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Maya Zomer
@mayazomer.bsky.social

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

Environmental science 64%
Geography 16%

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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
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

πŸ™Œ congrats!

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‘‡

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

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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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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
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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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

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🌎 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!

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🌱 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

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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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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

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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