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Pablo López Bustamante
@pablolopezbust.bsky.social
Biólogo - Ecología de comunidades de plantas. Bosque seco tropical. PhD student in Dr. Hulshof's Lab at @VCU 🌳🌴🌵
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Where does everyone send their tropical plant samples for species identification using DNA barcoding? Guelph?🙏 Leaves are preferable, but if the leaves are too high for pole pruner, what then? Cambium? Thanks for any leads.
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
October 21, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Excited to launch Big Red Pen, grant review services, because NSF funding is only getting tougher, but strong proposals still rise to the top. I have decades of NSF success and 10 years of panel experience. Let’s get funded. #NSF from #GRFP to #CAREER.
biodiversityresearchlab.com/grant-review
Grant Review — Catherine Hulshof, PhD
NSF grant review consulting for biology, life sciences, and STEM fields from GRFP to CAREER and everything in between
biodiversityresearchlab.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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🥁New paper on microclimate vulnerability under changing climate 🌦️ & forest structure 🌳. Forest structure can buffer or amplify climate warming! Congrats to Joanna Lumbsden-Pinto @sunyesf.bsky.social, @brookhavenlab.bsky.social, @sunyofficial.bsky.social. 🌐🌍

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Microclimate vulnerability under coupled effects of changing climate and forest structure
Understanding how forest structure affects microclimate is crucial amidst global warming, especially in biodiversity hotspots such as the North Americ…
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October 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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September 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Sandra is visiting Oxford @ox.ac.uk as a Visiting Fellow at
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social and
@oxmartinschool.bsky.social

We look forward to many more engagements and discussions!

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Sandra Díaz, winner of the Tyler Prize 2025
YouTube video by Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
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April 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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We are studying adult trees, saplings, and seedling composition in tropical dry forests, rainforests and the dry-wet ecotone in ACG Costa Rica to understand the future of these hyper diverse forests. #CostaRica @gdfcf.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Perla proudly presents her work showing tropical dry forest and rainforest species have similar drought and thermal tolerances when coexisting in the ecotone. #ATBC2025 Great job Perla 🎉.
June 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Your periodic reminder: I can teach a 1-week intensive course in Scientific Writing at your institution! I'm fully booked for 2025 but have availability throughout 2026 - click the link for more details. scientistseessquirre...
Writing Course
I can help your students write! I can offer a one-week, in-person writing course for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at your institution. Class sizes of 8-25 work well; we can discuss la…
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June 20, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Really excited about this new collaboration with the group of a great colleague @hulshof.bsky.social. What a nice opportunity for the interns @sunyesf.bsky.social to learn about the @nybg.bsky.social herbarium collections, dry tropical forests 🌳 🌴, & seed 🫘 traits!
June 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Very excited about this! Huge thanks to @DovciakLab for supporting our initiative and helping make it real. #VCU #seedtraits #seedispersal #tropicaldryforests #BiodiversityResearchLab
Exciting day @ The Steere Herbarium @nybg.bsky.social with interns from @sunyesf.bsky.social. The interns will spend the summer at the herbarium assisting with the study of seed traits of neotropical dry forest trees 🌳 🌴 lead by @pablolopezbust.bsky.social from Virginia Commonwealth University 🌎🧪
June 10, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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There are genuine reasons to be cautious about writing with LLMs ("AI"). But as much fun as it might be to type "the plagiarism machine that's burning down the planet" - it just isn't. Before long it will require willful disbelief to think it is. scientistseessquirre...
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No, the plagiarism machine isn’t burning down the planet (redux)
About six weeks ago I annoyed a lot of people by pointing out an inconvenient truth about generative AI (ChatGPT and other large-language models): it is not, in fact, burning down the planet.t Desp…
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May 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Happy Earth Day! - While we measure economies by the flows of funds and transactions, we overlook the flows of carbon, nutrients, and water that sustain life and occur all around us - flows all shaped and directed by biodiversity. Earth Day is a reminder to recalibrate on what actually counts 🌐🧪🌾
April 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Hoy fue publicado el hermoso libro de los 100 años de investigación en BCI. La hermosa portada muestra la Ceiba gigante de BCI con una copa de 60m de ancho! Y en el, nuestra contribución con un capítulo sobre Piper. Se puede ver todo acá scholarlypress.si.edu/store/all/th...
November 22, 2024 at 4:41 PM