Shawn Serbin
@doctorjackpine.bsky.social
Earth Scientist. Opinions my own.
#RemoteSensing #EarthObservation #GlobalChange #EarthScience #Ecology #Ecophysiology #CarbonCycle #OpenScience #R #Python
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#RemoteSensing #EarthObservation #GlobalChange #EarthScience #Ecology #Ecophysiology #CarbonCycle #OpenScience #R #Python
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Nevermind the administration disappearing people off the streets or murdering Caribbean fishermen or shutting down agencies illegally or declaring war on trans people or openly accepting bribes, Dems picked a fight on health care and couldn't even find the spine for that," the NOAA employee said
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'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
www.gravityisgone.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Nevermind the administration disappearing people off the streets or murdering Caribbean fishermen or shutting down agencies illegally or declaring war on trans people or openly accepting bribes, Dems picked a fight on health care and couldn't even find the spine for that," the NOAA employee said
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Goddard Space Flight Center’s science center is slated to close due to the government cuts. Thank you Space.com for covering this. www.space.com/space-explor...
NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
www.space.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Goddard Space Flight Center’s science center is slated to close due to the government cuts. Thank you Space.com for covering this. www.space.com/space-explor...
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There are more than 100 marine research institutions in the United States and they’re under threat from Trump’s attack on science funding. 🌊
Saving science by the sea
As funding for science tightens across the United States, attention has turned to pressures faced by universities and biomedical research institutions. An often overlooked part of the nation’s science...
www.science.org
October 31, 2025 at 10:44 AM
There are more than 100 marine research institutions in the United States and they’re under threat from Trump’s attack on science funding. 🌊
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it’s essential that scientists, decisionmakers, & end users codevelop forecast tools & information. Close integration ...would focus scientific innovation on user-defined needs of what is useful and actionable, allowing scientists to build tools that meet those needs. eos.org/opinions/sci...
Scientists Must Join Forces to Solve Forecasting’s Predictability Desert - Eos
To strengthen societal resilience to worsening natural hazards, siloed Earth system science communities must collaborate to understand conditions that favor skillful subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasts.
eos.org
October 31, 2025 at 11:03 AM
it’s essential that scientists, decisionmakers, & end users codevelop forecast tools & information. Close integration ...would focus scientific innovation on user-defined needs of what is useful and actionable, allowing scientists to build tools that meet those needs. eos.org/opinions/sci...
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New in the Climate Data Store (CDS): the ERA5-Drought dataset, with monthly meteorological drought indicators across accumulation windows from 1, 3, 6, 12, 24, 36 & 48 months from 1940 to today. Supports both deterministic & ensemble products on a 0.25° grid.
More info ⬇️
More info ⬇️
October 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM
New in the Climate Data Store (CDS): the ERA5-Drought dataset, with monthly meteorological drought indicators across accumulation windows from 1, 3, 6, 12, 24, 36 & 48 months from 1940 to today. Supports both deterministic & ensemble products on a 0.25° grid.
More info ⬇️
More info ⬇️
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Future changes in irrigation will reduce dry-heat stress (without reversing GHG trend) and will substantially amplify moist-heat stress (strengthening GHG trend).
New study @natcomms.nature.com led by Yi Yao @hydr-vub.bsky.social and @usyseth.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New study @natcomms.nature.com led by Yi Yao @hydr-vub.bsky.social and @usyseth.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Compounding future escalation of emissions- and irrigation-induced increases in humid-heat stress - Nature Communications
This study shows that future exposures to moist-heat increase more rapidly than those to dry-heat, and irrigation can further amplify moist-heat-related health risks. Improving irrigation efficiency a...
www.nature.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Future changes in irrigation will reduce dry-heat stress (without reversing GHG trend) and will substantially amplify moist-heat stress (strengthening GHG trend).
New study @natcomms.nature.com led by Yi Yao @hydr-vub.bsky.social and @usyseth.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New study @natcomms.nature.com led by Yi Yao @hydr-vub.bsky.social and @usyseth.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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An out of office email scoop with Hatch Act implications you're gonna want to read from @telliotter.bsky.social:
www.wired.com/story/govern...
www.wired.com/story/govern...
Federal Workers Are Being Told to Blame Democrats for the Shutdown
Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies.
www.wired.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
An out of office email scoop with Hatch Act implications you're gonna want to read from @telliotter.bsky.social:
www.wired.com/story/govern...
www.wired.com/story/govern...
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The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word!
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
Assistant Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions
We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...
jobs.colostate.edu
September 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word!
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
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43. Arctic Research Consortium of the US (ARCUS) shutting down after budget cuts (Sept. 22, 2025)
Arctic research consortium closing down after Trump administration cuts funding
The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, established in 1988 and credited with helping scientists and Alaska communities, is closing this month.
www.adn.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
43. Arctic Research Consortium of the US (ARCUS) shutting down after budget cuts (Sept. 22, 2025)
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Attribution of vegetation change to climate change: here we compared vegetation time series to simulations from a process model forced with observed and counterfactual (detrended) climate data. Trends in climate necessary for the model to emulate vegetation trends www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3
Shifts in vegetation activity of terrestrial ecosystems attributable to climate trends - Nature Geoscience
An analysis fusing satellite data with a process-based model of plant growth attributes changes in vegetation activity across terrestrial ecosystems to climatic changes.
www.nature.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Attribution of vegetation change to climate change: here we compared vegetation time series to simulations from a process model forced with observed and counterfactual (detrended) climate data. Trends in climate necessary for the model to emulate vegetation trends www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3
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Speaking of, cool to see NASA listed as one of the Webby Awards most iconic companies in internet history today!
September 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Speaking of, cool to see NASA listed as one of the Webby Awards most iconic companies in internet history today!
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I'm happy to share a paper in Science Advances that makes the case for a weak land carbon sink, drawing upon JPL and Chloris biomass time series. To close the budget with a net land sink of 0.8 Pg C/y from 2000-2019, we propose increases in the ocean sink and decreases in fossil fuel emissions.
September 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I'm happy to share a paper in Science Advances that makes the case for a weak land carbon sink, drawing upon JPL and Chloris biomass time series. To close the budget with a net land sink of 0.8 Pg C/y from 2000-2019, we propose increases in the ocean sink and decreases in fossil fuel emissions.
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🦋🌱 Most people care about #biodiversity, yet we often underestimate how concerned others are about its loss. This “pluralistic ignorance” can silence people, weaken action, and make ambitious policies seem less popular.
In a new paper, we outline a research agenda to study and reduce this gap (1/2)
In a new paper, we outline a research agenda to study and reduce this gap (1/2)
September 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
🦋🌱 Most people care about #biodiversity, yet we often underestimate how concerned others are about its loss. This “pluralistic ignorance” can silence people, weaken action, and make ambitious policies seem less popular.
In a new paper, we outline a research agenda to study and reduce this gap (1/2)
In a new paper, we outline a research agenda to study and reduce this gap (1/2)
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Deforestation is responsible for nearly 75% of dry season rainfall reduction in the Amazon rainforest since 1985, according to a study in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/3I2xPzr ⚒️ 🧪
September 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Deforestation is responsible for nearly 75% of dry season rainfall reduction in the Amazon rainforest since 1985, according to a study in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/3I2xPzr ⚒️ 🧪
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Arthur Yambayamba's first PhD chapter is out today @biotropica.bsky.social 🍾
Using NFI data from Zambia we explore how climate and competition shape the crown allometries of Miombo woodlands 🌳📐
📜 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Using NFI data from Zambia we explore how climate and competition shape the crown allometries of Miombo woodlands 🌳📐
📜 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
September 9, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Arthur Yambayamba's first PhD chapter is out today @biotropica.bsky.social 🍾
Using NFI data from Zambia we explore how climate and competition shape the crown allometries of Miombo woodlands 🌳📐
📜 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Using NFI data from Zambia we explore how climate and competition shape the crown allometries of Miombo woodlands 🌳📐
📜 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🚨Hot off the press🔥
LIGHTS OUT
How Trump's war on climate science is weakening the US
A feature about the White House's "cluster-bomb approach" to dismantling the world's most sophisticated scientific apparatus. By @zhirji.bsky.social @blkahn.bsky.social and me
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
LIGHTS OUT
How Trump's war on climate science is weakening the US
A feature about the White House's "cluster-bomb approach" to dismantling the world's most sophisticated scientific apparatus. By @zhirji.bsky.social @blkahn.bsky.social and me
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Trump Is Dismantling Climate Science at a Dangerous Pace
The White House has blocked efforts to measure, respond to and fight global warming. That puts all Americans at risk.
www.bloomberg.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
🚨Hot off the press🔥
LIGHTS OUT
How Trump's war on climate science is weakening the US
A feature about the White House's "cluster-bomb approach" to dismantling the world's most sophisticated scientific apparatus. By @zhirji.bsky.social @blkahn.bsky.social and me
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
LIGHTS OUT
How Trump's war on climate science is weakening the US
A feature about the White House's "cluster-bomb approach" to dismantling the world's most sophisticated scientific apparatus. By @zhirji.bsky.social @blkahn.bsky.social and me
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Here is a separate starter pack of the #IPCC scientists on bluesky involved in the SR Cities:
go.bsky.app/FiBdsVT
@dianaurge.bsky.social @siir-kilkis.bsky.social @peterthorne.bsky.social @sarahlynnburch.bsky.social @bmhayward.bsky.social @efesce.bsky.social
(full list: apps.ipcc.ch/report/autho...)
go.bsky.app/FiBdsVT
@dianaurge.bsky.social @siir-kilkis.bsky.social @peterthorne.bsky.social @sarahlynnburch.bsky.social @bmhayward.bsky.social @efesce.bsky.social
(full list: apps.ipcc.ch/report/autho...)
IPCC SR Cities (AR7) Scientists on Bluesky
Join the conversation
go.bsky.app
September 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Here is a separate starter pack of the #IPCC scientists on bluesky involved in the SR Cities:
go.bsky.app/FiBdsVT
@dianaurge.bsky.social @siir-kilkis.bsky.social @peterthorne.bsky.social @sarahlynnburch.bsky.social @bmhayward.bsky.social @efesce.bsky.social
(full list: apps.ipcc.ch/report/autho...)
go.bsky.app/FiBdsVT
@dianaurge.bsky.social @siir-kilkis.bsky.social @peterthorne.bsky.social @sarahlynnburch.bsky.social @bmhayward.bsky.social @efesce.bsky.social
(full list: apps.ipcc.ch/report/autho...)
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New starter pack with @ipcc.bsky.social #AR7 scientists (bureau, authors, REs)! Full list: apps.ipcc.ch/report/autho...
For SR cities scientists see separate starter pack!
@dianaurge.bsky.social @sherilee.bsky.social @siir-kilkis.bsky.social @janfuglestvedt.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/2FuXb3Y
For SR cities scientists see separate starter pack!
@dianaurge.bsky.social @sherilee.bsky.social @siir-kilkis.bsky.social @janfuglestvedt.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/2FuXb3Y
September 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
New starter pack with @ipcc.bsky.social #AR7 scientists (bureau, authors, REs)! Full list: apps.ipcc.ch/report/autho...
For SR cities scientists see separate starter pack!
@dianaurge.bsky.social @sherilee.bsky.social @siir-kilkis.bsky.social @janfuglestvedt.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/2FuXb3Y
For SR cities scientists see separate starter pack!
@dianaurge.bsky.social @sherilee.bsky.social @siir-kilkis.bsky.social @janfuglestvedt.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/2FuXb3Y
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Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
September 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
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Missed the workshop?
“Bridging the Gap: Flux Data Meets Land Surface Models”
No worries !
Now, everything you need is available in one place — this blog:
fluxnet.org/bridging-the...
The workshop materials (tutorials and lecture videos) can be found at the end of the blog post.
Enjoy :)
“Bridging the Gap: Flux Data Meets Land Surface Models”
No worries !
Now, everything you need is available in one place — this blog:
fluxnet.org/bridging-the...
The workshop materials (tutorials and lecture videos) can be found at the end of the blog post.
Enjoy :)
fluxnet.org
September 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Missed the workshop?
“Bridging the Gap: Flux Data Meets Land Surface Models”
No worries !
Now, everything you need is available in one place — this blog:
fluxnet.org/bridging-the...
The workshop materials (tutorials and lecture videos) can be found at the end of the blog post.
Enjoy :)
“Bridging the Gap: Flux Data Meets Land Surface Models”
No worries !
Now, everything you need is available in one place — this blog:
fluxnet.org/bridging-the...
The workshop materials (tutorials and lecture videos) can be found at the end of the blog post.
Enjoy :)
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I'm very pleased on behalf of co-authors to be able to share this, just published, paper summarizing the @bburnedscience.bsky.social Fire Emissions Workshop in Nov 2023. MODIS has been critical to fire emission estimation for the past two decades & the paper reviews 9 widely used emissions datasets.
September 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I'm very pleased on behalf of co-authors to be able to share this, just published, paper summarizing the @bburnedscience.bsky.social Fire Emissions Workshop in Nov 2023. MODIS has been critical to fire emission estimation for the past two decades & the paper reviews 9 widely used emissions datasets.
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Incorporating responses of traits to changing climates into species distribution models: a path forward
A Viewpoint by Peng, et al. 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue #PlantScience
A Viewpoint by Peng, et al. 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue #PlantScience
September 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Incorporating responses of traits to changing climates into species distribution models: a path forward
A Viewpoint by Peng, et al. 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue #PlantScience
A Viewpoint by Peng, et al. 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue #PlantScience