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Brian J. Enquist

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Biodiversity | Ecology | Climate Change | Scaling | Physiological Ecology | Theory | Macroecology | OpenScience - Prof Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, U Arizona. External Prof The Santa Fe Institute - Proud father, Sonoran Telemarker 🌵🇺🇸🇬🇧🇸🇪🌲he/him

Brian J. Enquist's avatar Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social
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Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for.

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Job alert!! Join Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley. We are hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of global change biology with emphasis on the Ecology and Evolution of Host-Microbe Interactions (pathogens, mutualists, microbiomes).

aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04476

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Ian Boudreau's avatar Ian Boudreau @iboudreau.bsky.social
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Can't wait until this thing is twice as powerful

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Ethan White's avatar Ethan White @ethan.weecology.org
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Today @thecarpentries.bsky.social released a new version of their lesson. I really like this redesign which has focused on a "cake first" approach that quickly gets students producing rewarding data visualizations. 🌎 🧪

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Hey there - question - does anyone know of some good examples of the use of Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) in ecological research? #phdlife #ecology #stats

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Anna Allen's avatar Anna Allen @akallen10.bsky.social
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IOS has a job announcement searching for the next Division Director of IOS!

The Division Director provides vision & leadership to the Division. This is a rotational opportunity.

More information & details can be found here:
www.usajobs.gov/job/797566700

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Terry McGlynn's avatar Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social
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A new program from NSF is targeting graduate fellowship money to people who received Honorable Mention on a GRFP within the past three years, who are currently enrolled in grad school in EPSCoR states.

here is the solicitation: new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

and a map of EPSCoR eligible states:

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Rob Carr's avatar Rob Carr @robcarr.bsky.social
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And here's the article I got it from, with a nice description of a fascinating way viruses have affected evolution:

www.noemamag.com/viruses-are-...

And yes, I was so happy I remembered the alt text on the image, I forgot to add the 🧪

I hope including it here suffices.

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The Golden Jubilee Bridges has seen better times....

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Costa Samaras's avatar Costa Samaras @costasamaras.bsky.social
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Here’s a message: the next four years sets the landscape for the rest of the century for America. Democracy, a livable climate, & justice for all is a path we can choose. Because of the hard work and accomplishments of the 1st term, a better future for all is within sight. Let’s go get it, together.

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Kelly Turnbull's avatar Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social
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I HAVE NEVER WANTED ANYTHING MORE THAN I WANT THIS DEER HEAD SOMEONE POSTED IN THE BAD TAXIDERMY FB ACCOUNT

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵

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Greg Priest's avatar Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social
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Ernst Mayr was born OTD in 1904.

“Most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.”

🌱🐋🦋🦫🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci

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Rebecca Mosher's avatar Rebecca Mosher @rm0sher.bsky.social
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This is so important. I stress to new grad students that they are no longer learning facts. They are now learning *how* we know facts to be true (controls, etc) and generating new facts. ‼️Critical thinking and discovery are exactly what AI cannot do. ‼️

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Kelly Hereid's avatar Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social
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In the early Twitter days science types would show up and post when they had a new paper. Wonderful! But real talk y'all: papers take ages to write. So, post about other people's stuff! You read a paper and it was cool! Or you had a question! Or it tied to this other thing! Tag the authors!

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IPBES's avatar IPBES @ipbes.bsky.social
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Celebrating independence is important, but we should also honor the INTERdependence of all living things! 🐟🐦🐻‍❄️
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The delicate balance of species ensures healthy ecosystems, which is why #biodiversity is vitally important - for people and nature. 🌏🧪
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#IndependenceDay

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Apparently there was/is a thing called a ‘Dog Cake’ …

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Laura Helmuth's avatar Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social
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"The protection that vaccines provide is an irreplaceable part of living the healthiest lifestyle possible." This is a nice appreciation of vaccines as tested, proven, and immensely effective ways to prevent illness and promote good health. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/vacc...

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There are now Mangroves in Georgia “This is a range expansion, and it’s natural, and this species is apparently going to establish and, perhaps, thrive “ www.fws.gov/story/mangro... 🧪

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Tree phytochemical diversity and herbivory are higher in the tropics "we provide several lines of evidence...showing that biotic interactions probably play an increasingly important role in generating and maintaining tree diversity in the lower latitudes" www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌎🌴

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Arieh Kovler's avatar Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com
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British place names: A guide for confused Americans If a town has "cester" in its name, that bit is just prounounced "ster" Worcester = Wooster (with a short 'oo') Leicester = Lester Gloucester = Glosster Frocester = Froster Alcester = Allster Bicester = Bisster Towcester = Toaster (yes, really)

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Brian J. Enquist's avatar Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social
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What do you call a paper who's data are only available in a pdf with all sorts of different formatting in it? Maybe the ultimate test of patience ... A DIY escape room kit: designed to make you question your career choices and the concept of "open" in open science 🧪

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"The bill would also block OSTP from carrying out a 2022 directive that would require free public access to papers and data produced by federally funded grantees...starting at the end of 2025. The Republican-controlled House had sought the same ban last year..." www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank 's avatar Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social
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Increasingly politicians are pushing agendas that negate or ignore the threat of climate change yet climate change brings about, amongst other things, a risk of infection that increasingly we are less able to manage. Tackling Climate change should not be a choice but an urgent need! 🧪🌍

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Berna Devezer's avatar Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social
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As a frequent recipient of baseless criticisms of theoretical models, the most frustrating (yet common) one that I encounter goes: "These results don't fit my own perception/intuition/observations/these data so it can't be true. 1. Models are models; they aim to be useful/insightful, not true. 1/n

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“The…study reflects a disturbing trend to confuse opportunity with cause and to assign “drivers” (or causal conditions) to correlations, often without invoking mechanistic justification…possibility, or potential, is not the same as adaptive or functional necessity “ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪🌎

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Michael Lobel's avatar Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social
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It is my hope that Van Gogh and the End of Nature will help shift our understanding of this iconic modern artist and highlight his work’s relevance to contemporary concerns about industrial pollution, environmental despoliation, and climate change

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“Groundwater in the Colorado River Basin will struggle to recover from warming temperatures, study shows
As below-ground aquifers fall due to rising temperatures, streams that carry water for ecosystems, human uses may shrink too”
coloradosun.com/2024/06/24/g...

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“Currently, oak phylogenetics is at a turning point, at which it is necessary to integrate phylogenetics and ecology in broad regional samples to figure out species boundaries.”

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That Flighty Broad's avatar That Flighty Broad @thatflightybroad.bsky.social
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Horse walks into a bar, bartender asks, “Why the long face? Are you depressed?” Horse thinks for a sec, “I don’t think I am” and immediately disappears. This joke is about Rene Descartes’ saying “I think therefore I am” but if I told you that first, I would be putting Descarte before the horse.

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Brian J. Enquist's avatar Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social
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Developing a predictive science of the biosphere requires the integration of scientific cultures -How can science most rapidly progress to address complex global problems? Our solution to accelerating a broader, predictive science of the biosphere is to enhance integration of scientific cultures🧪

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“Global energy demand reached a record high of 620 exajoules (EJ) in 2023, with annual growth of 2.0%, slightly above the 1.5% per year average for the last decade.

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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As I explain here, climate change is not only loading the weather dice against us, it's also replacing some of the numbers with extra 6's and even some 7s and an 8 -- making heatwaves more dangerous, heavy downpours more frequent, droughts longer and stronger, hurricanes intensify faster, and more.

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Joseph W. Brown's avatar Joseph W. Brown @josephwb.bsky.social
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Any Github Actions gurus here? For a mac build, I use homebrew to install dependencies, and have not had issues. Apparently brew now installs to /opt/homebrew/ rather than /usr/local, and configure cannot find them. I've tried appending $GITHUB_PATH, with no success... (눈_눈)

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Bluecorn enchiladas, red and green chili, pinto beans and pozole... Wash it down with a sopapilla w/ honey. Perhaps the best meal ever. Seriously #NewMexico #GreenChili #LaChoza

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Richard Waite's avatar Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social
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Your periodic reminder that calling aviation biofuels "sustainable aviation fuels" does not magically make those biofuels sustainable. E.g., if the US were to reach its stated goal of 35B gallons of SAF using ethanol, this would require 114M acres of corn, or ***120%*** of current US corn acreage.

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Mike the Mad Biologist's avatar Mike the Mad Biologist @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social
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I agree overall. One problem is that people need to unlearn Xitter habits; e.g., liking a post doesn't really boost engagement since there's no algorithm–people actually have to engage with a post (quote post, repost, or respond) to boost a post.

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