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 · 9d

🚨Paper alert🚨

Check out Beibei Zhang's latest work out today @royalsocietypublishing.org where we track the 3D structural recovery of Australia's Great Western Woodlands following wildfires over a chronosequence spanning half a millenia!🌳🛰️🔥🧪

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Reposted by Richard J. Butler, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Tommaso Jucker , and 2 more Richard J. Butler, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Tommaso Jucker, Malte Jochum, Benjamin Wildermuth

Andrew Hacket-Pain @andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social · 2h

University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...

Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer, Tommaso Jucker

James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 3h

“A downside to the use of metaphors is that it is easy to regard them as real aspects of nature. This occurs via a fallacy known as reification”

I’ve always liked this paper on the unacknowledged use of metaphors in ecology:

eg, niche, competition, tipping points, habitat
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Tommaso Jucker

Danielle Creek @daniellecreek.bsky.social · 1d

🎤Hi #dendrometer users! You are invited to join our new Dendrometer Network (catchy name still tbd 😜). Online meeting 10:30-12 CET Friday 12 Dec. Please share and let me know if you want to join and I will send the meeting link 🌴🎄🌳🌲

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker

Philip Donoghue @phil-donoghue.bsky.social · 1d

Our latest, led by the inimitable Chris Kay "Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes" in which we used gene duplications to test hypotheses of eukaryogenesis. TLDR? They're all wrong. With @tweethinking.bsky.social @anya1.bsky.social @ssolo.bsky.social Davide Pisani

Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes - Nature

Analysis of eukaryotic gene sequences using a relaxed molecular clock methodology indicate that eukaryotes emerged 3.0–2.25 billion years ago as a result of mitochondrial endosymbiosis with complex ar...

www.nature.com

Reposted by Stephen D. Murphy, Tommaso Jucker, Emilio Vilanova , and 1 more Stephen D. Murphy, Tommaso Jucker, Emilio Vilanova, Luca L. Morreale

Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · 1d

"Overlooked and extensive ghost forest formation across the US Atlantic coast" -- wow what a comprehensive analysis by Yeung, @xiyang.bsky.social et al. 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Overlooked and extensive ghost forest formation across the US Atlantic coast - Nature Sustainability

Large swathes of standing dead trees or ‘ghost forests’ can form owing to rising sea levels in coastal areas, but the extent to which this occurs is unclear. This study maps ghost forests at the indiv...

www.nature.com

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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 3d

Excited to be going on @thedailyshow.com tonight to discuss climate change, my new book, and the general state of the planet.

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

Good question! Yes, largest continuous/unfragmented woodland. It's climatically very different from temperate woodlands in the N hemisphere. Much drier (400mm/y) and more open. An eco/eco miracle you get trees 25m tall with so little rain!

Reposted by Mathias Disney, Tommaso Jucker

Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 6d

Long-term recovery of canopy 3D structural diversity following wildfires in the world’s largest temperate woodland #ProcB #OpenAccess #Ecosystem #Conservation royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Kali Middleby @kalimiddleby.bsky.social · 7d

Where we collect seed for restoration matters. In a new paper led by Jayden Engert, we examined where nurseries source seed for rainforest plantings and discuss what that means for restoration success.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Reposted by Julie L. Lockwood, Tommaso Jucker

Lydia Soifer @lysoifer.bsky.social · 7d

Near-ground and 3D microclimates slow down climate velocity and alter their direction with important implications for range shifting specise.

Check out our work from my time in the Coomes lab at Cambridge: www.nature.com/articles/s41....

Microclimates slow and alter the direction of climate velocities in tropical forests - Nature Climate Change

The authors model near-ground and within-canopy microclimates in a tropical montane rainforest. They show that short-distance shifts towards dense vegetation or vertically downwards in canopies reduce...

www.nature.com

Reposted by Graeme S. Cumming, Joseph A. Tobias, Juan Rocha , and 3 more Graeme S. Cumming, Joseph A. Tobias, Juan Rocha, David Leclère, Ricardo Rocha, Tommaso Jucker

Andy Purvis @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social · 8d

Land-use change undermines the stability of avian functional diversity - new #OA @nature.com paper with @patrickawalkden.bsky.social @josephtobias.bsky.social, combining #PredictsProject with #Avonet doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Land-use change undermines the stability of avian functional diversity - Nature

Large-scale analyses of bird species traits reveal that land-use change reduces resilience of key ecological functions more than previously thought.

doi.org

Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · 8d

Bravo Jonathan!

Reposted by Hugh P. Possingham, Tommaso Jucker

Ecological Society of Australia @ecolsocaus.bsky.social · 8d

Congratulations to the ESA Gold Medal Award winner Dr Suzanne Prober 👏 #ESA2025

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker

New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 8d

47th New Phytologist Symposium: Extreme Heat – extending the thermal limits of life

2–5 June 2026
University of Córdoba, Spain

Travel grant and selected speaker application deadline: 2 February 2026

Poster abstract deadline: 2 March 2026

www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps

#PlantScience

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker

Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 9d

Our new paper is out today in Journal of the Royal Society Interface (link below). All about eggshell roughness: "Scratching beyond the surface: examining macroecological patterns in avian eggshell texture". Congrats first author Marie Attard, and thank you @leverhulme.ac.uk for the funding.

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker

Kevin Watts @watts-km.bsky.social · 9d

Another 48 plots laid out on our 2nd LERN site in Herefordshire (incl some ground prep treatments) 👍🏼 2 more sites still to go 🌳

Reposted by Rupert Seidl, Tommaso Jucker

The International Tree Mortality Network @treemortality.bsky.social · 9d

We’re opening the doors for community meetings. Your chance to influence our next steps & get more involved in the network.

Join one of our upcoming sessions:

🗓 Dec 4 — 06:00 UTC
t1p.de/m3gty

🗓 Dec 4 — 18:00 UTC
t1p.de/xaxsu

🗓 Dec 5 — 13:00 UTC
t1p.de/c4icd

Help guide where ITMN goes next! 🚀

Reposted by Mathias Disney

Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · 9d

Congrats Dr Arthur Yambayamba for passing his PhD with flying colours🍾

Arthur's thesis explores how climate & competition shape the structure of miombo woodlands. Check out some of the work here:

1) shorturl.at/aTVb7
2) shorturl.at/fD42Y

Thanks to Casey Ryan & @mdekauwe.bsky.social for examining!

Reposted by Julia Koricheva, Pieter A. Zuidema, Tommaso Jucker , and 2 more Julia Koricheva, Pieter A. Zuidema, Tommaso Jucker, Carly D. Ziter, Martin Ehbrecht

Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 10d

We're currently looking for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board! 🌎🧪

If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker

Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 13d

🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨

Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social

- employment benefits
- 4 years funding
- 1000% fun

Deadline: 14/1/2026

Details:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Shades of blue and red in a slice through an immuno stained brain showing some deliciously lovely looking mushroom body lobes - ripe for investigation during a funded PhD - and the central complex. Image credit: Dr Max Farnworth

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Caroline Lehmann @caroaceae.bsky.social · 13d

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Plant Ecology at Flinders Uni just advertised. Such a great place + city to live in. So nice to see an Adelaide wide cluster of grassy ecology expertise developing that would be v exciting to be part of! Apply!

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Plant Ecology

Position Details Full Time | Continuing Academic Level B I AU$113,211 - $133,974 p.a.I View Position Description Academic Level C |AU $138,124 - $158,885 pa I View Position Description Location: Bedfo...

flinders.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker, Timo Conradi

New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 14d

Global change research in the observational era

Leuzinger and Medlyn

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 14d

What a depressing figure

www.abc.net.au/news/science...

The graph shows the fall in funding as a percentage of GDP for CSIRO

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker

Phil Martin @philmartin.bsky.social · 15d

Great looking PhD offer with @laurajanegraham.bsky.social assessing the importance of Miyawaki ‘Tiny forests’ for biodiversity. There's a paper due out soon in @jappliedecology.bsky.social that calls for more robust assessments of the Miyawaki method, so good to see projects aiming to fill this gap!

2026-B26 Small and beautiful: Assessing the importance of Miyawaki ‘Tiny forests’ for urban biodiversity – CENTA

centa.ac.uk

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 15d

❄️🌱 RESEARCH 🌱❄️

Ice spreads in a predictable pattern through young L. tulipifera, governed by anatomy and vein architecture. Leaf lethality always involves damage to photosynthetic tissues and can involve air embolism - Johnson et al.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪

Fig. 8.Comparative progression of drought- and freeze–thaw-induced embolism in leaves of young L. tulipifera. (A–C) The spread of embolism during three periods from 5 h to ∼25 h after the beginning of drought. (D–F) The spread of embolism during three periods from 5 min to 15 min after thawing began. Embolisms are colour-coded according to when they occurred, as indicated by the scale at the bottom of the figure.

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Jim Fouracre @jimfouracre.bsky.social · 15d

The wonderful Rox Middleton and i have a #PhD project investigating how cuticles and extracuticular waxes protect #plants from environmental stress as they age. Developmental biology, genetics, environmental signalling and physics split between Bristol and Bath. Please get in touch for more details!

Reposted by Glenn H. Shepard, Juan Rocha, Tommaso Jucker , and 2 more Glenn H. Shepard, Juan Rocha, Tommaso Jucker, Marta Maziarz, Benjamin Wildermuth

Iris Hordijk @iris-hordijk.bsky.social · 16d

There is a PhD position available at @w-u-r.bsky.social on seed dispersal and succession! You will be based at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and conduct fieldwork in tropical forests in Mexico on plant-animal interactions. Deadline to apply: 3rd of December shorturl.at/sLVOU