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🧵New pub alert! This one is very close to my heart. I teach creative writing and this time last academic semester, I rage-wrote an experimental piece about how important human writing (and all other self-expression) was in a world where ChatGPT and other LLMs pretend at human expression:

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🧵It's approaching that time of the semester when I run "AI week" with my junior-level creative writing students. Coincidentally, I have an essay coming out soon on what I feel about LLM-generated creative work. Meanwhile, here's a question for you (see below for alt text and context):

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En nuestro nuevo artículo en Science liderado por @jeaggu, descubrimos que los bosques tropicales están cambiando - pero no lo suficientemente rápido como para seguir el cambio climático. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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(the LI-6800 is) working hard on this holiday (Carnival), while I read a book, drink coffee, and eat indulgent almond tart with cognac-roasted plums...

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please share: I am recruiting for a PhD student to join my lab for fall 2025. I am interested in finding someone who is passionate about applying models to study plant ecology. Potential study systems include urban environments, sagebrush steppe, and tropical forest. caughlinlab.com/join-the-lab/

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🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 The Slate Plant Ecology Lab @ Ohio State University is seeking a Full-Time Senior Research Technician w/ plant ecophysiology experience to manage seed-based laboratory research projects. $17.31 - 22.77/hr Deadline: Feb 28 🌎🌾🧪🌱🌿🍁🌲🌳🍄🪴🥼 #GenerationRestoration #JobAlert #PlantScience

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Morning coffee delivery

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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

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James Cook University has advertised a position for an Associate Professor of Ecosystem Processes Research. Please find full details here: careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/associa...

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New fully-funded PhD project "Ecologically-based temperate rainforest restoration: effectiveness for biodiversity recovery, carbon sequestration and resilience". We are now advertising to recruit to this PhD researcher post: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Today we're celebrating that both Roxana and Andrés got accepted into the PhD program of the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at the University of Minnesota!

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🔥Can heatwaves leave a thermal leaky legacy?🔥 Check out our latest paper on gmin dynamics during and after thermal stress🍃📄 Extremely proud of my student Viviane! Special thanks to @hcochard.bsky.social @torresruizjm.bsky.social @martijnslot.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/plph...

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Leaf Photosynthetic and Respiratory Thermal Acclimation in Terrestrial Plants in Response to Warming: A Global Synthesis 📄 https://buff.ly/3CsVtm7 #photosynthesis #climatewarming

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I finally made a lab website! striresearch.si.edu/forest-biolo... Here you can see who are the awesome people I get to work with, and the sort of things we're doing. I'll post news, opportunities and new publications here.

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Hey, @li-corenv.bsky.social, what does this sound mean? 😉

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... New meta-analysis on plant thermal acclimation in @globalchangebio.bsky.social, led by Ting Wu. Some patterns emerged, but a small # of studies + a large range of methods = it's still hard to draw conclusions. More, and standardized experiments are needed.

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Just some of the work I've done this week (apart from all the sitting/standing behind my computer). Basically, just cakes and plant ecohpys, and I'm ok with that

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Herbivores: 1 Ficus insipida: 0

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New paper on leaf heat tolerance in the next issue of Plant Biology. It challenges the assumed correlation between fluorescence-derived T50 measured soon after a temperature treatment, and leaf necrosis: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... The title basically is the abstract, but... (1/3)

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Come and be my colleague in Panama! forestgeo.si.edu/forestgeo-st...

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Late-breaking job ad: The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, USA) is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Evolutionary Biology!!! More details below. Please repost!

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🚨We are recruiting one or more new Lecturers/Senior Lecturers in Biological Sciences (broadly defined, including ecology & global change) here in Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social Apply and spread the word - Bristol is a wonderful place to live and work! Feel free to get in touch with questions.

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Here is a link to "Warming effects on trees on Barro Colorado Island", the chapter I wrote for the BCI book: smithsonian.figshare.com/articles/cha...

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Using remote sensing to study climate impacts on vegetation? Consider submitting an abstract to "CCS.18: Monitoring Climate Change Impacts on Vegetation" 2025 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium is coming to Brisbane, Australia Aug 3-8 Submission due by 10 January 2025!

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forestgeo.si.edu/forestgeo-st...

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Really cool open-source tech for field biology!

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Another great day in the canopy!

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Postdoctoral positions at UT Austin Stengl-Wyer Scholars ecology and other life sciences for recent graduates deadline: December 9, 2024 $70k/year salary $10k/year for research expenses cns.utexas.edu/research/res... utexas.infoready4.com/CompetitionS...

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The BCI book is out! Almost 100 chapters of science about Barro Colorado Island plant and ecosystem science. scholarlypress.si.edu/store/all/th... Edited by STRI colleagues Helene Muller-Landau and Joe Wright. When I get my hardcopy, I'll want to read this cover to cover (1/2)

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Our review of the direct response of stomata to temperature just came out in an issue (OK, it was 3 months ago but I just noticed). We cover what (little) is known, & possible mechanisms and implications. Several more papers in the works. Watch this space! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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I apologize that my first post on this platform is an attempt at crowdsourcing library access: Does anybody have access to this paper? Owens, J.N., 1995. Constraints to seed production: temperate and tropical forest trees. Tree Physiology 15,477-484. My email address is: slotm[at]si[dot]edu Thanks!

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