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Ben Bond-Lamberty

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Forest ecologist & carbon cycle scientist at @PNNLab, open data & R proponent, mentor, editor. I know how to do a blind hem stitch.

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Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · Dec 12

Scientists are expected to do peer reviewing but no one tells you HOW. After talking with several folks about this today at #AGU24 , it seems a good time to link to this presentation I made several years ago -- feel free to use/share! docs.google.com/presentation...

Effective, efficient, and fair peer reviewing 2023

Effective, efficient, and fair peer reviewing Ben Bond-Lamberty Based on a presentation at the AGU Early Career Scientist Workshop, 2019 1

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Reposted by Jonathan A. Eisen, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Silvia Secchi , and 2 more Jonathan A. Eisen, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Silvia Secchi, Erin O’Donnell, Larry W. Hunter

Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 12h

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Neil Pederson

ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 21h

Growth–survival trade‐off in temperate trees is weak and restricted to late‐successional stages - Bordin - Journal of Ecology.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Growth–survival trade‐off in temperate trees is weak and restricted to late‐successional stages

Our findings highlight a role of disturbances in filtering life-history strategies and their potential impact on forest dynamics and global carbon cycling, but also a need to better understand the me...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · 1d

Thinking about joining EGU's #Mentoring Scheme for #EGU26, but want to consolidate your skills first? This #workshop is for you!

📅: Thursday 16 October 2025, at 10:00 CEST.
🔗: egu.eu/6Q7OB9
⚠️Places are limited! Apply by 14 October 2025!
👉 Learn more: egu.eu/0NTDAW

📸: Mike Smith on imaggeo.egu.eu

Image description: A coastal landscape. Text reads: 'EGU mentoring workshop is here! Register now? YES!
Where?
Online
When?
Thursday 16 October 2025, at 10:00 CEST.
Deadline?
Monday 14 October 2025
Cost?
0€'.

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty

Matthias Sprenger @matthiasprenger.bsky.social · 1d

Our new research analyzing high-frequency soil moisture data from 40 NEON sites across 17 US ecoregions reveals the widespread occurrence of Preferential Flow (PF) & its drivers across continental scale environmental gradients. Published in AGU's Geophysical Research Letters
doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Ubiquity and Causes of Soil Water Preferential Flow Across 17 Ecoregions

Preferential flow (PF) is ubiquitous across the USA and occurs in up to 60% of all rainfall events ≥2 mm Rainfall intensity, soil texture, and antecedent soil moisture emerge as critical in gener...

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Neil Pederson

Kristina Anderson-Teixeira @k-andersonteixeira.bsky.social · 1d

The call for proposals for the 2025 ForestGEO Research Awards Program is now open! This is a great opportunity for graduate students / early career researchers to get support for research at ForestGEO sites. Please share with researchers who might be interested. Due Dec 10.

The Call for Proposals for 20245 ForestGEO Research Grants is now open! Deadline is 10 December 2025.

forestgeo.si.edu

Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously!

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that you can now bring Google Earth Engine data right into ArcGIS Pro?

Here’s a new storymap with details and a link to the tool on @github.com and thoughts on a possible interoperability of GEE and ArcGIS Pro.

storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/bf22...
#gischat #geogchat #geogsky ⚒️ 🌎 🌍 🌏

Bring Google Earth Engine’s Data Right into ArcGIS Pro

Access Google Earth Engine's Data Catalog in ArcGIS Pro

storymaps.arcgis.com

Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · 1d

Short-term experimental flooding impacts soil biogeochemistry but not aboveground vegetation in a coastal forest, by my colleague Peter Regier et al. -- the first in a group of TEMPEST experiment papers coming 🤞 in the next year! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · 1d

Via @kdorheim.bsky.social , "Large Carbon Losses From Burned Permafrost Peatlands During Post-Fire Succession" agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Large Carbon Losses From Burned Permafrost Peatlands During Post‐Fire Succession

Burned permafrost peatlands lost ∼130 g C m−2 yr−1 during the first four years post-fire Burned landscapes returned to a net carbon dioxide sink ∼15 years post-fire Net ecosystem exchange carbon...

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Rodrigo Vargas @vargaslab.bsky.social · 1d

How can we model temporal or spatial dependence to simulate complex environmental systems?

@huong-le.bsky.social Copula-based Cosimulation as a tool for improving predictions.

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

#EnvironmentalModeling @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social

Copula‐Based Cosimulation for Simulating Temporal or Spatial Data in Biogeosciences

A copula-based cosimulation method is presented to improve simulations The proposed method is flexible and can model complex relationships Simulations better represented statistical features suc...

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Bill Smith @wkolby.bsky.social · 2d

Happy to share a new #RSE paper, "Satellite observations reveal ecosystem resistance and resilience ... driven by dominant vegetation along a rainfall gradient in Australia," led by PhD student Huanhuan Wang doi-org.ezproxy3.library.arizona.edu/10.1016/j.rs...

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Lisa W. Fazio, James Q. Wilson , and 38 more Meredith Broussard, Lisa W. Fazio, James Q. Wilson, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Dorothy Bishop, Anna Nagurney, Brigitte Nerlich, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Gavin A. Schmidt, Jesse H. Kroll, Julie L. Lockwood, Patrick A. Jansen, Joshua S. Weitz, Nicole Dubilier, Jason Stajich, Simon J. Greenhill, Michael A. Clemens, Hugo Mercier, Megan L. Ranney, Rosemary A. Joyce, Philip N. Cohen, Michael J. Allen, Andrew Curry, Jacob Montgomery, Juan Cole, Kris Inwood, Smith, Robert C. Richards, Rebecca Tushnet, Alan Richardson, Lauren Hersch Nicholas, Victor Galaz, Scott A. Imberman, Sebastian Karcher, Brian Keegan, Ann Bartow, Jack Stilgoe, Ted Temzelides, Christina Pagel, Annalee Newitz, David Darmofal

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 2d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Reposted by Monica G. Turner, Ben Bond‐Lamberty

Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · 2d

Great PhD opportunity with an excellent supervisor:

Quantify traits of tree species across the western US to determine how tree populations and forest communities will respond to drought and fire.

plant-traits.net/lab-openings/

Lab openings | Laughlin Research Lab

plant-traits.net

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Nicole Zampieri @nzampieri.bsky.social · 3d

MS position for Fall 2026 available to study Hurricane Ecology w/ me at #UCF and with @jefferybcannon.bsky.social from @thejonesctr.bsky.social! Funded half time as a TA and half as an RA. See web for details: tinyurl.com/9pm33ttt
Please RT and share with your bright undergrads!!

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Neil Pederson @yellowbuckeye.bsky.social · 4d

I am teaching a course on ancient trees and tree rings at the NY Botanical Garden on Sunday, October 26th and Sunday, November 2nd.

We will learn about past environments, the amazing lives of trees, and what old trees tend to look like.

Sign up at this link: www.enrole.com/nybg/jsp/ses...

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, John Kennedy, Ben Bond‐Lamberty

Rodrigo Vargas @vargaslab.bsky.social · 5d

⭐️Nominate an Impactful Dataset

@agu.org invites you to nominate an impactful dataset!

📊Submissions will be considered for inclusion in an upcoming featured commentary published in AGU Advances.

Submit nominations by 20 October.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

@agubiogeosciences.bsky.social

Nominate an Impactful Dataset

You are invited to nominate a dataset to be included in a commentary about the impact of Earth, space, and environmental data using the dimensions of people, planet, and prosperity. Selected submitter...

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Justin Maxwell @l-tulipifera.bsky.social · 6d

We are looking for a new postdoc to join a collaborative team at Indiana University. We are working to reduce bias in estimates of forest carbon uptake at local to global scales. Deadline for best consideration is November 15, 2025. More details below!

indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30636

Postdoctoral Research Scholar - Forest Carbon

We are seeking a highly-motivated postdoctoral fellow to conduct research focused on reducing bias and uncertainty in the measurement and monitoring of forest carbon uptake from local to global scales...

indiana.peopleadmin.com

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Neil Pederson, Elena Litchman

EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 7d

UMass Boston seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in microbial ecology, starting September 1, 2026. Apply by December 1, 2025. Details: http://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/biology #job

Biology - UMass Boston

Biology - UMass Boston

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EGU Soil System Sciences Division @egu-sss.bsky.social · 7d

🆕 New publication in SOIL journal!
📖 What if publication bias is the rule and net carbon loss from priming the exception?

👥 Michel et al.

🔗 soil.copernicus.org/articles/11/...

#SoilScience #SoilJournal #Research #OpenAccess #EGU_SSS

What if publication bias is the rule and net carbon loss from priming the exception?

Abstract. Priming effects in soil science describe the influence of fresh carbon (C) inputs on rates of microbial mineralisation of native soil organic matter, which can either increase (positive prim...

soil.copernicus.org

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · 7d

🥁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…

www.sciencedirect.com

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Gareth K. Phoenix

Katie Field @katiefield4.bsky.social · 7d

If you’re looking for a PhD studentship in some really exciting areas of plant science 🌿 take a look at this year’s Sainsbury PhD studentships - you could come and study orchid mycorrhizas 🌸🍄 with me & @garethphoenix.bsky.social! www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

FindAPhD : Prestigious Sainsbury PhD Studentships in plant sciences at Gatsby Charitable Foundation

Apply for a PhD: Prestigious Sainsbury PhD Studentships in plant sciences at Gatsby Charitable Foundation

www.findaphd.com

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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · 8d

How do tree seedlings respond to multiple climate stressors?🌴

📖Our meta-analysis shows that CO₂ boosts growth, but only if drought isn't present. The combination of CO₂, drought and temperature mainly had additive effects🌳

🔎Read more: buff.ly/agUryqs

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Alba Anadon-Rosell @albaanadon.bsky.social · 8d

Our paper on #intraindividual trait variability is out!
We studied #clonal #tundra #shrubs along elevation and latitude gradients to explore the sources of trait variability
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Intraindividual Variability as a Large Source of Trait Variation in Clonal Tundra Dwarf Shrubs Along Elevation and Latitude Gradients

Aim Intraindividual trait variability (iITV), which is the variability among repeated architectural units within an individual, may represent a crucial dimension of functional diversity in plant eco.....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Hans Henrik Bruun, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Richard Betts

Olivier Honnay @olivierhonnay.bsky.social · 8d

📢 Vacancy: I am urgently recruiting a PhD candidate to join a project on selection processes in pedunculate oak.
📅 Start date: no later than December 1st.

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, John T. Abatzoglou

Calum Cunningham @calxcunningham.bsky.social · 8d

Out today in @science.org, we show wildfire disasters have surged in the last decade, as climate change intensifies fire weather and exacerbates other vulnerabilities.

📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

With @pyrogeog.bsky.social @climate-guy.bsky.social

Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires

Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

www.science.org

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Sharon Billings @billingslab.bsky.social · 8d

We are so excited to share the results of this work! Annalise Guthrie’s hard work demonstrates how the loss and regeneration of deep roots can change the way deep soils are structured at a continental scale. This was such a joy to work on! @agu.org
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Deep Root Loss and Regeneration in the Anthropocene Drive Continental‐Scale Changes in Deep Soil Structure

Deep root dynamics imposed by land-use change are modifying deep soil structure at the continental scale well below zones of tillage As deep roots disappear, structural unit size increases and ro...

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · 8d

Data manager Rice Rivers Center..a beautiful VCU owned field station.

vcujobs.com/jobs/data-ma...

Data Manager, Rice Rivers Center - VCU Main Campus, Virginia, United States

The VCU Rice Rivers Center seeks a full-time Data Manager. The Data Manager will join a vibrant and growing team of student and faculty researchers and instructors at the Rice Rivers Center, VCU’s 366...

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Benjamin I. Cook, Kevin J. Anchukaitis , and 1 more Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Benjamin I. Cook, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Peter Jacobs

Tess Wei-Ping Jacobson @tessweiping.bsky.social · 8d

⚠️new(-ish) paper in Journal of Climate⚠️ i evaluated CMIP6 models' Pacific decadal SST variability and teleconnections... big takeaway is that models under-simulate temporal PDO/IPO variability on decadal timescales, likely affecting precip trends in the Southwest
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

journals.ametsoc.org

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IIASA @iiasa.ac.at · 8d

🧵 As the #OvershootConference drew to a close today, the final plenary offered a space to step back and reflect across themes. What stood out was both the urgency and interconnectedness of the challenges we face when confronting climate overshoot:

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Matthias Schleuning

Anna R Landim @annarl.bsky.social · 8d

Excited to share that the second paper of my PhD is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🍈🦜🍒🐒🍊🐿️

We show that the functional diversity of seed-dispersal interactions in tropical forests takes circa 20 years to recover after deforestation.

You can read it here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Delayed recovery of seed-dispersal interactions after deforestation

Landim et al. show that seed-dispersal interactions require about two decades to functionally recover in tropical forests in Ecuador, but the recovery time of seed-dispersal functions is delayed in pa...