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Ecologist. Assistant Professor at University of Arizona. Global change. Biodiversity, Phenology, Urban Ecology, Phylogeny. https://www.dlilab.com

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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 12d
pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
pyfound.blogspot.com

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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 🧬🌐🌎
A logo for the CAMBIUM NRT featuring stylized rings. An organ pipe cactus in the moonlight with a starry sky above.

Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 26d
Have fun!
Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Sep 17
Come to work with us! We are looking for neuroscientists with AI expertise. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor of Computational Neuroscience (RISE AI) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Aug 15
Amazing! Congrats!!
Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Aug 10
Hey would be great to catch up with you there!
Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Aug 8
Hey Lucas, we should catch up there! Gmail me?
Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Aug 8
Who is going to #ESA2025? Would be great to meet people there!

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marina alberti @malberti.bsky.social · Jul 29
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
The effects of urbanization on species interactions - Nature Cities
Cities are renowned for catalyzing human interactions, but their effects on urban species are less clear. This Perspective argues for such a focus, and proposes a framework for studying interactions b...
www.nature.com

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Marc Cadotte @urban-sci.bsky.social · Mar 7
The global urban non-native flora is out! Seven years of work with amazing colleagues. GUBIC includes >8K species for 550 cities across the globe. bit.ly/3Fbj1wI. And the data available here zenodo.org/records/1455.... @djli.bsky.social @flamontano.bsky.social @smartenwinter.bsky.social
GUBIC: The global urban biological invasions compendium for plants
By integrating multiple data sources, we compiled a Global Urban Biological Invasions Compendium (GUBIC) for vascular plants representing 553 urban centres from 61 countries across every continent ex....
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Jul 17
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elsa-abs.bsky.social Elsa Abs @elsa-abs.bsky.social · Jun 20
New paper out in Global Change Biology 🤩

doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

We built the first soil carbon model that includes microbial eco-evolution using game theory — and found that adaptation could nearly double global soil carbon loss by 2100. Here is how👇(1/7)

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Living Earth Collaborative @livingearthcollab.bsky.social · Jul 15
📢 Just out in Nature Cities: Legacy effects of religion, politics and war on urban evolutionary biology with co-author LEC postdoc Dr. Carlen

🔗 rdcu.be/ewmqV

#UrbanBiodiversity #Evolution

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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Jul 2
In this review at Nature Cities, led by @ecarlen.bsky.social we explored how religion, politics and war drive urban wildlife evolution by shaping environmental conditions and selective pressures. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Legacy effects of religion, politics and war on urban evolutionary biology - Nature Cities
Cities affect biological evolution, but traditionally researchers focus on the biophysical influence of urban environments. Instead, this Review explores how the social processes of religion, politics...
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Jul 2
Really cool work!
bjenquist.bsky.social Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Jul 2
Hey, good to see #Saguaros (Carnegiea gigantea ) at the Desert Laboratory on #TumamocHill, in #Tucson featured on the cover - work from several colleagues on role of microsite variation on regeneration bsapubs-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy4.library.arizona.edu/toc/15372197... 🌾🧪🌵
"Saguaros (Carnegiea gigantea Britton & Rose) featured against blue sky and Catalina Mountains ... picture also featuring buildings of the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, in Tucson, Arizona, site of more than 100 years of plant research and 60 years of repeat saguaro survey data. In this issue's article by Breslin et al. (“Establishment patterns of saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) at the microsite scale help explain saguaro regeneration and distributions in heterogenous, regional habitats”),"

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Jul 2
Hey, good to see #Saguaros (Carnegiea gigantea ) at the Desert Laboratory on #TumamocHill, in #Tucson featured on the cover - work from several colleagues on role of microsite variation on regeneration bsapubs-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy4.library.arizona.edu/toc/15372197... 🌾🧪🌵
"Saguaros (Carnegiea gigantea Britton & Rose) featured against blue sky and Catalina Mountains ... picture also featuring buildings of the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, in Tucson, Arizona, site of more than 100 years of plant research and 60 years of repeat saguaro survey data. In this issue's article by Breslin et al. (“Establishment patterns of saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) at the microsite scale help explain saguaro regeneration and distributions in heterogenous, regional habitats”),"

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · Jun 30
📖Published📖

Dinnage et al. describe PhenoVision, a new machine learning modelling pipeline utilizing iNaturalist occurrence records and associated field images of plants to enable scalability of phenology data via the automation of flower and fruit annotations 🌸 🍒

🌍 🧪

buff.ly/biapYFR

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · Jun 25
Another day testing the limits of resilience.

The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels.

Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels.

The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.
‘This is bull——”: National Science Foundation employees protest HUD's takeover
Dozens of National Science Foundation employees crowded the agency’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, Wednesday to protest the news that the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, w...
www.nbcwashington.com

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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · Jun 24
🌈 Celebrating diversity at #iDiv! This week —and every week— iDiv affirms that diversity in all its forms strengthens science, community, and collaboration. 🧬
Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Jun 23
Resolution of Respect: Margaret Bryan Davis (1931–2024) - Hotchkiss - 2025 - The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America - Wiley Online Library esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Resolution of Respect: Margaret Bryan Davis (1931–2024)
Click on the article title to read more.
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Jun 22
Yes! Here is a recent paper raised a similar question www.nature.com/articles/s41... though I am also skeptical about the current data availability to rigorously test this, particularly for cities in developing countries.
Tree species composition governs urban phenological responses to warming - Nature Communications
Cities serve as climate change laboratories for phenology studies. Here, the authors show that results of such studies should be interpreted with caution, as urban-rural phenology gaps are primarily d...
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Jun 21
Same thought. Haven’t read their methods yet but I am skeptical about the effect size.
Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Jun 19
Thinking about swinging by #Evol2025 next Monday. Who else will be there?

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Patrick Weigelt @patrickweigelt.bsky.social · Jun 19
Postdoc position in the lab of @biogeokreft.bsky.social for developing your own line of research in macroecology, biogeography, and functional or tropical ecology:
www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...
Stellenanzeigen - Georg-August-University Göttingen
Website of the Georg-August-University Göttingen
www.uni-goettingen.de

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Jun 17
Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Offre de post-doctorat en écologie (H/F)
emploi.cnrs.fr

Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Jun 16
Sorry to hear this!!
Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Jun 10
👍👍👍
Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Jun 3
Just passed by a rattlesnake this morning! It was on a rock beside the trail and I was walking from its back to front, so no chance to see it! I was about 2 feet away from it while it rattled! Instantly jumped away from it. Scary and unforgettable experience!
A rattlesnake rest on the rocks near a hiking trail

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Russell Dinnage @rdinnager.bsky.social · Jun 2
New to Bluesky! I'm Russell Dinnage, developing AI foundation models for organismal biology @FIU (moving to @UAlberta July 2025)

My mission: Create AI systems that understand life from molecules to ecosystems, bridging computational innovation with biological insight 🧬🤖

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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · Jun 2
Congratulations!

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · May 30
Establishment patterns of #saguaro #cactus at the microsite scale help explain saguaro regeneration & distributions in heterogenous, regional habitats

New #AJB research by Peter Breslin, Charlotte Brown, Alberto Búrquez, Frank Reichenbacher et al.

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience
a young saguaro cactus persisting on rocky ground, growing next to a cholla cactus.