Seth Wynes

Our new study (Chaplin-Kramer et al., 2025) found wildlife play critical roles in nature’s benefits to people. Wildlife’s contributions to people (WCP) support nature’s contributions to people (NCP) through actions like predation, herbivory, scavenging, and ecosystem engineering. Wild animals directly and indirectly support services such as habitat creation, climate regulation, pollination, food production, and cultural identity. Graphic designed by Sylvia Heredia.

Our new study* finds wildlife support 2/3 of nature's contributions to people, from hunting and fishing to art and music to birds eating crop pests. #Biodiversity & #conservation must include animals!

Read more: wecanfixit.substack.com/p/localize

* @beckyck.bsky.social, @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social

It's not more upsetting than the trade war, but it was more surprising

Great resource for those tracking EV uptake

Love how it's formally called "Congestion Relief Zone." Words matter.

Will RFK Ban Lab-Grown Meat? Trump’s first administration supported it. But now there’s a new crowd coming into town.

"The timing is brutal for a potentially climate-friendly new industry that had hoped to start competing with conventional meat in 2025."

What happens when the cultivated meat industry meets Trump 2.0? @mikegrunwald.bsky.social tackles that question below, feat. @chefsuzigerber.bsky.social:

To test this, we ran a survey experiment on a nationally representative sample of 6,000 people in the U.S.

We elicited ethical beliefs, provided info about either a new conventional, cultured or veg substitute, showed a video clip about factory farming, & re-elicited beliefs. 6/

Does technology affect ethical beliefs?

Some have argued that ethical beliefs are nested in culture, and culture can be affected by one's economic environment. 1/

I think this probably plays some role. Might also be that residents are more supportive of speed cameras than voters and especially moreso than those who vote in local elections.

Ontario's grid is pretty clean. It would be more meaningful if you lived in Alberta. Still helpful though and like you said, pretty smart choice except for the rare load where you're worried about pests.

Would like to see numbers for this. I've always thought that setting your washing machine to cold is pretty good bang for your buck considering it's zero effort. But it does depend on where your energy comes from.

How do carbon taxes affect food prices? In our latest paper, @dr_jen_winter and I analyze both direct and indirect impacts across the entire food supply chain: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5024885

It's the most detailed exploration of CTaxes and food yet! 🤓 #cdnecon #cdnpoli

Animal welfare The achievement of high welfare standards is paramount throughout the whole production chain, on the farm, during transport and finally at the abattoir.

Any thoughts on whether this will create conflicts with Denmark's progress on farmed animal welfare (e.g. more incentive to increase stocking rates etc.)? agricultureandfood.dk/danish-agric...

Alright I may give it a try!

Does it add a lot of value over an old-fashioned game of Mafia?

We hope that this study will give climate researchers a better understanding of the range of beliefs held by the greater community and allow for more informed discussion about where our climate is headed.

We also asked these climate experts to estimate the beliefs of their peers. There were strong correlations on all questions, suggesting that participants with very high or low estimates perceive their own beliefs as closer to the community average than they actually are.

We expected that researchers who worked on solutions (WG3) might be more optimistic than those working on adaptation (WG2), but found limited support for this hypothesis (differences were only significant between WG2 and WG3 for estimates of the likelihood of reaching 3°C)

Instead, the median estimate of maximum warming by 2100 was 2.7°C, which is consistent with modeling of the climate response to current national climate policies.

Perceptions of carbon dioxide emission reductions and future warming among climate experts - Communications Earth & Environment The authors of the IPCC Assessment Report are skeptical that warming can be limited below 2 degrees Celsius according to the survey of 211 experts and statistical analysis.

Check out our new open-access paper!

We surveyed 211 IPCC authors, finding most authors are doubtful that warming will be limited to the Paris targets of well below 2°C

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Postdoc Opportunity: Climate Extremes and Coastal Ecosystems · Simon Donner My research group at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada is searching for a postdoctoral researcher to participate in interdisciplinary research on ocean extreme events and their e...

Postdoc opening! We're looking for someone with a marine ecology or from climate backgrounds to work with us on research related to marine heatwaves and other climate extremes. It's a chance to work in a very interdisciplinary setting: simondonner.com/post-doctora...