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Mathias Disney
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Scientist, trees, forests, carbon, ecosystem structure and function, in all the ways. One tree at a time. Prof at UCL Geography, and NCEO

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Geography 18%
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 6d
New postdoctoral fellowship opportunity! Please pass along. Excited to announce the launch of the Tom Lovejoy Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona for innovative research to protect species, sustain ecosystems, and promote a thriving planet lovejoycenter.arizona.edu/lovejoy-fell... 🧪🌐🌾
Application Process Image Woman behind a podium presenting. Jessie Golding, BBCS postdoc, presenting at ICCB 2025. Apply to become a Lovejoy Fellow by submitting your resume, cover letter, and contact information for three references through the University of Arizona Talent Portal (link upcoming) by the first review date of January 30, 2026. Your cover letter should: Identify 1-2 Lovejoy BBCS faculty you would be interested in working with and explain the primary research directions you would want to pursue in collaboration with this faculty member. You are strongly encouraged to reach out to faculty before submitting your application. Describe your experience with or interest in inter- or transdisciplinary research. Explain how this experience will positively impact your career trajectory.

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Mathias Disney @matdisney.bsky.social · 7d
Last fieldwork of the year, lovely day in Epping

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Prof. Julian R. Thompson @jrthompsonucl.bsky.social · 8d
Blinked and missed this in the end of term madness but our latest paper on pollution within sediments of Chinese lake and other aquatic ecosystems was recently published...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Heavy metals and PAHs drive ecological and health risks in Chinese water level fluctuation zones
Water-level fluctuation zones (WLFZ) adjacent to rivers, lakes and reservoirs are ecologically sensitive areas, regulating water quality and maintaini…
www.sciencedirect.com

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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 8d
Perspective on the news about the Trump administration seeking to break up the NSF NCAR - The National Center for Atmospheric Research from the ground at the AGU meeting. www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/c...
Climate scientists face the loss of a critical research center — and vow to fight back | CNN
The Trump administration announced plans Tuesday to shut down the National Center for Atmospheric Research, an organization responsible for everything from improved weather models to tools that aid hu...
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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 9d
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 9d
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.

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National Centre for Earth Observation @nceoscience.bsky.social · 14d
Congratulations to FSF the NERC Field Spectroscopy Facility @nercfsf.bsky.social managed by NCEO, for reaching a huge milestone: 1,000 equipment loans since 1994 and 30 years of supporting research🎉

Read more: tinyurl.com/4462acn2
NERC Field Spectroscopy Facility Marks 1,000th Equipment Loan and 30 Years of Service - National Centre for Earth Observation
The NERC Field Spectroscopy Facility (FSF) – a “lending library” of advanced spectroscopic instruments managed by the National Centre for Earth Observation - has reached a major milestone: its 1,000th...
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Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Yadvinder Malhi, Brian J. Enquist , and 7 more

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Andrew Abraham @andrewabraham.bsky.social · 17d
Earth's largest land animals are limited by salt.

Sodium availability constrains the density and distribution of elephants, giraffes and rhinos across Africa, and offers a new explanation for the so-called 'missing megaherbivores'.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free access: rdcu.be/eTPY2

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 21d
Each year, I teach "Evolution of Plant Form and Function" to undergraduates - I've struggled to find good synthetic out-of-class materials - until recently. This is such a superb overview of the functional and physiological overview of land plant evolution www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSch... 🧪🌾🌐 #botany
Trees Are So Weird
YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
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UCL Department of Geography @uclgeography.bsky.social · 21d
Victorian teetotalers, life insurance & health: Dr @jameskneale.bsky.social’s Temperance Lives shows how insurers shaped drinking habits 🏛️💼🍷.

Read more 👇 tinyurl.com/ucl-temp

#UCLGeography #VictorianBritain #Temperance #LifeAssurance #History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

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National Centre for Earth Observation @nceoscience.bsky.social · 22d
We are proud to share that #SIAC, developed by NCEO researchers Dr Feng Yin & Prof Philip Lewis (UCL), delivered best overall performance in accuracy & uncertainty in a recent land study.

📄 Full paper: tinyurl.com/52jdz873
🌐 Learn more: tinyurl.com/3er9umfr

#EarthObservation #RemoteSensing
Atmospheric Correction Matters: How ACIX-III Improves Land Observations from Space - National Centre for Earth Observation
A recently published paper in Remote Sensing presents results from a new comparison of seven widely-used atmospheric processing schemes. Dr Feng Yin and Prof Philip Lewis, NCEO scientists at Universit...
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National Centre for Earth Observation @nceoscience.bsky.social · 22d
🌍 Delighted to share @esa.int #Biomass Mission Update!

✅ IOC completed (20 Nov)
✅ Operational phase started (21 Nov)
✅ Open data access begins (12 Dec)

🔗 Details: ESA Biomass Data Portal: tinyurl.com/3npr9v85
📢 Workshop: Register here: eebiomass.org/workshops/

#ESA #BiomassMission #ClimateScience
Biomass Data - Earth Online
Find out what data are available for the Biomass mission.
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 22d
Temporal decoupling of #carbon #source and sink processes in temperate trees: insights from combined measurements of #remote #sensing and #xylogenesis

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Leng et al.

@WIleyPlantSci #PlantScience
Hypothetical diagram illustrating the decoupling of carbon source and sink processes at the intra-annual time scale and the differences between the two species of different leaf habits.

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Mathias Disney @matdisney.bsky.social · 23d
I have a memory of him on debut in 1988 absolutely lining up Winston Benjamin w a pull shot so hard it came back to the square off the boards, thinking YESS!

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Mathias Disney @matdisney.bsky.social · 23d
Yeah there's certain people you associate w an era - Eng were so shit so often then, seeing someone take on proper quick stuff like this was amazing

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Mathias Disney @matdisney.bsky.social · 23d
Really sad about this. Such an amazing player to watch - hit the ball as hard as anyone I've ever seen

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 24d
We have a new article type!! 🚨 🌍 🧪

Workflow articles will describe the design testing, and analysis of the performance of complex workflows.

Find our more about workflow articles in our new blog post and in our authors guidelines.

Blog post 👉 buff.ly/R7vcuqT
Author guidelines 👉 buff.ly/VUfAt3x

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 24d
Check out our recent work led by austindelacruz.bsky.social
Assessing the allometric scaling of seed mass and fruit mass and tests several hypotheses about the influence of evolutionary history and seed dispersal mode on these patterns royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #allometry 🧪🌐
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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 24d
Important paper showing the dearth of plant taxonomists in the tropical countries that need them most

www.cell.com/trends/plant...

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 28d
Long-term recovery of canopy 3D structural diversity following wildfires in the world’s largest temperate woodland #ProcB #OpenAccess #Ecosystem #Conservation royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · Nov 26
🚨Paper alert🚨

Check out Beibei Zhang's latest work out today @royalsocietypublishing.org where we track the 3D structural recovery of Australia's Great Western Woodlands following wildfires over a chronosequence spanning half a millenia!🌳🛰️🔥🧪

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · Nov 25
Congrats Dr Arthur Yambayamba for passing his PhD with flying colours🍾

Arthur's thesis explores how climate & competition shape the structure of miombo woodlands. Check out some of the work here:

1) shorturl.at/aTVb7
2) shorturl.at/fD42Y

Thanks to Casey Ryan & @mdekauwe.bsky.social for examining!

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Mathias Disney @matdisney.bsky.social · Nov 20
wow that is pretty bad, down by a factor of 5.

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The Ecologist @theecologist.org · Nov 19
“The food we eat, that’s ecosystems. Climate regulation, that’s ecosystems. Protection from extreme weather events, that’s ecosystems.”
'If ecosystems go, we go'
Ecologists call for ecosystem approach to halt nature decline.
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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · Nov 18
I was in #Belem for Week 1 of the climate change #COP30, primarily to engage about rainforests and their future. Here are a few reflections on COP, the city of Belem, rainforests and the nature of hope naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/news/cop30-a...

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COP30 at the City at the Mouth of the Green Ocean
Yadvinder reflects on this time at COP 30
naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · Nov 18
Centuries of compounding human influence on Amazonian forests.
The distribution of abundances of useful Amazonian tree species in 1500 plots suggests widespread ecological imprints of pre-Columbian indigenous and post-contact colonist people on modern forest composition.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Centuries of compounding human influence on Amazonian forests | PNAS
Recent evidence suggests that the ecological footprints of pre-Columbian Indigenous peoples in Amazonia persist in modern forests. Ecological impac...
www.pnas.org

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · Nov 14
🚨Job opportunity🚨

We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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Mathias Disney @matdisney.bsky.social · Nov 4
New paper by Wout Cherlet & @qforestlab.bsky.social team led by @kimcalders.bsky.social, comparing tree extraction methods from TLS data. TL;DR it's hard to automate, ecosystem dependent & parametric approaches currently outperform DL www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Benchmarking tree instance segmentation of terrestrial laser scanning point clouds
Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) has revolutionized forest measurement techniques by providing detailed three-dimensional (3D) point cloud data that c…
www.sciencedirect.com

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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · Oct 31
I had a wonderful few days this week, hosted by the government of Catalonia and the University of Barcelona, and receiving the Ramon Margalef Prize for ecological research from the president of Catalonia