The future of Europe’s forest disturbance regimes– a thread. Tl, dr: Disturbances from wildfire, bark beetles & wind will continue to increase in the coming decades. Under unabated climate change disturbances could more than double by 2100. New paper out in @science.org doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Postdoc Fellowship opportunity! UW Program on Climate Change has a new for a Postdoctoral Scholar program for fellows to develop and conduct novel climate science research that benefits from collaborations at UW. Apply by April 15th! pcc.uw.edu/research/fun...

The New Phytologist Foundation supports the organisation of symposia by providing dedicated funds and full administrative support including budget management, venue management, delegate registration, abstract submission, and delegates/speaker management.

📢 There are seven days left to submit your proposal for a New Phytologist Symposium! More information: www.newphytologist.org/events/sympo... Send us your proposals by 9 March 2026. #PlantScience

Super cool database compiled by Fabian J. Fischer (Uni Bristol/TUM)!

Extreme heat is fast becoming one of the biggest threats to global food systems. Our new piece in The Conversation looks at how intense heatwaves put crops and native species at risk — and what we can actually do about it. 🔗 theconversation.com/intense-heat...

JOB ALERT! We are excited to announce that we are recruiting three new academics at lecturer level! Click the link below for more info on how to apply, and don’t forget to explore our research themes too! We look forward to receiving your applications! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Come and join us at Bristol 👇👀

🌳🌲Excited to share my latest research on how declining C4 vegetation impacts the carbon isotope composition of CO₂! After 4+ years of juggling work and maternity leave, it’s finally out! www.nature.com/articles/s43... see also blog on the paper 👇 urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

New research from our group: A pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent - driven by rising temperatures rdcu.be/eXSa7

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.

We are hiring three PhDs within the joint project ‘Forests in transition: The future of European beech under drought stress’. If you are interested in tree water relations in response to stem density reduction (subproject 2), see here: www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste....

Level B lecturer position in Environmental Botany (plant ecology and plant physiology), School of Life and Environmental Sciences at Deakin Uni, Burwood (Melbourne) #BotanyJobs #PlantSciJobs #PlantEcology 🌾🪴🌿🌱🧪 Please repost Applications due 18th January. careers.pageuppeople.com/949/cw/en/jo...

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Wonderful collection of articles exploring what the concept of anthromes - human-modified biomes - means for our understanding of the global carbon cycle 🌐

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 New Phytologist #TansleyMedal is @camilledelavaux.bsky.social! Read the #Editorial by Slater & Dolan 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience @niooknaw.bsky.social 🧵1/2

Honoured & humbled to receive a #Nature #Award for #Mentoring in #Science yesterday. ☺️ Testament to the wonderful #ECRs I've been privileged to work with. THANK YOU to all who nominated me. 🙏 #proud #support @natureportfolio.nature.com @bristolbiosci.bsky.social www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/de...

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Regreening & the water cycle agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

A childhood hero, gone www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...

Discussing relocating to Australia this morning at breakfast … I floated the idea I would set up a decorating company (Pom paints). We won’t do skirting boards, a niche proposition I grant you, but I’m not painting any more skirting boards after this final coat

New paper w. Chris Doughty & Ben Wiebe on some fun experiments a forest canopy in Panama: Experimental manipulations of albedo and mortality of upper canopy leaves in a tropical forest diverge from earth system model results: tinyurl.com/22kzdj3z Press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

What a depressing figure www.abc.net.au/news/science...

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.

PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage! How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out. Application deadline Jan 6th www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social

Our hope here is thus to foster more awareness of and participation in ISI-MIP experiments, share challenges, and raise & answer questions. Subscribe to the ILMF list (we will send a reminder+link on Monday), or DM me and I'll send you it if that's too complicated :) hydro-jules.org/internationa...

On Monday 10th @14:00 BST |15:00 CET |07:00 MT, the International Land Model Forum and ISI-MIP are hosting a joint webinar. Topics will include: The design of ISIMIP experiments, Harmonization of forcing and land-use data, Shared challenges e.g. generating sub-daily forcings for offline forcing.

New paper led by @bposch.bsky.social out in @newphyt.bsky.social . We reviewed evidence, mechanisms, and consequences of high temperature acclimation of leaf heat tolerance: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It's #MongooseMonday 🎉 Dwarf mongooses are #cooperativebreeders, living in groups of 3-20 with a dominant breeding pair & helpers of both sexes. doi.org/10.1098/rsos... We study a South African population habituated to our close presence & trained to weigh themselves! #fieldwork #social #behaviour

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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/...

Can confirm that it has made it to Bristol 9 year olds www.theguardian.com/education/20...

We had two papers out in Science and Scientific Reports in the past week - I couldn't be happier! Science paper on architectural immunity: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Scientific Reports paper on the synergistic interaction between new-generation pesticide and disease: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Just saw the BBC piece about the free legal advice offered by Bristol Uni students - very cool 💪 www.bristol.ac.uk/law/law-clin...

The latest DroughtNet paper is out in Science today! Using coordinated experiments across six continents and 74 sites, the International Drought Experiment found differences between the effects of extreme droughts and more typical droughts... (1/3) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Why is hiking in a zebra onesie a smart move if you want to avoid being devoured by flies? And why are skunks more stripy in predator-rich forests? Find out this, and more, from @bristolbiosci.bsky.social experts @drmartinjhow.bsky.social & Tim Caro on BBC CrowdScience: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

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Come work with us - The School of Natural Sciences at Trinity College Dublin is looking for a tenure track assistant professor in plant biodiversity and conservation 🧪🌏🌾 my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui... Drop me a message if you want to chat about what it's like to work here or live in Ireland.

🎉 Congratulations, Dr. Chunhui Zhan! 🎓 This past Monday, Chunhui successfully defended her PhD thesis titled: "The Effect of Elevated Atmospheric CO2 on the Terrestrial Carbon and Water Cycle"!

New PhD position in tree ecophysiology at BiFoR-FACE (Uni of Birmingham) 🌳 Looking at tree carbon and water dynamics under elevated CO2 and warming 🌡️ Start Jan 2026. See more info here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/376950

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) The path towards a unified trait space: synthesizing plant functional diversity nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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🌍🌡️I'm excited to share my latest editorial for @commsearth.nature.com on how to avoid Earth System tipping points and trigger more positive change. Thanks to @exeter.ac.uk for organising two vibrant events on the topic Read more 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

The first chapter of my dissertation is out in Ecology Letters! We pooled data from forest sites across the globe to understand how forests differ in their carbon investment in reproduction (flowers, fruits, seeds). #ForestEcology #GlobalEcology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....