Suz Everingham

SORTEE Webinar: On what makes good sharable and reproducible R code, how to do it, and why it’s good for science For this month's SORTEE webinar, Dr. Dax Kellie from the Atlas of Living Australia will present on good, sharable, and reproducible R code in science

In one week I'll be talking about tips for reproducible R code and why science would love you to try these tips on your own code too 🧪😍🌏

It's an online talk, so feel free to watch comfortably from your couch. Hope to see you there!
@sortee.bsky.social #rstats

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📢 New publication 'Exposure and sensitivity of threatened #plant species to changing #drought regimes: A global analysis' by Susan Everingham, Ian Wright, Lina Teckentrup, Stuart Allen and Rachael Gallagher in Biological Conservation 🧪

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#IUCN

Thanks for sharing cate!

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...

Exposure and sensitivity of threatened plant species to changing drought regimes: A global analysis Climate change is driving substantial impacts on plants, including widespread increases in drought frequency, duration, and intensity. Changes to thes…

Drought is often omitted from IUCN Red Listing assessments as it is difficult to quantify. But our study has found that >95% of threatened species will be exposed to longer and more frequent droughts! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

✨ PhD opportunity studying drought and heatwave effects on threatened plants ✨🔥

Funded by an ARC DECRA awarded to the amazing Dr Ilaíne Matos and co-supervised by Dr Sami Rifai and me!

Limited by the character limit here, so please see the attached flyer for all the details - please share widely!

Limited responses of plant defence traits to recent climate change - Evolutionary Ecology Direct and indirect effects of climate change may have substantial impacts on plant defences against herbivory. However, there are limited long-term historical data on plant morphological and chemical...

Final PhD paper published! Using resurrection ecology and a glasshouse experiment, we found limited responses of defence traits to climate change across Aus plants. Brilliant coauthors inc. @angelamoles.bsky.social Eve Slavich, Cathy Offord and Juha-Pekka Salminen link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Of the 8000 plant species introduced to cities around the world, about 300 are in cities on every continent and about 90 are basically in every city. Urbanization has selected for a common set of species that are the fingerprint of our activity: The urban florome.

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There doesn’t seem to be a page - I’m happy to send the pdf via DM if you need? I think applications are via email ☺️

#PhD opportunity with amazing supervisors at @westsyduhie.bsky.social and the Botanic Gardens Sydney, focusing on restoration success, genomic diversity and macroecology. Please share widely 🌿

Spring is really springing here in Sydney and we managed to get out on a bush walk in Ku-Ring-Gai NP to see some beautiful wild flowers with a toddler and newborn in tow 🌸🌿

Fully funded PhD in #Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver! 🍁 Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology, and more. Start Sept 2026/Jan 2027. michaletzlab.org
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool

Important reading as you prepare for your semester

Thanks cate 😀

With the excellent team of @angelamoles.bsky.social Eve Slavich, @plantypotato.bsky.social and Cathy Offord

Shining a Light on Patterns of Photoperiod Sensitivity in Germination and Flowering Across Latitudes, Ecosystems and Functional Traits Our study investigated the role of photoperiod sensitivity in plant phenology, focusing on germination and flowering patterns across species in Australia and globally. We found that most species show...

Our #OpenAccess paper showing no trends in photoperiod sensitivity in germination 🌱 & flowering time 🌸 across a range of predictors out now in @ecol-evol.bsky.social Led by brilliant Honours student Ashika and my first 'senior author' paper 😀 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Very deserving of the DECRA she recently received 🎉

She really is!

PhD opportunity available at @westsyduhie.bsky.social with the brillant Dr Laura Williams - hyperspectral data and process-based modelling of tree diversity 🌳🌲 please share with your networks tinyurl.com/ms6mjz8y

Exciting new paper from @innaosmol.bsky.social and a great team - why are some climate change range shifts counterintuitive to predictions? Changes in biotic interactions!

Adaptation in Wood Anatomical Traits to Temperature and Precipitation—A Common Garden Study Wood anatomy underpins plant function. Across 58 evergreen species thicker vessel walls increased hydraulic safety in cold and dry sites. Smaller vessels increased safety at warm sites yet hydraulic ....

📢 New publication ' #Adaptation in Wood Anatomical Traits to Temperature and Precipitation—A Common Garden Study' by Tiantian Pan, Travis Britton, Julian Schrader, Emma Sumner, Dean Nicolle, Brendan Choat and @ianjwright.bsky.social in Plant, Cell and Environment 🧪

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The registration for the 5th @sortee.bsky.social annual virtual conference is now open!

We have two fantastic plenary speakers this year @simine.com and Israel Borokini (not on BSky?).

Huge congrats Fonti! 🎉

Despite transport NSW cancelling pretty much all of their Sydney trains we had a great turn out @pintsworld.bsky.social in Parramatta, Aus 🍻 a crew of an astronomist @astrolaura.com an ecologist (me! 👋🏻) and a nuclear chemist (Anton Peristyy) chatting about our big and small research

Do trait–growth relationships vary with plant age in fire-prone heathland shrubs?

🌱New study reveals functional traits e.g. wood density & leaf mass fraction shape plant growth rates, with these relationships changing as plants mature. Growth isn't a fixed trait–it evolves with age! @lilydun.bsky.social @ianjwright.bsky.social🧪🌍
🔍Article: buff.ly/f0vnEFV
🗞️Blog: buff.ly/nY1TorB

Content submissions for the 5th SORTEE Conference (15-16 Oct 2025) are now OPEN.

Submit your proposal for an unconference, hackathon or workshop by June 2nd via sortee.org/upcoming

The conference will be FREE for members, so consider joining us (sortee.org/join/).

New paper out! After the 2019-2020 #fires in Australia our team undertook #IUCN Red List assessments of fire affected #plant species, to handle the volume we undertook paired rapid and full assessments and compared their accuracy 1/4

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Do trait–growth relationships vary with plant age in fire‐prone heathland shrubs? We demonstrate that key functional traits undergo shifts in their relationship with growth as plants mature. Therefore, it will be valuable to shift our understanding of plant strategies away from th...

📢 New publication 'Do trait–growth relationships vary with plant age in fire-prone heathland #shrubs?' by Lily Dun, Elizabeth Wenk, Daniel Falster, Mark Westoby and Ian Wright in Journal of Ecology 🧪

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Build a Ballot - Get election ready Everything you need to do your research before voting at the 2025 Federal Election. Discover your local candidates & see how they're approaching key issues.

Not sure how to vote based on your values and priorities? Check out this great resource www.buildaballot.org.au.

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Towards an integrative mechanistic framework for biodiversity–consumer relationships Terrestrial plant diversity plays a pivotal role in influencing the abundance, diversity, and impacts of herbivores and pathogens (collectively, plant consumers). However, it is unclear whether the relationships between biodiversity and herbivory reflect the same underlying ecological mechanisms as the relationships between biodiversity and disease. This uncertainty results in part from decades of independent, siloed research on each consumer group. We propose that, across herbivores and pathogens, plant diversity–consumer relationships arise from five fundamental factors: (1) density of a focal plant, (2) total plant biomass, (3) plant neighborhood quality, (4) resource diversity, and (5) structural complexity. By matching established hypotheses to these five fundamental factors, we highlight opportunities for growth in the rapidly developing field of plant–consumer interactions.

Online now: Towards an integrative mechanistic framework for biodiversity–consumer relationships