Massive update to the Global Wood Density Database out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer. What an amazing community resource! 🧪🍁🌐 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

Really interesting and confounding trend reported in Dynamic Ecology - ecology citations peaked in 2021 and have been declining since. Continued impact from the pandemic? 🧪🌐🌾 dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/s...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in my lab to study threatened plant species responses to drought and heat. This is part of mu recently funded DECRA fellowship.

🖥️ From Plant, Cell & Environment: A new psychrometric correction removes humidity-driven bias in LI-600 porometer readings, aligning stomatal conductance estimates with IR gas analysis. (Kyle T. Rizzo, Brian N. Bailey) ▶️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience

One day in the lab, we accidentally discovered that the spines of a cactus 🌵 straighten when exposed to fog. I was intrigued and so were my collaborators. How does this work and what can be gained from it? Here are some of the answers in our new preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Check out our new pub led by lab postdoc, Dr. Brad Posch! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Congrats to @bposch.bsky.social for leading the writing of the New Phytologist Tansley Review on High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land plants. @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Herbarium specimens reveal shifts in species' elevational ranges Zu et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/VB8MUG...

Exciting PhD opportunity advertised by superstar colleague Prof. Rachael Gallagher "Genomic and trait-based indicators of restoration success" (collaboration with Botanic Gardens of Sydney). See attached image. Contact Rachael directly for more information (email in advert). Closes 30th Nov.

We are coming up on the closing date for an Assistant Professor of Mycology/Plant-fungal Interactions in the Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois - apply before November 1st! See the link below for more details: www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

How can we explore the future of the world's forests? Understanding the demography of their trees is key. In We took the new gen of global demographic vegetation models and held their roots to the observations. Thanks @annemarie-es.bsky.social for leading! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Drought and insects have killed an unprecedented number of Oregon’s Douglas fir trees during the last decade, costing billions in timber value, damaging infrastructure and ramping up wildfire danger. What is Douglas fir dieback? Where is it happening? What is being done? tinyurl.com/5n9amvx6

Effects of Soil and Atmospheric Drought on Intra-Annual δ13C Patterns in Tree Rings https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpaf120

Hi all! If you are a PhD or soon to be PhD looking for a postdoc in plant thermotolerance, I would love to discuss project ideas for the University of Utah Wilkes Center Postdoc Fellowship, app due late Jan 2026! Msg me if there is interest. Tnx! wilkescenter.utah.edu/funding-oppo...

🚨 Do not miss the chance to submit your abstract to the European Conference of Tropical Ecology at Passau! The Call for Abstracts will stay open until 14 October 2025. 🚨 There are 18 exciting Thematic Sessions and one Free Session you can choose from.

@Blueskyverse! if you are interested in **plants and how they may live without water** join this fantastic virtual symposium organized by our NSF WATER AND LIFE INTERFACE INSTITUTE BII - is free, and fun ;) REGISTER HERE 👇 www.walii.science/virtual-symp...

First copies of my book are here!! As a new faculty member, I realized that in addition to my research job, I also had a leadership job…and I wasn’t prepared for that. This book is the guide I wish I’d had then, with the goal of helping others now.   jenheemstra.com/book

Come join us for the #ameriflux annual meeting, October 22-24 in Tuscon Arizona. Budgets might be tight, but community support is invaluable, and that's what this year's meeting is all about. Abstracts are due next week. Check out the details here: ameriflux.lbl.gov/community/am...

It seems like loggers or logging companies would have known this, but maybe not. It makes me curious. Does anybody know if land with red pines was worth less than that dominated by white pines or whether logging crews preferred white pine over red pine because of this reason? (8/8)

Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt

Network, we are looking for PhD students and Postdocs on evolutionary and ecological genomics in 2025/2026 Join our diverse and welcoming lab at UC Berkeley & HHMINEWS! Check job ads-> www.moilab.science/team/join-us

💥 Guess what? 💥 In ecology, small details like #micronutrients can have large effects. Actually, they can profoundly IMPACT the #biodiversity beneath our feet. How?

What tree rings tell us about large-scale air movements. 14C records from Cameroonian trees (growing on the Northern Hemisphere) reveal that CO2 they absorb originates from other side of equator. Study lead Guaciara Santos; tree rings @petergroen.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Trying to develop predictive theory for how biology works in the ocean? Interested in unifying traits? Keen to hang out in a beautiful place with amazing people? Consider joining us in a couple of weeks at the 7th #TraitBasedApproaches workshop in Asilomar! carnegiescience.edu/seventh-trai...

A bit late to sharing our newest paper led by Yohana Jimenez ! A global regionalisation of tree-inhabited ecosystems based on tree functional traits. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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

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Come work with us @AmazonFACE! We have 4 postdoc positions open: 1) Wood Traits and Growth Relationships 2) Impacts on Biogeochemical Cycling 3) Vegetation Modelling – hydrological/hydraulic processes 4) Functional Traits related to Photosynthesis More info: amazonface.unicamp.br/oportunidade...

Herbarium director position opening at Oregon State University ‪@osu-herbarium.bsky.social‬ Great opportunity for herbarium- and field-trained botanists at any rank. bpp.oregonstate.edu/bpp/about/op...

A lively debate on whether agroecology can help us achieve social wellbeing and conservation in the tropics, the short answer is yes, but it is also a socially, culturally, and politically complex question #ATBC2025 #tropicalbiology #Oaxaca

Thought provoking address by Juan Posada on biodiversity credits, an emerging tool for improving, maintaining, or preventing loss of biodiversity #ATBC2025 #tropicalbiology #Oaxaca

Fantastic opportunity to catch up with my fellow committee members at the #ATBC2025 conference - we usually only see each other over zoom!

Inspiring keynote speech by Dr. Berta Martin-Lopez on the interconnectedness of humans and nature, and the importance of relational values in conservation science - a valuable perspective for the #ATBC2025 conference

Heading to Oaxaca for #ATBC2025 ? Make sure you stop by our symposium for all things leaf temperature, heat tolerance, and tradeoffs across climate gradients 🌿💧🌡️

I'll be talking about hyperdominant tropical tree species at #ATBC2025 in #Oaxaca, including some recent work on Eschweilera coriacea, which despite being possibly the most common tropical tree in the world (~5 billion trees in the Amazon basin) can be hard to identify and is poorly studied.

Going to ATBC in Oaxaca? Please join us for two Biotropica events on Tuesday: How to publish your scientific results and an informal Meet and Greet with the Biotropica Editorial Board. This is your opportunity to get to know Biotropica!

On my way to #ATBC2025 in Oaxaca, I had to stop in Mexico City for some chilaquiles verdes

Looking forward to seeing the people on this starter pack at #ATBC2025 If you want to be added to this list, please let me know. 🧪 in 🇲🇽 go.bsky.app/FSQE1vP

#NExTropics symposia at #ATBC2025 find out the latest from nutrient addition experiments from across the tropics

Check out my new Substack post about what people thought about plant water use and leaf transpiration >2,000 years ago. They had pretty much figured it out! open.substack.com/pub/rivertot...

🌱 The first issue of Plant Ecophysiology is out! Chief Editor Jaume Flexas shares his vision for the future of plant science publishing—and how Plant-Environment Interactions is leading the way. A standout feature? Reviewers are paid for their work. Editorial: media.sciltp.com/articles/250...

I have an opportunity for a new PhD student in tropical tree ecophysiology in my lab. Some more details at the link below. Please pass along! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

An inspiring finish for our CORO Faculty Leadership Collaborative! We spent a quarter sharpening our skills in self-awareness, critical thinking, communication, inclusion, collaboration, and influence - it was an amazing experience and these people are like my brothers and sisters now!

#ATBC2025 From canopy to cosmos: a poetry workshop. www.atbc2025.org/workshops-co...

There is still time to apply for this position! If you have some spatial modelling skills and interest in wildfire, please consider applying.

Thanks to Jonathan Myers @jamyersecology.bsky.social for visiting UCR and giving an expansive talk on the controls over community assembly - it was great to see you!

Our paper on mapping the canopy traits and functions of global tropical forests was published online in Nature last month but is out in print today, and it made the cover 😊 Congrats again to @jeaggu.bsky.social and the many, many co-authors who contributed to this @natureportfolio.nature.com