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...

📢📢We are looking for a postdoc to join a NASA Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) project!! Please see the attached job ad and help us share widely!! @uarizona.bsky.social @ecology-awesome.bsky.social @villarreal-miguel.bsky.social 📢📢

Such a gratifying conference, and so rewarding as chair of this amazing Chapter!!! Very grateful to everybody involved that made all of this happen! Can’t for what’s to come here in Salt Lake for ESA2026!!! 😎

Congrats @kalimiddleby.bsky.social on this exciting paper showing local adaptation to warm temperatures in some tropical trees - and to coauthors @drrebeccajordan.bsky.social @martinbreed.bsky.social @awcheesman.bsky.social @mrossettorecer.bsky.social @dcrayn.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

@esa-sw.bsky.social look how cool our chapter is getting a high-five for being “good students” and getting all of our paperwork in which includes accomplishing expected activities :) #ESA2025 If you are in Baltimore, come join us at our social event on Wednesday and our OOS - Wed @3:30

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

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

See you next week, y’all!!!

Before this #PlantBio2025 thread closes: two exciting opportunities now open for early-career plant scientists. 1. Plantae Fellows program, apply by Aug 31 plantae.org/2026fellowsa... 2. @theplantcell.bsky.social Assistant Features Editor program, apply by Sep 15. blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce...

AGU25 abstract submission deadline is quickly approaching! Join us in NOLA by submitting to our session “B054 - Heat and Microclimate Impacts on Plant Functioning: From Molecules to the Biosphere”. Confirmed invited speakers: Chris Doughty (NAU) and Kim Novick (IU)!

Attending AGU25? We have a “hot” session for u! Consider submitting to our session focused on thermal plant ecology. Share widely! 🌡️☀️🍃🌲🌳

Check out our new pub led by @ilainematos.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 We contributed with leaf venation data from our Ecuador-Yasuni field collection funded by @ForestGEO 🌿

In this just published paper we reconstructed the almost 400 million of leaf venation evolution!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Official Aparecido Lab photo unlocked!! These people make work feel less like work every day ❤️ @uofubiology.bsky.social #plantecophys #universityofutah

Apply for the 2025 ESA Southwest Chapter travel awards!! Open to all early-career ecologists working in the Southwest US and Northern MX that are attending ESA 2025! Please share

My PhD paper is out! We showed that both forest and grassland are vulnerable to drought, but the vulnerability is attributable to different reasons: higher sensitivity to drought in forests (narrower #SM50) and lower fog exposure in grasslands. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper 📣🏔️ In tropical montane grassland, an increase of 3°C in temperature by 2100 will increase the proportion of species with entire leaves. In contrast, toothed leaves have higher stomatal conductance rates, making them vulnerable to atmospheric drought. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper published by Wilder et al. in the journal Global Change Biology reveals how recent anomalous drought and heat events are impacting native succulents in the Sonoran Desert. The paper can be accessed at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The pointy edges of petals rely on a type of geometric feedback never before seen in nature. https://go.nature.com/3GuL0bw

A must read! 👏🏽👇🏽

And it’s a wrap!! My 1st semester (ever) teaching is now over, and it was actually quite great! Looking forward to many more years teaching Ecosystem Ecology 👩🏻‍🏫… but also glad to be able to focus on research again! 😅

🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS 🌱 The #AJB announces a call for papers for a special issue, “Plant Resilience and Conservation for a Changing Climate,” led by guest editors J. Rentsch, E. Stacy, C. Mackenzie, J. Boyd & V. Negron-Ortiz.⁣ ⁣ Deadline for proposals: May 30, 2025. bit.ly/3GcyMUG

We had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Kevin Hultine (@hultinelab.bsky.social) for his 3rd visit to our lab at the U! Thanks Kevin for our your valuable contributions to our lab, especially mentoring my now PhD Candidate @rebeccasenft.bsky.social (uhul!), and expanding our riparian ecophys research!

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

For folks in UT, save the date! My awesome grad students, Rebecca and Madeline, will be giving a talk on invasive plant species w/ a focus on the plants they’re studying for their PhD: russian olives and tumbleweeds! nhmu.utah.edu/events/natur... @rebeccasenft.bsky.social

A busy day for the Aparecido lab! @biancazorger.bsky.social taught my Ecosystem Ecology class on warming effects on ecosystems. Later, lab undergrads, Tucker (mentored by @rebeccasenft.bsky.social) and Sydney, presented on their ug research at the College of Science res symp. Proud of this crew!! 😎🤩

Excited to share our detailed and comprehensive protocol on leaf clearing that has been developed throughout the years and across institutions. Enjoy! :)

Our opinion piece in our local newspaper - Cutting funding for science in Arizona hurts our economy and our future 🌐🧪🧮🌾 tucson.com/opinion/colu...

Interviewing prospective grad students for our PhD program, and dang everybody is just SO GOOD! The future is very bright for science when u have students this excited about research and caring about making an impact in the world 👏🏽👏🏽 #hopeful #eeob #uofusbs #ecology

Happy to share a new paper, "Effects of Hot Versus Dry Vapor Pressure Deficit on Ecosystem Carbon and Water Fluxes," led by the amazing Miriam Johnston w/ @mallorybarnes.bsky.social and others agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Fun day giving a seminar talk at the Earth Sciences department at Utah Valley University (UVU). Thank you for the invitation, @coleoptara.bsky.social!! 😊

Wanna get to know a bit about me? Here is an article our College wrote about where I came from and how I got here 🍃🌳🌲 #blessed #plantecophys science.utah.edu/faculty/new-...

If you love the Forest Ecology Starter Pack, you might also love the Plant Ecophys Starter Pack! #plantecophys #botany go.bsky.app/Pbq39H7

DPEL in the news! Check out Brad Posch discussing how cottonwood trees stay cool in the summer heat: www.12news.com/video/news/r...

Happy holidays from the Aparecido Lab!! Wishing everybody successful field seasons, significant statistical results and grant money in 2025! 🎄🎉

Rebecca survived her first AGU poster presentation! I couldn’t be there (yes, so much FOMO), but the lab is very much well represented through her and her research 🎉👏🏽👏🏽 Congrats, @rebeccasenft.bsky.social !!

As we close the semester and 2024, I want to acknowledge the amazing work of the undergrads in our lab. Lucy, Sydney, Tucker, Brandt and Cindy have been outstanding! As students that had no prior research experience, they learned quickly and pulled thru in presenting… (1/3)

Our lab is recruiting a summer 2025 undergrad researcher to study the gradient of thermotolerance across plants in Utah! This is a fully funded opportunity through the SPUR program here at the U. Please share with your students that love plants and science! 🍃☀️👩🏻‍💻👨🏽‍🔬 our.utah.edu/research-opp...

For folks attending #AGU24, our lab has its 1st conference poster presentation led by PhD student Rebecca Senft! @RebeccaSenft Stop by her poster on the morning of Tues Dec10 to learn about the ecohydrology of contrasting riparian tree species (invasive vs native) in SE Utah. #ecophys #invasion

Greetings, folks! I finally made the migration over. Hoping to connect with my fellow ecologists that made me create the other account in the first place. I am a plant ecophysiologist/ assistant prof at UofU! My lab focuses on plant responses to global change. NewPI since 2023. Cheers! 🍃