Exciting PhD opportunity advertised by superstar colleague Prof. Rachael Gallagher "Genomic and trait-based indicators of restoration success" (collaboration with Botanic Gardens of Sydney). See attached image. Contact Rachael directly for more information (email in advert). Closes 30th Nov.

📢🌿Available #traits #FunctionalTraits PhD position in my group @westsyduhie.bsky.social, closes 30th Oct. Topics: “Climate adaptations in Australian native grasses”; OR “Plant resource economics”. Apply via WSU Online Portal. Eligibility and other key info here: wrightlab.wordpress.com/news/

Wind and frost have surprisingly strong effects on global patterns in leaf cuticle thickness! Latitude, biome and taxonomy matter too. Other climate variables not so much. #trait research from international team including @lawrensack.bsky.social @westobymark.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Here's some cool results from the paper: taxonomic and environmental patterning in metabolic rate – body size relations

Excited to share this paper led by ECR Tiantian Pan: Adaptation in eucalyptus wood anatomy to site climate, just published in PCE.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... Wonderful coauthors including
@julianschrader.bsky.social and @deannicolle1.bsky.social e1.bsky.social #FunctionalTraits

📢🌶️🌿Tech-savvy with expertise in agriculture or horticulture? This is your chance to make an impact! Join Western Sydney Uni’s APPN team as Senior Technical Officer and support world-leading research in plant phenotyping across state-of-the-art facilities. Closing 8.30pm, 16 Feb. tinyurl.com/47nezhnm

I played just a small part in this excellent paper led by ECR Félix de Tombeur: Anatomical and Trait Analyses Reveal a Silicon-Carbon Trade-Off in the Epidermis of Sedges (Plant, Cell Environ: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)

I hope you like this nice #FunctionalTraits #traits paper led by Chongzhe Zhang, PhD student at Lanzhou U. & Western Sydney U. "An integrated fast–slow plant and nematode economics spectrum predicts soil organic carbon dynamics during natural restoration". nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Here's something new that's a bit different to what I normally work on. Led by PhD student Chongzhe Zhang, in this article we propose a framework for "Linking nematodes and ecosystem function: a trait-based framework". authors.elsevier.com/c/1igSqcZ3X0....

Word clouds based on google scholar profiles (not surprisingly) do a very good job at summarising what you work on and find most interesting! Here's mine:

Hi Blue Sky community! Looking forward to reconnecting with plant sci (and other) people who were once on twitter, and freshly connecting with new people!