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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 8d

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.

an old building with climbing plants around the door with purple flowers. The sign above the door says school of botany 1907

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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 8d

Solid funny hat 🎩 😃! Congrats to Chunhui

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HydrOrth Lab @hydrorth-lab.bsky.social · 8d

🎉 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"!

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Alice Gauthey @a-gthy.bsky.social · 9d

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

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...

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 13d

✨ Paper spotlight ✨

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

Fig. 1 Schematic representation of broad groups of traits measurable across plant organs.

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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 13d

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 13d

Walking through a grove of golden quaking #aspens is one of nature's most beautiful experiences, like entering a natural cathedral with sacred light. See my gallery of #Colorado #fallcolors photos here: www.mountainphotography.com/gallery/autu...

Aspen forest in the fog - September, Colorado.

Rich sunset light filters through the aspens near Marble, Colorado.

Golden aspen leaves flutter to the ground on a breezy day at the tail end of autumn in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado

Golden light in golden aspens deep in the West Elk Wilderness, Colorado.

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Aliénor Lavergne @alielave.bsky.social · 16d

🌍🌡️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...

Pathways for prevention of cascading tipping points - Communications Earth & Environment

Strong governance, accelerated action, and empowered communities are essential to avoid cascading Earth system tipping points and achieve lasting, transformative change.

www.nature.com

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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 20d

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

‘A perfectly calibrated Swiss watch of cringe’: why Fawlty Towers remains the greatest ever sitcom, 50 years on

It’s the 50th anniversary of the comedy that’s so foundational for TV as a medium, it’s the Beatles for the small screen. Five decades later, John Cleese and Connie Booth’s show is still unmatched

www.theguardian.com

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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 20d

Check out the www.google.com page today 😀 🌿

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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 27d

They’ll host you no probs. If you know Chris Williams at Clark uni it would be worth speaking to him about some of the practicalities

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Margaret Evans @mekevans.bsky.social · Sep 8

gfr.wri.org/latest-analy...

Fires Drove Record-breaking Tropical Forest Loss in 2024 | World Resources Institute Research

The Forest Pulse draws on the most recent data and analysis to reveal the latest trends in global forest loss and deforestation. This page is updated annually using annual tree cover loss data. Update...

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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · Sep 6

If anything, we’re sounding overqualified now…

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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · Sep 6

I have a paper on cloud physics on the go, you want in?

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · Sep 5

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!

Global distribution of forest landscapes covered by airborne LiDAR

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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Rachel Ward @rward8.bsky.social · Sep 2

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....

Forest Age Rivals Climate to Explain Reproductive Allocation Patterns in Forest Ecosystems Globally

Forest allocation of net primary productivity (NPP) to reproduction is poorly quantified globally, despite its critical role in forest regeneration and a well-supported trade-off with allocation to g...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · Sep 3

English 🍷 rises …

Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · Sep 3

Stuff is failing from the sky that I have not seen in MONTHS #winteriscoming

Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · Sep 3

A raincoat will be essential clothing for some of us on today's lunchtime walk 🧥

Here's the latest radar across the UK ⬇️

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Bill Smith @wkolby.bsky.social · Sep 2

Happy to share a new lab @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social paper: "Drought Response in Three Conifer Species Detected by Sap Flow and Proximal Thermal Remote Sensing" led by the amazing Daphna Uni w/ @mostafaj.bsky.social others @uarizona.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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Sean Michaletz @seanmichaletz.bsky.social · Sep 2

What drives photosynthesis temperature sensitivity? New #GCB paper from #MichaletzLab grad #JosefGaren uses #FAsTeR to show it's 1‑day weather, not traits, origin climate, or phylogeny!

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

@ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca @globalchangebio.bsky.social

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Sep 1

Analysis: What record global heat means for breaching the 1.5C warming limit | @hausfath.bsky.social #CBarchive

Read here: buff.ly/3zdrjRV

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Jakob Zscheischler @zscheischlerjak.bsky.social · Aug 29

Our new study on how large floods will change in Europe under climate change, led by @bfang.bsky.social, with @bevacquae.bsky.social

Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · Aug 29

❄️🌧️Reduced snowmelt dominates changes in Northern Europe's largest floods, while heavy precipitation dominates Western Europe flood events.

@bfang.bsky.social @zscheischlerjak.bsky.social

👉Read more here:
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Diverging trends in large floods across Europe in a warming climate - Communications Earth & Environment

Reduced snowmelt dominates northern Europe’s largest floods variation while heavy precipitation dominates western Europe flood events, according to a joint assessment of changes in the timing, spatial...

www.nature.com

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Amanda Cavanagh @cavycavs.bsky.social · Aug 25

Since I’ve moved to England in 2020 we’ve lived through three of the hottest years on record. Unsurprisingly, this is impacting crop yields. Read more about the impact, and the work we do to mitigate this in this weekend’s times: www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

Inside the Essex ‘drought room’ testing crops for climate change

After one of the driest springs on record, and with British harvests collapsing, urgent research is finding creative ways to help farmers adapt

www.thetimes.com

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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · Aug 21

High school intern Betel presents her research on how the VPD-sap flow relationship in tulip trees is affected by saltwater inundation. She learned a lot of #rstats and plant physiology with me this summer! 💪

A graph showing the relationship between vapor pressure deficit and sap flow on the left, and a young woman in a zoom call on the right talking

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