have you voted! 🐌🪱🐝🦑 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Crush-worthy cephalopods and beautiful bugs – vote for the invertebrate of the year

Of the 1.3m spineless wonders in the world, you told us your favourite. Now it’s time to pick the winner. Plus: a climate hero going to the bat for conservation

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📢 Call for papers in New Phytologist and Plants, People, Planet: Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life. Abstract Deadline: 5 September 2026 Learn more at nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com#extreme-heat... Thank you to the New Phytologist Foundation for being a Bronze Sponsor of #Botany2026!

Being 'invited to submit' a manuscript to a Special Collection seems like something I should be excited about, and I am, but I am also thinking that it is not so different from submitting normally... except that in theory it would then be possible for the paper to be part of a themed group...

there's gotta be an easy way to ensure consistent font sizing for images produced in R and saved with specific dimensions but i don't know what it is or even if I'm currently doing it wrong

I still really like this image showing how we attached thermocouples to the undersides of leaves, it's much easier to communicate things visually even with some basic sketches sometimes

For all Europeans, you can vote on the design for the new bank notes from the European Central Bank here: surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknote... Some of the designs are quite vibrant and punchy

Do humans and birds share an eye for design? 🐦🎨 For my Master's diss, I’m testing if we share aesthetic tastes with bowerbirds. I need 100 responses to finish! Visual, anonymous & under 5 mins. Link: exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🧪 cc: @scienseed.com #AcademicSky #SciComm

#FluroscentFriday Fluorescent transgenic roots in a petri dish

things you see if you are an unwanted AI 'Reading Assistant' seconds before being nuked from my vision via uBlock Origin

If you sign a publishing agreement with Wiley, you agree that your work can be used for AI models. Other publishers probably do the same. As a federal employee, I can't sign that, so our ms is stuck. Publishers won't buckle for a few of us, so can't I publish anymore? What do universities say?

Can we please quit with the oversized 'try AI!' popups on scientific papers that take up readable space? This popup on @newphyt.bsky.social doesn't even have a way to shrink it so I have to give up the bottom couple of inches on my screen.

a privilege and blessing to a PhD student in the 3rd gen. of a Research Training Group. all the plots in the forests I collected my samples in have been explored from the bottom up in various other ways already. there are 6 years of microclimate data I didn't have to collect myself for example

PhD position available: Predicting impacts of extreme heat on Australian forests The world is heating up and forests are starting to show the effects. Like maths? Love trees? Apply your skills to help understand and adapt vegetation to heat extremes! www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...

Excited to share our new paper on leaf scorching. 🔥Early leaf browning during heat and drought is often interpreted as premature leaf senescence - but it may reflect rapid heat damage. Separating these processes is essential. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @wslresearch.bsky.social

Have you tuned in to Ep. 332 yet? Margaux Didion-Gency's exciting new research reveals that leaf shape may influence plant heat tolerance, listen to hear more! @creaf.cat @snsf.ch @kateplantphys.bsky.social #heatwave #climatechange #climateextremes #leaves #adaption #Scicomm

quick, look at an Andrena vs Colletes comparison before it becomes irrelevant, until like July. Colletes are big spring guys and only show up rarely later in the year.

Did you write your comment yet on the OMB rules on federally funded science yet? No? Don’t worry, you can do it this weekend. Here are some resources that can help you get started.

have we not lived long enough in a world with 'check your X for free!' claims leading to a 'see the changes for a single payment of €€€!' can we be freed from this

yeah yeah, PhD student has no idea what things cost and is shocked by the price of publication for a single paper

would be a perfect summer to monitor in-situ leaf temperatures but as a 3rd-year PhD my only obligation is to write write write... still, would be nice if someone were making use of my big thermocouple datalogger jellyfish monsters... here's an image of one up a Douglas-fir summer 2024

🎉 Congratulations to Anne Klosterhalfen, postdoc at U. Göttingen and scientific coordinator of ICOS Hainich station, on receiving the #EGU26 Biogeosciences Outstanding ECS Award! Anne's work on ecosystem carbon fluxes is the kind of science that makes the ICOS community shine👏

Unsere Bioklimatologin Anne Klosterhalfen hat für ihre Forschung zu Kohlenstoff- und Wasserflüssen in Ökosystemen und ihren Einsatz in Bildung und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit den Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award 2026 bekommen. Wir gratulieren. 👏 www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...

my big news is I've written my first real original paper draft ever (and am now impatiently waiting for feedback from my supervisor)

okay, I haven't been on here in a while, my profile picture is also completely out of date!

Gentle reminder to fill in the survey on forest disturbance change (below). We have *a lot* of great responses already (thank you!) covering all continents and biomes, but the survey will be open for a few more days! Thanks for making the time, your disturbance expertise is highly appreciated!

Rupert Seidl@rupertseidl.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...

RESEARCH IMAGES OF THE YEAR! The entries are in and you are invited to vote! You'll see pairs of images at random for 25 rounds. You pick the one that explains the research most clearly and creatively. Vote here: pollunit.com/polls/0fpi7x... by 24 Jan Info: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-event

#PostDocAlert! PhD in #ForestEcology, #QuantitativeEcology or #ComputationalBiology? Strong background in statistics & experience with large datasets? Our Forest Diversity and Biodemography research group offers a 2-year #PostDoc position: apply.refline.ch/273855/1824/... #ScienceJobs #PostDoc

With all the snow and ice I wish I were up a tree in the summer sunshine... and that my job were only about climbing trees in beautiful forests 🤭 Thank you to Björn Lüdecke for the 📸

Germany may not officially celebrate, but I will take the opportunity presented by today to be thankful for my colleagues in the @enricounigoe.bsky.social research training group. I would not have made it so far without their support and friendship!

There are so many ways to deal with the data I have and I am so tempted by all the rabbit holes of 'other people did it this way'. I think I need to meet with my supervisor...