Santiago Valencia

Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty - Nature Human Behaviour Studying socioeconomic backgrounds and intergenerational transmission in the US academia, Morgan et al. find that faculty have a parent with a Ph.D. degree a striking 25 times more often than the gene...

Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty

Tenure-track faculty are up to 25 times more likely to have a parent with a Ph.D. Moreover, this rate nearly doubles at prestigious universities and is stable across the past 50 years.

#AcademicSky

Scientific productivity gap based on English-language peer-reviewed papers. Shown are the maximum % differences in the number of peer-reviewed papers published by female native English speakers from a high-income country (-45%), female non-native English speakers from a high-income country (-60%), and female non-native English speakers from a lower-middle income country (-70%), compared to male native English speakers from a high-income country (red flag).

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5
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#languagebarriers

I wrote my new Nature World View in this transition — one last reflection before leaving Colombia. It explains why inequities persist in science, even when dressed up as inclusion, and why we must stop mistaking access for change. 👉 rdcu.be/eGEun

book cover of the book "A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing" by Martin A. Nunez

Just got the final proofs of my book💓

Available on Amazon worldwide next week
Very exciting!

I’ve packed into it everything I’ve learned about writing and publishing over the past 20 years

I really hope it helps many jump over the writing and publishing barriers💪

A new study in Nature Climate Change shows contrasting biological production trends over land and ocean. Led by Yulong Zhang at Duke. I am glad to be part of the team. The last study that looked at production over both land and ocean was published in 1998.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pantropical tree rings show small effects of drought on stem growth Increasing drought pressure under anthropogenic climate change may jeopardize the potential of tropical forests to capture carbon in woody biomass and act as a long-term carbon dioxide sink. To evalua...

How do tropical #trees deal with droughts? The answer is published today in @science.org

Our pantropical #treering analysis revealed 2.5% growth reduction during #drought years. Yet, growth declined by >10% in 1/4 of 500 study sites, and in hotter & drier regions.

doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Last publication of @h-zhang.bsky.social 's PhD thesis is finally out! This study tests optimality theory on the effect of vapour pressure deficit using tree trait data collected in West Africa

Seasonal stabilization effects slowed the greening of the Northern Hemisphere over the last two decades - Nature Communications Rising CO₂ and warming enhance vegetation greening, but drought, heat stress, and resource limits constrain this trend. Here, the authors show that within a year, increased early- and peak- season gre...

Happy to share our new #NatureComms paper, "Seasonal stabilization effects slowed the greening of the Northern Hemisphere over the last two decades" led by @uarizona.bsky.social PhD Candidate Wen Zhang w/ @trevorkeenan.bsky.social and others www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We want to thank reviewer #2 for the very constructive comments. We were able to incorporate all of them. The manuscript is now much more clear.

📢📢🔥🔥🔥 I am so excited to announce our book about Fire in the South American Ecosystems! It has 14 Chapters led mostly by south american authors. Thanks to all authors for their valuable contribution! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Tree methane exchange in a changing world Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Published online: 19 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s43017-025-00692-9Tree methane exchange is an important component of the terrestrial and global methane budget. This Perspective explores the mechanisms underlying why wetland trees are a net source of methane to the atmosphere and upland trees are a net sink, and the effect environmental changes will have on these processes.

New online! Tree methane exchange in a changing world

Tropical forests are heating up. Can they cope? Scientists are pushing plants beyond their comfort zone to test their resilience to warming

Tropical forests are heating up. Can they cope? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Scaling plant responses to heat: From molecules to the biosphere Predicting plant responses to rising temperatures, including acute heat waves and hot droughts of varying intensity and duration, is central to addressing the climate and biodiversity crises. However,...

New in @sciencemagazine, a review on Scaling plant responses to heat (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). Increased temperature along with acute heat waves threaten the ability of terrestrial vegetation to act as a carbon sink, but predicting how plants will respond to heat is challenging.

Armed groups, cattle ranchers drove 35% rise in Colombia’s deforestation in 2024 The prediction came true: deforestation in Colombia increased in 2024 after two years of decline, just as the environment ministry had warned since April last year. The ministry announced that…

Deforestation in Colombia increased in 2024 after two years of decline, just as the environment ministry had warned since April last year.

Experts fear that the increase will continue in 2025 and that armed groups will continue to hinder the progress of conservation strategies with communities.

Satellite-based evidence of recent decline in global forest recovery rate from tree mortality events - Nature Plants Satellite data show declining global forest recovery from tree mortality since the 1990s, driven by warming and water scarcity. Canopy water recovers slower than greenness, stressing the need for a mu...

Our new research shows that forest recovery from tree mortality has slowed in recent decades. This reduction is primarily associated with rising temperatures and increased water scarcity. Recovery of forest canopy water content lags behind that of vegetation greenness
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

World map of average density of lightning strokes from the period 2010-2024. The greatest density of lightning is seen in the tropics and subtropics of the Americas, Africa, and island Southeast Asia. The most lightning is in northeastern Colombia and Panama. There is almost no lightning in the Arctic and none at all in Antarctica.

I've released the 2025 update of the WGLC global lightning dataset today. Daily and monthly data lightning density and stroke energy covering the period 2010-2024 are now available! doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

📢 Registration & abstract submission are OPEN for the 2nd IGAC-iCACGP Online ECR Conference! 🗓️ Sep 25, 2025.

🏆 6 Poster Prizes up for grabs (travel, accommodation & reg. for IGAC 2026 in Greece + ECR short course!).

🗓️ Abstract deadline: Aug 10, 2025.

🔗 More info: www.ecr-igac-icacgp.org

Studying environmental sciences is about studying our life support system. It should not be partisan.

Heterogeneous thermal tolerance of dominant Andean montane tree species - Communications Earth & Environment Montane tree species are expected to be sensitive to warming. Plantation experiments across temperatures in the Colombian Andes found that 55% of the studied species maintained growth at the...

🌳🌲55% of mountain tree species studied in planting experiments in the Colombian Andes maintained their growth at their upper survival temperature, while 45% reduced it

👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Introducing the Climate Hazards Infrared Precipitation with Stations data (CHIRPS v3.0) Map of CHIRPS version 3.0 final, which shows total precipitation (mm) received globally during the pentad 1 (1-5) of December 2024. The Climate Hazards Center (CHC) is dedicated to advancing the fi…

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📢📢 Announcing a new special issue in #RSE, "Remote sensing for assessing water-carbon coupling of terrestrial ecosystems". Submissions due date: 02/28/2026.📢📢 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

As a proud, former NOAA employee, well said. They produce, curate and distribute data, satellite products, radar and forecasts

It is truly an honor for me to receive the William G. McGinnies Scholarship. Thank you for your support! @juliakgreen.bsky.social, David J.P. Moore, @uarizona.bsky.social, @uazenvironment.bsky.social

Después de varios meses de planificación lanzamos la convocatoria a instructores y estudiantes para el Primer Taller de Aprendizaje de Flujos Ecosistémicos totalmente en español!!!
Si te interesa postularte completa el form que figura en el qr correspondiente!!

The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene | Cambridge Prisms: Extinction | Cambridge Core The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene - Volume 2

The evidence for Homo sapiens playing the dominant role in the global #megafauna #extinctions constitutes one of the clearest, well-supported patterns in #ecology. See our 2024 review www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #paleobiology #archeology #hunting #ecosystem #Pleistocene #defaunation #rewilding

Remote sensing approaches to monitor tropical forest restoration: Current methods and future possibilities 🛰️ 🌏 🧪

Discusses technologies, such as:
👉very-high-resolution RGB imagery
👉hyperspectral imaging
👉lidar
👉radar
👉thermal-infrared technologies

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Presenting at AGU

Presenting at AGU

Presenting at AGU

Chairing at AGU

Thank you DC for another amazing AGU! #AGU24 did not disappoint, and it was great to see lab members presenting and discussing their research (@savcardenas.bsky.social & Zexi Shen). Now, the introvert in me will need a day (or week) to decompress and do some deep breathing exercises 😅!!!

Ready to present my poster at #AGU24, about dust extreme events in Arizona and their implications for #PV energy generation! See you on Thursday 12, 1:40pm
shorturl.at/2ZEoZ

Thanks, see you

More presentations and sessions by #Greenlab members:

Lab PI @juliakgreen.bsky.social:
agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...

Zexi Shen:
agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...