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We are the International Association of Wood Anatomists. Follow us for news on wood and bark science, latest publications in the field, and beautiful pictures!

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JOB POSITION

The Technische Universität München School of Life Sciences seeks qualified candidates to a professorship in Wood Formation and Diversity

More info in https://t.co/5zcJr97gpC

[Rebecca Johnson @DrRebeccaJ]

Museum collections provide some of the most important data to help us understand and predict what is happening under a changing climate. However, our collections pre-date electronic databases by hundreds of years so how do we know what we have?

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** New Issue**

“Tracing the world’s timber: the status of scientific verification technologies for species and origin identification” by Melita C. Low et al. is in #OpenAccess in the latest issue of IAWA Journal (Vol. 44, No. 1): https://t.co/GbiPxvceYH

[Ravo Nantenaina Ramanantsialonina @ravo_nantenaina]

Very excited to be able to share our manuscript published, first part of my thesis @PhDVoice . @IAWA_Wood. Agains thanks to my authors 🙏 @G3dUe

[Alexandre Ferraro @alxferraro]

🥺🫰🏼♥️ #plantanatomy

[Vincent Cheng 🏳️‍🌈🦖 @vjcheng]

Imagine my surprise walking into Objects of Wonder at the @NMNH and seeing this wall, was a split second before I realized CROSS, RADIAL, and TANGENTIAL SECTIONS OF WOOD! Little bit traumatizing but I was happy I still recognized the distinctions in the sections thanks @IAWA_Wood

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and Sherwin's hypotheses on the function of vestured pits. Other authors will examine his inferential strategy, the meaning of the term "primitive" in his work, and other authors will treat historical aspects of his work.

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This is a call for proposals for papers for a special issue of the IAWA Journal commemorating the career of Sherwin Carlquist (1930-2021), in the first edition of 2023. Check more info below.

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Some authors will examine one or more of his comparative hypotheses in the light of current knowledge, including the vulnerability to drought-induced embolism-conduit diameter link, the physiological significance of bordered pits on ray cells,

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The issue will the the first of 2023, with manuscript first submission being September 1st.

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We have considerable editorial leeway, so please feel free to propose multi-authored papers, short or long ones, empirical or conceptual. Funding is available to make all papers open access.

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In your proposal, please indicate which paper, papers, books, etc., of Sherwin you would like to react to and how you plan to carry out your discussion.

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To do so, we invite proposals for manuscripts that explain, interpret, critique, or otherwise use a specific idea, approach, or paper(s) of Sherwin's as their starting point.

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@SusanGWLaurance @davidtng @Deborah_Apgaua How interesting, can you share the work?

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@Carey_C2 The red staining of the safranine must have added additional drama to the event :)

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Vessel dimorphism in lianas. The co-occurrence of very wide vessels and narrow ones, here in long chains. Beauty in wood featured by Heteropterys intermedia (Malpighiaceae)

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Square bamboos. Check the recent work of Jiang et al. which explore the variation in the anatomy of the different sides of this interesting species, with high economical potential. https://t.co/5ds7xTpaL8