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Ben R Lee, PhD
@benrlee.com
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Assistant Prof of Forest Ecology in southern Appalachia. Interested in climate change effects on forest plants, especially phenology, ecophys, and species interactions. He/him

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Ben R Lee, PhD @benrlee.com · Oct 3
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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
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.
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SEATTLE!!!

We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
A photo of Katie Wilson seated in a wooden chair beside a white brick fireplace smiling at the camera with her hands folded an image of the election results from King County
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Yeah Stephen basically hit it on the head, and he deserves to be the first to say it in the press: “Bruce is fucking cooked”
Stephen Paolini, who is affiliated with Katie Wilson's PAC: First, a point of personal privilege. I said what I said. Bruce is fucking cooked ... [Wilson's] lead will only increase. The final margin will be somewhere between a 800-1200 vote lead for Katie ... I believe it's fair to say Katie will be the next mayor of Seattle but we might as well wait one more day to say it officially.""
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓

The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺

Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
Sarah holds up an eel facts advent calendar in front of blooming flowers on her sidewalk. It says eel facts an advent calendar. It has 24 boxes with orange and yellow zigzags and yellow circles in the middle with numbers one through 24 in the middle of the boxes there are six eels depicted on this calendar, one green Moray, two splendid garden eels, one blue and yellow ribbon eel, and one American eel and one European.
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Bad: I've got a cold

Also bad: Seattle sports teams are out of playoffs x3 this month

Immensely good: all of my students applying to the GRFP this year got their ref letters in yesterday and are prepared to submit their (really good!) propsals this weekend!

I'll take that tradeoff any day
November 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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One of my students is having trouble submitting her GRFP because the submission site is not recognizing her Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts sub-headings. Has anyone else run into this problem and found a solution? It doesn't seem to be a font face issue.
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Just over one week left to apply to work as a PhD student with me in one of the most beautiful ecosystems in the US!
benrlee.com Ben R Lee, PhD @benrlee.com · Oct 3
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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
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.
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️
November 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Formally published @forestecosyst.bsky.social
📰Spatial variation in non-structural carbohydrates reserves of pine species along climatic gradients: A global synthesis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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I'm taking applications for a PhD student to work in my lab for just shy of two more weeks! Happy to talk to interested candidates about potential projects.
benrlee.com Ben R Lee, PhD @benrlee.com · Oct 3
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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
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.
November 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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CU Boulder climate researchers compare blooms and pollinators over 100 years above Colorado Springs.
The buds and bees on Pikes Peak indicate climate change is worsening. But it’s not all “doom and gloom.”
Climate change is sending early wakeup calls to buds and bees on the slopes of Pikes Peak, CU Boulder research says.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Super excited to have three students present posters at the SOCON Undergraduate Research Forum this past weekend at Wofford College. One of them (Sidney Booher) even won second place in the poster competition! Incredibly proud of them all!

#Research #Ecology #Botany
A man in a blue shirt and khaki pants stands in front of a blue and yellow poster titled "Effects of phenological mismatch on reproductive success in northern spicebush (Lindera benzoin)" A woman in a floral dress stands in front of a green poster with pictures of trees on it. The poster is titled "Elevational and environmental variation in tree seed production" A woman in a floral dress and holding a tree core mounted to a square dowel stands in front of a blue and yellow poster titled "Effects of pest-induced hemlock mortality on growth in neighboring trees". Not shown: the second place award she received in the poster competition! Four people in business casual garb stand in front of a blue and yellow banner with a large letter E on it and the abbreviations "SOCON" and "ETSU".
October 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Pumpkin carving day today in lab meeting 🎃🎃

#Fall #Halloween #SpookySeason
Several people work on carving faces and artwork into the sides of pumpkins in a dark room A row of 8 jack-o-lanterns sits on top of a long table. The room is dark, but illuminated by candles from inside the hollowed out pumpkins. Designs include ghouls, leaves, flowers, faces, and acorns Two jack-o-lanterns, a trillium and an acorn, sit next to each other on a table, illuminated by interior candles
October 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
August 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Rizzs's grandslam call
October 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Made it onto the local news this evening talking about #FallColors #Phenology

www.wbir.com/video/news/s...
Fall colors are starting to appear in East Tennessee
Over the next few weeks, East Tennesseans will start to see even more vibrant colors across the region.
www.wbir.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Would be happy to work with interested students to develop a fellowship proposal centered around phenology and ecophysiology! 🌿🌳🌎

www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation
www.simonsfoundation.org
October 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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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
OPPORTUNITIES | PEACCH-Lab-ecology
www.peacchlab.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Saturday site visit today at Abram's Falls with @ryanbstephens.bsky.social, beautiful fall weather, and the onset of fall colors in southern Appalachia 🍁🍂
Water cascades down a shallow creek over large slate rocks. Yellow and orange leaves mix with some still green in front of a pale blue sky Two men leaning on hiking sticks are deep in conversation standing at the base of a large waterfall. Leaves in the foreground are starting to transition from green to the yellows and oranges of fall. Deeply variegated leaves of wild ginger with pale green patterns overlying a dark mint green stick out against the browns of the forest floor Pale purple aster flowers pop next to leaves in the midst of fall colors change
October 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Being a Seattle sports fan on the east coast is brutal for my sleep schedule. But go Ms
October 11, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
October 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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🚨 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
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.
October 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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**Please Repost**

Pallavi Singh Lab is looking for two Postdocs to join our team studying how plants balance carbon, water, and resilience in a changing climate.

PlantPlug PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

REVOLUTION PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Deadline: October 15.
October 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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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
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.
October 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM