Remember this picture every single time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s, via Urban Cycling Institute 🚲 . The cities we admire made better choices regarding cars, and are still making them today. Better choices instead of excuses.

I am seeking a postdoc to help start a winter climate change experiment focused on soil responses. Please share widely!❄️ #postdocjobs #soil #biogeochemistry #ecosystems sites.dartmouth.edu/hicksprieslab/…

Seasonal position open CAES in the Plant Disease Information Office! Great opportunity for undergraduates interested in disease diagnostics and seed testing. Learn more and apply here portal.ct.gov/-/media/CAES/D…

Calling all potential postdocs with strong quantitative/data-wrangling skills to study impacts of nonnative insects and pathogens on forest demographics and carbon sequestration potential. Apply here: jobs.usnh.edu/postings/55010 and/or please share! COLSA

I'm hiring for a postdoc. Funding is available for two years. If you want to work on mycorrhizal symbioses in the boreal forest, this postdoc is for you.

Juniper-apple rust (Gymnosporangium) before rain (top) and after rain (bottom). #rust #fungus #forest #pathogen

Symptoms of beech leaf disease on new leaves of copper beech 🍂 (Fagus sylvatica 'Purpurea') and American beech 🍃 (Fagus grandifolia). Both develop the interveinal banding pattern typical for bld. Thanks @mirzafaisalqase for luring me to take a look at the copper beech 🌳

Once talked to someone who told they went to Cornell, and when I did not go like "wow OMG ..!", but rather "OK great", they went "usually people are more impressed" 🤷‍♀️ 🤣

Today a student sent me an email to thank me for teaching them tissue culture skills which got them a competed internship position in oak somatic embryogenesis 🥳 This made my day and I am so proud of them for leveraging their new skills for career development 😊 #proudmentor

CRISPR Helps Scientists Develop Canker-resistant Citrus Lines in Less Than a Year isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotech…

Fun day at CAES Plant Science Day talking about urban tree health 🌳 and mycorrhizae in chestnuts!

Perfect early fall 🍂🍁 weather for canopy photography to estimate #urban #tree #health in #newhaven. Maple dieback is common in urban heat islands, like with this Norway maple in the photo. CAES research with Dr. Faisal Qaseem.

Fungi 🍄 don't have roots 😄 They are made of mycelium. Mycelium which transforms into delicious food like these cutlets by meati foods 😋 Awesome to see new delicious #plantbased products like this on the market.

Job alert: I am hiring a Program Manager / Postdoc to manage and grow the ACTG: American Campus Tree Genomes project and others. In-person HudsonAlpha preferred, but remote possible. ACTG story: shorturl.at/gGX13 Apply here: shorturl.at/jBPVZ

Kidnappers returning me after I talk about my research for 1 hour

Entomologists with beekeeping experience: Please apply for the CT State Apiary Inspector! BS level with no residency requirement. Very stable- great benefits, annual increases, union protections, and a great place to work! portal.ct.gov/-/media/CAES/D…

Our paper w Clément Larue on chestnut pollination made the cover of AmJBot Botanical Society of America Yes, 🌰 trees are pollinated by such glamorous 🪰 !

Saddleback caterpillar (Acharia stimulea) feeding on a roadside thicket of Norway maples in Hamden CT. The insect is not a significant defoliator, but is a medically significant venomous urticating caterpillar. Even light contact with the spines burns like nettles. Do not touch!

THERES ALWAYS SOMETHING

An open lab manager position at University of Hawaii at Manoa with Anthony Amend and hynsonlab.com.  Knowledge of fungi, microbiology, molecular methods and sterile technique would serve this individual well. Nov. 4th app deadline: schooljobs.com/careers/hawaii… Start date negotiable PLS RT!