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Brian J. Enquist
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Biodiversity | Ecology | Physiology | Theory | Climate Change | Macroecology | Scaling | biendata.org; Prof. EEB Univ of Arizona, External Prof Santa Fe Institute, Assoc Res Oxford Univ UK; Proud father, 🌵🇺🇸🇬🇧🇸🇪🌲 Gift med en svensk .. more

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Brian Joseph Enquist is an American biologist and academic. Enquist is a professor of biology at the University of Arizona. He is also external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is a biologist, plant biologist and an ecologist. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012 and the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2018. .. more

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · May 9
In our latest paper in PNAS, we ask: How can scientific progress be accelerated to meet the urgent challenges of the Anthropocene? We point to significant barriers in forecasting & prediction efforts for the biosphere 🧵👇 🧪🌎🦋 1/n www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#ScienceTwitter #Ecology #Anthropocene

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Gabriel M. Moulatlet @gabrielmoulatlet.bsky.social · 10h
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Ecological winners: Why some species dominate the planet
Analyzing plant dispersion data from across the globe, researchers at the University of Arizona found that the most abundant species have adapted to tolerate a wide range of climates. Their findings c...
news.arizona.edu

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 13h
The West’s vanishing porcupines www.hcn.org/articles/the... 🌐🧪
The West’s vanishing porcupines - High Country News
Scientists are racing to figure out why porcupines are disappearing from their former stomping grounds.
www.hcn.org

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 20h
Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 2d
Finally a thread that intersects with the insights and expertise of @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social and @maitner.bsky.social
svalver.bsky.social Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · Aug 20
What do Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Mortal Kombat have to teach us about #cultural #evolution? As a social-technological phenomenon, #arcade game genres evolved like cultural species—some diversified, while others became "living fossils." 🕹️🧪 👉 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

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Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 2d
Or course the big bomb would be Google scholar coming in. They did just launch Scholar labs but that's deep search not deep research... But if they change their mind...
aarontay.substack.com/p/scholar-la... (7)
Scholar Labs Early Review: Google Scholar Finally Enters the AI Era
Generated by Nano-Banana Pro from text of this blog post
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jessamine finch @seedystudies.bsky.social · 5d
📣 Job Opportunity: Plant Conservation Post Doctoral Associate (San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance)🌿

🌎 Escondido, CA
🧑‍💻 Using SDMs, plant collections, monitoring, & env. datasets, identify plant conservation action priorities in seed collections and translocations for CA rare plants
⌛ 3y FT
💸 $87k

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 5d
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 5d
The BIEN validation service architecture, as implemented for the GNRS. Interfaces include a JSON API, an R package, and a web-based graphical user interface. The API handles all public interaction with the core service. Access the GNRS web applicaiton here gvs.biendata.org
BIEN validation service architecture, as implemented for the GNRS. Reference data are stored locally within the core service as a periodically-updated, versioned data warehouse. A controller manages parallelization and optimization of concurrent requests. Interfaces include a JSON API, an R package, and a web-based graphical user interface. The API handles all public interaction with the core service.

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 5d
Check out one of several of our #BIEN biodiversity data workflow tools - The Geographic Name Resolution Service: A tool for the standardization and indexing of world
political division names, with applications to
species distribution modeling journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 🧪🌐🌾
Geographic name resolution service: A tool for the standardization and indexing of world political division names, with applications to species distribution modeling
Massive biological databases of species occurrences, or georeferenced locations where a species has been observed, are essential inputs for modeling present and future species distributions. Location ...
journals.plos.org

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Francis Martin, Håvard Kauserud , and 2 more

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 5d
A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land.

The fossil, more than 400 million years old, offers hints about the origin of one of the greatest partnerships in the history of life on Earth.

www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Ancient fossil reveals how plants and fungi first developed on land | Natural History Museum
A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land.
www.nhm.ac.uk

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Tobias Kuemmerle

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Chris Thorogood @christhorogood.bsky.social · 5d
I know I'm spamming you all with the world's largest flower this week but look at THIS! A rare glimpse inside Rafflesia arnoldi!

Reposted by Tuomas Kankaanpää

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 5d
Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism 🧪🌐 "we detect consistent nonlinear interactions between ALAN and night duration, with Ecosystem respiration " www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism - Nature Climate Change
The authors combine light intensity data with eddy covariance observations from 86 sites to show that artificial light at night increases ecosystem respiration and alters carbon exchange, with impacts...
www.nature.com

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, James M. Bullock, Stephen D. Murphy , and 1 more

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 6d
New #BIEN collaboration paper out in @pnas.org🍃
We show, using data for ~250,000 #plant species, that broader climatic niches consistently predict larger geographic ranges and higher dominance - a key insight for #biodiversity under #climatechange🌍🌱👉https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2517585122

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azcentral @azcentral.com · 7d
A migration corridor that allows jaguars and ocelots to cross into the U.S. is the latest border wall construction zone.
Border wall opponents rally as Trump closes a 27-mile gap across a remote Arizona valley
A migration corridor that allows jaguars and ocelots to cross into the U.S. is the latest border wall construction zone.
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Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Karen R. Lips, John R. Hutchinson , and 1 more

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 7d
Scientists (especially early career researchers): How has your career been impacted over the last year of policy changes and funding cuts? Contact me here or on Signal if you have a story to share.

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Arthur Geßler, Juan Cole

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 7d
"Bill Gates' climate comments are a distraction" | My new commentary for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
screen cap of header of linked article

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Tyson Wepprich @tysonwepprich.bsky.social · 7d
New paper by Tielens, Stepanian, & Kelly uses weather radar to monitor flying insect communities across the USA over 10 years. Detected no change in density over 2012-2021, with lots of station to station variation. #openaccess paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🌐🧪🪲🪳
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Yawako @yawaguchi.bsky.social · 8d
I’ve released a tool to sketch and edit phylogenetic trees!
yawak.jp/PhyloWeaver/

Load a Newick file and intuitively add/remove/resize branches.
Useful for quick conceptual trees, extracting subtrees, or turning ideas into Newick.
PhyloWeaver – Interactive phylogenetic tree editor
Edit and visualize phylogenetic trees directly in your browser. PhyloWeaver lets you interactively rearrange tree topologies and export high-quality figures for publications and presentations.
yawak.jp

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 8d
The T. H. Huxley Award recognizes an outstanding evolution education resource and provides funding for the awardee to attend the Evolution or NABT conference to present their work! Apply by February 2nd: bit.ly/2kP2pPM
Background: a chalkboard scattered with school supplies. Text: Society for the Study of Evolution T. H. Huxley Award, applications due February 2.

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J. Chris Pires @jchrispires.bsky.social · 9d
We are looking for a new colleague and department head for #Horticulture and Landscape #Architecture at #Colorado State #University! #highered #academicsky #agsky #Agriculture. Apply by December 31! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/169...
Professor & Head, Dept of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture
Colorado State University invites applications and nominations for the position of Professor and Head of the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture (HLA) in the College of Agricultural ...
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 11d
Naturalized and Invasive Species Integrate Differently in the Trait Space of Local Plant Communities🧪🌾🌐 #FunctionalTraits onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Naturalized and Invasive Species Integrate Differently in the Trait Space of Local Plant Communities
We investigated the relative positions of native, non-invasive naturalized and invasive plant species in the functional trait space of local communities in six different habitat types. We show that n...
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 11d
Cool new work by Storch, Ridder, and Okie - Cradles, museums, and disequilibria: reconciling biodiversity dynamics using equilibrium theory #macroecology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🌐
Cradles, museums, and disequilibria: reconciling biodiversity dynamics using equilibrium theory
Historical nonequilibrium processes are often considered the main drivers of global biodiversity patterns. We argue that while biodiversity is often o…
www.sciencedirect.com

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Julie L. Lockwood, Tuomas Mattila

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 11d
Honoring James A. Estes, a pioneering ecologist whose research on sea otters in Alaska revealed how predators shape entire ecosystems. His work helped define the concept of trophic cascades and inspired generations of ecologists. Read the PNAS Retrospective: https://ow.ly/leKs50XrKBH
Honoring the life of James A. Estes, a pioneering ecologist.

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 11d
Up there amongst the most amazing museum exhibits I’ve seen - so worth a visit
ferrisjabr.bsky.social Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 11d
Recently visited the Glass Flowers at Harvard, a collection of 4,300 extraordinarily realistic glass models of plants crafted by the Blaschkas, a father and son team of sculptors

That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are
An overview shot of a portion of the collection: a long window box with wooden frames filled with glass models of plants carefully arranged and labeled on white backgrounds, as though part of a 3D herbarium. From this distance, they are indistinguishable from real plants. Glass model of maple leaves, featuring blended molten glass that mimics the red hues of autumn foliage A glass model of a Columbine (Aquilegia) with parsley-like leaves and pendulous, faintly red and yellow flowers that look like swans huddled together, necks touching and wings flared out. Glass model of a Potentilla with almost ferny foliage and simple, open-faced yellow flowers with fuzzy centers.

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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 11d
Recently visited the Glass Flowers at Harvard, a collection of 4,300 extraordinarily realistic glass models of plants crafted by the Blaschkas, a father and son team of sculptors

That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are
An overview shot of a portion of the collection: a long window box with wooden frames filled with glass models of plants carefully arranged and labeled on white backgrounds, as though part of a 3D herbarium. From this distance, they are indistinguishable from real plants. Glass model of maple leaves, featuring blended molten glass that mimics the red hues of autumn foliage A glass model of a Columbine (Aquilegia) with parsley-like leaves and pendulous, faintly red and yellow flowers that look like swans huddled together, necks touching and wings flared out. Glass model of a Potentilla with almost ferny foliage and simple, open-faced yellow flowers with fuzzy centers.

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · 11d
🚨Job opportunity🚨

We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 12d
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Jussi T. Eronen, Dennis Rödder

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 12d
Biological accommodation of climatic variability is a first order factor enabling success of species. An excellent study of temperature niche breadth and geographical ranges of terrestrial plants.
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
🧪 ⚒️ #EvoBio #Paleobio #Macroecology
Global map of species (A) geographic range size, and (B) niche breadth.

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 13d
Hint of the #aurora way down here in #Tucson

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Brian J. Enquist, Ingolf Kühn

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Gabriel M. Moulatlet @gabrielmoulatlet.bsky.social · 13d
in "General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally", we provide key insights into species’ vulnerability to environmental change and the processes that structure biodiversity at global scales.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally | PNAS
A longstanding question in ecology asks whether or not species that achieve large geographic ranges also have large climatic niche breadths. Using ...
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