Emma L Underwood

Great talk today Vivien!

US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.

Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers.

Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social

🚨New paper by @annaroennfeldt.bsky.social et al. on climatic niche differences across island regions. Their paper shows plants introduced to the Pacific Islands showed the lowest ratio of niche conservatism.
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A great start to the new year! 🥳
@zurelllab.bsky.social

“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” 🧪

IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. 🌍

It started with a brilliant keynote by Sandra Diaz on Phenospace, a plant-pollinator network with @julianresasco.bsky.social, urban forests with @carlyziter.bsky.social, airborne eDNA with Joseph Trafford, bird frugivores with Charlie Marsh, and C02 sinks in tropical dry forests with Casey Ryan...

#BES2025 day 1 in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.

Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Every stage of fossil fuel life cycle harms people & the environment: Report A new report traces the life cycle of fossil fuels — from exploration and extraction to combustion and decommissioning — and found stark consequences at each stage for the health of people and the…

A new report traces the life cycle of fossil fuels — from exploration and extraction to combustion and decommissioning — and found stark consequences at each stage for the health of people and the planet alike.

Thanks to all the presenters and facilitators, it has been a great day 🛰️🌍 @zalf.bsky.social

From sea ice to ocean currents, Antarctica is now undergoing abrupt changes – and we’ll all feel them The vast ice of Antarctica has long seemed impregnable. But sudden changes are arriving – from shrinking sea ice to melting ice sheets and slowing ocean currents.

A new study in @nature.com shows that abrupt changes to Antarctica’s currents, ice and glaciers are already underway – and likely to significantly intensify in the future, with global impacts for generations to come.🧪🌏

Read more in @theconversation.com 

Trump team’s contentious climate report ‘makes a mockery of science’, experts say Over 85 top climate specialists lambasted administration’s review, calling it a ‘shoddy mess’ that downplays risks

More coverage of the scathing review by more than 80 scientists of the report from the DOE's climate working group. It's biased, cherry picked, and written with a scientifically unsupported agenda. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

By the numbers — 500 Women Scientists Numbers matter. If they didn’t matter, wanna-be authoritarians wouldn’t be censoring labor statistics that don’t show them in favorable terms. The “flood the zone” strategy the Trump administration ha...

We are living in a post-accountability world, at least for the rich and powerful and their enablers. Tracking their actions and impacts is critical to have the kinds of accountability we need...accountability needs numbers #resist
500womenscientists.org/updates/2025...

Hi Brooke! Could I be added? I'm in my final weeks of PhD and looking for a postdoc 🌿

@esa.int

Poster is up at M12 in the poster arena! 🌏🌿🇦🇹 #LPS25 @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social

Emma Underwood badge for #LPS25

Austria Conference Centre Vienna doorway with large poster for #LPS25

Austria Conference Centre steps with #LPS25 colourful adverts for the event

Arrived in Vienna for #LPS25 conference! 🇦🇹🌎 @esa.int

A colourful poster titled "Triple threats to tropical biodiversity: predicting the impact of future climate change, disease and deforestation on vulnerable species range dynamics with RangeShiftR"; with five sub-headers with text sections including: 1) Background, 2) Aim, 3) Methods, 4) Results and 5) Discussion. There are five figures, figure 1 is a map of Madagascar, figure 2 is a conceptual diagram of the RangeShiftR modelling framework, figure 3 is a conceptual diagram of model scenario combinations, figure 4 are maps of Madagascar showing habitat suitability of the focal tree and its wilt pathogen, and figure 5 shows a lambda graph describing population growth rates over a 100-year simulation. At the bottom of the poster are references, acknowledgements and credits.

I am happy to share this poster will be displayed at the upcoming Kingston University ECE PGR Conference 2025!
I'd love your feedback, comments and questions 🌍
#KUECEPGRConference2025 #PhDchat #SciComm @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social

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@buffysmith.bsky.social @theednaconsultancy.bsky.social 🧬

We need 1,000 new regular supporters to join us and help build a new media for a different politics. Can you help us reach our target?

Help us shift the public conversation and take on the vested interests that have corrupted mainstream media.

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Postdoc call in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling (up to 6 ya) at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We focus on modelling terrestrial plant communities, island biogeography, range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/CL1ny

Thanks @gis4he.bsky.social 😊

really clear overview of range shift by Emma Underwood to get everyone on the right track for their presentation..... good work. #gisruk

@gisruk.bsky.social 🙌

Been a little while since I was last in Bristol! ✨
Happy to be talking about my latest research today at #GISRUK hosted by the University of Bristol - thanks for having me and thanks to the organisers!
#research #presentation #phd #biogeography #methods #modelling #sdm #rangeshift #climatechange

More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024, says UN Floods, heatwaves and supercharged hurricanes occurred in hottest climate human society has ever experienced

“Global warming continues unabated, as predicted correctly since the 1980s, millions of people are increasingly suffering the consequences,” states PIKs @rahmstorf.bsky.social on WMO report. “We can only stop the warming trend by getting out of fossil fuels fast.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Nightmare’ fire threatens iconic Madagascar national park A mighty blaze in Madagascar’s Ranomafana National Park is menacing the home of the world’s rarest lemur species. Disastrous dry conditions have turned the biodiversity haven into a tinderbox. The par...

"Nightmarish" fire spreading across Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar - according to Prof Pat Wright, it has impacted >600 acres so far
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Achieving higher standards in species distribution modeling by leveraging the diversity of available software The increasing online availability of biodiversity data and advances in ecological modeling have led to a proliferation of open-source modeling tools. In particular, R packages for species distributi....

Check out our new paper in @ecography.bsky.social
led by Jamie Kass! big team of #R pkg developers show how to improve analysis standards by combining different pkgs for species distribution models #SDM, provide a #shiny app to catalog & explore them, 3 extensive tutorials. doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

Listen to AI podcast on Kass et al. „Achieving higher standards in SDM“ earthskysea.org/ecocast-podc... by @earthskysea.bsky.social