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Barbeau forest research station @barbeau-fr-fon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Visit of the @hyltemossa.bsky.social station in Sweden after @icos-ri.eu sci. Conf. Very nice place to work.

LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's Fat Bear Week! Wait, you say, why is LI-COR posting about Fat Bears? Well, other than that Fat Bear Week is awesome and we are all nerds, bears have said hello to many instruments over the years. Sometimes the instruments survive unscathed and sometimes .... not.

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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🌿 Reminder: Our Special Issue celebrating 60 years of C4 photosynthesis is open for submissions. Research covering C4 biology, evolution, crop engineering & productivity is welcome 📅 Deadline: 1 Nov 2026 👉 botany.fyi/pq36r5 @marjorielundgren.bsky.social @luketdunning.bsky.social #PlantScience

Special issue graphic for Annals of Botany: “C4 60 – From Kranz to Crops: Celebrating 60 Years of C4 Discovery and Innovation,” edited by Rowan Sage, Marjorie Lundgren, Robert Sharwood and Luke Dunning. Submission deadline: 1 November 2026. The graphic features a fluorescent microscopic image of C4 leaf anatomy.

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Richard Vath @rvath.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Speeding up NPQ is one way to improve photosynthetic efficiency, but how much it matters depends on the photosynthetic pathway in question! Read more in this new work from Arce Cubas et al.: Faster relaxation of nonphotochemical quenching in C4 than in C3 species | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Richard Vath @rvath.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Heads up leaf-level gas exchangers, the Hitchhiker's Guide PDF on LI-COR web is now adhering to slightly more modern standards with navigable contents and searchable text. Paper copies have started to make their way into the world, as well. Stay cool out there. #plants www.licor.com/resources/bo...

Farmers standing and sweating in a corn field, due to extremely high humidity caused by transpiration from leaves.

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LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

These are definitely the important questions! Who doesn't have a favorite greenhouse gas, honestly??

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Craig White @craig-white.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Who likes high-throughput respirometry? 5 @adinstruments.bsky.social PowerLabs, 32 @li-corenv.bsky.social Li840a and 8 Li7000 CO2 analysers, 48 Aalborg Mass Flow Controllers, 6 temperature cabinets, and TriKinetics activity monitoring. With 48 channels, the biggest system we have ever put together!

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ICOS RI @icos-ri.eu · 15/09/2026

Kicking off the peatlands session at #ICOS2026SC, Annalea Lohila from @ilmatieteenlaitos.fi presenting C budget from ICOS Lompolojänkkä station. Highlighting the importance of long term measurements and cross disciplinary research🤝 @luke.fi @helsinki.fi @oulu.fi @uniuef.bsky.social @syke.fi

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Nick Smith @nickgregsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New commentary by me and PhD student Monika Kelley: "A new tool for fitting C4 gas exchange response curves" in @jxbotany.bsky.social . The new tool should make it easier to extract interesting parameters from C4 plants that make them easier to understand and model academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

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A new tool for fitting C4 gas exchange response curves

This article comments on:Woodford R, Ermakova M, Furbank RT, von Caemmerer S. 2026. Fitting photosynthetic carbon dioxide and irradiance response curves fo

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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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

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Help us identify drivers of global variation in PSII heat tolerance kinetics. Seeking collaborators and data in Fv/Fm temperature response curves at multiple heat duration and F0-rise curves. Email Nicole dot Bison at ubc dot ca or Sean dot Michaletz at ubc dot ca. Map of sites contributed shows points in North and South America, Europe, and Australia but not Asia or Africa (or Antartica, on the very slim chance someone has data from there).

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🌼 The 2nd season of the BSA's podcast---A Botanical Podcast!---is now available! 🌼 In this episode, Karolina Heyduk discusses her interest in the #ecophysiology of plants---especially CAM (Crassulacean Acid Metabolism) #photosynthesis! bit.ly/4x6gIQO #botany #plantscience @kheyduk.bsky.social

A graphic announcing the episode of A Botanical Podcast with Karolina Heyduk.

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LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Oddly, we were just talking about this (we being the two people who are behind our posts on BSky, neither of whom is in our actual marketing department because why would we want to do THAT?). We miss the goofy community we had/worked to build on That Other Site. 🙁

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🌱From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Plant Resilience and #Conservation for a Changing Climate”🌱 Success of coastal sage scrub restoration is influenced by local adaptations of #shrub species By Moises R. Perea-Vega et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #climatechange #drought @amykhenry.bsky.social

Ecologists measuring shrubs planted in the precipitation manipulation and seed source experiment.

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Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Seasonal dependence of temperate forest soil respiration to soil temperature and water content clarified through data-driven modeling - Ph.D. student 🎉 Capelle et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Please do not let the magic smoke out of your instruments.

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Erin Hassett @erinhassett.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

New paper published in STOTEN! We used/improved the model ecosys to simulate carbon fluxes in a freshwater wetland! Access for free for 50 days: lnkd.in/g47UZZux

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Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

📣 Please join us for a Plant Physiology webinar celebrating the Focus Collection on Algae and Aquatic Plants, September 24 at 11 AM Eastern time.🌱 Featuring talks by James Moroney, Onyou Nam, and Daniel Ducat👉 blog.aspb.org/plant-physio... #PlantScience

Promotional webinar graphic announcing "Algae and Aquatic Plants" on Sept 24, featuring circular headshots of speakers, a host, and a moderator, and branded with Plant Physiology and American Society of Plant Biologists logos on a dark background with green geometric circles.

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

New lab paper, led by @ellliieee.bsky.social with assist from @wickellomics.bsky.social, other lab members, and folks at @li-corenv.bsky.social - how do we study photosynthesis in aquatic plants? Turns out it's pretty hard! Part review, part methods paper. Check it out! doi.org/10.1002/aps3...

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MSU Plant Resilience Institute @msupri.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

MSU Plant Resilience Institute Research Specialist Karine Prado spoke with @davidcondos.bsky.social at @kuer.org about how a native Death Valley plant is helping the @rheelab.bsky.social uncover how life can flourish in extreme heat, unlocking a potential blueprint for more heat-resilient crops.

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Growing food in a hotter, drier Utah calls for crops that survive like desert plants

Native desert plants evolved not just to handle hot, dry weather but to thrive in it. Now scientists are looking for clues that might help farm crops survive in a warming world.

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ICOS RI @icos-ri.eu · 13/08/2026

“It’s really important to understand how vulnerable or resilient these carbon stocks are in the future.” The Clara Raised Bog ICOS station in Ireland collects greenhouse gas data from an ecosystem that plays dual role in climate mitigation. 👉 The #ExploreICOS video: ow.ly/Mx8H50Zzo0B

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LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A woman with greyish brown hair is speaking with a man in a blue baseball cap at the LI-COR/HOBO booth.

A bald man in flannel is speaking with a blonde man at the LI-COR/HOBO booth.

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Tom Buckley @tombuckleylab.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

We had a great workshop this week in South Lake Tahoe on the topic of unsaturation in the leaf airspaces, with 15 local participants from around the world and several remote. Thanks to LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social for generous support! @ucdavisplants.bsky.social

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Plant Ecophys (BSA) @bsa-ecophys.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

That’s a wrap for all of our section’s sessions. Thanks to everyone who came and presented such awesome research this year. See you next year in Buffalo! #bsaecophys #botany2026

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LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Did you make Jason sign it? 🙂

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Isabel Reche @isabel-reche.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

First paper of our floating platform with an Eddy covariance tower in a Mediterranean reservoir onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/FU88P6...

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A Drier Year Markedly Enhances Methane, but Not Carbon Dioxide, Emissions in a Mediterranean Reservoir

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LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This Lego minifig looks very familiar, not to mention the instrument he’s using…

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LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

That's a wrap on the exhibits at #ESA2026, but LI-COR scientists will be roaming the convention center tomorrow in case you have more questions or want to talk instruments.

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Large Black Bear Wandering in a Green Field

ALT: Large Black Bear Wandering in a Green Field

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LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We will add that to the wall!

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LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It’s the last day of exhibits at #ESA2026. If you haven’t added your suggestions for what we should make/do next, come by and let your voice be heard. Note: the many requests to bring back the T-shirts HAVE been heard!

A number of post it notes with suggestions for what LI-COR should make next.

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LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Because #PlantsAren’tDumb ?

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LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Almost time for the first poster session at #ESA2026. Come say hello and eat some ice cream.🍨

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LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We were talking science and instruments so much at #ESA2026 yesterday that we forgot to post! Oops. The exhibit hall will be open again today and we’d love to talk science and instruments with you.

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Also on the topic of ecophys - there are still spots in our LiCor workshop on Sunday afternoon! We just got off a planning call, it's going to be awesome! Come learn all about how to measure and troubleshoot weird stuff (i.e., not corn leaves). #Botany2026

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Power, precision, and portability in one system! The LI-6878 Leaf Trace Gas Integration System lets you take real-time leaf-level CH4, N2O, and CO2 isotope measurements anywhere. Learn more here: www.licor.com/products/pho... 🌵 Find LI-COR soon at Booth #418 at #Botany2026!

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LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It's the time of year when LI-COR scientists are doing their best impression of dandelions. Come see us at #PlantBio2026 this week, #ESA2026 next week, and #Botany2026 and #ASHS2026 the week after.

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Dandelion Black And White

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LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Did you find it? We did! 🔎

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LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Liking for the LI-250A, NOT the actual reading!

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Evan Perkowski @eaperkowski.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

🚨 Article alert! 🚨 Happy to share that our new paper, titled "The negative effects of an allelopathic invader on native plant photosynthesis are amplified after tree canopy closure" is now available at @funecology.bsky.social! Link (Open Access): besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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The negative effects of an allelopathic invader on native plant photosynthesis are amplified after tree canopy closure

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Hyltemossa Atmosphere Ecosystem Research Station Lund University @hyltemossa.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Another intake up! Hopefully we'll soon have BVOC/CH4/CO2 EC Flux, CO2/CH4/O3 profile & subcanopy CO2 EC & CO2/CH4 soil/trunk chamber measurements. Note the @icos-ri.eu 30m CO2 EC Flux & 150m GHG profile setup in the background @icossweden.bsky.social @beccsweden.bsky.social @lufluxes.bsky.social

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LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This week we're in Philadelphia for PhysFestFive - a workshop and celebration of all things ecophysiology. We're always happy to get together with the #PhysFam and to welcome new members.

Scientists in the sun using the LI-600 portable porometer/fluorometers.

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LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Oh hey, we recognize those people.

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LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

We would want that to be a self-submission situation so no one thought we were making fun of them, but that is an interesting idea....

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LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Our support team was recently asked why we did not put all possible failure modes in our manuals. We agree that this would be extremely entertaining, but are unsure if we could adequately capture the, uh, creativity possible in the scientific community. Should we still attempt this?

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LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Our scientists do this pretty much every week. 😆 The advice others have provided about batteries and CO2 cartridges is good. You should also make sure the humidifier column is not attached to the console. With no batteries but one AC adapter, the loaded case is juuuust under 50 pounds.

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