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:

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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.

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

Our 300th episode!!! What a team, what a show💙🧡. Check us out on most major podcast platforms, or here: thatsscience.org

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

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

🌿 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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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!

Hi Lawren! Thanks for your comment! 😊 In our paper we use ‘leaf’ as a catch-all term for primary photosynthetic organs, focussing more on how taxonomy & morphology have gotten a bit tangled when classifying trees with damaging implications for research & modelling, however you are right, ofcourse!

#ScientificNomenclatureConventions matter regardless of whether or not it's plant physiology or climatology.

gorgeous!!

#Viewpoint: Cones and consequences: the false dichotomy of #conifers vs #broad-leaves has critical implications for research and modelling

Kate Johnson, Matilda Brown, Katya Bandow & Helena Vallicrosa 👇

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#LatestIssue

Hi Bill!! Isn't Gondwanan flora gorgeous? As someone from the southern hemisphere it was very eye opening once I came to the US and Europe, the trees are so different.The thought process of this paper is from inter-hemisphere conversations between scientists, isn't collaboration is so important?!

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Exactly!!!

Showing off our figure of global conifer leaf-widths & leaf silhouettes highlighting that conifers can be broad-leaved & angiosperms can be narrow/ needle-leaved! 🍃

Our paper: tinyurl.com/mss2me7v
@newphyt.bsky.social

@vallicrosah.bsky.social @botanykat.bsky.social & Matilda Brown

Did you ever wonder when to use "conifer", "gymnosperm", "needleleaf", "angiosperms" and "broadleaves"? Us too so we transformed the discussion into this viewpoint. I hope you enjoy the reading as much as we enjoyed the writing! @kateplantphys.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Beginning as a casual chat between @vallicrosah.bsky.social and I at EPFL/WSL, it was a pleasure and a joy to build this Viewpoint paper with three wonderful colleagues (Dr. Helena Vallicrosa, Dr. Matilda Brown and Katya Bandow)🍃

We realised that the terms 'needle-leaved'🌲& 'broad-leaved'🌳are often used incorrectly. We wrote about why this happens, the broad-reaching implications and how we can combat this (including reducing the focus on trees in Pinaceae as model conifers, a tendency which we term the ‘Pinaceae Panacea’)