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I study trees in Panama. https://striresearch.si.edu/forest-biology/

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Fans of our team holding up a home made sign with our team name

Fans of our team holding up a home made sign with our team name

Lab member Luis making a fancy move with the ball, while another member just fell down, possibly, but not necessarily related to Luis's move

Lab member Luis making a fancy move with the ball, while another member just fell down, possibly, but not necessarily related to Luis's move

Our definition of "fieldwork" has expanded with our lab fielding a soccer team (the Phyototrons)!

striresearch.si.edu/forest-biolo...

09.03.2026 16:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸƒ Invited Speakers πŸƒ photosynthesis2026.com

Plant and ecosystem photosynthesis in a warming world
🌿Martijn Slot, Smithsonian Tropical Research Inst.
🌿Elizabete Carmo-Silva, Lancaster University

@martijnslot.bsky.social @ecarmosilva.bsky.social @lancasterplantbio.bsky.social
#ICPR26 #photosynthesis

25.02.2026 13:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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A particularly lovely bonus of these visits was that I could reconnect with former lab members, such as Chinedu Eze in Utha, and @juan-camilo-mejia.bsky.social at UBC

04.03.2026 02:42 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Finished my third departmental seminar in 3 weeks. Thanks to my hosts @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social in Utah, @seanmichaletz.bsky.social at UBC, and Michelle Mack at NAU, their labs, and of course my own wonderful team!

04.03.2026 02:42 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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New publication on stomatal decoupling led by Zhaoguo Wang. I first noticed decoupling in temperature response curves in 2016 (tinyurl.com/k6dnhn94) and have been intrigued since. This study focuses on decoupling under experimental warming, showing interesting patterns
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

11.02.2026 19:09 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

05.02.2026 11:50 πŸ‘ 32287 πŸ” 13860 πŸ’¬ 589 πŸ“Œ 1595
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Recruiting a postdoc through Dartmouth's Society of Fellows Program co-mentored with Michael Cox with specialization in forest carbon dynamics, climate policy, and nature-based solutions

Apply by January 4th!
apply.interfolio.com/176741

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20.12.2025 17:03 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Lab technician Alicia got us all these T-shirts, with a picture by @kalimiddleby.bsky.social. we ARE the Warming Things (up) Lab, and now we have beautiful shirts to show it!
Very grateful for the creativity and generosity we have in the team!

19.12.2025 23:27 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Join the lab! – Caughlin lab

new PhD position available! The student will develop remote sensing tools to support land management in the western United States, contributing to ongoing USDA-funded research on monitoring and restoring mesic and riparian ecosystems. For more details, please see: caughlinlab.com/join-the-lab/

04.12.2025 17:11 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Gorgeous paper! Really enjoyed reading it. Congratulations to you and your team

02.12.2025 20:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Shadow scholars: inside Kenya’s multibillion-dollar fake-essay industry Sociologist Patricia Kingori is helping to expose contract cheating by scholars in high-income countries.

This is wild:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

29.11.2025 15:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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New paper w. Chris Doughty & Ben Wiebe on some fun experiments a forest canopy in Panama: Experimental manipulations of albedo and mortality of upper canopy leaves in a tropical forest diverge from earth system model results: tinyurl.com/22kzdj3z

Press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

22.11.2025 20:45 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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PhD position on 'Seed dispersal shapes tropical forest succession' (Seeds 4 Success)

There is a PhD position available at @w-u-r.bsky.social on seed dispersal and succession! You will be based at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and conduct fieldwork in tropical forests in Mexico on plant-animal interactions. Deadline to apply: 3rd of December shorturl.at/sLVOU

19.11.2025 09:46 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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KligrasV5_ENG This is "KligrasV5_ENG" by Nyah Yentl van Koningsveld on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

🚨 Job alert 🚨

Come work with us as a postdoc modelling the impacts of climate change on plant-soil interactions and C sequestration!

Apply here before the 3rd of December: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Check out this video of the project you will be working in: vimeo.com/1133112953?s...

11.11.2025 14:55 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Venn diagram of major strategies used to cope with heat stress with examples of species expected to specialize in heat tolerance/acclimation (yellow circles), heat avoidance through drought-deciduousness (green circles), and heat avoidance through homeothermic leaf cooling (blue circles).

Venn diagram of major strategies used to cope with heat stress with examples of species expected to specialize in heat tolerance/acclimation (yellow circles), heat avoidance through drought-deciduousness (green circles), and heat avoidance through homeothermic leaf cooling (blue circles).

High #temperature acclimation of #photosystem II in land plants

#TansleyReview by @bposch.bsky.social et al.

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

@hultinelab.bsky.social #PlantScience #photosynthesis

04.11.2025 05:19 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land plants The effect of high temperature on plant performance and survival is a topic of great interest given the ongoing rise in global heatwave frequency, duration, and intensity. The temperature at which ph....

New paper led by @bposch.bsky.social out in @newphyt.bsky.social . We reviewed evidence, mechanisms, and consequences of high temperature acclimation of leaf heat tolerance: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

03.11.2025 14:37 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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It's odd to be furloughed while my whole lab can remain active (because they're not federal/on Panamanian payroll/fellowships).
At least they're having fun by moving me to "former members" on our lab's bulletin board...

21.10.2025 04:44 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Times are a changing, also in the lab - Forest Biology Roxana is starting a new phase in her career, as a PhD student in Chris Smith-Martin’s lab at the University of Minnesota, where she’ll be joined by former Forest Biology lab intern AndrΓ©s Rojas. We’r...

striresearch.si.edu/forest-biolo...

19.08.2025 23:56 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It finally happened: I was invited to review a manuscript from my own lab, a 3-author paper with me as senior author...

18.08.2025 21:08 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats Julian, that's huge!

16.07.2025 15:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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We welcome back Ibrahim Salman, who will start his postdoctoral fellowship in the Forest Biology lab today!

striresearch.si.edu/forest-biolo...

14.07.2025 16:02 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tropical forests are heating up. Can they cope? Scientists are pushing plants beyond their comfort zone to test their resilience to warming

www.science.org/content/arti...

18.06.2025 16:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Post Doctoral Fellow - Plant Ecology - HigherEdJobs Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

I'm hiring a postdoc! Themes: long-term data, plant reproduction, mast seeding, synthesis, macosystems biology. Also, reproducible tesearch. Target submission deadline: 22 June (for priority review). 1-2 year position, $60K/year. 🌲 🌲 🌲
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

29.05.2025 20:40 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Great seminar by lab visitor and incoming postdoc Ibrahim Salman on the effects of environmental stress on plant-pollinator interactions!

28.05.2025 01:59 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Harvard today, your institution tomorrow.

It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America.

All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.

22.05.2025 18:38 πŸ‘ 1525 πŸ” 633 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 42

Congratulations Bianca!

16.05.2025 19:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS – Brodersen Lab

I have two open postdoc positions in my lab that include opportunities to collaborate with @alecaborsuk.bsky.social and researchers at the Salk Harnessing Plants Initiative.

If you’re interesting root system architecture or photosynthesis modeling see below:

campuspress.yale.edu/brodersenlab...

15.05.2025 18:12 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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13.05.2025 01:48 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I made tiramisu in food containers to look like the leaf-warming boxes we're using in an experiment we've almost finished setting up.
Lots of work, but worth it! (Both the experiment and the tiramisu)

13.05.2025 01:48 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ok, bear with the shaky-cam (it is my signature special effect as an overenthusiast), but would you take a look at this blessed date palm? Rosy-faced lovebirds, common pigeons, and gila woodpeckers (I think?) all nesting in the same date palm tree crown. Phoenix, AZ.

12.05.2025 20:16 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0