiotic drivers of the ‘nurse plant effect’ in two dominant shrub species of the northern Chihuahuan Desert

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John L Field @johnlfield.bsky.social · 22d

High-level conclusion: the environmental footprint of poplar-derived cellulosic ethanol production is much more sensitive to poplar yield than it is to poplar biomass quality (sugar content).

Similar what we concluded previously for switchgrass— doi.org/10.1021/acss...

John L Field @johnlfield.bsky.social · 22d

New paper out in Biofpr: "Environmental metrics of ethanol production improve with increased biomass yield and carbohydrate content in Populus trichocarpa"
scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Environmental metrics of ethanol production improve with increased biomass yield and carbohydrate content in Populus trichocarpa

When selecting economically and environmentally advantageous genotypes for domestication in a biofuel supply chain, variability of cell-wall composition within a feedstock population and its impact o....

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Katherine Siegel @katherinesiegel.bsky.social · Sep 10

You still have 5 days to apply for this awesome postdoc opportunity in the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Impact Lab at the University of Colorado-Boulder! This could be your backyard!

Image of five slanted rock formations (called the Flatirons) in the snow on a sunny day. There is a trail through the snow leading away towards the rock formations, which rise above some trees.

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John L Field @johnlfield.bsky.social · Sep 2

New in @globalchangebio.bsky.social- "Which Plant Traits Increase Soil C Sequestration? Empirical Evidence From a Long-Term Poplar Genetic Diversity Trial". We sampled soils & roots from 24 black cottonwood genotypes in a 13-y.o. Center for Bioenergy Innovation common garden.
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Which Plant Traits Increase Soil Carbon Sequestration? Empirical Evidence From a Long‐Term Poplar Genetic Diversity Trial

This study measured soil carbon concentrations and stocks in a 13-year-old poplar common garden study, exploring the degree to which soil carbon storage is affected by biological diversity or attribu...

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Dan Sloan @sloanevolab.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word!

jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

Assistant Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions

We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...

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Theresa Laverty @theresalaverty.bsky.social · Sep 5

Do you like acoustic data, community ecology, and desert oases? Apply for a PhD in my lab to investigate the role of ephemeral water sources (i.e., playa lakes and tinajas) in structuring desert bat (and maybe bird) communities. Visit lavertylab.org/join-the-lab for more. Applications due October 1

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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · Sep 6

Which Plant Traits Increase Soil Carbon Sequestration? Empirical Evidence From a Long‐Term Poplar Genetic Diversity Trial

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John L Field @johnlfield.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thanks to cbi.ornl.gov and DOE/BER, the ORNL LDRD program, @ultracricket.bsky.social, @chrisinknox.bsky.social, and other great coauthors not here on Bluesky!

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CBI is a interdisciplinary center. We have broad and challenging scientific goals. We strongly believe that the only way to achieve these goals is by engaging multiple viewpoints. This is accomplished...

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John L Field @johnlfield.bsky.social · Sep 2

Biologically diverse long-term common gardens can provide unique insights into plant controls on biogeochemical cycling, even if they weren't originally designed for it. We're now sampling 300+ other genotypes at this site, to try to resolve the controls and mechanisms affecting soil C & N cycling.

A researcher from the Center of Bioenergy Innovation sampling roots in between rows of tall black cottonwood trees at a common garden site near Clatskanie, Oregon.

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John L Field @johnlfield.bsky.social · Sep 2

We found:
- surface mineral-associated C stock differences under black cottonwood trees of different genotype.
- soil C associated more strongly with root elemental content than root lignin, N, or aboveground biomass.
- surface soil C stocks diverged by genotype at rates of 1–4 Mg/ha/y.

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John L Field @johnlfield.bsky.social · Sep 2

New in @globalchangebio.bsky.social- "Which Plant Traits Increase Soil C Sequestration? Empirical Evidence From a Long-Term Poplar Genetic Diversity Trial". We sampled soils & roots from 24 black cottonwood genotypes in a 13-y.o. Center for Bioenergy Innovation common garden.
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Which Plant Traits Increase Soil Carbon Sequestration? Empirical Evidence From a Long‐Term Poplar Genetic Diversity Trial

This study measured soil carbon concentrations and stocks in a 13-year-old poplar common garden study, exploring the degree to which soil carbon storage is affected by biological diversity or attribu...

doi.org

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · Aug 23

This will end the Hispanic-serving institution (HSI) program (schools with >25% Latino undergrads). For reference, current flagships that are HSIs include Arizona and Arizona State, 5 UCs (Irvine, Riverside, Merced, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz), Rutgers, U New Mexico & NM State, UT Austin & UT El Paso

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · Aug 23

Trump Aims to End Millions in Grants to Colleges With High Hispanic Populations

By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel

Gift link! wapo.st/4oTVanO (Yes, WaPo will ask for an email address.)

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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · Aug 19

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

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Theresa Laverty @theresalaverty.bsky.social · Aug 10

Enjoying the cool weather in Baltimore this week for #ESA2025. Come hear about the long-distance movements of lesser long-nosed bats that my colleagues and I have been documenting this Thursday at 8:45am (COS 128 - Behavior: Migration and Movement 1). Please don't be afraid to say hi!

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Theresa Laverty @theresalaverty.bsky.social · Aug 10

Also if you're at #ESA2025 and interested in bats (maybe birds too), bioacoustics, arid landscapes, and thinking of a PhD, please say hello. I plan to recruit 1-2 grad students. Spring or fall 2026 start with a focus on desert waters or renewable energy. lavertylab.org

Happy to meet up!

The Laverty Lab

A conservation science and wildlife ecology lab at NMSU

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Eos @eos.org · Aug 5

NASA is making plans to shut down two Earth observing satellites that provide key data to climate scientists and farmers, despite lawmakers telling them it’s illegal to do it. Story by @astrokimcartier.bsky.social

eos.org/research-and...

NASA Planning for Unauthorized Shutdown of Carbon Monitoring Satellites - Eos

Despite warnings that their actions are illegal, Duffy and other senior NASA officials have continued to secretly direct NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellites missions s...

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · Jul 29

The EPA cited my paper in their argument against the endangerment finding today. However, their point is completely backwards: my paper actually supports the EPA's 2009 range of 1.8C to 4C warming by 2100. www.nature.com/artic...

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Theresa Laverty @theresalaverty.bsky.social · Jul 29

Out today in Parasites & Vectors, Angelo Andrianiaina led a paper in which we described the seasonal diversity and effect of climate on ectoparasites on two species of Madagascar fruit bat, Eidolon dupreanum and Rousettus madagascariensis doi.org/10.1186/s130... 🧪🦇

Diversity and seasonality of ectoparasite burden on two species of Madagascar fruit bat, Eidolon dupreanum and Rousettus madagascariensis - Parasites & Vectors

Background Bats are important reservoir hosts for a variety of pathogens, some of which are transmitted by ectoparasite vectors including mites, fleas, lice, ticks, and bat flies (families Nycteribiid...

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