Khuong Dinh

" While the legal scholars pulled up the definition of biodiversity in international legal conventions, the anthropologists and historians started talking about how biodiversity is vernacularly understood and how the term itself is linked to some historical relation of power and domination."

BLOG | Comparative Ecologies of Conflict From 2 to 6 June, 2025, NIOD researchers, Dat Nguyen, Annika Schmeding, and Lema Salah, in collaboration with Omar Dewachi (Rutgers University) and Duong Vu (Westerdijk Institute), organised a worksho...

"During the workshop, Khuong Dinh (University of Oslo), an ecotoxicologist, raised a simple question to everyone, ‘How do you define biodiversity?’ As it turned out, everyone had a slightly different answer."

Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology - Nature Climate Change Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...

Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology:
This can be misleading, not just in the magnitude but in the direction of effects
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Southeast Asia's biodiversity crisis.

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A new giant species of Acrophylla Gray, 1835 (Phasmida: Phasmatidae: Phasmatini) from the highlands of the Wet Tropics, Queensland, Australia. | Zootaxa

Wow, a new giant stick insect species, 40 cm long discovered in Queensland, Australia.

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This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

Pachyteria dimidiata

Honored to meet Her Excellency Madam Võ Thị Ánh Xuân, Vice President of Vietnam, this morning at the Presidential Palace, Hanoi.

Happy to serve as an Advisory Board Member for the 6th Global Vietnam Young Intellectuals Forum, with the participation of 201 (+ 300 online) brilliant Vietnamese scientists worldwide to contribute to innovation and sustainable development.

Start to upload my personal observations to iNaturalist
Below are two species that I observed in Tam Dao National Park, North Vietnam. Both species are categorized as Near Threatened.

Caged aquaculture in lower Mekong River

More realistic plankton simulation models will improve projections of ocean ecosystem responses to global change - Nature Ecology & Evolution Plankton models have crucial applications in ecosystem management and climate change projections. This Perspective suggests that stronger alignment of plankton models with empirical knowledge is neede...

More realistic plankton simulation models will improve projections of ocean ecosystem responses to global change

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Vietnam

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Prestigious NSF graduate fellowship tilts toward AI and quantum | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Avokado from Vietnam :)

My favorite KPH :)

Declining coral calcification to enhance twenty-first-century ocean carbon uptake by gigatonnes | PNAS The sensitivity of coral reefs to climate change is well established. As the oceans warm and acidify, the calcification of coral reefs declines wit...

Climate change may cut coral reef calcification, leading to net dissolution. This could increase ocean carbon uptake by 13% by 2300, boosting the carbon budget for the Paris Agreement’s 2°C target.
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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I meant, global marine ecosystems, especially in the Arctic

Ocean Acidification: Another Planetary Boundary Crossed In this study, employing a detailed analysis of ocean carbonate system observations, models and biological assessments, we demonstrate that by year 2020, the average global ocean conditions had alrea...

Ocean acidification in the Arctic has crossed the planetary boundary:

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Experimental ecology and the balance between realism and feasibility in aquatic ecosystems - Nature Communications Experimental work in aquatic ecosystems has shaped the development of the field of ecology, and our ability to predict ecological dynamics in a changing climate. In this Perspective, the authors discu...

Realism vs feasibility in experimental ecology

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Ecology needs a causal overhaul Ecology has yet to embrace causal inference, yet most questions in ecology are causal. Despite the common use of terms that imply causation, such as “shapes”, “drives”, or “impacts”, many studies shy...

"This paper elucidates the common pitfalls in ecological studies, such as throwing all variables into an analysis, use of the Akaike information criterion (AIC) for model selection, the “Table 2 fallacy” and the misuse of controls: all of which can lead to misleading scientific understanding."

New Book:
The Barents Sea system
Gateway to the changing Arctic

Happy to contribute to some sections of this exciting book!

fagbokforlaget.no/produkt/9788...

Is it "good" or "bad" when skilled people leave low-income countries? We summarized the evidence in favor of "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Ungated PDF: johanneshaushofer.com/research

Repeatability of evolution and genomic predictions of temperature adaptation in seed beetles - Nature Ecology & Evolution The authors compare genomic and phenotypic changes between genetic backgrounds of seed beetles evolved at hot or cold temperatures. Despite phenotypic changes being more rapid and predictable at hot t...

Rêgo et al compare genomic and phenotypic changes between genetic backgrounds of seed beetles evolved at hot or cold temperatures, with results suggesting that genomic predictions may become difficult to implement as climates warm www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, June 23, 2025

Great #postdoc opportunity at the Natural History Museum @uio.no! Develop your own project to work here for three years🤩
I am happy to answer questions! Deadline June 23rd.🧪

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

a stick insect, unknown ID, Bach Ma National Park, Vietnam
Photo: Tuan

Genomes of critically endangered saola are shaped by population structure and purging The saola is one of the most elusive large mammals, standing at the brink of extinction. We constructed a reference genome and resequenced 26 saola in…

The saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) is one of the rarest mammals in the world. This bovid was not scientifically described until 1993.
Its genome has now been sequenced.

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Did the United States commit ‘ecocide’?

Did the United States commit ‘ecocide’? | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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