Tommaso Jucker

@tommaso-jucker.bsky.social

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Head of Selva lab at the University of Bristol: https://www.selvalab.org
Inordinate fondness for trees and lasers 🌳 🛰️

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · Sep 5

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!

The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems

📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

Global distribution of forest landscapes covered by airborne LiDAR

Reposted by Tuomas Mattila, Tommaso Jucker

Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social · 1h

🚨 Job alert 🚨

Come work with us as a postdoc modelling the impacts of climate change on plant-soil interactions and C sequestration!

Apply here before the 3rd of December: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Check out this video of the project you will be working in: vimeo.com/1133112953?s...

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Reposted by Julie L. Lockwood, Tommaso Jucker, Catherine M. Hulshof

Jonas Lembrechts @jlembrechts.bsky.social · 7h

How to not be swamped by your microclimate data?

The rise of microclimate data may have opened Pandora’s box. Gone are the days of simple bioclimatic variables — now heads spin trying to summarize these timeseries.

A much-needed paper by @krystofchytry.bsky.social:

🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/11/11/h...

How to not be swamped by your microclimate data

Microclimate data are finally finding their way more routineously into ecological models – and rightly so. Hooray for that! The growing availability of in-situ measurements is helping us brid…

the3dlab.org

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Alice Gauthey @a-gthy.bsky.social · 23h

🌿 New PhD position 🌿

Looking at the effects of experimental warming and elevated CO2 on leaf thermoregulation and ecophysiology at the 3 FACE experiments in UK, Brazil and Australia! 🌡️

Start in March 2026 - deadline to apply December 15th: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Leaf Thermoregulation and Carbon Dynamics in Forests Under Elevated CO₂ and Warming at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Leaf Thermoregulation and Carbon Dynamics in Forests Under Elevated CO₂ and Warming at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker, Susanne Lachmuth, Benjamin Wildermuth

Tom Timberlake @tomtimberlake.bsky.social · 1d

📢Exciting job opportunity at the Univ. of Bristol! Coordinating our new project on pollinator conservation & management in Nepal, led by Jane Memmott 🐝Suitable for any pollination, agroecology or sustainable development researchers/practitioners : www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPJ228/r...

Reposted by Marco Festa‐Bianchet, Tommaso Jucker, Hansraj Gautam

Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social · 1d

3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol

University of Bristol Beacon House Queens Road Bristol, BS8 1QU, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 9000 Contact us

www.bristol.ac.uk

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Tommaso Jucker

Shawn Serbin @doctorjackpine.bsky.social · 2d

www.change.org/p/stop-the-d...

Sign the Petition

Stop the Dismantling of NASA Science Center at Goddard

www.change.org

Reposted by Håvard Kauserud, Dustin J. Marshall, Stephen D. Murphy , and 2 more Håvard Kauserud, Dustin J. Marshall, Stephen D. Murphy, Tommaso Jucker, Andrew Hacket‐Pain

Katie Field @katiefield4.bsky.social · 3d

🌿🍄‍🟫🌱🍄We’re recruiting!!🌿🍄‍🟫🌱🍄

I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker

Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 5d

Was great to celebrate Electric Wind with friends and colleagues @uobrisceh.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social . I was most excited about the book-cake. Cake-book. A book made of cake!!!!

A woman in a mustard colour shirt holds up a slab of cake with the cover of her book Electric Wind printed on it.

Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · 6d

Really looking forward to reading this - thanks for writing it!

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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks to @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social and @motherjones.com for a fun interview!

How to make people want to read about climate change

Pulitzer winner Elizabeth Kolbert's new book is a master class in writing about the natural world.

www.motherjones.com

Reposted by Tuomas Mattila, Tommaso Jucker

Department of Geoecology @spacetimeeco.bsky.social · 7d

Atmospheric #VaporPressureDeficit structures #forest #bryophyte communities across #landscape

our new #microclimate research in @egubg.bsky.social #Biogeosciences journal

BIG congratulation to the very first paper from our #bryophyte lover Anna Růžičková!

doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...

Graphical abstract of the paper shoving spatial variability in atmospheric vapor pressure deficit driven by the interplay between temperature-driven patterns in saturated water vapor pressure and actual water vapor pressure across topographically diverse landscape of the National Park Bohemian Switzerland in the Czech Republic.

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker

Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 8d

Fantastic to welcome @trishg.bsky.social to the group today 🥳

Trisha is on an 1851 fellowship and will be working on resilience loss in savannahs with myself, @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social and @mdekauwe.bsky.social

@bristolbiosci.bsky.social

scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Reposted by Belinda E. Medlyn, Ian J. Wright, Tommaso Jucker , and 1 more Belinda E. Medlyn, Ian J. Wright, Tommaso Jucker, Samuele Ramellini

Owen Atkin @owenatkin.bsky.social · 8d

Save the date! 47th New Phytologist Symposium on 'Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life'. Explore how extreme heat affects plants that underpin ecosystem productivity.
2-5 June 2026, Cordoba, Spain.
@newphyt.bsky.social

www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps

Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life

www.newphytologist.org

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Erola Fenollosa @erolafenollosa.bsky.social · 11d

Next tuesday I’ll be contributing to the Gender and Quantitative Ecology Panel Discussion! hosted by @bes-quantitative.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org with the beautiful minds: @vinitagowda.bsky.social @nhcooper123.bsky.social @trishg.bsky.social @biolliegist.bsky.social 💚💜🌈

Quantifying Ecology - British Ecological Society

The Quantitative Ecology SIG are teaming up with a cohort of BES groups to put on a series of free webinars exploring all facets of quantitative ecology.

www.britishecologicalsociety.org

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker

Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · 11d

We have three senior and one early-career research fellowships open! It's an exciting time to join us as we've just moved into the new Life and Mind Building

Fellowships in fungal disease, mycology, conservation science + nature finance, & plant sciences in thread 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_amV...

Oxford's new Life and Mind Building

YouTube video by University of Oxford

www.youtube.com

Reposted by Mathias Disney, Tommaso Jucker

Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · 12d

Our new paper in Nature uses ecological energetics to track ten ecosystem functions of all birds and mammals in sub-Saharan Africa. It shows that the ecological power of African wildlife has declined by a third since pre-colonial times @natureportfolio.nature.com

Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery @naturerecovery.bsky.social · 13d

🌍 New Oxford-led study in Nature finds Africa’s wildlife has lost a third of its natural “power” — the energy driving ecosystems and livelihoods.

Large animals once sustained this flow; their loss now reshapes life across the continent. @ymalhi.bsky.social

Africa’s wildlife has lost a third of its natural ‘power’, Oxford-led study warns

New paper in Nature today

naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk

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Kevin Watts @watts-km.bsky.social · 13d

more PhD info here www.linkedin.com/posts/efuent...

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Mathias Disney, Tommaso Jucker , and 2 more Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Mathias Disney, Tommaso Jucker, Antonio J. Pérez‐Luque, Michele Torresani

Dario Martin-Benito @dendroecologist.bsky.social · 14d

deadtrees.earth — An open-access and interactive database for centimeter-scale aerial imagery to uncover global tree mortality dynamics. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Led by @cmosig.bsky.social

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker, Maximilian Hanusch

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 14d

Airborne laser scanning reveals stone walls stretching several kilometers across Europe's Karst Plateau, on the border between Slovenia and Italy, likely built over 4,000 years ago to herd and corral red deer—a legacy of coordinated hunting. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/urYx50Xir5z

LiDAR image of a prehistoric hunting trap on the Karst Plateau, highlighting the structure’s scale and integration into the landscape.
CREDIT: Dimitrij Mlekuž Vrhovnik.

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker, Paul Caplat, Daniel Zuleta , and 1 more Tommaso Jucker, Paul Caplat, Daniel Zuleta, Julen Astigarraga

David Bauman @davbauman.bsky.social · 15d

🌲 Very happy to share our new study on where, when, and why trees die across the range of 3 major southern US pines: Pinus taeda, P. palustris, and P. elliottii (loblolly, longleaf, and slash pine).
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/geb.70141
@ird-fr.bsky.social @umramap.bsky.social @ulbrecherche.bsky.social
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Mosaic of Size‐Dependent Mortality in Three Ecologically and Economically Important Pine Species Reveals Patterns Across Space and Time

Aim Global forests face increasing stresses from novel climate states, altered disturbance regimes and the spread of pests and pathogens. Understanding where and when mortality occurs across species...

doi.org

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Oliver L. Phillips, Brian J. Enquist , and 4 more Jens‐Christian Svenning, Oliver L. Phillips, Brian J. Enquist, Peter M. Cox, Tommaso Jucker, Darío Martin‐Benito, Julen Astigarraga

Tom Pugh @tompugh.bsky.social · 15d

How can we explore the future of the world's forests? Understanding the demography of their trees is key. In We took the new gen of global demographic vegetation models and held their roots to the observations. Thanks @annemarie-es.bsky.social for leading! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reposted by Pieter A. Zuidema, Tommaso Jucker, Ensheng Weng , and 1 more Pieter A. Zuidema, Tommaso Jucker, Ensheng Weng, Arthur Argles

New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 18d

#Demography, dynamics and data: building confidence for simulating changes in the world's forests

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Eckes-Shephard et al.

@WIleyPlantSci #PlantScience

Simulated and observed annual mature forest turnover time and woody biomass increment flux at a boreal, temperate and tropical site.

Reposted by Mathias Disney, Tommaso Jucker

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 19d

New OA publication from TreE_PlaNat project @uktreescapes.bsky.social in Ecological Solutions and Evidence: Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain

Natural colonisation can successfully create structurally diverse, locally adapted woodlands in Britain, but the outcomes of this process can vary considerably. Combining natural colonisation and tre...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Akira Mori, Tommaso Jucker, Julen Astigarraga

Christina Dollinger @christinadollinger.bsky.social · 20d

Yippie, my paper is now out in Global Ecology and Biogeography!

Basically, we tried to destroy (simulated!) forest landscapes

And despite increasing disturbances 100-fold and decreasing regeneration by 99% - we didn't manage to! (in most cases anyways)

Find out more at doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker

Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 21d

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 21d

The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)

Researchers applying for the UK's Global Talent visa face high upfront costs
Upfront cost of visa to applicant and
employer
in 2025
UK
Denmark
£692
India
£602
Australia
£405
Israel
£362
US
£305
Italy £235
Netherlands
1 £207
Germany | £170
Spain
1£144
Sweden | £117
South Korea | £98
France £84
Japan £21
£5,941
£O
£2,000
£4
Source: Fragomen for the Royal Society • Excludes ongoing costs such as mandatory healthcare premiums or fees such as language tests

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Oliver L. Phillips, Simon L. Lewis , and 19 more Jens‐Christian Svenning, Oliver L. Phillips, Simon L. Lewis, Ana S. L. Rodrigues, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Mathias Disney, Pieter A. Zuidema, Patrick A. Jansen, Stephen D. Murphy, Tommaso Jucker, Markus P. Eichhorn, Andrew Hacket‐Pain, Ferran Sayol, Darío Martin‐Benito, Shan Kothari, Joan Dudney, Joshua S. Lynn, Jonathan von Oppen, Karl Andraczek, Orlando Schwery, Jonas Trepel, Benjamin Wildermuth

Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 21d

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · 21d

I have not actually tried this myself, but this workflow looked good to me: www.azandisresearch.com/2020/12/16/s...

Would love to hear your thoughts if you try it!

Smartphone hemispherical photography

Hemispherical photography is one of those tasks often prefaced by the statement, “How hard could it be?” I’m pretty sure I said something like this at the beginning of my PhD when we wanted to ask …

www.azandisresearch.com

Reposted by Tim M. Blackburn, Marcel E. Visser, Patrick A. Jansen , and 6 more Tim M. Blackburn, Marcel E. Visser, Patrick A. Jansen, Márk E. Hauber, Glenn H. Shepard, Allan D. McDevitt, Tommaso Jucker, Andrew Hacket‐Pain, Samuele Ramellini

Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 21d

Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Celebrating a successful field season with great food & good company - May 2025

Front view of the Life & Mind Building, which opened in Oct 2025: The new home of Biology at Oxford

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 27d

Looks like a good guide - the general data cleaning part is a lean intro to some very common issues in all sorts of data. Would be great if every phd who touches raw data was offered a short course in these basics (in R or Python or whatever HipsterScript) cleaning-data-r.ala.org.au/2_general-cl...

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker

Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 28d

🐦Funded PhD @Bristol for UK-domiciled applicants of Black heritage ✨

How does human pressure impact the stability and longevity of bird populations in the Global South 🌍

Train in R & Bayesian modelling with partners in Tanzania, Kenya, SA, @zslscience.bsky.social

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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