T.M. Perez
@tmperez.bsky.social
Climate Change Ecologist, Director of Carbon Science @ Living Carbon.
Presently trying to reduce and remove GHG from the atmosphere. All comments my own.
www.timothymperez.com
Presently trying to reduce and remove GHG from the atmosphere. All comments my own.
www.timothymperez.com
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Yesterday, we had a webinar organised by the #PEPR #FORESTT on the use of species distribution models #SDMs with application in forestry 🌳🌲 You can watch 📹 16 talks on this topic, including one on the impacts of microclimatic processes for species (re)distribution ⬇️
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September 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Yesterday, we had a webinar organised by the #PEPR #FORESTT on the use of species distribution models #SDMs with application in forestry 🌳🌲 You can watch 📹 16 talks on this topic, including one on the impacts of microclimatic processes for species (re)distribution ⬇️
tinyurl.com/4yerk68n
tinyurl.com/4yerk68n
Reposting for global ecology 🙃🌐
We published a database of plant heat tolerances to catalyze research that advances plant ecology.
@kjfeeley.bsky.social @alyssakullberg.bsky.social
Link to the paper with embedded link to database here:
tinyurl.com/mu2kj7s9
🌐🧪🌡️🌴🍂🍁🌳🌲 #PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #Ecophysiology #ClimateChange
@kjfeeley.bsky.social @alyssakullberg.bsky.social
Link to the paper with embedded link to database here:
tinyurl.com/mu2kj7s9
🌐🧪🌡️🌴🍂🍁🌳🌲 #PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #Ecophysiology #ClimateChange
A database of plant heat tolerances and methodological matters
Motivation Plant heat tolerance data are increasingly valued for their potential to help increase our understanding of species’ responses to extreme temperatures, but these efforts are hindered by met...
www.biorxiv.org
September 23, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Reposting for global ecology 🙃🌐
We published a database of plant heat tolerances to catalyze research that advances plant ecology.
@kjfeeley.bsky.social @alyssakullberg.bsky.social
Link to the paper with embedded link to database here:
tinyurl.com/mu2kj7s9
🌐🧪🌡️🌴🍂🍁🌳🌲 #PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #Ecophysiology #ClimateChange
@kjfeeley.bsky.social @alyssakullberg.bsky.social
Link to the paper with embedded link to database here:
tinyurl.com/mu2kj7s9
🌐🧪🌡️🌴🍂🍁🌳🌲 #PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #Ecophysiology #ClimateChange
A database of plant heat tolerances and methodological matters
Motivation Plant heat tolerance data are increasingly valued for their potential to help increase our understanding of species’ responses to extreme temperatures, but these efforts are hindered by met...
www.biorxiv.org
September 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
We published a database of plant heat tolerances to catalyze research that advances plant ecology.
@kjfeeley.bsky.social @alyssakullberg.bsky.social
Link to the paper with embedded link to database here:
tinyurl.com/mu2kj7s9
🌐🧪🌡️🌴🍂🍁🌳🌲 #PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #Ecophysiology #ClimateChange
@kjfeeley.bsky.social @alyssakullberg.bsky.social
Link to the paper with embedded link to database here:
tinyurl.com/mu2kj7s9
🌐🧪🌡️🌴🍂🍁🌳🌲 #PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #Ecophysiology #ClimateChange
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Happy to share this commentary on our new paper in @pnas.org, led by William Farhan-Rios, exploring responses of tropical tree communities to climate warming from the Amazon to Andes Mountains 🌴 ⛰️ 🌐
An uphill struggle for tropical forest trees | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
An uphill struggle for tropical forest trees | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
September 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Happy to share this commentary on our new paper in @pnas.org, led by William Farhan-Rios, exploring responses of tropical tree communities to climate warming from the Amazon to Andes Mountains 🌴 ⛰️ 🌐
An uphill struggle for tropical forest trees | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
An uphill struggle for tropical forest trees | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Where are all the posts about new papers that have been published? I left Twitter/X, but haven’t been able to recapture the same utility here.
For better or worse, most of the science I see posted is in LinkedIn. LinkedIn!!!
#science #publishing #papers #help
For better or worse, most of the science I see posted is in LinkedIn. LinkedIn!!!
#science #publishing #papers #help
August 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Where are all the posts about new papers that have been published? I left Twitter/X, but haven’t been able to recapture the same utility here.
For better or worse, most of the science I see posted is in LinkedIn. LinkedIn!!!
#science #publishing #papers #help
For better or worse, most of the science I see posted is in LinkedIn. LinkedIn!!!
#science #publishing #papers #help
An eastern cottonwood that was planted in March as part of our reforestation project! Can’t wait to analyze the growth and survival data on these plantings this fall #populusdtoides #easterncottonwood #reforestation #naturalclimatesolutions.
July 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
An eastern cottonwood that was planted in March as part of our reforestation project! Can’t wait to analyze the growth and survival data on these plantings this fall #populusdtoides #easterncottonwood #reforestation #naturalclimatesolutions.
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North Carolina Botanical Garden (Chapel Hill, NC) is recruiting for a Conservation Botanist!
🎓 Relevant post-Bacc degree req'd
⌛ full time, 2.5-year grant funded position contingent upon additional funding
📨 apps due 7/18
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/303...
#botanyjobs #plantconservationjobs
🎓 Relevant post-Bacc degree req'd
⌛ full time, 2.5-year grant funded position contingent upon additional funding
📨 apps due 7/18
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/303...
#botanyjobs #plantconservationjobs
a close up of a carnivorous plant with a bee inside of it
Alt: a close up of a venus fly trap closing around an insect
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July 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
North Carolina Botanical Garden (Chapel Hill, NC) is recruiting for a Conservation Botanist!
🎓 Relevant post-Bacc degree req'd
⌛ full time, 2.5-year grant funded position contingent upon additional funding
📨 apps due 7/18
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/303...
#botanyjobs #plantconservationjobs
🎓 Relevant post-Bacc degree req'd
⌛ full time, 2.5-year grant funded position contingent upon additional funding
📨 apps due 7/18
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/303...
#botanyjobs #plantconservationjobs
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The National Climate Assessment, and all special reports and past assessments, are now offline. Federal climate science is being systematically erased.
June 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The National Climate Assessment, and all special reports and past assessments, are now offline. Federal climate science is being systematically erased.
Wow- this is a fascinating interview. & unhinged towards the end. Curious what other people think, esp about the stagnation of science.
A scientist once told me that science was just finding new ways to test the same hypothesis, which sounds like stagnation to me.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...
A scientist once told me that science was just finding new ways to test the same hypothesis, which sounds like stagnation to me.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...
Opinion | Peter Thiel and the Antichrist
www.nytimes.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Wow- this is a fascinating interview. & unhinged towards the end. Curious what other people think, esp about the stagnation of science.
A scientist once told me that science was just finding new ways to test the same hypothesis, which sounds like stagnation to me.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...
A scientist once told me that science was just finding new ways to test the same hypothesis, which sounds like stagnation to me.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...
I’m very excited to have led the scientific efforts along with the many moving parts overlooked by other team members that made this happen.
It feels amazing to put years of experience and education to work restoring degraded lands and mitigating climate change
www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
It feels amazing to put years of experience and education to work restoring degraded lands and mitigating climate change
www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
Living Carbon Announces Agreement with Microsoft for 1.4 Million Tonnes of Carbon Removal from Reforestation of Former Mine Lands in Appalachia
/PRNewswire/ -- Living Carbon, a public benefit company transforming degraded and underutilized land into high quality environmental assets, announced today...
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April 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I’m very excited to have led the scientific efforts along with the many moving parts overlooked by other team members that made this happen.
It feels amazing to put years of experience and education to work restoring degraded lands and mitigating climate change
www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
It feels amazing to put years of experience and education to work restoring degraded lands and mitigating climate change
www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
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The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
February 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
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Please circulate: Postdoc position on responses of Australian mammal pests to climate change. Part of my ARC Laureate Fellowship research. Lots of hands-on fieldwork. Learn about biophysical models. Remote locations. Collaboration with #EcologicalHorizons and #AWC jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91880...
Details : Research Fellow in Mammalian Movement Ecology and Energetics : The University of Melbourne
Careers at The University of Melbourne
jobs.unimelb.edu.au
January 15, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Please circulate: Postdoc position on responses of Australian mammal pests to climate change. Part of my ARC Laureate Fellowship research. Lots of hands-on fieldwork. Learn about biophysical models. Remote locations. Collaboration with #EcologicalHorizons and #AWC jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91880...
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🌍🌱 Global Vegetation Growth Slowing
A new study found that plants are absorbing less CO₂ as vegetation growth slows. This weakens Earth’s ability to act as a natural carbon sponge, making it more urgent to reduce emissions & tackle #ClimateChange
🔗 doi.org/10.34133/ehs...
#SciComm 🧪
A new study found that plants are absorbing less CO₂ as vegetation growth slows. This weakens Earth’s ability to act as a natural carbon sponge, making it more urgent to reduce emissions & tackle #ClimateChange
🔗 doi.org/10.34133/ehs...
#SciComm 🧪
Evolution of Global Terrestrial Gross Primary Productivity Trend | Ecosystem Health and Sustainability
Increased global vegetation gross primary productivity (GPP) over the past decades has led to an enhanced terrestrial carbon sink, an important factor in mitigating global warming. However, the global...
doi.org
December 26, 2024 at 9:45 AM
🌍🌱 Global Vegetation Growth Slowing
A new study found that plants are absorbing less CO₂ as vegetation growth slows. This weakens Earth’s ability to act as a natural carbon sponge, making it more urgent to reduce emissions & tackle #ClimateChange
🔗 doi.org/10.34133/ehs...
#SciComm 🧪
A new study found that plants are absorbing less CO₂ as vegetation growth slows. This weakens Earth’s ability to act as a natural carbon sponge, making it more urgent to reduce emissions & tackle #ClimateChange
🔗 doi.org/10.34133/ehs...
#SciComm 🧪
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Downscaled daily CMIP6 projections of Tmax, Tmin, P, and e_a at ~1km resolution over the contiguous USA 🌊🧪 #climate
NASA Earth Exchange Downscaled Climate Projections 30 Arcseconds CMIP6 - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - NASA Earth Exchange Downscaled Climate Projections 30 Arcseconds CMIP6
www.nature.com
December 21, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Downscaled daily CMIP6 projections of Tmax, Tmin, P, and e_a at ~1km resolution over the contiguous USA 🌊🧪 #climate
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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
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
I like the last paper I published- In it collaborators and I test a classic hypothesis in ecology for the first time (that we are aware of) in plants.
The take-home message is plants that like temperature variability may “win” in future climates.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
The take-home message is plants that like temperature variability may “win” in future climates.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
December 16, 2024 at 5:00 AM
I like the last paper I published- In it collaborators and I test a classic hypothesis in ecology for the first time (that we are aware of) in plants.
The take-home message is plants that like temperature variability may “win” in future climates.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
The take-home message is plants that like temperature variability may “win” in future climates.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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I'm sharing one that an exceptional MSc student led showing how plant growth trajectories, from seeds onward, can be predicted in different microclimates using a theory deeply rooted (sorry) in physics #DEBtheory @juliacon.bsky.social #NicheMapR. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 16, 2024 at 3:09 AM
I'm sharing one that an exceptional MSc student led showing how plant growth trajectories, from seeds onward, can be predicted in different microclimates using a theory deeply rooted (sorry) in physics #DEBtheory @juliacon.bsky.social #NicheMapR. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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We're used to seeing holly leaves depicted as exclusively spiny, but most wild holly plants have spiny and smooth leaves
Common holly (I. aquifolium) *changes its gene expression* to produce spines in response to damage by herbivores. Each pair here is from the same plant
📷 Herrera & Bazaga 2013
Common holly (I. aquifolium) *changes its gene expression* to produce spines in response to damage by herbivores. Each pair here is from the same plant
📷 Herrera & Bazaga 2013
December 15, 2024 at 8:01 PM
We're used to seeing holly leaves depicted as exclusively spiny, but most wild holly plants have spiny and smooth leaves
Common holly (I. aquifolium) *changes its gene expression* to produce spines in response to damage by herbivores. Each pair here is from the same plant
📷 Herrera & Bazaga 2013
Common holly (I. aquifolium) *changes its gene expression* to produce spines in response to damage by herbivores. Each pair here is from the same plant
📷 Herrera & Bazaga 2013
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If you want to find more about this position, find me tomorrow at #BES2024!
🚨 #PhD alert! Can #tropical trees migrate up mountains to track climate change? 🌳🌱⛰️ If they can’t, extinction may follow. Help us answer this question, working in tropical forests in the #Andes. Amazing fieldwork opportunities, & mega team led by @belenfadrique.bsky.social.
tinyurl.com/mr35spbj
tinyurl.com/mr35spbj
December 12, 2024 at 9:21 PM
If you want to find more about this position, find me tomorrow at #BES2024!
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"People working in soil carbon credit markets are aware of the [model] limitations..."
But techbros would never game carbon models & fabricate carbon credits.
Farmers are being paid millions to trap carbon in their soils. Will it actually help the planet? | Science | AAAS https://buff.ly/3YdazT3
But techbros would never game carbon models & fabricate carbon credits.
Farmers are being paid millions to trap carbon in their soils. Will it actually help the planet? | Science | AAAS https://buff.ly/3YdazT3
November 22, 2024 at 3:00 PM
"People working in soil carbon credit markets are aware of the [model] limitations..."
But techbros would never game carbon models & fabricate carbon credits.
Farmers are being paid millions to trap carbon in their soils. Will it actually help the planet? | Science | AAAS https://buff.ly/3YdazT3
But techbros would never game carbon models & fabricate carbon credits.
Farmers are being paid millions to trap carbon in their soils. Will it actually help the planet? | Science | AAAS https://buff.ly/3YdazT3
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Since COP there seems to be a renewed interest in natural #climate solutions. For a new audience, Here's our take on the physics and ecology of mining carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by ecosystems, circa 2019
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The physics and ecology of mining carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by ecosystems
The ability of individual plants and ecosystems to mine carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, as defined by rates and cumulative amounts, is limited by laws of physics and ecological principles. Conseq...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 29, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Since COP there seems to be a renewed interest in natural #climate solutions. For a new audience, Here's our take on the physics and ecology of mining carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by ecosystems, circa 2019
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The impacts of natural climate solutions: we analyzed millions of scientific studies for a comprehensive analysis of *what* evidence exists for NCS and impacts to people and nature. New work out in @naturesustain.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s418...
#ncs #naturebasedsolutions 🧪 #NLP #ConservationAI
#ncs #naturebasedsolutions 🧪 #NLP #ConservationAI
December 5, 2024 at 4:22 PM
The impacts of natural climate solutions: we analyzed millions of scientific studies for a comprehensive analysis of *what* evidence exists for NCS and impacts to people and nature. New work out in @naturesustain.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s418...
#ncs #naturebasedsolutions 🧪 #NLP #ConservationAI
#ncs #naturebasedsolutions 🧪 #NLP #ConservationAI
First post on #bluesky. Excited to see how this digital scientific community unfolds… and if/how this platform plans to monetize.
Anyways, here’s a December sunset from Hobuck Beach where I had the pleasure of surfing earlier in the day. Neah Bay, WA
Anyways, here’s a December sunset from Hobuck Beach where I had the pleasure of surfing earlier in the day. Neah Bay, WA
December 9, 2024 at 8:48 AM
First post on #bluesky. Excited to see how this digital scientific community unfolds… and if/how this platform plans to monetize.
Anyways, here’s a December sunset from Hobuck Beach where I had the pleasure of surfing earlier in the day. Neah Bay, WA
Anyways, here’s a December sunset from Hobuck Beach where I had the pleasure of surfing earlier in the day. Neah Bay, WA