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Jonas Trepel @jonastrepel.bsky.social · Apr 29

Check out our new paper, led by Bent Rech: we investigate space use of semi-feral water buffalo, cattle, and horses in a Danish rewilding area. We found that the three species differ markedly in their seasonal habitat selection and responses to resources and infrastructure.
doi.org/10.1007/s002...

Figure 2 from Rech et al. (2025) shows habitat selection estimates for cattle, horses, and buffalo, separated by feeding status and season.

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Matthias Waltert @matthiaswaltert.bsky.social · May 7

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What moves large grazers? Habitat preferences and complementing niches of large herbivores in a Danish trophic rewilding area - Environmental Management

Large herbivores (≥45 kg) fulfill key ecological functions. Since the Late Pleistocene megafauna diversity and abundances have declined sharply, with profound consequences for ecosystems. On this back...

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Matthias Waltert @matthiaswaltert.bsky.social · May 7

Neues Online-Angebot für Biodiversitätsinteressierte in Südniedersachsen!
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Matthias Waltert @matthiaswaltert.bsky.social · Mar 15

Also visited the famous ‚Bobo‘ at the Mefou primate orphanage, and got familiar with other incredible Cameroon monkeys.

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Matthias Waltert @matthiaswaltert.bsky.social · Mar 15

Workshop with German and Cameroonian students on bird and primate monitoring; was part of the assembly of the Cameroon Primatological society CPS.

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Matthias Waltert @matthiaswaltert.bsky.social · Mar 15

In Cameroon with students from Göttingen university. Two days of hiking and discussing with the mayor of Mbankomo the remaining biodiversity in Yaounde’s hills. There are solutions to stop encroachment but a compensation scheme is urgently needed to save Yaounde‘s green belt!

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · Feb 10

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · Feb 6

Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.

1. Climate change
2. Greenhouse gas emissions
3. Emissions
4. Racial equity
5. Gender identity
6. Diversity, equity and inclusion
7. Environmental justice
8. Justice40 initiative

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Christian Drosten @cdrosten.bsky.social · Feb 16

Science is for everyone.

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Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship

This Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research. We ca...

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Christoph Scherber @cscherber.bsky.social · Feb 18

Geht #Landwirtschaft mit weniger #Pflanzenschutz? Zu unserer neuen Studie zu #Pflanzenschutzmitteln in der FAZ: www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss... siehe auch www.finka-projekt.de

Pestizidreduktion: Mehr Biodiversität, stabile Erträge

Pestizide schädigen mehr Arten als angenommen. Wie eine Landwirtschaft mit weniger Agrarchemie gelingen könnte.

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Matthias Waltert @matthiaswaltert.bsky.social · Feb 28

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Natural sequestration of carbon dioxide is in decline: climate change will accelerate

The rate of natural sequestration of CO2 from the atmosphere by the terrestrial biosphere peaked in 2008. Atmospheric concentrations will rise more rapidly than previously, in proportion to annual CO....

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Feb 10

Unfassbares Medienversagen. 😳🤯

Luisa Neubauer @luisaneubauer.bsky.social · Feb 9

Für die Wähler:innen ist es relevant.
Für die künftige Regierung ein Dauerthema.
Für die Zukunft Deutschlands existenziell.

Und sie stellen im #TVDuell nicht eine einzige Frage zum Klima. Unfassbar.

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Dr Tom Harris @drtomharris.bsky.social · Feb 5

The study gives an updated estimate of ECS at 4.8ºC. This is higher than the IPCC suggests but aligns almost exactly with the “Global Warming has Accelerated” paper from Prof James Hansen et al, also published this week.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · Jan 29

BREAKING: Acting @EPA Administrator James Payne has fired the agency's science advisors.

They will be replaced in order to, he says, "ensure that the agency receives scientific advice consistent with its legal obligations to advance our core mission," whatever that means.

BREAKING NEWS ALERT
EPA fires science advisers
01/28/2025 07:24 PM EST Acting EPA Administrator James Payne has ousted all members of two of the agency's most influential science advisory panels, giving President Donald Trump's
administration the opportunity to reshape them with its own appointees. In an obliquely worded email sent late Tuesday afternoon, Payne said a decision had been made to "reset" the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and Science Advisory Board "to ensure that the agency receives scientific advice consistent with its legal
obligations to advance our core mission." EPA will seek nominations in the coming weeks, Payne added, with all members
encouraged to reapply.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · Jan 29

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Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator

YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin

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Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) @zalf.bsky.social · Jan 13

🌱 Passion for sustainable agriculture? 🌍 Apply now for the Junior #Professorship "Economics of Agricultural Landscapes" (W1 with #TenureTrack W2) at HU Berlin & ZALF. 📅 Deadline: 03.02.25. Details 👉 haushalt-und-persona... #Agriculture #Research #Biodiversity #EcosystemServices

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