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Our community needs more advocates like Tana Wood! We are so in awe of your strength standing with and for survivors. #WomenInSTEM #workplacesafety #BelieveSurvivors

Yadvinder Malhi Sarah Batterman Tana Wood Maga Gei @panemma Smithsonian Panama Not only at field stations. This is rife across academia!

The work of amazing researchers like @KateClancy has shown that ~64% of field researchers report harassment while in the field, and 22% —ONE IN FIVE-- report assault. Sexual misconduct is pervasive and systemic in fieldwork.

Check our recent paper Ecology, we synthesized available data from the literature and found that🔥fire🔥reduces soil enzyme activities and reorganizes microbially-mediated nutrient cycles esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100… with Arielle Biro @michellewongca Sarah Batterman @stavercarla

I'm so honored to work with @michellewongca and excited for her next steps. She's going to be a super adviser. Congratulations!

Delighted 🥳to share Khushboo Gurung's exciting first, first author paper in Nature Communications: Climate windows of opportunity for plant expansion during the Phanerozoic Benjamin Mills Sarah Batterman @YGodderis Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil @ESSILeeds The Leverhulme Trust Natural Environment Research Council 1/3

Using a new dynamic vegetation model, Khushboo Gurung shows that there were *two* major climate windows of opportunity during the Ordovician and Jurassic-Paleogene for plant biomass expansion... 2/3

These windows were driven by continental dispersion, paleolatitude of continental area and a lack of glaciation. Their timing coincides with initial land plant expansion 🌿and later radiation of angiosperms 🌼🌻🌹🌺 3/3

We did it! If you like #modelling and #plants check out our simple one called FLORA 🌱💚and how it performs over the Phanerozoic.

This was a fun collaboration led by Khushboo Gurung on opportunities for plant evolution and expansion over Earth's long-term history. Benjamin Mills Prof. Katie Field Natural Environment Research Council The Leverhulme Trust Geography at Leeds Cary Institute Smithsonian Panama

Where are all the men having childcare issues at #esa2022? Ecological Society

Just out in nature: Herbivory on nitrogen-fixing trees limits the ability of tropical forests to grow & store carbon; constrains the tropical forest carbon sink. Sarah Batterman @LSComita #WillBarker Smithsonian Panama doi.org/10.1038/s41586… caryinstitute.org/news-insights/…

In the tropics, #nitrogen-fixing trees take a hit from herbivores Cary Institute @nature phys.org/news/2022-12-t…

Herbivory costs drive the scarcity of nitrogen-fixing tropical trees. N-fixers are preferentially hit by herbivores, potentially limiting the tropical carbon sink. nature #WillBarker Sarah Batterman with @LSComita #JoeWright #BrianSedio #OliverPhillips nature.com/articles/s4158…

Christmas has come early for ecosystem science this week nature.com/articles/s4146… nature.com/articles/s4158… science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… nature.com/articles/s4156…

"Herbivores can limit nitrogen availability on land" -- super cool analysis and questions raised by @joywinbourne and @lmcculloch9 in their News & Views on our article. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Do herbivores prefer nitrogen-fixing plants over non-nitrogen-fixing plants? The answer might help to explain the limited nitrogen availability on land go.nature.com/3hwun32

Plants are powerful -- the geographical range of plants influenced long-term climate. Fun study to be involved in led by Khushboo Gurung with Benjamin Mills & Prof. Katie Field