Sally Aitken π¨π¦
@sallyaitken.bsky.social
Tree enthusiast, forest geneticist, climate scientist, runner. Professor, University of British Columbia.
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I am glad to share insights on what we have learned from the global set of forest biodiversity experiments over the last three decades in this new review paper first-authored by my wonderful colleague, Xiaojuan Liu, from the BEF China experiment www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Ecological insights from three decades of forest biodiversity experiments - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Experiments manipulating tree species diversity and measuring effects on ecosystem function have been important tools for assessing how biodiverse forests can accumulate biomass, store carbon and help...
www.nature.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:15 AM
I am glad to share insights on what we have learned from the global set of forest biodiversity experiments over the last three decades in this new review paper first-authored by my wonderful colleague, Xiaojuan Liu, from the BEF China experiment www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Applications due by Dec. 1st.
Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Applications due by Dec. 1st.
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c
October 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c
We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs
September 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs
Extensive mortality of the IUCN Red-listed species Korean fir (Abies korean) on Mt. Halla, Jeju Island, South Korea. The cause is unclear but may relate to lower winter snowpacks and early spring temps. Situation seems similar to yellow-cedar (Callitropsis nootkatensis) in the Pacific Northwest.
September 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Extensive mortality of the IUCN Red-listed species Korean fir (Abies korean) on Mt. Halla, Jeju Island, South Korea. The cause is unclear but may relate to lower winter snowpacks and early spring temps. Situation seems similar to yellow-cedar (Callitropsis nootkatensis) in the Pacific Northwest.
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Remember that time when we lived through the three hottest years in around 125,000 years & no one was talking about it?
September 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Remember that time when we lived through the three hottest years in around 125,000 years & no one was talking about it?
Huge congrats to @rafaelcr.bsky.social for his excellent PhD defense yesterday! Rafa has made large contributions to our understanding of local adaptation to drought in Douglas-fir and the underlying genomic architecture of climate adaptive traits as part of the CoAdapTree project.
June 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Huge congrats to @rafaelcr.bsky.social for his excellent PhD defense yesterday! Rafa has made large contributions to our understanding of local adaptation to drought in Douglas-fir and the underlying genomic architecture of climate adaptive traits as part of the CoAdapTree project.
Unbelievable. So sorry for what you and so many others are going through. Watching in horror from the north.
June 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Unbelievable. So sorry for what you and so many others are going through. Watching in horror from the north.
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Hard to think of a clear depiction of climate politics in Canada than provincial premiers calling for more pipelines and deregulation of oil and gas development as climate-amplified wildfires rage in their own provinces. #cdnpoli
June 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Hard to think of a clear depiction of climate politics in Canada than provincial premiers calling for more pipelines and deregulation of oil and gas development as climate-amplified wildfires rage in their own provinces. #cdnpoli
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Genomic signatures of climate-driven (mal)adaptation in an iconic conifer, the English yew (Taxus baccata L.) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.29.656833v1
June 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Genomic signatures of climate-driven (mal)adaptation in an iconic conifer, the English yew (Taxus baccata L.) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.29.656833v1
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"The Great Wave" of carbon dioxide (COβ) #ClimateChange #ScienceArt
Graphic produced by robbieandrew.github.io
Graphic produced by robbieandrew.github.io
May 31, 2025 at 1:48 AM
"The Great Wave" of carbon dioxide (COβ) #ClimateChange #ScienceArt
Graphic produced by robbieandrew.github.io
Graphic produced by robbieandrew.github.io
Oh the things you can do with Arabidopsis that us tree folks can only envy. Looks amazing! Canβt wait to read it.
May 31, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Oh the things you can do with Arabidopsis that us tree folks can only envy. Looks amazing! Canβt wait to read it.
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Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years:
Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation
Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
All data available: www.grene-net.org/data
#MOILAB
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Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation
Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
All data available: www.grene-net.org/data
#MOILAB
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May 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years:
Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation
Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
All data available: www.grene-net.org/data
#MOILAB
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi.org
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Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation
Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
All data available: www.grene-net.org/data
#MOILAB
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi.org
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Are you interested in the genomic basis of repeated adaptation? The RepAdapt group now has >70 members working to re-run their whole genome shotgun datasets through a common SNP calling pipeline, sharing VCFs, and working together to analyse data. Please contact me if you'd like to contribute!
May 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Are you interested in the genomic basis of repeated adaptation? The RepAdapt group now has >70 members working to re-run their whole genome shotgun datasets through a common SNP calling pipeline, sharing VCFs, and working together to analyse data. Please contact me if you'd like to contribute!
The area of research will be determined by the successful candidate.
May 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The area of research will be determined by the successful candidate.
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I'm hiring! Postdoc available in my lab in Ecological Genomics. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/... I will start reviewing applications mid-July. π§ͺπ§βπ¬π₯οΈπ§¬π¦. Please share widely, thanks!
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ecological Genomics
About the Opportunity Job Summary A postdoctoral research associate is available at the Lotterhos Lab at Northeastern University. The postdoc will be based at Northeastern Universityβs Marine Science ...
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May 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I'm hiring! Postdoc available in my lab in Ecological Genomics. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/... I will start reviewing applications mid-July. π§ͺπ§βπ¬π₯οΈπ§¬π¦. Please share widely, thanks!
Great news - we will be searching for a tree physiologist (tenure track) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, UBC Forestry, later this year. Stay tuned! (Please share.)
May 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Great news - we will be searching for a tree physiologist (tenure track) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, UBC Forestry, later this year. Stay tuned! (Please share.)
Brilliant new paper by Jill Anderson and colleagues using 9 years of transplant experiments and integral projection models to predict the capacity of populations for adaptation and persistence under new climates in Boechera stricta. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Adaptation and gene flow are insufficient to rescue a montane plant under climate change
Climate change increasingly drives local population dynamics, shifts geographic distributions, and threatens persistence. Gene flow and rapid adaptation could rescue declining populations yet are seld...
www.science.org
May 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Brilliant new paper by Jill Anderson and colleagues using 9 years of transplant experiments and integral projection models to predict the capacity of populations for adaptation and persistence under new climates in Boechera stricta. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Sad to see Tanille Johnston lose. An excellent candidate, falling to progressive vote splitting. Hope we donβt have to listen to much from Aaron Gunn.
April 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Sad to see Tanille Johnston lose. An excellent candidate, falling to progressive vote splitting. Hope we donβt have to listen to much from Aaron Gunn.
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A lot of Americans don't know this, but the winner of the Canadian election will be required live in a small cottage located in the backyard of the palace where the viceroy to the King of England lives.
The cottage just recently got a new wifi router, which was very exciting for all Canadians.
The cottage just recently got a new wifi router, which was very exciting for all Canadians.
April 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM
A lot of Americans don't know this, but the winner of the Canadian election will be required live in a small cottage located in the backyard of the palace where the viceroy to the King of England lives.
The cottage just recently got a new wifi router, which was very exciting for all Canadians.
The cottage just recently got a new wifi router, which was very exciting for all Canadians.
Candidates run to be Members of Parliament so they can re-live kindergarten, sharing a tiny desk with another MP and shouting or stomping when they donβt like something that is said.
April 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Candidates run to be Members of Parliament so they can re-live kindergarten, sharing a tiny desk with another MP and shouting or stomping when they donβt like something that is said.
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π¨ #job π¨: The Department of Forest Ecology and Management at the Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU, is hiring a full-tenure Professor in silviculture with a focus on silvicultural systems, mainly in boreal forests.
πΊοΈ UmeΓ₯, Sweden
π Apply by: 29 April 2025
β‘οΈ www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
πΊοΈ UmeΓ₯, Sweden
π Apply by: 29 April 2025
β‘οΈ www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
April 22, 2025 at 8:09 AM
π¨ #job π¨: The Department of Forest Ecology and Management at the Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU, is hiring a full-tenure Professor in silviculture with a focus on silvicultural systems, mainly in boreal forests.
πΊοΈ UmeΓ₯, Sweden
π Apply by: 29 April 2025
β‘οΈ www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
πΊοΈ UmeΓ₯, Sweden
π Apply by: 29 April 2025
β‘οΈ www.slu.se/en/about-slu...