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Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

Apply to become the next MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow!

These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here:

eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Check out some upcoming webinars that may be of interest to the wildland fire science community! AFE regularly updates our calendar with upcoming webinars, conferences, trainings, and more. See the calendar here: fireecology.org/calendar ❗

🔴⚠️🔥🇪🇸🇵🇹♨️An unprecedented massive smoke has reached W.#France from several burning #wildfires in #Spain and #Portugal. Dry weather & strong winds created a catastrophic scenario in the iberic peninsula.⬇️12hrs in daylight on Aug.15 by meteosat-12. #climateemergency

📢 Join the first #HoliSoils webinar: open to all!

Challenges in Modelling Microbial Interaction in Soil Carbon Decomposition

🗓️ 17 September 2025
🕑 14:00–15:30 CEST

🔗 Register here: holisoils.eu/holisoils-we...

#SoilHealth #ClimateResearch #MicrobialEcology #CarbonCycle #Horizon2020 #HorizonEU

Come work at the UMich Biological Station as a Michigan Fellow (you don't have to be a biologist)! Apply today: societyoffellows.umich.edu/uncategorize...

Why did the ostrich cross the road?

Few spots still available after some drop-outs.

Register asap if you're interested!

A global assemblage of regional prescribed burn records — GlobalRx - Scientific Data Scientific Data - A global assemblage of regional prescribed burn records — GlobalRx

New study from my group with stellar international team.

A multi-national dataset of prescribed #fires compiled and standardised from national records, with contemporaneous #weather conditions, land cover, fuel bed type, ++, included with each record.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Journal of #Pyrogeography has launched this week - we warmly welcome your submissions!

We cover landscape #fire interactions with #climate, #ecosystems, and #society and welcome studies from diverse research fields spanning the natural and social sciences.

www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Fire danger map of Canada with a large swath of extreme danger along the provinces closest to the US. Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec all have a majority of their area marked as extreme, but the largest fires right now are in Saskatchewan.

Canada is already in it with big fires and evacs in the thousands. The country looks poised to have large fires on the landscape from now until the snows come. That means Canadian resources will be overextended and not available to help others. Also, probably leads to smoke drifting into the US.

Impala lily (Adenium multiflorum) #FlowerFriday

Are you interested in strategies for collecting more accurate and useful geologic logs for your groundwater projects? If so, check out this FREE online short course developed with funding from SERDP & ESTCP !

learn.uiowa.edu/browse/clas/...

Tiny edible bullfrog (Pyxicephalus edulis) in the palm of my hand for scale. Often found in temporary pools or flooded pans after good rainfall. The lesser known and much smaller cousin of the famous African bullfrog.

Just got the licoread R package on CRAN!
It imports raw files from LI-COR gas analyzers and turns them into a #fluxible friendly dataframe
#rstats @li-corenv.bsky.social
jogaudard.github.io/licoread/

A small spider with white fuzzy legs, pedipalps, and lower head, orange on the upper head, and two large, forward-facing eyes. It is perched on what looks like a round green seed head.

White-jawed Jumping Spider doing his best to be a good spider ambassador by looking incredibly cute.
(Hentzia mitrata) #invert

Meet the harp sponge. We’ve observed this unique sponge only about a dozen times in the last few decades. The intricate structure of this animal is comprised of multiple vanes whose upright branches and evenly spaced filaments are arranged in a way that resembles a harp or a lyre. #MBARIFromTheVault

The LaMontagne Lab at the University of Missouri – St. Louis (UMSL) is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher with interests in plant ecology, population ecology, macrosystems biology, and synthesis research. Dr. Jalene LaMontagne is the E. Desmond Lee Endowed Professor in Botanical Studies at UMSL in conjunction with the Missouri Botanical Garden. The LaMontagne Lab focuses broadly on the patterns, drivers, and consequences of spatio-temporal variability and synchrony in population dynamics. This includes the phenomenon of mast seeding reproduction in trees from local to global scales, consumer-resource dynamics, and climate change. Projects will build upon existing mast seeding datasets including global data syntheses, and long-term mast-seeding fieldwork data collected by the lab since 2012. Much of the research will be focused on data analysis and creating reproducible research pathways, and there will be opportunities to visit the long-term field sites. The postdoctoral researcher will work directly with Dr. LaMontagne, as well as collaborators at other institutions. Funding is currently available for one year, with an additional one-year extension depending upon satisfactory job performance. Additional funds are available to support travel, including to conferences.

📢 Please share! I'm going to be hiring a #postdoc (1-2 year position). The ad isn't out yet (hopefully soon!). Preview below. Areas of interest include: spatio-temporal dynamics across scales, synthesis, mast seeding.

As winter approaches, I am looking forward to seeing more of these sunsets again. #Africansavanna

Decolopoda australis Decolopoda australis from Southern Ocean, AQ on February 13, 2006 at 09:41 PM by davidcothran

DECOLOPODA! TEN LEGS! #antarctica #seaspiderSaturday www.inaturalist.org/observations...

This sedge never stops amazing me: first picture was taken 18 hours after fire; second picture - 36 hours post-fire. Detail: this was an early-dry season fire! Bulbostylis paradoxa fire-super star
🔥🔥🔥🔥

The bedrock here in the Flint Hills consists of alternating layers of limestone and mudrock, which leads to lots of little waterfalls and springs dotting the landscape.

🎓 We're seeking a Postdoc Research Fellow to work in our Ecosystem Surveillance team!
You'll need the ability to conduct field studies, analytical & problem-solving skills, research, design methodology & tackle experimental challenges.

📝: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
#postdocjobs

Barberton daisies (Gerbera jamesonii) from my garden because it’s #FlowerFriday

A major loss to our understanding of how extreme weather events are affecting us. There are 3 alternative databases I will be using:
Gallagher Re: www.ajg.com/gallagherre/...
Aon: img.clients.aonunited.com/Web/Aon5/%7B...
EM-DAT: www.emdat.be

Trump order to loosen fishing regulations poses major risks, experts warn Conservationists fear fallout from president’s proclamation on fishing in federally protected area of Pacific Ocean

“...with very long-lived, slow-growing sharks, you can decimate 100 years of conservation in 15 minutes of fishing because it takes so long for those sharks to rebound and regrow their populations,” McCauley said.
#marinelife #MPA #PacificIslands #KIngmanReef

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Highly recommend learning techniques like this. Useful at any point in your career, builds resilience, and never too late to start. Bravo @ucs.org.

Weather & climate office hour 05/08/2025: Updates on spring heatwave & doppler radar misinformation - YouTube The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain on various topics related to extreme weather and c...

Join me on Thursday, May 8th at 2pm PT for another YouTube live virtual office hour. This week's topics: the ongoing spring heatwave in California, dispelling widely circulating misinformation re: weather radar, & another federal update. #CAwater #CAfire
youtube.com/live/6x7...

Chupei, sitting in a green grassland, measuring CO2 fluxes using a transparent chamber. In the back you can see the IBS tanks used to simulate flooding in this field experiment.

The field team during a coffee break on a very hot day - the farmer created shade to sit in by lifting a large box into the air with his tractor

One of the field experiments, showing the structures built to simulate drought and flooding in the field plots

The field team being silly

Do you want to be part of our team this season, maintaining and sampling field experiments in which we test the effect of extreme weather on grassland C storage?

We have a 6-month technician position available - apply here before May 23rd!

Please RT or forward!
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Microscopic views of various common or representative micro plants and animals found in freshwater streams.

Example microflora/microfauna of freshwater streams. For a new book, STREAMS: An Illustrated Guide, Yale University Press, 2026.

🧪🌿🌎 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #iNat #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #freshwater #streams #rivers