Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar power #CBarchive

✍️ @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org

🎨 @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org @jjgoodman.bsky.social @tom.2x2.graphics

Read here: buff.ly/NdBxXaw

Announcing '#Anthromes and terrestrial carbon: From the deep past to net-zero' – a new joint Special Collection from Plants, People, Planet and New Phytologist 👇

📚 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/anthrome...

@ultracricket.bsky.social @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social @ymalhi.bsky.social

"there is little reason to doubt what the aim [of the massive investment in AI] is: to embed knowledge in machines—knowledge that previously belonged to the people working in these domains."

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A imagem mostra uma paisagem de floresta vista de cabeça para baixo, com um céu claro na parte inferior. O texto sobreposto diz: "Cerrado: a floresta invertida que conecta a água e toda a vida ao seu redor". A vegetação parece densa e variada, com diferentes tipos de árvores, enfatizando a diversidade do Cerrado, um bioma brasileiro conhecido como a "floresta invertida" devido às suas profundas raízes que captam água subterrânea.

O Cerrado é uma floresta invertida. Suas raízes profundas formam uma rede subterrânea que conecta a água, as plantas, os animais e as pessoas. Vem com a gente no 🧵

Integrating specimen and citizen science data reveals climatic niche expansion and shifts of naturalized plants in China This study examines the climatic niche dynamics of naturalized plants in China, emphasizing how incomplete species distribution data from digitized herbarium specimens and associated observation rec...

New paper by @jcsvenning.bsky.social in @newphyt.bsky.social using @gbif.org mediated data:

Integrating specimen and citizen science data reveals climatic niche expansion and shifts of naturalized plants in China 🇨🇳

#CiteTheDOI: ✅

https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70680

10 New Insights in Climate Science Essential research findings to support decision-making in a critical decade.

The annual 10 new insights in climate science are here!
Perhaps the best way to keep up with climate science news of the past year, made for lay people, policy makers and scientists alike with its different levels of detail: from simple tiles to a journal paper.
10insightsclimate.science#explore

When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History and America's Black Botanical Legacy by Beronda L. Montgomery

I have a meeting in a few minutes so what am I doing until then? Looking at ARCs. This makes me VERY curious.

"How the Word Is Passed meets Braiding Sweetgrass in a cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery, told through the stories of long-lived trees."

YouTube video by SenateBudget DENIAL, DISINFORMATION, & DOUBLESPEAK: BIG OIL'S EFFORTS TO AVOID ACCOUNTABILITY FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

If you haven't watched this, you need to. As the bodies are tragically piling up in Texas, we need to remember who is responsible for the climate crisis.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag8r...

Nature conservation policies are biased toward forests and neglect grassy ecosystems worldwide Globally, grassy ecosystems (including grasslands, savannas, shrublands, woodlands, and tundra) cover 30 to 40% of the land and provide important benefits such as climate change mitigation and adaptat...

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As much as I am a fan of forests & Humboldt, he formed a "[...] Eurocentric perception of forests as the ideal natural state [...] at the expense of grasslands and other open ecosystems."

Important article on bias in nature conservation policies towards forests:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. A global consortium of over 660 contributors, BHL has made more …

If you use the Biodivisity Heritage Library (I use it almost daily), you'll be saddened (and maybe angered😡) to learn that DOGE+Musk+Trump have eliminated its funding. BHL is looking for a new home. #ILoveBHL

So much f***ing winning.🤬

blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

Screenshot from the cover page of the paper

A map of the world showing fly migration study locations and estimated routes

A close up photo of Eristalinus taeniops the stripey eyed hoverfly on a yellow flower in Cyprus

A close up photo of the locust blowfly Stomorhina lunata on a rock. My favourite fly

It's published!
The largest research work I've ever undertaken:

Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important

Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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I celebrate new publications as an act of rebellion against the destruction of academia in Argentina.
Here we go baby!

🚀 New in the Hypothesis Description series!

We revisit Darwin’s Naturalisation Hypothesis, one of invasion science’s longest-standing ideas riojournal.com/article/1405...

Darwin's 'The Power of Movement in Plants' (1880) is teeming with figures. 54 in Chapter 1 alone, documenting the “circumnutation of seedlings.”

Hard to pick a favorite, but quite fond of this one—shows the “circumnutation of a very young frond, traced in darkness…”

exciting to watch
#root
#rootforaging
#circumnutation
and
#rootangle
formation on soil in darkness - imaged via
#IRLEDs
and
#RaspberryPi
camera
#plantscience
exploring the
#hiddenhalf
- testing image analysis @bokuvienna.bsky.social using the
#DDrC
device Simon Pree et al.

Phosphate promotes Arabidopsis root skewing and circumnutation through reorganisation of the microtubule cytoskeleton Phosphate (Pi) plays a key role in plant growth and development. Hence, plants display a range of adaptations to acquire it, including changes in root system architecture (RSA). Whether Pi triggers .....

Or go directly to the article:
Sheng, H., Bouwmeester, H.J. and Munnik, T. (2024), Phosphate promotes Arabidopsis root skewing and circumnutation through reorganisation of the microtubule cytoskeleton. New Phytol. doi.org/10.1111/nph....

portrait of Charles Darwin, 1881

'On The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants' by Charles Darwin

Today is Charles Darwin’s birthday, 215 years ago!

Here’s his detailed diagram of the *circumnutation of tendrils*. 🌱🪴

Graphical depiction of the trajectories for an exemplary couple of handler and grasper plants. Panel A represents the tendrils circumnutation trajectories. The blue line represents the circumnutation trajectory for the handler plant. Note that it is not perpendicular to its vertical axis but is inclined towards the other plant. The red dotted line represents the circumnutation trajectory for the grasper plant, ending with a grasping phase, represented by the black arrow. The orange dots represent the origin of the plants. Yellow dots represent the internode of the plants. Orange and yellow dots represent the plants’ stems. Panel B presents a graphical illustration of the ‘distance between the circumnutation center of gravity and the origin of the plant’ (a for the handler; b for the grasper) and the ‘distance from the gravity center of circumnutation to the other plant’ (c).

♻️ ‘United we stand, divided we fall’: intertwining as evidence of joint actions in pea plants by Bianca Bonato and co-authors.

Full #openaccess
👉 bit.ly/496pHWS

#PlantScience

Expert identification blitz: A rapid high value approach for assessing and improving iNaturalist identification accuracy and data precision and confidence Citizen science data are increasingly used in research and conservation, so assessing and improving data accuracy is important. We recruited 50 experts to review a dataset of Western Australian plant....

New paper open access in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Cit sci data quality is a hot topic, and assumptions about ID accuracy are often made without evidence. We decided to test identification accuracy for a WA plants @inaturalist.bsky.social dataset

Republicans Tear Down a Black Lives Matter Mural Symbols aren’t just symbols.

Went to downtown DC to watch them remove the Black Lives Matter mural and wrote about how the removal of such symbols reflects government policy priorities. How the removal of the BLM mural reflects the administration’s desire to remove Black people and history from large segments of American life.

A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.” The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude meth...

Ted Cruz said he’d found $2 billion in “woke” science grants, but his team used keyword searches that flagged things out of context, like a grant to develop a device to treat severe bleeding that mentioned “victims” and “trauma.”

www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

Parallels and discrepancies between non‐native species introductions and human migration Biological invasions and human migrations have increased globally due to socio-economic drivers and environmental factors that have enhanced cultural, economic, and geographic connectivity. Both proc...

Happy to contribute to this publication, led by Danish Ahmed & Phillip Haubrock, with many coauthors incl. @alebortolus.bsky.social l @oldenfish.bsky.social @canobarbacil.bsky.social il.bsky.social @martin-nunez.bsky.social @jan-honza-pergl.bsky.social @franzessl1.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/brv....

Any press outside of like Breitbart or whatever just never going to WH press briefings again seems like a no-brainer with the AP thing. You’re not missing much and this admin will leak like a sieve anyway, just do journalism instead of Daily Liar’s Theater stenography.

A fire deficit persists across diverse North American forests despite recent increases in area burned - Nature Communications Across many North American forests, recent years with exceptional area burned are not unprecedented when considering the multi-century perspective offered by fire-scarred trees. Nevertheless, abundant...

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Please see our new paper in Nature Communications!

We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥

Our key findings are as follows ...

‘It infuriates me’: why the ‘wages for housework’ movement is still controversial 40 years on The 1970s campaign aimed to smash capitalism by recognising the value of childcare and chores. A new book looks back on how it fell apart – and how it’s relevant today

“No housework, no capitalism” (in case you’re wondering why so-called “tradwives” are suddenly all over the place)

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Did you miss this inspiring and positive webinar on how science can inform decisions for a better future (and how each of us can help)? If so, no worries: the recording is available here!

Conservation Concepts - British Ecological Society Learn a new conservation concept in just 2 minutes.

Want to learn something from a top ecologist in only two minutes? Check out this series of short podcasts by Bill Sutherland. Ideal for embedding in lectures or online learning materials. 🌏 🧪 www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/cons...

When you go on a diet and lose weight, the pounds are lost as carbon dioxide you release in your breath.