📜 New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus.
London: 1807..
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Wars of choice murder countless people today—and drown the homes of countless people tomorrow.
—Each 5-year delay in peaking carbon emissions will cause an extra 8 inches of sea-level rise by 2300.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We are fortunate to have both Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers around all year, but they are particularly active in the winter.
This female Hairy Woodpecker arrived with a few loud PIPS, to forage for snacks on or in the trees!
#Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶
I’m so excited for this! Who’s going?
My talk will be about time, as ecology’s final frontier: dynamics, timescales, resolution and extent, historical contingencies, and the denominator of all ecological processes.
Today the US uses about 30-40% of our corn supply and 40-50% of our soybean oil supply to produce biofuels that account for…
…about 6% of our total transportation fuel.
Lots of land & food/feed, small amount of energy.
Solar is 100x more efficient per acre at producing energy.
End of 🧵 for now.
🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! 🌱⛏️Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026, Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz
#clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #traits #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #functional #course
These findings have implications for future warming, mediated by hydroclimate-biogeochemical feedbacks. It is too soon to constrain those with certainty, but at least model simulations suggest this could be a negative feedback, with drier soils causing lower methane emissions or even uptake.
New paper with our long-term collaborators from CUG Wuhan (led by Xinyue Dang), showing a threshold response in soil moisture that induces an abrupt shift in soil microbial community and methane emissions. @ogu-bristol.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @cabot-institute.bsky.social
Dense, dark forests in Europe are a modern phenomenon - Europe’s landscapes for 23 Myr were mostly tree- & flower-rich mosaics shaped by large herbivores, not dense #forests, see our new synthesis www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #forests #woodlands #paleoecology #nature #trees #refiorestation
Purple Rain in Cleveland, Ohio
A couple of Dr. Seuss trumpets.
Cladonia lichens. NWT, Canada.
These lichens are about 2cm high.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
US Congress is advancing housing legislation. On @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, I examine land-use elements in both House & Senate bills.
There are some promising opportunities in the legislation—best-practice guidelines & rewards for cities building lots of housing—but also areas for improvement.
Extensive conversion of grasslands & wetlands driven by global food, feed, & bioenergy demand (Kan et al., 2026) doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Global patterns of commodity-driven deforestation & associated carbon emissions (Singh & Persson, 2026) doi.org/10.1038/s430...
WRI: www.wri.org/insights/glo...
They were going to pass rules to phase out gas stoves, until they received 20,000 public comments against the regulations. Except, oops, it turns out the comments were generated by AI.
In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.
This is amazing.
www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
Francis Harvey meditates on hope, futility, and the human impulse to intervene in forces beyond our control.
The act of calling down rain becomes something larger than weather. It’s about standing beneath an empty sky and refusing despair.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
Identifying #forest canopy gaps is important for understanding forest development & biological diversity. New R notebook outlines a workflow to detect canopy gaps from Canopy Height Models derived from ALS #lidar data. Available at:
github.com/OpenForest4D...
#RemoteSensing #Forestry #GoogleColab
one of my things is coming up with titles for self-help books or boardroom presentations and today's offering is "From Performative to Transformative," you're so welcome
Ecophysiology for climate-smart forest management
#TansleyReview by Gessler et al. @wslresearch.bsky.social @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social @annekempel.bsky.social @josegruenzweig.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#plantscience
🧵 In its Endangerment Finding rescission, US EPA chose to ignore the effects of the rule on public health and the environment by refusing to even quantify them or report them in the rule.
So I dug into the docket to quantify those costs myself, using EPA's own models.
Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative
now I am stressed about grading them 🤣
Don't miss this one 👇 and the Global Wood Density Database v2, doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
European governments and institutions surged military aid to Ukraine by 67% and financial and humanitarian support by 59% in 2025 while Trump abandoned the battered country and its people, throwing his support to Russia. www.axios.com/2026/02/19/u...
March monthly outlook just dropped by the Climate Prediction Center.
What are the sources of cropland GHG emissions? Mostly rice cultivation & peatland drainage (~70% combined). A new study led by Cornell & @projectdrawdown.bsky.social details sources of these GHGs doi.org/10.1038/s415...
See nice write up @worldresources.bsky.social www.wri.org/insights/cli...
“At NSF, the net reduction of 205 STEM Ph.D.s between 1 January and 30 November constituted 40% of its total pre-Trump Ph.D. workforce of 517, by far the largest percentage at any agency. STEM Ph.D.s also make up a larger percentage of the total workforce at NSF than at any other agency…”.
This absolute unit just hopped on our back wall. 🪶
Come work with us! 🧪🌐🧑💻🌿🐸❄️
I am hireing a #postdoc in Climate Change Ecology to work on Ecological Synthesis and support the upcoming #IPCC report as a Chapter Scientist (CH14: terrestrial, freshwater and cryopspheric biodiversity, ecosystems, and services. #IPCC #AR7
@ipcc.bsky.social
