Katya Isabelle

Showing off our figure of global conifer leaf-widths & leaf silhouettes highlighting that conifers can be broad-leaved & angiosperms can be narrow/ needle-leaved! 🍃

Our paper: tinyurl.com/mss2me7v
@newphyt.bsky.social

@vallicrosah.bsky.social @botanykat.bsky.social & Matilda Brown

06.06.2025 10:27 — 👍 49    🔁 20    💬 3    📌 2

Cones and consequences: the false dichotomy of conifers vs broad‐leaves has critical implications for research and modelling You have to enable JavaScript in your browser's settings in order to use the eReader.

Do you define trees as either needle- or broad-leaved? Are you doing this correctly? Read our OA paper: Cones & Consequences @newphyt.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mss2me7v

@vallicrosah.bsky.social @botanykat.bsky.social @creaf.cat @wslresearch.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social

06.06.2025 09:26 — 👍 17    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 2

is there a video clip of this

04.05.2025 02:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy 2025 from That's What I Call Science!

We kicked off this year with a deep dive into all things TWICS—reflecting on our experiences and brainstorming ideas for 2025.

We can’t wait to bring you more incredible episodes this year!

#TWICS #Tasmania #twics #scicomm #science #STEMM

11.02.2025 20:18 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2

Study shows hot leaves can’t catch carbon from the air. It’s bad news for rainforests – and Earth An experiment in the Daintree rainforest found the rate of photosynthesis in leaves warmed by 4°C dropped by an average of 35% compared to non-warmed controls.

Check out our new article just out in The Conversation highlighting the effects of warming leaves +4°C in tropical trees. 🌿🌡️ theconversation.com/study-shows-...

15.01.2025 02:36 — 👍 43    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 0

A photo of large mushroom taken at night time, lit up with green bioluminescence

check out these bioluminescent ghost fungi (Omphalotus nidiformis)

14.12.2024 22:10 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Time to introduce myself! Recently, I defended my thesis titled "Patterns and Drivers of Leaf Thermoregulation in Rainforest Trees of the Australian Wet Tropics" where I focused on the role of within-species acclimation and adaptation on leaf temperature. Here’s a little summary of what went on…

06.12.2024 01:00 — 👍 40    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 0

BEYOND KEEN

05.12.2024 23:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

i always stop and admire sphagnum on a walk 💚

01.12.2024 21:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

misty evenings 🩵

01.12.2024 01:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Are you in Lausanne, Switzerland next week? Come and hear me (a scientist) and Maja Renn (a performance artist) discuss Maja’s current piece '[Pheno]plasticity' from scientific & artistic perspectives!!
Wednesday, 4 December 24, 2.45pm – 3.45pm
Salle MED 2 2423 EPFL, Lausanne
Free admission (1/4)

29.11.2024 12:24 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

from 'Plant Systematics' (second edition) by Michael G. Simpson

22.11.2024 02:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

this has to be the prettiest cladogram i've ever seen! #botany #plantscience #phylogeny #sciart #twitterrepost

22.11.2024 02:52 — 👍 34    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 2

reddit r/stormlight_archive is an awesome community

20.11.2024 11:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

keen to read this!!!! don’t even know how i can fit it in with all of the millions of other books/series on my tbr

20.11.2024 11:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Landscape burning facilitated Aboriginal migration into Lutruwita/Tasmania 41,600 years ago Paleoecological records show that Aboriginal people burned wet forest to first settle in Tasmania 41,600 years ago.

Our new study out in @ScienceAdvances shows human presence in Tasmania at least 41,600 years ago, nearly 2000 years earlier than previously thought, and Aboriginal people burned and used wet forests.

Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

17.11.2024 02:04 — 👍 303    🔁 95    💬 2    📌 1

Hello bsky! My name is Katya, and i am a botany PhD student, wilderness enthusiast, science communicator with @thatssciencetas.bsky.social and an all around plant nerd. Happy to be here 🦋

19.11.2024 05:29 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0