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Shawn @professorshawn.bsky.social · 13h

Silent Spring all over again.

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PANGEOS COST ACTION 22136 @pangeos-ca22136.bsky.social · 7d

🌱 Spec. Issue: Precision Agriculture: A PANGEOS COST Action Perspective 🌍
📅 Open for submissions: Oct 1, 2025
⏳ Deadline: June 30, 2026
We invite research on data integration, decision support, efficiency, sustainability & uncertainty in agri & forestry.
👉 Submit: link.springer.com/collections/...

Precision Agriculture: A PANGEOS COST Action Perspective

Precision Agriculture is defined as a management strategy that gathers, processes, and analyzes temporal, spatial, and individual data, combining it with ...

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PANGEOS COST ACTION 22136 @pangeos-ca22136.bsky.social · 16d

🌍 The #PANGEOS COST Action WG3 Training School on the Terrestrial Carbon Community Assimilation System (TCCAS) wraps up today in Hamburg 🇩🇪.
Over 2 days, participants explored:
🌱 Carbon Cycle (Songyan Zhu, Marko Scholze)
🧩 Data Assimilation & Observations (Peter Rayner, Holly Croft, Thomas Kaminski👇

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Shawn @professorshawn.bsky.social · Jun 3

We've just opened up our call for applications for our end of year conference. Should be good geeky fun and we´re planning to organize a Open Research Europe extended abstract publication as well. Check it out! more details at pangeos.eu/jurmala-latv...

PANGEOS Cost Action Conference 2025

Jūrmala, Latvia, 11-12 September 2025 We are pleased to invite you to submit your application to participate in the upcoming PANGEOS Cost Action Conference 2025, to be held 11-12&nb…

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Shawn @professorshawn.bsky.social · May 8

Sunrise isn't always my favorite time to get up and get to work, but it does have its perks during the field season.

Sunrise and clouds over fields of wheat in Spain

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · Apr 9

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?

Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.

Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Graphic: As many as 69 million American women lack access to valid birth certificates

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Shawn @professorshawn.bsky.social · Apr 9

Nailed it with these brilliant lines, which apply equally of all of his policies - "There is no grand plan or strategic vision, no matter what his advisers claim — only the impulsive actions of a mad king, untethered from any responsibility to the nation or its people."

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Shawn @professorshawn.bsky.social · Apr 9

Genetically modified giant wolves, what could go wrong?

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Apr 9

Today's US EO orders the Attorney General to identify + take expeditious action to stop enforcement of "all State & local laws... purporting to address “climate change” or involving “environmental, social, and governance” initiatives, “environmental justice,” carbon or “greenhouse gas” emissions."

Aurora Groovealis @auroragroove.bsky.social · Apr 9

This executive order confirms that. They are attacking all "state laws" that address climate change, ESG, environmental justice and/or greenhouse gases.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Shawn @professorshawn.bsky.social · Apr 5

Today is a good day to remember that by the numbers, over 70% of the country did not vote for Trump.

Shawn @professorshawn.bsky.social · Apr 5

By the numbers, over 70% of the country didn't vote for Trump.

Shawn @professorshawn.bsky.social · Apr 2

PANGEOS EU COST Action paving the way forward in EU Green Deal Agriculture and Forestry Earth Observation Science with some great workshops and training activities coming this summer (and 2 more years!). Check us out at pangeos.eu and www.cost.eu/actions/CA22....

Descriptions of the PANGEOS COST Action Research Network benefits including Grants, Opportunities and Working Groups.

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Shawn @professorshawn.bsky.social · Apr 1

oligarchs rounding down 👎

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Shawn @professorshawn.bsky.social · Apr 1

Still pending, almost funded, Spanish style.

Estado del expediente
Estado: Propuesta de resolución
Sub-estado: Propuesta Resolución Provisional
Resultado: Concedido provisional

File Status
Status: Proposed Resolution
Sub-status: Proposed Provisional Resolution
Result: Provisionally granted

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Martin Mokros @mokros.bsky.social · Mar 28

📢 Call for Participants!
3rd Interdisciplinary Summer School on Forest Ecosystems

💰 No registration fee + full expenses covered!

Organized by four COST Actions

📍 Where: Oxford University & Wytham Woods
📅 When: 4–8 August 2025
📝 More here: bit.ly/3FWRvDp

#SummerSchool #Forest #COSTActions

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The Ken Harbaugh Show @thekenharbaughshow.bsky.social · Mar 24

Dems need to fight EVERYWHERE, esp. locally. San Antonio is the nation's 7th largest city, and its mayoral election is coming up. If Gina Ortiz Jones wins, it'll send a powerful signal. She's a vet, former Air Force Under Secretary, an all-around badass, and a good friend. Please chip in.

I just gave to Gina Ortiz Jones!

Show your support with a contribution.

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · Mar 20

Right now teaching feels so important. My students are engaged, often staying after class to talk with me or to talk with guest speakers. More students are coming to class and doing the readings. If they shut us down I will teach in the park or the library. The only way forward is through together.

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Shawn @professorshawn.bsky.social · Mar 19

When you have field work but also have to teach an online class, so you ask your buddy to give a guest seminar on radiative transfer models while you fly your drones.

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European Space Agency @esa.int · Mar 10

Our @esaearth.esa.int forest mission #Biomass has arrived at the launch site in French Guiana. With launch set for end of April, Biomass will soon play a key role in delivering information about the state of our forests and advancing our knowledge of the carbon cycle 🧪🌳

www.esa.int/Applications...

ESA’s Biomass satellite about to be placed in its shipment container at Airbus in Toulouse, France. This container protects the satellite while it is being shipped to Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana

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Shawn @professorshawn.bsky.social · Mar 8

I recently organized a scientific workshop with the aim of being the dumbest person in the room and its success was glorious. We're putting together plans for another such event in Oxford this summer.

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Mar 3

In our latest Editorial we discuss the continuing damage being done to US science, and its impact on researchers and the environment 👇

Deep cuts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Screenshot of text from a Nature Ecology & Evolution Editorial entitled "Deep cuts"

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · Feb 20

This is a letter I did not want to write.

There is a WWII-era saying: “If there’s a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven Nazis.”

If you voted for #Trump, you are a #Nazi.

brandy-schillace.medium.com/the-letter-b...

The Letter

This is a letter I did not want to write. I had hoped that the angels of our better natures would win out, would convince people that…

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Shawn @professorshawn.bsky.social · Feb 4

Today we flew our new drone with a laser on it. That was a first for me. Do your drones have lasers, too?

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Shawn @professorshawn.bsky.social · Feb 4

There's a new trend going on in Spain that no one really talks about but it's happening everywhere - food served in sculpture dishes, like this artichoke heart with jamón served on a peacock tail.

Shawn @professorshawn.bsky.social · Nov 28

Oh, I was honestly hoping for "dog in fog on log in bog" but great pictures either way.

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