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Excited to share our perspective on ways to move microbiome engineering forward in The ISME Journal led by Michaeline B N Albright Los Alamos National Laboratory, avail open access nature.com/articles/s4139…

New research published in Conservation Genetics on a rare and threatened Penstemon species avail. open access here: link.springer.com/article/10.100… Plus a couple photos to show how gorgeous this plant is! USGS Arizona Bureau of Land Management Utah SCB Cons Gen Working Group 🧬🌱🌍 ConGenetics SSC

Postdoc position in our lab - genetics x conservation x restoration. We're especially interested in folks integrating plant genomics and restoration ecology: jobs.botany.org/index.php?modu…

We're looking for a postdoc and a scientist to work on social behaviour in clonal raider ants Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology. Join us! Please RT. Postdoc: tinyurl.com/25263c44 Scientist: tinyurl.com/2p9ca9wh (photo by Anna Schroll)

We are recruiting a new grad student to join our lab in Fall 2022! Interested in bees, life history evolution, and social behavior? Want to do field work Smithsonian Panama and develop lab and bioinformatic skills in a supportive environment? Consider applying! kapheimlab.com

We just published the first study to document a seasonal, counterclockwise pattern of asynchronous flowering in saguaro (or any angiosperm)! Ecosphere Ecological Society SaguaroNationalPark USGS Arizona (Archived) NPS Climate Change Open access article here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

#Saguaro cacti are more unique than we knew! This NPS-USGS study is the FIRST to describe their unusual flowering pattern. Blooms emerge in the east & flower asynchronously & counterclockwise—perhaps the only flowering plant to do so. SaguaroNationalPark #saguaros ow.ly/FQMc50H9Jsv

New research overturns a century of thinking regarding the #flowering pattern of the Southwest's iconic #saguaro cacti doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3… #Phenology #Phyllotaxis #CommunityScience #OpenAccess Daniel E. Winkler SaguaroNationalPark National Park Service Western National Parks Association

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Do you love carbon and deserts and modeling and diverse data blending and working with a crazy cool group of smart, fun, and supportive scientists??? Me too!! Come work with us!

JOB ALERT: The USGS is hiring! The Southwest Biological Science Center has a Soil Scientist/Ecologist opportunity in Moab for recent graduates. See ow.ly/F6iO50HOUnc for more information. #USGS_SBSC #drylands #soilscience

Celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth! #USGS_SBSC biogeochemist Sasha Reed studies deserts, rain forests, and the changes they face, working with land managers, decision makers and early career researchers on collaborative cutting-edge science. #WomenInSTEM ow.ly/zrXP50IvgxL

Ants, on many counts, have solved life's problems: inbuilt fungicide allows living in rich habitat (leaf litter), effective machinery for reproduction. What remains: fighting each other. Ants commonly not only defend territories but actively steal brood, academic.oup.com/beheco/advance…

& wipe out each other's colonies. Colony-colony contests are thus fitness-critical & a complex but understudied problem. We find here that ants appear to assess both the potential rewards (brood) and the defensive strength (workers) of an opposing colony. academic.oup.com/beheco/advance…

Recent paper showing ants are informed about enemy strength and possible rewards in collective contests - yes ant colonies fight, a lot! At least in some species, other ant colonies are likely to be the main danger to fitness after colony founding. With Kenny Chapin

#USGS_SBSC's Daniel Winkler shows students how to measure #photosynthesis at SaguaroNationalPark. Read about what we're finding: ow.ly/gnrU50IKTTi #FieldPhotoFriday #Sagurao #SonoranDesert

Oh man, I would how much I would ♥️ to take this class from the incredible Daniel E. Winkler!!

a super talented scientist in lab just left to take a position in industry because there was no mechanism for the University to pay him at a competitive rate despite our best efforts - and funding - to do so. I have no idea how we're supposed to compete.

I am deeply sorry to tell you that my UCLA colleague Bob Wayne passed away yesterday after an extended battle with cancer. Bob was a pioneer at using genomic methods to study demography and selection in populations of conservation concern. 1/5