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Maya Zomer
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Postdoc, UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social | πŸ”₯ plants, fire, and climate

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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social Β· 12d
Congrats Kristin Davis for her #ecology research that challenges the #NicheConservatismHypothesis: the theory that a species' ecological niche (conditions where individuals can survive and reproduce) remains stable over space & time.

🐦 Findings: bit.ly/3LeZyOL #Europeanstarling #housesparrow

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Global Wildfire Collective @wildfirecollective.bsky.social Β· 27d
Our Global Wildfire Collective Spatial Data Gateway is here! Intended for sharing wildfire-related data, maps, models, tools, and publications.

Explore now!
globalwildfirecollective.databasin.org

#GlobalWildfireCollective #ConsBio #DataBasin #FireData #WildfireData #Wildfire #Fire #FireResearch

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Maya Zomer @mayazomer.bsky.social Β· Sep 3
πŸ™Œ congrats!

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Maya Zomer @mayazomer.bsky.social Β· Aug 27
Happy to share that our new paper is now joined by an insight piece from Anna L Jacobsen & R Brandon Pratt giving context on Mediterranean shrub resprouting 🌿πŸ”₯

academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

plus a blog post summarizing our article! πŸ‘‡

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social Β· Aug 8
Fire alters the phenotype of individual plants, potentially through epigenetic mechanisms
Saiz-Blanco, @cmhmaliani.bsky.social et al @journalofecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

πŸ§ͺ🌍πŸ”₯🌿🌳🌾 botany #ecoevo #plantbiology traits @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @dicv.csic.es
Phenotypic rebuilding after fire: Understanding within‐individual variability in a Mediterranean shrub
This paper shows that burned resprouting individuals of Anthyllis cytisoides differed significantly in phenotype, global cytosine methylation and the relationship between floral phenotype and fitness...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Maya Zomer @mayazomer.bsky.social Β· Aug 1
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Resprouting is more complex than you think πŸ™ƒ

"Pre-disturbance plant condition drives intraspecific resprouting variability in Mediterranean shrubs" by @mayazomer.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
@jxbotany.bsky.social

πŸ§ͺ🌍πŸ”₯🌳πŸͺ΄πŸŒΎ Anthyllis cytisoides & Globularia alypum #PlantBiology #SEM #botany
Structural equation modeling (SEM) of resprouting success and vigour along an aridity gradient

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social Β· Aug 1
Resprouting paper by @mayazomer.bsky.social et al. now online with a temporal OA link

πŸ§ͺ🌍πŸ”₯🌳πŸͺ΄πŸŒΎ Anthyllis cytisoides & Globularia alypum #PlantBiology #SEM #botany

academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social Β· Jul 31
πŸŽ‰ Congrats to @lucialayr.bsky.social on our team for publishing new research on how #ClimateChange and increasing disturbances, like #wildfires, are impacting boreal forests. Explore Lucia's findings: bit.ly/4miqme3 🌲

@tum.de @anjarammig.bsky.social g.bsky.social @egu.eu
πŸ“Έ National Park Service
Image of the Copper River in Alaska surrounded by boreal forests and mountains. Credit: national park service

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Australian Journal of Botany @ausjbotany.bsky.social Β· Jul 8
πŸ”₯Are you investigating how plants respond to shifting fire regimes? Submit to our new Special Collection🌱
Title: "After the fires: Plant responses and resilience under shifting fire regimes"
πŸ“– Submit by 30 Sept 2025.
πŸ§ͺ Details πŸ‘‰ www.publish.csiro.au/bt/content/C...
#Fire #Botany #Plantscience

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social Β· Jun 13
Resprouting is more complex than you think πŸ™ƒ

"Pre-disturbance plant condition drives intraspecific resprouting variability in Mediterranean shrubs" by @mayazomer.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
@jxbotany.bsky.social

πŸ§ͺ🌍πŸ”₯🌳πŸͺ΄πŸŒΎ Anthyllis cytisoides & Globularia alypum #PlantBiology #SEM #botany
Structural equation modeling (SEM) of resprouting success and vigour along an aridity gradient

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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social Β· Apr 16
🌎 We're #Hiring a full-time #DataAnalyst! Apply now & share with your networks. First review is 4/29: bit.ly/DSE-Hiring-D...

This role will be integral to our work w/ the National Park Service. You'll analyze and prepare vegetation monitoring data and get to work with an amazing group of people!
Image of a crop of Joshua trees in the California desert, with a large boulder and mountains in the background

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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social Β· Mar 3
🌱 DSE is #Hiring! Are you a (current or soon-to-be) postdoc with experience in #DataScience, #Agroecology, #AgriculturalEconomics, and/or #AgriculturalPolicy? Apply by 3/15: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04804
Image of a healthy agricultural field with many rows of green crops underneath a blue sky with scattered clouds.

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Martin Renou @martinrenou.bsky.social Β· Feb 27
Announcing JupyterGIS 🌍 🌐 πŸŽ‰

Real-time collaboration for #GIS workflows with #Jupyter and #QGIS

@qgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy @jupyter.org

blog.jupyter.org/real-time-co...
Real-time collaboration and collaborative editing for GIS workflows with Jupyter and QGIS
The QGIS open-source project is a cornerstone in the geosciences ecosystem, providing robust tools for spatial data analysis and…
blog.jupyter.org

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Alexandra D. Syphard @dramalamujer.bsky.social Β· Jan 17
Interested in SoCal and the #wildfires in LA? You can listen to my conversation with the wonderful Michelle Fullner @michellefullner.bsky.social in yesterday's Golden State Naturalist podcast (w/ many other episodes well worth the listen).
www.goldenstatenaturalist.com/fire-in-buil...
Fire in Built Environments (Special Episode: LA Fires) with Alexandra Syphard
Join me and Dr. Alexandra Syphard as we discuss what makes some neighborhoods more fire prone than others, the Santa Ana Winds, defensible space, the massive differ…
www.goldenstatenaturalist.com

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social Β· Jan 15
A good example of a "torch" plant, sensus Bond & Midgley (1995 Oikos, Kill thy neighbour), is Anthyllis cytisoides (Fabaceae) growing in Mediterranean shrubland. Calderona Nat Park, Valencia

πŸ§ͺ🌍πŸ”₯🌳🌿 wildfire botany @plantscience
Anthyllis cytisoides

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Matt Fisher @mfisher87.bsky.social Β· Jan 11
πŸŽ‰ 🌎 πŸͺ I'm thrilled to announce GeoJupyter, an effort to imagine and build rewarding new user experiences for working with geospatial data in JupyterLab!

πŸ€— I hope to see you in an upcoming community meeting or in our Zulip chat (see the post for links)!

geojupyter.org/blog/2025010...
Introducing GeoJupyter – GeoJupyter
We believe that geospatial data analysis and exploration should be free, open source, and accessible for everyone!
geojupyter.org