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Climate Watcher @pmagn.bsky.social · Jun 7

Our toxic dystopian world @1.5C

“It’s a bad-news scenario. It’s quite scary.”

Decades of mining have left northern Canadian soils contaminated with metals like arsenic and lead, which are now being released as wildfires burn through peatlands and old industrial zones

www.ehn.org/toxic-metals...

Toxic metals may be spreading through wildfire smoke as Canadian peatlands burn

A thick cloud of smoke from hundreds of wildfires in Canada is carrying more than just carbon, as scientists warn that arsenic, lead, and other toxic metals trapped in soil could be released into the ...

www.ehn.org

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Cécile Remy @cecileremy.bsky.social · Jun 5

Coring lakes in Šumava forests in Czech Republic to study ecological processes linked with bark beetle outbreaks.
Thanks @damienrius.bsky.social and @petrkunes.bsky.social for this very nice and interesting fieldwork!
Can't wait to see what we'll discover 🧐🌲🪳😲🤩

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Petr Kuneš @petrkunes.bsky.social · Jun 5

Returning to Šumava's lakes to study recent <200 years bark beetle disturbances with @damienrius.bsky.social and @cecileremy.bsky.social 🌲🪲

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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · Jun 4

Coring lakes un the Sumava mountains, Czech Republic, with @petrkunes.bsky.social and @cecileremy.bsky.social, to track past bark beetles outbreaks!

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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · May 19

modeling to improve predictions of future forest ecosystem dynamics.

The deadline to apply for funding is June 20th.
If you're interested, please feel free to contact me via DM!

Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · May 19

Hi #sedaDNA community! We are looking for a postdoc to join our team @chrono-env.bsky.social in developing qPCR and ddPCR methods to reconstruct past insect outbreaks. This 2 yr position will be part of a larger @agencerecherche.bsky.social project that
that integrates paleoecology, sedaDNA and
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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · May 16

voila où mènent les ZRR. Chers collègues de
@chrono-env.bsky.social
, il faut vraiment continuer à refuser ça !

Anthony Pecqueux @pecqueuxanthony.bsky.social · May 16

#VeilleESR #Ecoterrorisme #ZRR Histoire édifiante: interdite de post-doc car engagée pour l'écologie (et accessoirement manifestante contre la réforme des retraites) 🤬
Espérons que le Tribunal Administratif de Bordeaux prenne la décision qui s'impose!

Mediapart @mediapart.fr · May 16

De plus en plus de centres de recherche sont soumis à un régime administratif spécial, qui conditionne leur accès à une autorisation. Les refus – jamais motivés – sont de plus en plus nombreux.

Par Nicolas Chevassus-au-Louis

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · May 15

Global risk of wildfire across timber production systems, by Bousfield et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

High-intensity wildfires increase with timber plantations in many temperate countries (orange), and will only continue to grow if the climate keeps warming

🧪🌍🔥🌳🍁🌐 wildfires

Fig. 3: National-level plantation wildfire risk effect size and percentage of timber-producing forest under plantation systems.

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Polémix @polemix.bsky.social · May 14

Pour ceux qui ont raté l'intervention d'Emmanuel Macron hier, rassurez-vous, lui aussi.

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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · Apr 21

d'une hypocrisie insupportable quand on vit au quotidien ce qu'est la réalité de la recherche française. In other words for US colleagues : the level of bullshit here is through the roof!

Marcel @marcelaiphan.bsky.social · Apr 20

Les paroles et les actes…

Le Parisien : « Ici, la recherche est une priorité » : Emmanuel Macron appelle les scientifiques à venir en France

Chute des budgets de l’enseignement supérieur

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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · Apr 5

Congrats to T. Suranyi for his excellent first paper ! this is going to advance our understanding of climate change, both past, present and future, but it's also crucial for a lot of projects in disturbance ecology, coupling paleo & modeling ! @chrono-env.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

Chironomid assemblages in surface sediments from 182 lakes across New England and Eastern Canada: Development and validation of a new summer temperature transfer function

www.sciencedirect.com

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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · Apr 2

Ravi de t'accueillir !

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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · Mar 24

Coring by -15/-20°C is quite challenging, but the scenery is amazing!

Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · Mar 23

Today we cored the first lake for the RETROPEST ANR project in the Pipmuakan area, west of Manicouagan, Québec, in collaboration with the Canadian Forest Service and Conseil des Innus de Pessamit! @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @chrono-env.bsky.social @chrono-env.bsky.social

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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · Mar 14

French research system: go big, go international. French administration: hold my beer. If you want to fund international partners for fieldwork they'll have to fill in 472 forms and provide 876 documents that only exists...in France. Then we'll reimburse your international partners. Well, maybe...

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Association for Fire Ecology @afe-fireecology.bsky.social · Feb 25

We are dedicated to supporting the wildland fire community and making it clear that the global fire crisis will not be solved by lack of funding, resources, or people. Read AFE’s statement on recent US federal actions here: fireecology.org/news/afe-sta...

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · Feb 24

Interesting work by van der Meersch et al. out in Ecology Letters, nicely illustrating that process-based models are more robust than correlative models for predicting species distributions under novel climatic conditions doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Paleorecords Reveal Biological Mechanisms Crucial for Reliable Species Range Shift Projections Amid Rapid Climate Change

Climate change has created an urgent need for reliable projections of species distributions. By hindcasting forest tree range shifts across Europe over the last 12,000 years, we show that process-exp...

doi.org

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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · Jan 31

If you want to know more about how we leverage paleo-data to better understand and predict fire and vegetation dynamics in the face of climate change in southwestern France, have a look at the video, with Adam Ali, @mhurteau.bsky.social , Florence Mazier. @agencerecherche.bsky.social

Mégafeux, la forêt des Landes pour comprendre | Reportage CNRS

YouTube video by CNRS

www.youtube.com

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J'dis ça j'dis rien @jdiscajdisrien.bsky.social · Jan 30

Je suis tellement dans le même mood que lui....

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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · Jan 29

la recette miracle de l'ESR : réunir toutes les conditions pour que les agents fassent des burn-out et ensuite dégrader leur indemnisation en cas d'arrêt-maladie. Du grand art.

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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · Jan 29

On peut également ajouter que dans la première liste qui a fuité, l'Institut Écologie et Environnement du CNRS était celui avec le moins de keylabs, en proportion, par rapport aux autres instituts (18% vs 25% au global). Un peu désastreux comme message...

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Cécile Remy @cecileremy.bsky.social · Jan 28

🎙️Notre podcast AprèsLaThèse est maintenant sur Bluesky ✨

N'hésitez pas à nous suivre pour ne manquer aucune actualité!

AprèsLaThèse @apreslathese.bsky.social · Jan 28

Rejoignez les deux postdocs, Cécile et Benjamin, pour explorer les possibilités après la thèse avec des invités passionnants.

Abonnez vous !

Tous les liens vers nos plateformes sont disponibles sur notre page ici ⬇️⬇️⬇️ linktr.ee/apreslathese

Après la thèse, le podcast - Listen on YouTube, Spotify - Linktree

View apreslathese’s Linktree to discover and stream music from top platforms like YouTube, Spotify here. Your next favorite track is just a click away!

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Yan Boulanger @trailgeek.bsky.social · Jan 20

1/ 🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨

"Timber harvesting was the most important factor driving changes in vegetation composition, as compared to climate and fire regime shifts, in the mixedwood temperate forests of Temiscamingue since AD 1830"

👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Timber harvesting was the most important factor driving changes in vegetation composition, as compared to climate and fire regime shifts, in the mixedwood temperate forests of Temiscamingue since AD 1...

Context The vegetation composition of northeastern North American forests has significantly changed since pre-settlement times, with a marked reduction in conifer-dominated stands, taxonomic and funct...

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · Dec 20

New paper! Forest disturbance through drought, windthrow, pest outbreaks and fire is increasing in Europe, driven by past planting decisions and climate change. In Germany alone, more than 500,000 ha of mostly Spruce died back in 2018-2022. Led by Anne Graser, we studied biodiversity responses...

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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · Jan 14

Hi Graciela, i'd like to be added!

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