@atkinsjeff.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ Virginia Commonwealth University; displaced Forest Service scientist; ecosystem ecologist with a remote sensing problem; standard time apologist; lover of loud, noisy, weird music.
hey so I received news from my network of foresters in Athens.
we have a problem.
@athensmusicjunkie.com @athenspoliticsnerd.bsky.social
there is a tree in town whose seed was brought up by Apollo 14. it is called the Moon Tree.
It is now slated for destruction for the shittiest of reasons.
The county gets off lucky honestly.
some of you may be aware that I am completely OCD about how to give a good research talk.
this story may just be the very best thing I've ever read on the topic.
the. best. ever.
@esajournals.bsky.social paper led by @caryinstitute.bsky.social finds that ticks carrying multiple pathogens are on the rise in the US Northeast, + other concerning trends. Authors hope the findings will inform proper diagnosis and treatment. Learn more: www.caryinstitute.org/news-insight...
"Beyond Ice: NASA’s ICESat-2 spaceborne lidar mission for land and vegetation applications" now out in IEEE.
Really proud to have contributed to this effort led by Carlos Silva & Amy Neuenschwander showing potential for ICESat2 for vegetation/land applications
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/114...
Equivalent to the US Forest Service R&D budget for ~34 years.
😱🤯 -- Just looked up the cost to go gold open access at Nature Eco Evo: US$12850! That's $21,600 NZD. That's the same cost as a Royal Society Master's Scholarship!
This has gone too far. Absolutely bonkers.
this junkballing Czech electrician is a folk hero in Japan for striking out Ohtani in the last WBC (stopped for photos/autographs etc) but he's retiring after this bc Czech league ball doesn't pay the bills.
I love the way he took in in this one last surreal moment before going back to normalcy
Charlottesville has a lot of issues, but our trash sticker thing is top-notch. No notes. Perfect.
Just found out there isn't a "southern" cardinal.
Really excited about our wall-to-wall forest structural metrics workshop tomorrow through @forestsat.bsky.social Dr. Inacio Bueno and I will walk you through how to get the most out of your lidar data.
Saving, not savings. Banish it in how much this annoys me alone.
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I’m reminded of that tweet that says that men were able to successfully cast themselves as the less emotional gender by redefining anger as not an emotion
Some exciting news to share: very soon, NOAA Research will be hiring new federal employees into science positions across the agency! A couple of notes:
1) They will only be open on USAJobs for seven days.
2) Multiple positions at different sites may be in one posting.
(1/2)
This is the thing AI is "good" at 🤣
Highly recommend Weapons. Best movie last year that I have seen so far.
Exciting announcement! My new department is launching a postdoc fellowship in quantitative biology. Fellows will be co-advised by two Bio faculty, one that is quant focused (not me) and one that is not (me???). I would love to co-sponsor a postdoc and build a collaboration so please reach out!
Grain of salt, and I am not a physician or a medical doctor, and yeah causation/correlation, that all said...this is still sound enough to be seriously concerning.
Maybe, but do consider they are just shit at comprehension.
I mean that depends on multiple factors.
I have questions
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In Central Europe, forest management shapes post-disturbance recovery mostly through what’s left behind (disturbance legacies 🪵🌱) than impacting forest growth rates 📈
+ Set-aside forests regrow canopy height as fast as managed forests
New paper out in ForEcolMngt 🌳 doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...
This headline is 1000x better if you know nothing about minor league baseball.
WTF
Second maybe to the amount of time spent writing proposals, but generally, yes 🤣
I'm fortunate that fell to people with higher pay grades than me. I was tasked with demonstrating what the ecology lab exercises would look like, but the only ones who showed up seemed to be pre-health and one kid who was trying to convince their parents that they wanted to do forensic sciences
Old-growth Forest Research Assistants
We are seeking old-growth forest research technicians to study and document old-growth forests in Spring & Summer 2026 Virgina.
See the attached images for the job description and how to apply.
Yes, but is this a good thing? Have you met a BIRDER?