Jolanta Rieksta

Today @jrieksta.bsky.social and her cat joined our #VOC lunch meeting to talk about her work on bark VOC emissions.

Interested in #intraspecific functional trait variation?Have a look at our new paper in
@oikosjournal.bsky.social
: Relaxation of the leaf economics spectrum within and across quaking aspen Populus tremuloides genotypes 🍃🧬 #FunctionalTraits #LeafEconomicsSpectrum #Polyploidy

Really enjoyed the annual @voltcenter.bsky.social retreat with great colleagues - two days of science, creativity, and connection. Great energy to carry into the rest of the academic year!

Here is the starter pack you have all been waiting for:

IPCC AR7 Scientists

(the scientists that will write the next assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the next few years)

Thanks @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social

bsky.app/starter-pack...

Had an amazing time at Centre for Digital Life Norway Research School conference in Stavanger, Norway - inspiring talks, great discussions, refreshing morning swims, and of course a touch of volatiles 🍃 #DLN2025

Resubmitting a manuscript at 09:00 hits different. Feels like I just finished a 8-to-4 before breakfast. 🐝

Revising the manuscript under the watchful eye of my editor-in-fur. She’s fluffy, silent, and adorably judgmental.

Bring back the phenotype When thinking about evolutionary change, many practicing biologists will focus on changes in allele frequencies over time. This gene-centric view of evolution has strongly impacted how evolution (and...

Bring back the phenotype.

Not limited to #plantscience

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Illustration of a Greenlandic landscape, showing in the foreground Rhododendron lapponicum on a cliff, with sea ice and icebergs in the background. Illustration by Alberto S. Ballesteros (@asbillustration.bsky.social)

🌸Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic 🌸

Our new study @nature.com analysed plant diversity change in >2000 tundra plots over 4 decades. We found that plants changed unevenly, mostly driven by warming and biotic interactions.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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⏳At the beginning of April I completed 25% of my #MSCA placement @voltcenter.bsky.social. 😱

To celebrate, I wrote a #blog that I hope will help explain my fascination with #isoprene! 🌱

Click below to find out more! #uArctic_project

YouTube video by VOLT - Center for Volatile Interactions Meet the scientists - Danillo Alvarenga (Assistant Professor)

Meet @dg.dk @voltcenter.bsky.social's assistant professor @danilloalvarenga.bsky.social, who works with @kathrinrousk.bsky.social on #cyanobacteria and #moss interactions on a #molecular level, and their importance in different #ecosystems!
youtu.be/pvJjzXq_hQQ

Are you going #EGU25 @egu.eu ? Here is a nice summary of all the talks and posters by the @voltcenter.bsky.social so you do not miss them ! 🤩

We used #ARALAB climate chambers to mimic future #climate conditions and studied how arctic plants respond to a warmer future with more frequent extremes. We will have a few more papers from this large experiment, including setting the observed responses in ecosystem model #LPJGUESS. Stay tuned.

And some recent core photos from the dendro lab. Do you see when mountain birch was in stress? 👀 2/2

Admiring a mountain birch core in the field vs in the microscope. Pending: linking dendro data to VOC emissions. Can´t wait to see the results 1/2 🪵🍃🐛

Vai ne? 💯💯💯🔥

Very exciting day! My friend, Laura, is defending her PhD thesis today: "On the evolution of floral traits." 🌺🌸🌼🐝 Her work also includes volatiles (floral scent )—my favourite topic!

VOLT PhD student receives prestigious Elite Forsk travel grant

Massive congrats to @voltcenter.bsky.social PhD student @martacontreras.bsky.social who got a prestigious Elite Forsk travel grant, which she is already enjoying in Australia! 👏
You can read the article below:

volt.ku.dk/news2024/vol...

📢PhD Vacancy📢: Fully funded PhD fellowship in #peatland #VOC #biogeochemistry at Copenhagen University! This position is part of my Villum young investigator grant, co-supervised with @riikkarinnan.bsky.social, and hosted by the @voltcenter.bsky.social.

➡️https://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=163573⬅️

A super exciting PhD position available in #peatland #biochemistry. Join @yijiao.bsky.social and me working with cutting edge #VOC cycling in peat.

+ nice colleagues @voltcenter.bsky.social
+ Copenhagen
+ competitive salary
+ good PhD program

employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

Please repost!

Benzene float (Hexaphenyl) 1983 by Monira Al Qadiri at the 📍PoMo - A Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art in Trondheim

Tremendous funding success for VOLT Center!

Congratulations to all Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions grantees! At @voltcenter.bsky.social, we got 4: Yunyao Ma, @zzwy.bsky.social, Mehrshad Foroughan and Cecilia Costas Selas. What an amazing achievement!
Click below to read about the MSCA and other recent grants for VOLT
volt.ku.dk/news2024/tre...

Extreme smells – microbial production of volatile organic compounds at the limits of life Abstract. Microbial Volatile Organic Compounds (MVOCs) are diverse molecules produced by microorganisms, ranging from mere waste by-products to important s

🔔 New article alert 🔔

Have you ever wonderered what life in extreme environments smells like? In our latest article (and my first published paper!) we review #VOCs produced by #extremophiles, and we discuss the roles they play in #astrobiology, #biotechnology, and more!

doi.org/10.1093/fems...

Yesterday, we dove into a collective creative writing experience led by Paul Acker—scientist, performer, and writer. We crafted and performed incredible texts, exploring the inner world of scientists, the duality of being both human and researcher.The energy was electric,the words alive.What a ride!

I'm attending 1st International Symposium on Volatile Interactions in Ecosystems in Copenhagen
@voltcenter.bsky.social. Join me on May 21-23. 🤩
‼️ abstract submission deadline: February 24
#Biogeochemistry, #ChemicalEcology #Ecosystem-atmosphereInteractions

📣 Work with remote sensing of terrestrial water and carbon cycle? Please consider sending your manuscript to the special issue in Remote Sensing of Environment (IF=11.1), led by group member Hongliang Ma at @voltcenter.bsky.social
🚩 Submission deadline of Feb 2026, see here:
shorturl.at/yQYb6

Inspired by @nasmillelarkemejia.bsky.social:
As a kid,I’d disappear into the meadows of Latvia,picking flowers,pressing leaves in books,drying plants for tea. Now,I study plant chemistry and its role in a changing world.After all these years,still fascinated-just like in meadow days #WomenInStem

Join our workshop "From Data to Drama: Storytelling for Scientists" 🎭📊. Learn creative writing techniques and master the art of engaging communication and make your research unforgettable! ;) More details below 👇
📍Trondheim

A great start to the week at @voltcenter.bsky.social: @jrieksta.bsky.social joined us online from Norway to tell us about her exciting data during an insect outbreak in Abisko and the consequences for #VOC #emissions