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Another @stanforddoerr.bsky.social Stanford search for a Tenured Professor in Climate Science! Applications due Oct. 30 🌊 🌎 🌡️
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Please repost and amplify !

We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina!

Check us out and come be our colleague!
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Deadline for applications is Oct 1

#AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Conservation postdoc in Brisbane, Australia 🧪

Collaborate with researchers globally. Chart your transdisciplinary path. Apply to SFI's 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. Competitive pay, research funds, and generous benefits to become a leader in transdisciplinary research.

Deadline: Oct 1, 2025
Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

Full-time, permanent Lectureship in Forestry or Agroforestry at Bangor University, which has an excellent reputation in forest sciences.

jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....

I should again thank @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social and @rmcelreath.bsky.social for supporting this work and all our research and community engagement in Pemba and Zanzibar broadly. Book copies coming your way!!

people on a stage holding a book

people on a stage holding a book

people on a stage holding a book

Really amazed by the turnout for our launch of 'Mangroves of Pemba' in Stonetown this past weekend, including the head of the heads of Zanzibar's of the Ministry Natural Resources and Dept. of Forests
See: shorturl.at/zwMYN
@ic-cep.bsky.social @imperiallifesci.bsky.social @imperialsci.bsky.social

Photo of ‘Mangroves of Pemba’ book with details of a book launch event

Zanzibar-based people. Come by Emerson Spice in Stonetown this Saturday if you like free food and books about mangroves. Event in collaboration with the Zanzibar Dept of Forests and Mkuki na Nyota Publishers.

Mapping previously undetected trees reveals overlooked changes in pan-tropical tree cover - Nature Communications Accurate tree cover mapping is vital for fighting climate change and land degradation. This high-resolution study reveals that 17% of pan-tropical tree cover was previously undetected, with over half ...

We're missing the trees by focusing on the forest!

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As someone who regularly uses computer simulations (ABMs) to look at this type of thing but secretly hates them, this is very very cool.

Western University launches program to capitalize on shrinking U.S. research funding | CBC News Western University is looking to capitalize on massive shifts in the academic landscape of the United States with a new initiative designed to turn a difficult situation into a brain gain for both the...

Are you a PhD student, have an offer, or have had an offer recently rescinded from a US university? If so, Western (in London, ON, Canada) has a new scholarship program for you! Check out this news story. I can vouch for this university! You will love it.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

White banner with an image of a lecturer giving an academic presentation. The words 'Postdoctoral Fellowships’ are written on the right-hand side.

Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships are open. The scheme provides exceptional UK-based early-career researchers with the chance to enhance their research and teaching experience within an academic setting. Learn more and apply: buff.ly/McS8lRk

Amazing opportunity. Come and help preserve #biodiversity in Australia! 🧪🐨

How unusual is this UK heat and is climate change to blame? Scientists are clear that global warming is making heatwaves like this hotter and more likely.

🌡️ 34°C+ in June? Once rare in the UK, now increasingly normal.

"This heatwave is hotter than it would have been without our continued burning of oil, coal and gas," says Dr Friederike Otto (@frediotto.bsky.social)

Climate change is rewriting our summers. #Heatwave #ClimateCrisis

📖Published📖

Check out our new Perspective article 👉 Empirical ecology to support mechanistic modelling: Different objectives, better approaches and unique benefits 🌍 🧪

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In about a week we (Biological Sciences @ Monash Uni in Melbourne, Australia) will be opening a search for 3 (!!!) permanent academic positions (40% research, 40% teaching, 20% service) at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. 1 Genomics, 2 Ecology. Please share, email me, DM, follow, send carrier pigeons…

Here's a glimpse of our science-ballet dance following a short presentation describing our research on how conservation initiatives can "go to scale". It was a full house at the Victoria and Albert Museum!!

Join us as a Postdoctoral fellow!

We’re seeking a Postdoctoral fellow to join the INSPIRI project, which focuses on co-creating imaginative, stakeholder-driven visions for Europe’s ocean and water systems.

Learn more and apply by 31 August 2025: www.stockholmresilience.org/about-us/car...

A compound figure. The main image is of Africa with colour showing the number of models that agree in each pixel. 4 models agree in areas of west africa. 3 models agree in a large area should of the Sahara. The inset has four binary prediction maps for the different models.

Our new paper led by Jenicca Poongavanan. Predicting #dengue in Africa using disaggregation regression (bottom right in the inset image) and comparing to other methods. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Preprint alert!🚨 You want biomass data without clipping the vegetation? Use your smartphone for a 3D scan! In our manuscript you get instructions & a complete Jupyter notebook for immediate use! doi.org/10.32942/X2T... 🪴+📱=💚 #biodiversity #ecology #globalchange #photogrammetry

This has been so fun to work on. London folks, come check out how we've turned our science into a ballet 👯🩰. Catch us at the Victoria and Albert Museum this Sunday at 3pm, in the Lydia Manfred lecture theater as part of the Great Exhibition Road Festival @ic-cep.bsky.social @imperialsci.bsky.social

Some papers are really good because they make just one point, but they make it really clearly — such as “Statistical Control Requires Causal Justification”

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Precision ecology for targeted conservation action - Nature Ecology & Evolution The fields of medicine and marketing use large data volumes and computational power to target individuals. This Perspective argues that applied ecologists should draw on such approaches to provide dec...

How do we decide on conservation actions in the face of context dependency?

In our new paper on ‘Precision Ecology’

we show how methods developed in medicine & marketing

can be applied to predict site-specific outcomes

allowing effective & targeted conservation
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The emergence and demise of giant sloths The emergence of multi-tonne herbivores is a recurrent aspect of the Cenozoic mammalian radiation. Several of these giants have vanished within the past 130,000 years, but the timing and macroevolutio...

The emergence and demise of giant sloths | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Power List 2025: Dr Caroline Howe Senior lecturer in environmental social science, Imperial College London

🌿 Many congratulations to Caroline Howe (@carolinehowe.bsky.social) for being named on the 2025 #ENDSPowerList!

Announced on #InternationalBiodiversityDay, it's a fitting recognition of her impactful research on how biodiversity underpins human well-being, climate, food, water & health. 🌍🌱

More shots fired in the #causalInference #ecology literature! 🌍

Rob Boyd is one of my all time intellectual heroes and deserves every honor possible. Very pleased to see him get this one (next, Pete Richerson!)

Great news - we will be searching for a tree physiologist (tenure track) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, UBC Forestry, later this year. Stay tuned! (Please share.)