Ben Bond‐Lamberty

Ben Bond-Lamberty

@benbondlamberty.bsky.social

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Forest ecologist & carbon cycle scientist at @PNNLab, open data & R proponent, mentor, editor. I know how to do a blind hem stitch.

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Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · Dec 12

Scientists are expected to do peer reviewing but no one tells you HOW. After talking with several folks about this today at #AGU24 , it seems a good time to link to this presentation I made several years ago -- feel free to use/share! docs.google.com/presentation...

Effective, efficient, and fair peer reviewing 2023

Effective, efficient, and fair peer reviewing Ben Bond-Lamberty Based on a presentation at the AGU Early Career Scientist Workshop, 2019 1

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Françoise Cardou @francoisecardou.bsky.social · 1d

🚨I’m recruiting! #Science #GradSchool #PlantEcology

PhD OR postdoc opportunity to study the factors limiting primary succession on abandoned mine sites. Collaboration with a wonderful interdisciplinary team, from microbiology to remote sensing.

📅 Deadline: Feb 1st, 2026

More info 👇

c612649b-71b0-41d3-8a9a-c991859aa363.filesusr.com

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Stephen D. Murphy, Tommaso Jucker

Harriet Mason @harriet-mason.bsky.social · 1d

HEY! YOU! ggdibbler 0.6.1 is finally up on CRAN!

harriet-mason.github.io/ggdibbler/in...

You can now pass random variables to any aesthetic in any ggplot geom/stat. If you can express it as a distribution, ggdibbler can plot it. It also works with ggplot extensions, like gganimate. #rstats

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Maria Faticov

Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · 2d

Who runs the forest? Microbes. Our new paper shows soil microbiomes outweigh the effects of elevated CO2 on Scots pine growth, and differences in soil microbiomes influence how plants grow and respond to elevated CO2.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Soil microbial community differences drive variation in Pinus sylvestris physiology, productivity, and responses to elevated CO2 - Environmental Microbiome

Background Soil microbial communities can affect plant nutrient uptake, productivity, and may even confer resistance to global change. Elevated atmospheric CO2 is widely expected to stimulate plant pr...

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Reposted by Julia Koricheva, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Richard J. Butler , and 7 more Julia Koricheva, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Richard J. Butler, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Tommaso Jucker, Malte Jochum, Xavier Serra‐Maluquer, Benjamin Wildermuth, Olivier Jean Leonce Manzi, Julie Peacock

Andrew Hacket-Pain @andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social · 2d

University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Charles West

Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 3d

New OA article linking the timing of the Black Death's arrival in Europe to a volcanically induced climate downturn in 1345-1347 that brought famine & desperation among Italian city-states to import additional grain from Black Sea regions already impacted by plague: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Climate-driven changes in Mediterranean grain trade mitigated famine but introduced the Black Death to medieval Europe - Communications Earth & Environment

Post-volcanic climate downtown in southern Europe around 1345–1347 CE caused widespread famine, leading to Italian maritime republics importing grain from the Black Sea region and introducing fleas ca...

www.nature.com

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Martin Ehbrecht, Darío Martin‐Benito , and 1 more Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Martin Ehbrecht, Darío Martin‐Benito, Kali Middleby

Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · 3d

We found that when temps hit 30°C+, C3 plants start struggling - their carbon metabolism gets disrupted, they burn through sugar stores faster, and even their isotope signatures change.
Meanwhile C4 plants? They're basically chilling like "this is fine" 😎

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Hot and Hungry - High temperatures induce changes in leaf carbon dynamics and sugar isotope fingerprints - npj Science of Plants

npj Science of Plants - Hot and Hungry - High temperatures induce changes in leaf carbon dynamics and sugar isotope fingerprints

www.nature.com

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Tommaso Jucker, Yuwen Zhang

Danielle Creek @daniellecreek.bsky.social · 3d

🎤Hi #dendrometer users! You are invited to join our new Dendrometer Network (catchy name still tbd 😜). Online meeting 10:30-12 CET Friday 12 Dec. Please share and let me know if you want to join and I will send the meeting link 🌴🎄🌳🌲

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Gerald Friedman

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 3d

12 former FDA chiefs unite to say agency memo on vaccines is deeply stupid

Prasad’s arguments “misrepresent both the science and the regulatory record.”…

arstechnica.com

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty

David Olefeldt @olefeldt.bsky.social · 4d

Wildfire causes accelerated permafrost thaw in northern peatlands due to summer-time processes (reduced shading and soil heating) not due to winter-time processes (snow dynamics). Patience pays off - I helped instrument the site in 2014, and now completed by Stephanie Wright!
doi.org/10.1002/ppp....

Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · 4d

This is the lead author’s first paper ever, and the first chapter of his PhD. Wow!

Reposted by Stephen D. Murphy, Tommaso Jucker, Emilio Vilanova , and 1 more Stephen D. Murphy, Tommaso Jucker, Emilio Vilanova, Luca L. Morreale

Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · 4d

"Overlooked and extensive ghost forest formation across the US Atlantic coast" -- wow what a comprehensive analysis by Yeung, @xiyang.bsky.social et al. 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Overlooked and extensive ghost forest formation across the US Atlantic coast - Nature Sustainability

Large swathes of standing dead trees or ‘ghost forests’ can form owing to rising sea levels in coastal areas, but the extent to which this occurs is unclear. This study maps ghost forests at the indiv...

www.nature.com

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Martin Gauch @gauchm.bsky.social · 4d

Back by popular demand: At #EGU26 we'll organize another BUGS session: Blunders, Unexpected Glitches, and Surprises!

Submit abstracts on ideas that seemed great but didn't work, errors and bugs that led to new insights (or funny stories), or any other unexpected results.

www.egu26.eu/session/56997

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Rémi Cardinael @remicardinael.bsky.social · 4d

A great postdoc opportunity to work with João Vasco Silva @unihohenheim.bsky.social on predictive #agronomy. Deadline: 9 January 2026.

Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · 5d

Resist!: Sustaining forest carbon sequestration and wood production after insect disturbance esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Resist!: Sustaining forest carbon sequestration and wood production after insect disturbance

Disturbances from insect pests threaten ecologically and economically important goods and services supplied by forests, including wood production and carbon sequestration. We highlight the factors th....

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Ben Bond‐Lamberty , and 2 more Katharine Hayhoe, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Dylan B. Millet, Akiko Suwa‐Eisenmann

juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 5d

The new Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5, 2002–2022) shows that at the global scale 1) by far, most area burned are grasslands; 2) area burned is declining; & 3) fuel consumption is increasing: ie, fires are increasing in forests & encroached grasslands.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧪🌍🔥🌳🌐

Two plots with the global mean annual burned area (left) and fuel consumption (right), for the 2002–2022 period, in grasslands & non-grasslands.

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty

Andre Kuhn @signalintegrator.bsky.social · 5d

We are hiring! There is a PhD-position available in my group on environmental signal integration in plants. @swammerdamuva.bsky.social
More information:
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — PhD position in Deciphering the Cellular and Molecular Basis of Signal Integration in Plants

Do you wonder how plants simultaneously process, weigh and interpret the countless signals form their surroundings? Are you interested in delving into the mechanisms of signal integration in plants on a cellular level and have a passion for molecular biology and bio-imaging? Then this job may be for you! We are seeking a dedicated PhD-candidate to join our ambitious but collaborative team.

werkenbij.uva.nl

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 6d

The hidden danger of Biorender

(& the death of scientific illustration)

A short thread 🧵

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty

Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 7d

Very cool paper on whether mixes of seeds from native Great Basin species were better at keeping out invasive annual grasses if they were from local seed sources… TLDR = no!

doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Unexpected productivity and invasion resistance in plant communities assembled from allopatric populations | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Species with shared geographic history may show coevolution that reduces niche overlap and improves resource capture. Thus, plant communities assembled from sympatric source populations (shared locati...

doi.org

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Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · 8d

Voilá! 🎉
#PeatECR (peatecr.com) is excited to announce that the #2026PeatECRCalendar is officially ready!
This year’s calendar showcases 12 stunning peatland wild life photographs contributed by peatland researchers.

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty

Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 8d

Yes, there are conifers in Greenland! 🌲

500 yr-long Juniperus tree ring-based temperature reconstruction with oldest living shrub 367 yo! 💪

Striking here: 1/3 of corpus is from archive (collected end of 19th c)
Highlights importance of reanalysing old samples using modern analytical techniques! 👏

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty

Chris Thomas @hotgarbage.ca · 11d

I wish I had made my own #rstats package sooner. It's absurd how effective a guardrail it is against user... code creativity... borking things up

Reposted by Oliver L. Phillips, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Mathias Disney , and 1 more Oliver L. Phillips, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Mathias Disney, Martin Ehbrecht

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

🚨Paper alert🚨

Check out Beibei Zhang's latest work out today @royalsocietypublishing.org where we track the 3D structural recovery of Australia's Great Western Woodlands following wildfires over a chronosequence spanning half a millenia!🌳🛰️🔥🧪

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty

Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 11d

THE ARROGANT APE has been named a New York Times Notable Book of 2025.

Floored to be on this list and in such good company. And grateful to all who helped make it possible 🫶

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...

Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Ben Bond‐Lamberty

Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 12d

Geologic Core Sample

xkcd.com/3171/

Comic: Typical Geologic core sample. [Cylindrical core sample with labels for difference sections from top to bottom] Topsoil, till, granite bedrock, bottomsoil, roof of subway car, floor of subway car, more granite, municipal water main [gouge in core sample], slightly different granite, piece of screaming spelunker’s forearm, cool crystals with no resale value, mangled fragments of drillbit from previous attempt, some boring intrusive rock that’s basically granite but has a name like “diorite” or “Andalite” that you always have to look up, netherrack, Balrog wing. [break between next chunk of core sample] Granite, topsoil, cement, floorboards, carpet, possessions of a confused and angry homeowner in the other hemisphere.

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Alba Anadon‐Rosell

Ecosistemas AEET @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social · 12d

¡Atención!

¡Buscamos nuevos Editores Asociados! 🔎

Abrimos la convocatoria para incorporar nuevos editores asociados a nuestra plantilla, principalmente para aquellas áreas aún poco representadas. ¿Estás interesado/a? Te contamos más en los siguientes tweets.

Reposted by Jonathan A. Eisen, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Jesse M. Alston

Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 12d

Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for a minute for a string of announcements, please share widely!!!

1. Student research awards are open for applications, to fund research expenses for 10 graduate students ($2000 each)
nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Student Research Award

The ASN Student Research Awards support research by student members that advances the goals of the society: the conceptual unification of ecology, evolution, and behavior. Each award consists of a ...

nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Benjamin I. Cook, Neil Pederson

Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 12d

Unraveling the mysteries of ancient solar storms and earthquakes using tree rings research.arizona.edu/news/unravel...

Unraveling the mysteries of ancient solar storms and earthquakes

Tree-ring and planetary scientists are preparing for the big natural events thanks to a Big Idea Challenge grant and a new laboratory.

research.arizona.edu

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty

The Onion @theonion.com · 13d

Stock up on Onion-branded family heirlooms so your loved ones will have something to pry from your cold dead hands.
https://store.theonion.com/collections/tote-bags

Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Ben Bond‐Lamberty

Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 13d

Join the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona for our 2026 Dendrochronology Intensive Summer Course (DISC)! Spend 3 great weeks (May 18th to June 5, 2026) in the field, lab, and classroom learning first-hand how tree-ring research is done! ltrr.arizona.edu/summerschool

Dendrochronology Intensive Summer Course (DISC) 2026 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research

ltrr.arizona.edu

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Karl Andraczek

Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila @josephtumber.bsky.social · 13d

Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Dartmouth College Society of Fellows – Environmental Studies

Come join myself and Michael Cox, as we recruit a postdoc with specialization in forest carbon dynamics, climate policy, and nature-based solutions!

www.esacareercenter.org/job/2002606/...

Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Society of Fellows – Environmental Studies - Hanover, New Hampshire job with Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth College | 2002606

The Society of Fellows at Dartmouth College invites applications for a fellowship in the Department of Environmental Studies.

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