Jeff Atkins
@atkinsjeff.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ Virginia Commonwealth University; displaced Forest Service scientist; ecosystem ecologist with a remote sensing problem; standard time apologist; lover of loud, noisy, weird music.
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🚨Paper alert🚨
Check out Beibei Zhang's latest work out today @royalsocietypublishing.org where we track the 3D structural recovery of Australia's Great Western Woodlands following wildfires over a chronosequence spanning half a millenia!🌳🛰️🔥🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Check out Beibei Zhang's latest work out today @royalsocietypublishing.org where we track the 3D structural recovery of Australia's Great Western Woodlands following wildfires over a chronosequence spanning half a millenia!🌳🛰️🔥🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
November 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🚨Paper alert🚨
Check out Beibei Zhang's latest work out today @royalsocietypublishing.org where we track the 3D structural recovery of Australia's Great Western Woodlands following wildfires over a chronosequence spanning half a millenia!🌳🛰️🔥🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Check out Beibei Zhang's latest work out today @royalsocietypublishing.org where we track the 3D structural recovery of Australia's Great Western Woodlands following wildfires over a chronosequence spanning half a millenia!🌳🛰️🔥🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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✨ Paper spotlight ✨
(🧵 1/7) Moving from an experiment- to an observation-dominated era in global change impact research on vegetation
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(🧵 1/7) Moving from an experiment- to an observation-dominated era in global change impact research on vegetation
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
✨ Paper spotlight ✨
(🧵 1/7) Moving from an experiment- to an observation-dominated era in global change impact research on vegetation
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(🧵 1/7) Moving from an experiment- to an observation-dominated era in global change impact research on vegetation
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Cool plot
Shared ancestry outweighs environment in structuring global seagrass traits
Bosch et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Bosch et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Cool plot
*fewer
Linda McMahon: "The states will have less requirements because more money will go in block grants to the states ... I have called for a hard reset of education because we have failed our students."
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
*fewer
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We're currently looking for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board! 🌎🧪
If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
We're currently looking for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board! 🌎🧪
If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
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Hi all, I'll try to check in more often. Always looking for:
1) paid job/research opportunities to share with undergrads
2) cool ecophys/ecology stuff
3) connections for research & collaboration
I'm also reachable by my professional email, which is on my webpage: maryheskel.com
1) paid job/research opportunities to share with undergrads
2) cool ecophys/ecology stuff
3) connections for research & collaboration
I'm also reachable by my professional email, which is on my webpage: maryheskel.com
Plant Ecophysiology @ Macalester College – Studying leaves to landscapes in a changing world
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November 11, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Hi all, I'll try to check in more often. Always looking for:
1) paid job/research opportunities to share with undergrads
2) cool ecophys/ecology stuff
3) connections for research & collaboration
I'm also reachable by my professional email, which is on my webpage: maryheskel.com
1) paid job/research opportunities to share with undergrads
2) cool ecophys/ecology stuff
3) connections for research & collaboration
I'm also reachable by my professional email, which is on my webpage: maryheskel.com
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November 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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This great thread makes a point I've been trying to convey for years. Calling all data-driven prediction or decision software "AI" is a huge gift to LLM hypemen, who want people to believe, incorrectly, that LLM data centers are crucial for solar forecasting or operating buildings and power grids.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This great thread makes a point I've been trying to convey for years. Calling all data-driven prediction or decision software "AI" is a huge gift to LLM hypemen, who want people to believe, incorrectly, that LLM data centers are crucial for solar forecasting or operating buildings and power grids.
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Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
Peter from "If Books Could Kill" voice.... freakanomics!
“Had UChicago simply matched the market, its endowment would be $6.45 billion larger today—more than enough to repay its entire debt.”
Don’t understand why these people aren’t simply fired
Don’t understand why these people aren’t simply fired
The boys at UChicago smirking right now because they proved once again, they're breaking new ground and Harvard follows after the fact.
stanfordreview.org/uchicago-los...
stanfordreview.org/uchicago-los...
November 22, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Peter from "If Books Could Kill" voice.... freakanomics!
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"Postdoctoral Research Scholar - Forest Biotechnology Group at NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA"
Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251121_NCSU.pdf
#PlantSciJobs
Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251121_NCSU.pdf
#PlantSciJobs
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"Postdoctoral Research Scholar - Forest Biotechnology Group at NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA"
Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251121_NCSU.pdf
#PlantSciJobs
Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251121_NCSU.pdf
#PlantSciJobs
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Crowd sourcing from the Bluesky hive mind: what are these patches with what look like ducts inside that I'm seeing on silver maple? They don't occur in every ring, rather sporadically. @yellowbuckeye.bsky.social @l-tulipifera.bsky.social #dendro
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Crowd sourcing from the Bluesky hive mind: what are these patches with what look like ducts inside that I'm seeing on silver maple? They don't occur in every ring, rather sporadically. @yellowbuckeye.bsky.social @l-tulipifera.bsky.social #dendro
This actually gets more intriguing the more I think on it
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This actually gets more intriguing the more I think on it
Bad news. Very bad news.
The White House just blasted this out under the headline "Good News You May Have Missed"
November 20, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Bad news. Very bad news.
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New paper out! 🌲 We explore hyperspectral indicators of vegetation vitality across scales—from individual trees to entire forests using drone & aircraft data. Insights into tree health, water availability & structure.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hyperspectral indicators of vegetation vitality across scales: From trees to forests
Remotely sensed vegetation indices (VIs) are used as indicators of vegetation vitality and warning signals that indicate stress responses at the leaf …
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November 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
New paper out! 🌲 We explore hyperspectral indicators of vegetation vitality across scales—from individual trees to entire forests using drone & aircraft data. Insights into tree health, water availability & structure.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Temperate deciduous forests are found in three global regions. We compared taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of forest plant communities among these regions in a new Ecography article led by Javier Loidi and Josep Padullés Cubino:
doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
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doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Temperate deciduous forests are found in three global regions. We compared taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of forest plant communities among these regions in a new Ecography article led by Javier Loidi and Josep Padullés Cubino:
doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
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doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
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We published! I am very excited to share this story. Our study shows that Taxus mortality is not caused by competition. Many deaths began with mechanical damage from fallen trees more than a decade ago, starting a long decline that led to recent mortality.
Ku and Lutz (2025) doi.org/10.1186/s137...
Ku and Lutz (2025) doi.org/10.1186/s137...
Death and Taxus: the contribution of mechanical damage to the multiple factors associated with Taxus brevifolia mortality - Ecological Processes
Background Recent increases in tree mortality are often attributed to climate, but climate extremes may just be the last of many stressors that have unfolded over many years resulting in tree death. P...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
We published! I am very excited to share this story. Our study shows that Taxus mortality is not caused by competition. Many deaths began with mechanical damage from fallen trees more than a decade ago, starting a long decline that led to recent mortality.
Ku and Lutz (2025) doi.org/10.1186/s137...
Ku and Lutz (2025) doi.org/10.1186/s137...
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The new 2025 Global Carbon Budget finds that fossil fuel emissions will reach a new high in 2025. Total CO2 emissions (including land use) remain flat at 2024 levels.
While the land sink is up from 2024, carbon sinks are weakening: www.carbonbrief.org/...
While the land sink is up from 2024, carbon sinks are weakening: www.carbonbrief.org/...
November 13, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The new 2025 Global Carbon Budget finds that fossil fuel emissions will reach a new high in 2025. Total CO2 emissions (including land use) remain flat at 2024 levels.
While the land sink is up from 2024, carbon sinks are weakening: www.carbonbrief.org/...
While the land sink is up from 2024, carbon sinks are weakening: www.carbonbrief.org/...
Eloquent rant.
There's an exclusive, closed-to-media MAHA summit tomorrow. Here's the full agenda I was leaked
In attendance will be JD Vance, RFK Jr, Bhattacharya, Makary, actor Russell Brand (who is facing rape and sexual assault charges), and dozens of other MAHA influencers and people in Trump's orbit
In attendance will be JD Vance, RFK Jr, Bhattacharya, Makary, actor Russell Brand (who is facing rape and sexual assault charges), and dozens of other MAHA influencers and people in Trump's orbit
November 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Eloquent rant.
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
Bake Off this season has taught me that over the pond they are going sleeveless all the time and have completely given up on buttoning the buttons on shirts.
November 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Bake Off this season has taught me that over the pond they are going sleeveless all the time and have completely given up on buttoning the buttons on shirts.
The idea that feminism in any form ruined the workplace is ridiculously absurd. Feminism, and for that matter equity across all gender and sexual identities, is a huge net positive for guys too. Strict gender roles and dichotomies handcuff everyone.
I guess not being allowed to sexually harass people at work really killed the vibe.
November 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The idea that feminism in any form ruined the workplace is ridiculously absurd. Feminism, and for that matter equity across all gender and sexual identities, is a huge net positive for guys too. Strict gender roles and dichotomies handcuff everyone.
Finally getting around to playing Starfield and I now have confirmation Bethesda makes one game. Different settings, different characters, one game. A good game. But one game.
November 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Finally getting around to playing Starfield and I now have confirmation Bethesda makes one game. Different settings, different characters, one game. A good game. But one game.
These quotes from Watson get wilder and wilder.
Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
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James Watson in his own words
“Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…
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November 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
These quotes from Watson get wilder and wilder.