Kate Johnson

✨ International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11 Feb) ✨

Today we celebrate the curiosity, creativity, and courage of women and girls in science and the many ways they are reshaping what STEMM looks like.
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#InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #WomenInSTEM #GirlsInScience #STEMM

Logo for the art-science competition described in the post above. The word ‘FLOh!RA’ is written on top of a beige rectangular panel which has rounded ends and is thinly outlined in orange. The letters: F, L, R and A are in light purple text, while ‘Oh!’ is in orange text, making it stand out. Behind the logo on top of a beige background are stylised depictions of flowers and leaves in golden-yellow across three square panels, in a style reminiscent of art- nouveau. This graphic was created by the CREAF communications team.

🍃Notice the plants around you🍃

Create an artwork on how plants change🍂🌡️❄️👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 & submit to #sciart competition- FLOh!RA
lstewart22.github.io/FLOhRA/

Opening today, closing April 6th
For people living in Catalunya

Please share!

Funded by @ec.europa.eu @horizoneu.bsky.social
Supported by @creaf.cat

Post doctor (3 years) within mountain plant community and ecosystem processes across a globally distributed experiment

Great postdoc opportunity in Sweden!! With the one and only David Wardle 🧪🌐
www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Just 3 days left to apply!! :D, come join us! Abstract submission closing Jan 15th #EGU26

PhD Position: Tree Physiological Responses to Atmospheric Drought We invite applications for a fully funded four-year PhD position at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, with a planned start date in June 2026. The selected candidate wil...

🌳PhD Opportunity in plant ecophysiology🌡️ Join EPFL (Switzerland) for fully-funded 4yr PhD on tree responses to air drought and heat. Climate chamber + long-term experiments to uncover physiological thresholds under climate change. www.epfl.ch/labs/perl/pe...

Yes, forest trees die of old age. But the warming climate is killing them faster The warming climate is killing Australia’s forest trees at a faster rate. This offers a glimpse of what may lie ahead for forests globally.

I hear from friends in WA, where the trees are dying.
I hear of the loss in the Adelaide Hills.
I see it here in Central VIC.
I see it across the higher mountains.

The fact that ecologists still manage to function in the face of ongoing loss is a daily miracle.

theconversation.com/yes-forest-t...

Restoring nature and reversing biodiversity loss are urgent societal challenges. Utrecht University invites applications for an Assistant Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Nature Restoration. In this role, you contribute to help solve these challenges through research and education by linking fundamental wildlife ecology to biodiversity recovery and nature restoration. As an Assistant Professor, you will join a young, enthusiastic team that is eager to make an impact. You will help strengthen the team’s mission to connect fundamental wildlife ecology with the challenges of nature restoration in human-dominated multifunctional forest landscapes, especially in north-western Europe. Your research will focus on restoration-relevant themes, such as wildlife responses to anthropogenic change, the effectiveness of conservation interventions, and the contribution of wildlife to biodiversity recovery and nature restoration. Close collaboration with colleagues within and beyond Utrecht University is an important part of this role, as well as building sustainable partnerships with conservation practitioners and policymakers. You will combine fieldwork, experiments and biomonitoring (e.g. using sensor technologies) with laboratory, statistical and theoretical approaches. There is ample opportunity to initiate research projects and to acquire funding. In education, you will teach in the Biology programs, develop and coordinate a new course, and supervise research projects of BSc, MSc and PhD students.

Are you a PhD-level #wildlife ecologist committed to research and education for #biodiversity and nature restoration?
Our group at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social has a #vacancy for an assistant professor!
Deadline for applications is February 19.
Please spread the word.
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Abstracts due Jan 15th, join us at EGU!! 😄

Come and work with us! Please share widely!
Applications close 18 January 2026 at 11.55pm.

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

@ecolsocaus.bsky.social @deakinuniversity.bsky.social

🎤Hi #dendrometer users! You are invited to join our new Dendrometer Network (catchy name still tbd 😜). Online meeting 10:30-12 CET Friday 12 Dec. Please share and let me know if you want to join and I will send the meeting link 🌴🎄🌳🌲

End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff Wealthy countries should triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal

With the disappointing progress at Cop30, evergreen reminder it isn't "we" or "humanity" failing to address the climate crisis — oil-producing nations and fossil fuel interests are actively obstructing action, despite heroic efforts by developing nations, Indigenous peoples, and many, many others.

Check out our new paper! @brodersenlab.bsky.social

Hydro‐Functional Traits and Their Dissimilarity to the Neighbourhood Buffer Tree Growth Against the 2018–2020 Central European Drought Climate change is putting forests at risk. Our research shows that a tree's water-use strategy largely determines its growth across years: whereas one strategy performs better in normal years, the ot....

Over 2,600🌳 #trees during the 2018–2020 #drought :
• Traits disadvantageous in normal years became beneficial under drought
• Trees grew better with neighbours whose hydro-functional traits differed from their own
🗞️Paper out now @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨Job opportunity🚨

We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

💕🌳 what an honour!

Cones and consequences: the false dichotomy of conifers vs broad‐leaves has critical implications for research and modelling In plant science research and modelling, particularly from the northern hemisphere, the terms ‘needle-leaved’ and ‘conifer’ along with ‘broad-leaved’ and ‘angiosperm’ are often used synonymously, cre...

Just a note, conifers can be broad-leaved too!! (Just as angiosperm-trees can have narrow leaves) nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The cover of Vol 76 | Issue 18 | 2025 of the Journal of Experimental Botany. Light green banners border the top and bottom of the page and in the centre is an image of a watercolour painting. "Sapling of North American tree species and common city tree Liriodendron tulipifera (Tulip Poplar). This watercolour painting depicts the young potted trees of this species used in Johnson et al., pp. 5573–5587. Trees were placed in freezers while their leaves were imaged to track ice formation and spread. This research revealed that the pattern of ice spread in these leaves is governed by vein anatomy and provided the first visualisation of freeze-induced xylem embolism (air bubble formation) in leaf veins. (Image credit: Kate Johnson.)"

📢 NEW ISSUE ALERT 📢

🌷✨ JXB Issue 18 of 2025 is out now ✨🌷

On the cover: A beautiful watercolour painting of a Tulip Poplar sapling by @kateplantphys.bsky.social - see Johnson et al. this issue!

🔗👉 Read the full issue now: academic.oup.com/jxb...

#PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

Thanks Naseef!

Thank you!

One of our favourite covers, awesome painting skills! 🌱🎨🧪

Thanks JXB! It's an honour to have this on your cover, such a pleasure to have art and science come together 🌳

Thank you Tom!

Read our paper here: academic.oup.com/jxb/article-... 🌱

and @cadenkane.bsky.social's Insight on it here: academic.oup.com/jxb/article/... 🌳

Watercolour painting of a young Tulip Poplar tree on the cover of 'Journal Experimental Botany', for volume 76, Issue 18, 2025

The cover of @jxbotany.bsky.social is my painting of Tulip Poplar, a North-American native & global street tree that was the focus of our paper visualising freezing spread & freeze-thaw embolism in leaves!
A lovely way to finish this multi-year mutli-country project
🔗below
@brodersenlab.bsky.social

🌿Postdoc opening in Urban Ecophysiology at WSL Lausanne - start March 2026. Join Horizon Europe FRAIMwork on green walls: carbon sink, water use efficiency & air quality. Apply via WSL careers page: m.refline.ch/273855/1786/... @wslresearch.bsky.social

Submit your abstract to join our session on climate extremes ☀️❄️and their effects on plants🌱 at #EGU in Vienna May 3-8 2026!! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

New PhD position in Plant Ecophysiology🌳 Study how atmospheric & soil drought shape tree carbon & water relations at the VPDrought experiment in Switzerland. Start Jan 2026. Apply here: m.refline.ch/273855/1759/... @wslresearch.bsky.social

Help us spread the word!!

Open to girls, femme, & non-binary students in Years 10–12 in lutruwita/ #Tasmania ‘STEMM Solutions For Our Island’ invites entrants to pitch an idea (as individuals or in small groups) to solve a problem using #STEMM!
Find out more here:
thatsscience.org/stemm-soluti...

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

Apply to become the next MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow!

These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here:

eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

A map of the world showing how levels of worry in most countries are greater than 70%. Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023.

Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.