And their special issue from August, "Grapevine Research: Expanding Knowledge to Secure a Sustainable Future" academic.oup.com/jxb/issue/76...

Our new online application EVA-MAP provides interactive maps of vegetation plots from the European Vegetation Archive and ReSurveyEurope databases. It enables filtering the plots by various criteria. More details can be found in this new article in the IAVS Bulletin:
www.sci.muni.cz/botany/chytr...

"Chief people officer Keri-Anne Tane said reduced funding and the sector going through reforms meant they had to pause taking on new graduates."
www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/575...

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

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'Massive floods caused devastation in Poza Rica, Veracruz, Mexico 🇲🇽'

via Disaster News [X] #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

New paper from the lab in @natureportfolio.nature.com - Nature Food

Global exploration of drought-tolerant bacteria in the wheat rhizosphere reveals microbiota shifts and functional taxa enhancing plant resilience.

New metabolites & microbes identified to provide drought tolerance.

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Two redwood sampling pictures from the archives. This tree cross-dated really well from 1996 to 450 CE.

It fell in a storm during the winter of 96/97 in the Rockefeller Forest area of Humboldt Redwoods State Park.

It was tricky to cut because it was partially buried in the soil from when it fell.

We're all set up and ready to go for the arboretum open days THIS WEEKEND! Come and see the world's most diverse collection of eucalypts, with over 800 species growing on the one site.

About an hour's drive south of Adelaide in SA. Open day details here: www.dn.com.au/Currency_Cre...

with the official IUCN listing for the slender-billed curlew now being Extinct here is the rather sad piece I wrote about what went into this decision

I tried to include everything we know about their behaviour and biology, which is tragically little 🪶🧪
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Vanadium ore characterisation - Townsville, Australia - www.earthworks-jobs.com/job?id=11184 - #jobs #research #postdoc #vanadiumore #geoscience #geology #mineralogy #petrology #economicgeology #geochemistry #mining

Five-year research fellowship, based at Christ's College, Cambridge, for working at the intersection of biodiversity science and economics.
www.christs.cam.ac.uk/darwin-hamie...

Fire management in the red tingle forest of southwest Australia has been a hot topic for a few years now. New research from @natesanderson.bsky.social suggests that the red tingle forest should be managed differently than the nearby Karri forest, to reduce tree mortality.

#fire #firemanagement […]

This is desperately sad. Professor John Woinarski breaks the news for @aunz.theconversation.com that Australia's next animal - the tiny Christmas Island Shrew - has officially been declared extinct.

theconversation.com/and-then-the...

Nice write-up of new study on European cultural grassland diversity. Resurvey from 100 year old baseline. Plant richness declines. Good photo of the field botanists! Paper is linked in article. #botany

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🔬 Mantz et al. review current methods and developments for mass spectrometry-based identification of protein termini and discuss their use for plant protease substrate identification 🔬

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#PlantScience 🧪 @degradomics.bsky.social

A story from last year about your Nobel Peace Prize winner.

The stench coming out of Canberra is so putrid, I can smell it 300km south

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...