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Laura Dee

@lauradee.bsky.social

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Associate Prof at University of Colorado. I study the effects of climate change on ecosystems and people. Interested in how to effectively design and evaluate nature based solutions, evidence, and strategies for climate adaptation and conservation. She/her .. more

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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · Dec 11

Hi 👋 new BlueSky followers! Introducing our lab group @colorado.edu. We aim to understand and design solutions to the grand challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change. Our research combines global change ecology, community ecology, ecosystem sci, economics & conservation science to: 1/n

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Phil Martin @philmartin.bsky.social · 8d

I'm trying to organise conferences and workshops that I want to go to in 2026. Is there a decent list out there for ecology and conservation people anywhere? Everything I've come across by Googling seems to be full of predatory conferences.

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Julie L. Lockwood, Mark N. Maunder , and 7 more Brian J. Enquist, Julie L. Lockwood, Mark N. Maunder, Trevor A. Branch, Ryan K. Brook, Ricardo Rocha, Laura E. Dee, Marius Somveille, Benjamin Larue, Jaume A. Badia‐Boher

Alexa Fredston @afredston.bsky.social · 20d

POSTDOC JOB AD: I'm hiring a Bayesian ecologist to build a (IMO, extremely fun) model of humpback whale spatiotemporal dynamics in California

2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin.

ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003

Fredston Lab: Postdoctoral Scholar

University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucsc.edu

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Morgan Tingley @mwtingley.bsky.social · 24d

Less than 1 month left to submit abstracts for what is always the *best* conference on climate change impacts on biodiversity. Intimate conference size but truly global participation; highly recommend for 1st-timers and returnees.

Species On The Move 2026 @sotm2026.bsky.social · 25d

✨🌏 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 🌏✨

⏰ Deadline: November 10, 2025

🗣️ Oral Presentations | 📋 Poster Presentations

🔗 Guidelines & Submissions: www.speciesonthemove.com/abstract/inf...

🇹🇼 Can't wait to welcome you to #Taiwan!

#SpeciesOnTheMove #SOTM2026 #Taiwan #SunMoonLake #ClimateChange #Biodiversity

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Joseph Tobias @josephtobias.bsky.social · 28d

A heads-up for anyone interested in research quality, repeatability & transparency: I'm leading a 2-hour session at 10 am UK-time tomorrow, in conjunction with others.
Hopefully this can form the basis of a guidelines paper, so we're hoping you can join online to guide us in the right direction. 🌐🌎

Image showing the text summary for a planned unconference at the 5th SORTEE conference, Oct 2025

Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · 29d

Very true! Ah that’s interesting I didn’t know that about psych.

Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · Oct 11

Yes I know that they aren’t - that’s something well studied in other fields so that’s why I was surprised to see this in pnas. What’s the problem with changing the estimand if heterogeneity is part of the question and important?

Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · Oct 9

Wait - I pinned this, but is this not already known? Well known in other fields… #causalsky

Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · Oct 9

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Dr Mircea Zloteanu 🍁 🍃 @mzloteanu.bsky.social · Oct 8

#statstab #433 The Table 2 Fallacy: Presenting and Interpreting Confounder and Modifier Coefficients

Thoughts: Adding predictors to your model results in marked changes in inference. Be mindful!

#table2 #fallacy #covariates #bias #inference #regression

doi.org/10.1093/aje/...

The Table 2 Fallacy: Presenting and Interpreting Confounder and Modifier Coefficients

Abstract. It is common to present multiple adjusted effect estimates from a single model in a single table. For example, a table might show odds ratios for

doi.org

Reposted by Mark Lubell, Benjamin I. Cook, Laura E. Dee

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Oct 2

📣 Check it out! Explore the new data viz on our homepage: www.climatecentral.org

@climatecentral.org just released a new tool to explore climate impacts in U.S. cities and states - making complex data easier to understand for your community.

🚨 What’s the biggest Fall climate threat where you live?

Example of the new climate tool from Climate Central. This is showing climate change in Pennsylvania which is seeing annually a change in precipitation of 3.2 inches since 1970 and a warming of 3.2°F. Fall threats include heat, heavy rainfall, and sea level rise. This is associated with impacts like increased cooling demand, more extreme rainfall, and changes to fall foliage.

Reposted by Elena Litchman, Trevor A. Branch, Kate Starbird , and 1 more Elena Litchman, Trevor A. Branch, Kate Starbird, Laura E. Dee

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · Sep 29

There is time to urge a change to the current #GRFP solicitation ( #NSF 25-547 ): reverse the eligibility restrictions and ensure applicants (including 2nd year PhD students) have a fair chance in the competition.

Feel free to sign and share this open petition:
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition

laurenkuehne.github.io

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Gavin A. Schmidt , and 10 more Brian J. Enquist, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Gavin A. Schmidt, Joshua S. Weitz, Michael A. Clemens, Dustin Mulvaney, Silvia Secchi, Michael Zimmer, Julia Lynch, Brian Keegan, Jessica Vitak, Larry W. Hunter, Laura E. Dee

Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · Sep 25

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.

The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Monica G. Turner, Robin J. Pakeman , and 1 more Brian J. Enquist, Monica G. Turner, Robin J. Pakeman, Laura E. Dee

Nate Swenson @nateswenson.bsky.social · Sep 25

provost.nd.edu/news/notre-d...

An exciting opportunity for postdocs here at Notre Dame. I would excited to mentor anyone outstanding candidate in temperate or tropical forest ecology. Pass along to folks looking for a position in 2026!

Notre Dame opens applications for 2026 Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship program

The University of Notre Dame is accepting applications for the next cohort of…

provost.nd.edu

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Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture @yalecncc.bsky.social · Sep 23

📢📢📢 New peer-reviewed Comment in @springernature.com Climate Change authored by @yalecncc.bsky.social Scientific Leadership Team member and Yale School of the Environment Professor Mark Bradford on "Upstream data need to prove soil carbon as a climate solution." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Upstream data need to prove soil carbon as a climate solution - Nature Climate Change

Causal approaches employed at the scale of commercial agriculture are required to build high-quality evidence that climate-smart agricultural interventions result in real emissions reductions and removals. Such project-scale empirical data are additionally required to demonstrate and advance the viability of process-based models and digital measurement, reporting and verification as tools to scale soil carbon accounting.

www.nature.com

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Sep 17

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"

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Olivier Gimenez 🦦 @oaggimenez.bsky.social · Sep 12

🌿 Le Centre d’Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive à Montpellier (lnkd.in/erpreW-F), recherche sa/son DU 😉
👉 lnkd.in/etM5tXEP

🌿 The Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology in Montpellier (lnkd.in/e9JBQNai) is looking for its next director. Come and join us 😉
👉 lnkd.in/etM5tXEP

Reposted by Simon Roux, Delphine K. Farmer, Kelly R. Zamudio , and 7 more Simon Roux, Delphine K. Farmer, Kelly R. Zamudio, Márk E. Hauber, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Jason Stajich, Brian J. Harvey, Laura E. Dee, Carly D. Ziter, Benjamin Larue

Dan Sloan @sloanevolab.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word!

jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

Assistant Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions

We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...

jobs.colostate.edu

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ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · Sep 3

Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics starting back up 🚨🚨TOMORROW🚨🚨 with an amazing line up of fall speakers, beginning with Obie Porteous on agricultural trade and climate change impacts in Africa

Line up here: cepr.org/events/event...

Make sure to register for the zoom link

#econsky

Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics

The Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics is open to those interested in academic research on the economic implications of climate-related issues.

cepr.org

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Katherine Siegel @katherinesiegel.bsky.social · Sep 3

Exciting postdoc opportunities at the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Impact Lab at University of Colorado-Boulder!

ESIIL @cu-esiil.bsky.social · Sep 2

We are currently accepting Postdoc applications!
Visit our website to learn more and apply by Sept. 15th, 2025 for full consideration: esiil.org/careers
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Reposted by Rachel C. Nethery, Laura E. Dee, Katherine Siegel

ESIIL @cu-esiil.bsky.social · Sep 2

We are currently accepting Postdoc applications!
Visit our website to learn more and apply by Sept. 15th, 2025 for full consideration: esiil.org/careers
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · Aug 28

New research finds increasing heat-related mortality in every climate region throughout the U.S., except for the Western North Central region. Remember folks, heat kills.

@jeffgoodell.bsky.social
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@gchalliance.bsky.social

Over the past century, extreme heat events (EHEs) have become more frequent and intense, resulting in significant health impacts and economic challenges worldwide. In the United States, extreme heat i...

dx.plos.org

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · Aug 28

Every nation should show up at COP30 with an ambitious plan (a Nationally Determined Contribution, or NDC) to protect human health and the health of our climate. Why? A new article by colleagues at @gchalliance.bsky.social lays it out clearly.

@docsforclimate.bsky.social

Health: The missing metric in climate ambition: The case for health-inclusive NDCs – ambitious climate action to save lives

dx.plos.org

Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · Aug 27

lol or doing it manually 🙋‍♀️💆🏻‍♀️

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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · Aug 26

interested in causal inference and ecology? join our Slack to exchange ideas, papers, get feedback, ask and answer questions - let's start a community #causalsky

Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · Aug 26

Chatting with @lauradee.bsky.social about how many different groups of #causality #ecology folk we have to share papers, code and discussions with, and wouldn't it be nice if we all had a place to interact..... so we made a Causal Ecology slack. So.... if you want to join, DM me and I'll add you! 🌍🧪

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · Aug 26

This idea brought to you by "I'd really like to share the new piece from @dingdingpeng.the100.ci to folk not just on bluesky...and wouldn't it be cool if we could all talk about it later?"

Reposted by Elena Litchman, Laura E. Dee, Joan Dudney

Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · Aug 26

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David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · Aug 26

Pushed out by Trump, New Jersey ecologist launches bid for Congress | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Pushed out by Trump, New Jersey ecologist launches bid for Congress

Megan O’Rourke hopes to be a voice for science, also touts her blue-collar roots

www.science.org

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Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) @cossa.bsky.social · Aug 26

CALL FOR EXPERTS! 📢

@nationalacademies.org are seeking experts to participate in developing an updated edition of "On Being a Scientist: An Updated and Online Guide to the Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research".

Submit nominations by August 28 ➡️ www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/on-...

www.nationalacademies.org

Reposted by Julie L. Lockwood, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Laura E. Dee , and 1 more Julie L. Lockwood, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Laura E. Dee, Maria Paniw

Pam McElwee @pammcelwee.bsky.social · Aug 25

Comment out now in Nature Reviews Biodiversity where we argue that blocking renewable energy, esp wind and solar, for biodi reasons is unnecessary - we can manage any tradeoffs. And unchecked climate change is far, far worse! Don't let biodi become political football www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The trade-offs between needed renewable energy transitions and biodiversity can be overcome - Nature Reviews Biodiversity

The expansion of renewable energy is urgently needed to reduce carbon emissions, but it can entail some trade-offs with biodiversity. Here, we argue that synergistic implementation strategies are poss...

www.nature.com

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University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) @colorado.edu · Aug 25

Air pollution and warming are reshaping Colorado’s remote alpine lakes. 🌊

CU Boulder researchers are continuing a 42-year monitoring project in Rocky Mountain National Park to study how these fragile watersheds are changing.

Read more ↓
https://bit.ly/45D5pUp

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