Shishir Paudel
@paudels.bsky.social
Plant Ecologist, #invasion Ecology Urban Ecosystem Ecosystem Service #climate change #wetland Ecology AND some politics
This is alarming!!
Letters to scientific journals surge as ‘prolific debutante’ authors likely use AI | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Letters to scientific journals surge as ‘prolific debutante’ authors likely use AI | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Letters to scientific journals surge as ‘prolific debutante’ authors likely use AI
New study reinforces worries about “mass production of junk” by unscrupulous scholars aiming to pad their CVs
www.science.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This is alarming!!
Letters to scientific journals surge as ‘prolific debutante’ authors likely use AI | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Letters to scientific journals surge as ‘prolific debutante’ authors likely use AI | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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One of these things is not like the others
March 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
One of these things is not like the others
Fewer assistantships available, a few international students, low domestic enrollment, story of 2025!!!
‘My boss was crying.’ NSF confronts potentially massive layoffs and budget cuts | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
‘My boss was crying.’ NSF confronts potentially massive layoffs and budget cuts | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
‘My boss was crying.’ NSF confronts potentially massive layoffs and budget cuts
Trump could propose slashing agency’s budget by two-thirds
www.science.org
February 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Fewer assistantships available, a few international students, low domestic enrollment, story of 2025!!!
‘My boss was crying.’ NSF confronts potentially massive layoffs and budget cuts | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
‘My boss was crying.’ NSF confronts potentially massive layoffs and budget cuts | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
This has been the story for last three weeks!!!
NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage
Move to cut indirect cost rate to 15% could cost universities billions of dollars
www.science.org
February 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This has been the story for last three weeks!!!
NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
How much news should we consume??
EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders
Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review
www.science.org
January 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
How much news should we consume??
EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
All out proposals submitted also frozen!!!
The White House budget office is ordering a pause to all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government, according to an internal memo sent to agencies Monday, creating significant confusion across Washington.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
All out proposals submitted also frozen!!!
Reposted by Shishir Paudel
The White House budget office is ordering a pause to all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government, according to an internal memo sent to agencies Monday, creating significant confusion across Washington.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The White House budget office is ordering a pause to all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government, according to an internal memo sent to agencies Monday, creating significant confusion across Washington.
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
We will see the negative impacts soon
We will see the negative impacts soon
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing “a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic”
www.science.org
January 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
We will see the negative impacts soon
We will see the negative impacts soon
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Röyksopp - What Else Is There ?
YouTube video by RoyksoppVEVO
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
go.nature.com
January 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
@mcuban.bsky.social glad to see you in Bsky, abandon X
January 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
@mcuban.bsky.social glad to see you in Bsky, abandon X
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Plant chemical diversity enhances defense against herbivory
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
December 14, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Plant chemical diversity enhances defense against herbivory
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Fall in the prairie means turning into a seed dispersing machine! New students Myles & Reagan taking soil cores at our long term native #amf inoculation density trial. 🌎🍄📸🧪🌿 #plantscience
November 16, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Fall in the prairie means turning into a seed dispersing machine! New students Myles & Reagan taking soil cores at our long term native #amf inoculation density trial. 🌎🍄📸🧪🌿 #plantscience
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The weather has been weirdly warm in the eastern two-thirds of the United States as November gets started — more than 10 degrees above average across parts of over 20 states.
Why November has been so weirdly warm — and why that might continue
It’s been an unusual start to November, and the reason may surprise you.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2024 at 6:59 PM
The weather has been weirdly warm in the eastern two-thirds of the United States as November gets started — more than 10 degrees above average across parts of over 20 states.
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The U.N. Climate Change Conference, or COP29, starts as the world’s nations have failed to deliver on the central pledge of last year’s negotiations.
Countries promised to ditch fossil fuels. Instead they’re booming.
The U.N. Climate Change Conference, or COP29, starts as the world’s nations have failed to deliver on the central pledge of last year’s negotiations.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2024 at 7:30 PM
The U.N. Climate Change Conference, or COP29, starts as the world’s nations have failed to deliver on the central pledge of last year’s negotiations.
Really???
Cicadas are being so loud that people are calling the police.
Two broods of the noisy bugs are emerging together, leading to at least a dozen residents in one South Carolina county calling the sheriff’s office to complain about the noise.
Two broods of the noisy bugs are emerging together, leading to at least a dozen residents in one South Carolina county calling the sheriff’s office to complain about the noise.
Cicadas are emerging — and they’re so loud, some called the sheriff
Some in Newberry County, S.C., thought the noise was a siren. The sheriff assured them it was just cicadas.
wapo.st
April 26, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Really???
Not only U.S., other parts of the world as well
🌱 You’re not crazy. In much of the U.S., spring really is getting earlier.
For my Climate Lab column, I built a tool that lets you look up how the timing of spring leaves has shifted where you live since 1981.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
For my Climate Lab column, I built a tool that lets you look up how the timing of spring leaves has shifted where you live since 1981.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
March 13, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Not only U.S., other parts of the world as well
It was great to have Dr. David Gibson as guest lecturer talking about forensic botany @duquesne University
March 13, 2024 at 2:47 PM
It was great to have Dr. David Gibson as guest lecturer talking about forensic botany @duquesne University
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I’m most excited about this review (free access!):
Assisted migration and plant invasion: importance of belowground ecology in conifer forest tree ecosystems | Argüelles-Moyao and Galicia
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....
Assisted migration and plant invasion: importance of belowground ecology in conifer forest tree ecosystems | Argüelles-Moyao and Galicia
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....
Assisted migration and plant invasion: importance of belowground ecology in conifer forest tree ecos...
This paper reviews and discusses the main features of biological invasion by plants and the assisted migration theory referencing a critical common factor—belowground ecology. The risk of a plant be...
cdnsciencepub.com
January 7, 2024 at 3:10 PM
I’m most excited about this review (free access!):
Assisted migration and plant invasion: importance of belowground ecology in conifer forest tree ecosystems | Argüelles-Moyao and Galicia
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....
Assisted migration and plant invasion: importance of belowground ecology in conifer forest tree ecosystems | Argüelles-Moyao and Galicia
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Is the @ipbes.bsky.social #InvasiveAlienSpecies Report too long for easy access?
Not to worry! Our series of 4-page Factsheets can help to simplify, providing highlights on selected themes.
Read the 4th factsheet to learn more about biological invasions on islands: ipbes.net/ias 🌏 🧪
Not to worry! Our series of 4-page Factsheets can help to simplify, providing highlights on selected themes.
Read the 4th factsheet to learn more about biological invasions on islands: ipbes.net/ias 🌏 🧪
December 20, 2023 at 1:07 PM
Is the @ipbes.bsky.social #InvasiveAlienSpecies Report too long for easy access?
Not to worry! Our series of 4-page Factsheets can help to simplify, providing highlights on selected themes.
Read the 4th factsheet to learn more about biological invasions on islands: ipbes.net/ias 🌏 🧪
Not to worry! Our series of 4-page Factsheets can help to simplify, providing highlights on selected themes.
Read the 4th factsheet to learn more about biological invasions on islands: ipbes.net/ias 🌏 🧪
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On Monday, a law was proposed in Brazil’s Congress under a special urgency regime that guarantees minimal debate & a quick vote
It would declare Highway BR-319 as “critical infrastructure, indispensable to national security”
This road also would hasten deforestation in the 🌎's largest rainforest:
It would declare Highway BR-319 as “critical infrastructure, indispensable to national security”
This road also would hasten deforestation in the 🌎's largest rainforest:
Race to destroy the Amazon forest: Brazil’s National Congress set to force construction of Highway...
This is a critical moment for the most damaging infrastructure project in the Amazon. On Monday, December 18th, a proposed law (PL 4994/2023) was put on the plenary agenda of the Chamber of Deputies (...
news.mongabay.com
December 20, 2023 at 6:34 PM
On Monday, a law was proposed in Brazil’s Congress under a special urgency regime that guarantees minimal debate & a quick vote
It would declare Highway BR-319 as “critical infrastructure, indispensable to national security”
This road also would hasten deforestation in the 🌎's largest rainforest:
It would declare Highway BR-319 as “critical infrastructure, indispensable to national security”
This road also would hasten deforestation in the 🌎's largest rainforest:
Reposted by Shishir Paudel
Our latest #KeyConceptsInEcology blog is out now! Interested in landscape ecology and macroecology? Check out our quick introduction & reading list here: functionalecologists.com/2023/12/07/k... 🧪
Key Concepts in Ecology: Landscape ecology and macroecology
This blog post on ‘Landscape ecology and macroecology’ is part of the BES ‘Key Concepts in Ecology’ series, designed to help ecologists in learning the key topics in ecology! Take a look at th...
functionalecologists.com
November 20, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Our latest #KeyConceptsInEcology blog is out now! Interested in landscape ecology and macroecology? Check out our quick introduction & reading list here: functionalecologists.com/2023/12/07/k... 🧪
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🔔Now printed w/cover photo❗️😀"Forests on the move: Tracking climate-related treeline changes in mountains..." Spoiler: Mean treeline shift up was 3 m/decade, varying w/treeline form, topo, mesoclimate! Kudos to Jordon Tourville (SUNY ESF, Appalachian Mnt Club)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 6, 2023 at 4:08 PM
🔔Now printed w/cover photo❗️😀"Forests on the move: Tracking climate-related treeline changes in mountains..." Spoiler: Mean treeline shift up was 3 m/decade, varying w/treeline form, topo, mesoclimate! Kudos to Jordon Tourville (SUNY ESF, Appalachian Mnt Club)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...