Plant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social Spotlighting global #plantscience that drives the field forward. We share AI-generated summaries of key papers/news that deserve more eyes, always with source links.
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Elina Kaarlejärvi @elinakaarlej.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow, Associate Professor in Arctic Ecosystem Ecology at University of Helsinki. Curious about diversity of 🌱🌸🌿🦌, traits and ecosystem functioning in tundra and boreal forest.
Luiza Teixeira-Costa @l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social Interested in plant-plant and plant-human relationships; monster studies; museum, garden, and library collections; climate change and cities.
Brazilian. She/Ela
https://www.luizateixeira-costa.com/
📚 🌱 🌈
SERBAL @serbal-almeria.org -SERBAL- Sociedad para el Estudio y Recuperación de la Biodiverdidad Almeriense #EducaciónAmbiental #Conservacion #Almeria #Biodiversidad #PorLaNaturaleza
Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social Plant, restoration, and landscape ecologist
https://www.brudviglab.com/
(he/him)
M’Kayla Motley @mkaylamotley.bsky.social Geological Survey of Alabama botanist for the Ecosystems Investigations Program.
Elise Cypher @elisecypherart.bsky.social I’m a science illustrator! Dm for commissions! Check out my free comic about the alternation of generations https://drive.google.com/file/d/18phEdsoQlzttI_MTOUtodf5hWqkoPRRp/view?usp=sharing
My website: elisecypher.weebly.com
Hannah E. Marx, PhD @hannahmarx.bsky.social Asst Prof 🌿 Herbarium Director @Cornell | Botanists & bioinformatician | oceanic & alpine "sky" islands. She/her | hannahmarx.com
DAAD Worldwide @daadworldwide.bsky.social The world's largest funding organisation, supporting the international exchange of students and scholars.
@gopikakrishna467.bsky.social @gopikakrishna467.bsky.social 
All Things Ethnobotany @ethnobotany.bsky.social Ethnobotany, people & plant relationships, traditional & indigenous knowledge, and the new paradigm of plant consciousness
www.greenunfolding.com/courses
Krishna @krishnapriyam.bsky.social Msc botany
Kannur university
Kerala
@aswinkrishan.bsky.social @aswinkrishan.bsky.social 
Radhu Radhakrishnan @radhu03.bsky.social Master Student, Botany, Kannur University, India
Simon Haberstroh @simonhaber.bsky.social Ecophysiologist @University of Freiburg and @Ecosense
Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com Astrophysicist
Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil @sheffieldpps.bsky.social Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil cluster in the School of Biosciences @sheffielduni.bsky.social
Focus on #Plants & #Soil & their interactions with the #environment across all scales, from fundamental #mechanisms to #ecology
Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social The Missouri Botanical Garden is an oasis in the city of St. Louis and a world leader in plant science, conservation, education and horticultural display.
Brendan Choat @profchoat.bsky.social Researcher at Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment - Plant Physiology and Ecology - Hydraulics - Drought Stess
Janisse Deluigi @janissedeluigi.bsky.social PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Looking for job opportunities! 🔎
Passionate about:
🌱plant ecophysiology
🌳🌲biodiversity
🏞 ecosystem functioning & services
🌡🏜 warming & drought impacts
🗣 science communication
she/her
F.M. Safiul Azam @azamfms.bsky.social Science practitioner |
Plant genomics | Breeding | Physiology | Vitamin B metabolism Ethnobiology & Nutrition | Biodiversity | Climate change | Environment | Youth empowerment
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fardous-Mohammad-Azam?ev=prf_overview
Anzal @anzalks.bsky.social anzalks.in
Grad student at NCBS Bangalore.
Currently focused on Synaptic pattern learning in single neurons
Hippocampus, electrophysiology, learning and memory
Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social President, Botanical Society of America.
#PUI Prof + Herbarium Director
Doc Martine and the Botaneers
https://www.chrismartine.com/
#PlantsareCoolToo: https://tinyurl.com/mr3nv85w
#iamabotanist #Botany2026 #botany #plantpeopleFTW
Gerard Martínez-De León @gerardmdl.bsky.social Ecologist. Postdoctoral researcher at @unibern on climate extremes, stability and soil communities.
First recorded in Catalunya. Recently spotted in CH.
Ghent Rooting-lab/Steffen Vanneste @stvanneste.bsky.social Ghent Rooting lab! Steffen Vanneste
All kinds of #roots #adventitious roots. One hormone to rule them all #auxin
Check out our services at www.horticell.be
Bio-protocol @bio-protocol.bsky.social Bio-protocol (www.bio-protocol.org) was founded in 2011 by a group of researchers at Stanford University with a singular mission: Improving research reproducibility by publishing high-quality protocols in the life sciences.
bioRxiv Synthetic Biology @biorxiv-synthbio.bsky.social 
Global Dendrometer Network @globaldendro.bsky.social From microscopic movements to forest-scale insights - a network connecting dendrometer users across the world.
Website: globaldendro.org
Not yet part of this global community? Join us here:
https://forms.gle/HGjQZHDvFB7W9nbB9
Aida Maric @aidamaric.bsky.social PostDoc @CIBSS_UniFR @UniFreiburg 🌱🌊 Assistant Features Editor Alum @PlantPhys 🖋️📚
PhD in Plant Biotech @CRAG 🌱⏰
Francisco Navarro-Rosales @navarrosales.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @cnrs.fr
ecosystem responses to fire 🌿
@umramap.bsky.social
Max Telford @maxjtelford.bsky.social Zoologist and evolutionary biologist. Interested in animal phylogeny. At UCL.
Author of 'The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle'
School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford @oxfordgeography.bsky.social We are a world-leading department tackling global challenges through research and teaching. Follow us for updates from our SoGE community +
@ecioxford.bsky.social
@tsuoxford.bsky.social
@smithschool.ox.ac.uk
🌍 geog.ox.ac.uk- A Ajith Ashokan @ajithashokan.bsky.social .
Nadine Ruehr @nadineruehr.bsky.social Plant ecophysiologist.
Passionate about trees and forests. 🌳 🌲
Professor at KIT-Campus Alpin,
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
https://ecophys.imk-ifu.kit.edu/
The Menachery Lab @themenacherylab.bsky.social A coronavirus lab looking for low hanging pebbles and shiny fruit.
Emory University
Lei Yu (于雷) @nefu-for-journal.bsky.social I am the managing editor of Journal of Forestry Research (JCR IF=4.1, 12/92; Scopus Citescore of 8.3). You can get all via journal web: https://www.springer.com/journal/11676
Avilien Dard @avdar66.bsky.social #MSCA #Postdoc, Van Breusegem Lab #VIB -UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology #plantscience #redox
https://linktr.ee/Avilien.dard
Ingolf Kühn @ingolfkuehn.eurosky.social Ecologist | @ufz.de, Co-Head of Department Community Ecology | Prof for Macroecology @unihalle.bsky.social | iDiv.de | Co-EiC @NeoBiota.pensoft.net
he/him
#ecology #ecosystems #biodiversity, #AlienSpecies #BiologicalInvasions #glacier forefield #succession
Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social Scientist: #biodiversity, #macroecology, #climatechange, #restoration & #rewilding, #novelecosystems, #plants & #vegetation, #megafauna, #human-#nature relations & #remotesensing. Director, https://econovo.au.dk/
gaia.eco - Biodiversity Studio @gaia.eco 🪸 Monitor species. Restore nature.
🌍 Data, KPIs, analytics and reports
🔎 Open up https://gaia.eco
Abiotic Stress in Plants @abioticstress.bsky.social #PlantScience #PlantStress #StressBiology #StressTolerance #Temperature #Drought #Metals #Salinity #Hypoxia #Waterlogging #Oxidative #Osmotic
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social Professor, Ecosystem Modelling, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney U. Ecophysiologist and #DeadTreeDetective
Martin Bouda @boudalab.bsky.social I work on the hydrodynamics of plants and their environment, the role of drought in plant evolution.
Jun. Prof. of Plant Ecophysiology
University of Hohenheim
Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences
He/him/his
Amanda Cavanagh @cavycavs.bsky.social 
Shan Kothari @shankothari.bsky.social Assistant professor at University of Alberta. Forest ecology + tree physiology. he/il
Jeannine Cavender-Bares @cavenderg9.bsky.social Plant physiological and evolutionary ecologist. Biodiversity scientist. Oak enthusiast. Protea family admirer
Rory @rcoconnor.bsky.social Rangeland ecophysiologist who delves into the depths of carbon and water! I am also a girl dad that wanders the wilds with them. All post are mine and don’t represent my employer.
Guillaume Théroux-Rancourt @guillaumetr.bsky.social Plant ecophysiologist | Structure and function | 3D anatomy
Director of indoor farming research @Biopterre 🇨🇦. Formerly @BOKUvienna 🇦🇹 @UCDavisPlant 🇺🇸 @ULaval 🇨🇦
Aleca Borsuk @alecaborsuk.bsky.social Assistant Curator, New York Botanical Garden | Plant physiology 🌱🌳🌲
Erica H Lawrence-Paul @ehlawrence-paul.bsky.social Assistant Research Prof. at Penn State studying plant development, ecophys and genetics 🌱🐾🔬
Mary Heskel @maryheskel.bsky.social plant ecophysiologist, SLAC professor, studies plants and carbon across scales. 
H. Jochen Schenk @rivertothesky.bsky.social Prof at California State University Fullerton; conducting research and education on water movement in plants and how plants connect us to the atmosphere. Born at 316 ppm https://rivertothesky.substack.com #plantscience
PP Systems International @ppsystems.bsky.social Leader in high-level research instruments for #ClimateChange #Photosynthesis #SoilRespiration #ChlorophyllFluorescence #CO2_H2OGasAnalysis #LeafGasExchange #EnvironmentalMonitoring #WaterQuality
Helen Holmlund @helenholmlund.bsky.social she/her, Assistant Professor of Biology, plant ecophysiologist, excited about ferns and the chaparral!
Richard Vath @rvath.bsky.social Fond of plants, guitars, brewing and all things fermentation, various outdoor activities, and photosynthesis + photosynthesis accessories. Working as an Applications Scientist at LI-COR.
ICT International @ictinternational.bsky.social ICT International are a science-led innovation company delivering the best monitoring solutions focused on plant water use, plant water potential, and soil moisture management.
For over 40 years, ICT International have been developing these solutions.
Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social Assistant Prof UConn EEB | CAM photosynthesis keeps me up at night | made of cookies | She/her. Views my own.
Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social I am a tree scientist and botanist writing about relationships between trees and humans including climate change. A Fulbright Scholar, Author of Venerable Trees and more books in progress. Read about trees here: https://ourtrees.substack.com.
Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social Assistant professor in climate science at Trinity College Dublin. Posts about climate, how plants are affected by global change, diversity in science, academia, SF&F books, TTRPGs. She/her. https://plantecomodelling.org/
Arthur Leung @aleungplants.bsky.social PhD candidate with Rowan Sage at Univ. of Toronto 🇨🇦
Evolutionary biology, ecophysiology, and photosynthesis 🍃🔬🧪
he/him
aleungplants.github.io
Luís Mauro Rosa @luismrosa.bsky.social Professor of Plant physiological ecology at UFRGS, Brazil. Photographer, ex-marathon runner.
Anne Plessis @discontinuedap.bsky.social Plant biology lecturer, University of Plymouth, she/her. Ecophysiology of plant abiotic stress in realistic/complex conditions. 
Anna Monrad Jensen @annamonrad.bsky.social Professor at LNU, Sweden. Plant ecophysiology. Forest and trees 🇸🇪🇩🇰🏳️🌈🌳🍂🍁
Maik Veste @plant-soil-ecology.bsky.social Ecology and Ecophysiology of Land Use Systems
Research in South Africa and Germany
Christiane Werner @chriswernerlab.bsky.social Interested in plant and ecosystem adaptation to climate change, ecophysiology, ecohydrology, stable isotope ecology, VOC, Professor at University Freiburg, EIC of Plant Biology
Ian Willick @irwillick.bsky.social Plant ecophysiologist at the Kentville Research and Development Center, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Personal account.
https://iwillick.github.io/
Simon Heyes @simondheyes.bsky.social Rare plants | drought and climate change | soil specialist plants | grassy ecosystems
PhD student @ La Trobe, Australia
He/Him
Fedi: https://ecoevo.social/@SimonDHeyes
Blog: https://sdheyes.wixsite.com/ecologyblog
Sean Michaletz @seanmichaletz.bsky.social Associate Professor, The University of British Columbia (UBC). Ecophysiology, ecosystem ecology, macroecology, scaling, fire.
michaletzlab.org
Riikka Rinnan @riikkarinnan.bsky.social Prof. Ecosystem-Atmosphere Interactions
Director, Center for Volatile Interactions, Univ. Copenhagen
🇩🇰🇫🇮
Climate change, soil carbon, plant-soil interactions, Arctic ecosystems
🌍🌿🦠🫧❄️💧☀️☁️
Brad Posch @bposch.bsky.social Researcher at the Desert Botanical Garden, AZ
Plant ecophysiology, heat tolerance, photosynthesis 🌿🌡️
Canberran
Florian Busch @florianabusch.bsky.social Plant physiologist interested in all things photosynthesis. Born at 329 ppm | Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham School of Biosciences and BIFoR (he/him)
Mike Kaspari @mikekaspari.bsky.social I’m a college professor immersed in #teaching and #ecology. I visit lots of ecosystems, combine observations and simple experiments, and look for generalities. I #garden, #cook, play #music and #read to round things out.
Ana F. @anaifrs.bsky.social I like plants, books, movies, citrus fruits, & baseball; not necessarily in that order
Plant function & physiology are my jam*
*job
Michela Audisio @michela-audisio.bsky.social Postdoc at Uni Göttingen - Forest Science & Ecology
Working on Ecology of Mixed Forests 🌳🌲🌳🌲
Tree physiology & Mycorrhizas 🌳🍄
Christina Hackmann @christina-hn.bsky.social Curious about trees, water, ecophysiology, stable isotopes, species interactions, dataviz & fieldwork food. Postdoctoral researcher at Göttingen University DE, part of @enricounigoe.bsky.social and @foreslab.bsky.social
Sharath Paligi @sharathpaligi.bsky.social Plant ecophysiology | Tree water relations 🍃 💦 | drought #whatkillstrees. | Myristica swamps #restoration
@enrico_unigoe
@unigoettingen
Rebecca Schwutke @rschwutke.bsky.social PhD student @enricounigoe.bsky.social
High temps and trees 🌳🌲
Website: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/574316.html
Alice Gauthey @a-gthy.bsky.social Newton International Fellow at Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR) 🇬🇧
Tree Ecophysiology under Climate Extremes 🌳☀️
Ensheng Weng @wengensheng.bsky.social Ecologist & modeler at Columbia University and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Dunc Cameron @prof-dunc.bsky.social Microbial ecology, biochemistry & evolution / metabolomics & multiomics / Professor @ University of Manchester
Surviving #CerebellarAtaxia / tattooed 🌹gay 🏳️🌈 disabled ♿️ Scotsman 🏴 / dog Dad 🐶 / born at 335 ppm CO2
https://tinyurl.com/Dunc-Google-Scholar
Troy Magney @troymagney.bsky.social Plant ecophysiology, ecosystem ecology, tinkering | Plant Optics Lab @ University of Montana | https://magneylab.ucdavis.edu
Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social Plant ecophysiologist & biogeochemist | Asst Prof + RI-RS URF @ Trinity College Dublin (@psb-trinity.bsky.social) | Focus: functional ecology, C, water & nutrient cycles, roots, phenology & scaling tech | linktr.ee/richardnair 🌏🌿🫚🖥️
Dr Alexandra Kosiba @akosiba.bsky.social Forest ecophysiologist and woods wanderer. Extension Assistant Professor @UVM. Forests, climate change, carbon. She/her/hers. Views my own.
Justin Luong, PhD 🏳️🌈🌾 @justinluong.com Working Lands Asst Professor - UC Berkeley, Board Member at California Native Grassland Association, Restoration Ecology & Madroño CE/AE - 🏳️🌈 Restoration/EcoPhys PhD, Biodiversity, Rangelands, Climate Change, Science-Practice Gap - justinluong.com
Joannès Guillemot @joguillemot.bsky.social Researcher in forest ecophysiology🌴🌳 @cirad.bsky.social
Forest restoration, forest plantations and biodiversity-functioning relationships
Work mostly in 🇪🇺 and 🇧🇷
More here:
https://agents.cirad.fr/Joann%C3%A8s+Guillemot
Ben R Lee, PhD @benrlee.com Assistant Prof of Forest Ecology in southern Appalachia. Interested in climate change effects on forest plants, especially phenology, ecophys, and species interactions. He/him
Views my own
🧪🌎🌱📜🌐
More at https://peacchlab.com
Phil Wigge @wigge.bsky.social Prof. Plant Adaptation UniPotsdam, head of Dept Leibniz IGZ. Interested in how plants adapt to climate change.
Anping Chen @dranpingchen.bsky.social plant and ecosystem ecologist @ Colorado State University, nature enthusiast. https://apchenecologylab.weebly.com
Matthew Kaproth @mkaproth.bsky.social Plant ecologist - studying populations out of control (too many or too few), the traits that drive species success, and environmental stress #Quercus #Prairies #Drought #Fire #Invasives #FunctionalTraits @MinnesotaStateUni =
Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social #Ecosystem Science and Impacts of #Climate Change; #Forest #Ecology; #Biodiversity.
| Forest and Soil Ecology at @wslresearch.bsky.social |
| Professor at @usyseth.bsky.social |
| Head of the @SwissForestLab.bsky.social |
Jörg-Peter Schnitzler @jpschnitzler.net retired @Helmholtz-munich.de | @UniFreiburg | VOCs | forest bather | plants & climate change | metabolomics | chemical ecology | privately here for democracy & renewable energies | views are my own
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9825-867X
Sjon Hartman @hartman-plantlab.com Plant Biologist 🌱 Junior Professor of Plant Environmental Signalling & Development 🧬🔬 Studying Flooding Tolerance & Epigenetic Memory 🌊 at @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de @cibss.bsky.social
www.hartman-plantlab.com
Harm Groeneweg @hgagro.bsky.social Retired cropscience IPM-specialist. Posts in Dutch.
Chris Oakley @quercus62.bsky.social Adaptive plastic responses to seasonality, fitness trade-offs, climate change, maladaptation, and heterosis. Plant lover. Assoc. Prof. Purdue University.
Oluwatobi (Tobi) Oso @oso-tee.bsky.social PhDing plant anatomy, evolution & development @Yale | Alum @UniIbadan @CSIRNBRILKO | of @AfroInBio @Scholarpreneurs @BNInitiative
Philipp Schuler @philippschuler.bsky.social SNSF Postdoc.Mobility Fellow @ UC Berkeley
Interested in plant ecophys 🌱🌳🍀 climate response, whole plant carbon balance ☀️🌡️🌲 isotope fractionation ⚗️🧪🧫
🏳️🌈
Bridget Murphy @botanywithbee.bsky.social Plant ecophysiologist blending bioinformatics and xylem microscopy | PhD candidate, Ensminger Lab @ UofT | Way Lab aluma | Science mom
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=list_works&gmla=ALUCkoUqtY0aGER_F9Trm5mP4BLvXxhAV&user=6ScZyvMAAAAJ
Lawren Sack @lawrensack.bsky.social Professor at UCLA (EEB, IoES) fascinated by plant life and ecology. he/him/his
Antoine Cabon @acabon.bsky.social Researching tree physiology and forest carbon sequestration at CSIC, ES