Ben R Lee, PhD
@benrlee.com
Assistant Prof of Forest Ecology in southern Appalachia. Interested in climate change effects on forest plants, especially phenology, ecophys, and species interactions. He/him
Views my own
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More at https://peacchlab.com
Views my own
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More at https://peacchlab.com
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Please repost! The LOC Lab @UCSB is recruiting a #PostdoctoralScholar in forest ecology and data science to
develop data-driven models of forest resilience to compound disturbances (e.g., fire, drought, insects). 🌱🍁🌏🧪🌐
Applications due Feb 5
Apply here: www.landscapesofchangelab.com/were-hiring-1
develop data-driven models of forest resilience to compound disturbances (e.g., fire, drought, insects). 🌱🍁🌏🧪🌐
Applications due Feb 5
Apply here: www.landscapesofchangelab.com/were-hiring-1
December 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Please repost! The LOC Lab @UCSB is recruiting a #PostdoctoralScholar in forest ecology and data science to
develop data-driven models of forest resilience to compound disturbances (e.g., fire, drought, insects). 🌱🍁🌏🧪🌐
Applications due Feb 5
Apply here: www.landscapesofchangelab.com/were-hiring-1
develop data-driven models of forest resilience to compound disturbances (e.g., fire, drought, insects). 🌱🍁🌏🧪🌐
Applications due Feb 5
Apply here: www.landscapesofchangelab.com/were-hiring-1
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NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
December 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
Go dawgs
UW WINS THE NATIONAL TITLE! Lengthy review after the goal stands.
December 16, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Go dawgs
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Here's an opportunity to lead research at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station (northern Finland, but close to the border with Norway and Sweden). An amazing place and job. Please forward to Arctic-focused folk.
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Professor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Arctic Ecosystem Ecology
Professor or Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Arctic Ecosystem Ecology
jobs.helsinki.fi
December 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Here's an opportunity to lead research at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station (northern Finland, but close to the border with Norway and Sweden). An amazing place and job. Please forward to Arctic-focused folk.
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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I'm recruiting a #PhDstudent ! Deadline Feb 10th!
Explore how forest management shapes peatlands, riparian zones, streams and the #biodiversity that depends on them. www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
Explore how forest management shapes peatlands, riparian zones, streams and the #biodiversity that depends on them. www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
December 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I'm recruiting a #PhDstudent ! Deadline Feb 10th!
Explore how forest management shapes peatlands, riparian zones, streams and the #biodiversity that depends on them. www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
Explore how forest management shapes peatlands, riparian zones, streams and the #biodiversity that depends on them. www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
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Very cool work by Bryan Black here at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research establishing the exact date of the Electron Mudflow in the Puget Sound metropolitan area: 'Forest-floor burial in 1507 by the largest Mount Rainier lahar of the past millennium'
doi.org/10.1130/G537...
doi.org/10.1130/G537...
Forest-floor burial in 1507 by the largest Mount Rainier lahar of the past millennium | Geology | GeoScienceWorld
New dating of lahar-killed trees underscores volcano hazards in the Puget Sound metropolitan area. Beginning as a landslide from the west flank of Mount
doi.org
December 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Very cool work by Bryan Black here at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research establishing the exact date of the Electron Mudflow in the Puget Sound metropolitan area: 'Forest-floor burial in 1507 by the largest Mount Rainier lahar of the past millennium'
doi.org/10.1130/G537...
doi.org/10.1130/G537...
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Amazing. Got my first unsolicited email review of a paper from an AI company, also telling me what follow up work to do. So inexpensive to get even more insights! This is wonderful, and I am planning to budget for this in all future work, right below the priority to fund a space circus on the moon.
December 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Amazing. Got my first unsolicited email review of a paper from an AI company, also telling me what follow up work to do. So inexpensive to get even more insights! This is wonderful, and I am planning to budget for this in all future work, right below the priority to fund a space circus on the moon.
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The UC Davis Ecology and Evolution in Working Landscapes REU provides undergrads with research experience in ecology and evolution in natural and managed landscapes. Apply now through Feb 15 via etap.nsf.gov
Contact me or @clhom.bsky.social for questions!
Contact me or @clhom.bsky.social for questions!
Ecology, Evolution, and Working Landscapes
ecoevoreu.ucdavis.edu
December 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The UC Davis Ecology and Evolution in Working Landscapes REU provides undergrads with research experience in ecology and evolution in natural and managed landscapes. Apply now through Feb 15 via etap.nsf.gov
Contact me or @clhom.bsky.social for questions!
Contact me or @clhom.bsky.social for questions!
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University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
December 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
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Are you an #undergrad interested in #phenology, #trees, #herbarium & #livingCollections? Join our @mortonarboretum.bsky.social Herbarium / Systematics Lab as a summer NSF REU participant for a great project with my staff & me!
Apply today: mortonarb.org/science/oppo...
Message w/ Qs, & pls share!
Apply today: mortonarb.org/science/oppo...
Message w/ Qs, & pls share!
Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program | REU | The Morton Arboretum
Learn more about Center for Tree Science research experiences for undergraduates at The Morton Arboretum.
mortonarb.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Are you an #undergrad interested in #phenology, #trees, #herbarium & #livingCollections? Join our @mortonarboretum.bsky.social Herbarium / Systematics Lab as a summer NSF REU participant for a great project with my staff & me!
Apply today: mortonarb.org/science/oppo...
Message w/ Qs, & pls share!
Apply today: mortonarb.org/science/oppo...
Message w/ Qs, & pls share!
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The @mortonarboretum.bsky.social NSF REU program is open for summer 2026! $7500 stipend + housing / travel. Apply by 31 Jan 2026 and share with your networks!
Details at https://mortonarb.org/science/opportunities-in-science/research-experiences-for-undergraduates-program/
Details at https://mortonarb.org/science/opportunities-in-science/research-experiences-for-undergraduates-program/
December 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The @mortonarboretum.bsky.social NSF REU program is open for summer 2026! $7500 stipend + housing / travel. Apply by 31 Jan 2026 and share with your networks!
Details at https://mortonarb.org/science/opportunities-in-science/research-experiences-for-undergraduates-program/
Details at https://mortonarb.org/science/opportunities-in-science/research-experiences-for-undergraduates-program/
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The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
Invasion impacts in terrestrial ecosystems: Global patterns and predictors #bioinvasions 🌎🌐🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Invasion impacts in terrestrial ecosystems: Global patterns and predictors
Biological invasions can alter ecosystems, yet their impacts vary across ecological contexts. Using a global meta-analysis of 775 studies (2223 effect sizes) in terrestrial systems, we show that the m...
www.science.org
December 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
If you're cold, they're cold - bring them inside
November 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
If you're cold, they're cold - bring them inside
Spatial Insurance of Distinct Ecological Functions
Communities can act as functional sources and sustain rare ecological roles across space. We reveal patterns of functional vulnerability for plants and birds
Check out our Perspective in Ecol Lett
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🌐🌍🦤🪴🍁🧪
Communities can act as functional sources and sustain rare ecological roles across space. We reveal patterns of functional vulnerability for plants and birds
Check out our Perspective in Ecol Lett
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🌐🌍🦤🪴🍁🧪
November 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Here, There and Everywhere: Widespread Non‐Native Plants in the World's Urban Ecosystems - Super fun project to collaborate on! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Here, There and Everywhere: Widespread Non‐Native Plants in the World's Urban Ecosystems
Aim
To (a) produce a list of the most widespread naturalised non-native plant species across cities of the world; (b) explore whether cities on different continents are invaded by the same group of .....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Here, There and Everywhere: Widespread Non‐Native Plants in the World's Urban Ecosystems - Super fun project to collaborate on! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Got hired to go on day hikes and count tree seedlings up on Mt. Rainier as an undergrad and distinctly remember having the thought: "how long can I get away with being paid to do this?"
Answer: 15 years and counting
Answer: 15 years and counting
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Got hired to go on day hikes and count tree seedlings up on Mt. Rainier as an undergrad and distinctly remember having the thought: "how long can I get away with being paid to do this?"
Answer: 15 years and counting
Answer: 15 years and counting
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Do you look at this and see at least 10 plant species? Then you are ready for #Plantsgiving 2025!
How many species will be served during your meal??? It ain't a competition, it's just about recognition.
#iamabotanist @botsocamerica.bsky.social @nybg.bsky.social
How many species will be served during your meal??? It ain't a competition, it's just about recognition.
#iamabotanist @botsocamerica.bsky.social @nybg.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Do you look at this and see at least 10 plant species? Then you are ready for #Plantsgiving 2025!
How many species will be served during your meal??? It ain't a competition, it's just about recognition.
#iamabotanist @botsocamerica.bsky.social @nybg.bsky.social
How many species will be served during your meal??? It ain't a competition, it's just about recognition.
#iamabotanist @botsocamerica.bsky.social @nybg.bsky.social
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I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Position Summary
The Lowry Lab at Michigan State University is searching for a postdoctoral research associate to conduct molecular and physiological experiments to understand the causes of genetic va...
careers.msu.edu
November 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
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We are recruiting field technicians to contribute to a field study of adaptation to climate in Chamaecrista fasciculata in Raleigh/Chapel Hill, NC. My collaborators at UGA will soon post similar positions in Ithaca, NY and Archbold Biological Station, FL. Please share jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225...
Temporary Plant Evolutionary Ecology Field Technician
The Sheth plant evolutionary ecology lab in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC) is currently seeking field technician to participate in an NS...
jobs.ncsu.edu
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We are recruiting field technicians to contribute to a field study of adaptation to climate in Chamaecrista fasciculata in Raleigh/Chapel Hill, NC. My collaborators at UGA will soon post similar positions in Ithaca, NY and Archbold Biological Station, FL. Please share jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225...
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Hi, it's me again
I have these calendars. They are so pretty. @megstampede.bsky.social made them. They have a bunch of animals on them, like crows and humpbacks and cuttlefish and salamanders.
Each month has facts about the animals AND actions you can take to help them
Get one at Squidfacts.net!
I have these calendars. They are so pretty. @megstampede.bsky.social made them. They have a bunch of animals on them, like crows and humpbacks and cuttlefish and salamanders.
Each month has facts about the animals AND actions you can take to help them
Get one at Squidfacts.net!
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Hi, it's me again
I have these calendars. They are so pretty. @megstampede.bsky.social made them. They have a bunch of animals on them, like crows and humpbacks and cuttlefish and salamanders.
Each month has facts about the animals AND actions you can take to help them
Get one at Squidfacts.net!
I have these calendars. They are so pretty. @megstampede.bsky.social made them. They have a bunch of animals on them, like crows and humpbacks and cuttlefish and salamanders.
Each month has facts about the animals AND actions you can take to help them
Get one at Squidfacts.net!
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Science People: We at NSF are still recovering/catching up/getting our lives together. But the agency posted these FAQs about post-shutdown resumption of operations which might answer a lot of Qs for you: www.nsf.gov/resumption-o...
Resumption of Operations at NSF
Information for NSF staff and the research community regarding the agency's resumption of operations after a lapse in appropriations.
www.nsf.gov
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Science People: We at NSF are still recovering/catching up/getting our lives together. But the agency posted these FAQs about post-shutdown resumption of operations which might answer a lot of Qs for you: www.nsf.gov/resumption-o...
Temperate deciduous forests are found in three global regions. We compared taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of forest plant communities among these regions in a new Ecography article led by Javier Loidi and Josep Padullés Cubino:
doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
@ecography.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
@ecography.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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**Help!**
Are you working with environmental or biodiversity data and willing to help us out?
We have a questionnaire for you -->
the3dlab.org/2025/11/11/s...
Are you working with environmental or biodiversity data and willing to help us out?
We have a questionnaire for you -->
the3dlab.org/2025/11/11/s...
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
**Help!**
Are you working with environmental or biodiversity data and willing to help us out?
We have a questionnaire for you -->
the3dlab.org/2025/11/11/s...
Are you working with environmental or biodiversity data and willing to help us out?
We have a questionnaire for you -->
the3dlab.org/2025/11/11/s...