Forecasting is hard, but it is much better to do it with friends 🤗
👇Come meet some new ones, or reconnect with some old ones, at the EFI 2026 Conference in Toronto (Aug 4–7, 2026)
📢 Abstract submissions and travel scholarships are open until April 15
I just registered for the GRC Unifying Ecology Across Scales meeting. This year's theme is "Connecting Unifying Ideas with Bold Data Streams to Predict Change in Natural Systems" and the lineup looks amazing.
As always, it has been a joy to work with this @gleonetwork.bsky.social team. Very excited to have this paper published, and eager to hear any thoughts or responses.
A graph illustrating the prevalence of the word "season" in lake-related literature from 1980–2024. Total prevalence increased from just under 5% of papers in 1980 to over 7% in 2024.
Discrete seasons are increasingly common in lake-related literature. This figure shows the percentage of all lake papers that include the word "season" in their title or abstract, which has increased from 1980–present.
Sunburst plot illustrating the most common words that precede "season" in the titles and abstracts of lake-related papers. Hydrologic terms (e.g., dry, wet, rainy) are the most prevalent category, followed by growth/growing seasons, spawning/breeding seasons, and ice-related seasons (melt, open-water, ice-free)
Lake-related papers reference a huge diversity of seasons. We extracted the word before "season" from titles and abstracts of 45,200 papers. Hydrologic seasons (drainy/dry) were the most prevalent, followed by seasons related to flora/fauna and ice.
A figure showing annual environmental data from Mohonk Lake, Lake Tanganyika, and West Lake Bonney. Each lake is shown as a set of concentric rings, with stratification data in the outermost ring, daylength in the middle ring, and astronomical seasons (spring/summer/autumn/winter) in the innermost circle. Mohonk exhibits ice cover and thermal mixing, while the other two lakes do not. West Lake Bonney exhibits the strongest gradient of day length across the year
Patterns of seasonality vary over space and time. Discrete seasons simplify this complexity, which has implications for research and communications ("all seasons are wrong but some are useful")
We drew from lots of sources: global data synthesis, abstracts of >45,000 papers, and literature review, including a deep dive into the ways that seasons have been socially/culturally defined around the world. Ultimately, we landed on five recommendations.
A sample of favorite figures below:
Excited to see our Seasons paper published in L&O Letters this morning!
In this @gleonetwork.bsky.social project we grappled with how to analyze seasons and seasonality in lakes over large spatial scales and amid global change doi.org/10.1002/lol2...
The SORTEE guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology are now published in the Peer Community Journal!
🔗 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....
LTER has a flurry of opportunities coming up:
1) Site Exchanges (lternet.edu/stories/site...) Deadline: March 16
2) Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers (lternet.edu/ssecr/) March 31
3) Request for Synthesis Proposals (lternet.edu/stories/requ...) Deadline: September 16
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We are excited to officially share GHG-Depths, a database of depth-resolved CO2 and CH4 concentrations in 522 lakes, ponds, and reservoirs worldwide.
Congrats to Joe Rabaey and a huge team of collaborators! @gleonetwork.bsky.social
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Time Series Analysis & Forecasting in R
🗓 20–24 July| 🌍 Online
A very hands-on course on dynamic GLMs/GAMs for ecological time series using {mvgam} & {brms}. Bayesian models, nonlinear effects, forecasting & live coding in R.
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@fieldinclusive.bsky.social is offering a $500 personal grant to support accessibility and inclusivity in fieldwork. Can be used for supplies, transportation, housing, technician salary, etc.
Applications due February 1, 2026: www.fieldinclusive.org/research-gra...
Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award. Learn the ins & outs of communicating with lawmakers. Network with ecologists working at the intersection of science & policy. Meet with policymakers in Washington DC. Apply by Jan. 7!
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Don't miss this chance to apply for ESA's Graduate Student Policy Award—a unique opportunity for grad students to gain hands-on experience at the science-policy interface in Washington DC
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A fabulous #postdoc opportunity to work with my colleague Nick Ward at PNNL on forest trace gas cycling, studying a poorly constrained component of the Earth system! Please share widely: careers.pnnl.gov/jobs/10985?l...
I'm excited about the Ecological Society's new Fakhri A. Bazzaz and Steward T.A. Pickett Mentorship Award for Enhancing Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging in Ecology. Nominate your colleagues who have been outstanding mentors! Due Nov. 13 esa.org/about/awards... @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
Nominate your outstanding senior colleagues for the Ecological Society of America's Eminent Ecologist Award! Nominations due Nov. 13.
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We're making the data behind this story available on Github to allow journalists, researchers and others to explore the details of the canceled food deliveries. github.com/propublica/t...
Question for #science bluesky!
Does anyone have experience with Earth System Science Data's living data publication process?
www.earth-system-science-data.net/living_data_...
Writing the 2nd edition of my data science book has reminded me of this: Students don't struggle with advanced topics. They struggle with fundamentals explained too abstractly. Teaching requires empathy, not just expertise.
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Know a dataset making an impact for people, planet, or prosperity?
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Please share! Virginia Tech's Biological Sciences Dept is #hiring an instructor with expertise in genetics, cell biology, &/or microbiology. The ideal candidate will have a PhD in biology, life sciences, or related field + college-level teaching experience. careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us...
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
Inaugural United Nations World Lake Day — 27 August 2025
Celebrate the critical role of lakes, reservoirs, and ponds in water security, flood mitigation, biodiversity, and ecosystem services.
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🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24...
Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵
