Joshua Lynn

I'm giving a lecture on succession next week, where I show off my dog, Knut, admiring the glacial succession landscape of Jostedalsbreen in Norway. Vi savner Norge så mye!

Brain drain is undermining America’s scientific edge Policy decisions grounded in Maga talking points are helping to fuel a PhD exodus from government

"When it comes to science, the White House could not have crafted a more effective America Last policy."

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🏆 Calling all early-career ecologists! The E4 Award from @ecography.bsky.social is OPEN for submissions!
Submit a proposal for a concise review and compete for €1,000 (+ €500 runner-up).
📅 Deadline: 31 March 2026
📝 Just a <300-word proposal to start!

Plant functional traits can guide the regeneration of soil fertility in Kenyan grasslands - Plant and Soil Background and aims In mesic areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, grassland and soil degradation is widespread and accelerating through overgrazing, alien plant encroachment, and climate change. Selection of ...

New paper out led by @ellenfrysoil.bsky.social! Check out how we can use functional traits for soil regeneration.
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It's the Tenth of December! A great day to read "Tenth of December" by George Saunders.

My computer keeps autocorrecting "LiCor" to "liquor".

Plant-microbe interaction reshuffling and its contributions to plant stress toleration and biogeochemical cycling at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Plant-microbe interaction reshuffling and its contributions to plant stress toleration and biogeochemical cycling at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

New PhD advertised! Please distribute. Come work with a fine group of folks. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Explore how soil food webs withstand droughts and heatwaves, and what this means for tree regeneration in Swedish forests! 🌲🪱🌳🍄Become a PhD student in the WIFORCE Research School and work with us at SLU-Uppsala @mycopat.bsky.social #climate #forest #microbes #nematodes

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🌟 I’ve recently moved to The University of Manchester!
I'm advertising several PhD projects on plant–microbe interactions 🌱🦠🪲

🧪🖥️ Projects span experimental to computational. Diverse supervisory teams, collaborating across the UK Plant Microbiome community.

Details: www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...

🌟New PhD opportunity: 🌱🦠Predicting functional plant–microbiome networks for soil remediation 🌾🧫

The University of Manchester FSE Bicentenary PhD
Competition funded (worldwide)

Deadline 31st Jan, see info at bit.ly/4qn74qH

@manchester.ac.uk @rothamsted.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social

The Limiting Similarity, Convergence, and Divergence of Coexisting Species | The American Naturalist: Vol 101, No 921 1. There is a limit to the similarity (and hence to the number) of competing species which can coexist. The total number of species is proportional to the total range of the environment divided by the...

I saw that this MacArthur and Levins classic was hurting in the Altmetrics, so I thought I should bluesky it.

The Limiting Similarity, Convergence, and Divergence of Coexisting Species | The American Naturalist: Vol 101, No 921 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Conservation Conversation - Dr Josh Lynn YouTube video by Balsam Bashing

I was recently on this cool youtube series that focuses on conservation across different aspects of society (e.g., management, academia, etc.) called Conservation Conversations. Check it out!
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Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

PhD Research Fellow in global change ecology (285493) | University of Bergen Job title: PhD Research Fellow in global change ecology (285493), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Wednesday, October 1, 2025

🌄🌿Come work with us! We are #hiring a #PhDcandidate in global change ecology to become part of our brand-new Centre for Mountains in Transitions.

Apply here:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

For an overview of all available positions, see:
cmt.w.uib.no/open-positio...

@vvandvik.bsky.social

Come work with us!

In two week's time, application deadlines close for eight fully funded #PhD positions who will be working together on understanding and mitigating global change impacts and feedbacks from mountains:

cmt.w.uib.no/open-positio...

The biomechanics and evolution of quadrupedal gaits at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The biomechanics and evolution of quadrupedal gaits at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

Funded PhD claxon!! Bill Sellers at University of Manchester is advertising a fully-funded PhD position on the evolution of quadrupedal gaits. Exact focus is open and *could* include fossils. Deets here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Great news! From 1 January 2026, Nordic Journal of Botany will be a fully #OpenAccess journal! We are pleased to make NJB content freely accessible and increase the visibility of your published research!
Read more here: vist.ly/3n8zh4q
@nordicoikos.bsky.social

If you squint, you can see Manchester!

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...

Chupei, sitting in a green grassland, measuring CO2 fluxes using a transparent chamber. In the back you can see the IBS tanks used to simulate flooding in this field experiment.

The field team during a coffee break on a very hot day - the farmer created shade to sit in by lifting a large box into the air with his tractor

One of the field experiments, showing the structures built to simulate drought and flooding in the field plots

The field team being silly

Do you want to be part of our team this season, maintaining and sampling field experiments in which we test the effect of extreme weather on grassland C storage?

We have a 6-month technician position available - apply here before May 23rd!

Please RT or forward!
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Make science more collegial: why the time for ‘adversarial collaboration’ has come Bringing together proponents of rival theories to test their ideas against each other can advance science — but only if all sides can accept that they might be wrong.

"Adversarial collaboration" is a great idea. There are a few hypotheses I've worked on that could benefit from this form of collaboration.
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I like that @britishecologicalsociety.org is creative with their "page not found" error message. Are they working with a Hutchinsonian, Grinnellian, or Eltonian niche concept?

I am honoured to be given platform to present our work on FOSSILPOL!🫶
Come join the seminar(!) but The slides and recording will be publicly available😉
Also checkout the website of the project 🔗https://bit.ly/FOSSILPOL!

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I've been this my whole career...

We are recruiting a mid- senior- level Ecologist. Please get in touch if interested! We (still) champion EDIA, a sustainable and global future.

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Workshops ⇽ Oikos Norway 2025 | Nordic Society Oikos

Going to @nordicoikos.bsky.social #OikosNorway2025? We have great signup for our #workshop on how & why #ecologists could & should engage in #science-policy and #scicom, but can fit more, so pls consider joining us!
@ipbes.net @vkm.no #artsdatabanken nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/oikos-...

We propose additional lines of evidence that would support and distinguish the two mechanisms of ND. Echoing Kaspari and Welti, we need to fire up the C:N analysers and ICP-OES's to get to the bottom of how global change is altering the nutritional landscape.
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The paper lays out how continuing ND may be driving herbivore declines. This inspired Chris Taylor, Bred Beckett, and myself to propose a complementary mechanism of biochemical ND called community ND, where global changes additionally alter plant communities to favour less nutritious species.

@mikekaspari.bsky.social and Ellen Welti recently wrote an excellent piece on how rising carbon dioxide and other global changes are driving plants to become larger and more carbon-rich at the expense of their relative nutrient content - coined Nutrient Dilution (ND). doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Plant community signatures of nutrient dilution Kaspari and Welti [1] argued that reductions in plant nutrient concentration in response to CO2 fertilisation, nutrient flux out of ecosystems, and other global changes have led to invertebrate population declines by decreasing the bite-by-bite…

Online now: Plant community signatures of nutrient dilution