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Nate Swenson
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Tree biologist, Gillen Director of UNDERC at Notre Dame
www.swensonlab.com
underc.nd.edu
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November 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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We're hiring! Please spread the word. We have an opening for an Assistant Professor in Plant Synthetic Biology for Strategic Resources Research. See ad for details – and apply to join us here in Athens, GA! 🪴 #PlantBiology #SyntheticBiology #PlantScience #AcademicJobs #UGA
October 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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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
provost.nd.edu/news/notre-d...

An exciting opportunity for postdocs here at Notre Dame. I would excited to mentor anyone outstanding candidate in temperate or tropical forest ecology. Pass along to folks looking for a position in 2026!
Notre Dame opens applications for 2026 Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship program
The University of Notre Dame is accepting applications for the next cohort of…
provost.nd.edu
September 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Looking for a #postdoct for a NSF project integrating ecosystem productivity, hyperspectral remote sensing and airborne LiDAR to test prominent hypothesis of the effect of #biodiversity on #forest #productivity @fluxnetecn.bsky.social @ngaps.bsky.social Apply at: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
September 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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New Tenure Track Position in Data Science or Biostatistics with us here at MTU is live.

We have great people here in a fantastic location that is probably a lot cooler (temperature-wise) than wherever you live during summer!

www.employment.mtu.edu/en-us/job/49...
Assistant Professor, Environmental Data Science & Biostatistics | Michigan Technological University
Explore career opportunities at Michigan Technological University located in Houghton, MI. Browse and filter job listings to find the perfect fit and learn more about each position.
www.employment.mtu.edu
August 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Here we go again - remember that breathing wildfire smoke isn’t good for your lungs, heart, or brain. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
Dense smoke from Canadian wildfires is blowing into U.S.
Wildfire smoke from Manitoba, Canada, will blow across two dozen states through Saturday, reducing air quality and creating hazy skies.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Countries must cooperate to seize a once-in-a-generation opportunity to become the top destination for scientists, says Maria M. Mota

https://go.nature.com/43KTTGV
Europe can capture the US brain drain — if it acts fast
Countries must cooperate to seize a once-in-a-generation opportunity to become the top destination for scientists.
go.nature.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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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
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The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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"The memo from the secretary of agric has the effect of declaring 60% of all national forestlands to be in a 'state of emergency', thereby lifting requirements for public comment & protection of endangered species & cultural resources before logging." 🌏 www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
More details surface in Trump administration plan to cut national forests
Memos from the Trump administration are increasing pressure to cut more national forests for timber and forest health.
www.seattletimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Ten week paid #NSF #REU #internship at the HJ Andrews #LTER in Oregon working on forest #microclimate and fungal symbiont effects on seedling success. Hosted by @osubpp.bsky.social. Review begins 4 April.

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More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
March 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Late-breaking job ad: The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, USA) is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Evolutionary Biology!!! More details below. Please repost!
TT Assistant Professor of Plant Evolutionary Biology
The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in Plant Evolutionary Biology. This position is a 9-month, ten...
jobs.ncsu.edu
December 17, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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🧪 Join us in Tucson! We will begin reviewing applications on December 9 for our tenure track faculty position on the genomics of resilience @uofa-eeb.bsky.social! Apply here: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
December 2, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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I am accepting applications for a PhD student to join my lab at the University of California, Riverside. If you are interested in plant community ecology, ecosystem function/stability, global change, or restoration, please contact me. Fully funded position available. See my website for more details.
December 2, 2024 at 11:48 PM
An afternoon at the Art Institute of Chicago. Pictures of people taking pictures of a picture that some are trying to look at in real life! Choose your own adventure for making a memory 🧐
December 2, 2024 at 9:21 PM
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My latest with Vanessa Rubio on the functional ecology of tropical forests - groups, traits and 'omics, oh my!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The functional underpinnings of tropical forest dynamics—Functional traits, groups, and unmeasured diversity
In this review, we discuss fundamental life history trade-offs that have been elucidated via traits, how these may or may not be linked to tropical tree “guilds” or functional groups, and how this in...
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November 27, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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Exciting updates! In January 2025 I will start at University of Liverpool as a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow. I will build a team to work on montane forests across the tropics! Several positions (tropical and temperate) coming up soon! Join our growing forest ecology group at Liverpool!
November 26, 2024 at 1:33 PM