Wonderful and important paper by Amy Sater!
"Inclusive excellence in faculty hiring to advance environmental and sustainability sciences"
Must read if you are ever somehow involved in hiring in academia.
Believe me.
www.academia.edu/2997-6006/3/...
This Friday, we are happy to host Dr. Kerri Crawford from the Department of Biology and Biochemistry on a talk entitled “Applications of Ecological Theory to Coastal Dune Restorations”
Anthropogenic disturbance alters the diversity, composition, and abundance of microbes as well as the edaphic properties of the soil.
#TansleyReview: Why, when, and how microbes can benefit ecological restorations: current approaches and future directions
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Crawford et al.
@kerricrawford.bsky.social @collingdice.bsky.social
Figure created in biorender.com/iwso49n.
Photo from our summer lab lunch! 12 people sitting at brightly painted picnic tables with yellow umbrellas outside Cali n' Titos.
I'm hiring postdoc in my lab to work on temporal dynamics of sorghum root microbiome assembly! This position is funded by the Moore Foundation through UGA, and would be perfect for someone finishing up their PhD this spring. Details here: chunglab.franklinresearch.uga.edu/join-lab
Two weeks left to apply for the @stegg-interact.bsky.social post-bacc research program. Details on the website uh.edu/nsm/stegg-in...
There is still time to apply! The deadline has been extended until February 3rd.
We need help keeping the world’s largest living library of mycorrhizal fungi alive. The INVAM mycorrhizal culture collection is at risk due to federal funding cuts. Its loss would be catastrophic.
Link to donate:
🔗 invam.ku.edu/donate
Read @theguardian.com article:
🔗 buff.ly/hkEGXgu
@invam.bsky.social collection, prairies, and AMF all featured in the awesome article
Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Excited to share our paper in @pnas.org with Aldo Compagnoni and Tom Miller !
Climate change may push dioecious plants toward female-biased sex ratios which will impair seed production. Ignoring this feedback underestimates range shifts. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The Georgia Coastal Ecosystems Long-Term Ecological Research program is looking for a postdoc with expertise in wetlands and biogeochemistry. Please pass this along to likely candidates!
Increasing Prevalence of Plant‐Fungal Symbiosis Across Two Centuries of Environmental Change
🔗 buff.ly/b7IL4MJ
@joshuacfowler.bsky.social @jmoutouama.bsky.social
Fig. 1 Ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) being introduced together with their plant hosts on Isla Victoria, Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina, in 1936.
#TansleyInsight: #Invasive #EctomycorrhizalFungi: belowground insights from South America
@nahpo.bsky.social & @martin-nunez.bsky.social
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📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue @uh.edu
The ASN (American Society of Naturalists) is seeking Diversity Committee members! Are you an ASN member? Want to make the EEB community a better place? Like being in Zoom meetings with people who have cute dogs? Consider applying!
www.amnat.org/announcement...
Have thoughts for a special symposium at the Virtual Evolution meeting (May 20-22, 2026)? The @asn-amnat.bsky.social is looking for proposals! Click here to pitch your idea or find out more: www.amnat.org/announcement... #Evol2026
We were at the beach today, too! But surveying plants, not inverts. We did see a crab.
Come work at the UMich Biological Station as a Michigan Fellow (you don't have to be a biologist)! Apply today: societyoffellows.umich.edu/uncategorize...
We are hiring a full time lab technician to assist with several long-term richness/biodiversity/microbe/drought/restoration manupulation experiments at the KU field station. Applications due this week! Please share.
Job Posting - Research Technician share.google/GsSTtiW4rIm5...
Fig. 1 Photograph of a salt marsh at Sapelo Island, GA, USA, showing dense stands of Spartina alterniflora.
#Genotype × genotype interactions in a plant–microbe #symbiosis
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
👆 A #Commentary by Kerri Crawford & Claudia Franco on this article by Hanley et al. 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue #PlantScience
Applications are NOW OPEN for Smith Fellows conservation research Fellowships beginning in 2026! View the Proposal Guidelines and apply here: www.smithfellows.org/join-us
Webinar on Responding to NSF Grant Terminations Join the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) on Friday, May 9th, at 2:00 PM ET for an informative webinar on responding to NSF grant terminations. We will discuss the rules, procedures and available options for grantees who have had their grant terminated.
🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar.
Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET
Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely.
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Job opportunity! Excited to share that we have an opening for a research technician position to help with our research on phenological shifts & species interactions in amphibian communities. (please help spread the word!)
More details here:
emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Wonderful news!!
I cannot be happier😊
Congratulations Agostina!!!
New paper out in New Phytologist! We show that how we define species in AM fungi is flawed — and propose a better, reproducible approach. Grateful to my brilliant co-authors Nicolas Corradi and Franco Magurno for bringing me in and pushing my thinking.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Proud to present the first data paper from the lab, published today in @pnas.org.
We describe a new mechanism for CLE peptides as local symbiosis-amplifying signals, promoting plant interactions with beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.
Congratulations @sagarbashyal.bsky.social et al.!
Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut.
This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.
In case you missed it while it feels like the world is 🔥burning🔥 down around us:
The deadline (Feb 21) is approaching for submitting a pitch to ASN for a special symposium at Virtual Evolution!
Is your NSF grant on this list? Reach out if so!
Ted Cruz released a list of grants flagged for DEI or "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda" from his Oct. report.
NSF is using keywords from that report for their review, though Cruz's list is likely larger.
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...
I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council
