The Grand Canyon Just Won a Massive Legal Victory Against Uranium Mining The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the designation of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni, protecting nearly one million acres of sacred Indigenous land and critical wildlife habitat from extractive industries.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the designation of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni, protecting nearly one million acres of sacred Indigenous land and critical wildlife habitat from extractive industries.

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Murray et al. show that the fast-slow continuum of life history variation emerges as a contour of highest fitness in the face of catastrophic demographic disturbances, which rivals some classic hypotheses.

Read now ahead of print!
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Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Graduate Research Excellence Grants, Apply by May 18, 2026.

Proposals are due May 18 for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! Up to $2500 for 1st and 2nd year grad students and $3500 for 3rd years and above. Evaluation criteria and sample proposals available online: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

Plant diversity induces shifts from microbial generalists to specialist by enhancing niche differentiation, microbiome connectivity, and network stability in a temperate grassland - Environmental Micr... Background Soil microbiota are key players of terrestrial ecosystem functioning, including decomposition, soil organic matter formation, and nutrient cycling, and interact strongly with plants in the ...

New paper led by @bgc-jena.mpg.de colleagues:

"Higher plant diversity strengthens microbial functioning and enhances microbiome resilience, that is the capacity of the microbial community to maintain soil functioning despite environmental disturbances."

doi.org/10.1186/s407...

Uniting Range and Phenological Shifts to Better Understand Effects of Climate Change on Communities Click on the article title to read more.

I’m excited to share a new commentary I wrote with my advisor, Dr. Megan DeMarche, on recent work showing that phenological and range shifts together alter the timing and composition of flowering communities. 🌸🌍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🎉🆕📰🎉: Experimental thinning reduces inter-ovary competition among and within inflorescences
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There is No Consensus on Biological Sex At this critical moment when misinformation about sex is being applied to policy globally, scientific clarification on the definition of biological sex is valuable. Here, we evaluate the primary appr...

New paper out in ecology letters! with @andylee.bsky.social @allydefduf.bsky.social

We synthesized the active debate on how scientists define sex, including limitations and assumptions. We believe this discussion will lead to more accurate science.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We have a growing collection of resources for women in ecology that support, celebrate and advocate for women's roles in research and practice. 

Check our collection of resources here 👇
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Did you know that Evolution Letters now publishes reviews?! Our inaugural one is fantastic! Deep learning is opening new doors for evolutionary genomics, especially for nonmodel organisms with sparse or uncertain genomic data. doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Associate Lecturer in Plant Ecology PRIMARY DETAIL - Salary package: $123,435 FTE (Level B.1) plus 17% employer's superannuation contribution and annual leave loading. - Full-time- 35 hours per week, fixed term for 36 months - Based at ...

Exciting position at The School of Natural Sciences at Macquarie University.

We are looking for an Associate Lecturer in Plant Ecology.

A great opportunity to teach, mentor students and contribute to plant ecology research on the Wallumattagal Campus in Sydney.

A high-alpine Ranunculus glacialis (Glacier buttercup) amidst boulders and scree in SE Switzerland. Photo by Jonathan von Oppen.

*New paper*

What drives the elevational range limits of alpine plants? 🏔️🌿🌼🔝⛔ Our systematic review sums up what we know to date:

📃 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Great effort by our @sophieweides.bsky.social and the first paper from her PhD - congratulations! 🎉

Climate change may alter seed and seedling traits and shift germination and mortality patterns in alpine environments. Background image by Jerónimo Vázquez-Ramírez

🌿Check the newly published article “Climate change may alter seed and seedling traits and shift germination and mortality patterns in alpine environments” in @annbot by Jerónimo Vázquez-Ramírez @jeronimovazquez.bsky.social & Susanna Venn. 🧵 (1/9)

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Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research - Nature Communications Different scientific traditions offer seemingly disparate approaches to inferring causal relationships in ecological systems. This Perspective unifies the causal assumptions and methods from...

Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Come work with us! 🧪🌐🧑‍💻🌿🐸❄️

I am hireing a #postdoc in Climate Change Ecology to work on Ecological Synthesis and support the upcoming #IPCC report as a Chapter Scientist (CH14: terrestrial, freshwater and cryopspheric biodiversity, ecosystems, and services. #IPCC #AR7
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🎉 Today is Darwin’s birthday! This is an actual wild tomato plant that he collected, over 180 years ago! 🍅

We have millions of specimens like these in our collection, but did you know you can now see them on our new Data Portal, for free!? 👇
👉 https://ow.ly/2ZuW50YcG4Z

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Special Feature: Lind & Lotterhos tested over 800K genomic models, and their findings offer key insights into how data formats shape forecasts of species' futures under climate change.

Available now ahead of print!
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)

"BIO will make [PRFB awards] for Postdoctoral Research to recent doctoral degree recipients, for proposals with a research and training focus at the Intersection of *Artificial Intelligence* and Biological Sciences to Strengthen and Safeguard Biotechnology Innovations."
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dplyr 1.2.0 dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited!

- `filter_out()` for dropping rows

- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools

These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!

tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

🚨 Apply to join us an Associate Editor!

We are seeking a wide range of expertise:
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Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Geranium sylvaticum* Geranium sylvaticum is a perennial forb of upland grasslands, woodlands and riverbanks in northern Britain, with scattered native occurrences also in Wales, central England and Northern Ireland. It h...

Our Biological Flora on Wood Crane's-bill is out in @journalofecology.bsky.social. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... A team effort w/ @ruthsk.bsky.social @sandravarga.bsky.social @spp-rich.bsky.social @duncanwestbury.bsky.social, irina Tatarenko & artist Lucy Hulmes on pen and ink.

To watch the progression of spring across the country, check out our spring forecast maps - updated daily!
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Visual representation of seagrass species collected at each location across a latitudinal gradient.

Seagrasses in hot water: mapping thermal risk and resilience in a warming ocean
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#Commentary by Lawrence highlighting the recent work by Said et al.
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Intraspecific Functional Trait Responses to Experimental Warming Vary With Precipitation and Growth Form We assessed the intraspecific functional trait response of 17 alpine plant species to experimental warming across a precipitation gradient. Warming consistently increased plant height. In contrast, t...

How do alpine plants respond to warming?Intraspecific trait shifts depend on precipitation and growth form, with stronger responses in forbs than graminoids.
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Fig. 1 Geographic distribution of phenological observation sites across Europe captured in the PEP725 database.

✨ Paper spotlight ✨

(🧵 1/7) PEP725: Fifteen Years of Driving European and Global Phenology Science
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Post doctor (3 years) within mountain plant community and ecosystem processes across a globally distributed experiment

Great postdoc opportunity in Sweden!! With the one and only David Wardle 🧪🌐
www.umu.se/en/work-with...

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ICYMI: Repeating Historical Studies to Understand Functional Responses to Environmental Change by Buckley et al.

Read here now!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Introduction to special issue: floral ecology, genetics, and evolution in an unprecedentedly fast changing world This note introduces the collection of papers of the special issue entitled ‘Floral ecology, genetics, and evolution in an unprecedentedly fast changing wo

♻️ Introduction to special issue: floral ecology, genetics, and evolution in an unprecedentedly fast changing world by Xavier Picó and co-authors

Full #openaccess
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Can interactive web apps help biology students become better modellers?

peischllab.github.io/MEEW.html
We're running an ethics-approved, pre-registered study thanks to funding from the University of Bern.

Are you lecturing in the Spring?
Contact me to receive the survey link!

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
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Ever wondered what comes first in evolution: changes in climatic niche or changes in morphology? Does climate pull species, or do organisms evolve first and then shift their niches? This is one of macroevolution’s most persistent open questions.