Nick Smith

Come be my colleague! UNL has an open-rank position in Plant Metabolism. See more details in the link below. #botany #botanyjobs employment.unl.edu/postings/102...

We're hiring a 3-year postdoc at the University of Bristol to improve our ability to predict vegetation responses to fire in a changing world 🌍🔥🌱. Details: mdekauwe.github.io/join_us Please share, thank you.

Ecologists! Please nominate your colleagues!

Applications are open for Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology. Due Dec. 3. Thinking about how ecology and evolution shape plant strategies? This might be a good fit. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

📢LEMONTREE Job Opening: A postdoctoral position examining plant physiological responses to environmental variability is available in the lab of Dr. Nick Smith (@nickgregsmith.bsky.social) in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska. Details: employment.unl.edu/postings/102...

Do you know an awesome student working in deserts? Or a non-US ecologist deserving recognition? Consider nominating them for the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Shreve (student/deserts) or Whittaker (intl. ecologist) awards by Nov. 19! I'm the chair for both and can answer ?s esa.org/about/awards/

Published in @commsearth.nature.com: groundwater plays a major role in shaping photosynthesis across the US. In forests, its influence can be comparable to, or greater than, climatic aridity. 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

I am hiring a Postdoc on Plant Ecophysiology to join our new group at U Nebraska. The link below has the full ad and instructions for applying. Please share widely! #botany #botanyjobs #ecophysiology #ecophysjobs #globalchange employment.unl.edu/postings/102...

I am also looking for new graduate students and will have a postdoc ad out soon. Ping me if you are interested in any of these positions! #botany #ecophysiology #ecosystems #globalchange

I am hiring a full-time lab technician for my new lab at UNL. The full position description can be found at: employment.unl.edu/postings/102... The position is for 1 year, with renewal possible for up to 2 additional years. Pay is $23.50/hour. Please share!

Hi all, I am trying to raise funds to support the field-based courses I teach so we can keep the cost of these trips as low as possible for the students. If you would like to support the next generation of field scientists consider donating to the NSU Foundation. It is tax deductible.

Incredible leadership by Melissa Kenney, @bobkopp.net and @costasamaras.com on this article underscoring the value of climate assessments in informing decision-making for individuals, communities, businesses, and governments and providing key research priorities to assess climate risks and actions.

I'm extremely proud to have been a part of this team, and I'm grateful for the truly dauntless leadership of @costasamaras.com, Melissa Kenney, and @bobkopp.net, who brought us together to put together both a state of the scholarship, and a benchmark for future integrated climate assessments.

Read our paper! I was honored to contribute to this effort, which had particle-accelerator levels of coordination across nearly 200 coauthors. Thanks to Melissa Kenney, @bobkopp.net, and @costasamaras.com for their leadership.

NEW PAPER: In a new paper, jointly published in @agu.org Earth's Future & @ametsoc.org BAMS, and co-led by Melissa Kenney, @costasamaras.com and me, 175 authors outline priorities to guide the future of scientific assessments of climate change in the United States. 🧵

A deep dive into the memo that marks the end of how NSF has done business for 76 years www.science.org/content/arti...

Call for plant ecophysiologists! Do you have Fv/Fm or F0-rise data? Do you know someone who might? @seanmichaletz.bsky.social and @nicolebison.bsky.social would love to hear from you. (Bonus if your data are from Asia or Africa.) Please share widely! #ecology #botany #ClimateChange #HeatTolerance

New commentary by me and PhD student Monika Kelley: "A new tool for fitting C4 gas exchange response curves" in @jxbotany.bsky.social . The new tool should make it easier to extract interesting parameters from C4 plants that make them easier to understand and model academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

New lab paper "Sensitization rather than acclimation to chronic atmospheric aridity in invasive and native dryland C4 grasses" in @jxbotany.bsky.social Former MS Rafael Frietas assessed plasticity of invasive buffelgrass versus native grasses academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

🌱☀️ INSIGHT ☀️🌱 "A new tool for fitting C4 gas exchange response curves". Smith & Kelley discuss recent findings published in JXB by Woodford et al. 📝 Insight: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... 🔬 Research: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

New lab paper, led by @ellliieee.bsky.social with assist from @wickellomics.bsky.social, other lab members, and folks at @li-corenv.bsky.social - how do we study photosynthesis in aquatic plants? Turns out it's pretty hard! Part review, part methods paper. Check it out! doi.org/10.1002/aps3...

Think C4 photosynthesis doesn’t really respond to increasing CO2? Think again! With @kimsimp.bsky.social @colinplants.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

📢 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/...

New NSF BIO solicitation is live.... this replaces the previous IOS, MCB, DEB solicitation www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Thanks to The Higher Ed Advocate for giving us a space to talk about what's happening.

EEB Mentor Match is now open! But apps due soon (8/17). Mentees: get help applying for grad school or fellowships in ecology & evolution. Mentors: senior grads, post-docs, or faculty in these fields willing to give advice Org by Diversity Cmte of @asn-amnat.bsky.social Pls share! eebmentormatch.com

Applications for the @sfiscience.bsky.social Santa Fe Institute's amazing Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships, including the Omidyar Fellowships, are now open. The deadline for applications is September 30th.

Howdy #ESA2026 folks! Hit the hay early and check out tomorrow morning’s 8AM aboveground-belowground interactions session in Room 250D. I’ll be talking about mechanisms driving AM fungal-mediated impacts of garlic mustard on native plant physiology at 9AM. See you there!

1/4 In today's funding climate, every grant and fellowship matters. Based on feedback from our GSAC Community Check-In Survey, we're building a growing hub of graduate & postdoctoral funding opportunities and job boards to make them easier to find. 🧵

Trying to finish up my #ESA2026 talk. Here's the current version of the last slide for anyone interested. Talk is Thursday at 8:30 in 255A.

The PhUnFETTy Lab will have a large showing at this week's #ESA2026. Come check out the cool work we've been doing!