Sally Aitken 🇨🇦

Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

Extensive mortality of the IUCN Red-listed species Korean fir (Abies korean) on Mt. Halla, Jeju Island, South Korea. The cause is unclear but may relate to lower winter snowpacks and early spring temps. Situation seems similar to yellow-cedar (Callitropsis nootkatensis) in the Pacific Northwest.

Remember that time when we lived through the three hottest years in around 125,000 years & no one was talking about it?

Huge congrats to @rafaelcr.bsky.social for his excellent PhD defense yesterday! Rafa has made large contributions to our understanding of local adaptation to drought in Douglas-fir and the underlying genomic architecture of climate adaptive traits as part of the CoAdapTree project.

Unbelievable. So sorry for what you and so many others are going through. Watching in horror from the north.

Hard to think of a clear depiction of climate politics in Canada than provincial premiers calling for more pipelines and deregulation of oil and gas development as climate-amplified wildfires rage in their own provinces. #cdnpoli

Genomic signatures of climate-driven (mal)adaptation in an iconic conifer, the English yew (Taxus baccata L.) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.29.656833v1

Graph of carbon dioxide designed as the painting of "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai.

"The Great Wave" of carbon dioxide (CO₂) #ClimateChange #ScienceArt

Graphic produced by robbieandrew.github.io

Oh the things you can do with Arabidopsis that us tree folks can only envy. Looks amazing! Can’t wait to read it.

Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years:

Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation

Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
All data available: www.grene-net.org/data

#MOILAB
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi.org

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Are you interested in the genomic basis of repeated adaptation? The RepAdapt group now has >70 members working to re-run their whole genome shotgun datasets through a common SNP calling pipeline, sharing VCFs, and working together to analyse data. Please contact me if you'd like to contribute!

The area of research will be determined by the successful candidate.

I'm hiring! Postdoc available in my lab in Ecological Genomics. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/... I will start reviewing applications mid-July. 🧪🧑‍🔬🖥️🧬🦑. Please share widely, thanks!

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.)

Adaptation and gene flow are insufficient to rescue a montane plant under climate change Climate change increasingly drives local population dynamics, shifts geographic distributions, and threatens persistence. Gene flow and rapid adaptation could rescue declining populations yet are seld...

Brilliant new paper by Jill Anderson and colleagues using 9 years of transplant experiments and integral projection models to predict the capacity of populations for adaptation and persistence under new climates in Boechera stricta. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Sad to see Tanille Johnston lose. An excellent candidate, falling to progressive vote splitting. Hope we don’t have to listen to much from Aaron Gunn.

A lot of Americans don't know this, but the winner of the Canadian election will be required live in a small cottage located in the backyard of the palace where the viceroy to the King of England lives.

The cottage just recently got a new wifi router, which was very exciting for all Canadians.

Candidates run to be Members of Parliament so they can re-live kindergarten, sharing a tiny desk with another MP and shouting or stomping when they don’t like something that is said.

🚨 #job 🚨: The Department of Forest Ecology and Management at the Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU, is hiring a full-tenure Professor in silviculture with a focus on silvicultural systems, mainly in boreal forests.

🗺️ Umeå, Sweden
📅 Apply by: 29 April 2025

➡️ www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Hello Bluesky! Good to see you all again!

Job alert: I'm looking to recruit a postdoc interested in working at the interface of AI and wildlife ecology, supported by the AI for Biodiversity Change (ABC) Global Center. Apply by April 15, 2025. gaynorlab.weebly.com/join-us.html

The siskins are still here in large numbers (Quadra Island).

It's grant result season for 🇨🇦 students. If successful: well deserved & take time to celebrate your achievements! If unsuccessful: you're in good company & take time to celebrate your hard work & putting yourself out there!

In my experience, icecream or a new plant is great in either scenario.

Poilievre pulling a Trump & Musk & making clear he will cut funding to anything he considers “woke” in federal public service & university research - like anything to do with climate science.

As Danielle Smith made clear, Poilievre is “in sync” with Trump. We can never let him win. #TeamCarney

How big does it look on a map from the flat earth society?

If I buy you a cup of coffee will you give me a hint about which chapter I should read?

UBC, in lovely Vancouver, continues to welcome admissions applications from international students: account.you.ubc.ca/s/apply-ubc.