Kate Johnson
@kateplantphys.bsky.social
Plants & climate extremes🌳| Art, words & nature | Marie Skłodowska-Curie #MSCA Postdoc fellow @creaf.cat | Co-manager of thatssciencetas.bsky.social (follow us!) thatsscience.org | Fulbright '21/22 | she/her 🏳️🌈|🌈🦋|🍉
From lutruwita/Tasmania, in Barcelona 🌏
From lutruwita/Tasmania, in Barcelona 🌏
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The cover of @jxbotany.bsky.social is my painting of Tulip Poplar, a North-American native & global street tree that was the focus of our paper visualising freezing spread & freeze-thaw embolism in leaves!
A lovely way to finish this multi-year mutli-country project
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@brodersenlab.bsky.social
A lovely way to finish this multi-year mutli-country project
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@brodersenlab.bsky.social
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With the disappointing progress at Cop30, evergreen reminder it isn't "we" or "humanity" failing to address the climate crisis — oil-producing nations and fossil fuel interests are actively obstructing action, despite heroic efforts by developing nations, Indigenous peoples, and many, many others.
End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff
Wealthy countries should triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
With the disappointing progress at Cop30, evergreen reminder it isn't "we" or "humanity" failing to address the climate crisis — oil-producing nations and fossil fuel interests are actively obstructing action, despite heroic efforts by developing nations, Indigenous peoples, and many, many others.
Check out our new paper! @brodersenlab.bsky.social
❄️🌱 RESEARCH 🌱❄️
Ice spreads in a predictable pattern through young L. tulipifera, governed by anatomy and vein architecture. Leaf lethality always involves damage to photosynthetic tissues and can involve air embolism - Johnson et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Ice spreads in a predictable pattern through young L. tulipifera, governed by anatomy and vein architecture. Leaf lethality always involves damage to photosynthetic tissues and can involve air embolism - Johnson et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Check out our new paper! @brodersenlab.bsky.social
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Over 2,600🌳 #trees during the 2018–2020 #drought :
• Traits disadvantageous in normal years became beneficial under drought
• Trees grew better with neighbours whose hydro-functional traits differed from their own
🗞️Paper out now @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
• Traits disadvantageous in normal years became beneficial under drought
• Trees grew better with neighbours whose hydro-functional traits differed from their own
🗞️Paper out now @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Hydro‐Functional Traits and Their Dissimilarity to the Neighbourhood Buffer Tree Growth Against the 2018–2020 Central European Drought
Climate change is putting forests at risk. Our research shows that a tree's water-use strategy largely determines its growth across years: whereas one strategy performs better in normal years, the ot....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Over 2,600🌳 #trees during the 2018–2020 #drought :
• Traits disadvantageous in normal years became beneficial under drought
• Trees grew better with neighbours whose hydro-functional traits differed from their own
🗞️Paper out now @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
• Traits disadvantageous in normal years became beneficial under drought
• Trees grew better with neighbours whose hydro-functional traits differed from their own
🗞️Paper out now @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🚨Job opportunity🚨
We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🚨Job opportunity🚨
We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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📢 NEW ISSUE ALERT 📢
🌷✨ JXB Issue 18 of 2025 is out now ✨🌷
On the cover: A beautiful watercolour painting of a Tulip Poplar sapling by @kateplantphys.bsky.social - see Johnson et al. this issue!
🔗👉 Read the full issue now: academic.oup.com/jxb...
#PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
🌷✨ JXB Issue 18 of 2025 is out now ✨🌷
On the cover: A beautiful watercolour painting of a Tulip Poplar sapling by @kateplantphys.bsky.social - see Johnson et al. this issue!
🔗👉 Read the full issue now: academic.oup.com/jxb...
#PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
📢 NEW ISSUE ALERT 📢
🌷✨ JXB Issue 18 of 2025 is out now ✨🌷
On the cover: A beautiful watercolour painting of a Tulip Poplar sapling by @kateplantphys.bsky.social - see Johnson et al. this issue!
🔗👉 Read the full issue now: academic.oup.com/jxb...
#PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
🌷✨ JXB Issue 18 of 2025 is out now ✨🌷
On the cover: A beautiful watercolour painting of a Tulip Poplar sapling by @kateplantphys.bsky.social - see Johnson et al. this issue!
🔗👉 Read the full issue now: academic.oup.com/jxb...
#PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
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One of our favourite covers, awesome painting skills! 🌱🎨🧪
The cover of @jxbotany.bsky.social is my painting of Tulip Poplar, a North-American native & global street tree that was the focus of our paper visualising freezing spread & freeze-thaw embolism in leaves!
A lovely way to finish this multi-year mutli-country project
🔗below
@brodersenlab.bsky.social
A lovely way to finish this multi-year mutli-country project
🔗below
@brodersenlab.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
One of our favourite covers, awesome painting skills! 🌱🎨🧪
The cover of @jxbotany.bsky.social is my painting of Tulip Poplar, a North-American native & global street tree that was the focus of our paper visualising freezing spread & freeze-thaw embolism in leaves!
A lovely way to finish this multi-year mutli-country project
🔗below
@brodersenlab.bsky.social
A lovely way to finish this multi-year mutli-country project
🔗below
@brodersenlab.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The cover of @jxbotany.bsky.social is my painting of Tulip Poplar, a North-American native & global street tree that was the focus of our paper visualising freezing spread & freeze-thaw embolism in leaves!
A lovely way to finish this multi-year mutli-country project
🔗below
@brodersenlab.bsky.social
A lovely way to finish this multi-year mutli-country project
🔗below
@brodersenlab.bsky.social
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🌿Postdoc opening in Urban Ecophysiology at WSL Lausanne - start March 2026. Join Horizon Europe FRAIMwork on green walls: carbon sink, water use efficiency & air quality. Apply via WSL careers page: m.refline.ch/273855/1786/... @wslresearch.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 8:20 AM
🌿Postdoc opening in Urban Ecophysiology at WSL Lausanne - start March 2026. Join Horizon Europe FRAIMwork on green walls: carbon sink, water use efficiency & air quality. Apply via WSL careers page: m.refline.ch/273855/1786/... @wslresearch.bsky.social
Submit your abstract to join our session on climate extremes ☀️❄️and their effects on plants🌱 at #EGU in Vienna May 3-8 2026!! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
October 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Submit your abstract to join our session on climate extremes ☀️❄️and their effects on plants🌱 at #EGU in Vienna May 3-8 2026!! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
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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
August 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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
Help us spread the word!!
Open to girls, femme, & non-binary students in Years 10–12 in lutruwita/ #Tasmania ‘STEMM Solutions For Our Island’ invites entrants to pitch an idea (as individuals or in small groups) to solve a problem using #STEMM!
Find out more here:
thatsscience.org/stemm-soluti...
Open to girls, femme, & non-binary students in Years 10–12 in lutruwita/ #Tasmania ‘STEMM Solutions For Our Island’ invites entrants to pitch an idea (as individuals or in small groups) to solve a problem using #STEMM!
Find out more here:
thatsscience.org/stemm-soluti...
We’re launching STEMM Solutions for Our Island! 🌏
A new TWICS competition empowering girls, femme & non-binary students in Tasmania to create solutions for local issues using STEMM. Because science is for everyone.
Find out more here: thatsscience.org/stemm-soluti...
#STEMM #GirlsInSTEM #TWICS
A new TWICS competition empowering girls, femme & non-binary students in Tasmania to create solutions for local issues using STEMM. Because science is for everyone.
Find out more here: thatsscience.org/stemm-soluti...
#STEMM #GirlsInSTEM #TWICS
October 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Help us spread the word!!
Open to girls, femme, & non-binary students in Years 10–12 in lutruwita/ #Tasmania ‘STEMM Solutions For Our Island’ invites entrants to pitch an idea (as individuals or in small groups) to solve a problem using #STEMM!
Find out more here:
thatsscience.org/stemm-soluti...
Open to girls, femme, & non-binary students in Years 10–12 in lutruwita/ #Tasmania ‘STEMM Solutions For Our Island’ invites entrants to pitch an idea (as individuals or in small groups) to solve a problem using #STEMM!
Find out more here:
thatsscience.org/stemm-soluti...
Reposted by Kate Johnson
Apply to become the next MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow!
These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here:
eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here:
eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
eeb.msu.edu
October 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Apply to become the next MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow!
These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here:
eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here:
eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
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Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.
Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.
Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.
October 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.
Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.
Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.
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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
Start Jan 2026. See more info here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/376950
Doctoral Research Fellow - FutureForests - School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences - 106218 - Grade 7
Position Details School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK Fixed salary of £49,747 additional allowances may be applicable depe...
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
September 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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
Start Jan 2026. See more info here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/376950
Our 300th episode!!! What a team, what a show💙🧡. Check us out on most major podcast platforms, or here: thatsscience.org
October 6, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Our 300th episode!!! What a team, what a show💙🧡. Check us out on most major podcast platforms, or here: thatsscience.org
Reposted by Kate Johnson
Big news! 🎉
TWICS is a finalist in the Best Program: Talks AND Outstanding Presenter categories at the CBAA Community Broadcasting Awards 2025!🎙️
Winners announced at the Awards Dinner & Gala, Sat 25 Oct.
Thank you to the CBAA and our amazing listeners ✨
#CBAAAwards #TWICS
TWICS is a finalist in the Best Program: Talks AND Outstanding Presenter categories at the CBAA Community Broadcasting Awards 2025!🎙️
Winners announced at the Awards Dinner & Gala, Sat 25 Oct.
Thank you to the CBAA and our amazing listeners ✨
#CBAAAwards #TWICS
September 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Big news! 🎉
TWICS is a finalist in the Best Program: Talks AND Outstanding Presenter categories at the CBAA Community Broadcasting Awards 2025!🎙️
Winners announced at the Awards Dinner & Gala, Sat 25 Oct.
Thank you to the CBAA and our amazing listeners ✨
#CBAAAwards #TWICS
TWICS is a finalist in the Best Program: Talks AND Outstanding Presenter categories at the CBAA Community Broadcasting Awards 2025!🎙️
Winners announced at the Awards Dinner & Gala, Sat 25 Oct.
Thank you to the CBAA and our amazing listeners ✨
#CBAAAwards #TWICS
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Up in the canopies! 🌲
Nice to be in #Pfynwald helping Giovanni Bortolami assess Scots pine trees' responses to vpd and drought in the amazing #VPDrought field site! Looking forward to seeing the results!
More info about the project here: www.wsl.ch/it/progetti/...
@wslresearch.bsky.social
Nice to be in #Pfynwald helping Giovanni Bortolami assess Scots pine trees' responses to vpd and drought in the amazing #VPDrought field site! Looking forward to seeing the results!
More info about the project here: www.wsl.ch/it/progetti/...
@wslresearch.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Up in the canopies! 🌲
Nice to be in #Pfynwald helping Giovanni Bortolami assess Scots pine trees' responses to vpd and drought in the amazing #VPDrought field site! Looking forward to seeing the results!
More info about the project here: www.wsl.ch/it/progetti/...
@wslresearch.bsky.social
Nice to be in #Pfynwald helping Giovanni Bortolami assess Scots pine trees' responses to vpd and drought in the amazing #VPDrought field site! Looking forward to seeing the results!
More info about the project here: www.wsl.ch/it/progetti/...
@wslresearch.bsky.social
Reposted by Kate Johnson
🌿 Doing science deep in the #Congo rainforest?
Lucette Adet, postdoc at CREAF, is doing just that with the European project #CoForFunc.
📍They need to walk 30 km to the field site!
👉 The goal: to understand how tropical forests grow, survive, and handle environmental stress like #drought.
Lucette Adet, postdoc at CREAF, is doing just that with the European project #CoForFunc.
📍They need to walk 30 km to the field site!
👉 The goal: to understand how tropical forests grow, survive, and handle environmental stress like #drought.
August 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🌿 Doing science deep in the #Congo rainforest?
Lucette Adet, postdoc at CREAF, is doing just that with the European project #CoForFunc.
📍They need to walk 30 km to the field site!
👉 The goal: to understand how tropical forests grow, survive, and handle environmental stress like #drought.
Lucette Adet, postdoc at CREAF, is doing just that with the European project #CoForFunc.
📍They need to walk 30 km to the field site!
👉 The goal: to understand how tropical forests grow, survive, and handle environmental stress like #drought.
Reposted by Kate Johnson
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
Reposted by Kate Johnson
This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.
July 30, 2025 at 6:45 AM
This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.
Ask us anything! @thatssciencetas.bsky.social
Feel free to message me your questions directly :D, really looking forward to them!
#askascientist
Feel free to message me your questions directly :D, really looking forward to them!
#askascientist
July 30, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Ask us anything! @thatssciencetas.bsky.social
Feel free to message me your questions directly :D, really looking forward to them!
#askascientist
Feel free to message me your questions directly :D, really looking forward to them!
#askascientist
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Nearly 50% of Tasmanians struggle with literacy 📚. Kaitlyn shares her lived experience with literacy and the changes she decided to make for herself by joining 26Ten as an adult learner. She shares her past struggles, and we celebrate her newfound love of reading and writing.
July 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Nearly 50% of Tasmanians struggle with literacy 📚. Kaitlyn shares her lived experience with literacy and the changes she decided to make for herself by joining 26Ten as an adult learner. She shares her past struggles, and we celebrate her newfound love of reading and writing.
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I am currently advertising a new 3-year research position in my TerraLuma team: Research Associate in Drone Field Operations (Academic Level A)
The position will support the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network’s (@TERN_Aus) Dronescape project.
careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/job/50...
The position will support the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network’s (@TERN_Aus) Dronescape project.
careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/job/50...
Current Vacancies
careers.utas.edu.au
July 29, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I am currently advertising a new 3-year research position in my TerraLuma team: Research Associate in Drone Field Operations (Academic Level A)
The position will support the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network’s (@TERN_Aus) Dronescape project.
careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/job/50...
The position will support the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network’s (@TERN_Aus) Dronescape project.
careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/job/50...
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Excellent job opportunity at @unihohenheim.bsky.social: build your own team in Experimental Plant Biodiversity Research (within @plantecology.bsky.social, group of Frank Schurr). Great environment (also b/c of new @greenrobust.de and #TERRA @dfg.de clusters of excellence), and great people!
June 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Excellent job opportunity at @unihohenheim.bsky.social: build your own team in Experimental Plant Biodiversity Research (within @plantecology.bsky.social, group of Frank Schurr). Great environment (also b/c of new @greenrobust.de and #TERRA @dfg.de clusters of excellence), and great people!