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John (Jack) Williams
@iceageecologist.bsky.social
Climate change ecologist, paleoecologist, biogeographer, open data scientist. Prof. at University of Wisconsin-Madison, co-leader of Neotoma Paleoecology Database www.neotomadb.org Fearless sifter and winnower. All posts my own.
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TWO EXCITING POSTDOC POSITIONS Translating extreme weather events into different climates: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...#hiring

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🙏🏽Share with (Quaternary) scientists: hybrid panel, FREE & open from AmQua & U.S. Nat. Comm. for Quaternary Research amqua2024.utah.edu@iceageecologist.bsky.social & team for efforts to included others outside the conference💪🏽

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🌱🌾🌎🧪🍄‍🟫🍄🌴🌳 Very readable piece on current ideas on trees sensing and interactions. How much like people are they? Idea is popular but what is the evidence? Thoughtful. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy?
Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy?

The long read: In the past 10 years the idea that trees communicate with and look after each other has gained widespread currency. But have these claims outstripped the evidence?

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If you're an early career ecologist attending #ESA2024williamspaleolab.github.io/news_main/

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🧪🦖Science folks! I'm working on a piece for Scientific American about how fossil species are defined, and why that question's important for understanding biodiversity in the past and present. If that's your field, I'd love to talk to you! (Email me at aelbein at gmail!)

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Warming winters in Wisconsin and lessons from the end of the last ice age: Winters Last Gasp: www.newsweek.com/winters-last... New essay, just out in Newsweek.

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Nice appreciation in Nature of pioneering paleobotanist and conservation biologist Estella B. Leopold, last surviving child of Aldo Leopold, and a member of the National Academy. By Cathy Whitlock www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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It's pollen season in North Carolina. This is mostly Pinus pollen, but red oaks are doing their part too. And sweetgum. The image is an actual photo from inside my lungs. 🤧 #Pinaceae#allergy#pollen

Photo of the surface of a pond covered in pollen.
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John (Jack) Williams
@iceageecologist.bsky.social
Climate change ecologist, paleoecologist, biogeographer, open data scientist. Prof. at University of Wisconsin-Madison, co-leader of Neotoma Paleoecology Database www.neotomadb.org Fearless sifter and winnower. All posts my own.
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