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Karin Mora
@karinmora.bsky.social
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Researcher @uniLeipzig.bsky.social & @rsc4earth.bsky.social

My work: #PHENOPLEXITY
= #nonlinearDynamics + #complexity + #ML
Analyses: plant #phenology & #biodiversity.
Data: #citizenscience, #remoteSensing, #sentinel2, #eddycovariance, #DataCubes, #TLS
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Karin Mora @karinmora.bsky.social · Apr 2
Publication prebsky:
Inter-annual #macrophenological gradients derived using a #synchronisation #timeseries approach from #citizenscience #Floraincognita.

With Rzanny, Wäldchen, Feilhauer, Kattenborn, @gdkrmr.bsky.social, Mäder, Svidzinska, Wolf, @miguelmahecha.bsky.social

#idiv, #Breathingnature
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miguelangelft.bsky.social
We are thrilled to bring the #XAI4CV Workshop back to @cvprconference.bsky.social
, celebrating its 5th Anniversary!🚀Submit your latest research in #XAI. We accept papers & demos across 2 tracks! #CVPR2026 xai4cv-workshop.github.io/xai4cv2026/ Please repost🔁
January 22, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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smartenwinter.bsky.social
Fantastic study on the adaptation of species populations on temperature changes, led by former #sDiv Postdoc Viktoriia Radchuk.

This is part of the #synthesis group @idiv-research.bsky.social www.idiv.de/straitchange & also shows how long it sometimes takes to finish complex studies.
January 20, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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nshaud.bsky.social
torrentfreak.com/nvidia-conta... corporate ethics is an oxymore
NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books * TorrentFreak
NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training.
torrentfreak.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:09 PM
karinmora.bsky.social
#Read the latest #cityFable on the joy of #frozenRivers

urbanmole.is?p=54975
January 17, 2026 at 10:25 AM
karinmora.bsky.social
Only a week ago we had an amazing #winterScape in #Leipzig. The #FrozenRiver was full of #joyAndLaughter.

@urbanmole.bsky.social links observation with art and story.

#WeNeedStories #WeNeedArt #Leipzig #cityTales #cityFable #urbanGaze #cityScapes #bruegelPainting

urbanmole.is?p=54975
Urban winner landscape with frozen river and people frolicking on it.
January 17, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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guypeer.bsky.social
This is so outrageous that there are hardly any words to describe the disgrace.
The EU marks a low moment for citizens' health, for science, for democracy, for biodiversity, and for farmers.
Congratulations for those who've just shown us who's the real boss in this puppet theatre.
eeb.org European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · Dec 16
🗑️💢 @europarl.europa.eu just cleared away the few remaining environmental safeguards in EU farming policy

Two rushed rounds of so-called “simplifications” have gutted years of progress and handed #BigAgri exactly what it wanted: money to pollute with no strings attached ✂️

Here’s what we’ve lost ⬇️
December 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Reposted by Karin Mora
elife.bsky.social
The research org CNRS will end access to the Web of Science, shifting towards qualitative research assessment and open tools. It’s a strong move for #OpenScience, reducing reliance on proprietary metrics and supporting fairer, more transparent evaluation.
The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science
From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'
buff.ly
December 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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jquaas.bsky.social
The DFG research training group on the Economics of Connected Natural Commons: Atmosphere and Biodiversity (ECO-N) at Leipzig University is happy to announce vacancies for another 14 doctoral researcher positions. www.eco-n.org
uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/9...
@unileipzig.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Reposted by Karin Mora
doctorzen.net
The obsession with “star scientists” and “attracting top talent” fundamentally misunderstands research and higher education.

Create a healthy environment that is attractive to all manner of scientists. Because that run of the mill, non-transformative, maybe slightly boring research matters, too.
December 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
karinmora.bsky.social
#PatternFormation in the real world. This looks like spiral waves which can be modelled by the reaction–diffusion system of Fitzhugh–Nagumo type

🤓🤩
manlius.bsky.social Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · Dec 9
At first glance, looks like a Gray–Scott reaction-diffusion

But it’s a fertilized starfish 🥚: proteins self-organizing into spiral waves across the membrane

Same dynamics seen in ❤️/🧠/🌊, even quantum fluids. Universality in action!

#ComplexSystems

news.mit.edu/2020/growth-...
December 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Reposted by Karin Mora
i4replication.bsky.social
🚨New blog post: Replicators, rejoice! Episode 1 of the new series is out: “A New README.” A practical guide to transforming messy project folders into clear, well-structured documentation that strengthens transparency and reproducibility.

See more at
i4replication.org/dont-panic-a...
Don’t Panic: A Researcher’s Guide to Replication Packages
Episode 1: A New README Who Needs a README? Imagine coming across a really cool paper in a top journal. The kind of paper you wish you wrote yourself; the…
i4replication.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
karinmora.bsky.social
Origin of the Universe and Comics
🤓❤️🧐
nsousanis.bsky.social Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · Dec 6
The birth of our solar system - at last, closing up the penultimate page of this mammoth chapter exploring the origin of the universe in all its swirls of different sorts... It's been a long trip. And there is, to be sure, a lot going on on this page :)
Onward!
#Nostos #Unflattening 2
A comics page in 30 (ok, technically 33) panels - arranged five wide by six tall. We see the birth of the solar system unfold - beginning with a gas cloud in space, which is then shocked into collapse by a supernova explosion far off. The gas collapses on itself and begins to swirl. We see it gather material into its center, which heats up - and a thin disk spreading outward - with rock close to it and ice and gas and rock spread farther out. (this was the first two tiers of panels). Third tier - we see bits of dust and rock and ice stick together, then get to bigger pieces and collide, and eventually turn into planetesimals. Next row, a bigger one of these collects tons of gas and ice to itself and becomes the first planet (Jupiter) and we see the others (and some that are no longer around) form. Fifth row - these planets clear remaining dust and rock from their orbital lanes, but still pretty chaotic. a panel split into four - showing in half the collision that turned Uranus on its side, and the other showing the collision that stripped Mercury of its outer layer. We also see diagrammatically how Jupiter and Saturn moved in closer to sun at some point and then moved back outward - which among other things caused Neptune and Uranus to switch orbits, and then for row 6 - trigged the late heavy bombardment where rocks and ice and gas are flung inward at the inner planets - devastating them - but also bringing gases included water. Finally, the planets reach the more or less current configuration. I drew Saturn with a ring, which it probably didn't have - but only so people knew what it was. I drew earth with one giant continent as it might've been - but you can't really tell anyhow, the drawing is too tiny. I would've put water on Mars but I felt that would confuse everyone.
December 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
karinmora.bsky.social
🌊Watch out for the AI slop flood 🌊

“I don’t find this a compelling argument for putting your name on 100 papers that you could not have possibly meaningfully contributed to”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
karinmora.bsky.social
🌺🌸🌼 Flowers are still around.
I spotted these freeze-hardy species on my walk in Leipzig

Hoary alyssum/Berteroa incana
Black horehound/Ballota nigra
Shepherd's purse/Capsella bursa-pastoris

With the help of #FloraIncognita.
Hoary alyssum/Berteroa incana Black horehound/Ballota nigra Shepherd's purse/Capsella bursa-pastoris
December 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
karinmora.bsky.social
Really nice visualisation of tree evolution, physiology, and processes! Great for teaching. Thanks for sharing!
bjenquist.bsky.social Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Dec 4
Each year, I teach "Evolution of Plant Form and Function" to undergraduates - I've struggled to find good synthetic out-of-class materials - until recently. This is such a superb overview of the functional and physiological overview of land plant evolution www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSch... 🧪🌾🌐 #botany
Trees Are So Weird
YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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creaf.cat
Today #WorldSoilDay we’re shining a light on the most hidden and underrated part of plants:

🌱 ROOTS 🌱

But not just any roots… let’s talk about SUPER ROOTS 🦸
December 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
karinmora.bsky.social
Excited 😄 & tired 😴 after my last talk for this year 🎉 @ Inst. of Environmental Systems Research, Uni Osnabrück.

Thanks Frank Hilkert for being such a welcoming host! Thanks to all who joined for Q&A 😊 Andreas Focks & all

I thoroughly enjoyed discussing ML, maths modelling & bifurcation analysis
With me are Jonas Wahl and Frank Hilkert (thanks for the pics)
December 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
karinmora.bsky.social
This goes into my #teaching slides on #NoCorporateLLMs for learning.

Beware of #SkillAtrophy
meadekrosby.bsky.social Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · Nov 28
“Choosing to write is also choosing to make meaning. Studies suggest that having a sense of agency is both a prerequisite for, and an outcome of, writing.”

ChatGPT isn’t mentioned once in this article but it’s impossible not to read it as a powerful critique.
us.theconversation.com The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · Nov 28
Writing doesn't just help you process your thoughts.

Neuroscientists have found it physically changes your brain in ways that build resilience and help you handle everyday stress and challenges.

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November 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
karinmora.bsky.social
#knowledgeSlavery is a very fitting term!
euanritchie.bsky.social Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · Nov 29
Honestly, when will unis and other research orgs collectively say enough is enough, and invoice them for all our unpaid labour that drives publishers MASSIVE profits?

The Money in Scientific Publishing danielroelfs.com/posts/the-mo... @danielroelfs.com

#KnowledgeSlavery
November 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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jebyrnes.bsky.social
As someone who has begun changing his wardrobe to match his classes and science (and because I love it), I approve this message. www.science.org/content/arti...
Embracing my silly side makes me a better scientist. I wish I’d done it sooner
Humor has helped this professor connect with students and colleagues—and remain resilient during hard times
www.science.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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oisinmacaodha.bsky.social
Traditional clustering methods aim to group unlabelled data points based on their similarity to each other. However, clustering, in the absence of additional information, is an ill-posed problem as there may be many different, yet equally valid, ways to partition a dataset.
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 AM
karinmora.bsky.social
“Info overload &misinformation get a lot of attention. Meanwhile, the people who work to the standards of science to uncover reliable information & share knowledge & protect public’s access to it-s.a.librarians,editors,research integrity officers & specialist journalists-are overlooked & undermined”
November 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
karinmora.bsky.social
New preprint for the #DeepFeatures project:
Why choose between spatial detail and temporal fidelity in #EO data?

We developed a #ContextAware #multimodalAI framework that unifies satellite data ( #Sentinel1 & #Sentinel2) into a single, high-resolution view of land surface properties.

#AI4Science
Comparison between Sentinel-2 RGB imagery (left in each pair) and PCA projections of the learned feature embeddings (right) for twelve representative locations.
November 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Academia has a problem in elevating terrible people into positions of power. "Sure, this person is a narcissist and sociopath, but they get things done! That's a bargain I'm willing to make."

It is indeed hard to get things done in academia, so I understand the temptation. But it often ends badly.
November 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
karinmora.bsky.social
“Originally a “computer” was a person ...”

“Credited or not, these pioneering women & their contributions have been mostly forgotten, & only in recent decades have their roles come to light again. But why were they obscured by history in the first place?”

physicsworld.com/a/the-forgot...
The forgotten pioneers of computational physics – Physics World
Iulia Georgescu highlights the forgotten pioneers of computational physics and calls for a wider appreciation of research software engineers
physicsworld.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM