Ben R Lee, PhD

🚨 New paper out today, from a huge collaboration with David Nagy and the rest of the iCONNECT group (conyzaiconnect.wixsite.com/iconnect) looking at rapid #evolution in Conyza canadensis throughout it's #invasive range: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎🌳🌿

BSA President Chris Martine shares what makes BSA membership great, and it all comes down to community! Whether you are a plant scientist, educator, student, or simply someone who loves plants, BSA is a place where you belong. Renew or Join BSA Today! botany.org/home/members... #PlantPeopleFTW

The @burkemuseum.bsky.social is offering funds to support graduate and postdoctoral research visits to the collections, including our University of Washington Herbarium! Please help us get the word out! More information is available here: www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...

Please help spread the word -- our UM-EEB museums is hiring a digital artist/graphic designer to work with our communications team and create scientific illustrations for publications. Come work with us! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

we're re-flying a MS position (jan 2027 start) to do wading bird surveys in Oklahoma (focusing on Snowy Egrets and Little Blue Herons). please share! www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities

The greatest challenge of our time isn’t to figure out how to get to Mars or become interstellar, but to figure out how to live sustainably on Earth.

Check out our new paper that's out in Ecology this week from the Savannah River Site Corridor Experiment!!! @susanrw.bsky.social @julianresasco.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

*** please share widely *** Georgia Tech is hiring an ecologist tinyurl.com/GT-eco-coasts - general search - submit by Dec 1 - come join us, we have a growing group of excellent + collegial eco eco folks (e.g., @armanafzadeh.bsky.social, Sean Anderson, @jameststroud.bsky.social, Lauren Speare)

JoroWatch is officially on! Submit your photos of Joro spiders for a chance to win prizes and help science!

Had a great time learning about rivercane at the Natural Areas Conference #NAC2026 today. Excited for the #conservation and #restoration potential in some of my labs work! 🌱

When climate scientists say things are going to be horrendous, people find out many years later that we’re right. With this El Niño, the “find out” part will come in months.

UF Biology is searching for an Assistant Professor in Plant Ecology, pass it along explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/search...

UConn EEB is hiring a tropical horticulturalist for our greenhouses! It's an awesome collection of both research+teaching/public display, and you get to work with pretty amazing folks (I may be biased). Job listing: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49... Closes 10/14! 🌴🌿🌵🌺

If you missed it last week, we published the largest ever study on emerging infectious diseases. Not really in vogue right now, but the next pandemic will come sooner than you think. Key lessons: nature-based solutions where you can, health system strengthening always. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

RESEARCH ARTICLE Climate Warming Drives the Breakdown of Plant–Pollinator Mutualisms Despite Phenological Synchrony 🔗 buff.ly/rElLWEE

📢 Postdoc opportunity in biodiversity & climate change! 🌎🌿 @bruno-soares.bsky.social is looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biodiversity Forecasting & Climate Change at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Global Change Biology. If you're interested check it out here 👇

We are recruiting for a postdoc position (now / soon!), located in Flagstaff, AZ at NAU. We are particularly interested in a flux person. Please come join a fun multi-institutional team where we make very funny, definitely cool jokes about p-values.

Lmao over here like if ETSU is gonna catch strays, at least send the strays to the right school. Also why the hell you punching down? I'm new here in TN, but at least we're in the process of updating all our school's infrastructure 👀

Go ETSU (but only in football)

haha what da fuck nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/Statem...

📣 New York Botanical Garden is seeking a career-track Restoration Ecologist! 🥾 develop ext. funded, field-oriented, collections-informed, & collaborative research program 📨 Optimal consideration: Sep. 25 (open till filled) 📆 Start: Jan. 1, 2027 (negotiable) 🤑 $87.5k jobs.jobvite.com/nybg/job/o8s...

I am currently searching for a postdoc to work on the evolution of adaptations, cold acclimation, and freezing tolerance in switchgrass. The position entails lab, growth facility, bioinformatics, and fieldwork. careers.msu.edu/jobs/postdoc...

I’m excited to announce that we are looking for a Curatorial Associate to join our team and help lead the L. H. Bailey Hortorium Herbarium at Cornell University 🌿 Please help share with interested botanists! jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...

My first research article from my PhD is officially out! 🌱 A huge thank you to everyone who helped make this project possible! 🌿 @jillahamilton.bsky.social @jacobmazza.bsky.social @lucieanderson.bsky.social academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...

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🌿 New paper! The forest herb layer can account for up to 80% of plant diversity, yet remains understudied. I’m glad to have contributed to this Yale-led collaboration identifying 100 questions to advance forest herb-layer ecology. What did we miss? 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New NSF BIO solicitation says expected number of awards is 250-300. Historically, the number of awards is closer to 800-1000 for the Directorate of Bio Sciences: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses... Unless I'm missing large, non-core programs, this seems really not good?

📢 We are hiring! PhD opportunity in my group as part of MSCA Doctoral Network ReDiLEEP, which recruits 13 Doctoral Candidates. Focus in this project: traits, responses & plant community stability in boreal forest and tundra. Supervised together with @lauraantao.bsky.social DL 18 Sept 👇

The Desert Botanical Garden is hiring!! 🌵🌻🏜️ We are looking for a new Chief Research Officer - somebody to lead our fantastic research dept. which encompasses work on plant conservation, climate adaptation, biodiversity, and more! Please share the link below with anybody that may be interested!

Took a lab camping trip to celebrate the end of the field season and I had the chance to encounter not one but TWO hellbenders!! Which had been on my Appalachia bucket list for a while now. This guy was about 2 feet long! #nature #salamanders #Appalachia

I am recruiting a PhD student next year! If you want to work on conservation in working landscapes, consider applying. If interested, please fill out this Google Form in lieu of an email inquiry (forms.gle/1pMESJ5ME8uK...). Check out our website to learn more about us: karp.ucdavis.edu

📢 We’re hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Ecophysiology at EPFL/WSL in Lausanne! 🌿 Study physiological mechanisms of leaf browning under heat & drought stress 🔬 Experimental plant ecophysiology 🎓 Mentoring/teaching opportunities Please share! Apply here: apply.refline.ch/273855/1893/...

Ecololgists!! This fall, the LEGO league's theme for their annual competition is ecosystems/biodiversity themed. We are going to need *a lot* of ecologists to help meet the demand. If you are willing to have a conversation with k-8 students about ecology, pls sign up here forms.gle/NbxitaXamK7B...

Today is my first day as Davison & Fuller Chair in Life Sciences and Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln! I will be looking for graduate students, a postdoc, and a lab manager to join me at UNL (ads coming). Please reach out if interested!

Bad sign when we'll be continuing to build up a rivercane restoration project this semester...

At the start of the week, I shared a blog post that boiled down to "whether or not you believe AI is plagiarism, you should be concerned about the career risk, especially given bad-faith right-wing attacks." Here's where we're ending the week:

📣Atlanta Botanical Garden is hiring a Field Biologist! Come be my colleague🌿 🎓 Bach. req'd, master's pref'd 🥾 2 years of post-degree fieldwork req'd 🏵️ familiarity with SE US flora & nat. communities 🗺️ proficient in ArcGIS #botanyjobs #conservationjobs recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/J...

EcoEvoJobs 2026-27 just opened for business and we've already got 79 faculty / permanent jobs listed. Please repost! ecoevojobs.net

Over 18 they’re Michiganders, under 18 they’re Michigoslings

🌾 We're hiring a postdoc! Join the Stomatal Biology group in beautiful Bern @unibe.ch How do grass leaves spatially coordinate development of veins & stomatal rows? 2 years (plus possible extension), funded by @snsf.ch @dfg.de within @cerealcell.bsky.social RU5325 jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

Are you passionate about #naturalhistory #collections? Apply for our open position for the Herbarium Collections Manager @utkherbarium.bsky.social. We will start evaluating applications on Aug 17, so get your application in now. #Botany2026 #herbarium #jobs

Thanks for being so good to us Tuscon! A great time at #Botany2026 as always! And now back to the field...

The 🧅bulbs🧄 speak today #Botany2026

Come see Liz talk this morning about her MSc thesis work! 8am in Ecophys #Botany2026