Silent Spring all over again.
09.10.2025 17:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@professorshawn.bsky.social
Professor at the University of Barcelona in Plant Physiology covering environmental remote sensing imaging technologies towards improved global food security and environmental sustainability.
Silent Spring all over again.
09.10.2025 17:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0π± Spec. Issue: Precision Agriculture: A PANGEOS COST Action Perspective π
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Open for submissions: Oct 1, 2025
β³ Deadline: June 30, 2026
We invite research on data integration, decision support, efficiency, sustainability & uncertainty in agri & forestry.
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π The #PANGEOS COST Action WG3 Training School on the Terrestrial Carbon Community Assimilation System (TCCAS) wraps up today in Hamburg π©πͺ.
Over 2 days, participants explored:
π± Carbon Cycle (Songyan Zhu, Marko Scholze)
π§© Data Assimilation & Observations (Peter Rayner, Holly Croft, Thomas Kaminskiπ
We've just opened up our call for applications for our end of year conference. Should be good geeky fun and weΒ΄re planning to organize a Open Research Europe extended abstract publication as well. Check it out! more details at pangeos.eu/jurmala-latv...
03.06.2025 14:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sunrise and clouds over fields of wheat in Spain
Sunrise isn't always my favorite time to get up and get to work, but it does have its perks during the field season.
08.05.2025 22:13 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Graphic: 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 repβthis is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Nailed it with these brilliant lines, which apply equally of all of his policies - "There is no grand plan or strategic vision, no matter what his advisers claim β only the impulsive actions of a mad king, untethered from any responsibility to the nation or its people."
09.04.2025 13:23 β π 12 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Genetically modified giant wolves, what could go wrong?
09.04.2025 13:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Today's US EO orders the Attorney General to identify + take expeditious action to stop enforcement of "all State & local laws... purporting to address βclimate changeβ or involving βenvironmental, social, and governanceβ initiatives, βenvironmental justice,β carbon or βgreenhouse gasβ emissions."
09.04.2025 02:33 β π 617 π 357 π¬ 75 π 75Today is a good day to remember that by the numbers, over 70% of the country did not vote for Trump.
05.04.2025 20:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0By the numbers, over 70% of the country didn't vote for Trump.
05.04.2025 19:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Descriptions of the PANGEOS COST Action Research Network benefits including Grants, Opportunities and Working Groups.
PANGEOS EU COST Action paving the way forward in EU Green Deal Agriculture and Forestry Earth Observation Science with some great workshops and training activities coming this summer (and 2 more years!). Check us out at pangeos.eu and www.cost.eu/actions/CA22....
02.04.2025 15:35 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0oligarchs rounding down π
01.04.2025 18:03 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Still pending, almost funded, Spanish style.
Estado del expediente
Estado: Propuesta de resoluciΓ³n
Sub-estado: Propuesta ResoluciΓ³n Provisional
Resultado: Concedido provisional
File Status
Status: Proposed Resolution
Sub-status: Proposed Provisional Resolution
Result: Provisionally granted
π’ Call for Participants!
3rd Interdisciplinary Summer School on Forest Ecosystems
π° No registration fee + full expenses covered!
Organized by four COST Actions
π Where: Oxford University & Wytham Woods
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When: 4β8 August 2025
π More here: bit.ly/3FWRvDp
#SummerSchool #Forest #COSTActions
Dems need to fight EVERYWHERE, esp. locally. San Antonio is the nation's 7th largest city, and its mayoral election is coming up. If Gina Ortiz Jones wins, it'll send a powerful signal. She's a vet, former Air Force Under Secretary, an all-around badass, and a good friend. Please chip in.
24.03.2025 19:38 β π 80 π 23 π¬ 0 π 1Right now teaching feels so important. My students are engaged, often staying after class to talk with me or to talk with guest speakers. More students are coming to class and doing the readings. If they shut us down I will teach in the park or the library. The only way forward is through together.
20.03.2025 05:13 β π 61 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0When you have field work but also have to teach an online class, so you ask your buddy to give a guest seminar on radiative transfer models while you fly your drones.
19.03.2025 13:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0ESAβs Biomass satellite about to be placed in its shipment container at Airbus in Toulouse, France. This container protects the satellite while it is being shipped to Europeβs Spaceport in French Guiana
Our @esaearth.esa.int forest mission #Biomass has arrived at the launch site in French Guiana. With launch set for end of April, Biomass will soon play a key role in delivering information about the state of our forests and advancing our knowledge of the carbon cycle π§ͺπ³
www.esa.int/Applications...
I recently organized a scientific workshop with the aim of being the dumbest person in the room and its success was glorious. We're putting together plans for another such event in Oxford this summer.
08.03.2025 20:00 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Screenshot of text from a Nature Ecology & Evolution Editorial entitled "Deep cuts"
In our latest Editorial we discuss the continuing damage being done to US science, and its impact on researchers and the environment π
Deep cuts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is a letter I did not want to write.
There is a WWII-era saying: βIf thereβs a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven Nazis.β
If you voted for #Trump, you are a #Nazi.
brandy-schillace.medium.com/the-letter-b...
Today we flew our new drone with a laser on it. That was a first for me. Do your drones have lasers, too?
04.02.2025 20:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There's a new trend going on in Spain that no one really talks about but it's happening everywhere - food served in sculpture dishes, like this artichoke heart with jamΓ³n served on a peacock tail.
04.02.2025 20:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oh, I was honestly hoping for "dog in fog on log in bog" but great pictures either way.
28.11.2024 20:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Check out pangeos.eu!
25.11.2024 11:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I heard that #cats were trending. Miu says meow, TGIF. She's definitely not impressed with my plans to teach my students @biologiaub.bsky.social how to take apart, put back together, and pulot a UAV today.
22.11.2024 11:25 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New Starting Pack for explorers of AI and complex systems like Earth, Brain and Climate! go.bsky.app/Ni7Va7J #science #ai #complexsystems
21.11.2024 09:10 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Please join the PANGEOS action for more information on how to join PANGEOS - pangeos.eu and the PANGEOS slack channel to stay up to date - tinyurl.com/2dyr2j2s
Submission deadline is December 5th, 2024 - please apply here: tinyurl.com/mwse5d7d @professorshawn.bsky.social
Waiting for the roast lamb leg to finish up in the oven so I can put the apple crisp in for dessert while we feast.
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