Straight Outta Tropical Bristol - @juliamadurini.bsky.social's trees are photosynthesising @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social
Martin De Kauwe
@mdekauwe.bsky.social
Professor of Global Change Ecology 🌳🌍 School of the Biological Sciences 🌿 University of Bristol mdekauwe.github.io
Presumably on the day the UK smashed more temperature records, when the kids are not at school … the government and opposition MPs spent all of their parliamentary time discussing how to better prepare the UK for heat extremes….right?
Lucky me. I was able to visit the AmazonFACE site again and witness how ready to go we are! How will the largest tropical forest on Earth respondent to the elevated CO2? What do you think?
We will soon be advertising a 3-year postdoctoral position at Bristol aimed at enhancing our modelling capacity to better characterise vegetation recovery & legacy effects following fire. Please keep us in mind if this is your speciality 😀 🔥🌳 🌱
I have 🇺🇸 in the work World Cup sweepstake. Good job I love the manager
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
Pershore reached 20.9°C this afternoon, matching the temperature recorded in Gogerddan, Dyfed on 18 March and thus making today the joint warmest day of 2026 so far 🌡️
update on the experiment my colleague John Harte started almost 30 years ago www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rise of the shrubs: what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C?
A long-running experiment in Colorado provides an ‘alarming’ view of how rapidly unchecked global heating could transform fragile ecosystems
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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/...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Looming CSIRO job cuts come at 'critical moment' for climate change action
Scientists are calling on the Australian government to push back on a plan to scrap hundreds of jobs at the nation's science agency, as they await the release of further details this week.
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The future of Europe’s forest disturbance regimes– a thread. Tl, dr: Disturbances from wildfire, bark beetles & wind will continue to increase in the coming decades. Under unabated climate change disturbances could more than double by 2100. New paper out in @science.org doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Postdoc Fellowship opportunity! UW Program on Climate Change has a new for a Postdoctoral Scholar program for fellows to develop and conduct novel climate science research that benefits from collaborations at UW. Apply by April 15th! pcc.uw.edu/research/fun...
Program on Climate Change (PCC) Postdoctoral Scholar Program 2026 | Program on Climate Change
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The New Phytologist Foundation supports the organisation of symposia by providing dedicated funds and full administrative support including budget management, venue management, delegate registration, abstract submission, and delegates/speaker management.
📢 There are seven days left to submit your proposal for a New Phytologist Symposium! More information: www.newphytologist.org/events/sympo... Send us your proposals by 9 March 2026. #PlantScience
Call for proposals for New Phytologist Symposia
Call for proposals for New Phytologist Symposia
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Extreme heat is fast becoming one of the biggest threats to global food systems. Our new piece in The Conversation looks at how intense heatwaves put crops and native species at risk — and what we can actually do about it. 🔗 theconversation.com/intense-heat...
Intense heatwaves directly threaten crops and native species. Here’s what we can do
Sustained extreme heat can damage, weaken and kill all living things, from wheat crops to koalas and fruit bats.
theconversation.com
JOB ALERT! We are excited to announce that we are recruiting three new academics at lecturer level! Click the link below for more info on how to apply, and don’t forget to explore our research themes too! We look forward to receiving your applications! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Come and join us at Bristol 👇👀
Steve Simpson@profstevesimpson.bsky.social · 6mo agoWe are recruiting three new lecturers! Read on if you'd like to bring your passion for biology to @bristolbiosci.bsky.social at @bristoluni.bsky.social and join our team of ambitious, creative, inclusive and collaborative researcher–educators: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
🌳🌲Excited to share my latest research on how declining C4 vegetation impacts the carbon isotope composition of CO₂! After 4+ years of juggling work and maternity leave, it’s finally out! www.nature.com/articles/s43... see also blog on the paper 👇 urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
New research from our group: A pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent - driven by rising temperatures rdcu.be/eXSa7
Pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent
Nature Plants - Eight decades of forest plot monitoring show a pervasive increase in tree mortality across Australia’s forest biomes driven by climate change, jeopardizing their role as...
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Fully funded PhD opportunity in my lab to study threatened plant species responses to drought and heat. This is part of mu recently funded DECRA fellowship.
We are hiring three PhDs within the joint project ‘Forests in transition: The future of European beech under drought stress’. If you are interested in tree water relations in response to stem density reduction (subproject 2), see here: www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste....
Stellenausschreibung ID 12588
In this project, the Chair of Forest Botany at the Institute of Forest Botany and Forest Zoology offers, subject to the availability of resources, a project position as
verw.tu-dresden.de
Level B lecturer position in Environmental Botany (plant ecology and plant physiology), School of Life and Environmental Sciences at Deakin Uni, Burwood (Melbourne) #BotanyJobs #PlantSciJobs #PlantEcology 🌾🪴🌿🌱🧪 Please repost Applications due 18th January. careers.pageuppeople.com/949/cw/en/jo...
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Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · 8mo agoAs we approach the end of the year, 2025 is on track to be one of the UK’s warmest years on record, joining 2022 and 2023 in the top three warmest years. Find out more in our news release 👇 www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
Wonderful collection of articles exploring what the concept of anthromes - human-modified biomes - means for our understanding of the global carbon cycle 🌐
Plants, People, Planet@plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social · 8mo agoEditorial introducing the Special Collection: #Anthromes and terrestrial carbon – from the deep past to net-zero Anthony P. Walker, et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @ultracricket.bsky.social @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social @ymalhi.bsky.social #PlantScience
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 New Phytologist #TansleyMedal is @camilledelavaux.bsky.social! Read the #Editorial by Slater & Dolan 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience @niooknaw.bsky.social 🧵1/2
Honoured & humbled to receive a #Nature #Award for #Mentoring in #Science yesterday. ☺️ Testament to the wonderful #ECRs I've been privileged to work with. THANK YOU to all who nominated me. 🙏 #proud #support @natureportfolio.nature.com @bristolbiosci.bsky.social www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/de...
