Kate Johnson
@kateplantphys.bsky.social
Plants & climate extremes🌳| Art, words & nature | Marie Skłodowska-Curie #MSCA Postdoc fellow @creaf.cat | Co-manager of thatssciencetas.bsky.social (follow us!) thatsscience.org | Fulbright '21/22 | she/her 🏳️🌈|🌈🦋|🍉
From lutruwita/Tasmania, in Barcelona 🌏
From lutruwita/Tasmania, in Barcelona 🌏
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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
🔗below
@brodersenlab.bsky.social
A lovely way to finish this multi-year mutli-country project
🔗below
@brodersenlab.bsky.social
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Great postdoc opportunity in Sweden!! With the one and only David Wardle 🧪🌐
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
Post doctor (3 years) within mountain plant community and ecosystem processes across a globally distributed experiment
www.umu.se
January 24, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Great postdoc opportunity in Sweden!! With the one and only David Wardle 🧪🌐
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
Just 3 days left to apply!! :D, come join us! Abstract submission closing Jan 15th #EGU26
🌿 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
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
January 12, 2026 at 7:03 AM
Just 3 days left to apply!! :D, come join us! Abstract submission closing Jan 15th #EGU26
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🌳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...
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...
www.epfl.ch
January 7, 2026 at 4:25 PM
🌳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...
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I hear from friends in WA, where the trees are dying.
I hear of the loss in the Adelaide Hills.
I see it here in Central VIC.
I see it across the higher mountains.
The fact that ecologists still manage to function in the face of ongoing loss is a daily miracle.
theconversation.com/yes-forest-t...
I hear of the loss in the Adelaide Hills.
I see it here in Central VIC.
I see it across the higher mountains.
The fact that ecologists still manage to function in the face of ongoing loss is a daily miracle.
theconversation.com/yes-forest-t...
Yes, forest trees die of old age. But the warming climate is killing them faster
The warming climate is killing Australia’s forest trees at a faster rate. This offers a glimpse of what may lie ahead for forests globally.
theconversation.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:07 AM
I hear from friends in WA, where the trees are dying.
I hear of the loss in the Adelaide Hills.
I see it here in Central VIC.
I see it across the higher mountains.
The fact that ecologists still manage to function in the face of ongoing loss is a daily miracle.
theconversation.com/yes-forest-t...
I hear of the loss in the Adelaide Hills.
I see it here in Central VIC.
I see it across the higher mountains.
The fact that ecologists still manage to function in the face of ongoing loss is a daily miracle.
theconversation.com/yes-forest-t...
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Are you a PhD-level #wildlife ecologist committed to research and education for #biodiversity and nature restoration?
Our group at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social has a #vacancy for an assistant professor!
Deadline for applications is February 19.
Please spread the word.
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Our group at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social has a #vacancy for an assistant professor!
Deadline for applications is February 19.
Please spread the word.
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
January 7, 2026 at 6:54 AM
Are you a PhD-level #wildlife ecologist committed to research and education for #biodiversity and nature restoration?
Our group at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social has a #vacancy for an assistant professor!
Deadline for applications is February 19.
Please spread the word.
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Our group at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social has a #vacancy for an assistant professor!
Deadline for applications is February 19.
Please spread the word.
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Abstracts due Jan 15th, join us at EGU!! 😄
🌿 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
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
January 6, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Abstracts due Jan 15th, join us at EGU!! 😄
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Come and work with us! Please share widely!
Applications close 18 January 2026 at 11.55pm.
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social @deakinuniversity.bsky.social
Applications close 18 January 2026 at 11.55pm.
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social @deakinuniversity.bsky.social
Deakin University hiring Lecturer, Environmental Botany in Burwood, Victoria, Australia | LinkedIn
Posted 2:37:03 AM. Drive innovation with Deakin’s Environmental & Science programs through teaching excellence…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
www.linkedin.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Come and work with us! Please share widely!
Applications close 18 January 2026 at 11.55pm.
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social @deakinuniversity.bsky.social
Applications close 18 January 2026 at 11.55pm.
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social @deakinuniversity.bsky.social
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🎤Hi #dendrometer users! You are invited to join our new Dendrometer Network (catchy name still tbd 😜). Online meeting 10:30-12 CET Friday 12 Dec. Please share and let me know if you want to join and I will send the meeting link 🌴🎄🌳🌲
December 4, 2025 at 9:36 AM
🎤Hi #dendrometer users! You are invited to join our new Dendrometer Network (catchy name still tbd 😜). Online meeting 10:30-12 CET Friday 12 Dec. Please share and let me know if you want to join and I will send the meeting link 🌴🎄🌳🌲
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With the disappointing progress at Cop30, evergreen reminder it isn't "we" or "humanity" failing to address the climate crisis — oil-producing nations and fossil fuel interests are actively obstructing action, despite heroic efforts by developing nations, Indigenous peoples, and many, many others.
End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff
Wealthy countries should triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
With the disappointing progress at Cop30, evergreen reminder it isn't "we" or "humanity" failing to address the climate crisis — oil-producing nations and fossil fuel interests are actively obstructing action, despite heroic efforts by developing nations, Indigenous peoples, and many, many others.
Check out our new paper! @brodersenlab.bsky.social
❄️🌱 RESEARCH 🌱❄️
Ice spreads in a predictable pattern through young L. tulipifera, governed by anatomy and vein architecture. Leaf lethality always involves damage to photosynthetic tissues and can involve air embolism - Johnson et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Ice spreads in a predictable pattern through young L. tulipifera, governed by anatomy and vein architecture. Leaf lethality always involves damage to photosynthetic tissues and can involve air embolism - Johnson et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Check out our new paper! @brodersenlab.bsky.social
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Over 2,600🌳 #trees during the 2018–2020 #drought :
• Traits disadvantageous in normal years became beneficial under drought
• Trees grew better with neighbours whose hydro-functional traits differed from their own
🗞️Paper out now @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
• Traits disadvantageous in normal years became beneficial under drought
• Trees grew better with neighbours whose hydro-functional traits differed from their own
🗞️Paper out now @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Hydro‐Functional Traits and Their Dissimilarity to the Neighbourhood Buffer Tree Growth Against the 2018–2020 Central European Drought
Climate change is putting forests at risk. Our research shows that a tree's water-use strategy largely determines its growth across years: whereas one strategy performs better in normal years, the ot....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Over 2,600🌳 #trees during the 2018–2020 #drought :
• Traits disadvantageous in normal years became beneficial under drought
• Trees grew better with neighbours whose hydro-functional traits differed from their own
🗞️Paper out now @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
• Traits disadvantageous in normal years became beneficial under drought
• Trees grew better with neighbours whose hydro-functional traits differed from their own
🗞️Paper out now @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🚨Job opportunity🚨
We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🚨Job opportunity🚨
We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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📢 NEW ISSUE ALERT 📢
🌷✨ JXB Issue 18 of 2025 is out now ✨🌷
On the cover: A beautiful watercolour painting of a Tulip Poplar sapling by @kateplantphys.bsky.social - see Johnson et al. this issue!
🔗👉 Read the full issue now: academic.oup.com/jxb...
#PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
🌷✨ JXB Issue 18 of 2025 is out now ✨🌷
On the cover: A beautiful watercolour painting of a Tulip Poplar sapling by @kateplantphys.bsky.social - see Johnson et al. this issue!
🔗👉 Read the full issue now: academic.oup.com/jxb...
#PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
📢 NEW ISSUE ALERT 📢
🌷✨ JXB Issue 18 of 2025 is out now ✨🌷
On the cover: A beautiful watercolour painting of a Tulip Poplar sapling by @kateplantphys.bsky.social - see Johnson et al. this issue!
🔗👉 Read the full issue now: academic.oup.com/jxb...
#PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
🌷✨ JXB Issue 18 of 2025 is out now ✨🌷
On the cover: A beautiful watercolour painting of a Tulip Poplar sapling by @kateplantphys.bsky.social - see Johnson et al. this issue!
🔗👉 Read the full issue now: academic.oup.com/jxb...
#PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
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One of our favourite covers, awesome painting skills! 🌱🎨🧪
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
🔗below
@brodersenlab.bsky.social
A lovely way to finish this multi-year mutli-country project
🔗below
@brodersenlab.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
One of our favourite covers, awesome painting skills! 🌱🎨🧪
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
🔗below
@brodersenlab.bsky.social
A lovely way to finish this multi-year mutli-country project
🔗below
@brodersenlab.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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
🔗below
@brodersenlab.bsky.social
A lovely way to finish this multi-year mutli-country project
🔗below
@brodersenlab.bsky.social
Reposted by Kate Johnson
🌿Postdoc opening in Urban Ecophysiology at WSL Lausanne - start March 2026. Join Horizon Europe FRAIMwork on green walls: carbon sink, water use efficiency & air quality. Apply via WSL careers page: m.refline.ch/273855/1786/... @wslresearch.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 8:20 AM
🌿Postdoc opening in Urban Ecophysiology at WSL Lausanne - start March 2026. Join Horizon Europe FRAIMwork on green walls: carbon sink, water use efficiency & air quality. Apply via WSL careers page: m.refline.ch/273855/1786/... @wslresearch.bsky.social
Submit your abstract to join our session on climate extremes ☀️❄️and their effects on plants🌱 at #EGU in Vienna May 3-8 2026!! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
October 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Submit your abstract to join our session on climate extremes ☀️❄️and their effects on plants🌱 at #EGU in Vienna May 3-8 2026!! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
Reposted by Kate Johnson
New PhD position in Plant Ecophysiology🌳 Study how atmospheric & soil drought shape tree carbon & water relations at the VPDrought experiment in Switzerland. Start Jan 2026. Apply here: m.refline.ch/273855/1759/... @wslresearch.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
New PhD position in Plant Ecophysiology🌳 Study how atmospheric & soil drought shape tree carbon & water relations at the VPDrought experiment in Switzerland. Start Jan 2026. Apply here: m.refline.ch/273855/1759/... @wslresearch.bsky.social
Help us spread the word!!
Open to girls, femme, & non-binary students in Years 10–12 in lutruwita/ #Tasmania ‘STEMM Solutions For Our Island’ invites entrants to pitch an idea (as individuals or in small groups) to solve a problem using #STEMM!
Find out more here:
thatsscience.org/stemm-soluti...
Open to girls, femme, & non-binary students in Years 10–12 in lutruwita/ #Tasmania ‘STEMM Solutions For Our Island’ invites entrants to pitch an idea (as individuals or in small groups) to solve a problem using #STEMM!
Find out more here:
thatsscience.org/stemm-soluti...
We’re launching STEMM Solutions for Our Island! 🌏
A new TWICS competition empowering girls, femme & non-binary students in Tasmania to create solutions for local issues using STEMM. Because science is for everyone.
Find out more here: thatsscience.org/stemm-soluti...
#STEMM #GirlsInSTEM #TWICS
A new TWICS competition empowering girls, femme & non-binary students in Tasmania to create solutions for local issues using STEMM. Because science is for everyone.
Find out more here: thatsscience.org/stemm-soluti...
#STEMM #GirlsInSTEM #TWICS
October 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Help us spread the word!!
Open to girls, femme, & non-binary students in Years 10–12 in lutruwita/ #Tasmania ‘STEMM Solutions For Our Island’ invites entrants to pitch an idea (as individuals or in small groups) to solve a problem using #STEMM!
Find out more here:
thatsscience.org/stemm-soluti...
Open to girls, femme, & non-binary students in Years 10–12 in lutruwita/ #Tasmania ‘STEMM Solutions For Our Island’ invites entrants to pitch an idea (as individuals or in small groups) to solve a problem using #STEMM!
Find out more here:
thatsscience.org/stemm-soluti...
Reposted by Kate Johnson
Apply to become the next MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow!
These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here:
eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here:
eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
eeb.msu.edu
October 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Apply to become the next MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow!
These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here:
eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here:
eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
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Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.
Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.
Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.
October 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.
Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.
Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.
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New PhD position in tree ecophysiology at BiFoR-FACE (Uni of Birmingham) 🌳 Looking at tree carbon and water dynamics under elevated CO2 and warming 🌡️
Start Jan 2026. See more info here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/376950
Start Jan 2026. See more info here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/376950
Doctoral Research Fellow - FutureForests - School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences - 106218 - Grade 7
Position Details School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK Fixed salary of £49,747 additional allowances may be applicable depe...
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
September 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
New PhD position in tree ecophysiology at BiFoR-FACE (Uni of Birmingham) 🌳 Looking at tree carbon and water dynamics under elevated CO2 and warming 🌡️
Start Jan 2026. See more info here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/376950
Start Jan 2026. See more info here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/376950
Our 300th episode!!! What a team, what a show💙🧡. Check us out on most major podcast platforms, or here: thatsscience.org
October 6, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Our 300th episode!!! What a team, what a show💙🧡. Check us out on most major podcast platforms, or here: thatsscience.org
Reposted by Kate Johnson
Big news! 🎉
TWICS is a finalist in the Best Program: Talks AND Outstanding Presenter categories at the CBAA Community Broadcasting Awards 2025!🎙️
Winners announced at the Awards Dinner & Gala, Sat 25 Oct.
Thank you to the CBAA and our amazing listeners ✨
#CBAAAwards #TWICS
TWICS is a finalist in the Best Program: Talks AND Outstanding Presenter categories at the CBAA Community Broadcasting Awards 2025!🎙️
Winners announced at the Awards Dinner & Gala, Sat 25 Oct.
Thank you to the CBAA and our amazing listeners ✨
#CBAAAwards #TWICS
September 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Big news! 🎉
TWICS is a finalist in the Best Program: Talks AND Outstanding Presenter categories at the CBAA Community Broadcasting Awards 2025!🎙️
Winners announced at the Awards Dinner & Gala, Sat 25 Oct.
Thank you to the CBAA and our amazing listeners ✨
#CBAAAwards #TWICS
TWICS is a finalist in the Best Program: Talks AND Outstanding Presenter categories at the CBAA Community Broadcasting Awards 2025!🎙️
Winners announced at the Awards Dinner & Gala, Sat 25 Oct.
Thank you to the CBAA and our amazing listeners ✨
#CBAAAwards #TWICS
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Up in the canopies! 🌲
Nice to be in #Pfynwald helping Giovanni Bortolami assess Scots pine trees' responses to vpd and drought in the amazing #VPDrought field site! Looking forward to seeing the results!
More info about the project here: www.wsl.ch/it/progetti/...
@wslresearch.bsky.social
Nice to be in #Pfynwald helping Giovanni Bortolami assess Scots pine trees' responses to vpd and drought in the amazing #VPDrought field site! Looking forward to seeing the results!
More info about the project here: www.wsl.ch/it/progetti/...
@wslresearch.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Up in the canopies! 🌲
Nice to be in #Pfynwald helping Giovanni Bortolami assess Scots pine trees' responses to vpd and drought in the amazing #VPDrought field site! Looking forward to seeing the results!
More info about the project here: www.wsl.ch/it/progetti/...
@wslresearch.bsky.social
Nice to be in #Pfynwald helping Giovanni Bortolami assess Scots pine trees' responses to vpd and drought in the amazing #VPDrought field site! Looking forward to seeing the results!
More info about the project here: www.wsl.ch/it/progetti/...
@wslresearch.bsky.social