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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · Aug 19

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Times are a changing, also in the lab - Forest Biology

Roxana is starting a new phase in her career, as a PhD student in Chris Smith-Martin’s lab at the University of Minnesota, where she’ll be joined by former Forest Biology lab intern Andrés Rojas. We’r...

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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · Aug 18

It finally happened: I was invited to review a manuscript from my own lab, a 3-author paper with me as senior author...

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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · Jul 16

Congrats Julian, that's huge!

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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · Jul 14

We welcome back Ibrahim Salman, who will start his postdoctoral fellowship in the Forest Biology lab today!

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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · Jun 18

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Tropical forests are heating up. Can they cope?

Scientists are pushing plants beyond their comfort zone to test their resilience to warming

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Jalene LaMontagne @jalene-lamontagne.bsky.social · May 29

I'm hiring a postdoc! Themes: long-term data, plant reproduction, mast seeding, synthesis, macosystems biology. Also, reproducible tesearch. Target submission deadline: 22 June (for priority review). 1-2 year position, $60K/year. 🌲 🌲 🌲
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Post Doctoral Fellow - Plant Ecology - HigherEdJobs

Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · May 28

Great seminar by lab visitor and incoming postdoc Ibrahim Salman on the effects of environmental stress on plant-pollinator interactions!

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · May 22

Harvard today, your institution tomorrow.

It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America.

All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.

The Trump administration on Thursday halted Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students, taking aim at a crucial funding source for the nation’s oldest and wealthiest college in a major escalation in the administration’s efforts to pressure the elite school to fall in line with the president’s agenda.

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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · May 16

Congratulations Bianca!

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brodersenlab.bsky.social @brodersenlab.bsky.social · May 15

I have two open postdoc positions in my lab that include opportunities to collaborate with @alecaborsuk.bsky.social and researchers at the Salk Harnessing Plants Initiative.

If you’re interesting root system architecture or photosynthesis modeling see below:

campuspress.yale.edu/brodersenlab...

PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS – Brodersen Lab

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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · May 13

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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · May 13

I made tiramisu in food containers to look like the leaf-warming boxes we're using in an experiment we've almost finished setting up.
Lots of work, but worth it! (Both the experiment and the tiramisu)

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · May 12

Ok, bear with the shaky-cam (it is my signature special effect as an overenthusiast), but would you take a look at this blessed date palm? Rosy-faced lovebirds, common pigeons, and gila woodpeckers (I think?) all nesting in the same date palm tree crown. Phoenix, AZ.

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · May 9

They are dismantling our entire research apparatus, piece by piece. Make sure everybody knows what they are doing. Call your reps whatever color your district is and demand more action.

Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · May 9

NSF’s entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EDU/EES), which “aims to provide opportunities for individuals from all backgrounds to actively participate and excel in STEM disciplines” and some of it congressionally mandated, was just notified they will be RIFed. www.nsf.gov/edu/ees/about

About EES

The NSF Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EES) aims to provide opportunities for individuals from all backgrounds, especially those historically underrepresented in science and engineering.

www.nsf.gov

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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · May 4

Wonderful to see this Rakesh! Keep up the good work

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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · Apr 30

Another aspect of being in the Netherlands: I just received my first ever traffic fine for driving 4 kilometer per hour too fast on my way to the hospital. €45,-

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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · Apr 30

Spending a few weeks in my hometown, helping out my parents after my dad had surgery. Enjoying the bicycle infrastructure and the abundance of spring flowers (wild garlic yields excellent pesto!)

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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · Apr 26

Outrageous! I'm sorry Jay

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Fons van der Plas @fonsvanderplas.bsky.social · Apr 24

Two PhD positions available at Wageningen University on resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes. Supervision will be by my great colleagues @iris-hordijk.bsky.social @amandataylor.bsky.social @dominic-martin.bsky.social @lucianachr.bsky.social and Merel Hofmeijer.

PhD position - Resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes

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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · Apr 16

It's good to be home

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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · Apr 10

How comforting it must be so stupid to believe that ☹️

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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · Apr 9

You got to be fucking kidding me! No $$$ for climate modeling because young people experience climate anxiety? Since when does this government care about mental health anyway?
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Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University

On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Apr 8

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · Apr 4

The chills I got reading this
Incredible writing.

Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · Apr 4

"Perhaps prison would have persisted this way forever. Perhaps our granite hearts and iron wills would have never crumbled. Perhaps the prison mentality, that we be cold and heartless, would have endured.

Perhaps. But then there were kittens."

When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years

I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.

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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · Apr 1

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The Panama Canal’s other conflict: Water security for the population and the global economy

Two-thirds of the Panama Canal watershed’s freshwater goes to operate the locks. The country plans to build another reservoir to funnel in more water, but hundreds of homes stand in the way.

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