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Stephen Murphy (smurph)
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Professor at U Waterloo - Sch Environment, Resources & Sustainability. Ecologist, EIC Restoration Ecology, Botanist, Protected Areas. Grasslands. https://uwaterloo.ca/environment-resources-and-sustainability/blog/you-break-it-we-fix-it .. more

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 4h
UKCEH is delighted to announce a new 3-year partnership with the Aberdeen Group Charitable Trust to tackle global insect decline through Project INSPIRE 🦋.

With £1m in support, the project will expand AI-based insect monitoring in the UK, Costa Rica & Singapore.

🔗 www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪
Group image of people in a tropical setting standing or crouching beside scientific monitoring equipment, plus text headline Proud to be partnering with the Aberdeen Group Charitable Trust on Project INSPIRE An automated monitoring of insects (AMI) system at Gardens By the Bay in Singapore. "his partnership represents a transformative step in global biodiversity monitoring for insects... By combining technology with community engagement, we can generate the insights needed to protect ecosystems and inspire action." Prof David Roy, UKCEH

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 23h
Me in Greenland 2017 in simpler times - near Illulisat. What a beautiful place
Women in purple jacket crouching near purple flowers with icebergs behind , sunshine and blue skies

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d
This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 2d
Hi All, Just sent out this piece. Yes, Trump is deadly serious in wanting to seize Greenland. He just does not want to invade. He would like to "assimilate" the island like the Borg--and hopes threats to Europe/NATO will help him do it. This will not be pretty. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Trump Is Deadly Serious About Assimilating Greenland
He Would Like Europe To Do His Dirty Work For Him
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 2d
Do you study disinformation or want to start working in that area?

Come to the DSI June 15-18th with @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, @rcalo.bsky.social, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, and many more.

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Disinformation Summer Institute (DSI) - Disinformation Summer Institute
Disinformation Disinformation is false or misleading information created and spread to advance policy, political, economic or ideological goals. It is sometimes used by industries, governments, and ot...
disinfoinstitute.org

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Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · 2d
esci 1.0.9 is now on CRAN.

No big changes, just a couple of bug fixes and some compatibility changes for statpsych 1.9. Still a great easy way to get effect sizes and fair tests for many common designs.

cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

#stats
esci: Estimation Statistics with Confidence Intervals
A collection of functions and 'jamovi' module for the estimation approach to inferential statistics, the approach which emphasizes effect sizes, interval estimates, and meta-analysis. Nearly all funct...
cran.r-project.org

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 3d
Osedax worms dismantle bones molecule by molecule, no spectacle, no force. Long-term change often looks boring if you don’t understand the process.

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Marc A. Milne @forthespiders.bsky.social · 3d
It's true, after years of work, Jackson Means, myself, and the late Dr. Richard Hoffman compiled a 130-page tome of Virginia spiders in the journal, Banisteria. The journal dedicated the entire first issue to this work. We add over 140 new species records to the state to stand at 713.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 3d
Nature restoration is so much more effective when led by local communities.
share.google/cxOUQhiLrt92...
Why restoring nature can work so much more effectively when led by local people
Restoring the ability of local communities to act as guardians of nature is a promising approach to both ecological and social recovery.
share.google

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 3d
Take a 15-second break for lynx kittens
First lynx kittens ever documented in Voyageurs National Park
YouTube video by Voyageurs Wolf Project
youtu.be

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Longreads @longreads.com · 4d
"Only in the last 200 years did farmers transform these acres into neat cornfields." —Christian Elliott for
@noemamag.com

www.noemamag.com/where-the-pr...
Where The Prairie Still Remains | NOEMA
Are pioneer cemeteries key to the Iowa prairie’s revival, or its final resting place?
www.noemamag.com

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Martin Macek @martinmacek.bsky.social · 4d
Forests in Šumava and Bavarian Forest NP are getting wild - describing their structure with #LiDAR was very helpful for #microclimate modelling.
Here are a just few pics from the #fieldwork:

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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 4d
If Denmark can get farmers to agree to dropping their nitrates derogation, adopting a carbon tax on meat, government promotion of plant-based diets and rewilding a fifth of the country - why can't Ireland?

www.irishtimes.com/science/2026...
Denmark’s plan for a greener country offers ideas worth Ireland’s attention
Carbon tax on farming and taking land out of agricultural production among bold moves by the Danes
www.irishtimes.com

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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 4d
Blorp
My mudskipper staring straight into the camera.

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Stephen Murphy (smurph) @smurph.bsky.social · 4d
My advice, Nash, is to appeal to the handling editor and if needed the EIC.

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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 5d
Over 100 tons of dead fish in the port of Volos in central Greece, following a mass die-off attributed to extreme climate fluctuations.

This isn't normal. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables

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FACETS Journal @facetsjournal.bsky.social · 5d
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Philip Loring as co-Editor-in-Chief of FACETS! 🎉Dr. Loring brings expertise in the social and cultural dimensions of environmental science, with a focus on food systems, sustainability, and equity ▶️ https://ow.ly/lm9b50XWJAz

The Nature Conservancy
FACETS announces Philip Loring as the new Co-Editor-in-Chief with a red patterned background.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 5d
The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states.

The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor.

One collision and the whale is dead.

We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍

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Stephen Murphy (smurph) @smurph.bsky.social · 5d
"Why does this matter?" is the key question as @seva.bsky.social raises for journal editors. This is also what I do as EIC and as the article notes, we're going to have to get better at it. In Restoration Ecology, technical papers and replication papers to test generalizability does still matter.
seva.bsky.social Seva @seva.bsky.social · 6d
I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us
what happens when AI automates "normal science"?
open.substack.com

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 6d
I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us
what happens when AI automates "normal science"?
open.substack.com

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Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · 6d
Perhaps “Why not here” is the question we should all be asking as we re-imagine urban nature in the places we love.

New essay from me in @tnoc.bsky.social, reflecting on a recent visit home, and the beauty and potential of an often-overlooked city.

www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/01...
Hopes for My Hometown – The Nature of Cities
www.thenatureofcities.com

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Stephen Murphy (smurph) @smurph.bsky.social · 6d
excellent

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Stephen Murphy (smurph) @smurph.bsky.social · 6d
The plot of Trading Places, but even stupider and more corrupt where the Ag Secretary reporting here in the GIF and the President are in cahoots with Aykroyd's and Murphy's characters

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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 7d
Too many significance tests!!

Made this little graphic for my #stats class, showing the various kinds of (N)HST and how interpreting confidence intervals can replace all of them.

Made with #rstats #ggplot (duh)

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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 7d
Scoop: The EPA will no longer estimate the lives saved by reducing air pollution when writing clean-air regulations, according to documents reviewed by @nytimes.com.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
www.nytimes.com

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Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · 8d
In addition to all the important points made, I would add another: field work not only gives insight into the depths of nature, but it also gives insight to the value and limits of data we collect to understand nature.

2/4

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 8d
You should be ✨actively✨ quitting Twitter, not just pausing your posts.

Here’s what I wrote about leaving X/Twitter in November 2024, as an artist, power user, Community manager and communicator:
Nuked my Twitter. Here's why, and what's next. — Glendon Mellow
I nuked all of my tweets. Then I deleted the Twitter Community I spent years building. Then I went further. Deleted my DeviantArt portfolio, then ArtStation...
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Stephen Murphy (smurph) @smurph.bsky.social · 9d
This is so true. I also love to watch and listen to creeks when they are in this state.
crits4cats.org Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 9d
Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

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Stephen Murphy (smurph) @smurph.bsky.social · 9d
The dream team of @phillipspobrien.bsky.social & @pkrugman.bsky.social; normally, I am not quite that effusive but as a non-expert, being able to see both scholars discuss the state of things is akin to when I was getting grad school classes from world experts in my own field

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 9d
Had a session with @pkrugman.bsky.social where we discussed US foreign policy and world
affairs. Hopefully interesting if not entirely uplifting. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Phillips O'Brien on Venezuela and More
And why America wins battles but loses wars
open.substack.com