Pernilla Borgström

På fredag skall Naturskyddsföreningen lämna över sin lista underskrifter för en infrastruktursatsning på järnvägen – central för svensk industri, för ett fungerande pendlarliv och för klimatvänliga resor.

Skriv gärna på innan dess.

www.naturskyddsforeningen.se/kampanj/sats...

I constantly feel like the big AI grouch at work (and outside of it), but really: we need to remember (and remember, and remember) the value of our own brains. So here's another reminder! Writing is a beautiful and useful thing. Let's keep practising it, at all scales.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Skrev en text om farorna med att bildsätta nyheter om värmeböljor med glada, badande människor - om hur vanligt det är och vad media kan göra istället:

Hugely entertaining piece for anyone (biologist or not) who's ever watched a film and in frustration/fascination thought, "WHY did they choose to use THAT specific species there??".

Tell Commissioner Kadis to end the destruction of marine havens in Europe Bottom trawling is one of the world’s most destructive fishing practices. By dragging weighted nets along the ocean floor — some up to 240 meters wide — bottom trawling devastates coastal habitats, ki...

act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...

Two thoughts on this Trans Day of Visibility:

1. Trans people are just ordinary people. We have jobs & families. We are trying to pursue happiness like everyone else.

2. Almost everything you "know" about trans people has filtered thru an insanely well-funded scapegoating media machine*.

Håller med om rädslan men OBS att detta gäller tama honungsbin, en helt egen kategori av pollinatörer, med egna problem. Viktigare är att vilda pollinatörer finns och frodas. Vilket de tyvärr troligen inte heller gör, där har vi sämre koll… men fokus borde skifta mer mot dem! Mvh/Bipolisen :)

Klimatministern tackar nej till Klimatpolitiska rådet För första gången kommer Sveriges klimatminister inte närvara när Klimatpolitiska rådet presenterar sin utvärdering av regeringens politik.

På torsdag släppet Klimatpolitiska Rådet sin årliga rapport.
Den främsta representanten för svensk klimatpolitik kommer inte att vara på plats, men alla som vill veta mer om rapportinnehållet kan följa lanseringen digitalt:
www.klimatpolitiskaradet.se/rapport-2025/

www.dn.se/sverige/klim...

My favourite example is this nice little blog of travel stories from LU staff going on non-flying business travel: really nice and inspiring!

sustainabletravelstories.blogg.lu.se

Promising news snippet from the university!

Many people at LU have worked (and still work) very hard to change university travel routines and shift people's attention towards more sustainable options. 👏

www.staff.lu.se/article/gree...

How can we produce food and at the same time strengthen biodiversity? 🌾🦋

Join us at this LU Land webinar:

🧑‍🏫Speaker: Romain Carrié, Lund University and @inrae-france.bsky.social
🕣 Tme: 08:30 - 09:30 AM
💻 26 February: Zoom
📝 Registration 24 February: www.becc.lu.se/calendar/lu-...

Go Rona! 🦇🚴🦇🚴🦇

Postdoc position open in a very nice team! (SLU Uppsala)

Multifunctionality of diversified agroecosystems: effects of agroecological practices on crop yield and other ecosystem services, efficient resource use in a changing climate.

More details: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

I love the crazy names given to moths. A favourite is the day-flying moth Mother Shipton. Named after an infamous Yorkshire witch, if you look hard enough at the wing pattern you can make out the profile of an ugly old face. I found this one in the Yorkshire Wolds.
#teammoth #yorkshire #ukwildlife

Lund University ranked 3rd in the world for sustainability!
🥳👏🥳👏🥳
Congrats to all my lovely colleagues at CEC, @beccsweden.bsky.social, LU Sustainability Forum and more, working very hard every day for a more sustainable research and education environment at LU.
www.cec.lu.se/article/henr...

Bryt trenden: Ge lärosätena större andel av pengarna | Tidningen Curie Regeringen har aviserat en stor satsning på forskning. Detaljerna kommer inom kort i forsknings- och innovationspropositionen, men en sak står klar redan nu: satsningen innebär att fler forskare och l...

Bra att ST lyfter denna viktiga fråga. En större andel av forskningsfinansieringen behöver gå direkt till lärosätana om vi som jobbar inom akademin ska ha schyssta arbetsvillkor & akademisk frihet.

Wow. Maybe a first for (very unrealistic) gen-AI image on the cover of a leading Ecology journal? This seems like the sort of thing that might be considered harmless fun, but what about the optics/ethics of promoting and normalising use of this problematic tech in scholarly publishing? #academicsky

Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...

Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs.

I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...