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Kate Johnson
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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 🌏
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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
Watercolour painting of a young Tulip Poplar tree on the cover of 'Journal Experimental Botany', for volume 76, Issue 18, 2025
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Showing off our figure of global conifer leaf-widths & leaf silhouettes highlighting that conifers can be broad-leaved & angiosperms can be narrow/ needle-leaved! 🍃

Our paper: tinyurl.com/mss2me7v
@newphyt.bsky.social

@vallicrosah.bsky.social @botanykat.bsky.social & Matilda Brown
June 6, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Just a bit of lutruwita/ Tassie for y'all, Happy New Year!
Me (a short brunette in a blue cardigan and long blue-patterned skirt) standing on rocks with a turquoise, rippled ocean behind and a sunset sky, peach on the horizon fading upwards to light yellow then blue. A black ridgeline at night time with the southern lights (Aurora Australis) behind, dancing green light closest to the horizon becoming mottled pink higher in the sky. Looking across vivid turquoise water bordered by a curved white, sandy beach. Looking down a rocky fresh-water creek lined by big tree-ferns (Dicksonia Antarctica) with tall trees in the background.
January 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Are you in Lausanne, Switzerland next week? Come and hear me (a scientist) and Maja Renn (a performance artist) discuss Maja’s current piece '[Pheno]plasticity' from scientific & artistic perspectives!!
Wednesday, 4 December 24, 2.45pm – 3.45pm
Salle MED 2 2423 EPFL, Lausanne
Free admission (1/4)
November 29, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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Lovely idea for a thread! Thought I'd throw in some of my science art. Here’s a painting I did of the majestic Callitris rhomboidea, a member of the most drought resistant clade of trees, for the cover of Tree Physiology last year
academic.oup.com/treephys/iss...
Journal Cover for 'Tree Physiology' featuring a water colour painting of a conical tree. The tree is a conifer from Lutruwita/Tasmania Australia and has thicker foliage at the bottom becoming a little more sparse as it tapers to a point at the top.
November 23, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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Amazing little snail at my front gate today!
!blue! Snail with a delicate shiny, light brown spiral shell slithers across dirt, underneath some bright green herbaceous/ weedy plants
November 19, 2024 at 12:34 AM
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Travel along a pine needle and dive into a bog with Melissa and I! 🌲 listen to the podcast ep here: thatsscience.org/2024/11/10/e...
November 10, 2024 at 11:07 PM