Brian J. Enquist

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Brian Joseph Enquist is an American biologist and academic. Enquist is a professor of biology at the University of Arizona. He is also external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is a biologist, plant biologist and an ecologist. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012 and the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2018. .. more

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · May 9

In our latest paper in PNAS, we ask: How can scientific progress be accelerated to meet the urgent challenges of the Anthropocene? We point to significant barriers in forecasting & prediction efforts for the biosphere 🧵👇 🧪🌎🦋 1/n www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#ScienceTwitter #Ecology #Anthropocene

Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 8h

I am striving for such a statement from my teaching evaluations

Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 8h

Seeing these pop-up climate and #clearnenergy protests more often now here in #Tucson #climatestripes #ShowYourStripes

photo of several climate change and clean energy protestors holding signs- out monday morning in downtown Tucson Arizona

Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 12h

Only in base R so you are in luck

Reposted by Maximilian Hanusch

Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 13h

Is this a thing? hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap

`genzplyr` is an alternative syntax for `dplyr` that replaces boring old function names with GenZ slang. Your data wrangling is about to hit different.

hadley.github.io

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist

Max Hellicar @birdingtothemax.bsky.social · 1d

White-crowned Sparrow experienced a record year at Rocky Point, with 537 ringed (2000-2024 mean of 160). This individual, who’d clearly been feasting on berries, was one of our oldest recaptures, having been ringed in 2019. 🇨🇦🪶🧪🌎

White-crowned Sparrow. Rocky Point, British Columbia, Canada. 15 September 2025.

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist

Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 2d

Fall colours that are not angiosperm leaves 🤓🌲🌿
#botany

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Monica G. Turner, Jason Stajich , and 5 more Brian J. Enquist, Monica G. Turner, Jason Stajich, Stephen D. Murphy, Jesse R. Lasky, Seth M. Munson, Chhaya M. Werner, Connor Morozumi

Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 3d

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...

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist

AC Vasquez - 安娜 @criskotsu.bsky.social · 5d

🧪

Isotopic evidence for elevated photorespiration during the last glacial period - Nature Geoscience

Low carbon dioxide levels during the last glacial period enhanced photorespiration in trees across North America, indicating a decline in land plant productivity, according to measurements of clumped ...

www.nature.com

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Nancy Knowlton, Neil Pederson , and 6 more Brian J. Enquist, Nancy Knowlton, Neil Pederson, Cathy N. Davidson, Silvia Secchi, Trevor A. Branch, Julia Lynch, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Vincent Raoult

Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 5d

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist

Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 5d

Very pleased to be part of this super cool new paper led by William Hagan Brown in @globalchangebio.bsky.social looking at the impact of elevated CO2 on canopy temperatures in an oak woodland at the BIFor-FACE experiment

dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Elevated CO2 Increases the Canopy Temperature of Mature Quercus robur (Pedunculate Oak)

We investigated the impact of high atmospheric CO2, similar to that predicted for 2050, on tree canopy temperature dynamics of mature pedunculate oak using long-term, high-frequency thermal infrared ...

dx.doi.org

Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Brian J. Enquist, Jesse M. Shapiro , and 4 more Scott C. Doney, Brian J. Enquist, Jesse M. Shapiro, Simon Roux, Elena Litchman, Joshua S. Weitz, James E. Wood

Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social · 5d

If you're looking for a faculty position at the intersection of ecology and computing (both broadly defined), please apply to this joint search between the CEE Department and the College of Computing at MIT: cee.mit.edu/people/share...

Faculty Position in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Schwarzman College of Computing - cee.mit.edu

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), together with the Schwarzman College of Computing (SCC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge MA, seeks candidate...

cee.mit.edu

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Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social · 6d

Night blooming cactus on my evening walk in Tucson tonight!

A tall columnar cactus with multiple ribbed stems blooming with cream and peach-colored flowers at night in Tucson. The cactus stands in a desert garden with purple flowering plants, gravel pathways, and a palm tree visible against a dark blue night sky.

Close-up of a night-blooming cactus flower with ruffled white petals edged in coral-red, revealing a green center with yellow stamens. The delicate bloom is photographed at night against the ribbed, spiny stems of a columnar cactus in Tucson.

Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 6d

apply to other fields in ecology? agree that some cultures are more dominant than others and other cultures may not be prevalent or the norm. Also agree that being aware of which culture one was trained/ collaborate in can help be aware of creative new directions for scientific transculuralism

Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you for the kind words. The temporal aspect is interesting - we did discuss this quite a bit. Variance culture likely is the first step but a case could be made that the other cultures are also present early on depending on the field. An important follow up!

Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 7d

Hope it sparks discussion!

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist

Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 8d

NYC and adjacent friends: I'm thrilled and terrified to be giving a public lecture in Manhattan at 6pm on Wednesday, 19 November. If you feel like coming into the city* for the evening, I'd love to see you there!

*Yes, NYC = "the city" for Jersey girls.

www.simonsfoundation.org/event/trade-...

Trade, Borrow, or Steal: How Acquired Metabolism Drives Evolution

Trade, Borrow, or Steal: How Acquired Metabolism Drives Evolution on Simons Foundation

www.simonsfoundation.org

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Brian J. Harvey

juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 9d

Final version now available #AmJBot @botsocamerica.bsky.social

Sequoia & Sequoiadendron: Two paleoendemic megatrees with different adaptive responses to high-severity fires
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Plants are not adapted to fire, but to fire regimes
🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🪴 #ecoevo #wildfire

juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Sep 24

Sequoia sempervirens (redwood; world's tallest tree) is well adapted to high-intensity crown fires (eg 2020), but Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia; world's most massive tree) is adapted to surface fires only!
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🧪🌍🔥🌿🌳🔥🪴 @botsocamerica.bsky.social

Sequoia sempervirens (Coast redwood) resprouting epicormically after a high-intensity fire

Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia) with a fire scar in the base from a surface fire

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 9d

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog

blog.arxiv.org

Reposted by Michael E. Mann, Joanna Bryson, Brian J. Enquist , and 11 more Michael E. Mann, Joanna Bryson, Brian J. Enquist, Monica G. Turner, Ian J. Wright, Anthony Ricciardi, Pieter A. Zuidema, Randall A. Kramer, Dana R. Fisher, James Connelly, Tim Stephens, Andrea Santangeli, Julen Astigarraga, Olivier Villemaire-Côté

Reposted by Michael E. Mann, Brian J. Enquist, Julie L. Lockwood , and 5 more Michael E. Mann, Brian J. Enquist, Julie L. Lockwood, Gernot Wagner, Dana R. Fisher, Aviel Roshwald, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Peter Jacobs

Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 11d

NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more.

I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...

CBS News just gutted its climate team

Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.

www.climatecoloredgoggles.com

Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 11d

Ah... #TheQuesadillas in #Tucson is increasingly in my top 10 of lunch spots and quick burrito and/or tacos. Shout out to perhaps the best Birria in town

Outside sign advertising the restaurant - The Quesadillas a mexican/borderlands food spot. Also shown is a Coca Cola sign in spanish

Menu at The Quesadillas "TACOS-FLOUR OR CORN
PRIME CARNE ASADA..3.95
AL PASTOR.
POLLO
3.95
3.95
RIBEYE
JALAPENO STEAK
4.99
..4.25
CHORIZO......
3.95
BEAN.
VEGGIE..
.2.00
3.95
RAJAS CON CREMA
4.00
BARBACOA..
3.95
(SHREDDED BEEF)
BIRRIA
.4.25
(CHEESE & CONSUME)
ASADERO
4.75
(CARNE/ CHEESE/GREEN CHILI)
JAAS
...4.75
(CARNE/GREEN CHILI/ MELTED CHEESE ON TOP)
SHRIMP....
THRASTED CHEESE/ CREMA/
CABBAGE)
NEW YORK STREET STYLE.5.50 (GRILLED ONION ON TOP)
RIBEYE STREET STYLE.....5.50
(GRILLED ONION ON TOP)
KETO(YOUR CHOICE OF MEAT
ON TOASTED CHEESE)
TOSTADAS
SONORA(STEAK).5.99 GRINGA(PORK)..
.5.99
POLLO(CHICKEN)..5.99
BEAN
3.50
SONORAN HOTDOG
SONORAN HOTDOG....5.15
DEPUTY HOTDOG...
8.99
SIDES
CHIPS
..2.99
BEANS
402(2.50)120z (3.65)
RICE 40z(2.50) 120z(3.65)
MEXICAN CREAM
-SALSA-4oz, 8oz, 120z
-GRILLED JALAPENO
-DOZEN TORTILLAS
DRINKS
FOUNTAIN...
3.50
MEXICAN BOTTLE.
...3.50
CAN SODA..
.2.35
HORCHATA
3.50
JAMAICA(HIBISCUS).3.
50
LIMONADA.....
3.50
REFILL.
1.50
QUESADILLAS
(WITH A BEAN TACO ON THE SIDE)
CARNE ASADA (STEAK).9.50
AL PASTOR (PORK)....
....9.50
POLLO (CHICKEN)
..,9.50
PLAIN CHEESE...
....5.50
RAJAS CON CREMA
.9.95
(GREEN CHILI /CORN/CREAM)
MUSHROOM...
..9.50
VEGGIES.......
.....9.95
(MUSHROOM/ CORN/BELL PEPPER/ZUCCHINI BARBACOA...
.9.95
CHORIZO.
.9.95
RIBEYE....
11.00
QUESABIRRA
...10.95
CHICKEN BACON -GREEN
CHILI, BACON, CREMA.11.00
SHRIMP QUESADILLA....11.00
BISTEC QUESADILLA
.10.00
LOAD IT UP-ADD ONS:
-GREEN CHILI
-BACON
•GRILLED ONION -BEANS
-BELL PEPPER
•RICE
-GRILLED
-MUSHROOM
JALAPENO
-CHEESE
-CREMA"

two savory and tasty tacos on flour tortillas

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Ingolf Kühn, Robin J. Pakeman , and 4 more Brian J. Enquist, Ingolf Kühn, Robin J. Pakeman, Christian Schöb, Stephen D. Murphy, Pierre Mariotte, Benjamin Wildermuth

Marcus Collier @marcuscollier.bsky.social · 11d

The deadline is fast approaching!
We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation
universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...
Deadline: November 14th.

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Julie L. Lockwood

Stelios Katsanevakis @skatsanevakis.bsky.social · 11d

Global #fish #invasions transform #ecosystems.
Until now a unified view was missing.
Our Global Fish Invasion Database (GFID) fills this gap.
1538 spp across 193 countries.
Led by Phillip Haubrock
esj-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

#bioinvasions #InvasiveSpecies

GFID: A Global Fish Invasion Database

We present the Global Fish Invasions Database (GFID), the first standardized, comprehensive global dataset of 1536 established non-native fish species across 193 countries. GFID includes detailed met...

esj-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist

Stelios Katsanevakis @skatsanevakis.bsky.social · 11d

Excellent collection of climate data visualizations!

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Nov 30

🧵 Looking for (polar) climate data visualizations? Start here! 📈📉🧪⚒️🌊

+ Polar climate change: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
+ Global climate change indicators: zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
+ #Arctic sea ice extent: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
+ #Antarctic sea ice: zacklabe.com/antarctic-se...

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Brian J. Enquist, Ingolf Kühn , and 6 more Katharine Hayhoe, Brian J. Enquist, Ingolf Kühn, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Julie L. Lockwood, Malte Jochum, Pierre Mariotte, Orlando Schwery, Benjamin Wildermuth

Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · 11d

🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳

Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland

Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Garry Peterson

Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 12d

The climate negotiations must be guided by science.

This year’s “10 New Insights in Climate Science” report urges action over promises, warning that the world can no longer afford delays.

Learn more: www.stockholmresilience.org/5.226014ea19...

Image of map of ocean showing water temperatures over the years

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Mark Lubell, Anthony Burke

Future Earth @futureearth.bsky.social · 12d

Out now: the 2025/2026 10 New Insights in Climate Science.

A global science synthesis with new findings on extreme warming, ocean heat, disease risks, and the state of carbon markets.

Read the full report: 10insightsclimate.science

#10ClimateInsights

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist

Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 12d

Very interesting and we'll read in our upcoming lab journal club....

Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · May 9

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Oliver L. Phillips, Brian J. Enquist , and 4 more Jens‐Christian Svenning, Oliver L. Phillips, Brian J. Enquist, Peter M. Cox, Tommaso Jucker, Darío Martin‐Benito, Julen Astigarraga

Tom Pugh @tompugh.bsky.social · 15d

How can we explore the future of the world's forests? Understanding the demography of their trees is key. In We took the new gen of global demographic vegetation models and held their roots to the observations. Thanks @annemarie-es.bsky.social for leading! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Daijiang Li, Jesse M. Alston

Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social · 18d

The CAMBIUM NSF NRT is recruiting PhD students @uarizona.bsky.social! Fellowships for interdisciplinary training in biodiversity big data to adapt to & mitigate climate change impacts. Great fit for evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, plant adaptation, ecology & more. cambium.arizona.edu 🧬🌐🌎

An organ pipe cactus in the moonlight with a starry sky above.

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