Martijn Slot
@martijnslot.bsky.social
I study trees in Panama.
https://striresearch.si.edu/forest-biology/
https://striresearch.si.edu/forest-biology/
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new PhD position available! The student will develop remote sensing tools to support land management in the western United States, contributing to ongoing USDA-funded research on monitoring and restoring mesic and riparian ecosystems. For more details, please see: caughlinlab.com/join-the-lab/
Join the lab! – Caughlin lab
caughlinlab.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
new PhD position available! The student will develop remote sensing tools to support land management in the western United States, contributing to ongoing USDA-funded research on monitoring and restoring mesic and riparian ecosystems. For more details, please see: caughlinlab.com/join-the-lab/
This is wild:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Shadow scholars: inside Kenya’s multibillion-dollar fake-essay industry
Sociologist Patricia Kingori is helping to expose contract cheating by scholars in high-income countries.
www.nature.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is wild:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
New paper w. Chris Doughty & Ben Wiebe on some fun experiments a forest canopy in Panama: Experimental manipulations of albedo and mortality of upper canopy leaves in a tropical forest diverge from earth system model results: tinyurl.com/22kzdj3z
Press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
New paper w. Chris Doughty & Ben Wiebe on some fun experiments a forest canopy in Panama: Experimental manipulations of albedo and mortality of upper canopy leaves in a tropical forest diverge from earth system model results: tinyurl.com/22kzdj3z
Press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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There is a PhD position available at @w-u-r.bsky.social on seed dispersal and succession! You will be based at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and conduct fieldwork in tropical forests in Mexico on plant-animal interactions. Deadline to apply: 3rd of December shorturl.at/sLVOU
PhD position on 'Seed dispersal shapes tropical forest succession' (Seeds 4 Success)
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November 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
There is a PhD position available at @w-u-r.bsky.social on seed dispersal and succession! You will be based at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and conduct fieldwork in tropical forests in Mexico on plant-animal interactions. Deadline to apply: 3rd of December shorturl.at/sLVOU
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🚨 Job alert 🚨
Come work with us as a postdoc modelling the impacts of climate change on plant-soil interactions and C sequestration!
Apply here before the 3rd of December: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Check out this video of the project you will be working in: vimeo.com/1133112953?s...
Come work with us as a postdoc modelling the impacts of climate change on plant-soil interactions and C sequestration!
Apply here before the 3rd of December: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Check out this video of the project you will be working in: vimeo.com/1133112953?s...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🚨 Job alert 🚨
Come work with us as a postdoc modelling the impacts of climate change on plant-soil interactions and C sequestration!
Apply here before the 3rd of December: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Check out this video of the project you will be working in: vimeo.com/1133112953?s...
Come work with us as a postdoc modelling the impacts of climate change on plant-soil interactions and C sequestration!
Apply here before the 3rd of December: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Check out this video of the project you will be working in: vimeo.com/1133112953?s...
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High #temperature acclimation of #photosystem II in land plants
#TansleyReview by @bposch.bsky.social et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@hultinelab.bsky.social #PlantScience #photosynthesis
#TansleyReview by @bposch.bsky.social et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@hultinelab.bsky.social #PlantScience #photosynthesis
November 4, 2025 at 5:19 AM
High #temperature acclimation of #photosystem II in land plants
#TansleyReview by @bposch.bsky.social et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@hultinelab.bsky.social #PlantScience #photosynthesis
#TansleyReview by @bposch.bsky.social et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@hultinelab.bsky.social #PlantScience #photosynthesis
New paper led by @bposch.bsky.social out in @newphyt.bsky.social . We reviewed evidence, mechanisms, and consequences of high temperature acclimation of leaf heat tolerance: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land plants
The effect of high temperature on plant performance and survival is a topic of great interest given the ongoing rise in global heatwave frequency, duration, and intensity. The temperature at which ph....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
New paper led by @bposch.bsky.social out in @newphyt.bsky.social . We reviewed evidence, mechanisms, and consequences of high temperature acclimation of leaf heat tolerance: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
It's odd to be furloughed while my whole lab can remain active (because they're not federal/on Panamanian payroll/fellowships).
At least they're having fun by moving me to "former members" on our lab's bulletin board...
At least they're having fun by moving me to "former members" on our lab's bulletin board...
October 21, 2025 at 4:44 AM
It's odd to be furloughed while my whole lab can remain active (because they're not federal/on Panamanian payroll/fellowships).
At least they're having fun by moving me to "former members" on our lab's bulletin board...
At least they're having fun by moving me to "former members" on our lab's bulletin board...
It finally happened: I was invited to review a manuscript from my own lab, a 3-author paper with me as senior author...
August 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It finally happened: I was invited to review a manuscript from my own lab, a 3-author paper with me as senior author...
We welcome back Ibrahim Salman, who will start his postdoctoral fellowship in the Forest Biology lab today!
striresearch.si.edu/forest-biolo...
striresearch.si.edu/forest-biolo...
July 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
We welcome back Ibrahim Salman, who will start his postdoctoral fellowship in the Forest Biology lab today!
striresearch.si.edu/forest-biolo...
striresearch.si.edu/forest-biolo...
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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...
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
Post Doctoral Fellow - Plant Ecology - HigherEdJobs
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May 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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...
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
Great seminar by lab visitor and incoming postdoc Ibrahim Salman on the effects of environmental stress on plant-pollinator interactions!
May 28, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Great seminar by lab visitor and incoming postdoc Ibrahim Salman on the effects of environmental stress on plant-pollinator interactions!
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Harvard today, your institution tomorrow.
It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America.
All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.
It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America.
All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.
May 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Harvard today, your institution tomorrow.
It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America.
All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.
It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America.
All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.
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I have two open postdoc positions in my lab that include opportunities to collaborate with @alecaborsuk.bsky.social and researchers at the Salk Harnessing Plants Initiative.
If you’re interesting root system architecture or photosynthesis modeling see below:
campuspress.yale.edu/brodersenlab...
If you’re interesting root system architecture or photosynthesis modeling see below:
campuspress.yale.edu/brodersenlab...
PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS – Brodersen Lab
campuspress.yale.edu
May 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I have two open postdoc positions in my lab that include opportunities to collaborate with @alecaborsuk.bsky.social and researchers at the Salk Harnessing Plants Initiative.
If you’re interesting root system architecture or photosynthesis modeling see below:
campuspress.yale.edu/brodersenlab...
If you’re interesting root system architecture or photosynthesis modeling see below:
campuspress.yale.edu/brodersenlab...
I made tiramisu in food containers to look like the leaf-warming boxes we're using in an experiment we've almost finished setting up.
Lots of work, but worth it! (Both the experiment and the tiramisu)
Lots of work, but worth it! (Both the experiment and the tiramisu)
May 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I made tiramisu in food containers to look like the leaf-warming boxes we're using in an experiment we've almost finished setting up.
Lots of work, but worth it! (Both the experiment and the tiramisu)
Lots of work, but worth it! (Both the experiment and the tiramisu)
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Ok, bear with the shaky-cam (it is my signature special effect as an overenthusiast), but would you take a look at this blessed date palm? Rosy-faced lovebirds, common pigeons, and gila woodpeckers (I think?) all nesting in the same date palm tree crown. Phoenix, AZ.
May 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Ok, bear with the shaky-cam (it is my signature special effect as an overenthusiast), but would you take a look at this blessed date palm? Rosy-faced lovebirds, common pigeons, and gila woodpeckers (I think?) all nesting in the same date palm tree crown. Phoenix, AZ.
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They are dismantling our entire research apparatus, piece by piece. Make sure everybody knows what they are doing. Call your reps whatever color your district is and demand more action.
NSF’s entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EDU/EES), which “aims to provide opportunities for individuals from all backgrounds to actively participate and excel in STEM disciplines” and some of it congressionally mandated, was just notified they will be RIFed. www.nsf.gov/edu/ees/about
About EES
The NSF Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EES) aims to provide opportunities for individuals from all backgrounds, especially those historically underrepresented in science and engineering.
www.nsf.gov
May 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
They are dismantling our entire research apparatus, piece by piece. Make sure everybody knows what they are doing. Call your reps whatever color your district is and demand more action.
Another aspect of being in the Netherlands: I just received my first ever traffic fine for driving 4 kilometer per hour too fast on my way to the hospital. €45,-
April 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Another aspect of being in the Netherlands: I just received my first ever traffic fine for driving 4 kilometer per hour too fast on my way to the hospital. €45,-
Spending a few weeks in my hometown, helping out my parents after my dad had surgery. Enjoying the bicycle infrastructure and the abundance of spring flowers (wild garlic yields excellent pesto!)
April 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Spending a few weeks in my hometown, helping out my parents after my dad had surgery. Enjoying the bicycle infrastructure and the abundance of spring flowers (wild garlic yields excellent pesto!)
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Two PhD positions available at Wageningen University on resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes. Supervision will be by my great colleagues @iris-hordijk.bsky.social @amandataylor.bsky.social @dominic-martin.bsky.social @lucianachr.bsky.social and Merel Hofmeijer.
PhD position - Resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes
www.wur.nl
April 24, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Two PhD positions available at Wageningen University on resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes. Supervision will be by my great colleagues @iris-hordijk.bsky.social @amandataylor.bsky.social @dominic-martin.bsky.social @lucianachr.bsky.social and Merel Hofmeijer.
It's good to be home
April 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
It's good to be home
You got to be fucking kidding me! No $$$ for climate modeling because young people experience climate anxiety? Since when does this government care about mental health anyway?
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Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...
www.commerce.gov
April 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
You got to be fucking kidding me! No $$$ for climate modeling because young people experience climate anxiety? Since when does this government care about mental health anyway?
www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
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