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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 18d

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.

Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

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Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social · 19d

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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tomomi parins-fukuchi @tomopfuku.bsky.social · Sep 5

Excited to share a new paper! "Sorting of ancestral polymorphism and its impact on morphological phylogenetics and macroevolution". Part of some work I've been doing on modelling the evolution of polymorphic traits in fossil echinoderms.

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Sorting of ancestral polymorphism and its impact on morphological phylogenetics and macroevolution

Abstract. Intraspecific phenotypic variation provides the basic substrate upon which the evolutionary processes that give rise to morphological innovation,

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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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John Fowler (he/him) @jefowlerjr.bsky.social · Jul 9

Come join us in Corvallis! Great colleagues, a wonderful location for plant science of all types, with the added benefit of the beautiful surroundings of Oregon!

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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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · Jul 9

Following the fantastic #ATBC2025 meeting in Oaxaca I visited the Tree of Tule, a Montezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum) with the world's stoutest trunk. It's highly buttressed but even after smoothing it is thicker than the largest sequoia with a smoothed diameter of 30.8 feet. #bigtrees

cypress tree with 30 foot diameter trunk

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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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Kali Middleby @kalimiddleby.bsky.social · Jun 26

Heading to Oaxaca for #ATBC2025 ? Make sure you stop by our symposium for all things leaf temperature, heat tolerance, and tradeoffs across climate gradients 🌿💧🌡️

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Kelly Andersen @kmander7.bsky.social · Jun 27

#NExTropics symposia at #ATBC2025 find out the latest from nutrient addition experiments from across the tropics

Laynara F. Lugli @laylugli.bsky.social · Jun 23

See you in Oaxaca next week for the 61ˢᵗ Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC). Check out our symposium on nutrient addition experiments across tropical forestshttps://www.atbc2025.org/symposia/s-75 @kmander7.bsky.social

Nutrient addition EXperiments in TROPICal Forests (NEXTropics): Synthesizing nutrient limitations across the tropics | ATBC2025

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Pierre-Michel Forget @pmforget.bsky.social · Jun 29

#ATBC2025 started. More than 1000 participants are in the room.

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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · Jun 29

There almost certainly are cryptic species and a good amount of hybridization with other Eschweileras

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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · Jun 29

I'll be talking about hyperdominant tropical tree species at #ATBC2025 in #Oaxaca, including some recent work on Eschweilera coriacea, which despite being possibly the most common tropical tree in the world (~5 billion trees in the Amazon basin) can be hard to identify and is poorly studied.

picture of tagged tree of Eschweilera coriacea

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JeanEEK LeverWITCH @jeanniel.bsky.social · Jun 1

To Whomever vandalized the Peony Garden at the Nichols Arboretum at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor last night:

There is so little beauty in our world right now. You are making the world a more cruel and ugly place. You are not helping.

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Login • Instagram

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · Jun 2

FFS that is a bad take

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · May 9

This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit.

This cannot be allowed to happen.

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · May 8

The legendary USGS Bee Lab is being shut down. The 2026 budget proposal defunds the Ecosystem Mission Area, which supported the lab. If their science helped your work, there’s still time to make your voice heard. Read below. (1/4)
🧪 #pollinators #Pollinators #USGS #Entomology #Hymenoptera 🪲🪳

USGS Bee Lab at the Eastern Ecological Science Center

The USGS Bee Lab supports research on native bees. As part of that program we and our co-located USFWS partners develop identification tools and keys for native bee species, take public access hi reso...

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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · May 7

I continue to be awed by the Blanding's turtles at the ES George reserve #ESGR. A U-M grad student first tagged them in 1953. At 95 years old, our oldest marked female shows no sign of aging and reproduces with as much vigor as a 20 yr old! lsa.umich.edu/herbarium/ne...

The World's Oldest Known Freshwater Turtle Turns 95 | U-M LSA University of Michigan Herbarium

A female Blanding’s turtle, it sets a new record with each year of life. And this turtle doesn’t appear to be slowing down. In fact, she is still producing eggs, and shows no signs of declining with a...

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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · May 7

Spring newsletter from the U-M Museum of Zoology #UMMZ and Herbarium #MICH (EEB museums) with a story from the ES George Reserve #ESGR on our elderly Blanding's turtles
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EEB Museums Newsletters | U-M LSA Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB)

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Rowan J. Schley @rschley.bsky.social · May 5

🌳⚠️Out now in Systematic Biology⚠️🌳
We find rampant reticulation in Inga, the blindingly rapid Amazonian tree radiation! ⚡

BONUS: We also find introgression and selection on genes underlying chemical defences, helping Ingas resist relentless insect herbivory 🐛☠️🌳

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Rampant Reticulation in a Rapid Radiation of Tropical Trees -Insights from Inga (Fabaceae)

Abstract. Evolutionary radiations underlie much of the species diversity of life on Earth, particularly within the world’s most species-rich tree flora – t

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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · May 3

Me too, see you there!

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · Apr 26

Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · Apr 24

Congrats! Coauthors Thiago and Nate are in my department here in Michigan

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Myriam Heuertz @mheuertz.bsky.social · Apr 17

The tropical timber tree angelique, Dicorynia guianensis, is locally adapted to the east-west rainfall gradient in French Guiana! Congrats to Julien Bonnier for publishing this PhD chapter in Molecular Ecology! doi.org/10.1111/mec....

Wet Season Environments Drive Local Adaptation in the Timber Tree Dicorynia guianensis in French Guiana

The vast tropical rainforests of the Guiana Shield in Northern South America play a vital role in maintaining the region's ecological balance and economy. Increasing pressure from selective logging, ...

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Richard Conniff @richardconniff.bsky.social · Apr 7

Measles is our most infectious disease, can pass to others even 2 hours after a victim passes through a room, and kills 1 to 3 people per 1000--mostly young, unvaccinated children. Please get your children vaccinated.

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