Martin De Kauwe

The graph shows the fall in funding as a percentage of GDP for CSIRO

What a depressing figure

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You’re straying dangerously close to moving the conversation back to being on topic 😂. I did not

Slightly relevant segue... when I moved to Australia, my mum took it upon herself to give away my entire CD collection... Clearly, I'm over this.

Reactions, processes, and parameters controlling C4 photosynthetic flux in the NADP-ME subtype.

Tuning the C4 supercharger: improving #photosynthesis and #yield in C4 #crops

#TansleyReview by @mariaermakova.bsky.social, Robert E. Sharwood and Robert T. Furbank

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#PlantScience @monashbiol.bsky.social.

PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage!

How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out.

Application deadline Jan 6th

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#PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social

Our hope here is thus to foster more awareness of and participation in ISI-MIP experiments, share challenges, and raise & answer questions.

Subscribe to the ILMF list (we will send a reminder+link on Monday), or DM me and I'll send you it if that's too complicated :)
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On Monday 10th @14:00 BST |15:00 CET |07:00 MT, the International Land Model Forum and ISI-MIP are hosting a joint webinar. Topics will include:
The design of ISIMIP experiments,
Harmonization of forcing and land-use data,
Shared challenges e.g. generating sub-daily forcings for offline forcing.

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/...

Dwarf mongoose group in South Africa.

Habituated wild dwarf mongoose staring into a camera.

Habituated wild dwarf mongoose on a balance scale weighing itself.

It's #MongooseMonday 🎉

Dwarf mongooses are #cooperativebreeders, living in groups of 3-20 with a dominant breeding pair & helpers of both sexes.
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We study a South African population habituated to our close presence & trained to weigh themselves!
#fieldwork #social #behaviour

I’ve just done it *three* times just to log some student attendance. I cumulatively spend more time on authentication than science, someone needs to add this to my work load model

I'm confident that multi-factor authentication is slowly driving me insane...

How can we explore the future of the world's forests? Understanding the demography of their trees is key. In We took the new gen of global demographic vegetation models and held their roots to the observations. Thanks @annemarie-es.bsky.social for leading! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

‘What does it mean? No one knows’: six-seven meme invades UK classrooms Four out of five secondary school teachers surveyed say they have heard perplexing viral phrase called out

Can confirm that it has made it to Bristol 9 year olds

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Architectural immunity: Ants alter their nest networks to prevent epidemics In animal groups, spatial structure shapes social interaction patterns, thereby influencing the transmission of infectious diseases. Active modifications to the spatial environment could therefore be ...

We had two papers out in Science and Scientific Reports in the past week - I couldn't be happier!

Science paper on architectural immunity:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Scientific Reports paper on the synergistic interaction between new-generation pesticide and disease:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Congrats

Just saw the BBC piece about the free legal advice offered by Bristol Uni students - very cool 💪
www.bristol.ac.uk/law/law-clin...

I did a few seasons but I got pretty bored of the whole election, then planning for the next election cycle. I suppose that is how it is but it felt quite formulaic

Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity As droughts become longer and more intense, impacts on terrestrial primary productivity are expected to increase progressively. Yet, some ecosystems appear to acclimate to multiyear drought, with cons...

The latest DroughtNet paper is out in Science today! Using coordinated experiments across six continents and 74 sites, the International Drought Experiment found differences between the effects of extreme droughts and more typical droughts... (1/3) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

fancy video that :)

BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Why are some animals black and white? Why are zebras so stripy? Why do penguins wear tuxedos?

Why is hiking in a zebra onesie a smart move if you want to avoid being devoured by flies? And why are skunks more stripy in predator-rich forests? Find out this, and more, from @bristolbiosci.bsky.social experts @drmartinjhow.bsky.social & Tim Caro on BBC CrowdScience: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Office temperature -50 🥶

@tommaso-jucker.bsky.social

an old building with climbing plants around the door with purple flowers. The sign above the door says school of botany 1907

Come work with us - The School of Natural Sciences at Trinity College Dublin is looking for a tenure track assistant professor in plant biodiversity and conservation 🧪🌏🌾 my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

Drop me a message if you want to chat about what it's like to work here or live in Ireland.

Solid funny hat 🎩 😃! Congrats to Chunhui

🎉 Congratulations, Dr. Chunhui Zhan! 🎓

This past Monday, Chunhui successfully defended her PhD thesis titled:

"The Effect of Elevated Atmospheric CO2 on the Terrestrial Carbon and Water Cycle"!

Doctoral Research Fellow - FutureForests - School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences - 106218 - Grade 7 Position Details School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK Fixed salary of £49,747 additional allowances may be applicable depe...

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

Fig. 1 Schematic representation of broad groups of traits measurable across plant organs.

✨ Paper spotlight ✨

(🧵 1/6) The path towards a unified trait space: synthesizing plant functional diversity
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Pathways for prevention of cascading tipping points - Communications Earth & Environment Strong governance, accelerated action, and empowered communities are essential to avoid cascading Earth system tipping points and achieve lasting, transformative change.

🌍🌡️I'm excited to share my latest editorial for @commsearth.nature.com on how to avoid Earth System tipping points and trigger more positive change.

Thanks to @exeter.ac.uk for organising two vibrant events on the topic

Read more 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

‘A perfectly calibrated Swiss watch of cringe’: why Fawlty Towers remains the greatest ever sitcom, 50 years on It’s the 50th anniversary of the comedy that’s so foundational for TV as a medium, it’s the Beatles for the small screen. Five decades later, John Cleese and Connie Booth’s show is still unmatched

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