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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

youtu.be

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

¡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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Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · 7h

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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Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila @josephtumber.bsky.social · 8h

Ale is looking to join her lab at UTEP, if you are interested in graduate research in arid plant ecology, it's an amazing opportunity with an even more amazing mentor!

@esalatamcarib.bsky.social 🧪🌎🌳

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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Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila @josephtumber.bsky.social · 6d

Always a pleasure to get out into the woods and learn from the amazing Kevin Evans, Dartmouth's incredibly wise Director of Woodlands, who approaches silviculture with the care and art that the environment deserves. Here we are touring Morton Farm and discussing past and future management

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Science Magazine @science.org · 12d

NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. https://scim.ag/3KlQkQk

‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry

The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

www.science.org

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 12d

For those anxiously awaiting it: the NSF GRFP solicitation is out, with a November 14 deadline for Geoscience applicants: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Dylan Craven @dylancraven.bsky.social · 12d

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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Ethan White @ethanwhite.weecology.org · 13d

The influence of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program really cannot be overstated. The fact that there is still no solicitation for this year is unfair to students and risks damaging the future of American science. Please take 30 seconds to sign the open letter to US STEM Leadership 🧪🌎

Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 13d

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.

The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io

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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · 13d

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 14d

Sequoia sempervirens (redwood; world's tallest tree) is well adapted to high-intensity crown fires (eg 2020), but Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia; world's most massive tree) is adapted to surface fires only!
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🧪🌍🔥🌿🌳🔥🪴 @botsocamerica.bsky.social

Sequoia sempervirens (Coast redwood) resprouting epicormically after a high-intensity fire

Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia) with a fire scar in the base from a surface fire

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 14d

Plants cool the land through evapotranspiration, but green foliage can absorb more heat than lighter surfaces, causing warming. A study finds that in the northern hemisphere, cooling outweighs warming until the end of the growing season. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Ghent Rooting-lab/Steffen Vanneste @stvanneste.bsky.social · 22d

#roots

rootdevelopment.bsky.social @rootdevelopment.bsky.social · 26d

Looking for some clarity in the labyrinth of terms regarding lateral root initiation (priming, founder cell specification, pre-branch sites, oscillation zone, root clock,...)? Here is our new paper hopefully bringing some light in the darkness:
track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

Marker-assisted in vivo imaging reveals pre-patterning events prior to lateral root organogenesis

The branching pattern of the Arabidopsis root is established as early as in the distal tip of the primary root.

track.smtpsendmail.com

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Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila @josephtumber.bsky.social · 14d

@harvardforest.bsky.social

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Go Belowground! @exfumo.bsky.social · 14d

A little digging in the forests of New England
A new post on our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/pJdXm
Many of the plants have very long rhizomes that twist through the thick litter layer! Thanks @josephtumber.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social
#ExFuMo #Rhizome #Clonality #GoBelowground

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Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila @josephtumber.bsky.social · 15d

Fantastic video by undergraduate lab member Tobin Yates on the project he did this summer! @dartmouthoutdoors www.instagram.com/reel/DO6KKP7...

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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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 20d

I just passed my 50,000th identification on @inaturalist.bsky.social! Identifying is a huge but often ignored part of the #iNaturalist community and dataset so I wanted to share why and how I identify. 1/14

🧪 #ecology #taxonomy #botany #CommunityScience

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Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila @josephtumber.bsky.social · 20d

Our forest ecology class makes up for the lack of fall colors 🍂🍁and early leaf senescence with our blaze orange during the (always fun) TREE ID lab

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Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila @josephtumber.bsky.social · 20d

A critically important and thorough publication on mitigating climate justice by Peter Reich et al. 🧪🌎

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

PNAS

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...

doi.org

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Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila @josephtumber.bsky.social · 20d

A new year kicks-off with 9 new undergraduates working in the lab!
Feel incredibly privileged to work with so many trainees @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social

Today they spent the day training on soil sieving and root ID

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Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila @josephtumber.bsky.social · 20d

Do you sell prints? (I have zero understanding of how difficult it is to duplicate prints), BUT I know folks who would love this

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Letícia Giacom @leticiagiacom.bsky.social · 22d

attending to #GoBelowground this week! meeting so many nice people and already learned so much within these two days. excited for the rest of the week 🤩

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ESA Latin America & the Caribbean Chapter @esalatamcarib.bsky.social · 22d

🚨¡Recordatorio! Nuestro primer webinar es mañana!
🚨Reminder! Our first webinar is tomorrow!
🚨Lembrete! Nosso primeiro webinar é amanhã!

Zoom link: dartmouth.zoom.us/j/9455626329...

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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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 26d

“People are losing jobs, and our communities are not getting the power that we’re planning on.” Environmental studies professor Elizabeth Wilson reflects on the Trump administration's efforts to delay and stop offshore wind development in New England, via the @bostonglobe.com.

Projects blocked. Work stopped. Funds canceled. What’s left of offshore wind? - The Boston Globe

The Trump administration is putting up strong political headwinds against wind energy.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila @josephtumber.bsky.social · Sep 5

is this a new linocut of your trip?!

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