Mathias Disney

White text: strange how nobody cares about pedestrian safety until the villainous cyclist shows up

Climate change will increase forest disturbances in Europe throughout the 21st century Wildfires, insect outbreaks, and storms cause large pulses of tree mortality. Climate change amplifies these forest disturbances, yet their future magnitude and extent remain uncertain. Here, we simul...

Really interesting - interactions of drivers of mortality in European forests by Gruning et al w @rupertseidl.bsky.social @corneliussenf.bsky.social Climate change will increase forest disturbances in Europe throughout the 21st century www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We've made the logo asymmetric by mistake!

One for the youngsters here - good work James #ref2029

A photo of part of UCL Portico, showing four banners made with the new brand design. The text on the banner on the left reads 'Here, we make buildings more sustainable."

A close up of two banners. The one on the left shows Monty reading a note while Withnail looks on behind him. The text under it reads 'Here hare, here"

Confusing messaging, IMO (from an original idea by @matdisney.bsky.social)

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

Telegraph declines to tell regulator how fake banker story got published The Telegraph has refused to tell IPSO how an article about a made-up banker supposedly hit by school fee rises came to be published.

Extraordinary that the Telegraph is refusing to tell Ipso how its story about imaginary couple Al and Alexandra Moy and their non-existent children Ali, Harry and Barry got published.

Large-scale patterns of tropical forest embolism resistance mapped across space and angiosperm phylogeny.

Combining measurements across the Amazon with 100s of floristic samples, Julia Tavares & colleagues report remarkable variation in vulnerability to drought.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

THE DEATH OF US SCIENCE ☠️

Great Cursus, Stonehenge: A LiDAR image of The Great Cursus (Western side). This huge earthwork, 2.8km long and 90m wide, lies approximately 800m to the north of Stonehenge and consists of a small bank and external ditch.

European forest carbon and biodiversity policies have a limited win-win potential - Nature Communications Forests are essential for both climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation, yet how to balance these goals in managed forests remains unclear. Here, using a Europe-wide dataset, the author...

Can we jointly pursue climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation in European forests?

Only promoting deadwood rather than living carbon stocks!

Not much support for win-win afforestation policies.

Read our brand new article led by #LorenzoBalducci:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If we have any hope of reviving our rivers, nature-based solutions must be at the heart of government plans.

In the government’s 50 page white paper setting out plans to reform our broken water system, nature-based solutions are mentioned just five times.

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

Scientists can’t agree on where the world’s forests are A deceptively simple question underlies many global environmental policies: where, exactly, are the world’s forests? A new study suggests the answer depends heavily on which map one consults—and that ...

What is a forest? Remarkably we don't have a consistent answer to that question,which is why we don't actually know how much forest there is on Earth or where it is. 🌏🧪🌲🌳

name and shame? If they're happy to send such emails out presumably they wouldn't mind people sharing their business model

Really important for so many things. "The value of patient observation compounds over time but remains invisible to short-term metrics" has profound implications.

Job alert! Lectureship in field ecology at University of Reading with a special focus on plants.

cool! Is there documentation of those being original? I ask as we looked at some candidates and it was nearly always anecdotal or indirect (eg garden replanted around 1850). I've been trying to find examples with guaranteed known ages going back that far

They are beautiful but few (definitively) are that old - most of the largest ones with known ages are in the 110-140 y range and then loads in the < 75 bracket. The amazing thing is that they can get so big so fast!

Portrait of Dr. Valerie L. Thomas, the pioneering Black NASA scientist and inventor, smiling warmly at the camera. She has shoulder-length wavy gray hair, wears thin gold-framed glasses, gold hoop earrings, and a light gray herringbone-patterned blazer over a white top with a small pin on the lapel, standing confidently against a neutral gray background.

Valerie Thomas spent 30+ years at NASA helping revolutionize how we see images from space & our own world. #WomenInSTEM

Managed the development of the first image-processing systems for the Landsat program allowing satellites to send the 1st multi-spectral pictures of Earth back to scientists.(1/2)

Questions for the editor and review process here!

NASA Selects Two Earth System Explorers Missions - NASA These two missions were selected for continued development as part of NASA’s Earth System Explorers Program, which conducts principal investigator-led Earth

This is pretty cool! #EDGE
www.nasa.gov/news-release...

Environmental data justice is key for developing more effective area-based conservation approaches - Nature Reviews Biodiversity Scientists disagree about area-based conservation’s role in addressing biodiversity loss. This Perspective examines how conservation scientists, land systems scientists and political ecologists approach these debates differently and argues that environmental data justice frameworks can bridge epistemic divides, helping researchers to develop more effective and equitable conservation interventions.

A Perspective in Nature Reviews Biodiversity argues that environmental data justice can bridge divides between conservation scientists, land system scientists and land systems scientists to help them develop more effective and equitable conservation interventions. 🔒

Future restoration should enhance ecological complexity and emergent properties at multiple scales Ecological restoration has a paradigm of re-establishing ‘indigenous reference' communities. One resulting concern is that focussing on target communities may not necessarily create systems which fun...

The mainstream aim to restore “native reference ecosystems”

Reminds me of people of my age who go to see touring bands from their youth

Trying to recreate something that never quite existed

And has limited relevance in a changing world
doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

Comparison of three temperate rainforest climate envelopes for Britain and Ireland: Where could our rainforest be? There are multiple methods for creating climate envelopes for temperate rainforest, and these climate envelopes result in different extents across Ireland and Britain. An awareness of these differenc...

How much temperate rainforest could there be in the UK and Ireland, and where? Despite campaigns calling for restoration in both countries, these questions have been difficult to answer. In our new paper we assess the evidence base 🌏🧪🌐🌳🌲 1/9

Grant Portfolio Evaluator Rank and prioritize research funding opportunities. Calculate EV/hour and decide which grants are worth your time.

Ever wondered if writing a grant proposal was actually worth your time? Presenting....The Grant Portfolio Evaluator - (for entertainment only) mol-evol.github.io/grant-evalua...

Fig. 6 Hypothesized trade-offs across vascular species illustrating a water use economics framework.

✨ Paper spotlight ✨

(🧵 1/7) From growth potential to drought survival: a trait- and time-based framework for plant water economics across vascular species
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

All Reforestation Methods Can Support Tropical Tree Diversity Recovery, but Drivers and Species Composition Vary We assessed tree diversity recovery across five reforestation methods (white background) and compared them to three reference systems (grey background). In the rainforest, none of the restoration met...

Thrilled to share our new paper on restoring tree diversity in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest!🌳

Our findings are encouraging: restoration shows high diversity, though old-growth-like composition needs more time.

Amazing team effort from the Newfor team @ USP & @w-u-r.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Very happy to share this new article on Andes-Amazon tree diversity change. We found that over the last 4 decades, tree richness changed differently across the Andes-Amazon regions. Thanks to the many researchers across the world who made this possible!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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V few if any of the original 1850s giant sequoia are still alive (poss a couple in Scotland). Many were planted in the late 19th to early 20th C and they're v popular now. Coastal redwood (diff species) were much less widely planted. Definitely an interesting place to plant one tho!