T.M. Perez

Call for plant ecophysiologists! Do you have Fv/Fm or F0-rise data? Do you know someone who might? @seanmichaletz.bsky.social and @nicolebison.bsky.social would love to hear from you. (Bonus if your data are from Asia or Africa.) Please share widely! #ecology #botany #ClimateChange #HeatTolerance

8 years ago, I tweeted side-by-side maps from NASA GISS showing global temperatures in 1976 and 2018 – both hot summers in the UK. It subsequently went viral and was printed in the Daily Mail! The 2026 version is stark. Two locally extreme summers separated by 50 years of global climate change.

Climate change may reduce the native plant species used by Indigenous cultures in the Amazon basin by one-third, according to research in Nature. The reduction could result in the loss of a quarter of the knowledge associated with the uses of Amazonian plant species by the end of the century. 🌎🧪

Microclimates matter! Presumably the southern edge of these tulips experience more sun/heat and give them a slight head start on blooming compared to those on the northern edge of this row. Spotted at the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival! #tulips #skagitvalley #botany #ecophysiology

See below - A big win for Nature in the battle against climate change! Kudos to our exceptional team for sweating the details that make this work possible. Climate change still rages forward and the work doesn't end here. Onwards! carbonherald.com/symbiosis-me...

I’m #hiring - Our company is looking for a Remote Sensing Data Engineer! If you're interested innovative remote sensing analytics and developing systems to scale-up reforestation projects, we’d love to hear from you. Our j.d. and links to apply are here: lnkd.in/gvzb_3ck Reach out to learn more 🧪🌳🌐🍁

Not sure who needs to read this, but search algorithms (ie google, etc) are altered thousands of times per day with big changes multiple times a year. Your “objective” Boolean searches are not replicable. #science #litreview 🧪

Yesterday, we had a webinar organised by the #PEPR #FORESTT on the use of species distribution models #SDMs with application in forestry 🌳🌲 You can watch 📹 16 talks on this topic, including one on the impacts of microclimatic processes for species (re)distribution ⬇️ tinyurl.com/4yerk68n

Reposting for global ecology 🙃🌐

Happy to share this commentary on our new paper in @pnas.org, led by William Farhan-Rios, exploring responses of tropical tree communities to climate warming from the Amazon to Andes Mountains 🌴 ⛰️ 🌐 An uphill struggle for tropical forest trees | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Where are all the posts about new papers that have been published? I left Twitter/X, but haven’t been able to recapture the same utility here. For better or worse, most of the science I see posted is in LinkedIn. LinkedIn!!! #science #publishing #papers #help

An eastern cottonwood that was planted in March as part of our reforestation project! Can’t wait to analyze the growth and survival data on these plantings this fall #populusdtoides #easterncottonwood #reforestation #naturalclimatesolutions.

North Carolina Botanical Garden (Chapel Hill, NC) is recruiting for a Conservation Botanist! 🎓 Relevant post-Bacc degree req'd ⌛ full time, 2.5-year grant funded position contingent upon additional funding 📨 apps due 7/18 unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/303... #botanyjobs #plantconservationjobs

The National Climate Assessment, and all special reports and past assessments, are now offline. Federal climate science is being systematically erased.

Wow- this is a fascinating interview. & unhinged towards the end. Curious what other people think, esp about the stagnation of science. A scientist once told me that science was just finding new ways to test the same hypothesis, which sounds like stagnation to me. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...

I’m very excited to have led the scientific efforts along with the many moving parts overlooked by other team members that made this happen. It feels amazing to put years of experience and education to work restoring degraded lands and mitigating climate change www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

Please circulate: Postdoc position on responses of Australian mammal pests to climate change. Part of my ARC Laureate Fellowship research. Lots of hands-on fieldwork. Learn about biophysical models. Remote locations. Collaboration with #EcologicalHorizons and #AWC jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91880...

🌍🌱 Global Vegetation Growth Slowing A new study found that plants are absorbing less CO₂ as vegetation growth slows. This weakens Earth’s ability to act as a natural carbon sponge, making it more urgent to reduce emissions & tackle #ClimateChange 🔗 doi.org/10.34133/ehs... #SciComm 🧪

Downscaled daily CMIP6 projections of Tmax, Tmin, P, and e_a at ~1km resolution over the contiguous USA 🌊🧪 #climate

New in #NewPhytologist: Temperature governs the relative contributions of cuticle and stomata to leaf minimum conductance (shorturl.at/f9h7O) - Exciting work with #MichaletzLab PhD graduate #JosefGaren @ubcbotany.bsky.social @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca @newphyt.bsky.social

hey Bluesky hivemind- I’m headed to #Hawaii (Big Island and Kauai) for the first time (!) and need need recs for floras, keys, or other guides to help ID the plants. Any recs out there? 🙏 #plantID #taxonomy #botany

I like the last paper I published- In it collaborators and I test a classic hypothesis in ecology for the first time (that we are aware of) in plants. The take-home message is plants that like temperature variability may “win” in future climates. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

I'm sharing one that an exceptional MSc student led showing how plant growth trajectories, from seeds onward, can be predicted in different microclimates using a theory deeply rooted (sorry) in physics #DEBtheory @juliacon.bsky.social #NicheMapR. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We're used to seeing holly leaves depicted as exclusively spiny, but most wild holly plants have spiny and smooth leaves Common holly (I. aquifolium) *changes its gene expression* to produce spines in response to damage by herbivores. Each pair here is from the same plant 📷 Herrera & Bazaga 2013

If you want to find more about this position, find me tomorrow at #BES2024!

"People working in soil carbon credit markets are aware of the [model] limitations..." But techbros would never game carbon models & fabricate carbon credits. Farmers are being paid millions to trap carbon in their soils. Will it actually help the planet? | Science | AAAS https://buff.ly/3YdazT3

Since COP there seems to be a renewed interest in natural #climate solutions. For a new audience, Here's our take on the physics and ecology of mining carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by ecosystems, circa 2019 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

First post on #bluesky. Excited to see how this digital scientific community unfolds… and if/how this platform plans to monetize. Anyways, here’s a December sunset from Hobuck Beach where I had the pleasure of surfing earlier in the day. Neah Bay, WA