Anna Loi
@annaloi.bsky.social
PhD student at UMU trying to figure out what makes forests tick🧐
Just wanted to give a shoutout to @capacities.bsky.social - I started using the app 2 years ago and it changed my entire PhD research process - if you are looking for a way to sort your knowledge using PKM this is THE app for you!
October 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Just wanted to give a shoutout to @capacities.bsky.social - I started using the app 2 years ago and it changed my entire PhD research process - if you are looking for a way to sort your knowledge using PKM this is THE app for you!
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I have learned a great deal from venerable trees like this chinkapin oak. Notice the dead branches and thin crown. This is not, as conventional thought tells us, a sign of decline. Instead, it is a demonstration of crown readjustment in a healthy old tree. See more at Our Trees.
Tom Kimmerer (@tomkimmerer)
I turned the attention of my research to the lives of very large, very old trees many years ago, and have learned a great deal from them. This chinkapin oak, Quercus muehlenbergii, is one of my teache...
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July 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I have learned a great deal from venerable trees like this chinkapin oak. Notice the dead branches and thin crown. This is not, as conventional thought tells us, a sign of decline. Instead, it is a demonstration of crown readjustment in a healthy old tree. See more at Our Trees.
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I'd like you to meet Pando, a clone of quaking aspen that is the largest organism on our planet, and is in some trouble due to deer infestation. Details at Our Trees.
Tom Kimmerer (@tomkimmerer)
I’d like you to meet the largest organism on our planet. This is Pando, a male clone of quaking aspen, Populus tremuloides, in Fishlake National Forest, Utah. Pando is Latin meaning I spread. Although...
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July 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I'd like you to meet Pando, a clone of quaking aspen that is the largest organism on our planet, and is in some trouble due to deer infestation. Details at Our Trees.
First blog post for our forest intelligence project! www.um.es/mintlab/inde... @diovicen.bsky.social #plantintelligence
Are plants ever truly intelligent alone? | MintLab
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March 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
First blog post for our forest intelligence project! www.um.es/mintlab/inde... @diovicen.bsky.social #plantintelligence
Sorry, but you’re confusing effect with cause. We‘re talking about a system that is no longer able to tell threat from non-threat. It‘s not inherent in the system, it‘s because it’s been trained on too much contradictory information.
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Opinion | Inflammation May Be the Root of Our Maladies
How one drug might work for weight, fertility and dementia.
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September 18, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Sorry, but you’re confusing effect with cause. We‘re talking about a system that is no longer able to tell threat from non-threat. It‘s not inherent in the system, it‘s because it’s been trained on too much contradictory information.
www.nytimes.com/2024/09/16/o...
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The idea that subsystems like the immune system but also other organ systems can be subject to Pavlovian Conditioning (including accidental fear conditioning) is absolutely blowing my mind - we really need to stop viewing any sub-CNS system as just dumb machines link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Food and Medicine
This book provides a biosemiotic analysis of the ecological relationship between food and medicine. A valuable and provocative compendium for semioticians.
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September 11, 2024 at 7:12 AM
The idea that subsystems like the immune system but also other organ systems can be subject to Pavlovian Conditioning (including accidental fear conditioning) is absolutely blowing my mind - we really need to stop viewing any sub-CNS system as just dumb machines link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
If the surviving trees we see in a natural forest are not just the product of „lucky coincidence“ but rather the result of intelligent choices, then it is both amusing and straight up terrifying to think that in restoration we may mostly be planting „idiots“.
September 10, 2024 at 1:07 PM
If the surviving trees we see in a natural forest are not just the product of „lucky coincidence“ but rather the result of intelligent choices, then it is both amusing and straight up terrifying to think that in restoration we may mostly be planting „idiots“.
I have no idea how I missed #biosemiotics AS AN ENTIRE FIELD, but excited to dive in now! This paper is already getting me excited: www.academia.edu/43701176/The...
The Ensemblist Nature of Plant Plurality
A core misconception about plants underlying much of the work in both plant studies and biology to currently revise it, is the designation of plants as quantifiable individuals rather than interspecie...
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September 10, 2024 at 11:27 AM
I have no idea how I missed #biosemiotics AS AN ENTIRE FIELD, but excited to dive in now! This paper is already getting me excited: www.academia.edu/43701176/The...
If you’re still looking for something fun to do for spring break, feel free to join us in the #forest up in #Galicia, Spain from March 24 to April 6, 2024! chaoscampus.org/2024/02/26/j...
Join us for Forest Week in Spring 2024! |
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March 1, 2024 at 4:07 PM
If you’re still looking for something fun to do for spring break, feel free to join us in the #forest up in #Galicia, Spain from March 24 to April 6, 2024! chaoscampus.org/2024/02/26/j...
It’s funny how often the only research about an ecological question you can find ends up being about sth related that had economic value. I guess I should more often ponder “What is the money version of my question?”
January 24, 2024 at 12:58 AM
It’s funny how often the only research about an ecological question you can find ends up being about sth related that had economic value. I guess I should more often ponder “What is the money version of my question?”
Perhaps the reason we have ceased to talk about tree inosculation is because we now plant most forests in neat rows and cut them fairly young, leaving little opportunity for them to graft onto one another. The question is, how is this impacting their ecology?
January 23, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Perhaps the reason we have ceased to talk about tree inosculation is because we now plant most forests in neat rows and cut them fairly young, leaving little opportunity for them to graft onto one another. The question is, how is this impacting their ecology?
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Mal was positives: Das Deutschlandticket wird 2024 nicht teurer. Es bleibt bei 49€. Das wurde soeben bei einer Sonderkonferenz der Verkehrsminister der Länder beschlossen. Es ist so wichtig dass der Druck aus der Zivilgesellschaft jetzt weiter hoch bleibt, damit auch 2025 der ÖPNV bezahlbar bleibt.
January 22, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Mal was positives: Das Deutschlandticket wird 2024 nicht teurer. Es bleibt bei 49€. Das wurde soeben bei einer Sonderkonferenz der Verkehrsminister der Länder beschlossen. Es ist so wichtig dass der Druck aus der Zivilgesellschaft jetzt weiter hoch bleibt, damit auch 2025 der ÖPNV bezahlbar bleibt.
If anybody has recommendations for places to look for project grants for SFM/forest restoration for a small NGO in Spain, I’d be eternally grateful, my head is exploding trying to wade through all the info out there
January 22, 2024 at 6:40 PM
If anybody has recommendations for places to look for project grants for SFM/forest restoration for a small NGO in Spain, I’d be eternally grateful, my head is exploding trying to wade through all the info out there
The importance of nurseries is under appreciated in #forstrestoration. Most also lack the full range of species necessary for effective restoration, only growing a few commercial species. We cannot restore if we don’t have a seedling supply of local species.
January 18, 2024 at 8:54 PM
The importance of nurseries is under appreciated in #forstrestoration. Most also lack the full range of species necessary for effective restoration, only growing a few commercial species. We cannot restore if we don’t have a seedling supply of local species.
Given that I’ve now met dozens of people that don’t even know forestry is a profession it’s clear to me that largely we only talk to ourselves. How can we stop preaching to the choir and start having conversations across society about forest management?
January 17, 2024 at 1:48 AM
Given that I’ve now met dozens of people that don’t even know forestry is a profession it’s clear to me that largely we only talk to ourselves. How can we stop preaching to the choir and start having conversations across society about forest management?
There are some books you read you already know you’ll have to go back to over and over again because they are THAT insightful. This is one of them: Critical Transitions in Nature and Society press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Critical Transitions in Nature and Society
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January 14, 2024 at 5:25 PM
There are some books you read you already know you’ll have to go back to over and over again because they are THAT insightful. This is one of them: Critical Transitions in Nature and Society press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
There is little to no discussion in #forestrestoration about how initial species choice influences successional trajectories, e.g. reforestation with N-fixing species can later on lead to AM tree species dominance in former EcM forests. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
January 2, 2024 at 11:33 PM
There is little to no discussion in #forestrestoration about how initial species choice influences successional trajectories, e.g. reforestation with N-fixing species can later on lead to AM tree species dominance in former EcM forests. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I don’t understand why root grafting in forest ecosystems is not more widely researched. All Nearly I can find are attempts to exclude it to pinpoint CMN relationships. Could it not be a major vehicle for within-species cooperative behavior?
December 27, 2023 at 7:10 PM
I don’t understand why root grafting in forest ecosystems is not more widely researched. All Nearly I can find are attempts to exclude it to pinpoint CMN relationships. Could it not be a major vehicle for within-species cooperative behavior?