It has been such a dream collaborating with Yoni Glogower (Director of Conservation and Sustainability, City of Holyoke) and Sage Franetovich (Botany prof at HCC) to support Holyoke's Urban Forest Equity Plan!! So exciting to see our work covered in the local paper!

Exploring Urban Tree Dynamics: Our PI, Jess Gersony (she|her), teams up with Holyoke Community College and the Holyoke Department of Conservation and Sustainability to pioneer an exciting urban forestry research project! 🌳🔬 #TreeStudy

The Lab tradition: Wrapping up each semester with a team lunch. A simple yet meaningful way to acknowledge our achievements, reflect on the semester, and foster team spirit. Here's to the steady rhythm of progress and to more in the next semester! 📷 #LabTradition

Breaking Monday blues with exciting news!! 🎉Our lab now has a blog! 📷Dive into real talk about research, team interests, and everything wild. Join us in spreading the plant love!🍀Jess Gersony (she|her) theplacelab.blog

The first tweet of the year 🎉!!!! And it's the season for unwrapping new science toys at the PLACE Lab🪩!! The latest addition is Conviron's plant growth chamber! Our Castor plants happily own their new comfy home🪴🪴!! #thePLACElabJourney✌️

Thrilled!! ! "Understanding Climate Change through Plant Biology and the Arts," is at the heart of what the PLACE lab thrives on! #plantscience #treepeople #urbantrees #treephysiology

Huge congrats to Skarlet Rubi, our PLACE lab's first Honors student, on nailing their preliminary presentation! 🎉 Excited to see the final results unfold! ✌🏻✌🏻 #newPI #Ecophysiology #plantbiology #treephysiology

Wondering about Massachusetts forests, land management and climate change? Check out this recent article!! it was an honor to be in an article alongside Dr. Angelica Patterson !!!!!

Dream team!! Recently hit the road with the PLACE lab team to Montpellier for the solar eclipse. It was a fantastic team bonding-experience! #SolarEclipse2024 #teambuilding #DEI #TreePeople #plantscience How do you strengthen bonds with your academic crew?

In the PLACE lab waiting for osmometer means it’s time for a jam session! Science with a side of rhythm!! 🍀 #Ecophysiology #PlantScience

Ever heard of Pawpaws, North America's forgotten native fruit? Check out our postdoc Malini_MK 's recent science communication article on Pawpaws on the Minor Use Foundation blog! #scicomm #fruits #farming #PlantScience minorusefoundation.org/pawpaw-forgott…

The Smith College Bulb Show is in full bloom! Jess Gersony (she|her) kicked it off with an amazing talk on plants, climate change & how art + community can reshape science. 🎥Watch the recording [youtu.be/12TsFn2x6tA?si…]. Don’t miss PLACE Lab’s artwork featured in the talk! #PlantScience

Glad to share the piece I wrote for @Plantae_org about disabled scientists in plant biology. Thanks to Kelsey J.R.P. Byers , and Dr. Emily May Armstrong for sharing your stories.

Our PLACE Lab team loves the biweekly outreach with Girls Inc of the Valley using art as a gateway to plant science for elementary students! 🌱🎨 From crafting clay seeds to knowing photosynthesis, it's all about learning science through hands-on creativity. #STEAM #SciArt #PlantScience

Our seniors (Avery, Chlo, Flora & Al) have graduated from Smith!! 🎓 We’re so proud of all you’ve done at the lab. Watching you grow into scientists (& even more wonderful humans) has been pure joy!! It’s bittersweet to let you go - can’t wait to see what’s next!! #Classof2025

I enjoyed writing this piece for SEB @sebiology.bsky.social on a JXB @jxbotany.bsky.social Editor’s Choice article! It looks at how plastoglobules and lipid droplets play different roles in aging leaves. Thanks to the SEB team!