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Nina Buchmann @nbuchmann.bsky.social · Aug 21

🧪The results are based on a recent article of Yi Wang, defending her thesis next month!!
Wang Y, Klaus VH, Gilgen AK, Buchmann N (2025) Temperate grasslands under climate extremes: effects of plant diversity on ecosystem services. AGEE 379: 109372, doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2024.109372

Departement Umweltsystemwissenschaften (D-USYS), ETH Zürich @usyseth.bsky.social · Aug 21

Trockenheit, Starkregen, Hitze - Wetterextreme setzen der #Landwirtschaft immer stärker zu. 🌦️

Die von Prof. Dr. @nbuchmann.bsky.social geleitete Forschungsgruppe Graslandwissenschaften der @ethz.ch zeigt: Artenreiche Wiesen gleichen Ertragseinbussen besser aus.

www.diegruene.ch/artikel/verm...

Pflanzenvielfalt im Futterbau als Versicherung gegen Wetterrisiken - diegruene.ch

Artenreiche Wiesen bringen nicht nur mehr Ertrag – sie federn auch Wetterextreme besser ab. Die Forschungsgruppe Graslandwissenschaften der ETH Zürich zeigt: Pflanzenvielfalt wirkt wie eine natürliche...

www.diegruene.ch

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Nina Buchmann @nbuchmann.bsky.social · May 8

🧪Open Postdoc position (up to 2 yrs) on Integrating Flux Data and Remote Sensing to Quantify Environmental Footprints of Agroecosystems in my lab at ETH Zurich: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

jobs.ethz.ch

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Nina Buchmann @nbuchmann.bsky.social · May 8

🧪 Interested in an unusual greenhouse gas (COS) to study carbon dynamics in a Swiss forest? Check out this PhD position in my lab at ETH Zurich
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

Doctoral student in ecosystem COS exchange

jobs.ethz.ch

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Martha Bhattacharya @marthabhattacharya.bsky.social · May 8

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Carlos Brody @carlosbrody.bsky.social · May 7

we're crowd-sourcing a searchable repository of tangible benefits stemming from federally-funded research. Come enjoy the great stories; or send in an idea; or volunteer to join the team.

publicusaresearchbenefits.com

please share and re-share so we get more great stories in there!

Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us.

A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.

publicusaresearchbenefits.com

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Nina Buchmann @nbuchmann.bsky.social · May 6

What an honor! Thanks to the many group members and project collaborators!!! 🧪 @icos-ri.eu @fluxnet.bsky.social @jena-experiment.bsky.social

Departement Umweltsystemwissenschaften (D-USYS), ETH Zürich @usyseth.bsky.social · May 5

🌟Thrilled to share that @nbuchmann.bsky.social and @nicolaspaldin.bsky.social have been elected international members of the @NationalAcademies! 🇺🇸 Their groundbreaking research has earned them this incredible honour, a testament to scientific excellence. Huge congrats!

ethz.ch/staffnet/en/...

Two ETH Zurich professors elected to the National Academy of Sciences

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences inducts Nina Buchmann and Nicola Spaldin.

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Nina Buchmann @nbuchmann.bsky.social · May 6

Thanks to all who worked with me in the last decades, across the globe!!! This honor also goes to you!!! 🧪

Nicola Spaldin @nicolaspaldin.bsky.social · May 5

It's a privilege to share this honour with @nbuchmann.bsky.social as well as @lbaudis.bsky.social at Uni Zürich!

Departement Umweltsystemwissenschaften (D-USYS), ETH Zürich @usyseth.bsky.social · May 5

🌟Thrilled to share that @nbuchmann.bsky.social and @nicolaspaldin.bsky.social have been elected international members of the @NationalAcademies! 🇺🇸 Their groundbreaking research has earned them this incredible honour, a testament to scientific excellence. Huge congrats!

ethz.ch/staffnet/en/...

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Nina Buchmann @nbuchmann.bsky.social · May 6

What a shame! What a disaster for those having been funded for their PhD or postdoc!!🧪

Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · May 6

For #TidyTuesday this week, we're looking at data on terminations of NSF grants 📊

🎨 Using colour to highlight one category
📈 Transparency to highlight the important data
✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency

#RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

Bar chart showing 651 NSF-funded research projects, with total terminated days in dark grey or red, completed days in light grey or red. Red highlights projects listed by Ted Cruz as "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda".

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Nina Buchmann @nbuchmann.bsky.social · Apr 11

thanks for showing the rich history of @noaa.gov 🧪 Keep it up and running!!!!

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Apr 10

ICYMI: NOAA is in the Trump administration's crosshairs, with some conservatives claiming it's some sort of crazy expansion of government power beyond what the founders wanted.

But NOAA is the descendant of an ocean science agency founded by Thomas Jefferson.
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NOAA carries a two century legacy of America’s first government science agency

NOAA, the US government science and management agency in charge of sustainable fisheries, the national weather service, and ocean exploration, is in the crosshairs of the Trump administration and P…

www.southernfriedscience.com

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Nina Buchmann @nbuchmann.bsky.social · Apr 10

if you are interested to combine remote sensing with fluxes, have a look at our open postdoc position jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP... 😉🧪🧪

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Nina Buchmann @nbuchmann.bsky.social · Apr 1

Interested to work on a less-studied greenhouse gas, namely COS exchange of a forest with the atmosphere? We have an open 4-yr PhD position in our international group. at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. 🧪 More details here: 🧪
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

Doctoral student in ecosystem COS exchange

jobs.ethz.ch

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Nina Buchmann @nbuchmann.bsky.social · Mar 27

🧪a great paper indeed ... on a sad topic ....

climatepebber @climatepebber.bsky.social · Mar 27

The study – which accounted for nearly 100,000 sites across all continents – found that human activities had resulted in “unprecedented effects on biodiversity”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#extinction #diversityloss #environment

Biodiversity loss in all species and every ecosystem linked to humans – report

Sweeping synthesis of 2,000 global studies leaves no doubt about scale of problem and role of humans, say experts

www.theguardian.com

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Nina Buchmann @nbuchmann.bsky.social · Mar 27

🧪🧪any news on slashing the station and NOAA at large? How can the international science community help? Even when this is only one of many open issues. @fluxnet.bsky.social @icos-ri.eu @co2earth.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social

The Keeling Curve @keelingcurve.bsky.social · Mar 2

Kudos to Bill McKibben for this piece on the story behind one of the icons of @scrippsocean.bsky.social science. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Trump’s E.P.A. Seeks to Deny Science That Americans Discovered

It’s in this country that scientists, funded by or working for the government, came to understand the role of carbon in our atmosphere.

www.newyorker.com

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Nina Buchmann @nbuchmann.bsky.social · Feb 21

Tearing down federal funding in so many areas of science in the USA will have long-lasting effects. Read a great article linked below🧪

Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · Feb 21

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled

Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come

www.technologyreview.com

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FLUXNET @fluxnet.bsky.social · Feb 21

Good bye Twitter! 😥
HELLO BLUESKY!!! 😀

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Nina Buchmann @nbuchmann.bsky.social · Feb 8

welcome!

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Nina Buchmann @nbuchmann.bsky.social · Jan 29

🧪 you can never please everybody...., we learned it the hard way. But why - over decades - do we hear the same dumb statements?? Hope my daughter does not need to agree to such posts in the coming years...

Adriana Guatame-García @adrianaguatame.bsky.social · Jan 29

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#WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

SCWIST @scwist.ca · Jan 29

Women in leadership often face a double standard: assertiveness is "too aggressive," while showing empathy is "too soft."

In reality, women who lead with both compassion and determination challenge outdated stereotypes and pave the way for a more inclusive and effective leadership model.

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Nina Buchmann @nbuchmann.bsky.social · Jan 29

🧪Congrats to great results on biodiv and restoration!

Marty Kardos @martykardos.bsky.social · Jan 29

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#consgen

Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · Jan 29

🚨 New paper published in... Nature 😱

I never thought that I would write these words, but here is a Nature-paper that I contributed to. We found global loss in genetic diversity. But conservation strategies may maintain or increase genetic diversity.

Full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nina Buchmann @nbuchmann.bsky.social · Jan 29

any reasons given for this back and forth? 🧪

Michael Greshko @michaelgreshko.bsky.social · Jan 29

The federal funding freeze may have been rescinded, but some researchers I have talked to are still pretty unsettled about how to approach future grant applications. 🧪

BNO News @bnonews.com · Jan 29

BREAKING: Trump administration cancels federal funding freeze

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · Jan 24

Don't forget to eat your veggies...

Australopithecus at Sterkfontein did not consume substantial mammalian meat 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This study finds that Australopithecus at Sterkfontein did not engage in regular mammalian meat consumption.

Sterkfontein Member 4 and modern enamel nitrogen isotope data. Credit: Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.adq7315

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Tara Chestnut, PhD @tcastanea.bsky.social · Jan 19

This gives me such hope for biodiversity conservation, mammals and future mammalogists! Go young people!! 🧪

Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · Jan 18

What an absolute cutie!! www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

An elusive California mammal has just been photographed alive for the first time

Until last year, only one California mammal species had never been caught on camera. A group of Bay Area researchers just shared the first photo of it.

www.sfgate.com

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Nina Buchmann @nbuchmann.bsky.social · Jan 19

New exhibit in Zurich: Glacier Dreams, visitorguide.kunsthaus.ch/61838171/-30.... If yiu are close, have a look 😉🧪

Kunsthaus Zürich || Floorplan

Kunsthaus Zürich Floorplan

visitorguide.kunsthaus.ch

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Becky Thompson @drbeckythompson.bsky.social · Jan 19

🧪 Just spotted new research from @cgiar.org that is very relevant to @EIT Food's Mission: Reducing risk for a fair and resilient food system. Might be of interest to contacts working in #Policy, #FoodSecutity or addressing #Inequailities. on.cgiar.org/4am96jg

New Report Identifies Progress and Challenges in Food Systems Transformation in Countdown to 2030

A groundbreaking new study, “Governance and resilience as entry points for transforming food systems in the countdown to 2030”, just published in Nature Food offers the first comprehensive analysis of...

on.cgiar.org

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Nina Buchmann @nbuchmann.bsky.social · Jan 16

🧪 Restoration of terrestrial ecosystems is a good thing. However, there are a couple of aspects to urgently consider. Here an open letter about such topics: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Open letter: There are more than just trees and forests to be conserved and restored

Click on the article title to read more.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Nina Buchmann @nbuchmann.bsky.social · Jan 13

🧪 Still looking for PhD candidates interested in water fluxes over grasslands and croplands 😉

Nina Buchmann @nbuchmann.bsky.social · Jan 10

Looking for an interesting PhD position on water vapor fluxes? Join our team at ETH Zurich
gl.ethz.ch/group/jobs.h...

Open Positions

gl.ethz.ch

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Nina Buchmann @nbuchmann.bsky.social · Jan 13

🧪welcome ICOS RI, great to see you here!!! All fluxers, stay tuned for further news 😉

ICOS RI @icos-ri.eu · Jan 13

Welcome to the ICOS page on BlueSky! 👋 We are happy to see you here. Follow this page to stay updated on ICOS #greenhousegas data and the latest news in #climate and #carboncycle science! 🌍

Learn more about ICOS: 🔗 www.icos-cp.eu

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