Abby Yancy

PEACHH Lab (@benrlee.com) at ETSU is recruiting a PhD with exciting projects relating to phenological mismatch, ecophysiology, forest ecology. Highly recommend working with Ben!! www.peacchlab.com/opportunities

An ad for a PhD position to start fall 2026 working with me at ETSU. For more info, please email at LeeBR1@etsu.edu.

A close-up picture of dimpled trout lilies active in early spring, still largely surrounded by the previous year's senesced tree leaves.

A beautiful vista of the Blue Ridge Mountains from on top of Carver's Gap on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee.

🚨 Please repost widely!🚨

I am recruiting a PhD student to join my lab next fall to work on forest and climate change ecology projects in southern Appalachia! Come join me in one of the most beautiful, biodiverse, and understudied parts of North America. Details below and happy to answer questions

SoilTemp is now MEB! Over the past six years, I’ve poured my heart into SoilTemp. What started as a vision for a global soil temperature database quickly grew into something much more: a living, breathing community of …

The word is out officially, now: SoilTemp has finished its transformation into 'The MEB-network' - a fully-fledged research network that goes far beyond just being a database. And boy, does that make me proud!

Let me show you all the ways you can get involved here:

the3dlab.org/2025/05/31/s...

we got JOBS, museum jobs in Pittsburgh! Collection Manager for mammals: us251.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...

Allegheny fairy shrimp (Anostraca neglectus) in vernal pool.

Wild ginger (Asarum canadense) in flower on mossy rock.

Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) in flower among yellow trout lily leaves (Erythronium americanum).

Dicentra cucularia flowering on leaf litter covered rock.

Spring 😌

List of Stand Up for Science events—official events in red, solidarity events in blue.

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!

To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

From the vermont community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the vermont community

Today's Sugarbush snow report (since taken down, but circulating widely and emailed to thousands). Love to see it. www.reddit.com/r/vermont/co...

Large ice chunk along river riparian zone sitting on cracked sheet of ice.

Knotweed rhizomes intact along ice covered riparian zone following ice scour

Ice jam on river

I’ve jam on river. Logs brought along with the ice

Ice jam at one of my field sites 🧊 excited to see what the riparian zone looks like after this action

Redbank Creek in PA

Boise State Giving Day

Donate to help support my staff & students, impacted by the pause on federal funding, who train producers & private citizens to monitor #soilhealth & support #conservation programs that make #farming & #ranching sustainable. Matching funds. Search i-CLEER

broncogivingday.com/pages/home-2...

Pittsburgh Stand Up for Science 11-1:30 on March 7, 2025, Schenley Plaza

Yinz ready to stand up for science?

The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

Does anyone on bluesky have experience bear-proofing environmental data loggers (specifically PAR and soil moisture) without compromising functionality? Bears at our sites have extensively damaged seed and camera traps already, so hoping to get ahead of them this year.

Fantastic first post 😍

Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.

NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New publication: A career cost for LGBTQ researchers who can’t come out at work Queer scientists who don’t feel able to openly express their minority identities in the workplace pay a cost in research productivity, according to results of a new Queer in STEM study, which…

We used surveys of LGBTQ scientists and their straight cisgender peers to find evidence that feeling comfortable to disclose your sexual orientation in the workplace results in greater research productivity

Paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Explainer: lab.jbyoder.org/2022/03/02/n...

AGU poster presentation details

Undergrads doing field work

Also check out undergrad Olivia Rossi’s poster Thursday afternoon! 👩🏼‍🔬

She’s presenting her summer independent research project looking at tissue nitrate extractions. 🍁 #AGU24

AGU poster presentation details

Bohemian knotweed (Reynoutria x bohemica) engulfing native riparian plants.

Attending #AGU24 next week?

Come chat knotweed and soil N cycling with me!! 🌿

My poster is Dec 11 afternoon at board 1612.

They are onto something…

In the July 2024 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social

Primers in the Plant Sciences: Phenological escape and its importance for understory plant species in temperate forests

@benrlee.com, @ajyancy.bsky.social, @jmheberling.bsky.social

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

London Plane trunk disfigured as tree grows around metal in tree bed.

London Plane trunk disfigured as tree grows around metal in tree bed.

London Plane trunk is disfigured as the tree grows around various metal objects in tree bed.

AOP and OA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social

Primers in the Plant Sciences: Phenological escape and its importance for understory plant species in temperate forests

@benrlee.com
@ajyancy.bsky.social
@jmheberling.bsky.social

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

#PlantScience

Yesss!!!

Woohoo! When can I visit?

On the left, a picture of a white wildflower (Trillium erectum) in early spring. A drop of water hangs from its lowest petal and blue skies can be seen in the background. On the right, the outline of eastern North America is overlaid with square grid cells shaded either red or blue, with 72 red cells (indicating regions where T. erectum was not found to be a spring ephemeral) and 7 blue cells (where it was found to have a spring ephemeral phenological strategy). Text on the image notes that the ephemerality index value assigned by the authors for this species is therefore 7/79 = 0.089. [Copyright for the picture of the wildflower belongs to Abby Yancy.]

Evaluating the definition & distribution of spring ephemeral #wildflowers in eastern North America

New #AJB research by @ajyancy.bsky.social, @benrlee.com, Sara Kuebbing, Howard Neufeld, Michelle Elise Spicer & @jmheberling.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #biodiversity

Perfect timing as ephemerals come and go in the north temperate world! NSF REPS project of @ajyancy.bsky.social 😊🌸

Our new paper led by @ajyancy.bsky.social (her 1st 1A paper!!) w @jmheberling.bsky.social, Michelle Spicer, Sara Kuebbing + Howie Neufeld is out now in #AJB. We wanted to know where the greatest diversity of #spring ephemeral #wildflowers were, so first we had to define spring #ephemerality (1/)

A patch of wild leeks glowing is the sun.

Dicentra spp. emerging from leaf litter. Guttation on the tips of leaves.

Cardamine concatenata flower. Guttation on leaves.

Friday morning in the field 🌸😍

Ok *now* it's starting to really look like an early spring - we are seeing plant response to the really warm winter and early spring, esp in the middle of the country. This is the 6-day forecast for the "start of spring," with some locations 4wks early now #phenology www.usanpn.org/data/maps/spring

Spotted salamander migrating to a vernal pool

Spring peeper on dried plant stem in vernal pool

Spring is here

OMG… I need it.