"Plant tissue lifespans: Solving a fundamental mystery in plant ecology". PhD opportunity for domestic (Australia/New Zealand) candidates, closes 30 September: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Do any of you have an AI policy document for your lab group clearly stating expectations regarding student / postdoc use of LLMs in background research, coding, writing, reviewing, etc? I'd be interested in a model as we develop one.

📢 New publication 'Evidence for a trade-off between growth rate and xylem #embolism resistance in 22 #Eucalyptus species' by Tiantian Pan et al. in @newphyt.bsky.social 🧪 #drought doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Evidence for a trade‐off between growth rate and xylem embolism resistance in 22 Eucalyptus species

Examples of cross-sectional images of branchlets at 4× and 40×.

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A mind-bending application of AI and AI agents to develop and interrogate plant development and response networks by accessing all historical literature on plant gene functions. A staggering AI tour de force from the UQ node of @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social 🧪 #plantscience sciety.org/articles/act...

FLASH-P: Turning decades of biology into accurate causal networks with AI agents

Mechanistic networks that encode causal regulatory logic can predict the effects of genetic and environmental perturbations but constructing them is a bottleneck in systems biology because the relevan...

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New paper out in @newphyt.bsky.social by Tiantian Pan and others incl. @ianjwright.bsky.social @profchoat.bsky.social: Fast growth comes at a cost: Fast-growing Eucalyptus are less drought-resistant, revealing a clear growth–survival trade-off. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Evidence for a trade‐off between growth rate and xylem embolism resistance in 22 Eucalyptus species

Examples of cross-sectional images of branchlets at 4× and 40×.

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PhD Scholarship to work in the beautiful Blue Mountains! Drought and heat stress responses of temperate forest trees growing across a broad environmental gradient Applications close June 30 Must be Australian citizen, permanent resident, or NZ citizen to be eligible. PS2026_034_CS0791892_HIE

Job opportunity in Plant Science at Adelaide University in South Australia. Learn more at jobs.adelaide.edu.au/jobs/lecture...

If you are at #EGU2026, join us today for a fantastic line-up of talks and posters from the team🌱 📍BG1.11 (Orals): Room 1.85/86 📍BG3.3 (Orals): Room 1.15/16 📍Posters: Hall X1 Details🔗https://research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/lemontree-at-egu-2026/ @nickgregsmith.bsky.social @giulimeng.bsky.social

Why does the optimal temperature of photosynthesis shift with growth temperature and what mechanisms explain this acclimation? Find out in our new paper in @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check out our new paper in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social with a stellar crew of collaborators! We suggest a need for a systems modelling approach to predict the effects of extreme heat and propose a path forward on how we can do it! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Soil phosphorus drives subcontinental patterns of carbon-isotope discrimination across Australia Alam et al. @awcheesman.bsky.social @mdekauwe.bsky.social @ianjwright.bsky.social @lucascernusak.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New virtual issue in AJB 🌿All Functional Trait Handbooks, from the landmark Cornelissen et al. (2003) to the latest on reproductive traits, are now collected in one place. 20+ years of protocols for measuring plant traits across species, ecosystems & continents. All free to read. 🔗 buff.ly/zXlFjQx

We relaunch our seminar series! Jordi Martinez-Vilalta will talk on the ‘Limits and opportunities in predicting drought-induced forest mortality’ 24 March 2026 at 15:00 UTC www.tree-mortality.net/seminars/

We are searching for a PhD student! Are you curious and excited to unravel how #root #exudation varies between species, how this relates to the root economics space and if and how it explains ecosystem functioning and species distribution in #grasslands?

Trait–climate relationships in 454 eucalypt taxa: common garden vs field-derived trends Britton et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/PIIQ56...

Global variation in the ratio of sapwood to leaf area explained by optimality principles Xu et al. @huiyingxu.bsky.social @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/QQQWKU...

Our new paper is officially out in Proceedings B! 🐜 It’s the first chapter from my PhD thesis, where we combined field mark-recapture with lab survival assays. Huge thank you and congrats to my co-authors, Kirk Stodola, Lily Leahy, Ian J. Wright, and Heloise Gibb. doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Hear from Lizzie Wandrag, a plant community ecologist with a focus on examining how biotic interactions affect and are affected by plant species’ and community response to global change 🌱🧪 🗓️ Tuesday 2 December 🕙 10-11am (AEST) / 11am-12pm (AEDT) 📍 Register: bit.ly/TPS-LW

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Talking Plant Science with Lizzie Wandrag. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Species interactions as drivers of plant community dynamics under global change. Species interactions, including mutualisms, competition and plant-soil feedbacks, govern patterns of coexistence, comm...

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Join us for Talking Plant Science with Lizzie Wandrag from @utas.edu.au 🌱🧪 🗓️ Tuesday 2 December 🕙 10-11am (AEST) / 11am-12pm (AEDT) 📍 Zoom, register here: bit.ly/TPS-LW #event #webinar #plantscience

Save the date! 47th New Phytologist Symposium on 'Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life'. Explore how extreme heat affects plants that underpin ecosystem productivity. 2-5 June 2026, Cordoba, Spain. @newphyt.bsky.social www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps

Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life

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Submit an abstract to our #EGU2026 session "Microclimate Variation and Heat Impacts on Vegetation: From Molecules to the Biosphere"(meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...) @kalimiddleby.bsky.social @santiagotrueba.bsky.social @sonyageange.bsky.social @egu.eu @egubg.bsky.social @hs.egu.eu

Exciting PhD opportunity advertised by superstar colleague Prof. Rachael Gallagher "Genomic and trait-based indicators of restoration success" (collaboration with Botanic Gardens of Sydney). See attached image. Contact Rachael directly for more information (email in advert). Closes 30th Nov.

Currency Creek Arboretum open days for 2026 are now scheduled! The world's most diverse collection of eucalypts is only open to the public twice a year, at our biannual open days. Details here: www.dn.com.au/Currency_Cre...

Excited to share a PhD opportunity in my upcoming lab at The University of Sydney! Join an ARC-funded project on the ecology of ant invasions in 2026 🐜 🇦🇺 Live in Sydney, ant around Australia 🌍 Intl + Domestic applicants welcome markwongecology.com/join #PhD #Ecology #Biodiversity Pls share, thx 🙏

Join — Sydney Functional Ecology

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We are searching for a 4- year postdoctoral fellow to work us on Microbial Ecology and Crop Disease Management. More details below. The position will start next year. Please circulate and repost. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

📢🌿Available #traits #FunctionalTraits PhD position in my group @westsyduhie.bsky.social, closes 30th Oct. Topics: “Climate adaptations in Australian native grasses”; OR “Plant resource economics”. Apply via WSU Online Portal. Eligibility and other key info here: wrightlab.wordpress.com/news/

📢New blog by Prof Colin Prentice. Why paleoclimate science matters now- and why ignoring our planet's history is no longer an option. Read more 👇 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/what… #paleoclimate #climatechange #earthhistory

New Article: "Arbuscular mycorrhizal association regulates global root–seed coordination" rdcu.be/eBmpX Global positive correlation between root diameter and seed size, driven by dual roles of arbuscular mycorrhiza in phosphorus uptake and pathogen defence.

PhD opportunity available at @westsyduhie.bsky.social with the brillant Dr Laura Williams - hyperspectral data and process-based modelling of tree diversity 🌳🌲 please share with your networks tinyurl.com/ms6mjz8y

An ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) position in Genomics, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor). careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...