Ottawa adventures await! ByWard Market, canal biking, summer vibes — make #PlantBio2026 a science + travel experience.

Happy Tenth Birthday to the LI-6800! We got you a present. www.licor.com/products/pho...

Join us in Dallas for #ASHS2026! Register today and add a ticket for a professional horticultural tour - https://ashs.org/event/2026Dallas#ASHS2026

Abstracts for #Botany2026 🍃 are due on April 13th! If you work on gas exchange (CO2, H2O), carbon dynamics (photo., NSCs), and water relations 💧on organs different from LEAVEs, submit your abstract to the Non-foliar Gas Exchange Colloquium @bsa-ecophys.bsky.social: www.xcdsystem.com/botany/progr...

Register now for the PEPG Early Career Workshop ahead of Photosynthesis 2026 🌱 📅 24th July 2026 📍 Liverpool John Moores University 👉 cvent.me/gbOvPG @sebiology.bsky.social #plantscience #ICPR26 #earlycareer

The international conference on photosynthesis research will be happening in Liverpool at the end of July. It promises to be a broad and interesting conference about all things photosynthesis! ☀️🌱🥼 Abstract deadlines: 31st March - presentations 15th May - posters Hope to see you there!

Now open: Submissions for #ESA2026 latebreaking & project proposed posters! Topics include human dimensions & other applied topics. Project proposed posters are for early stages of new projects that don't yet have results or seek input. Submit by 4/23! https://ow.ly/35WH50Ywrt4

It's a long tradition at LI-COR that pie is supplied for all who wish to partake of it in celebration of Pi Day. If Pi Day falls on a weekend or Friday, we have Pi Day (observed) since our manufacturing team works 4 10s and isn't here on Friday. Today was Pi Day (observed) for this year.

🍃🎤🍃 Speaker announcement 🍃🎤🍃 Announcing our final set of Invited Speakers for Photosynthesis 2026 🌱 🎉 🐦️ There's just 3 weeks left to register at the early-bird rate ⏰️ Abstract submission for oral presentations closes 31st March Find out more 👉 photosynthesis2026.com #plantscience #ICPR26 🧵1/9

Alternative Subtitle: How Not To Be Reviewer #2

So, what chamber should we use to measure this plant? 🤔

#ASHS2026 - Dallas, August 3-7 Registration is open! Join us and connect with an elite global network of R&D professionals. Learn more and register at https://ashs.org/event/2026Dallas#ASHS2026#scienceconference #plantscience #horticulture

Our work with NASA Blueflux and others, led by Cheryl Doughty, upscaling CO2 and CH4 fluxes in the Everglades, is published! Check out the paper and see how management and climate are impacting C fluxes across South Florida!

Awesome morning tracking photosynthesis in a Welwitschia population. (It was cold in the morning, for like 30 minutes, before the sun made it a furnace.)

Look, we know scientists are very very good at organizing their entire collection of papers (digital or hard copy) as a procrastinatory reflex, but you really do need to just get your abstract in now.

roses are red violets are blue both make sugars from atmospheric CO2 🌹🌹🌹

Registration is open for *C460- From Kranz to Crops: Celebrating 60 Years of C4 Discovery and Innovation* Celebrating 60 years since the discovery of C4 photosynthesis! 23-25 July 2026 at Lancaster University, UK Generously funded by @annbot.bsky.social, @newphyt.bsky.social, and others!

Got enough methane for the ground to be *on fire*? We can measure that! (The methane, not the fire. Please don't expose our instruments to open flame). Photo courtesy of Dr. Ian Smillie, who was visiting researchers in Grenoble last week.

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! This day is celebrated annually to promote the full and equal access and participation of women in science and technology 👩‍🏫 Take a moment to reflect: what opportunities could you take to increase gender equality in your workplace or community?

The #Botany2026 Call for Abstracts is OPEN! Join 1,000+ botanical scientists to share research, spark collaborations, & explore this year’s theme: Biodiversity at the Boundaries. Submission Deadline: April 13, 2026 Submit abstract here: www.xcdsystem.com/botany/abstr... www.botanyconference.org

Using controlled genetic approaches, RIPE researchers altered soybean leaf shape and found that narrower leaves can improve how efficiently plants use available light. This work was led by RIPE researchers Bishal Tamang and Lisa Ainsworth. Read about it here: go.illinois.edu/ripenews

From the fjords to the only "ocean front property in Arizona", LI-COR instruments are working to help researchers understand our world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSjn... (sorry about the George Strait earworm)

Researchers at the UMCES took the LI-7810 and a DIC system out into the fjords and made a video about it. Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOIZ...

New results to share? New methods? Your science matters, and #ESA2026 is the perfect venue for it. Share, get (and give!) feedback, and build your professional network in ecology. Contributed talk & poster abstract submissions open through 2/19! https://ow.ly/OpyP50Y62qh

🍃 Plenary 🍃 photosynthesis2026.com Lisa Ainsworth @ibioillinois.bsky.social 🌿Lisa’s research into the mechanisms of plant responses to climate change aims to maximize crop production in a future climate of elevated carbon dioxide, ozone, higher temperatures and drought #ICPR26 #plantscience

5 days remain to submit your speaker abstracts, travel grant applications and early-bird registrations for the 47th New Phytologist Symposium: Extending the limits of thermal life! 📅 2–5 June 2026 📍 Córdoba, Spain Deadline: 2 February 👇 www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps #PlantScience

#NatuRAproject #ecosystemgasfluxes in the #drakensberg with a custom made tent setup and a @li-corenv.bsky.social LI-7810. @anna-dam.bsky.social on the chain ladder to the high site. @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu @vvandvik.bsky.social @audhalbritter.bsky.social

All chapters of A Hitchhiker's Guide to Leaf-Level Gas Exchange are now available to read: www.licor.com/podcast/leaf.... Printing commences soon! I hope you find this an excellent gift for the gas exchanger in your life. Remember, you don't need to wait for a holiday to show someone you care...

Are you interested in attending a training course for your photosynthesis, soil flux, or eddy covariance instruments? We have training classes! Here's the link for photosynthesis training: www.licor.com/products/pho...

🌿 Meeting Plant Scientists | @botany.one 🎙️ Kasey Barton 📝 “Seedlings Are Not Merely Smaller Adult Plants” A new interview from Botany One. 🔗

Dans le cadre du projet CARBONIQUE et en collaboration avec le EcoFlux Lab de la professeure Sara Knox à l'université McGill, une tour à covariance des turbulences a été installé dans un marais aménagé par Canards Illimités. Voici la vidéo de l'installation d'avril 2025 ☀️🚜🦆🌱 youtu.be/z37eCc8C8bw

This is another flux tower we installed this spring/summer for the @carbonique.bsky.social project. This time the tower was installed on a floating platform in a restored marsh near Baie-du-Febvre. Thank you to my colleague Léonie @cpaleolab.bsky.social for putting together this video 💚

♻️ Vitis vinifera L. varieties (cv. Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay) vary in leaf water flux in response to elevated CO2 growing conditions and a gradual water deficit by Alessandra Zuniga and co-authors. Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp... #PlantScience

Cake! our department has an annual Botany Bake Off, which this year was won by Josua. That is a £D printed flux tower with a functional CO2 sensor. Hlf the cake has a lot of different colouts, represnting plant diversity in the real world and the other half has only two, like in a model.

New exciting paper with Lu Fluxes involvement, highlighting how trees, ponds and grazing strongly shape greenhouse gas dynamics in Sahel savannas, showing how complex and dynamic semi‑arid ecosystems really are. Well Done Alek! @beccsweden.bsky.social @lund-university.bsky.social

Here comes Santa Flux, here comes Santa Flux Right down Santa Flux Lane Mixin’ and Fixin’ and all his reindeers Pullin' on the reins Bells are ringin', children singin' All is merry and bright So hang your stockings and say your prayers 'Cause Santa Flux comes tonight.

We're headed to #AGU25 next week! Time for beignets, boudin and booth goodies. See more of what you can expect at Booth 311 here: www.licor.com/conference/A....

The final episode of our podcast is available, which means that the entire book is now available. Check out Episode 10 here: www.licor.com/podcast/leaf...

Episode 9 of the podcast is now available. This time: Mesophyll Conductance -- what is it, why would you measure it, and what can go wrong if you try? www.licor.com/podcast/leaf...

Tuning the C4 supercharger: improving #photosynthesis and #yield in C4 #crops #TansleyReview by @mariaermakova.bsky.social, Robert E. Sharwood and Robert T. Furbank nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience @monashbiol.bsky.social.

The Fall Newsletter is OUT! 🍁 Feat: Riverdale students doing salamander research, a recap from @hannahgais.bsky.social , and forest updates. Read it now: www.blackrockforest.org/newsletter #BlackRockForest #FieldResearch #Science #FieldStation

California just hit a major milestone for #ClimateScience! In the heart of CAL FIRE’s Jackson Demonstration State Forest, a brand-new carbon monitoring tower listens to the forest breathe. youtu.be/rFE3ZBrgoMY #ClimateAction #ForestManagement #Redwoods #Sustainability

In our ECOSENSE forest we are monitoring ecosystem processes and stresses in real-time using distributed sensor networks: Our new @egu.eu preprint discusses the implementation of this major technical infrastructure and its data management @ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social - doi.org/10.5194/egus...

We are going back to basics measuring light curves on sun and shade leaves of Hedera helix in the practical course for biology Bachelot's students!

Episode 8 of the podcast is available now. This week, we're focusing on the fluorescence and gas exchange measurements combo-pack and our "guest speaker" is Dr. Ian Smillie from our European support team. www.licor.com/podcast/leaf...

There's no conductance from this sunflower leaf. Maybe we should call tech support?

Episode 7 of our podcast is out today! Listen to Seton and Elizabeth (yes, that Elizabeth!) describe the considerations to choose the perfect leaf for your gas exchange measurements. www.licor.com/podcast/leaf...

Catch up: Part 2 (July 26th, dry heath) - #CarbonFluxes in control & warmed plots ( #OTC ≈ +1 °C), rapid weather shifts ⛅, plus plant height 🌱 and other environmental drivers' measurements. bsky.app/profile/blan...