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IPBES @ipbes.net · 6d

What are the indicators of the nexus elements according to the new @ipbes.net #Nexus Report?🤔

Check this graphic to find out!

And if you haven't yet, access the Summary for Policymakers already available in English. Other UN languages coming soon ⤵️
www.ipbes.net/nexus/...

A scientific data visualization showing two sets of graphs tracking global trends from 1970 to 2020:

Section A: "Examples of Indicators of Indirect Drivers" displays six graphs:

GDP (showing exponential growth)
Trade (merchandise exports increasing)
Population (steady growth)
Urbanization (gradual increase)
Environmental regulations (sharp increase)
Renewable energy (recent rapid growth)
Section B: "Examples of Indicators of Nexus Elements" shows six graphs:

Index of ecosystem conditions (declining trend)
Freshwater availability (decreasing)
Food supply (increasing)
Index of species survival (declining)
Life expectancy (improving)
Climate-related disasters (increasing)
Each graph shows data lines for different income levels: low income, lower middle income, upper middle income, high income, and world average. The trends generally show environmental decline alongside economic and social development. All graphs use consistent color coding and clear labeling.

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Bertrand Dumont @bdumontae.bsky.social · Aug 29

We identified 6 narratives that vary in how French & Dutch 🐄 farmers conceptualise #biodiversity, perceive and value interactions between farming & biodiversity, & define problems & solutions in relation to biodiversity

Paper is led by V. Oostvogels 👉 doi.org/10.1002/pan3...

#dairy #NFF #pluralism

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UMR CARRTEL @umrcarrtel.bsky.social · Aug 27

August 27 is the World Lake Day. Lakes have critical importance, delivering a wide range of ecosystem services - at least 58 of the 90 ecosystem services defined by the Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (CICES, v5.1) are applicable to lakes #CARRTEL #INRAE #USMB

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Pierre Sabatier @psabatier.bsky.social · Jul 29

Our last publication in PNAS :
Agropastoral activity responsable for soil erosion and degradation in the Alps for the past 3800 years.

We reconstruct 10 000 y of soil evolution using sediment from Lake le Bourget àd the Lithium isotopes signature.

@edytem.bsky.social

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

Human and climate impacts on the alpine Critical Zone over the past 10,000 y | PNAS

Agropastoral activities have impacted the habitable part of our planet—the “Critical Zone”—for thousands of years, triggering a major increase in s...

www.pnas.org

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Jay Famiglietti @jayfamiglietti.bsky.social · Jul 26

After a long absence from Twitter, I'm now on Bluesky. Looking forward to sharing thoughts, research, and rants about the lack of attention paid to water. Let's kick this off with a new paper alert. Please share widely. Title says it all. Please help me grow followers www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Unprecedented continental drying, shrinking freshwater availability, and increasing land contributions to sea level rise

Drying continents, extreme drought, and groundwater depletion are shrinking water availability and increasing sea level rise.

www.science.org

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Alain Queffelec @alainqueffelec.bsky.social · Jun 18

The DAFNEE database of academia-friendly journals is now using OpenAlex instead of PubMed to find your papers for the author index.
That's great especially for #archaeology since most are not indexed in PubMed.
Go see the second tab on dafnee.isem-evolution.fr !
@nicolasgaltier.bsky.social 🏺🧪

DAFNEE, a Database of Academia Friendly jourNals in Ecology and Evolution

dafnee.isem-evolution.fr

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · Jun 10

some water fleas have a little spike on their head or carapace to make it difficult/painful for predators to eat them. currently crying over Daphnia lumholtzi which dials this up to 11. killing you and stabbing you and killing you and death and kill

Daphnia lumholtzi is a water flea with a small circular body and long thin spines coming out of its head and the tail end of its carapace

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Institut Natura e Teoria ※ Pireneus (INTP) @intp-science.bsky.social · May 30

📣Post-doc opportunity in thermal ecology & species interactions with Arnaud Sentis at INRAE Aix-en-Provence, France.
🌡️Explore how antagonistic interactions shape thermal tolerance in freshwater organisms.
📆 Start: Nov. 2025 | Duration: 2 years
📩 Sept. 8, 2025
Info 👉 www.inrae.fr/en/news/erc-...
🌐🧪🌍

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Rosalie Bruel @rosaliebruel.bsky.social · May 23

Sunny day on Lake Geneva

Balcony over Lake Geneva, with some natural shade from trees.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · Mar 26

Five years ago today, most historical UK monthly rainfall observations were not available to scientists.

But the 66,000 pieces of paper containing the data had been scanned.

With covid lockdown approaching we saw an opportunity to transcribe the data.

#RainfallRescue began... 🧵

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Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social · Mar 26

See here a report in @theguardian.com about our study in Nature, led by @francoiskeck.bsky.social @eawag.bsky.social & #UZH on "The global human impact on biodiversity": www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Rosalie Bruel @rosaliebruel.bsky.social · Mar 24

Suivi de la variabilité de la température dans cette étang de la Dombes, dont le niveau fluctue du quitte au double dans l’année.
📊 ces données seront traitées dans le cadre d’un stage ce printemps.

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Tristan Nitot @nitot.bsky.social · Mar 23

Rappel pour les parisiens : si vous voulez plus de verdure à la place de places de parking, c'est aujourd'hui qu'on vote. Tous les détails sur www.paris.fr/pages/nouvel...

www.paris.fr

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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · Mar 15

How do audiences follow news on climate change?

This is the question at the heart of a report by @waqasejaz.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social based on survey data from 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇵🇰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

Read here: buff.ly/4jwvTNG
7 findings in thread

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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · Mar 15

Bonsoir,

Le 3ème Plan national d'adaptation au changement climatique (PNACC3) vient d'être publié, après plusieurs années de concertations et consultations :

www.ecologie.gouv.fr/actualites/g...

Voici l'avis du @hc-climat.bsky.social qui s'est auto-saisi :

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Rosalie Bruel @rosaliebruel.bsky.social · Mar 7

In fact, the 2017 banner proved itself to be a very useful support once again…

♻️ Reduce, Reuse, Rally against Science deniers ♻️

Picture showing the back of the banner we used in 2025: it’s the banner from 2017 we reused ♻️

Front of the 2025 banner “Stand up for science”: letters were taped onto the 2017 banner.

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Rosalie Bruel @rosaliebruel.bsky.social · Mar 7

2017 - 2025
We stand in solidarity with scientists and citizens around the world whose ability to engage in or benefit from Science is under threat.
#StandUpForScience

📍Thonon, France

Photo of some of the participants of the Science March in April 2017, standing in front of Lake Geneva, in Thonon-les-bains, France.

UMR Carrtel laboratory members, in front of a “Stand up for Science” sign, March 7, 2025.

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Rosalie Bruel @rosaliebruel.bsky.social · Mar 7

#StandUpForScience @standupforscience.bsky.social
@standupforscifr.bsky.social
📍Thonon-les-bains

Nicolas Tromas @cyanophage.bsky.social · Mar 7

It's time!

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Jason Stockwell @dvm-uvm.bsky.social · Mar 7

Défendre la science avec mes formidables collègues français. Merci USMB-INRAE-CARRTEL pour votre hospitalité et votre soutien! @inrae-france.bsky.social @rosaliebruel.bsky.social @herverogissart.bsky.social @jean-guillard.bsky.social @cyanophage.bsky.social @allanraffard.bsky.social

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AU Freshwater Ecology @freshwaterau.bsky.social · Mar 3

Your model is your hypothesis. So, why not use multiple of them? Championed by Feldbauer & Mesman, in our fresh-off-the-press paper we highlight the performance of temperature models across the globe, and discuss the path forward to get better projections!

hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...

Learning from a large-scale calibration effort of multiple lake temperature models

Abstract. Process-based lake temperature models, formulated on hydrodynamic principles, are commonly used to simulate water temperature, enabling one to test different scenarios and draw conclusions a...

hess.copernicus.org

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Rosalie Bruel @rosaliebruel.bsky.social · Feb 24

Merci aux organisateurs pour la démarche !

Vu le temps imparti, suggérez vous de rejoindre les rassemblements dans les plus grandes villes ou d’en créer malgré tout dans des petites villes ? Il n’y a pas d’université ici, et pas sûre qu’un vendredi on croise beaucoup de personnes…
Merci !

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · Feb 23

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation
First, clarity on distinguishing AIs:
Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem
As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use).
Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work
Generative: ChatGPT & Co.
You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content.
Why is this delegation of work problematic?
3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement.

(Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.)

1) AI and ethics
Mass theft of all and everything
«learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators.
Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …):
«correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted).
In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes.

2) AI and (un)sustainability

Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI.
Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs.
Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry.
Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development.

3) AI and intellectual engagement

First, what learning is (or should be) about:
The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge,
But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain.
The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations
This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI.
Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all.
They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS.
If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.

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Steven J Cooke @sjcfishy.bsky.social · Feb 20

Help! What are some examples (from around the globe) where there have been "success stories" in improving water quality for the benefit of freshwater biodiversity? Could be regs, technical innovations, incentives, etc. I am finding lots of "partial" successes. @davetickner.bsky.social

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Rosalie Bruel @rosaliebruel.bsky.social · Feb 14

Physalia physalis ⛵️

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Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe @aaberhe.com · Feb 13

Professional societies stand together in defense of science & scientists.
“science has led to humanity’s greatest advances, improving people’s lives & the health of our planet … (we’re) committed to supporting, elevating, & fighting for science & those who further it.“
www.unitedsciencealliance.org

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