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Ben Bond-Lamberty
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Forest ecologist & carbon cycle scientist at @PNNLab, open data & R proponent, mentor, editor. I know how to do a blind hem stitch.

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Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · Dec 12
Scientists are expected to do peer reviewing but no one tells you HOW. After talking with several folks about this today at #AGU24 , it seems a good time to link to this presentation I made several years ago -- feel free to use/share! docs.google.com/presentation...
Effective, efficient, and fair peer reviewing 2023
Effective, efficient, and fair peer reviewing Ben Bond-Lamberty Based on a presentation at the AGU Early Career Scientist Workshop, 2019 1
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Chris Chavez @chrischavez.bsky.social · 20h
SHE DID IT! WORLD RECORD! 1:54.87!

KEELY HODGKINSON SMASHES THE INDOOR 800M WORLD RECORD!

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Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · 21h
Made some revisions to my "Effective, Efficient, and Fair Peer Reviewing" presentation in advance of a seminar at U-Toledo today docs.google.com/presentation...
Effective, efficient, and fair peer reviewing 2026
Effective, efficient, and fair peer reviewing Ben Bond-Lamberty Based on a presentation at the AGU Early Career Scientist Workshop, 2019 1
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Cong Yin @cyinglobe.bsky.social · 1d
Our new study in Science Advances: Extreme fire risk days are increasingly synchronizing globally. This trend strains firefighting cooperation and worsens regional air quality.

With @climate-guy.bsky.social @mattwjones.bsky.social @mojisadegh.bsky.social and Alison Cullen

doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Increasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weather
Increasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weather constrains fire suppression coordination and exacerbates air pollution.
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Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Karen R. Lips

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Science Magazine @science.org · 1d
CDC acting Director Jim O’Neill to be nominated to lead NSF while NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya does double duty at CDC. https://scim.ag/4tJEr90
Musical-chairs leadership shakeup planned for science agencies
CDC acting Director Jim O’Neill to be nominated to lead NSF while NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya does double duty at CDC
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EUMETSAT @eumetsat.int · 4d
🎉 10 years of Sentinel-3 today!

Since 2016, EUMETSAT has been operating Sentinel-3 on behalf of @ec.europa.eu in cooperation with @esa.int, monitoring oceans, land, ice, & atmosphere from space with Sentinel-3A and -3B. Sentinel-3C will follow this year!
Learn more: www.eumetsat.int/sentinel-3

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Gabin Piton @gabin-piton.bsky.social · 4d
What if most long-term C storage depends on <1% of soil in the deep root rhizosphere?
Quantification in these small hotspots is a real challenge—one we’re tackling with normalized rhizosphere sampling & root density mapping @umr-ecosols.bsky.social
Our article👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Maria Faticov, Tyson Wepprich , and 1 more

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Faith @faithamjones.bsky.social · 4d
Are you an relatively new to field ecology and data collection? Or are are you supervising students? Our guide for effective field data collection is now published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! We also include a printable poster with a visual overview of the guide
doi.org/10.1111/2041...

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Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · 4d
Bark traits and their influence on thermal resistance to wildfires: an experimental study across six tree species common in Central Europe

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Bark traits and their influence on thermal resistance to wildfires: an experimental study across six tree species common in Central Europe - Fire Ecology
Climate change is increasing the probability of wildfires in the non-fire-prone forests of Central Europe. Systematic knowledge on tree resistance to fire would help to improve the future management o...
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Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Juan Rocha

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 4d
Has anyone out there been keeping the monthly snapshots the of USAspending.gov Postgres DB dumps (~170GB each)? @datarescueproject.org

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Emily Lines @emilyrlines.bsky.social · 4d
There is a tension between using satellite data for fast vs accurate monitoring. Monitoring drivers of deforestation with satellite data can help targeted interventions and management, but if long time series of data are needed for classification, the wait can make findings too late to be useful.

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 5d
Mega-journal Heliyon retracts hundreds of papers after internal audit  buff.ly/1zqqMB0
Mega-journal Heliyon retracts hundreds of papers after internal audit
Heliyon has published fewer papers and ramped up its retractions since a major indexing service put the journal on hold and the publisher launched an audit of all papers published in the journal si…
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Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Dorothy Bishop, Colin F. Camerer , and 5 more

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The Sacramento Bee @sacbee.com · 5d
Wendy Bohon has built a TikTok following as an earthquake geologist. She helps lead earthquake work for the California Geological Survey.
How a TikToker and former actress is helping lead California’s earthquake work
Wendy Bohon has built a TikTok following as an earthquake geologist. She helps lead earthquake work for the California Geological Survey.
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Robert Jacob @climatespin.bsky.social · 5d
What the National Center for Atmospheric Research means to the atmospheric sciences physicstoday.aip.org/news/what-th...
What the National Center for Atmospheric Research means to the atmospheric sciences
Born out of a time of great need for the federal government, NCAR plays a role with few analogues.
physicstoday.aip.org

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Ana Bastos @anabastos.bsky.social · 6d
In 2023, the Amazon basin experienced unusually high temperatures and atmospheric dryness 🌡️ How this this affect the Amazon carbon sink?
Excellent work led by Santiago Botía @bgc-jena.mpg.de
@erc.europa.eu @esaclimate.bsky.social @schmidtsciences.bsky.social

Learn more:
tinyurl.com/botiaagu2026
Reduced Vegetation Uptake During the Extreme 2023 Drought Turns the Amazon Into a Weak Carbon Source
Drought turned the biogeographic Amazon in 2023 to a weak carbon source, with a magnitude similar to the drought of 2015 but less than 2016 Seasonal development of net carbon exchange in 2023 was...
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Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · 6d
"How disruptive were Gemini email summaries?" asks Google
"It's annoying and I don't need it. I can read."

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 6d
NSF Update

Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit.

Now by Directorate...

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A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 across NSF. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.

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Adam Pollack @crispapoll.bsky.social · 6d
I am hiring a postdoc @ Univ of Iowa. Potential project focuses include flood-risk infrastructure planning, disaster recovery processes and outcomes, insurance program externalities, or uncertainty in climate damage attribution. Please consider applying/sharing! jobs.uiowa.edu/postdoc/view...
Postdoctoral Requisition Details - Jobs@UIOWA: Search and Apply for Jobs at The University of Iowa
Jobs@UIOWA: The official place to search and apply for jobs at The University of Iowa.
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Katie Rocci, PhD @katie-rocci.bsky.social · 7d
One month left to submit a comment to NSF about their threat to dismantle NCAR. AGU has a great tool, below. This was easy to do and you can help flood the NSF inbox with messages about how important is it to keep NCAR together!

agu.quorum.us/campaign/154...
Share your comments on NCAR with NSF
Tell NSF the future that you want for NCAR by 13 March
agu.quorum.us

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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 7d
NSF's graduate research fellowship (GRF) program is designed to teach aspiring scientists how to write a winning grant proposal. So why are so many applicants being denied that learning experience? www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF’s flagship fellowship program is rejecting applicants without peer review
Students seeking graduate research scholarships speculate that biology is being disfavored
www.science.org

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Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · 7d
That's a lot of stacked bars.
An over-the-top, six-panel figure of stacked bar graphs over time, with many series and colors that are confusing to understand.

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 8d
useR! 2026 call for abstracts is open

Hoping to see many contributions on spatial data analysis in R!

🔗 user2026.r-project.org/call/

#useR2026 #RStats #RSpatial

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 8d
right, so, some quite insane professional news from me: last month I went to Paris to interview Gisèle Pelicot about what happened to her, and what her life looks like now - out in print on Sunday

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · 8d
🚨3 Lectureships in Biology 🚨

Come join us in Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social!

We are looking for new collegues working across a broad spectum of topics in biology, including ecology & environmental change. Get in touch if you have Qs!

Apply here by 8 March: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 8d
Small note for journalists covering the Endangerment Finding repeal tomorrow: because of lawsuits, long time windows, and changes of administration, none of the EPA's regulatory actions based on the Endangerment Findings ever took effect.

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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 8d
🚨 #PhD opportunity 🚨
Disturbance Impacts on swamp and forested peatlands in southern Québec

This project will quantify how disturbances affect carbon cycling and hydrology in swamp and forested peatlands of southern Québec

More info here: wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com/Opportunitie...

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 9d
I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.
It must be very hard to publish null results Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to determine how selection varies across contexts. In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results. To put these findings in perspective, we develop and calibrate a simple model of publication bias. Across a range of plausible assumptions, we find that statistically significant results are estimated to be one to two orders of magnitude more likely to enter the published record than null results. Leveraging metadata extracted from individual articles, we show that the pattern of strong SoS holds across subfields, journals, methods, and time periods. However, a few factors such as pre-registration and randomized experiments correlate with greater acceptance of null results. We conclude by discussing implications for the field and the potential of our new dataset for investigating other questions about political science.

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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · 9d
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science🧪🔬!

Simona Gabrielli, a seismologist based in Italy, shares her reflections, personal experience, academic journey and the challenges of fieldwork in our recent #GeoLog

🧵 Read more here: egu.eu/7S0S1U
Image description: Simona Gabrielli, the author, on the georadar campaign she worked on on Mount St Helens.. With text reading:'' Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!"

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Brian Owens @scibri.com · 10d
Working on a story for Science about cuts to Canada's government researchers and labs. If you are affected by this please reach out (either on here or via my website). Anonymity is an option. 🧪

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Neil Pederson @yellowbuckeye.bsky.social · 10d
An abbreviated microcore study of 6 contrasting tree species in the middle of a regional ecotone indicated that spring temps seem to control radial growth onset & southern tree species grew more than northern tree species

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Tessa Mandra microcoring the more southerly species, Shagbark Hickory Yiping Zhang, Junliang Xu, and Tessa Mandra microcoring the more northerly species, Red Spruce Neil Pederson coring the more southerly species, White Oak Tessa Mandra microcoring the more northerly species, Paper Birch

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 10d
Pinus radiata releases seeds when the temperature goes above 45°C (113°F). Sometimes that threshold temperature can be reached by passive solar heating of the cones if they are exposed to sunlight on the tree or on the ground. They can open even without fire. #Pinaceae #serotiny #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of needle-bearing shoot with pinecones. The cones are closed. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.