Martijn Slot
@martijnslot.bsky.social
I study trees in Panama.
https://striresearch.si.edu/forest-biology/
https://striresearch.si.edu/forest-biology/
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High #temperature acclimation of #photosystem II in land plants
#TansleyReview by @bposch.bsky.social et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@hultinelab.bsky.social #PlantScience #photosynthesis
#TansleyReview by @bposch.bsky.social et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@hultinelab.bsky.social #PlantScience #photosynthesis
November 4, 2025 at 5:19 AM
High #temperature acclimation of #photosystem II in land plants
#TansleyReview by @bposch.bsky.social et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@hultinelab.bsky.social #PlantScience #photosynthesis
#TansleyReview by @bposch.bsky.social et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@hultinelab.bsky.social #PlantScience #photosynthesis
New paper led by @bposch.bsky.social out in @newphyt.bsky.social . We reviewed evidence, mechanisms, and consequences of high temperature acclimation of leaf heat tolerance: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land plants
The effect of high temperature on plant performance and survival is a topic of great interest given the ongoing rise in global heatwave frequency, duration, and intensity. The temperature at which ph....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
New paper led by @bposch.bsky.social out in @newphyt.bsky.social . We reviewed evidence, mechanisms, and consequences of high temperature acclimation of leaf heat tolerance: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
It's odd to be furloughed while my whole lab can remain active (because they're not federal/on Panamanian payroll/fellowships).
At least they're having fun by moving me to "former members" on our lab's bulletin board...
At least they're having fun by moving me to "former members" on our lab's bulletin board...
October 21, 2025 at 4:44 AM
It's odd to be furloughed while my whole lab can remain active (because they're not federal/on Panamanian payroll/fellowships).
At least they're having fun by moving me to "former members" on our lab's bulletin board...
At least they're having fun by moving me to "former members" on our lab's bulletin board...
It finally happened: I was invited to review a manuscript from my own lab, a 3-author paper with me as senior author...
August 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It finally happened: I was invited to review a manuscript from my own lab, a 3-author paper with me as senior author...
We welcome back Ibrahim Salman, who will start his postdoctoral fellowship in the Forest Biology lab today!
striresearch.si.edu/forest-biolo...
striresearch.si.edu/forest-biolo...
July 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
We welcome back Ibrahim Salman, who will start his postdoctoral fellowship in the Forest Biology lab today!
striresearch.si.edu/forest-biolo...
striresearch.si.edu/forest-biolo...
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I'm hiring a postdoc! Themes: long-term data, plant reproduction, mast seeding, synthesis, macosystems biology. Also, reproducible tesearch. Target submission deadline: 22 June (for priority review). 1-2 year position, $60K/year. 🌲 🌲 🌲
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
Post Doctoral Fellow - Plant Ecology - HigherEdJobs
Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.
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May 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I'm hiring a postdoc! Themes: long-term data, plant reproduction, mast seeding, synthesis, macosystems biology. Also, reproducible tesearch. Target submission deadline: 22 June (for priority review). 1-2 year position, $60K/year. 🌲 🌲 🌲
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
Great seminar by lab visitor and incoming postdoc Ibrahim Salman on the effects of environmental stress on plant-pollinator interactions!
May 28, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Great seminar by lab visitor and incoming postdoc Ibrahim Salman on the effects of environmental stress on plant-pollinator interactions!
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Harvard today, your institution tomorrow.
It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America.
All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.
It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America.
All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.
May 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Harvard today, your institution tomorrow.
It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America.
All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.
It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America.
All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.
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I have two open postdoc positions in my lab that include opportunities to collaborate with @alecaborsuk.bsky.social and researchers at the Salk Harnessing Plants Initiative.
If you’re interesting root system architecture or photosynthesis modeling see below:
campuspress.yale.edu/brodersenlab...
If you’re interesting root system architecture or photosynthesis modeling see below:
campuspress.yale.edu/brodersenlab...
PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS – Brodersen Lab
campuspress.yale.edu
May 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I have two open postdoc positions in my lab that include opportunities to collaborate with @alecaborsuk.bsky.social and researchers at the Salk Harnessing Plants Initiative.
If you’re interesting root system architecture or photosynthesis modeling see below:
campuspress.yale.edu/brodersenlab...
If you’re interesting root system architecture or photosynthesis modeling see below:
campuspress.yale.edu/brodersenlab...
I made tiramisu in food containers to look like the leaf-warming boxes we're using in an experiment we've almost finished setting up.
Lots of work, but worth it! (Both the experiment and the tiramisu)
Lots of work, but worth it! (Both the experiment and the tiramisu)
May 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I made tiramisu in food containers to look like the leaf-warming boxes we're using in an experiment we've almost finished setting up.
Lots of work, but worth it! (Both the experiment and the tiramisu)
Lots of work, but worth it! (Both the experiment and the tiramisu)
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Ok, bear with the shaky-cam (it is my signature special effect as an overenthusiast), but would you take a look at this blessed date palm? Rosy-faced lovebirds, common pigeons, and gila woodpeckers (I think?) all nesting in the same date palm tree crown. Phoenix, AZ.
May 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Ok, bear with the shaky-cam (it is my signature special effect as an overenthusiast), but would you take a look at this blessed date palm? Rosy-faced lovebirds, common pigeons, and gila woodpeckers (I think?) all nesting in the same date palm tree crown. Phoenix, AZ.
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They are dismantling our entire research apparatus, piece by piece. Make sure everybody knows what they are doing. Call your reps whatever color your district is and demand more action.
NSF’s entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EDU/EES), which “aims to provide opportunities for individuals from all backgrounds to actively participate and excel in STEM disciplines” and some of it congressionally mandated, was just notified they will be RIFed. www.nsf.gov/edu/ees/about
About EES
The NSF Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EES) aims to provide opportunities for individuals from all backgrounds, especially those historically underrepresented in science and engineering.
www.nsf.gov
May 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
They are dismantling our entire research apparatus, piece by piece. Make sure everybody knows what they are doing. Call your reps whatever color your district is and demand more action.
Another aspect of being in the Netherlands: I just received my first ever traffic fine for driving 4 kilometer per hour too fast on my way to the hospital. €45,-
April 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Another aspect of being in the Netherlands: I just received my first ever traffic fine for driving 4 kilometer per hour too fast on my way to the hospital. €45,-
Spending a few weeks in my hometown, helping out my parents after my dad had surgery. Enjoying the bicycle infrastructure and the abundance of spring flowers (wild garlic yields excellent pesto!)
April 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Spending a few weeks in my hometown, helping out my parents after my dad had surgery. Enjoying the bicycle infrastructure and the abundance of spring flowers (wild garlic yields excellent pesto!)
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Two PhD positions available at Wageningen University on resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes. Supervision will be by my great colleagues @iris-hordijk.bsky.social @amandataylor.bsky.social @dominic-martin.bsky.social @lucianachr.bsky.social and Merel Hofmeijer.
PhD position - Resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes
www.wur.nl
April 24, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Two PhD positions available at Wageningen University on resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes. Supervision will be by my great colleagues @iris-hordijk.bsky.social @amandataylor.bsky.social @dominic-martin.bsky.social @lucianachr.bsky.social and Merel Hofmeijer.
It's good to be home
April 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
It's good to be home
You got to be fucking kidding me! No $$$ for climate modeling because young people experience climate anxiety? Since when does this government care about mental health anyway?
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Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...
www.commerce.gov
April 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
You got to be fucking kidding me! No $$$ for climate modeling because young people experience climate anxiety? Since when does this government care about mental health anyway?
www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
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The chills I got reading this
Incredible writing.
Incredible writing.
"Perhaps prison would have persisted this way forever. Perhaps our granite hearts and iron wills would have never crumbled. Perhaps the prison mentality, that we be cold and heartless, would have endured.
Perhaps. But then there were kittens."
Perhaps. But then there were kittens."
When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years
I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.
prisonjournalismproject.org
April 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The chills I got reading this
Incredible writing.
Incredible writing.
My hard copies of the BCI book have arrived! 98 chapters of plant and ecosystem science. "All" I need now is a comfy chair, a pot of tea, and no distractions for a week.
Downloadable here: smithsonian.figshare.com/articles/boo...
Downloadable here: smithsonian.figshare.com/articles/boo...
March 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
My hard copies of the BCI book have arrived! 98 chapters of plant and ecosystem science. "All" I need now is a comfy chair, a pot of tea, and no distractions for a week.
Downloadable here: smithsonian.figshare.com/articles/boo...
Downloadable here: smithsonian.figshare.com/articles/boo...
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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...