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ESA Latin America & the Caribbean Chapter @esalatamcarib.bsky.social · 19h

¡Acompáñanos en el próximo webinar de Con-Ciencia en las Américas!

Este mes aprenderemos sobre variabilidad y adaptación en ecosistemas de agua dulce.💦

📅 miércoles Oct 15 | ⏰ 12 PM ET

Para más info y acceder al Youtube Live: forms.gle/LDxcancxbMUL...

@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social #LatinxInSTEM

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 1d

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

eeb.msu.edu

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Ale Martínez Blancas @alemtzb.bsky.social · 2d

I'm looking for 1-2 PhD/Master's students to start in my lab in the fall of 2026.

Are you interested in studying plant interactions, species coexistence or community recovery after disturbance in arid environments? Details below!

Email me with questions and please share widely!!
🌱🌾🌵🏜️

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Amar Tiwari @amardeeptiwari.bsky.social · 8d

New paper out in @agu.org Geophysical Research Letters (GRL): "Underestimation of Historical Terrestrial Water Storage Droughts in Global Water Models"

Read here: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

#Hydrology #WaterResources #TWS #droughts #Water #Modeling #GRACE

@yadupokhrel.bsky.social

Droughts are intensifying under climate change, making accurate prediction more critical than ever. In our new paper ‘Underestimation of Historical Terrestrial Water Storage Droughts in Global Water Models’ in AGU Geophysical Research Letters (GRL), we conducted the first global evaluation of how well global water models (GWMs) capture terrestrial water storage droughts compared to observations.

Key Findings:
1) GWMs systematically underestimate drought severity and spatial extent, particularly in North America, South America, Africa, and Northern Asia.
2) The underestimation is more pronounced in recent years (2016–2019).
3) Soil moisture errors and limited representation of human interventions (e.g., groundwater extraction, irrigation, reservoir operations) are major drivers of these gaps.

Future projections of water scarcity and drought risk may be more severe than currently estimated, underscoring the urgent need to improve models for better climate adaptation and water resource management.

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Braasch Lab @ Michigan State University @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social · Aug 11

Applications are now being accepted for the MSU EEB Presidential Postdoc Fellowship. We’d be happy to sponsor your application so please get in touch!

eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

eeb.msu.edu

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Dylan Craven @dylancraven.bsky.social · 13d

Wonderful talk by @saltyecoevo.bsky.social about his exciting work on chemical ecology and urban biodiversity patterns across the Americas #DataObservatory #UMayor

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ESA Latin America & the Caribbean Chapter @esalatamcarib.bsky.social · 13d

✨ If you missed our first CON-CIENCIA EN LAS AMÉRICAS webinar, you can now watch it on our YouTube channel! 🎥
👉 youtu.be/7r4soRULUjk?...

Learn about birds and global change with Drs. Adrianne Tossas and Tomás Carlo. 🐦🌎
#GlobalChange #Ornithology #LatinAmerica
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social

ConCiencia LAC: ornitología y conservación en el trópico

YouTube video by Latin America and the Caribbean Chapter ESA

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Diogo B Proietti @provete.bsky.social · 14d

appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/09/09/a...

Associate Editor Mentoring: 2026 applications now open!

Are you less than five years post-PhD, live in or are from the Global South, and looking to gain hands-on experience with an editorial board? Why not apply for the 2026 mentoring scheme with Journa…

appliedecologistsblog.com

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ESA Latin America & the Caribbean Chapter @esalatamcarib.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 ¡En 1 semana! No te lo pierdas 🌎🌿
In 1 week! Don’t miss it 🌎🌿
Em 1 semana! Não perca 🌎🌿

Para preguntas o más información:
For questions or more info:
Para perguntas ou mais informações:
forms.gle/ZBL2B637X8Fc...

ESA Latin America & the Caribbean Chapter @esalatamcarib.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨¡Anuncio especial!🚨
El 17-sept-2025 relanzamos Con-Ciencia en Las Américas, una serie mensual de webinars en español sobre ecología y cambio global en América Latina y el Caribe 🌎🌿.
¡Acompáñanos y ayuda a correr la voz!

Envía tus preguntas aquí: forms.gle/ZBL2B637X8Fc...

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Ale Martínez Blancas @alemtzb.bsky.social · 28d

I'm super excited to announce that I have started as Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso! I'm looking forward to starting new projects, collaborations and mentoring amazing people! More soon to come! 🌾🌱🌵👩‍💻

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · Aug 21

MSU Plant Bio is hiring a new herbarium director! Our herbarium is a wonderful resource on campus and I'm excited to have the opportunity to make it even better by bringing in a new director. Details here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu

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ESA Latin America & the Caribbean Chapter @esalatamcarib.bsky.social · Jul 28

🚨 Heading to #ESA2025 in Baltimore?
The ESA-LAC Chapter is hosting 3 exciting sessions you won’t want to miss:

🔬 Organized Oral Session
🌎 Workshop
🌿 Inspire Session

📍 Swing by our table to connect and get involved!

#EcologyIsEverywhere @esalatamcarib.bsky.social
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social

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ESA Latin America & the Caribbean Chapter @esalatamcarib.bsky.social · Jul 16

Remember to bring a piece of home to share for #ESA2025!

ESA Latin America & the Caribbean Chapter @esalatamcarib.bsky.social · May 28

🌎Bring a Piece of Home to Share!🌎
The ESA Latin America & Caribbean Chapter (ESA-LAC) invites members to bring an item from their home country for our fundraising table at ESA!

Thank you for your support! @esalatamcarib #ESA2025

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ESA Latin America & the Caribbean Chapter @esalatamcarib.bsky.social · Jul 21

🏆 ESA-LAC Poster Award at #ESA2025! 🏆

Attention chapter members! Sign up before Aug 3rd to be considered!

Not presenting? You can still help by serving as a judge (~15 mins of your time!).

📢Plus: Share your talk/poster so we can promote your work!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Ashwini Ramesh @ashwini-ramesh.bsky.social · Jun 21

I'm so happy I get to reconnect here🦋! It's an honor to receive the ASN Early Career Investigator Prize and share my ideas #Evol2025! If my ideas sparks a fresh perspective on coinfection to even a few, that would be more than I could hope for! 3PM AthenaE
@asn-amnat.bsky.social @evolmtg.bsky.social

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ESA Latin America & the Caribbean Chapter @esalatamcarib.bsky.social · May 28

🌎Bring a Piece of Home to Share!🌎
The ESA Latin America & Caribbean Chapter (ESA-LAC) invites members to bring an item from their home country for our fundraising table at ESA!

Thank you for your support! @esalatamcarib #ESA2025

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Ale Martínez Blancas @alemtzb.bsky.social · Mar 11

The world is burning but,

I have a new paper in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecology.

It turns out PSFs don't often help species pairs to coexist. But if you look at multiple species at once, PSFs help them coexist in at least one combination:

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Plant–soil feedbacks contribute to coexistence when considering multispecies assemblages over a soil depth gradient

Plant–soil feedbacks (PSFs) may determine plant–species coexistence. They may stabilize coexistence, but frequently destabilize it by increasing fitness differences between species. Most studies focu...

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Felix Javier @felixjavier.bsky.social · Oct 23

I started gathering a list for REUs/Summer research opportunities for undergraduate students in Ecology/Conservation/Evolutionary Biology. Feel share to share with any undergraduate students who may be interested in participating in *PAID* research.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

REUs/Summer Research 2024 List (Ecology and Evolution)

docs.google.com

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