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Jane Goodall Institute of Canada @janegoodallcan.bsky.social · 5d

"You have it in your power to make a difference. Don't give up. There is a future for you. Do your best while you’re still on this beautiful Planet Earth that I look down upon from where I am now."

Those were Dr. Jane's last words, as released by Netflix.

Photo: Katherine Holland

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Unni Eikeseth @unnieikeseth.bsky.social · 8d

Fra 🌳 til 🅿️ . Det er til å gråte over korleis vi erstattar natur og matjord med betong: www.nrk.no/dokumentar/x...

NRK avslører europeisk naturtap: Norge topper verstingliste

www.nrk.no

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 8d

Last chance, deadline TODAY!
#hiring #PhDposition #alpineecology #globalchangeecology
@vvandvik.bsky.social

Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 21d

🌄🌿Come work with us! We are #hiring a #PhDcandidate in global change ecology to become part of our brand-new Centre for Mountains in Transitions.

Apply here:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

For an overview of all available positions, see:
cmt.w.uib.no/open-positio...

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PhD Research Fellow in global change ecology (285493) | University of Bergen

Job title: PhD Research Fellow in global change ecology (285493), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Wednesday, October 1, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 9d

The US wine industry today employs more people than coal did at its peak a century ago

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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Joseph Gaudard @jogaudard.bsky.social · 13d

My first PhD paper is out!
It describes the fluxible #rstats package, a toolbox to process and quality check #ecosystem #gasfluxes in a reproducible and automated way.

@unibergen.bsky.social @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @bjerknes.uib.no @li-corenv.bsky.social @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

fluxible: An R package to process ecosystem gas fluxes from closed‐loop chambers in an automated and reproducible way

Measuring ecosystem gas fluxes is crucial to understanding the dynamics of ecosystem water and energy cycling. A common method to measure ecosystem gas fluxes (CO2, CH4, N2O) and to compare experi...

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · 11d

…mens Arlie Russel Hochschilds’ ‘Strangers in their own land’ forklarer hvorfor og hvordan antiliberale strømninger får folkelig appell. Nyttig lesning for oss som trenger å få disse perspektivene inn med teskje… en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange...

Strangers in Their Own Land - Wikipedia

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · 11d

For min del var @naomioreskes.bsky.social og Eric Conway’s ‘Merchants of doubt’ en vekker når det gjaldt å forstå hvordan vitenskapsfornekterne opererer - og ikke minst *hvorfor* mennesker legger hjertet og sjela si inn i arbeidet *mot* en bedre verden for alle..

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchan...

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · 11d

Viktig kommentar av @magnusforsberg.no - vi må lære oss å gjenkjenne og håndtere autoritære og ekstreme strømninger *nettopp* når de kler seg i dress og opptrer ‘dannet’. Og jeg vil legge til: Fornektelse av kunnskap, fakta, er et tidlig varsel, en kanarifugl i gruva…

Forsberg™ @magnusforsberg.no · 11d

I dag har jeg skrevet om innestemmens paradoks, om hvordan media mangler evnen til å gjenkjenne autoritære og ekstreme strømninger når den er kledd i dress og opptrer «dannet».

Om hvordan verdiene våre brukes mot oss.

Innestemmens paradoks

Vi må gjenkjenne det autoritære, selv om – eller særlig når – det kler seg i dress.

www.dagsavisen.no

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Camille Perrin @perrincam.bsky.social · 11d

“It is increasingly indefensible for news coverage of climate change not to make it clear that this crisis is driven by very specific human activities – primarily burning fossil fuels. And in second place is food, agriculture, forestry.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds

Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · 11d

The #IPCC is now hireing ‘chapter scientists’ to support the author teams for the upcoming IPCC Report.

If you are an early career scientist with strong synthesis and organisational skills, and from a developing country or a country in transition, do check this out!

www.ictp.it/opportunity/...

IPCC AR7 Chapter Scientists | ICTP

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is in the process of preparing its Seventh Assessment report (AR7). The IPCC Working Groups are seeking highly motivated early-career researchers f...

www.ictp.it

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · 11d

I am really thrilled and honoured to be involved - as a CLA for Chapter 14 in WGII, I’ll co-coordinate the chapter on biodiversity, ecosystems, and ecosystem services. Looking forward to meeting the team and kicking this off in the first author meeting in Paris in December! #IPCC

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Katie Langin @klangin.bsky.social · 12d

Today was a hard day for Ph.D. students who found out that they can no longer apply for NSF's prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. "Devastating“ was how one student described it to me. #GradSchool #NSFGRFP

www.science.org/content/arti...

‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry

The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

www.science.org

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12d

This is likely the largest UN walkout of an Israeli leader in history.

It should serve as a wake-up call for Israelis that Netanyahu is burning Israel's global support to shield himself from his own failures. Israel's fate should not be tied to him nor his extremist allies.

Time to change course.

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David Sacerdote @davidsacerdote.bsky.social · 12d

Here's a gift link opening up access to everybody. (Some fraction seem to be prompted to regisiter)

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation

OPINION: “What Trump is really doing is advancing a plan laid down years ago by plutocrats and polluters. And making a mockery of our country as he does so,” Michael E. Mann writes.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · 13d

Vår arealbruk påvirker natur langt ut over de 1.7% som er nedbygd, og det er arealbruken i de resterende 98.3% som truer naturen, skriver @dagmarhagen.bsky.social Dag Hessen, @christiansteel.bsky.social @annesvth.bsky.social og jeg i denne kronikken www.nationen.no/norsk-natur-...

Tull med tall om norsk natur

Bare 1,7 prosent av Norges areal er nedbygd. Dette tallet punkterer mange debatter om utbygging og gir et falskt bilde av tilstanden til norsk natur.

www.nationen.no

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · 14d

#høst #autumn #beby #ProfLife

Bergen city skyline, mirrored in still Store Lungegårdsvann waters

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Eivind Trædal @eivindtraedal.bsky.social · 14d

Høyre og Venstre legger ned siste rest av bilfritt sentrum-satsingen i sitt nye budsjett. Ganske trist. Satsinga på bilfrie områder sentrum har hatt brei støtte i Oslos befolkning, men nå skal bilen fram. Hva skjedde med "miljøpartiet" Venstre?

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Einar Wilhelmsen @einarwilly.bsky.social · 14d

Jeg gir dere- byrådets kutt i Oslo. Tilsammen vil de kutte 2,5 milliarder i kommunen. 684 millioner av dette skal tas i skolen. Samtidig kutter de enda mer i eiendomskatten på dyre boliger.

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Eivind Trædal @eivindtraedal.bsky.social · 14d

Mindre velferd, mindre miljøpolitikk og mer privat velstand for folk med dyr bolig. Det er en politisk prioritering. Om du ikke liker den kan du stemme MDG om to år. www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/by...

Kutter en halv milliard i Oslos bydeler – men flere med dyr bolig skal slippe skatt

Fakkeltogene kan bli mange når høstmørket senker seg over Oslo. Byrådet legger fram det verste kuttbudsjettet på flere tiår.

www.nrk.no

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Climate Home News @climatechangenews.com · 14d

The US president’s outspoken speech was littered with a string of misleading or false statements – many about efforts to fight climate change
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/09/24/f...

Fact-checked: Trump's UN tirade against climate action

The US president's outspoken speech was littered with a string of misleading or false statements - many about efforts to fight climate change

www.climatechangenews.com

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · 16d

#thatfeeling - when you walk unsuspectingly into your lab meeting one autumn Monday and realize that, whoa, yeah, #fieldseason does seem to be over… *so* much cool science going in with this lot!! @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social #ProfLife #ProudSupervisor

A selfie of a university meeting room with *21* (mostly young) lab group members in it. Taken by a slightly overwhelmed PI

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Climate Action Tracker @climateactiontracker.org · 16d

COUNTRY ANALYSIS: We have downgraded the #US climate action to "Critically insufficient" - it's the most aggressive, comprehensive and consequential climate policy rollback the CAT has ever analysed.

🔗 bit.ly/CAT_US

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Naturvernforbundet @naturvernforbundet.no · 16d

Det er ti år siden Parisavtalen ble vedtatt. Likevel har ikke alvoret sunket inn hos verdens oljeproduserende land.

Det planlegges utvinning av mer enn dobbelt så mye olje i 2030 som vi kan forbrenne for å holde oppvarmingen rundt dagens nivå - 1,5 grader over førindustriell tid.

The Production Gap Report 2025

Governments, in aggregate, still plan to produce far more fossil fuels than would be consistent with limiting global warming to between 1.5ºC and 2ºC.

www.sei.org

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Dr. Mariana García Criado @nanitundra.bsky.social · 17d

This work was based on the amazing International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) and funded by @ec.europa.eu @nordborn.bsky.social & others. Thanks to my 38 wonderful coauthors, including @icbarrio.bsky.social @annebeejay.bsky.social @robertgbjork.bsky.social @matsbjorkman.bsky.social (5/6)

A close-up of a young branch of Betula nana (Dwarf birch) growing in an alpine area in Finnish Lapland. Credit Mariana García Criado.

A photo of a researcher conducting plant surveys in Kilpisjärvi, Finnish Lapland, next to a stream and with snowy mountains in the background. Credit Jiri Subrt.

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Dr. Mariana García Criado @nanitundra.bsky.social · 17d

Our findings indicate that tundra borealization might not involve rapid displacement of tundra by boreal species, but rather an overall increase in the abundance of boreal species with already established presence in the Arctic. (4/6)

A landscape photo of birch trees growing on the sides of a ridge in Kilpisjärvi, Finland, with snowy mountains and a lake in the background. Credit Mariana García Criado.

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