Global Change Research Group

I am looking for a PhD student to join our work at @CASUSscience and work on ecological pattern formation. The project is not tied to a specific system, and options range from microbes to vegetation in water-limited ecosystems. Starting date is Feb 2025 and app. deadline Nov 22.

Applications for regional events are open! Members can apply for up to $2,000 to host events in their region. Submission deadline is December 1st!

Please RT and spread the word widely: Our department is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Global Change Biology (GCB), as part of a cluster hire in Global Change & Sustainability at Boston University: jobs.silkroad.com/BUCareers/Facu…

@macdoan Yes!

@pinskylab I'm still in time to apply?

Three (3!) postdoctoral fellowships at the UCSC Center for Coastal Climate Resilience! Applications due Dec. 15. Contact me (or any other faculty here) if you're interested in coming to work in an exciting community and beautiful place. Details at recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01634

It's not just #temperature that drives changes in marine species distributions... #oxygen and prey are important as well. Online early and open access in @GlobalChangeBio, led by the very talented @wajrajeew ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

I want to take a moment to acknowledge international students: The constant worry & energy spent working on immigration documents Being excluded from funding opportunities valued for postdoc & faculty positions And the emotional toll of being away from family

Congrats to Chie Murano @ChieMurano for winning the Population Ecology Young Author Award 2023🏆 Unique population dynamics of Japanese field vole: Winter breeding and summer population decline doi.org/10.1002/1438-3… #openaccess now! #PopEcol2023

Congrats to Caterina Ferrari @CATERFERRARI for winning the Population Ecology Young Author Award 2023🏆 Marginal habitats provide unexpected survival benefits to the alpine marmot doi.org/10.1002/1438-3… #openaccess now! #PopEcol2023

Congrats to Yoichi Tsuzuki for winning the Population Ecology Young Author Award 2023🏆 Genetic consequences of habitat fragmentation in a perennial plant Trillium camschatcense are subjected to its slow-paced life history doi.org/10.1002/1438-3… #openaccess now! #PopEcol2023

Uneven genetic data limits biodiversity assessments in PAs globally but not in data-rich areas. Increased efforts to gather, harmonize & share existing population-level nuclear genetic data can inform area-based conservation initiatives. New preprint here: doi.org/10.32942/X2ZC84

Genetic diversity is the foundation of biodiversity and now a global conservation priority, and yet there is much work to be done to understand where and in which species it is being lost or conserved! New paper in preprint led by @ivanpazvinas ! ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vie…

@OSelmoni @MExpositoAlonso Yes, I can see that being tricky. I'll follow up by email. Thanks!

#popgentwitter Has anyone run LFMM with genotype likelihoods? Seems like it should be possible.

Fear alone is not enough to motivate climate action; if people are afraid but don't know what to do, they will do nothing. That's why it's essential to communicate both the risks of inaction (the bad news) + the potential of action (the good news) in equal proportions.

@ntherk @BrennaRForester @evolvingseas

New paper about attrition of women in Academia has some interesting results under the hood. Higher rate is driven by non-STEM fields, low prestige unis, and largest for full profs. Attrition lower or equal for STEM women at top unis (B-D). Thoughts on why? science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Deadline coming up Nov. 2. This is one of the highest honors at @ESA_org, so please apply!

The Majoris Lab at TAMU-CC is open and recruiting a PhD student to study intra- and interspecific variation in larval dispersal traits. Full details at: johnmajoris.com/graduate-stude… @IslandCampus @AFS_ELHS @SICB_DAB

@F_A333 @JacquelineFWebb These are planned as two-year positions.

@pinskylab @JacquelineFWebb Is there short term 6-12 months research Fellowship?

What will recovering whale populations look like in a changing climate? So happy to see our paper on gray whale population dynamics out today in @ScienceMagazine! We show that gray whales go through major boom and bust cycles in response to dynamic and changing Arctic conditions.