Luciana Alves

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What Is Endangered Now? Climate Science at the Crossroads
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Outrage over Trump team’s climate report spurs researchers to fight back Report authors welcome ‘serious’ scientific rebuttals to report that some say misrepresents decades of climate science.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Scientists decry Trump energy chief’s plan to ‘update’ climate reports: ‘Exactly what Stalin did’ Ex-fossil fuel executive Chris Wright said administration is reviewing national assessments made by past governments

Scientists decry Trump energy chief’s plan to ‘update’ climate reports: ‘Exactly what Stalin did’ [yeah, that was me] | Mark Oliver for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

unbelievable!!

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

There are many ways of destroying the integrity of #science. But one of the most critical is deleting data or failing to collect data or firing the people or destroying the instruments that collect the data that contradicts your preconceived notions.
www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

Trump administration takes aim at satellite that measures carbon dioxide and crops

www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

The White House has instructed NASA to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.

Plasticity in climate change responses Recent research has shown that climate change can both induce and modulate the expression of plastic traits but our understanding of the role of phenotypic plasticity as an adaptive response to clima...

Plasticity in climate change responses - just published in Biological Reviews

What in the role of phenotypic plasticity as an adaptive response to climate change?

Looking at mechanisms from the subcellular to the community and ecosystem levels.

With Stollewerk, @davidboukal.bsky.social, et al.

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words…so tired 😞

Trump freezes $200 million in UCLA science and medical research funding, citing antisemitism The Trump administration has frozen roughly $200 million in National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and other federal agency-funded research at UCLA, citing allegations the school d...

www.latimes.com/california/s...

amazing results, congrats!

Pantropical tree rings show small effects of drought on stem growth Increasing drought pressure under anthropogenic climate change may jeopardize the potential of tropical forests to capture carbon in woody biomass and act as a long-term carbon dioxide sink. To evalua...

How do tropical #trees deal with droughts? The answer is published today in @science.org

Our pantropical #treering analysis revealed 2.5% growth reduction during #drought years. Yet, growth declined by >10% in 1/4 of 500 study sites, and in hotter & drier regions.

doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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a-m-a-z-i-n-g !!!

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

Update: A Trump administration effort to block all funding that flows to outside health researchers was scrapped Tuesday evening after senior White House officials intervened www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Burned Amazon Forests Stay Hot and Stressed for Decades, Finds New NASA-Supported Study Research indicates that fire alters tropical forests' ability to tolerate climate stress and store carbon—a crucial role in global climate mitigation.

"Forests in the Brazilian Amazon damaged by fire remain ~2.6 °C hotter than intact stands & the extra heat can linger for >30 yrs. The findings suggest that fire alters tropical forests in ways that weaken ability to tolerate climate stress & store carbon."🌏 news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/07/25/b...

Bolsonaro Ordered to Wear Ankle Monitor, Escalating Brazil’s Feud With Trump

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NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/w...

Wood density variation from Andean to Amazon forests. Congratulations to William Farfan‐Rios for leading this compelling analysis in @journalofecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Bolsonaro ordered to wear ankle tag over fears he may abscond as coup trial nears end Guilty verdict widely expected for ex-Brazilian president accused of plot to seize power after losing 2022 election Federal police have raided Jair Bolsonaro’s Brasília mansion, banned him from communicating with foreign diplomats and ordered him to wear an electronic ankle tag amid fears Brazil’s ex-president might abscond to avoid punishment over an alleged coup attempt. A supreme court trial examining claims that Bolsonaro masterminded a murderous plot to seize power after losing the 2022 election is expected to reach its conclusion in the coming weeks. Continue reading...

Bolsonaro ordered to wear ankle tag over fears he may abscond as coup trial nears end

congratulations, Camille!!!

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We investigated carbon-hydraulic trait coordination in Amazon tree species across vertical forest profiles

This is our latest contribution from IsoTraits, a #NSF-funded project

#Amazon
#TropicalForests
#HydraulicTraits
#CarbonAllocation
#CarbonTraits
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Unveiling the integration of above- and below-ground tree carbon-hydraulic traits in Amazonian trees across hydrological niches Abstract. Understanding trait coordination and trade-offs along the root-to-leaf hydraulic pathway is critical for assessing forest functioning, as these t

Our new paper today in Tree Physiology 🎉

Unveiling the integration of above- and below-ground tree carbon-hydraulic traits in Amazonian trees across hydrological niches url: academic.oup.com/treephys/art...

“The new analysis shows that the Trump administration’s budget plan, if adopted, “would essentially end America’s longstanding role as the world leader in science and innovation,”

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...

Rivers convey water, sediment, and nutrients from the mountains to the sea. They dynamically carve their paths, either confining flow into a single channel or splitting flow into multiple channels.

Global satellite views illuminate our understanding of how rivers forge their paths, which is crucial for sustainable and safe land management along densely populated waterways.

Learn more this week in Science: scim.ag/4lDTOuK

Women may be discouraged from becoming climate scientists if they perceive the field as male-biased, but little is known about gender in climate science. An analysis of over 400,000 publications shows that men and women in climate science have similar degrees of productivity, success, and connectedness with other scientists, and publish in high-prestige journals at similar rates. However, the analysis also shows that women have marginally shorter careers, which leads to cumulatively fewer publications. Scholars have long been concerned about gender representation in scientific research but there has been little work on gender differences in participation and performance in climate science, a field that engages with both male-majority disciplines (e.g., geosciences, engineering) and female-majority disciplines (e.g., life sciences, medical science). This has implications for both gender equity and viewpoint representation. Sampling over 400,000 publications and a similar number of authors, we examine gender differences in several scholarly outcomes including publication count, career survival, coauthor gender, journal status, and mean citation count. We find men and women are similarly productive, successful, and connected, though women have shorter research careers and thus fewer papers. We also find gender homophily effects in collaboration, but no evidence of gender bias in peer review.

"Women climate scientists are connected, productive, and successful but have shorter careers"
Accessible, though paywalled at doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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que absurdo, Lenine eh maravilhoso!