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holdenrestoration.bsky.social
Research scientist @ Holden Arboretum. Ants, plants, interspecific interactions, and global climate change!
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We're at that time of year again where #spring is around the corner (at least in the n. hemisphere), and many organisms start emerging from dormancy. If you're like me and interested in this subject, I encourage you to check out the awesome folks in the #phenology starter pack (go.bsky.app/7TjLKe5)!

Paper alert: Our paper exploring the impacts of global warming on nonnative plants is now out! #HoldenScience

Job Alert: Holden Forests and Gardens is hiring a Chief of Plants and Science. Position will oversee Research, Conservation, and Horticulture. #HoldenScience Please share! jobs.crelate.com/portal/kittl...

Job alert! Passionate about native plants? We're hiring a Native Plant Propagator to join the teams working with Holden Arboretum's Working Woods Resource Hub and Restoration Seed Bank. holdenfg.org/career-and-i...

Paper alert! Newly out in Ecology with @emmahdg.bsky.social and friends - Priority effects during assembly likely provide an under-appreciated mechanism by which warming will reshape plant communities. #HoldenScience esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Botanical gardens as living laboratories to study climate change. Check out our collaboration across five gardens. #HoldenScience holdenfg.org/blog/wildflo...

Paid research internships at the Holden Arboretum. Opportunities in plant physiology, soil ecology, restoration ecology, and more. Please share! holdenfg.org/career-and-i...

Internships at Holden this summer! holdenfg.org/career-and-i...

Paid research internships at the Holden Arboretum. Opportunities in plant physiology, soil ecology, restoration ecology, and more. Please share! holdenfg.org/career-and-i...

Can botanical gardens and arboreta teach us about the impacts of climate change? Here a multi-garden community science study finds spring wildflowers shorten phenophases in the face of unusually warm temperatures. #HoldenScience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A starter pack for myrmecologists and our allies 🩵🐜🩷 go.bsky.app/zo95qR

The conclusion to every science experiment ever conducted. "There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one." ... Quote from Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies

As this place keeps growing, here's a starter pack for restoration ecology, currently featuring 50+ accounts. Please let me know of other relevant accounts (including your own if you post on restoration ecology) or feeds to be added, the maximum limit is apparently 150 accounts. go.bsky.app/GaFrxq

Team work makes the dream work @Holden Arboretum. Putting our new polyhouses to bed for the winter. #HoldenScience #HoldenRestoration

How will beech leaf disease reshape our forests? Holden Arboretum is partnering with students at Oberlin College to explore how Ohio's forests are changing. #HoldenScience

Job alert: Conservation manager position @Holden Arboretum! Looking for a new team member to lead up conservation work in Holden's natural areas. Tons of opportunity for collaboration with outreach and research. holdenfg.org/career-and-i...

Activating our forests at Holden Arboretum to inspire action. #HealthyForests #WorkingWoods

Amy Angert & I are recruiting 2 field technicians for demographic surveys of scarlet monkeyflower in late summer-fall. Please spread word to any potentially interested candidates! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/202...

Beautiful day for a garlic mustard aphid hunt at Holden Arboretum. #HoldenScience

Happy Arbor Day 🌳 It's our favorite holiday here at the Holden Arboretum!

Great time meeting up with new and old friends to talk ecology at the inaugural ESA Great Lakes regional meeting! See y’all in 2026… Cleveland!!!!

Three biologists do space. 10 of 10!

Please Share: Have a student in your class who would benefit from field-based ecology & evolution courses? Encourage them to take at class this spring or summer at UMBS. We have funding for out of state students & incredible course offerings.

Front page... above the fold! Nice writeup in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on our upcoming community forestry / restoration seed bank project @ Holden Arboretum. Coming soon to a forest near you!

Big happenings at Holden Arboretum! We're thrilled to be supporting forest owners to help combat climate change. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

Check out our work on understanding the potential impacts of the newly-arrived garlic mustard aphid. By #HoldenScience Norweb Fellow Kaylin Engerman.

Got to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science at the Cleveland Bot Garden's new Life in a Cubic Foot Exhibit... sharing #HoldenScience #WomeninScience #WomeninSTEM

UMBS is hiring a research technician for the 2024 field season. Position includes data collection in northern Michigan forests and meteorological fieldwork on Douglas Lake and Lake Superior. Full list of duties, required qualifications and how to apply: myumi.ch/3Qe5A

ESA Great Lakes is currently accepting abstracts for this spring's regional meeting! Looking forward to meeting up with all you Great Lakes area ecologists. www.esa.org/greatlakes/c...

We're hiring a seasonal field assistant (16 weeks) to help with field work to understand the impacts of the emerging Beech Leaf Disease on forests in Ohio (and beyond). Join us for a fun summer at Holden Arboretum! holdenfg.org/career-and-i...

REU opportunity at Savannah River Site Corridor Experiment damschenlab.zoology.wisc.edu/2024/01/15/h...

Paid summer internships at the Holden Arboretum! Opportunities in restoration ecology, plant physiology, soil ecology, forest health, and so much more! Open to current undergrads as well recent graduates. Please share. holdenfg.org/career-and-i...

The field of #CommunityAssembly knows #PriorityEffects, but as we lose more and more species, how about the importance of species losses? Is it time for #InversePriorityEffects? ... Led by Agostina Torres. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Welcome to one of my favorite scientists @holdenrestoration.bsky.social! This academic-mama collaboration helped me keep my sanity and recover from lost field seasons during the pandemic. Thanks to Ecology for uplifting work from Pandemic Caregivers 🌎

Out in this month's issue of Ecology as part of their Pandemic Caregivers special issue... @restoration.bsky.social and I explore the impacts of #YearEffects on #BetaDiversity. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...