Excited to share what I've been working on with the science community! Starting to get my PhD papers out as I get closer to graduating, and looking into next steps in my career. If anyone has any postdoc ideas, please reach out! 🙂🌱

field work is good for the soul but tough on the glutes

Our annual meeting hosted this year by @youngryel.bsky.social at Seoul National University, brought together our international team to share research updates, plan our next steps and train our ECRs in remote sensing. A very successful week. Read more 👇 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/annu…

📢We're hiring! The second position with the #lemontree team at the University of Reading is a PDRA in EEO Carbon Allocation Modelling. Closing date 30th Sept. Details 👇 jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

📢We're hiring!! We have two positions to join the #lemontree team at Reading University. The first is a PDRA in Functional Biodiversity. Closing date 30th Sept. Details 👇 jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

#Botany2026 in Tucson AZ is going to be a great meeting! If you want us to help organize a symposium/colloquium on your favorite topic in plant phys, ecophys, ecology or macroecology, let us know!

Postdoctoral position in Forest Monitoring available. Know your way around spatial datasets? Join us to help monitor changes in Australia's precious forest estate! @westsyduhie.bsky.social jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

📢🌿Available #traits #FunctionalTraits PhD position in my group @westsyduhie.bsky.social, closes 30th Oct. Topics: “Climate adaptations in Australian native grasses”; OR “Plant resource economics”. Apply via WSU Online Portal. Eligibility and other key info here: wrightlab.wordpress.com/news/

Tomorrow at the #VERSI symposium, LEMONTREE PI Prof Sandy Harrison will be presenting at 4pm UK time (11amET). Don't miss it! register here: schmidtsciences.org/vesri/ @schmidtsciences.bsky.social

"For our scientists" 🧪 By ellecordova on Instagram

Are you a mammologist whose research involves natural history collections? Apply to be my colleague! Assistant professor position with the Department of Biological Sciences and the Natural Science Research Laboratory at Texas Tech University. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

What drives photosynthesis temperature sensitivity? New #GCB paper from #MichaletzLab grad #JosefGaren uses #FAsTeR to show it's 1‑day weather, not traits, origin climate, or phylogeny! www.researchgate.net/publication/... @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca @globalchangebio.bsky.social

Fully funded PhD in #Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver! 🍁 Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology, and more. Start Sept 2026/Jan 2027. michaletzlab.org Please share! #PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool

📢New blog by Prof Colin Prentice. Why paleoclimate science matters now- and why ignoring our planet's history is no longer an option. Read more 👇 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/what…#paleoclimatet#climatechangeg#earthhistoryry

🌿✨ Plant Fizz Friday! ✨🌿 We want to show off amazing things plant ecophysiologists are doing.... that means you! Twice a month, we want to showcase something from our community (lab setup, fieldwork, publication, etc). To participate, send 1 - 3 images, and a description to [email protected]

Michigan State University is hiring a new Director of our herbarium! This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution Please consider applying and help spread the word! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

New PhD position in Plant Ecophysiology🌳 Study how atmospheric & soil drought shape tree carbon & water relations at the VPDrought experiment in Switzerland. Start Jan 2026. Apply here: m.refline.ch/273855/1759/... @wslresearch.bsky.social

How do plants keep absorbing CO2 as nutrients decline?🌱 A new @nature.com study led by Trevor Cambron (MIT) shows why modelling plant nutrient strategies is key to predicting the land carbon sink. 🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02386-y @stineb.bsky.social @trevorkeenan.bsky.social

📢Just out! A new paper by the team in @pnas.org : Observed declines in leaf nitrogen explained by photosynthetic acclimation to CO2! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Maoya Bassiouni, @nickgregsmith.bsky.social @trevorkeenan.bsky.social et al.

Check out our latest blog on how declining leaf nitrogen concentrations are not a sign of nutrient limitation, but an adaptive response to rising CO2 🔗https://research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/leaf-nitrogen-declines-what-european-forests-reveal-about-co%e2%82%82-acclimation-and-ecosystem-resilience/

At 5pm today at #esa2025, @alissarcheaib.bsky.social will present her poster: 'The satisfaction of leaf nitrogen demand under drought is modulated by soil nitrogen availability and drought severity". This research highlights that water-nutrient interactions must be jointly considered in models.

In addition to our three awesome @esa-sw.bsky.social events tomorrow (Wed Aug 12), two of my lab members will be presenting some of our first lab research findings! Come check them out! #ecophys #southwest #ESA2025 @biancazorger.bsky.social @rebeccasenft.bsky.social

Curious about when leaf nitrogen needs are met under dry soils, and how plant carbon economics respond to drought&nutrient stress? 🌿🏵🌧 come see my poster showing our work @nickgregsmith.bsky.social at #ESA2025 tomorrow (Wed) in P29_Climate change, Poster 039!

Come find the @esa-sw.bsky.social at #esa2025!!

I’m at #ESA2025 through tomorrow and we may be hiring soon! If you have experience or interest in climate change attribution and eco-epi and are looking for a postdoc, come find me - look for the blue @viralemergence.org hat, or reach out on email!

This morning at #ESA2025, we honored a remarkable group of scientists and educators whose work is shaping the future of ecology. Follow along to meet this year’s awardees & Fellows! ⬇️

Come check out my talk this afternoon where I’ll try to make sense of N and P effects on leaf and whole plant traits! Starts at 14:00 in BCC 349. See ya there!

Coming up at #ESA2025, the New Phytologist Foundation Keynote: Science as a catalyst for hope: Taking action, building community, and mobilizing solution-focused research during times of change We welcome @ecology-awesome.bsky.social to the stage at 10:30am. events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det...

The PhUnFETTy lab will have four presentations at #ESA2025. These will cover plant ecophysiology, trait ecology, eutrophication, water availability, mycorrhizae, demography, theory, modeling, and more! Check out the flyer and replies below for more details. Hope to see you in Baltimore!

Today at #esa2025: @eaperkowski.bsky.social is presenting his talk: "Global response patterns of plant functional traits to combined nitrogen and phosphorus addition are driven by additive individual effects of nitrogen and phosphorus addition" Session: COS – Physiological Ecology 1. 1.30-3pm.

It's almost time for #esa2025 and we've got @nickgregsmith.bsky.social, @eaperkowski.bsky.social @alissarcheaib.bsky.social and Snehanjana Chatterjee heading there to present their LEMONTREE research. For more info on their talks head over to the blog... research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/le...

Is #ESA2025 your first ESA meeting? Maybe your first scientific conference, period? You probably have questions -- and our members have answers. Join our first-timers reception in Baltimore, or register for this free webinar led by event veterans: esa.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Just a reminder that you can still submit your abstract to our session by July 30th.

Need a home for your #AGU25 abstract? Submit to our session on plant canopies! The session (B097) is titled "Vegetation canopies: physiology, structure, function" Invited speakers: Chris Still (OSU) and Aaron Potkay (UMN) Everything leaf/canopy-related is invited! agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...

Wondering where to submit your abstract for #AGU25 @agu.org annual meeting? Consider our cross-scale "Forest Physiological and Ecological Processes from Molecules to Ecosystems" organized session (#246685)! #EcoPhys

A perspective: some relationships between the biochemistry of photosynthesis and the gas exchange of leaves (Planta 153, 376–387) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The lab has new 2025 pubs on topics including: - CO2 acclimation - C4 trait spectra - Stem respiration - Phosphorus allocation - Predicting plant communities - Acclimation timescales (full links in replies) Check out more in a blog on the lab website here! www.smithecophyslab.com/news#mid2025...

For those looking for the National Climate Assessments: NCA5 (2023): repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/61... NCA4 vol. 1 (2017): repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/19... NCA4 vol. 2 (2018): repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/19... NCA3 (2014): repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/19...

TTU media made a doc highlighting @madiraibullock.bsky.social's super cool PhD work that I've been lucky to be able to help with. It showcases our field trips to the Guadalupe Mtns NP to re-botanize an area that was characterized 50 years ago. "Echoes of Guadalupe" www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r3C...

♻️ Symbiotic nitrogen fixation reduces belowground biomass carbon costs of nitrogen acquisition under low, but not high, nitrogen availability by Evan Perkowski and co-authors Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp... #PlantScience

As an example why government reports should always get be deposited in a repository — the 3rd, 4th and 5th National Climate Assessments (all of which are no longer accessible at globalchange.gov) can be accessed on the NOAA repository

"This is like a botanical time machine." Texas Tech researchers traveled to the Guadalupe Mountains National Park to collect plant specimens and continue work in the same place as another Tech professor and his student in the 1970s. youtu.be/4r3CeVzNddM?...

@texastech.bsky.social produced an amazing, short documentary on the research we've been conducting in the Guadalupe Mountains National Park for multiple projects, including my Ph.D. If you're interested in checking it out, click here 🌵🏜️⛰️💚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r3C...

we worked so hard on this, nights and weekends, trying our best to do a good job for the American people

🌿New on the blog: A new study led by Astrid Ode shows how leaves adjust traits like stomatal conductance and photosynthetic capacity across different timescales. Karin Rebel & Hugo de Boer @nickgregsmith.bsky.social 🔗https://research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/leaf-trait-plasticity/

If you are doing wildfire-relevant research, especially with the goals to understand the complex climate, vegetation, soil, fire, and human interactions in the Earth system, please consider submitting abstracts to our #AGU #fire session: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...

📢Kicking off the week with a short blog on @nickgregsmith.bsky.social's recent talk at the #gordonresearchconference on CO2 assimilation. Nick shared how EEO helps us model photosynthesis under changing climates. 👇 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/le...

How well plants use their photosynthesized carbon? Using global eddy covariance observations and ecological theory, our study reveals the pattern of vegetation carbon use efficiency (CUE) worldwide! @fluxnet.bsky.social @natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌍New paper out today!!! Global variation in vegetation carbon use efficiency inferred from eddy covariance observations @xiangzluo.bsky.social @natureportfolio.nature.com 🔗👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Meet the botanist, Karolina Heyduk. She works at the University of Connecticut, where she investigates photosynthesis, the process where plants use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into food. So why would she in the lab at midnight? wp.me/pdRZhH-lY2 #Botany #PlantScience 🧪