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plant ecophysiologist, SLAC professor, studies plants and carbon across scales.
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Hi all, I'll try to check in more often. Always looking for: 1) paid job/research opportunities to share with undergrads 2) cool ecophys/ecology stuff 3) connections for research & collaboration I'm also reachable by my professional email, which is on my webpage:
maryheskel.com
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Plant Ecophysiology @ Macalester College – Studying leaves to landscapes in a changing world
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Rosie Fisher
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The beautiful idea of NCAR, to improve understanding of our planet through a cooperative, shared and open intellectual team effort, is literally what has got me out of bed every morning for nearly two decades. This cannot, CANNOT be allowed to happen.
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Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/16/trump-dismantle-national-center-atmospheric-research-climate/87798771007/
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Maria Popova
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Emily Dickinson's herbarium – a forgotten treasure at the intersection of poetry and science
www.themarginalian.org/2017/05/23/e...
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Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Forgotten Treasure at the Intersection of Science and Poetry
An elegy for time and the mortality of beauty, composed with passionate patience and a sensuous cadence.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/05/23/emily-dickinson-herbarium/
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The USDA's shutdown messages are increasingly unhinged. I discovered this looking up lecture materials & the banner blamed the "Radical Left Democrats". Today's is much worse. Other agencies have a simple, uncharged heading.
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Owen Atkin
2 months ago
An important paper - just out in
@natureportfolio.nature.com
documenting a decline in net C uptake by Australian rainforests. Eventually the same will occur in other rainforests - a reminder that we need to get to net zero ASAP.
@biologyanu.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source - Nature
A transition from carbon sink to source for the aboveground woody biomass of moist tropical Australian forests has occurred, driven by increasingly extreme climate anomalies.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09497-8?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20251016&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CONR_41586_AWA1_GL_DTEC_054CI_TOC-251016
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Eric Holthaus
3 months ago
Looks like Minneapolis hit 90°F today, October 4th — the latest 90-degree day in city history.
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Christopher Krieg 🌿
3 months ago
🚨 1 Week Left to Apply! 🚨 The Krieg Lab is hiring a Research Professional in Plant Ecophysiology & Evolution. 📅 Deadline: October 1, 2025 📧 Sending materials (Cover Letter, CV, References) to: kriegc[at]wfu.edu
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Great post-bacc opportunity to work with
@stotra.bsky.social
and do field work in Kenya!
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GBIF Morpho 🦋
4 months ago
High tree diversity exposed to unprecedented macroclimatic conditions even under minimal an…... by @bjenquist.bsky.social @jcsvenning.bsky.social published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences using @gbif.org mediated data:
#CiteTheDOI
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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420059122
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High tree diversity exposed to unprecedented macroclimatic conditions even under minimal anthropogenic climate change | PNAS
Tree species worldwide face increasing exposure to unprecedented macroclimatic conditions due to anthropogenic climate change, which may trigger bi...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2420059122
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Hi All! I'm back from sabbatical and teaching Plant Ecophys again - a class near and dear to my heart! In the past, I've welcomed grad students and post-docs to share their research with students and their stories about how they got into the field.....
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Also a statistics position is open at Macalester as well, also linked here.
www.macalester.edu/provost/posi...
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🧬 🧪 🧬 Tenure-track position in Molecular Genetics at
@macalestercollege.bsky.social
🧬 🧪 🧬 Applications due Sept 15! Please share and feel free to reach out to me via email or DM about working at Macalester/living in MN/etc!
careers.insidehighered.com/job/3365525/...
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Biology - Assistant Professor - Molecular Genetics - Saint Paul, Minnesota job with Macalester College | 3365525
The Biology Department at Macalester College invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the level of Assistant Professor in the ...
https://careers.insidehighered.com/job/3365525/biology-assistant-professor-molecular-genetics/
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Karolina Heyduk
8 months ago
The PLANTS program (funded by NSF) at
@botsocamerica.bsky.social
was a cornerstone of the conference each year, bringing together new-to-science scholars with more experienced mentors. It helped provide community, support, and connection to new scientists. The grant was terminated last week.
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Rich Phillips
8 months ago
This took a minute but excited to share it now
link.springer.com/10.1007/s004...
Trees get N by resorbing from foliage & foraging in soil - but are the two coordinated? We tested hypotheses about relationships between resorption & root production for 12 spp in mature forests & 9 spp in a garden.
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Assessing carbon and nitrogen economics in temperate forests through the relationship between foliar nutrient resorption and root production - Oecologia
Plants both respond to and influence their immediate soil environment, which can yield divergent predictions regarding plant economics and trait coordination. Tree species with high foliar nitrogen (N...
https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00442-025-05710-7
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I have an advisee who is switching over from econ to environmental science/ecology who is awesome and would be a great summer researcher! He would love to get field experience and is open to all kinds of opportunities. Thanks!
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Colin Carlson
8 months ago
There’s some inaccurate NSF information spreading and causing extra panic. New increments on existing awards are paused. But: to the best of my knowledge, drawdown (reimbursement) on existing increments is not paused. ACMS is still accessible. Could change at any moment, though. Please share.
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Stephanie Pau
8 months ago
How does
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leaf reflectance vary with functional traits, site, and evolutionary lineage in
#grasses
? New paper, part of a special issue "Advancing Spectral Biology to Understand Plant Diversity Across Scales", check it out:
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Victor Galaz
8 months ago
Would it be possible to sue major fossil fuel companies for the resulting climate damage using climate attribution science? This paper says 'yes'.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature
A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08751-3
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Owen Atkin
8 months ago
Great to work with Bruhn et al. on an article on RQ's (i.e. respiratory CO2 efflux:O2 uptake ratio) in plants. Typically we assume the fluxes to be in balance, but in many cases, they are not, with implications for C modeling.
@pplplantarum.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Importance of the leaf respiratory quotient
Rates of leaf respiratory CO2-release (RCO2) are important for terrestrial biosphere models that estimate carbon exchange between plants and the atmosphere. Hitherto, models of RCO2 have primarily be...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ppl.70235
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@li-corenv.bsky.social
- Please share the inspiration and behind the scenes of this 6800 vs 6400 photoshoot. It's giving distracted boyfriend meme.
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Sean Michaletz
10 months ago
Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026.
michaletzlab.org
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys
#Ecology
#Botany
#PhDposition
#GradSchool
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AoB PLANTS
10 months ago
🌱Exciting Opportunity! AoB PLANTS is looking for a new Chief Editor as Professor Tom Buckley steps down this summer. This is your chance to lead a top-tier, open-access plant science journal. ✅ Download full job details 👉
https://wp.me/pdRZhH-lJv
Apply by 17 March!
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David Ho
11 months ago
The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov
had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
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Everything is terrible, but I bought this triangular shaped pasta at Trader Joe’s (“trianguletti”, pictured below), and my partner dubbed it “Sedge-etti”, which is an early contender for best wordplay of 2025.
#SedgesHaveEdges
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Hi all, I'll try to check in more often. Always looking for: 1) paid job/research opportunities to share with undergrads 2) cool ecophys/ecology stuff 3) connections for research & collaboration I'm also reachable by my professional email, which is on my webpage:
maryheskel.com
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