Kale Sniderman
@muddypollen.bsky.social
Palynologist, paleoclimatologist, plant biogeographer | vegetation and climate history | fossil pollen
correct, but no problem if you provide a citation
January 8, 2026 at 8:02 AM
correct, but no problem if you provide a citation
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As botanists and Plant Architects in Montpellier 🌿, his vision of forests 🌳 profoundly shaped the way we think about and observe plants. A giant has passed, but his legacy will remain a major source of inspiration, worthy of our deepest admiration and gratitude.
Francis Hallé, botaniste et infatigable défenseur des arbres, est mort à l’âge de 87 ans
Francis Hallé, botaniste et infatigable défenseur des arbres, est mort à l’âge de 87 ans
Le dendrologue, spécialiste des forêts tropicales et de l’architecture des arbres, avait réussi, grâce à ses talents de pédagogue et à ses dons de dessinateur, à capter l’attention et la sympathie du grand public. Il est mort le 31 décembre.
www.lemonde.fr
January 4, 2026 at 9:30 AM
As botanists and Plant Architects in Montpellier 🌿, his vision of forests 🌳 profoundly shaped the way we think about and observe plants. A giant has passed, but his legacy will remain a major source of inspiration, worthy of our deepest admiration and gratitude.
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This is worth watching. It reminds me of the claim that DDT was "so safe you could drink it." Yet another example of industry recycling refuted claims. @kaurov.org @michaelscherer.bsky.social @davidho.bsky.social
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Lobbyist Claims Monsanto's Roundup Is Safe To Drink, Freaks Out When Offered A Glass
YouTube video by Panteralandia
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This is worth watching. It reminds me of the claim that DDT was "so safe you could drink it." Yet another example of industry recycling refuted claims. @kaurov.org @michaelscherer.bsky.social @davidho.bsky.social
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> www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKw...
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🌿My two (botanical)-cents🔍
In this forum paper, I reflect on the value of plant-identification expertise and offer a few ideas on how we can better highlight the role of botanists and their knowledge.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
In this forum paper, I reflect on the value of plant-identification expertise and offer a few ideas on how we can better highlight the role of botanists and their knowledge.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Who Identified the Plants? Reclaiming Plant Identification Expertise in Vegetation Science
This article advocates for the formal recognition of botanists who identify plants in scientific publishing, highlighting their essential role in ecological research and data integrity. It proposes p...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🌿My two (botanical)-cents🔍
In this forum paper, I reflect on the value of plant-identification expertise and offer a few ideas on how we can better highlight the role of botanists and their knowledge.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
In this forum paper, I reflect on the value of plant-identification expertise and offer a few ideas on how we can better highlight the role of botanists and their knowledge.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
scholars should actually have read the articles they cite! Who knew?
Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
December 21, 2025 at 7:26 AM
scholars should actually have read the articles they cite! Who knew?
😂
So he doesn’t know how the Hunger Games ends
Donald Trump just announced the creation of the “Patriot Games,” an “unprecedented four-day athletic event” with “one young man and one young woman from each state and territory.”
December 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
😂
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It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.
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.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM
It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.
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It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.
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.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.
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The dismantling of NCAR should be the trending story on Bluesky, not the fucking Oscars leaving ABC for YouTube.
Trump moves to shut down Boulder climate research lab NCAR, drawing rebukes from Colorado officials
Federal lawmakers called the planned NCAR closure “deeply dangerous” and “blatantly retaliatory.” Gov. Jared Polis said: “If true, public safety is at risk and science…
www.denverpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The dismantling of NCAR should be the trending story on Bluesky, not the fucking Oscars leaving ABC for YouTube.
Superbly informative (and entertaining)
WATCH: If you REALLY want to understand a BIG reason why cycling [aka riding a bike] is so dangerous in North America, and one of the biggest villains in the origin story of our unsafe status quo, invest some time watching this one, by NOT JUST BIKES (aka @theurbanistagenda.com here). Then share it.
This is Why Cycling is Dangerous in America
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
youtu.be
December 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Superbly informative (and entertaining)
Can you provide a link to those articles?
December 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Can you provide a link to those articles?
while this one suggests AMOC shutdowns lead to drying in northern Amazonia, & wetting only in southern Amazonia (but are AMOC shutdowns during Heinrich stadials analogous to AMOC shutdowns today?) 4/3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:55 AM
while this one suggests AMOC shutdowns lead to drying in northern Amazonia, & wetting only in southern Amazonia (but are AMOC shutdowns during Heinrich stadials analogous to AMOC shutdowns today?) 4/3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
...and this one, same story www.nature.com/articles/s43... 3/3
A potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation may stabilise eastern Amazonian rainforests - Communications Earth & Environment
Despite devastating global impacts, a potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation with global warming could lead to cooler and wetter conditions in parts of Amazonia and less...
www.nature.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:49 AM
...and this one, same story www.nature.com/articles/s43... 3/3
and this study, with similar findings agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 2/3
Impacts of AMOC Collapse on Monsoon Rainfall: A Multi‐Model Comparison
A collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) would cause a major rearrangement of all tropical monsoon systems
Four state-of-the-art climate models show remarkable agreeme...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:49 AM
and this study, with similar findings agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 2/3
It may turn out this way; but there are competing forces at work, in which AMOC breakdown leads to increased rainfall over the Amazon; link.springer.com/article/10.1... 1/3
December 11, 2025 at 6:49 AM
It may turn out this way; but there are competing forces at work, in which AMOC breakdown leads to increased rainfall over the Amazon; link.springer.com/article/10.1... 1/3
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Very happy. A paper just out of the oven. It is a piece of work made possible only after many years of thinking about, and looking at, an old problem from multiple perspectives. And with the magical brushstrokes of our artists, Gabriela and Ariadna.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Very happy. A paper just out of the oven. It is a piece of work made possible only after many years of thinking about, and looking at, an old problem from multiple perspectives. And with the magical brushstrokes of our artists, Gabriela and Ariadna.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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doi.org/10.1016/j.hi...
The Mismeasure of Neanderthals. Our latest paper, a critical review of Neanderthal iconography through time, with epistemological, paleobiological, ethical, and aesthetic contributions. Thank you for reading and for your comments.
The Mismeasure of Neanderthals. Our latest paper, a critical review of Neanderthal iconography through time, with epistemological, paleobiological, ethical, and aesthetic contributions. Thank you for reading and for your comments.
December 4, 2025 at 4:34 AM
doi.org/10.1016/j.hi...
The Mismeasure of Neanderthals. Our latest paper, a critical review of Neanderthal iconography through time, with epistemological, paleobiological, ethical, and aesthetic contributions. Thank you for reading and for your comments.
The Mismeasure of Neanderthals. Our latest paper, a critical review of Neanderthal iconography through time, with epistemological, paleobiological, ethical, and aesthetic contributions. Thank you for reading and for your comments.
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😱 We're digging up the best of Project 23!
Hidden in the tar are fossils too small to see with the naked eye: pollen grains.
These microscopic time capsules preserve clues about Ice Age landscapes, revealing what plants grew in ancient L.A. and how ecosystems shifted over thousands of years.
Hidden in the tar are fossils too small to see with the naked eye: pollen grains.
These microscopic time capsules preserve clues about Ice Age landscapes, revealing what plants grew in ancient L.A. and how ecosystems shifted over thousands of years.
November 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
😱 We're digging up the best of Project 23!
Hidden in the tar are fossils too small to see with the naked eye: pollen grains.
These microscopic time capsules preserve clues about Ice Age landscapes, revealing what plants grew in ancient L.A. and how ecosystems shifted over thousands of years.
Hidden in the tar are fossils too small to see with the naked eye: pollen grains.
These microscopic time capsules preserve clues about Ice Age landscapes, revealing what plants grew in ancient L.A. and how ecosystems shifted over thousands of years.
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The second paper from my PhD has now been published ✨ This paper explores using a combination of fossil pollen and place-names to provide a broader record of past landscape change and the connections to anthropogenic influences in Leicestershire.
Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1177/0959...
Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1177/0959...
December 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The second paper from my PhD has now been published ✨ This paper explores using a combination of fossil pollen and place-names to provide a broader record of past landscape change and the connections to anthropogenic influences in Leicestershire.
Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1177/0959...
Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1177/0959...
In fact it wasn't entirely correct (it neglected two relevant genera). As you say, there is a space in which LLMs are very useful: where they extend the users's knowledge. But, also as you say, they are merely dangerous where they are asked to satisfy a user's wholesale lack of knowledge
December 11, 2025 at 6:19 AM
In fact it wasn't entirely correct (it neglected two relevant genera). As you say, there is a space in which LLMs are very useful: where they extend the users's knowledge. But, also as you say, they are merely dangerous where they are asked to satisfy a user's wholesale lack of knowledge
though it should be pointed out the ChatGPT was unaware until prompted that Borneo also has native Photinia/Stranvaesia and Raphiolepis species
Yep, LLMs make unbridled demands on power/water & are mega-plagiarism; but it's also useful to monitor where this is going. I have to admit to being surprised by ChatGPT's ability to generate appropriate criteria for evaluating plausible botanical source taxa for fossil 'Prunus' in lowland Borneo
December 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
though it should be pointed out the ChatGPT was unaware until prompted that Borneo also has native Photinia/Stranvaesia and Raphiolepis species
Yep, LLMs make unbridled demands on power/water & are mega-plagiarism; but it's also useful to monitor where this is going. I have to admit to being surprised by ChatGPT's ability to generate appropriate criteria for evaluating plausible botanical source taxa for fossil 'Prunus' in lowland Borneo
December 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Yep, LLMs make unbridled demands on power/water & are mega-plagiarism; but it's also useful to monitor where this is going. I have to admit to being surprised by ChatGPT's ability to generate appropriate criteria for evaluating plausible botanical source taxa for fossil 'Prunus' in lowland Borneo
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This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 AM
This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.