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Adam Mahood 🌻
@adm0n.bsky.social
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Plant ecologist
Fire ecologist
And stuff
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subfossilguy.bsky.social
Yes, there are conifers in Greenland! 🌲

500 yr-long Juniperus tree ring-based temperature reconstruction with oldest living shrub 367 yo! 💪

Striking here: 1/3 of corpus is from archive (collected end of 19th c)
Highlights importance of reanalysing old samples using modern analytical techniques! 👏
November 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
adm0n.bsky.social
For only $2690 you too can publish any kind of ai-generated garbage you want in a Nature journal
erikangner.com Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 3d
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports
November 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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erikangner.com
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
adm0n.bsky.social
Good stuff!
pnas.org Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 8d
Opinion piece: Removing #DeadTrees will not save us from fast-moving #wildfires. In PNAS Front Matter: https://ow.ly/qvta50XuOrz

#logging #ClimateChange #ForestFire
Pictured is post-disturbance logging that entailed removal of biological legacies and increased fine fuels on the Stanislaus National Forest in California, two years after the 2013 Rim fire, one of the state’s largest fires at the time. Image credit: Doug Bevington (photographer).
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
adm0n.bsky.social
The U of Helsinki is offering 2-4 month visiting research fellowships for USers to come to do research and develop collaborations across borders. I did it and it worked out great for me. Interested in collaborating and moving to Helsinki? Please reach out!

www.helsinki.fi/en/innovatio...
Focus North America | University of Helsinki
The University of Helsinki’s North America Programme 2025-2035 focuses on our interaction with partners in Canada and the United States to create meaningful impact and address global challenges throug...
www.helsinki.fi
November 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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biologyjoe87.bsky.social
Baby capybaras @ the Sacramento zoo #healing #love #hope
Mama capybara and five babies Baby capybara eating leaf
November 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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svs-plant-geog.bsky.social
Vegetation change in dry grasslands in NE Germany was studied across 20–25 years.There were early signs of biodiversity decline. Increase in competitive, mesophytic species and decline in disturbance-tolerant specialists was found. Highest diversity was associated with intermediate levels of grazing
November 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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throughthereeds.bsky.social
The yuccas at White Sands are so striking 🌵

#BlueskyArtShow #Bright #BotanicalArt #OilOnCanvas
An oil painting of a handful of yuccas at White Sands in New Mexico. The sand takes on the oranges and blues of the sun and the sky, and the sky is bright and cloudless.
November 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
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 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
adm0n.bsky.social
Very cool
patrickmckenzie.bsky.social Patrick McKenzie @patrickmckenzie.bsky.social · 15d
We found clear west/east divergence in floral color that corresponds with a known varietal boundary. Motivates future genomics work in the color transition zone to look at the basis for this shallow divergence
November 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
adm0n.bsky.social
Kevin O'Connell is defeating himself at his own game of 4-dimensional chess
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
adm0n.bsky.social
Hi.

Myself and 10-ish other people published this article today about global fire regimes. I hope you enjoy it. 🧪🌎🔥

Thank you for your attention on this matter!

dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb....
The Properties of Individual Fire Events Are Essential for Understanding Global Fire Regimes
Aim As fire activity changes globally, we need to better understand the spatial and temporal characteristics of the individual events that, when aggregated, constitute fire regimes. Most global stud...
dx.doi.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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hadley.nz
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....

genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
adm0n.bsky.social
Is it more like, people are failing the Turing test, rather than LLMs passing it?
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
adm0n.bsky.social
So cool. FIGHT FIRE WITH FOOD FORESTS. YES!

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Fight fire with food forests: Assessing flammability of tropical crop plant species to design fire‐smart agroforestry systems
Premise The increased frequency of droughts and wildfires in recent decades poses a significant risk to agricultural lands and private property. Given the negative impact of fires on food production...
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
adm0n.bsky.social
I mean seriously... right in my happy place.

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Testing key tenets of pyro‐ecophysiology: Indicators of drought response in relation to shoot flammability
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November 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
adm0n.bsky.social
WTF NOW I HAVE TO READ LITERALLY 20 PAPERS

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197...

American Journal of Botany: Volume 112, Issue 10
SPECIAL ISSUE: Understanding novel fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches

Chill out on the great work people!! I ain't got time for this!
SPECIAL ISSUE: Understanding novel fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches: American Journal of Botany: Vol 112, No 10
Click on the title to browse this issue
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
adm0n.bsky.social
So, if the executive branch now has the power of the purse, and the judicial branch now has the power to legislate... Is there a point to ending the shutdown?
November 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
adm0n.bsky.social
Chicken shit play calling on the goal line (yet again) by O'Connell here
November 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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jgpausas.bsky.social
Final version now available #AmJBot @botsocamerica.bsky.social

Sequoia & Sequoiadendron: Two paleoendemic megatrees with different adaptive responses to high-severity fires
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Plants are not adapted to fire, but to fire regimes
🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🪴 #ecoevo #wildfire
jgpausas.bsky.social juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Sep 24
Sequoia sempervirens (redwood; world's tallest tree) is well adapted to high-intensity crown fires (eg 2020), but Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia; world's most massive tree) is adapted to surface fires only!
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🧪🌍🔥🌿🌳🔥🪴 @botsocamerica.bsky.social
Sequoia sempervirens (Coast redwood) resprouting epicormically after a high-intensity fire Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia) with a fire scar in the base from a surface fire
November 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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wallacepolsom.bsky.social
Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), “Abstract painting (722-3)” (1990), oil on canvas, 180 x 200 cm.
October 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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thewaroncars.bsky.social
Thanks @billmckibben.bsky.social for your take on our new book, "Life After Cars."

www.lifeaftercars.com
Quote with yellow border and white car with flowers growing out of it at the bottom. “The car may be the feature of modern life we take most for granted. But as this brilliant book makes clear, we should be asking deep questions about whether we want to keep shaping our communities and our lives around automobiles: We’re ready for the shake-up these authors inspire! — Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun
October 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
It can't, and it won't.

It's the continuation of our burning of fossil fuels, or stopping it ASAP, that will either save the world or destroy it.
The humble plant that could save the world — or destroy it
Clean energy expansion could destroy this crucial climate solution.
grist.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
adm0n.bsky.social
Every once in a while, I hit the spam button on my email and I get a hopeful feeling. Maybe this time, the good people on the other side of this spam button are going to figure out who's sending me this stuff. What if this exact press of the spam button is the one where they finally figure it out.
October 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM