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Katya Isabelle Bandow

@botanykat.bsky.social
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PhD student in lutruwita | evolution, anatomy & physiology of southern conifers | Bookworm 📚 | Co-host @thatssciencetas.bsky.social 🌲🌿🌳 (she/her) www.inaturalist.org/people/katyaban…

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Katya Isabelle Bandow @botanykat.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Leaf size is an important trait shaping species distributions globally. We looked at how climate and evolutionary history influence leaf size in conifers! Spoiler: lots of evolutionary conservatism! Check out our paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social out now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Leaf Size in Conifers: Global Associations With Climate and Evolutionary History
Global patterns in leaf size are linked to climatic trade-offs, so we explore these relationships in a major group of plants, the conifers. Using contemporary phylogenetic methods, we show that conif....
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Kate Johnson @kateplantphys.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The cover of @jxbotany.bsky.social is my painting of Tulip Poplar, a North-American native & global street tree that was the focus of our paper visualising freezing spread & freeze-thaw embolism in leaves! A lovely way to finish this multi-year mutli-country project 🔗below @brodersenlab.bsky.social
Watercolour painting of a young Tulip Poplar tree on the cover of 'Journal  Experimental Botany', for volume 76, Issue 18, 2025
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Kate Johnson @kateplantphys.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Showing off our figure of global conifer leaf-widths & leaf silhouettes highlighting that conifers can be broad-leaved & angiosperms can be narrow/ needle-leaved! 🍃 Our paper: tinyurl.com/mss2me7v @newphyt.bsky.social @vallicrosah.bsky.social @botanykat.bsky.social & Matilda Brown
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Kate Johnson @kateplantphys.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Do you define trees as either needle- or broad-leaved? Are you doing this correctly? Read our OA paper: Cones & Consequences @newphyt.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mss2me7v @vallicrosah.bsky.social @botanykat.bsky.social @creaf.cat @wslresearch.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social
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Cones and consequences: the false dichotomy of conifers vs broad‐leaves has critical implications for research and modelling
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That's What I Call Science 🎙 @thatssciencetas.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Happy 2025 from That's What I Call Science! We kicked off this year with a deep dive into all things TWICS—reflecting on our experiences and brainstorming ideas for 2025. We can’t wait to bring you more incredible episodes this year! #TWICS #Tasmania #twics #scicomm #science #STEMM
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Kali Middleby @kalimiddleby.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Check out our new article just out in The Conversation highlighting the effects of warming leaves +4°C in tropical trees. 🌿🌡️ theconversation.com/study-shows-...
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Study shows hot leaves can’t catch carbon from the air. It’s bad news for rainforests – and Earth
An experiment in the Daintree rainforest found the rate of photosynthesis in leaves warmed by 4°C dropped by an average of 35% compared to non-warmed controls.
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Katya Isabelle Bandow @botanykat.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
check out these bioluminescent ghost fungi (Omphalotus nidiformis)
A photo of large mushroom taken at night time, lit up with green bioluminescence
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Kali Middleby @kalimiddleby.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Time to introduce myself! Recently, I defended my thesis titled "Patterns and Drivers of Leaf Thermoregulation in Rainforest Trees of the Australian Wet Tropics" where I focused on the role of within-species acclimation and adaptation on leaf temperature. Here’s a little summary of what went on…
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Katya Isabelle Bandow @botanykat.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
i always stop and admire sphagnum on a walk 💚
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Katya Isabelle Bandow @botanykat.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
misty evenings 🩵
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Kate Johnson @kateplantphys.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Are you in Lausanne, Switzerland next week? Come and hear me (a scientist) and Maja Renn (a performance artist) discuss Maja’s current piece '[Pheno]plasticity' from scientific & artistic perspectives!! Wednesday, 4 December 24, 2.45pm – 3.45pm Salle MED 2 2423 EPFL, Lausanne Free admission (1/4)
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Katya Isabelle Bandow @botanykat.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
this has to be the prettiest cladogram i've ever seen! #botany #plantscience #phylogeny #sciart #twitterrepost
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Simon Haberle @thatpollenguy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Our new study out in @ScienceAdvances shows human presence in Tasmania at least 41,600 years ago, nearly 2000 years earlier than previously thought, and Aboriginal people burned and used wet forests. Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Landscape burning facilitated Aboriginal migration into Lutruwita/Tasmania 41,600 years ago
Paleoecological records show that Aboriginal people burned wet forest to first settle in Tasmania 41,600 years ago.
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Katya Isabelle Bandow @botanykat.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hello bsky! My name is Katya, and i am a botany PhD student, wilderness enthusiast, science communicator with @thatssciencetas.bsky.social and an all around plant nerd. Happy to be here 🦋
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