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
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@brodersenlab.bsky.social

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

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

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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

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-...

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

check out these bioluminescent ghost fungi (Omphalotus nidiformis)

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…

BEYOND KEEN

i always stop and admire sphagnum on a walk 💚

misty evenings 🩵

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)

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

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

reddit r/stormlight_archive is an awesome community

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

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/...

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 🦋