Dr. Jessica Richardson

Lessons Written in Mud: Why We Can’t Drain the Swamp Reflecting on the mistakes of past societies and the future of wetland conservation.

🧪 Did you know drought stress can have a legacy effect on recalcitrant compounds in leaf litter? 🍃 Or that deforestation added an extra 3°C in the past 20 years? 🌡️ Read more, plus a timeless concept about wetlands (hint: it's about protecting them), in Peatmail: peatmail.substack.com/p/lessons-wr...

Is this tower in Syracuse?

Keep Calm and Guano On Bird poop could help maximize carbon stored in coastal ecosystems.

🧪 Beavers 🦫 are starting to become a recurrent theme in my newsletters...but this time you can also find a brief summary of a new study in Global Change Biology + highlights of new pop sci articles! Plus a podcast recommendation 🎤 and wetland photos 📷 as usual. Read Peatmail: tinyurl.com/guanoon 🤓

If I ever win the lottery, I won't tell anyone, but there will be signs 💸🫂

Green eyed cat looks beyond camera

Caturday is for looking out windows with Haku 😽

My first thought was a bunch of prehistoric divas sashaying past the cavemen with arms interlocked 😂 but after reading the description, now I'm curious what prehistoric megafauna was rolling the log? 👀🦕

🧪 Hey Science 'Sky! Are you a scientist who hosts a science podcast? 👩🏼‍🔬 🎧🎤 I'm interested in publishing a scicomm case study (about 80% written up) but am having a hard time finding collaborators. If you're willing to share your Spotify for Creators data with me and be a co-author please reach out!!

Meet the Fluxers Podcast · FLUXNET Outreach Working Group · Bridging the gap between eddy covariance flux scientists and those whose work or lives are influenced by flux data.

🧪 Listen to season two of the FLUXNET science podcast to hear about carbon inset projects with promising results in an Australian mine ⚒️ 🪨 and an Arkansas rice field 🍚🌾, among other interesting stories from our guests! bit.ly/meetthefluxe... this podcast is meant for all curious minds! 🎧

Jurassic Marsh: How More Carbon Could Explode Plant Growth "'God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man, man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.' 'Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth.'" Drs. Malcolm and Sattler, Jurassic Park.

🧪 At one point in earth's history, warm air temperatures, high humidity, and high CO2 stimulated photosynthesis. Land was covered with dense, lush vegetation🌿. But a new study shows that while marsh CO2 uptake will ⬆️ with atm. CO2, so too will emissions of CH4. peatmail.substack.com/p/jurassic-m...

We should not dismantle science across America The Trump administration is destroying our scientific institutions, its infrastructure, and intellectual capital at an unprecedented pace. Scientists are being fired without cause from many federal ag...

Just posted an OpEd in our local paper, the Brentwood Press, on defending science, as encouraged by
@wclivestream.bsky.social and others

@natureatcal.bsky.social

www.thepress.net/opinion/we-s...

Baton Rouge street lined with people

Ugly trump face poster

NO KINGS

TAKE ACTION with SCBNA TODAY to write in opposition to the proposed rule to rescind the regulatory definition of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act.

This change would significantly weaken one of our nation’s most effective conservation laws and jeopardize the survival of imperiled species.

Albertsons in my neighborhood does this too 😬 it's such a trip because one time I caught it, and I felt insane, had to pay full price, go back into the store, take a photo of the sale sign, and then go to customer service for a refund, but only after convincing the clerk it was really "on sale"!

My loved one with ADHD has the opinion that without the structured, 40-hour+ work week, medication wouldn't be necessary for them at all. I need to do more research on what life is like for the unmedicated ADHDers out there 📖🔬

Advocating for ADHD Loved Ones Diagnosis and treatment can greatly improve life for people with ADHD. Learn why in this article.

Would you believe that medical descriptions of ADHD date back to at least the 1800s? 🧪 I'm countering misinformation by sharing the science: symptoms, challenges to getting a diagnosis, treatment options, and barriers to medication access. Check out the article I wrote here: tinyurl.com/yr6fbfcy

Urgent: Take Action to Protect Public Services Photo by Katie Rodriguez on Unsplash I have something you can do in five minutes or less that can help salvage the integrity of the federal civil service,...

🚨 EASY-TO-TAKE ACTION ALERT! 🚨
Want to do something to protect the integrity of the federal civil service? Submit a public comment! Not sure how to do that and what to say? I have a comment you can submit! 🧪🔭⚛️

Details here:
news.chanda.science/archive/urge...

Agreed. There are so, so many people I know who are doing incredible science communication. We have books in need of readers, podcasts in need of listeners, museums in need of visitors, social media accounts in need of followers. The effort has to come from both ends.

Another Man’s Treasure: Mangrove Restoration Mangrove restoration is a natural climate solution that many communities have already embraced. As one country dismantles its research efforts in the climate action space, who will lead the way?

After the recent LSU College of the Coast & Environment Seminar by @mangrovedan.bsky.social on mangrove blue carbon, I was compelled to look outside the US for inspiration on restoration work. 🧪 There were more projects than I could even cover in one newsletter! Check it out: tinyurl.com/bluecarbn 🌴

Promotional graphic for the 2026 PEAT (Peatland ECR Action Team) calendar with the theme ‘Wildlife’. It announces a photo submission deadline of September 30, 2025. The background features a scenic photo of a wooden boardwalk leading through a peatland towards a snow-dusted mountain under a colorful sunset sky. Photo credit is given to Justinas Sakas.

📸 #PeatECR get your camera ready before heading into this year’s field season!

🗓️ The 2026 #Peat Calendar is in the planning!

Send us your best #peatland *WILDLIFE* photo until September 30th: 📧 peatecr@gmail.com

Introducing Meet the Fluxers - FLUXNET (blog post from Maoya Bassiouni) We’re excited to launch Meet the Fluxers, a podcast bridging the gap between eddy covariance flux scientists and people whose work and lives are influenced... More

We’re excited to launch Meet the Fluxers, a podcast bridging the gap between eddy covariance flux scientists and people whose work and lives are influenced by ecosystem fluxes.

fluxnet.org/2025/04/10/i...

Graphic: As many as 69 million American women lack access to valid birth certificates

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?

Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.

Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

F-ELON poster in a crowd

Baton Rouge, Louisiana is fighting back

Sign saying NO MORE DOGE

HANDS OFF our science, our jobs, our food prices, our bodily autonomy, our future, and our hope

Jury orders Chevron to pay more than $744m for destroying Louisiana wetlands Verdict marks end of the first trial of 42 lawsuits filed about 12 years ago, alleging firm’s projects destroyed the regions

US jury orders Chevron to pay $744M damages to Louisiana for direct destruction of wetlands & breached State laws requiring companies to clean up

12 years in litigation (+ prior to filing) this is why real, substantial and up front security bonds are critical

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Can women save us from the climate crisis? They invented chemotherapy, gave us barbie, "HeLa" cells, and literal life, but what else can women accomplish when given the chance? Here's what philosophers say.

Ecofeminism needs an overhaul if it's going to help save the planet. 🌎 That means breaking away from histories of racism, colonialism, and extractivism, and reimagining our shared futures.💡 Read what the scholars have to say in this month's edition of Peatmail: open.substack.com/pub/peatmail...

Logging into ORCID so I can log into Web of Science so I can log into Manuscript Central so I can submit a referee report for free

Meet the Fluxers Podcast · FLUXNET Outreach Working Group · Bridging the gap between eddy covariance flux scientists and those whose work or lives are influenced by flux data.

Ever wonder how oil & gas companies locate leaks? How potato farmers determine irrigation schedules? What tools are used to monitor drought, or how turbulence mechanics can save vineyards? Listen to our new science podcast, Meet the Fluxers! open.spotify.com/show/5Czt3zA...

Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Musk’s Purges Suddenly Take a Horrific Turn—and Wreck an Ugly MAGA Lie We can now be depressingly confident that their mass cuts are killing people.

None “… of this is about “efficiency” or “good management.” Aid like this is incredibly cost-effective. Not only does foreign aid constitute a tiny portion of our budget; things like RUTF cost … pittance, but they spread a positive image of the U.S. abroad and each treatment can save a child’s life”

I was looking at the correlation between leaded gas and violent crime again today, because it gives me a weird amount of hope for the future, that maybe when people in government were no longer huffing lead fumes, we’ll be a little less shortsighted and awful again.*