Dave Klinges
@thenaturedave.bsky.social
Incoming Asst Prof Rutgers, Postdoc Yale, PhD U Florida '24, Dartmouth '17...climate change ecology, catching frogs in trees, microclimate, ecophysiology, tropical ecology, Madagascar, things in-between. He/him.
https://ecoclimateglobal.org/
https://ecoclimateglobal.org/
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Dave Klinges
@thenaturedave.bsky.social
· Jul 14
Thrilled to have accepted a TT faculty position in the Dept of Ecology, Evolution & Natural Resources at Rutgers @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social! Keen on climate change ecology, Madagascar, amphibians, range shifts? Visit our lab website & watch for upcoming PhD + postdoc ads! ecoclimateglobal.org
(Plz share) We're hiring! 5-year PhD student to join our new lab at Rutgers University. Broadly, exploring how climate change impacts terrestrial species, ecosystems and biodiversity – compute, field, or lab! See here:
ecoclimateglobal.org/join/
(hiring a 2-yr postdoc too, more news on that soon)
ecoclimateglobal.org/join/
(hiring a 2-yr postdoc too, more news on that soon)
Join the Lab
Current Opportunities Please see below for current and upcoming opportunities to join the group. We always welcome inquiries from motivated potential members with research interests that fit our group...
ecoclimateglobal.org
August 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
(Plz share) We're hiring! 5-year PhD student to join our new lab at Rutgers University. Broadly, exploring how climate change impacts terrestrial species, ecosystems and biodiversity – compute, field, or lab! See here:
ecoclimateglobal.org/join/
(hiring a 2-yr postdoc too, more news on that soon)
ecoclimateglobal.org/join/
(hiring a 2-yr postdoc too, more news on that soon)
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New for all microclimate enthusiasts!
A step-by-step workflow to build your own sensor network - with awesome R code for site selection + tips on engagement, fieldwork & outreach.
Led with @thenaturedave.bsky.social and @rebeccasenior.bsky.social
🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/08/16/h...
A step-by-step workflow to build your own sensor network - with awesome R code for site selection + tips on engagement, fieldwork & outreach.
Led with @thenaturedave.bsky.social and @rebeccasenior.bsky.social
🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/08/16/h...
How to set up your own microclimate network
Back in 2021, we had an important thought: maybe we should start treating microclimate the same way we treat macroclimate. Weather and climate are monitored by national governments through organize…
the3dlab.org
August 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
New for all microclimate enthusiasts!
A step-by-step workflow to build your own sensor network - with awesome R code for site selection + tips on engagement, fieldwork & outreach.
Led with @thenaturedave.bsky.social and @rebeccasenior.bsky.social
🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/08/16/h...
A step-by-step workflow to build your own sensor network - with awesome R code for site selection + tips on engagement, fieldwork & outreach.
Led with @thenaturedave.bsky.social and @rebeccasenior.bsky.social
🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/08/16/h...
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Excited to share the news that I have accepted a TT assistant professor position at @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social in the Dept of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources! I will be recruiting a postdoc and grad students soon for my wildlife disease ecology lab, so check back in here!
March 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Excited to share the news that I have accepted a TT assistant professor position at @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social in the Dept of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources! I will be recruiting a postdoc and grad students soon for my wildlife disease ecology lab, so check back in here!
Great to have this one finally out-- our open-access workflow for optimized deployment of microclimate networks! Collab b/w ecologists, data scientists and computational engineers. Check out the GitHub repo for the R software (soon to be a package):
github.com/dklinges9/Mi...
github.com/dklinges9/Mi...
August 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Great to have this one finally out-- our open-access workflow for optimized deployment of microclimate networks! Collab b/w ecologists, data scientists and computational engineers. Check out the GitHub repo for the R software (soon to be a package):
github.com/dklinges9/Mi...
github.com/dklinges9/Mi...
Thrilled to have accepted a TT faculty position in the Dept of Ecology, Evolution & Natural Resources at Rutgers @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social! Keen on climate change ecology, Madagascar, amphibians, range shifts? Visit our lab website & watch for upcoming PhD + postdoc ads! ecoclimateglobal.org
July 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Thrilled to have accepted a TT faculty position in the Dept of Ecology, Evolution & Natural Resources at Rutgers @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social! Keen on climate change ecology, Madagascar, amphibians, range shifts? Visit our lab website & watch for upcoming PhD + postdoc ads! ecoclimateglobal.org
The capstone paper from our community-based wildlife monitoring project in Madagascar, led by @lysoifer.bsky.social : employing local communities is more cost effective than hiring just scientists, even when you put a high premium on quality biodiversity data
BioCon paper: tinyurl.com/53h6vx84 (1/4)
BioCon paper: tinyurl.com/53h6vx84 (1/4)
July 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The capstone paper from our community-based wildlife monitoring project in Madagascar, led by @lysoifer.bsky.social : employing local communities is more cost effective than hiring just scientists, even when you put a high premium on quality biodiversity data
BioCon paper: tinyurl.com/53h6vx84 (1/4)
BioCon paper: tinyurl.com/53h6vx84 (1/4)
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The word is out officially, now: SoilTemp has finished its transformation into 'The MEB-network' - a fully-fledged research network that goes far beyond just being a database. And boy, does that make me proud!
Let me show you all the ways you can get involved here:
the3dlab.org/2025/05/31/s...
Let me show you all the ways you can get involved here:
the3dlab.org/2025/05/31/s...
SoilTemp is now MEB!
Over the past six years, I’ve poured my heart into SoilTemp. What started as a vision for a global soil temperature database quickly grew into something much more: a living, breathing community of …
the3dlab.org
May 31, 2025 at 4:39 AM
The word is out officially, now: SoilTemp has finished its transformation into 'The MEB-network' - a fully-fledged research network that goes far beyond just being a database. And boy, does that make me proud!
Let me show you all the ways you can get involved here:
the3dlab.org/2025/05/31/s...
Let me show you all the ways you can get involved here:
the3dlab.org/2025/05/31/s...
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I FOUND IT. I once read a great line about how weather station data are only useful for things living on the weather station. I wanted to cite it but could never remember the damn paper! By sheer luck, it found me. From @mikekaspari.bsky.social in @globalchangebio.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2jyd4z72
tinyurl.com/2jyd4z72
May 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I FOUND IT. I once read a great line about how weather station data are only useful for things living on the weather station. I wanted to cite it but could never remember the damn paper! By sheer luck, it found me. From @mikekaspari.bsky.social in @globalchangebio.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2jyd4z72
tinyurl.com/2jyd4z72
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In response to climate change #CC, #species #shift in many dimensions, moving in space along many climatic clines, including #microclimatic ones (horizontally & vertically) & adjusting their #phenology & #behaviour in time
🧪🌐🌍🍁🌳🌲🌴🦔🦅🦎🐝🦐🦑🐠🦈🐋
@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social
shorturl.at/W9fGd
🧪🌐🌍🍁🌳🌲🌴🦔🦅🦎🐝🦐🦑🐠🦈🐋
@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social
shorturl.at/W9fGd
May 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
In response to climate change #CC, #species #shift in many dimensions, moving in space along many climatic clines, including #microclimatic ones (horizontally & vertically) & adjusting their #phenology & #behaviour in time
🧪🌐🌍🍁🌳🌲🌴🦔🦅🦎🐝🦐🦑🐠🦈🐋
@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social
shorturl.at/W9fGd
🧪🌐🌍🍁🌳🌲🌴🦔🦅🦎🐝🦐🦑🐠🦈🐋
@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social
shorturl.at/W9fGd
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Thread with an email being sent to @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF:
Dear members:
The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.
Dear members:
The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.
May 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Thread with an email being sent to @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF:
Dear members:
The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.
Dear members:
The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.
I wish I could say I can’t believe this. But I guess I could.
"Under the agreement being pursued by the University of Florida, participating officers would have the authority to interrogate “any alien or person believed to be an alien” about their right to remain in the country, as well as the power to make arrests without a warrant in some cases."
UF, other Florida universities to deputize campus police for immigration enforcement
The police departments of at least three public universities in Florida are seeking agreements with the federal government to carry out immigration enforcement on campus.
www.wuft.org
April 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I wish I could say I can’t believe this. But I guess I could.
Reposted by Dave Klinges
"Under the agreement being pursued by the University of Florida, participating officers would have the authority to interrogate “any alien or person believed to be an alien” about their right to remain in the country, as well as the power to make arrests without a warrant in some cases."
UF, other Florida universities to deputize campus police for immigration enforcement
The police departments of at least three public universities in Florida are seeking agreements with the federal government to carry out immigration enforcement on campus.
www.wuft.org
April 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
"Under the agreement being pursued by the University of Florida, participating officers would have the authority to interrogate “any alien or person believed to be an alien” about their right to remain in the country, as well as the power to make arrests without a warrant in some cases."
Worth a visit at the Yale Peabody for those in the New Haven area!
It’s so cool to see my paintings in a museum! Dream come true. Check out the new exhibit showcasing @marthamunoz.bsky.social and @saulguerrero.bsky.social’s work on anole heat tolerance at the Yale Peabody Museum!
#sciart
Special thanks to @thenaturedave.bsky.social for sending me the photo
#sciart
Special thanks to @thenaturedave.bsky.social for sending me the photo
April 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Worth a visit at the Yale Peabody for those in the New Haven area!
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We are very happy to announce that the next Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography (MEB) conference will happen in Montpellier (FRANCE), 1 - 5 June 2026 ☀️
meb-network.com/meb-2026/
Microclimate scientists: save the date in your agenda!!
meb-network.com/meb-2026/
Microclimate scientists: save the date in your agenda!!
March 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We are very happy to announce that the next Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography (MEB) conference will happen in Montpellier (FRANCE), 1 - 5 June 2026 ☀️
meb-network.com/meb-2026/
Microclimate scientists: save the date in your agenda!!
meb-network.com/meb-2026/
Microclimate scientists: save the date in your agenda!!
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Trying to confirm. This is terrible for so many reasons
Getting informal reports that as part of the mass layoffs at the Department of Education, the International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) Office has been "abolished."
IFLE administers Title VI and Fulbright-Hays grant and fellowship programs.
A disaster.
www.ed.gov/about/ed-off...
IFLE administers Title VI and Fulbright-Hays grant and fellowship programs.
A disaster.
www.ed.gov/about/ed-off...
International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE)
The International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) office administers Title VI (domestic) and Fulbright-Hays (overseas) grant and fellowship programs.
www.ed.gov
March 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Trying to confirm. This is terrible for so many reasons
Need some excitement for research these days? Look no further than our most recent (open-access) paper in PeerJ: the exhilarating study of marsh snail grazing behaviors! But, these are RAVE snails....see the video supplement: 1/7
peerj.com/articles/190...
peerj.com/articles/190...
March 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Need some excitement for research these days? Look no further than our most recent (open-access) paper in PeerJ: the exhilarating study of marsh snail grazing behaviors! But, these are RAVE snails....see the video supplement: 1/7
peerj.com/articles/190...
peerj.com/articles/190...
Interrupting our doom-scrolling with a ray of ☀️ that was Orlando's @oacevedocharry.bsky.social wonderful seminar (to a packed room!) on his PhD work, from fusing standardized surveys + citizen science for improved population viability analysis, to global island biogeography. Check out his work!
March 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Interrupting our doom-scrolling with a ray of ☀️ that was Orlando's @oacevedocharry.bsky.social wonderful seminar (to a packed room!) on his PhD work, from fusing standardized surveys + citizen science for improved population viability analysis, to global island biogeography. Check out his work!
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I got told to look outside the US for post-graduate opportunities today, and I don't think it was meant as a joke
February 20, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I got told to look outside the US for post-graduate opportunities today, and I don't think it was meant as a joke
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Of course many federal workers can just “find another job”. But the point is that the jobs we do are done for the *public good*. There are no private sector corollaries. We do things that are largely not profitable and that is on purpose. We do work that benefits everyone, if sometimes indirectly.
February 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Of course many federal workers can just “find another job”. But the point is that the jobs we do are done for the *public good*. There are no private sector corollaries. We do things that are largely not profitable and that is on purpose. We do work that benefits everyone, if sometimes indirectly.
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I think this is my favourite report cover of all time. Any others?
February 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I think this is my favourite report cover of all time. Any others?
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🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐 🐋
Consider submitting your coolest / best / latest research, especially on large / global / macroscale ecology, to nonprofit IOP Publishing’s Environmental Research Ecology.
publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/journals/env...
Consider submitting your coolest / best / latest research, especially on large / global / macroscale ecology, to nonprofit IOP Publishing’s Environmental Research Ecology.
publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/journals/env...
About Environmental Research: Ecology - IOPscience - Publishing Support
publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org
February 1, 2025 at 5:25 AM
🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐 🐋
Consider submitting your coolest / best / latest research, especially on large / global / macroscale ecology, to nonprofit IOP Publishing’s Environmental Research Ecology.
publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/journals/env...
Consider submitting your coolest / best / latest research, especially on large / global / macroscale ecology, to nonprofit IOP Publishing’s Environmental Research Ecology.
publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/journals/env...
If you haven’t yet, considering following the Global Ecology Starter Pack!
bsky.app/starter-pack...
And if you do ecology at scale, simply DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join
bsky.app/starter-pack...
And if you do ecology at scale, simply DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join
January 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
If you haven’t yet, considering following the Global Ecology Starter Pack!
bsky.app/starter-pack...
And if you do ecology at scale, simply DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join
bsky.app/starter-pack...
And if you do ecology at scale, simply DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join
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Very pleased to see that #microclimates are finally making their way & infusing into #biogeography 😍 If you want to learn more on microclimate processes, then you will be in very good hands 😉 w/ ⬇️
@thenaturedave.bsky.social
@thenaturedave.bsky.social
The International Biogeography Society is excited to announce three upcoming workshops. For more details on each course and to register please visit the TIBS website: www.biogeography.org/news/categor...
January 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Very pleased to see that #microclimates are finally making their way & infusing into #biogeography 😍 If you want to learn more on microclimate processes, then you will be in very good hands 😉 w/ ⬇️
@thenaturedave.bsky.social
@thenaturedave.bsky.social
My final PhD chapter published in FEE (Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment): re-mapping Köppen-Geiger climate zones, but now using microclimate! Very excited to have this one out:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
January 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
My final PhD chapter published in FEE (Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment): re-mapping Köppen-Geiger climate zones, but now using microclimate! Very excited to have this one out:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...