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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
Reposted by Karin Mora
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
Reposted by Karin Mora
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
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Reposted by Karin Mora
sioldridge.bsky.social
There are over 1️⃣6️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ gas & oil lobbyists at COP30 👇
What a shocking failure. Would you allow tobacco lobbyists into a world health conference?

There will be 0️⃣ lobbyists at the National Emergency Briefing on the #climate and #nature crisis on 27th November.
Is your MP attending? www.nebriefing.org
November 16, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Reposted by Karin Mora
ergabiodiv.bsky.social
Read more about the projects: www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/erga-at...

@rmwaterhouse.bsky.social @ikeririsarri.bsky.social
ERGA at the BioHackathon Europe 2025
Are you interested in bioinformatics and eager to connect with peers worldwide while working on projects with direct applications for the life sciences? Join this year’s BioHackathon Europe between 3–...
www.erga-biodiversity.eu
November 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Reposted by Karin Mora
lsachsenmaier.bsky.social
Over 2,600🌳 #trees during the 2018–2020 #drought :
• Traits disadvantageous in normal years became beneficial under drought
• Trees grew better with neighbours whose hydro-functional traits differed from their own
🗞️Paper out now @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Hydro‐Functional Traits and Their Dissimilarity to the Neighbourhood Buffer Tree Growth Against the 2018–2020 Central European Drought
Climate change is putting forests at risk. Our research shows that a tree's water-use strategy largely determines its growth across years: whereas one strategy performs better in normal years, the ot....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Reposted by Karin Mora
maerkelig.bsky.social
"We’re looking at four more years of #deregulation [#simplification 💩]. They have accepted that rolling back much of the green deal is their mandate, and when you’re holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail” #Weber #EPP
November 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Reposted by Karin Mora
idiv-research.bsky.social
New study led by @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social shows: forest stands made up of tree species with different water-use strategies (not just many species) grow better in drought years. #iDivResearch #Biodiversity
www.idiv.de/diverse-fore...
Diverse forests are more resistant to climate change
www.idiv.de
November 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
karinmora.bsky.social
Excited to be @ #partWiss25 today & share my #spatioTemporal analysis approach to study plant group behaviour from #citizenScience.
#Phenology from ground observations would’t be possible @ large scale without enthusiastic #FloraIncognita users.

Thanks for organising @alettabonn.bsky.social + Team
November 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Reposted by Karin Mora
katharinehayhoe.com
You thought the pictures from last night were incredible? Look at this!
bgs.ac.uk British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk · 14d
We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.

Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
November 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
karinmora.bsky.social
😲 Who knew that you only have to establish your own journal to have higher profit margins than the pharma or the oil industry… 😲
With us scientists loving to work for free…

Put that keyboard away. Your super-yacht is waiting. 🛥️

An insightful analysis on the Drain of Scientific Publishing 📈
hansonmark.bsky.social Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 15d
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ben Jennings on Cop30 – cartoon
As talks get under way in Brazil, the Paris agreement’s architect, Christiana Figueres, says the absence of the US is good for Cop30
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Reposted by Karin Mora
serge.belongie.com
Prof. @tokehoye.bsky.social (Aarhus University) and I have an open PhD position (jointly advised) on biodiversity monitoring with camera trap networks. Deadline: 15-Jan-2026

Please help us share this post among students you know with an interest in Machine Learning and Biodiversity! 🤖🪲🌱
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
karinmora.bsky.social
Time for some music after another intense week with an ESA review meeting, teaching, great science discussions, and way too much screen time.

Vince Guaraldi
Rain, rain go away

m.youtube.com/results?sp=m...
YouTube
Share your videos with friends, family, and the world
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November 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
karinmora.bsky.social
Do you really want to use corporate AI LLM as search engines?

“Google said its Gemma models were built for AI developers and researchers, not for factual assistance or for consumers.”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Experts find flaws in hundreds of tests that check AI safety and effectiveness
Scientists say almost all have weaknesses in at least one area that can ‘undermine validity of resulting claims’
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Reposted by Karin Mora
davifaranda.bsky.social
🌍 Reducing scientific travel cuts CO2 emissions but fragments the scientific networks.
With Tommaso Alberti on the @egu.eu Nonlinear Processes blog, we move from carbon accounting to carbon investment: travel less, but travel with purpose to keep science connected.
👉 blogs.egu.eu/divisions/np...
Rethinking the carbon cost of scientific exchange: Nonlinear effects of reducing scientific mobility
The carbon footprint of scientific collaboration has become an increasingly debated topic. Conferences, workshops, and research travel remain central to how science function, yet they also contribute ...
blogs.egu.eu
November 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Reposted by Karin Mora
phenobs.bsky.social
Check out: New PhenObs paper published in ‘Basic and Applied Ecology’. We used historical data from Vienna and recently collected data from PhenObs to investigate whether phenological changes due to climate change (temporal scale) are also reflected on a spatial scale.
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doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
November 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Reposted by Karin Mora
methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
📖Published📖

Using observations from ground-based seismometers and trunk-mounted accelerometers, authors isolated and analysed tree sway signals based on spectral decomposition and vibrational mode tracking 🌳 Find out more here 👇

🌍 🧪

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(a) Seismic instrument set-up at the ECOSENSE site within the Black Forest. The locations of the below-ground seismometers are indicated by white triangles, the locations of trees/trunks equipped with three vertically aligned accelerometers are indicated by grey hexagons. Geographical coordinates of the seismometers and instrumented trees are provided in the Supporting Information (Table S1). (b) Picture of the field deployment of an instrumented tree with three trunk-mounted accelerometers (ACC) and one co-located seismometer (SEISMO). (c) The seismometer: A Trillium Compact 120 s sensor (Nanometrics) was buried at 30 cm depth, based on a concrete slab and connected to a DATA-CUBE3 (Digos, Omnirecs) recorder, a GPS antenna and batteries all stored in a grey box. (d) Exemplary accelerometer: Three Episensors (Kinemetrics) were strapped to the trunk with a vertical spacing of 1 m connected to a DATA-CUBE3 (Digos, Omnirecs) recorder, a GPS antenna and batteries as well.
October 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
karinmora.bsky.social
The seismic fingerprint of wind-induced tree sway @besmacro.bsky.social

lead by Umlauft @scadsai.bsky.social
w @chriswernerlab.bsky.social , Wirth @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social , Gerberding, Kattenborn
@ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social

#forestMonitoring #ML #timeSeries
#treeSway #spectralAnalysis
October 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
karinmora.bsky.social
#Poetic
#Phenology
#PlantTraits
tomgauld.bsky.social Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · Oct 24
A cartoon about autumn....
Title: The leaves Image 1: Two leaves hang from branches. "Would you like to hear my new poem?" Says one "Is it another one about the inevitability of death?" replies a smaller leaf. Image 2: "It's autumn! What else am i going to write about?" says the poet leaf. "Well, we've all turned this lovely reddish colour." says the small leaf. Image 3: "Actually, that could make a very nice poem. Thanks!" says the poet. Image 4. The small leaf begins to reply but is blown away by a gust of wind. Image 5: Later. The solitary poet leaf recites a poem: "The year dies. I cling hopelessly. In the end all things fall."
October 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
karinmora.bsky.social
“The process of making a nonlinear feedback model is itself a nonlinear feedback process.”
pholme.bsky.social Petter Holme @pholme.bsky.social · Oct 23
Network of the day.
From: Briggs & Peat, Turbulent Mirror, 1989.
October 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Reposted by Karin Mora
globalcommonshq.bsky.social
📢 BREAKING: The new #StateOfClimateAction 2025 report is live!

The report finds global efforts fall far short of what’s needed to keep the #ParisAgreement goal within reach—not a single one of the 45 indicators is on track for 2030.

Read the report: bit.ly/4o6hPwm

#COP30 @wriclimate.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM