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Temporal Ecology Lab @temporalecology.bsky.social · 1d

Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c

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lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social @lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social · Jul 7

Thanks to @betanalpha.bsky.social @vvandermeersch.bsky.social and Janneke Hille Ris Lambers for a fun day discussing how trees grow at Mount Rainier in Mount Rainier NP to round out June! And to all of them plus Mao and Avery for more math at UW (see gcecology.tumblr.com/post/7877335...).

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lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social @lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social · Jul 7

Ask an ecologist! Okay, maybe not the one on the left, but the other two look good for it (including @vvandermeersch.bsky.social).

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lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social @lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social · Jun 20

Cool new work by @vvandermeersch.bsky.social in PNAS, which he mostly did in a short visit to my lab last summer (no pressure future visitors!). This paper continues the theme that my expectations are often wrong. (But I still question if plants can sense the second derivative of photoperiod.)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · Jun 17

The summer solstice may signal peak growth for many plants. On average, the summer solstice coincides with a thermal optimum during the growing season. As the climate warms, this cue could remain stable, but there’s significant local variation. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A blooming field of sunflowers. Stock photo.

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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · Jun 18

In non-WW3 news, new paper alert! Or what I did on my Norwegian sabbatical.

Humid heat trends in Europe: Pretty bad! But unlike Southeast US, temperature increases (in part driven by fewer clouds) are the main cause, not dewpoint increases.

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

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Victor Van der Meersch @vvandermeersch.bsky.social · Jun 12

Several recent studies suggest the summer solstice might act as a universal cue for key plant processes.
But why would the longest day of the year be so important? Our new study in @pnas.org sheds some light on this question ⏬
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · Jun 10

I just published an explainer on aerosols and their role in the climate that I've been working on for the past few months! It includes both how aerosols work, how emissions have changed, and how thats driven recent warming: www.carbonbrief.org/...

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lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social @lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social · Jun 11

Aww, thanks! And yes on the fun analyses!

Michael Boo-tancourt @betanalpha.bsky.social · Jun 11

Academia is a pretty big mess these days and the exceptional positive experiences are all due to outstanding advisors. I can vouch for this being one of those exceptional circumstances. Also there will probably be some pretty fun statistical analysis opportunities if that is of interest.

Victor Van der Meersch @vvandermeersch.bsky.social · Jun 11

New PhD position in the Temporal Ecology Lab (UBC, Vancouver)! 🌲
The student will investigate how seed and seedling pathogens influence forest regeneration and diversity, in collaboration with the Plant Ecology Group at ETHZ.
Please find more information here: temporalecology.org/wp-content/u...

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Michael Boo-tancourt @betanalpha.bsky.social · Jun 9

Interested in comprehensive courses on Bayesian mixture, survival, pairwise comparison (Bradley-Terry, IRT, etc), and ordinal outcome modeling, complete with extensive Stan exercises?

Check out my upcoming remote courses, www.eventzilla.net/e/advanced-b....

Advanced Bayesian Modeling In Stan

Despite the promise of big data, inferences are often limited not by the size of data but rather by…

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lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social @lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social · Jun 1

Thanks for taking this photo. It made me happy to see the smiling faces, despite the insanity of this moment. This is a hit on climate science in the US and globally.

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lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social @lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social · May 25

Thank you NSF! This photo lifted my spirits.

Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · May 24

"Everyone was welcome, according to organizers, although they say senior administrators were told NOT to participate."

YES and KUDOS to the courage of NSF staff!

Happy 75th anniversary National Science Foundation!
www.science.org/content/arti...
🧪 🌊 ⚒️

Is a photo subversive? NSF staff overcome obstacles to 75th anniversary portrait

Management tried to quash outpouring of support for beleaguered agency

www.science.org

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · May 25

My personal essay: "A Different Kind Uncertainty" speaking out on the grave implications of the destruction of US science (including for GIS users). Yea verily, these are far from normal times ....
dusk.geo.orst.edu/uncertainty....
#GISchat #geogchat #geosky ⚒️ 🌊 🌍 🌎 🌏

Photograph of several people overlaying their hands in solidarity. I use this photo in the accompanying essay's section on "getting into community" as a great way to keep our spirits up, reenergize, and move forward—together!

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lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social @lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social · May 24

This is important work Ben, thank you for your efforts.

Benjamin Cook @dustybowl.bsky.social · May 22

Part of my secret plan to just get an excuse to drink more wine "professionally"

PLOS Climate @plosclimate.org · May 22

New research by Wolkovich and colleagues highlights spatial and temporal complexities in the impacts of climate change on wine grapes around the world

journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

@vvandermeersch.bsky.social @dustybowl.bsky.social

Photo: Marc Benedetti, Pixabay

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lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social @lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social · May 11

Happy mother's day Dawn! I love this and you guys look amazing.

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lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social @lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social · May 11

While I am excited about hearing Bara Bada Bastu next weekend at Eurovision, I want to be clear about what is really good music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx1z...

HOW and WHY were Queen SO good at Live Aid in 1985?

YouTube video by Wings of Pegasus

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The Keeling Curve @keelingcurve.bsky.social · May 6

What's at stake for the #KeelingCurve if NOAA gets dismantled. A take in @thebulletin.org from Ralph Keeling and Eric Morgan of @scrippsocean.bsky.social: thebulletin.org/2025/05/how-...

How the dismantling of NOAA threatens the Keeling Curve

How the Trump administration's dismantling of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration threatens the Keeling Curve, an iconic measure used in climate change research. As explained by the so...

thebulletin.org

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Erich Fischer @erichfischer.bsky.social · May 1

@wimthiery.bsky.social presenting our new paper "Global emergence of unprecedented lifetime
exposure to climate extremes" at #EGU25. Stay tuned for the paper led by Luke Grant, @innevanderkelen.bsky.social, @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social, @lukasgudmundsson.bsky.social published on 8 May.

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lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social @lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social · Apr 28

Oh wait, no, they got the memo and just decided not to sign (www.thedartmouth.com/article/2025... ... Yale signed).

Dartmouth only Ivy to abstain from signing letter against Trump administration funding cuts

A College spokesperson said that the President “does not believe that signing open form letters like this one is an effective way to defend Dartmouth’s mission.” 

www.thedartmouth.com

lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social @lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social · Apr 28

Did Dartmouth miss the memo on signing onto this: www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c... ? It's weird, all the other schools I know (and all the Ivy League schools) seemed to have received the memo.

A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U

A Call for Constructive Engagement

www.aacu.org

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lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social @lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social · Apr 26

GISS does incredible science for the world; cancelling the lease on the building they are in (with no place for staff to go) will cost us all.

Paul Voosen @voosen.me · Apr 24

GISS has famously been located above the Seinfeld restaurant for decades. Reprisal against Columbia or climate -- or both? GSA cancelled the lease, not NASA, a source says.

GISS does not house supercompute -- its climate models are run at NASA Goddard in Md. Still a major disruption for its staff.

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Apr 24

NASA is terminating its lease for the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a major center for global warming research, @nasawatch.bsky.social reports. nasawatch.com/personnel-ne...

lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social @lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social · Apr 11

Happy Friday everyone. In you missed the new acoustic version of Sweden's Eurovision entry this week, it's pretty great: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9eY...

KAJ - Bara Bada Bastu (Live & Unplugged) | Sweden 🇸🇪 | #EurovisionALBM

YouTube video by Eurovision Song Contest

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Michael Boo-tancourt @betanalpha.bsky.social · Mar 20

Hot off the presses: this year I am offering four brand new remote courses covering more advanced Bayesian modeling techniques: mixture modeling, survival modeling, pairwise comparison modeling, and ordinal modeling, www.eventzilla.net/e/advanced-b....

Tell your friends, colleagues, and frenemies.

Advanced Bayesian Modeling In Stan

Despite the promise of big data, inferences are often limited not by the size of data but rather by…

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