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Naomi Schwartz @naomibschwartz.bsky.social · Jul 8

Two weeks left to apply for the Canada Excellence Research Chair in my department at UBC! Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions about the position.

Naomi Schwartz @naomibschwartz.bsky.social · Jun 19

My stellar dept @ubcgeography.bsky.social is searching for a Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk. This amazing faculty job for a senior ecosystem scientist comes with loads of research funds and a move to Canada! Read more and apply here: geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...

Faculty Position: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cultures & Ecosystem at Risk - Department of Geography

Posted on June 18, 2025 Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cultures & Ecosystem at Risk – University of British Columbia The Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) ...

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Simon Donner @simondonner.bsky.social · Jul 7

UBC is recruiting a new Canada Excellence Research Chair in Ocean Ecological Modelling. This is a great opportunity for a mid-career scientist studying our changing oceans - CERCs are the best funded research chairs in the Canadian research system.
research.ubc.ca/media/file/c...

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Naomi Schwartz @naomibschwartz.bsky.social · Jun 30

Such a pleasure and a privilege to visit Edinburgh and participate in our first Tropical East Asian Savanna Network meeting! Looking forward to lots of exciting collaboration ahead.

Jess Rickenback @jess-rickenback.bsky.social · Jun 30

It was great to hear Chau Pham, @naomibschwartz.bsky.social , Manichanh Satdichanh, and Johan Setiawan presenting at the Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium on engaging topics which spanned fire ecology, and placing people into the savanna context. #savanna 🌏🌐

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Jess Rickenback @jess-rickenback.bsky.social · Jun 27

Brilliant day this week on the Tropical East Asian Savanna Network workshop- out on Salisbury Crags with the Global Grassy Group practicing ground layer data collection and loving the #grasses! @s-eshelman.bsky.social @wieczor.bsky.social @naomibschwartz.bsky.social @royalsoced.bsky.social

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Naomi Schwartz @naomibschwartz.bsky.social · Jun 19

My stellar dept @ubcgeography.bsky.social is searching for a Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk. This amazing faculty job for a senior ecosystem scientist comes with loads of research funds and a move to Canada! Read more and apply here: geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...

Faculty Position: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cultures & Ecosystem at Risk - Department of Geography

Posted on June 18, 2025 Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cultures & Ecosystem at Risk – University of British Columbia The Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) ...

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Naomi Schwartz @naomibschwartz.bsky.social · Jun 19

Excited to be visiting Edinburgh next week for the first Tropical East Asian Savanna Network meeting. If you’re interested in learning more about these fascinating and misunderstood ecosystems, join us via live stream (or in person if you happen to be in Edinburgh)!

Jess Rickenback @jess-rickenback.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thrilled to have Dr Naomi Schwartz @naomibschwartz.bsky.social, University of British Columbia, at the Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium! Naomi will present 'Seeing the savanna through the trees: fire ecology at forest-savanna boundaries in Southeast Asia'. Join us in person/online June 24th 🌐🌏

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Jess Rickenback @jess-rickenback.bsky.social · Jun 19

In person event funded by
@royalsoced.bsky.social

June 24th at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 9:30-4:30
@thebotanics.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tropical-e...
or online via teams:
Meeting ID: 374 127 860 994 5
Passcode: Yq3je9Jo

Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium

Get ready to dive deep into the vibrant savanna ecosystems of Tropical East Asia at our free symposium!

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Jess Rickenback @jess-rickenback.bsky.social · Jun 19

More exciting speakers at the Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium! Dr Manichanh Satdichanh will be presenting on 'Farmer, fire and forest succession: A story of social-ecological system from Southeast Asia'. Join us on 24th June in person or online, for free! #savanna #conference #ecology 🌐🌏

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Lucas Cernusak @lucascernusak.bsky.social · Jun 17

I have an opportunity for a new PhD student in tropical tree ecophysiology in my lab. Some more details at the link below. Please pass along!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Responses of tropical forest trees to rising carbon dioxide - conifers versus angiosperms at James Cook University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Responses of tropical forest trees to rising carbon dioxide - conifers versus angiosperms at James Cook University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Naomi Schwartz @naomibschwartz.bsky.social · Jun 19

My stellar dept @ubcgeography.bsky.social is searching for a Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk. This amazing faculty job for a senior ecosystem scientist comes with loads of research funds and a move to Canada! Read more and apply here: geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...

Faculty Position: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cultures & Ecosystem at Risk - Department of Geography

Posted on June 18, 2025 Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cultures & Ecosystem at Risk – University of British Columbia The Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) ...

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · Jun 12

Finally pulled the trigger and updated my Vancouver tree map with newer data, now it contains not just street trees but also other public trees in e.g. parks. (Thanks Vancouver Open Data!) Handy when wanting to look up a tree while walking around town. mountainmath.ca/vantrees

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Margaret Evans @mekevans.bsky.social · Jun 12

New in @sciencemagazine, a review on Scaling plant responses to heat (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). Increased temperature along with acute heat waves threaten the ability of terrestrial vegetation to act as a carbon sink, but predicting how plants will respond to heat is challenging.

Scaling plant responses to heat: From molecules to the biosphere

Predicting plant responses to rising temperatures, including acute heat waves and hot droughts of varying intensity and duration, is central to addressing the climate and biodiversity crises. However,...

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Trevor Caughlin @trevorcaughlin.bsky.social · Jun 11

🚨 New paper, led by Cristina Barber. We used high-resolution aerial imagery to study tree mortality in a tropical landscape. Large, isolated trees were most likely to die--alarming finding! @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A map of tree crowns in southwestern Panama, showing satellite imagery of a tropical landscape

A scientist surveying trees in a pastoral landscape with a GPS unit

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · Jun 11

Realistic models of the potential for global reforestation suggest that it could absorb roughly 5% of human CO2 emissions. This is still worthwhile but nowhere near a solution on its own. New paper just published 🧪🌏🌐

Addressing critiques refines global estimates of reforestation potential for climate change mitigation - Nature Communications

Reforestation is a key climate change mitigation strategy, but global maps of its potential are widely criticized. This study shows that addressing those critiques substantially refines estimates of t...

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · Jun 5

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Best of Dying Twitter @bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social · Jun 5

“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”

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Richard Eckman @richeckmanatm.bsky.social · Jun 1

I suspect someone may have already done this... I took the current NASA Earth fleet chart of operating and planned Earth observing missions and crossed out those recommended for cancellation in the President's budget request. It's disturbing.

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Bob Shriver @bkshriver.bsky.social · May 1

Why has woody plant density been increasing in dryland ecosystems? In a new paper in @pnas.org we show that increasing tree density in pinyon-juniper woodlands could largely be a result of long-term population growth, rather than recent anthropogenic effects. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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...

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Jess Rickenback @jess-rickenback.bsky.social · May 15

Tickets (free!) for the first Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium are available: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tropical-e...
200 word abstracts still welcome for talks (15/30min), deadline 30 May. Email for info / abstract submissions.
See you 24 June @thebotanics.bsky.social !
#ecology #savanna

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Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium

Get ready to dive deep into the vibrant savanna ecosystems of Tropical East Asia at our free symposium!

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Jess Rickenback @jess-rickenback.bsky.social · May 6

The first Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium, funded by @royalsoced.bsky.social, will be 24 June @thebotanics.bsky.social. Free! Come along, or apply to present! 200 word abstracts welcome for talks (15/30min), deadline 30 May. Email for info / abstract submissions. @edinburghuni.bsky.social 🌐🌏

A poster with a black background and six circles, five of which have an animal, bird or plant in. The sixth circle reads 'Tropical East Asian Savanna Synposium' The poster advertises a free public symposium on 24th june at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Lecture Theatre, 20a Inverleith Row. The event is funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh with support from the University of Edinburgh and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

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Kate Parr @funkyant.bsky.social · Apr 28

Postdoc alert! Looking for someone to join our new savanna zoogeochemistry project with @ymalhi.bsky.social and Mark Robertson. Please circulate widely! Contact me if interested. #ecosystemecology #largemammalherbivores #termites

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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · Apr 17

Drier, more seasonal climates strengthen coordination of hydraulic, leaf economic and reproductive strategies in subtropical forest tree communities vist.ly/3m23kct #LeafEconomicSpectrum #Rainforest #SeedSize

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · Apr 24

An attack on science. In plain sight.

It would be great if Columbia University could give the GISS team space for *free*. That would be bold leadership!

NASAWATCH @nasawatch.bsky.social · Apr 24

NASA Is Terminating The GISS Lease In Five Weeks
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"NASA’s lease of Columbia University’s Armstrong Hall in New York City, home to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, will end effective May 31, 2025."

NASA Is Terminating The GISS Lease In Five Weeks

This was just sent to all NASA Goddard and GISS employees by Makenzie Lystrup

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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · Apr 21

This is incredibly cool: if you search for a condition that’s affected your family, the site returns stats on how much NIH has done for that disease, *and* a contact form for reaching out to tell your Members of Congress why you want to see them defend NIH.

Pass it on!

Nihil Dev @nihildev.bsky.social · Apr 21

Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.

www.ourhealthroi.com

Our Health ROI

Explore how your tax dollars fund life‑saving medical research.

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · Apr 15

Fantastic analogy

Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · Apr 15

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

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