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Tom Gill @tomgillpredicts.bsky.social · Jun 4

www.latimes.com/environment/...

California turns on water to create new wetlands on the shore of the shrinking Salton Sea

California officials sent water flowing to create new wetlands along the shores of the shrinking Salton Sea. The project is intended to control dust and provide habitat for birds.

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Pep Canadell @pepcanadell.bsky.social · Jun 4

A fantastic new mapping product for the world's inland waters, a critical driver for studying GHG emissions, biodiversity, and much more.

Mapping the world's inland surface waters: an upgrade to the Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD v2)

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Mapping the world's inland surface waters: an upgrade to the Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD v2)

Abstract. In recognition of the importance of inland waters, numerous datasets mapping their extents, types, or changes have been created using sources ranging from historical wetland maps to real-tim...

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · Jun 3

Peatlands are one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks. Despite covering just 3-4% of Earth’s land surface, they’re thought to store more carbon per area than the world’s forests combined.

In honor of World Peatland Day on June 2 here's three recent Mongabay stories on this critical ecosystem...

World Peatland Day: Protecting a crucial carbon sink

Peatlands are one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks. These naturally waterlogged boggy swamps can hold thousands of years’ worth of compressed, partially decomposed vegetation matter — despite…

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jun 3

When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects

A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

www.theguardian.com

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Marcelo Ardon @ardonlab.bsky.social · May 31

Agree with the previous comments. You can try three times, and if you don’t succeed you can always submit it to the general programs. And you can turn it into a paper.

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Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · May 4

I used the loooong flight home from #EGU25 to finalize and push a new release of the freely-available Soil Respiration Database github.com/bpbond/srdb/ #openscience

A graphing showing the number of database records for soil respiration raising over time

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Marcelo Ardon @ardonlab.bsky.social · Apr 23

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Ghost forests are growing as sea levels rise

As trees choked by saltwater die along low-lying coasts, marshes may move in — for better or worse, scientists are learning

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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · Feb 26

We’re mobilizing scientists to protect NOAA and we need you too. Get involved:

Protect NOAA: Our Safety in a Climate-Changed World Depend on It

President Trump and Elon Musk want to dismantle the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). That would eliminate free public access to weather forecasts, hurricane tracking, wildfire a...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Feb 27

I think about this map a lot.

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...

This is a cartogram map of the United States depicting land use by different categories. The map distorts state shapes to represent proportional land usage. Key land use types include cow pasture/range (covering much of the central U.S.), private and federal timberland in the Pacific Northwest, corporate timberland in the Southeast, and urban housing/commercial areas in the Northeast. Other categories include agriculture (livestock feed, wheat exports, ethanol/biodiesel, cotton), protected lands (national parks, federal wilderness, state parks), and infrastructure (railroads, airports, highways). Additional specialized land uses include wildfires, golf courses, Christmas tree farms, and maple syrup production.

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Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) @waterbarnes.bsky.social · Feb 19

This is amazing 😍😍 @500womensci.bsky.social has made cards for each state on funding for NSF and NIH avail for download bit.ly/NSF_bystate & bit.ly/NIH_bystate if they are helpful for folks

NSF state cards - Google Drive

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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · Feb 24

Graduating during the pandemic slowed down my process and is part of why I did two postdocs. Now as a first year faculty, all the federal grants are frozen. I love the work I do but this has all of us questioning how much www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos

Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard

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Marcelo Ardon @ardonlab.bsky.social · Feb 21

www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

How Scary Are Ghost Forests?

To combat climate change, researchers argue that inundated forests could be turned into marshland carbon sinks.

www.earthisland.org

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · Feb 20

168 colleagues lost yesterday, 6 in Earth Sciences alone. Today we grieved. And strategized. www.npr.org/2025/02/18/n...

The office door of my colleague, fired from his job with no notice. His nameplate is covered in black paper.

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The Ramirez Lab, NCSU @aramirezlab.bsky.social · Feb 19

Woody debris breaks down faster in tropical streams with high phosphorus.

Marzolf et al. 2025. On the breakdown of woody ... in Neotropical streams, Costa Rica. Freshwater Science
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) @waterbarnes.bsky.social · Feb 18

"their value to the nation is no longer required” 🤬 www.wired.com/story/nation...

National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues

Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers.

www.wired.com

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Jayme McReynolds @jaymemcreynolds.bsky.social · Feb 16

So a former postdoc from our department had just started as a PO at NIH and was terminated in the wave of terminations last week. He is in the research triangle and a phenomenal scientist with expertise in stress and glia. If anyone in the RTI is hiring asap please let me know! #neuroskyence

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · Feb 15

Happy to share that my paper on creativity in research labs is out in the "Ten Simply Rules" article series.

Ten simple rules for fostering creativity in research labs

I hope you find it to be useful.

#AcademicSky

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Ten simple rules for fostering creativity in research labs

Research lab groups are hotspots for the education of the next generation of scientists, and making these units work as creatively as possible is essential for solving pressing issues in biology, the ...

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Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe @aaberhe.com · Feb 13

Professional societies stand together in defense of science & scientists.
“science has led to humanity’s greatest advances, improving people’s lives & the health of our planet … (we’re) committed to supporting, elevating, & fighting for science & those who further it.“
www.unitedsciencealliance.org

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · Feb 13

Draining the world's peatlands for farming and mining is releasing so much CO2 that if it was a country, it would be the 4th biggest polluter in the world after China, the US, + India.

And the associated losses in biodiversity are vast.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study

Bogs and swamps are a colossal carbon store but their continued destruction would blow climate change targets

www.theguardian.com

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Debjani Sihi @dsihi.bsky.social · Feb 11

We are looking for two postdocs for a synthesis project focused on soil carbon dynamics and warming experiments. If you are excited about applying ML and process-based models to synthesize mechanisms of temperature sensitivity of soil respiration, please apply!
lnkd.in/dV2wuGSe
lnkd.in/diZiM9HV

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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PLOS Climate @plosclimate.org · Feb 10

New on the Latitude blog: we talk to the @ardonlab.bsky.social about their recent PLOS Climate article, which looks at how climate change and sea level rise are affecting the ecology and carbon balance of forests along the US East Coast

latitude.plos.org/2025/02/behi...

Behind the paper: changing forests on the US East Coast - Latitude

We speak to Marcelo Ardón and colleagues about their recent PLOS Climate publication, “Coastal carbon sentinels: A decade of forest change along the eastern shore of the…

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · Feb 8

I've been seen lots of feckless despair and detachedness among scientists in the US at the moment. How we might live up to this critical moment when things seem the worst.

scienceforeveryone.science/p/how-ive-be... 🧪

How I've been thinking about all of the rapid horrible changes in the United States

I'm not telling you how to think or feel, but maybe letting you know where I'm at might be useful.

scienceforeveryone.science

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The Ramirez Lab, NCSU @aramirezlab.bsky.social · Feb 5

Sharing a passion for freshwater science- We spent an evening meeting people from different institutions in NC that work in aquatic ecosystems and talking about freshwater ecosystems

This was part of the "Converge Freshwater Science Series" hosted at #NCSU

@ardonlab.bsky.social @agdelv.bsky.social

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Prof Richard Betts @richardabetts.bsky.social · Feb 5

Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

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Don't let science be hidden

A graph of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at the Mauna Loa observatory, Hawaii, from 1958 to 4th February 2025. It shows carbon dioxide levels rising at an accelerating rate over the decades. This is known to be due to emissions of carbon dioxide from human activity, mainly fossil fuel burning but also deforestation. The first CO2 concentration value in March 1958 was 315 parts per million (ppm). The latest daily value is 426 ppm. The graph also shows a seasonal cycle of a few ppm within each year, which is known to be linked to the growing season in the northern hemisphere causing a temporary uptake of carbon in spring and summer and release in autumn. The graph is produced routinely by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Feb 4

At least we don't have to read about this on a federal government website:

At 2°C of warming, the area on Earth that is too hot for humans will triple. This is fine. 🔥🧪

Mortality impacts of the most extreme heat events - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Extreme heat is increasing in magnitude and frequency, threatening human health. This Review assesses mortality risk associated with extreme heat, revealing that human thermal tolerances (that is, unc...

www.nature.com

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