Seema Sheth
@seemasheth.bsky.social
evolutionary/population/community ecologist
associate professor at NC State
Interests: 🧉🌱🏃🏾♀️🐦⬛🎶🏔️🏜️
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associate professor at NC State
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New review of sznal elevation ranges for >10k bird populations in 34 mountain regions reveals altitudinal migration fulfills same ecological function as long-distance latitudinal migration, offering better predictions for mountain birds under global change.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Climate, ecological dynamics, and the seasonal distribution of birds in mountains
Ecological dynamics related to energy use and competition drives the seasonal distribution of birds in mountains across the world.
www.science.org
February 13, 2026 at 4:05 PM
New review of sznal elevation ranges for >10k bird populations in 34 mountain regions reveals altitudinal migration fulfills same ecological function as long-distance latitudinal migration, offering better predictions for mountain birds under global change.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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“The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently rolled out a new policy that permits university officials to record classes without notifying the instructor. It’s a practice administrators have used in the past to investigate professors but have now formalized in writing.”
UNC Admin Can Now, Officially, Secretly Record Faculty
The new policy prohibits students from recording class without permission but explicitly allows administrators to surveil professors for any “lawful purpose.”
www.insidehighered.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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This is so, so chilling
NC State *fired* an Assistant Director of its LGBTQ Pride Center for saying the university will continue to support LGBTQ students—as it should—even with Trump’s ban on DEI-related activities
A conservative activist group secretly recorded the Assistant Director saying it
NC State *fired* an Assistant Director of its LGBTQ Pride Center for saying the university will continue to support LGBTQ students—as it should—even with Trump’s ban on DEI-related activities
A conservative activist group secretly recorded the Assistant Director saying it
Yesterday, there were rumors that there were undercover groups on campus trying to record UNC faculty or staff saying something on camera that could get them fired. Similar to what happened other campuses, like NC State.
NC State Pride Center official no longer employed after new undercover video
An activist group shared a video Thursday of the employee explaining his approach to DEI. By Friday morning, he was no longer employed by NC State.
www.newsobserver.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:19 PM
This is so, so chilling
NC State *fired* an Assistant Director of its LGBTQ Pride Center for saying the university will continue to support LGBTQ students—as it should—even with Trump’s ban on DEI-related activities
A conservative activist group secretly recorded the Assistant Director saying it
NC State *fired* an Assistant Director of its LGBTQ Pride Center for saying the university will continue to support LGBTQ students—as it should—even with Trump’s ban on DEI-related activities
A conservative activist group secretly recorded the Assistant Director saying it
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So excited to have been accepted to write this piece. Thanks to all who have entertained my ramblings over the years and have encouraged me in my passion for #ecophysiology and #evolution 🙏
#IAmABotanist 🌱
#IAmABotanist 🌱
🏵 Check out the latest #AJB Synthesis article, by Haley Branch! 🏵
The sleeping giant needs coffee: Overlooked areas for integrating plant #ecophysiology & evolutionary biology
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #ecology #evolution
The sleeping giant needs coffee: Overlooked areas for integrating plant #ecophysiology & evolutionary biology
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #ecology #evolution
February 9, 2026 at 5:49 PM
So excited to have been accepted to write this piece. Thanks to all who have entertained my ramblings over the years and have encouraged me in my passion for #ecophysiology and #evolution 🙏
#IAmABotanist 🌱
#IAmABotanist 🌱
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Reporting on GRFP applications returned without review.
Students applying for NSF funding are having their applications “returned without review” for being “ineligible,” despite their proposed research falling squarely within the application guidelines. eos.org/research-and...
Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review” - Eos
Graduate students applying for NSF funding have had their applications returned without review—even though their proposed research appears to fall squarely within the fields of study outlined in the p...
eos.org
February 7, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Reporting on GRFP applications returned without review.
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My grad student, who got RWR and appealed, got an email from GRFP program today that said "Your application was screened by NSF program officers with expertise in your proposed field of study and was determined to be ineligible according to the solicitation requirements."
No details were given. 😡
No details were given. 😡
Reposting again because according to Reddit threads, another round of RWR emails went out today.
NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
February 4, 2026 at 11:35 PM
My grad student, who got RWR and appealed, got an email from GRFP program today that said "Your application was screened by NSF program officers with expertise in your proposed field of study and was determined to be ineligible according to the solicitation requirements."
No details were given. 😡
No details were given. 😡
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Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution position available in Biology Department at Stanford University. Apply by April 1, 2026. (Photo by Rick Morris)
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31606
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31606
January 30, 2026 at 5:35 AM
Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution position available in Biology Department at Stanford University. Apply by April 1, 2026. (Photo by Rick Morris)
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31606
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31606
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Responsible publication of your research!
To help you do this @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social and coauthors have put together a handy database of academia-friendly journals, DAFNEE. You can read about it in their article recently published in @jevbio.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
To help you do this @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social and coauthors have put together a handy database of academia-friendly journals, DAFNEE. You can read about it in their article recently published in @jevbio.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology
Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R
doi.org
January 28, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Responsible publication of your research!
To help you do this @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social and coauthors have put together a handy database of academia-friendly journals, DAFNEE. You can read about it in their article recently published in @jevbio.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
To help you do this @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social and coauthors have put together a handy database of academia-friendly journals, DAFNEE. You can read about it in their article recently published in @jevbio.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
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How do temperature regimes shape trait diversity in communities? Does variability promote more specialists or more generalists?
Our new Nature Communications paper tackles this with eco-evo simulations + 653 moth species across latitudinal and elevational gradients.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our new Nature Communications paper tackles this with eco-evo simulations + 653 moth species across latitudinal and elevational gradients.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Warmer environments harbor greater thermal trait diversity in moth assemblages - Nature Communications
Climate limits where insects can live and which species can coexist. Using thermal tolerances of 653 moths on Asian mountains, this study shows warmer temperatures broaden thermal tolerance traits div...
www.nature.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:23 AM
How do temperature regimes shape trait diversity in communities? Does variability promote more specialists or more generalists?
Our new Nature Communications paper tackles this with eco-evo simulations + 653 moth species across latitudinal and elevational gradients.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our new Nature Communications paper tackles this with eco-evo simulations + 653 moth species across latitudinal and elevational gradients.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🔥🔬🌲 Postdoc Opportunity at Duke! to study the drivers and impacts of post-fire forest loss in the western U.S.
Position is part of the inaugural SCALES fellowship, an exciting program funding interdisciplinary research addressing key climate challenges. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31549
Position is part of the inaugural SCALES fellowship, an exciting program funding interdisciplinary research addressing key climate challenges. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31549
Duke University, Biology
Job #AJO31549, Postdoctoral Associate, Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US
academicjobsonline.org
January 26, 2026 at 7:07 PM
🔥🔬🌲 Postdoc Opportunity at Duke! to study the drivers and impacts of post-fire forest loss in the western U.S.
Position is part of the inaugural SCALES fellowship, an exciting program funding interdisciplinary research addressing key climate challenges. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31549
Position is part of the inaugural SCALES fellowship, an exciting program funding interdisciplinary research addressing key climate challenges. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31549
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Species shift their ranges in response to climate change, but many can't keep up. The resulting "community-climate disequilibrium" can impair ecosystem function and cause counterintuitive dynamics, like short-term gain but long-term loss onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Linking Community‐Climate Disequilibrium to Ecosystem Function
When turnover in species composition lags behind the pace of climate change, community-climate disequilibrium increases. We, for the first time, explicitly link this disequilibrium to ecosystem funct...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Species shift their ranges in response to climate change, but many can't keep up. The resulting "community-climate disequilibrium" can impair ecosystem function and cause counterintuitive dynamics, like short-term gain but long-term loss onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Great postdoc opportunity in Sweden!! With the one and only David Wardle 🧪🌐
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
Post doctor (3 years) within mountain plant community and ecosystem processes across a globally distributed experiment
www.umu.se
January 24, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Great postdoc opportunity in Sweden!! With the one and only David Wardle 🧪🌐
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
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Apply for this fully funded PhD studentship in Tropical mountain forest ecology! Join us at University of Liverpool to carry out research on plant range shifts in the cloud forests. With: @fdraper.bsky.social @funkyant.bsky.social @jhomeier.bsky.social. Applications due Jan 21. tinyurl.com/23ary845
January 13, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Apply for this fully funded PhD studentship in Tropical mountain forest ecology! Join us at University of Liverpool to carry out research on plant range shifts in the cloud forests. With: @fdraper.bsky.social @funkyant.bsky.social @jhomeier.bsky.social. Applications due Jan 21. tinyurl.com/23ary845
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The Institute for Environmental Genomics at U Oklahoma (www.ou.edu/ieg) has 3 Research Scientists & 4-6 Postdoc openings (see details linked below).
Contact ieg@ou.edu w/ questions.
Contact ieg@ou.edu w/ questions.
January 22, 2026 at 1:17 AM
The Institute for Environmental Genomics at U Oklahoma (www.ou.edu/ieg) has 3 Research Scientists & 4-6 Postdoc openings (see details linked below).
Contact ieg@ou.edu w/ questions.
Contact ieg@ou.edu w/ questions.
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‘Dispersification’ of Agalinis (Orobanchaceae) Into South America Is Associated With Hummingbird Pollination and Perennial Life-History Shifts
@pedropezzi.bsky.social @soltislab.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@pedropezzi.bsky.social @soltislab.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
January 20, 2026 at 7:42 PM
‘Dispersification’ of Agalinis (Orobanchaceae) Into South America Is Associated With Hummingbird Pollination and Perennial Life-History Shifts
@pedropezzi.bsky.social @soltislab.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@pedropezzi.bsky.social @soltislab.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Extremely proud of the outcome of this very cool experiment with @seemasheth.bsky.social that involved imposing a heatwave treatment on scarlet monkeyflower seedlings. It was really fun to be able to explore some plant ecophysiology concepts and put them in an evolutionary context. Please share!
Rangewide responses of #Mimulus cardinalis to an extreme heat event
New #AJB research by Lucas Albano, Robin Bingham, Sulma Correa, Catherine Laufenberg, Cristina Payst, Christopher Muir & Seema Nayan Sheth
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #monkeyflower #climatechange
New #AJB research by Lucas Albano, Robin Bingham, Sulma Correa, Catherine Laufenberg, Cristina Payst, Christopher Muir & Seema Nayan Sheth
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #monkeyflower #climatechange
January 15, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Extremely proud of the outcome of this very cool experiment with @seemasheth.bsky.social that involved imposing a heatwave treatment on scarlet monkeyflower seedlings. It was really fun to be able to explore some plant ecophysiology concepts and put them in an evolutionary context. Please share!
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The Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center (SE CASC) is seeking their next Communications & Engagement Manager. This is a full-time position based at NC State University in Raleigh, NC.
Learn more and apply here: https://loom.ly/82KBUmE
Learn more and apply here: https://loom.ly/82KBUmE
January 12, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center (SE CASC) is seeking their next Communications & Engagement Manager. This is a full-time position based at NC State University in Raleigh, NC.
Learn more and apply here: https://loom.ly/82KBUmE
Learn more and apply here: https://loom.ly/82KBUmE
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PhD fellowship in Conservation Genetics, Basel
jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
The project aims to verify how well reported dynamics of decline in rare plant species align with inferred trajectories of effective population size.
#PlantSciJobs
jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
The project aims to verify how well reported dynamics of decline in rare plant species align with inferred trajectories of effective population size.
#PlantSciJobs
Universität Basel: PhD fellowship in Conservation Genetics
The group of Plant Ecology and Evolution, Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel, Switzerland (https://duw.unibas.ch/en/ecoevo/), is looking for a PhD student in the field of…
jobs.unibas.ch
January 12, 2026 at 11:33 AM
PhD fellowship in Conservation Genetics, Basel
jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
The project aims to verify how well reported dynamics of decline in rare plant species align with inferred trajectories of effective population size.
#PlantSciJobs
jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
The project aims to verify how well reported dynamics of decline in rare plant species align with inferred trajectories of effective population size.
#PlantSciJobs
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A final new paper out from the lab, work from Steve Johnson, @joannarifkin.bsky.social & @stepheniwright.bsky.social
We asked what maintains the striking variation in floral color, size, and shape within and among populations of Dame's Rocket, Hesperis matronalis
We asked what maintains the striking variation in floral color, size, and shape within and among populations of Dame's Rocket, Hesperis matronalis
Color, size, shape: The drivers of floral variation in Hesperis matronalis (Dame’s Rocket)
Evolutionary biologists have long been intrigued by the factors that sustain genetic and phenotypic variation within and among natural populations. Polymorphisms underlying components of floral displa...
www.biorxiv.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A final new paper out from the lab, work from Steve Johnson, @joannarifkin.bsky.social & @stepheniwright.bsky.social
We asked what maintains the striking variation in floral color, size, and shape within and among populations of Dame's Rocket, Hesperis matronalis
We asked what maintains the striking variation in floral color, size, and shape within and among populations of Dame's Rocket, Hesperis matronalis
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A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
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I am recruiting a MS student in Biology at New Mexico Tech with an anticipated start date of Fall 2026 to work on the applied evolutionary genetics of wild populations with conservation or management concerns (butterflies, bighorn sheep). Please see the attached advertisement for more info.
December 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I am recruiting a MS student in Biology at New Mexico Tech with an anticipated start date of Fall 2026 to work on the applied evolutionary genetics of wild populations with conservation or management concerns (butterflies, bighorn sheep). Please see the attached advertisement for more info.
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Ecologists recognize the importance of integrating across scales, yet our models often target specific scales. Our new paper presents models of population growth that scale up to explain community-level patterns, including interactions of temperature, light & nutrients. doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
December 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Ecologists recognize the importance of integrating across scales, yet our models often target specific scales. Our new paper presents models of population growth that scale up to explain community-level patterns, including interactions of temperature, light & nutrients. doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
Excited to share the first two publications from our PERSIST (Predicting Evolutionary Rescue of a Species in Space and Time) project. Thanks to NSF-DEB for supporting this work! (1/3)
December 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Excited to share the first two publications from our PERSIST (Predicting Evolutionary Rescue of a Species in Space and Time) project. Thanks to NSF-DEB for supporting this work! (1/3)
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New postdoctoral fellowship opportunity! Please pass along. Excited to announce the launch of the Tom Lovejoy Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona for innovative research to protect species, sustain ecosystems, and promote a thriving planet lovejoycenter.arizona.edu/lovejoy-fell... 🧪🌐🌾
December 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
New postdoctoral fellowship opportunity! Please pass along. Excited to announce the launch of the Tom Lovejoy Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona for innovative research to protect species, sustain ecosystems, and promote a thriving planet lovejoycenter.arizona.edu/lovejoy-fell... 🧪🌐🌾
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Y'all, I just got out of the NSF-BIO webinar where they explained changes to peer review. It's not good. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/changes-to-n...
Changes to NSF peer review
They're not good. At all.
scienceforeveryone.science
December 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Y'all, I just got out of the NSF-BIO webinar where they explained changes to peer review. It's not good. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/changes-to-n...