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Brad Posch
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Researcher at the Desert Botanical Garden, AZ
Plant ecophysiology, heat tolerance, photosynthesis 🌿🌡️
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Save the date! 47th New Phytologist Symposium on 'Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life'. Explore how extreme heat affects plants that underpin ecosystem productivity.
2-5 June 2026, Cordoba, Spain.
@newphyt.bsky.social

www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps
Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life
www.newphytologist.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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🌿 Join us at #EGU26 for session BG3.37 – Impacts of climatic extremes on plants & ecosystems! 🔥
We welcome studies on heat, drought & variability from leaf to landscape 🌍
Submit your abstract 👉 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio... @kateplantphys.bsky.social @alyssakullberg.bsky.social
Session BG3.37
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Hi All!
I'm back from sabbatical and teaching Plant Ecophys again - a class near and dear to my heart! In the past, I've welcomed grad students and post-docs to share their research with students and their stories about how they got into the field.....
August 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I am seeking a postdoc to conduct studies on phenotyping crop physiology and growth using high-throughput techniques combined with AI/ML. An ideal candidate is a motivated individual with relevant skills or a strong desire to learn. If interested, feel free to DM me for more details.
July 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Submit an abstract to our #AGU2025 session "Heat and Microclimate Impacts on Plant Functioning: From Molecules to the Biosphere" (agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...) @nicolebison.bsky.social @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social @bposch.bsky.social @agu.org @agubiogeosciences.bsky.social @gec-agu.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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"Heat waves are getting more dangerous with climate change — and we may still be underestimating them" | Nice piece by @afreedma.bsky.social for @cnn.com that references our recent @pnas.org article: edition.cnn.com/2025/06/23/c...
Heat waves are getting more dangerous with climate change — and we may still be underestimating them | CNN
The intensifying and expansive heat wave affecting around 150 million people in the United States from Wisconsin to Washington, DC, bears the hallmarks of human-caused global warming.
edition.cnn.com
June 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Check out this recently published paper by Seeley et al. in the Journal of Ecology illustrating how remote sensing reveals inter- and intraspecific variation in riparian cottonwood (Populus spp) responses to drought.
The paper can be found at: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
May 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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🚨Job Alert 🚨

The Desert Botanical Garden is hiring a Scientific Illustrations Intern 🌵✏️

Get your portfolio together and submit your application here: recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/J...

#ConservationJobs #BotanicalIllustration #Hiring
Desert Botanical Garden - SCIENTIFIC ILLUSTRATION INTERN
   Funding will support 20hrs/week for 4 months. The time frame may be flexible. DescriptionTo assist Garden Researchers’ research taxonomic treatments by providing scientific illu...
recruiting.paylocity.com
May 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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New paper published by Wilder et al. in the journal Global Change Biology reveals how recent anomalous drought and heat events are impacting native succulents in the Sonoran Desert. The paper can be accessed at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
May 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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THE NEW YORK KNICKS
May 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Just over a week left to apply for a 3yr postdoc with me at Lancaster @lancasterplantbio.bsky.social looking at Rubisco engineering in vitro and in vivo to improve plant #photosynthesis #plantscijobs wp.lancs.ac.uk/lancsphotosy...
Making the most of sunshine
Photosynthesis Research at the Lancaster Environment Centre
wp.lancs.ac.uk
May 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Leaf drought and heat tolerance are integrated across three temperate biome types

I am very happy to see our paper out! Plant responses to many stresses are mediated by the same processes and I have long wondered how this relates to hotter droughts.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Leaf drought and heat tolerance are integrated across three temperate biome types - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Leaf drought and heat tolerance are integrated across three temperate biome types
www.nature.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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This post is now online, for full details on how to apply please see: wp.lancs.ac.uk/lancsphotosy...
April 9, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Excited to share that I'll soon be recruiting a 3 year postdoc to join the lab @lancasterplantbio.bsky.social to work with me on Rubisco biochemistry and engineering. Official advertising details to be released very soon, watch this space! Please spread the word. 😀🌱🧪🥼
March 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool
March 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Has to be up there as one of my favourite saguaros in the valley 🌵

#arizona #cacti #botany
February 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Need a Monday pick-me-up?

Here's a throwback to 2022, when our field ecology program director Susan Bush had an extraordinary encounter with a huge band of coatimundis while working at our field site in Wet Beaver Creek, AZ

How many can you spot??

#coati #ecology #fieldwork #arizona
January 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Mapping the roots of saguaros at Saguaro NP. The DBG is partnering with SNP and the U of Wyoming to map the roots of saguaros. Knowing the distribution of saguaro roots reveals how sensitive they are to droughts, and to what extent these iconic plants engineer the water cycle of desert ecosystems.
January 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Might listen to this saxophone solo on an endless loop today.

Rest in Peace and eternal gratitude to Garth Hudson, an actual musical genius and the last surviving member of the Band.

“Garth made us sound like we did.”
youtu.be/Q7yOGAmItFY?...
It Makes No Difference - The Band - The Last Waltz
YouTube video by Just A Account
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January 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.
January 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Excited to share our paper with Anna Gardner and @florianabusch.bsky.social in Plant Ecophysiology!🌿

We review challenges in interpreting plant stress responses using gas exchange data, offer solutions to improve accuracy and discuss gaps in our current knowledge.

www.sciltp.com/journals/Pla...
January 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Enjoyed chatting about our recent work on leaf cooling during extreme heat! If the clip has you curious, you can find the paper here www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
December 22, 2024 at 6:35 PM
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New in #NewPhytologist: Temperature governs the relative contributions of cuticle and stomata to leaf minimum conductance (shorturl.at/f9h7O) - Exciting work with #MichaletzLab PhD graduate #JosefGaren @ubcbotany.bsky.social @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca @newphyt.bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 12:09 AM