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Prof. Vincent Gauci

@gaucigauci.bsky.social

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Exploring ecosystem interactions with the atmosphere and nature-based climate solutions. Forests, trees, peat, wetlands & all things methane. Art, gardening & #CFC enthusiast. My own opinions (may differ from yours). https://bio.site/Gauci

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Prof. Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social · Jun 19

My perspective “Tree methane exchange in a changing world” is now out in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com rdcu.be/erF4j

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James McDonald @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social · Aug 16

🧵 New preprint alert!

From the Future Oak project, led by @cenococcum.bsky.social

Landscape-scale impacts of environment and disease on the tree microbiome 🌳🦠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Environment and disease have tissue-specific effects on the tree microbiome

Trees are essential for ecosystem function, but due to their long lifespan, are disproportionately impacted by climate change and disease. Tree-associated microbiota are critical for tree health and r...

www.biorxiv.org

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Hendrik Schäfer @hendrikschaefer.bsky.social · Jul 28

Which #methanotrophs drive methane degradation in the #phyllosphere of #trees? This project involves Sinchan Banerjee at Warwick and Professors Yin Chen, James McDonald @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social and Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social at University of Birmingham
www.homeworld.bio/grants-green...

Garden Grants GHGR — Homeworld Collective

Garden Grants: Funding to grow climate biotech

www.homeworld.bio

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Prof. Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social · Jul 17

I was asked by @theconversation.com to provide an explainer/comment on the value of the @methanesat.bsky.social satellite following its power loss.

MethaneSat: The climate spy satellite that went quiet

MethaneSat was developed to spot emission hot spots of invisible methane pollution from space. Without it, accurate methane monitoring will be incredibly difficult.

theconversation.com

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Prof. Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social · Jul 13

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Chelsea Football Club @chelseafcn.bsky.social · Jul 13

FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP WINNERS!!! 🏆

Prof. Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social · Jul 4

Very nice! All the best with your measurements!

Prof. Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social · Jun 30

Somebody tell the drone display team! 😆

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Prof. Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social · Jun 30

And the specially commissioned balloons? Do they take returns for Miss-Royaling?

Prof. Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social · Jun 30

Terrible isn’t it? 😆 I’ll go and ruin other peoples celebratory element days now.

“Achtuallyyyy, I think you’ll find…”

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Prof. Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social · Jun 30

Hate to be that annoying guy on your special day but … “achtuallyyyy” … this was on King George’s watch. The third I think.
Should I get my coat?

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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · Jun 25

Can we expand the narrative and definition of human development to include flourishing with nature? Our new paper in Nature explores such a vision, and outlines a metric - the Nature Relationship Index - to sit alongside the Human Development Index.
@naturerecovery.bsky.social

Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · Jun 25

Can Nature & People Thrive Together?
🌍🧑‍🌾🌽🌎🌴🐬🌏🚵‍♀️🍄🌐👍
An Aspirational Approach to Planetary Futures @nature.com.web.brid.gy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Prof. Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social · Jun 26

Increased atomisation as we move from synchronous (chatting) to asynchronous means of communication. Real moments in time are no-longer shared with simple conversation. I find it a bit sad.

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Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery @naturerecovery.bsky.social · Jun 26

New Paper out in Nature: 'An aspirational Approach to Planetary Futures'
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"We must rethink our relationship with the Earth, not as consumers, but as partners in healing and co-flourishing with the rest of the natural world".

youtube.com/shorts/pXHnW...

New Paper out in Nature: 'An aspirational Approach to Planetary Futures'

"We must rethink our relationship with the Earth, not as consumers, but as partners in healing and co-flourishing with the rest of the natural world".
Professor Yadvinder Malhi, Centre Director, Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery

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Prof. Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thanks! That’s very kind of you to say, Ben. Hoping it will be useful for new entrants also. Much appreciated 🙏🏼

Prof. Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social · Jun 19

Of potential interest @ymalhi.bsky.social @erleellis.bsky.social

Prof. Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social · Jun 19

My piece for The Conversation elaborates on my NatRevs perspective (below). It supports (w/ a new mechanism) @simonlewis.bsky.social & @profmarkmaslin.bsky.social‘s idea of the Columbian exchange having global effects. With CH4 the Anthropocene start is 1592 theconversation.com/new-start-date…

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Prof. Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social · Jun 19

My perspective “Tree methane exchange in a changing world” is now out in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com rdcu.be/erF4j

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Prof. Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social · Jun 18

Outstanding!!! Congratulations Eleanor and team!

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Eleanor Scerri @elliescerri.bsky.social · Jun 18

1/5 Why do all non-Africans descended from a group that left Africa 50k ago? In @nature.com we model 120k years of human niche dynamics. From 70ka, a big expansion of the human niche in Africa likely equipped later OOA dispersals with a unique ecological flexibilty.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal - Nature

Analysis of species distribution models in a pan-African database comprising chronometrically dated archaeological sites over the past 120,000 years shows major expansion in the human niche from 70 ka...

www.nature.com

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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · Jun 3

No 6th Mass Extinction Anthropocene 🌎🌐 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Prof. Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social · Jun 3

We have a new 2-year post-doc position available in forest methane modelling as part of our NERC DefMet project. The team would appreciate it if suitable applicants were made aware of this opportunity. Thanks! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI250/r...

Research Fellow in Forest Methane Modelling at University of Birmingham

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Fellow in Forest Methane Modelling opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · May 27

So excited to finally share our new paper charting the global spectrum of tree crown architecture, out today at @natcomms.nature.com ‬🧪🌐

Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A brief thread of what we found 🧵

Schematic diagram showing the major axes of tree crown architecture

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Prof. Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social · May 13

The new global methane budget is now out! Seems to gloss over the measured 25-50Tg sink term in upland trees that was recently discovered (= or > to soil sink & prob more subject to change). Possibly because it’s not yet been included in models the authors use. Observations do matter though…

Pep Canadell @pepcanadell.bsky.social · May 13

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The new Global Methane Budget is now published, open access.

essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · May 13

Global Soil Methane Uptake Estimated by Scaling Up Local Measurements

📄 buff.ly/CvjoOE7

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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · May 1

Our paper on mapping the canopy traits and functions of global tropical forests was published online in Nature last month but is out in print today, and it made the cover 😊

Congrats again to @jeaggu.bsky.social and the many, many co-authors who contributed to this
@natureportfolio.nature.com

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Prof. Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social · Apr 23

Brilliant discovery. Well done @elliescerri.bsky.social , Huw and team! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Eleanor Scerri @elliescerri.bsky.social · Apr 9

In @nature.com we report the presence of the Mesolithic on Malta - upending everything we knew about the seafaring capabilities of late European hunter-gatherers and pushing back Maltese prehistory by 1000 years. Watch the clip, link to open access paper is below. 1/5
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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