Dr. Abdulhakim Abdi 🌍🛰️
@hakimabdi.com
Research scientist in geospatial ecology | Ecosystem Remote Sensing🛰️🌍 | Forests, Savannas, and Drylands | Birds and Birding in the far south of Sweden 🐦🇸🇪 | الحمد لله | Own opinions, usual caveats.
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Dr. Abdulhakim Abdi 🌍🛰️
@hakimabdi.com
· Nov 19
Behind the Paper: Observing savannas from space — Abdulhakim Abdi
Savannas cover a wide climatic gradient across large portions of the Earth’s land surface and are an important component of the terrestrial biosphere. Mapping the distribution of savannas is a longsta...
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I wrote a short, but very informative, blog post summarizing a recent paper of ours that delves into the cutting-edge applications of remote sensing to monitor and understand #savanna ecosystems for improved #conservation and sustainable management.
Read here: hakimabdi.com/blog/behind-...
Read here: hakimabdi.com/blog/behind-...
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This is insane. 🤦♂️
Why do tech giants like Elon Musk and Bill Gates keep on saying such dumb things about climate change?
They have access to the best possible experts, who could actually teach them something, if they would only ask and listen…
Why do tech giants like Elon Musk and Bill Gates keep on saying such dumb things about climate change?
They have access to the best possible experts, who could actually teach them something, if they would only ask and listen…
November 7, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This is insane. 🤦♂️
Why do tech giants like Elon Musk and Bill Gates keep on saying such dumb things about climate change?
They have access to the best possible experts, who could actually teach them something, if they would only ask and listen…
Why do tech giants like Elon Musk and Bill Gates keep on saying such dumb things about climate change?
They have access to the best possible experts, who could actually teach them something, if they would only ask and listen…
Maybe improve the conditions for already existing carnivores such as the Gray Wolf and Cougar and conserve their habitat before bringing another carnivore back from the dead?
TIME's cover story this week is about using genetic engineering to bring back a recently-extinct species.
I don't know the technical details of this case, which may or may not be as awesome as it sounds. But some thoughts on this topic in general as a conservation biologist:
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I don't know the technical details of this case, which may or may not be as awesome as it sounds. But some thoughts on this topic in general as a conservation biologist:
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The Return of the Dire Wolf
Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered the first dire wolf to live in over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for other extinct species.
time.com
April 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Maybe improve the conditions for already existing carnivores such as the Gray Wolf and Cougar and conserve their habitat before bringing another carnivore back from the dead?
This is a good reminder that free data provided through private actors can be rescinded at any time if the economic winds shift.
#earthobservation #satellitedata #remotesensing #opendata
#earthobservation #satellitedata #remotesensing #opendata
March 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
This is a good reminder that free data provided through private actors can be rescinded at any time if the economic winds shift.
#earthobservation #satellitedata #remotesensing #opendata
#earthobservation #satellitedata #remotesensing #opendata
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The EU has some of the world's most advanced environmental laws.
Failing to implement them costs the EU ~55 billion euros annually in health and environmental damages.
Enforcement of EU laws often takes decades, following an opaque process.
Failing to implement them costs the EU ~55 billion euros annually in health and environmental damages.
Enforcement of EU laws often takes decades, following an opaque process.
March 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The EU has some of the world's most advanced environmental laws.
Failing to implement them costs the EU ~55 billion euros annually in health and environmental damages.
Enforcement of EU laws often takes decades, following an opaque process.
Failing to implement them costs the EU ~55 billion euros annually in health and environmental damages.
Enforcement of EU laws often takes decades, following an opaque process.
Reposted by Dr. Abdulhakim Abdi 🌍🛰️
March 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Reposted by Dr. Abdulhakim Abdi 🌍🛰️
Dear people who write funding / mission proposals:
Please don't use ChatGPT to write your proposal, it's *so* obvious and really puts off the reviewer. If I have to read any more overly-verbose propopsals full of flowery words and a lack of detail then I'll explode. 😂
Please don't use ChatGPT to write your proposal, it's *so* obvious and really puts off the reviewer. If I have to read any more overly-verbose propopsals full of flowery words and a lack of detail then I'll explode. 😂
January 31, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Dear people who write funding / mission proposals:
Please don't use ChatGPT to write your proposal, it's *so* obvious and really puts off the reviewer. If I have to read any more overly-verbose propopsals full of flowery words and a lack of detail then I'll explode. 😂
Please don't use ChatGPT to write your proposal, it's *so* obvious and really puts off the reviewer. If I have to read any more overly-verbose propopsals full of flowery words and a lack of detail then I'll explode. 😂
Reposted by Dr. Abdulhakim Abdi 🌍🛰️
Some more good news for the Sentinel-2 mission!
Sentinel-2A, which recently retired, has been given a temporary extension, where it will support S2B and S2C to provide additional data.
Lots of hard work behind the scenes to make this happen. Glad to see it!
sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel...
Sentinel-2A, which recently retired, has been given a temporary extension, where it will support S2B and S2C to provide additional data.
Lots of hard work behind the scenes to make this happen. Glad to see it!
sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel...
Sentinel-2A: Exceptional temporary extension campaign starting in March 2025 - Sentinel Online
sentinels.copernicus.eu
January 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Some more good news for the Sentinel-2 mission!
Sentinel-2A, which recently retired, has been given a temporary extension, where it will support S2B and S2C to provide additional data.
Lots of hard work behind the scenes to make this happen. Glad to see it!
sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel...
Sentinel-2A, which recently retired, has been given a temporary extension, where it will support S2B and S2C to provide additional data.
Lots of hard work behind the scenes to make this happen. Glad to see it!
sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel...
Sometimes during the manual validation process for classified maps, I come across interesting artifacts in Google Earth. Today, it was an airplane flying over southern Sweden in spring 2021.
January 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Sometimes during the manual validation process for classified maps, I come across interesting artifacts in Google Earth. Today, it was an airplane flying over southern Sweden in spring 2021.
Our paper on dust storms and land-use in Mesopotamia has been accepted in Environmental Research Letters 🙌🥳. It's the result of a nice collaboration with Hossein Hashemi, Amir Naghibi, and others. More information about the paper will be forthcoming.
January 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Our paper on dust storms and land-use in Mesopotamia has been accepted in Environmental Research Letters 🙌🥳. It's the result of a nice collaboration with Hossein Hashemi, Amir Naghibi, and others. More information about the paper will be forthcoming.
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We are recruiting two postdocs to join our Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Lab at the University of Tokyo. The topics are biodiversity monitoring and carbon dynamics in northern forests.
January 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
We are recruiting two postdocs to join our Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Lab at the University of Tokyo. The topics are biodiversity monitoring and carbon dynamics in northern forests.
Reposted by Dr. Abdulhakim Abdi 🌍🛰️
A new visualization showing the Keeling Curve alongside the Antarctic ice core CO2 data.
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5447
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5447
January 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
A new visualization showing the Keeling Curve alongside the Antarctic ice core CO2 data.
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5447
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5447
🎉 Happy New Year from the beautiful Austrian Alps! 🎉 May this year bring peace to our hearts, harmony to our world - especially in Palestine - and joy to our lives. Here's to a brighter future filled with love, kindness, and hope for all ♥️
December 31, 2024 at 10:38 PM
🎉 Happy New Year from the beautiful Austrian Alps! 🎉 May this year bring peace to our hearts, harmony to our world - especially in Palestine - and joy to our lives. Here's to a brighter future filled with love, kindness, and hope for all ♥️
A nice gift to start the holidays is the first citation to our Landscape Ecology paper on migratory birds in Tunisia, which outlined recommendations for their conservation. Want to know more but don't have time to read the entire paper? Then, check out this summary:
hakimabdi.com/blog/satelli...
hakimabdi.com/blog/satelli...
December 22, 2024 at 9:00 AM
A nice gift to start the holidays is the first citation to our Landscape Ecology paper on migratory birds in Tunisia, which outlined recommendations for their conservation. Want to know more but don't have time to read the entire paper? Then, check out this summary:
hakimabdi.com/blog/satelli...
hakimabdi.com/blog/satelli...
All cores are running. Any time now ⏳☕
December 21, 2024 at 1:00 PM
All cores are running. Any time now ⏳☕
I recently realized something about myself. I got my salary and noticed that the deducted taxes were slightly lower. My first thought was not "yay! I paid less in taxes" but rather "I wonder what services they cut and who is affected by it". I didn't expect to think like that. Let me explain. 1/4
December 18, 2024 at 11:26 AM
I recently realized something about myself. I got my salary and noticed that the deducted taxes were slightly lower. My first thought was not "yay! I paid less in taxes" but rather "I wonder what services they cut and who is affected by it". I didn't expect to think like that. Let me explain. 1/4
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Some food for thought regarding the opportunities present in the integration of AI and remote sensing observations for biodiversity conservation. hakimabdi.com/blog/remote-...
Remote sensing and AI – Opportunities for biodiversity conservation and nature management? — Abdulhakim Abdi
I was recently invited to talk about how remote sensing observations and
data from Swedish national monitoring programs can be integrated with AI
for biodiversity conservation and nature management....
hakimabdi.com
May 21, 2024 at 8:00 AM
Some food for thought regarding the opportunities present in the integration of AI and remote sensing observations for biodiversity conservation. hakimabdi.com/blog/remote-...
December 12, 2024 at 11:14 PM
Brilliant thread.
November 28, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Brilliant thread.
Reposted by Dr. Abdulhakim Abdi 🌍🛰️
It’s out!! We subjected soils from 30 different locations across Europe to extreme events and found that soil fungal and bacterial communities showed consistent responses that could be predicted from their origin! With @knightjar.bsky.social and many collaborators!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature
Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...
www.nature.com
November 27, 2024 at 7:47 PM
It’s out!! We subjected soils from 30 different locations across Europe to extreme events and found that soil fungal and bacterial communities showed consistent responses that could be predicted from their origin! With @knightjar.bsky.social and many collaborators!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Dr. Abdulhakim Abdi 🌍🛰️
We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:
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#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...
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November 18, 2024 at 2:48 PM
We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:
docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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The intricate beauty of a Rook feather. Under the right conditions, the feathers of corvids can be remarkably colorful.
August 22, 2023 at 8:33 AM
The intricate beauty of a Rook feather. Under the right conditions, the feathers of corvids can be remarkably colorful.
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It’s starting to happen. Non-techy people, friends and family are asking what Bluesky is 👀
November 22, 2024 at 4:03 AM
It’s starting to happen. Non-techy people, friends and family are asking what Bluesky is 👀
I need to look into how these AirTags work.
I can't recommend highly enough to put an AirTag in your scientific shipment. I shipped a container from Iceland to Hawaiʻi in July, which was supposed to take a month. It still hasn't arrived. Along the way, the shipper has given misinformation about its location, but I could always tell.
November 22, 2024 at 2:34 PM
I need to look into how these AirTags work.