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Travis Drake @draketw.bsky.social · 9d

Here we go again!!! 🇨🇩

Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · 10d

Very grateful to the @snf-fns.ch for funding our continued work in DR Congo on tropical peatland greenhouse gas emissions! With @johansix.bsky.social and @draketw.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social

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Travis Drake @draketw.bsky.social · 21d

Like anything by Hannah @hannahritchie.bsky.social, I'm sure this is worth reading:

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Clearing the Air by Hannah Ritchie review – practical climate optimism

A data scientist rebuts 50 arguments against green technology with lively pragmatism and authority

www.theguardian.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jun 10

If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason.

If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.

📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social

A horizontal bar chart titled "Percentage of Global fossil fuel emissions (since 1751) occurring in my lifetime." The chart shows how much of the total historical global fossil fuel emissions have occurred within the lifetime of individuals of different ages, from 5 to 100 years old. The vertical axis on the left lists ages in increments of 5 years, from age 5 at the top to age 100 at the bottom. The horizontal axis represents the percentage of fossil fuel emissions, marked in 10% increments from 10% to 90%.

The black bars represent the proportion of fossil fuel emissions that have occurred during each age group's lifetime. The bars increase in length as the age increases, meaning older individuals have lived through a larger percentage of the cumulative emissions since 1751.

Three specific age groups are highlighted with red bars and white text annotations:

Age 30: "if you are 30 it is more than 50%"

Age 50: "if you are 50 it is about 75%"

Age 85: "if you are 85 it is about 90%"

The source of the data is cited at the bottom: "CDIAC and globalcarbonproject.org." The graphic is credited to "@neilrkaye."

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Travis Drake @draketw.bsky.social · May 29

In this new commentary for The Conversation Africa, @johansix.bsky.social, Matti Barthel, Glenn Bush, and I discuss what the new "green corridor" law means for the Congo Basin and what might impede its success @saegroupethz.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social

theconversation.com/drcs-plan-fo...

DRC’s plan for the world’s largest tropical forest reserve would be good for the planet: can it succeed?

Setting up the world’s biggest giant tropical forest reserve in the Congo Basin is a step towards conserving the area and creating jobs for local communities.

theconversation.com

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Rubén del Campo @rubendelcampo.bsky.social · May 26

How does #biodiversity control 🍂decomposition in #RiverNetworks?
In our new Ecological Monographs paper, we show that 🪲macroinvertebrate key taxa drive decomposition, while #FunctionalDiversity reduces decomposition #variability! Network-scale #BEF in action, check it out!
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

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Sarah Cooley @co2ley.bsky.social · Apr 30

Cutting science is a long-game self-harm strategy. And scientists have been saying so since January. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows (Gift Article)

Reducing federal support for research and development could cause long-run economic damage and reduce government revenue.

www.nytimes.com

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · Apr 26

“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.”

~ Carl Sagan

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Enrico Bertuzzo @enricobertuzzo.bsky.social · Apr 11

Looking the get the most out of your stream CO2 data?

Check out the coupled O2-CO2 model developed by Jake Diamond and me, out today in JGRB!

The model extends the single-station O2 model by coupling DIC mass balance and carbonate buffering.

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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Travis Drake @draketw.bsky.social · Apr 16

Link to the paper: aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Hydrology drives export and composition of carbon in a pristine tropical river

The Ruki is a pristine blackwater tributary in the Congo Basin draining tropical lowland forest. Daily discharge and fortnightly concentrations, isotopic ratios, and molecular composition of carbon a....

aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Travis Drake @draketw.bsky.social · Apr 16

Cool! Our Ruki paper was the top viewed article at L&O @aslo.org! 🎉

@johansix.bsky.social @saegroupethz.bsky.social

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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · Mar 7

Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Lateral Carbon Dynamics at an Eroding Yedoma #Permafrost Site in Siberia (Duvanny Yar)

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Margaret Zimmer @margaretzimmer.bsky.social · Apr 1

Latest paper out of the WS hydrology lab! Here we show spatial variability in lithology is important for streamflow behavior and carbon export, but geogenic solute export behavior is similar. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The Role of Lithology on Concentration‐Discharge Relationships and Carbon Export in Two Adjacent Headwater Catchments

Bedrock lithology drives differences in streamflow and carbon export in adjacent catchments, controlling variability in shallow flow paths Both catchments display similar in-stream major ion conc...

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Travis Drake @draketw.bsky.social · Mar 27

Let's just roll the dice, eh?

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Mar 26

"Angry, disappointed, frustrated"--Scientists were making progress on vaccines and antivirals for the next pandemic--until this week, when the Trump administration abruptly told them to stop. Here's my story with @apoorvanyt.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/43Xz77q

H.H.S. Scraps Studies of Vaccines and Treatments for Future Pandemics (Gift Article)

Federal officials cited the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in halting the research. But much of the work was focused on preventing outbreaks of other pathogens.

nyti.ms

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VAW Glaciology @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social · Mar 25

Switzerland’s glaciers are disappearing fast! Without drastic emission cuts, they could be gone by 2100. Our group head, ETH Prof. Daniel Farinotti, discusses the urgency of action in this interview for the first World Day for Glaciers. 🌍❄️

🔗 Read more: ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

“Switzerland’s glaciers could vanish completely by 2100”

Switzerland’s glaciers are in increasingly poor shape. If greenhouse gas emissions are not cut drastically soon, they could cease to exist by 2100 – so says ETH Professor Daniel Farinotti in this ETH ...

ethz.ch

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Bernhard Wehrli @bernhardwehrli.bsky.social · Mar 17

How Switzerland cleaned up its rivers and lakes. This success story is encouraging when we address the next step: improving river morphology and riparian vegetation in a warming world.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

From sewage and scum to swimming in ‘blue gold’: how Switzerland transformed its rivers

In the 1960s, the Swiss had some of the dirtiest water in Europe. Now, their cities boast pristine rivers and lakes – and other countries are looking to follow their lead

www.theguardian.com

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Ryan Sponseller @ryansponseller.bsky.social · Mar 5

We are hiring a postdoc at Umeå University in aquatic ecosystem ecology. See the link for details!
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
@grocherros.bsky.social

Postdoc (2 years) in aquatic ecosystem ecology

www.umu.se

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Travis Drake @draketw.bsky.social · Jan 28

The new and very good film September 5 delves into this conundrum of being tasked to give attention to evil, and whether we are actually amplifying it under the guise of "telling the news"

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Christoph N. Vogel @ethuin.bsky.social · Jan 28

Fighting continues this morning in several parts of #Goma as further M23 troops move in from western side (and seem to gain ground for now). Ambulances caught in crossfire. In parallel, demonstrators have attacked embassies in #Kinshasa, torching the French & Rwandan premises.

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Travis Drake @draketw.bsky.social · Jan 17

Remembering David Lynch today. When I started watching films by director and came across Blue Velvet, I didn't stop until I'd seen his whole strange, surrealist, and captivating catalog. Such a distinctive, off-kilter perspective that will be missed.

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Travis Drake @draketw.bsky.social · Jan 6

Enjoyed collaborating on this newly published effort!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Inflow-modulated inputs of dissolved organic matter fuel carbon dioxide emissions from a large hyper-eutrophic lake

Terrestrial dissolved organic matter (DOM) is potentially reactive and, upon entering lake ecosystems, can be readily degraded to low-molecular-weight…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Travis Drake @draketw.bsky.social · Jan 4

Yikes.

Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · Jan 4

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Travis Drake @draketw.bsky.social · Dec 19

Thank for your service Mike! Yeah it really seems like the heavy lifting of reviewing is done by a minority of generous souls :)

I fundamentally think research institutions have to award internal incentives to review, maybe with kickbacks from publishers to offset journal subscription fees.

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Travis Drake @draketw.bsky.social · Dec 19

Finding reviewers this time of year is a complete joke. Remember folks, everyone is busy and if you submit papers to peer-reviewed journals, at least two people are going to spend their time giving it the consideration it deserves.

✨ Please pay it forward as well when you are asked to review.

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Travis Drake @draketw.bsky.social · Dec 13

%5 increase in global stream power in ~30 years = more erosion potential

Interesting that the Congo Basin has shown a downstream shift in flow distribution -> low lying basin with no upstream shifts in precip and minimal human regulation of flows?

fun paper!:
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

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iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · Dec 11

[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants

Nature Ecology & Evolution - A meta-analysis finds that decreasing diversity of pollinator species has a negative affect on multiple measures of plant reproductive success, with wild plant...

www.nature.com

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