Clement Kent
@clementk.bsky.social
genomics, conservation, pollinators, native plants, gardening, R, evo-devo
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Best signs in my neighborhood…🪲🐸
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Best signs in my neighborhood…🪲🐸
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For years, people argued that there's no point in taking climate action unless China is onboard. I'm at a COP30 event where Chinese government officials and renewable industry reps are outlining the fast-paced renewable energy transition and long-term carbon neutrality plan. The story has flipped.
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
For years, people argued that there's no point in taking climate action unless China is onboard. I'm at a COP30 event where Chinese government officials and renewable industry reps are outlining the fast-paced renewable energy transition and long-term carbon neutrality plan. The story has flipped.
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
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In the global electrification race China is marching ahead.
The US and Europe risk falling behind clinging on to yesterday's technologies.
The US and Europe risk falling behind clinging on to yesterday's technologies.
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
In the global electrification race China is marching ahead.
The US and Europe risk falling behind clinging on to yesterday's technologies.
The US and Europe risk falling behind clinging on to yesterday's technologies.
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Proud moment here, I started to work on this data during my PhD in 2016 and now almost 10 years later, this paper is published.
✨ New open-access publication! ✨
This study sets a benchmark for defining reference ecosystems in Sphagnum-dominated #peatlands of Eastern Canada, analyzing 168 peatlands to describe #bryophyte habitats.
🔗 Read the article: shorturl.at/8VND2
📂 Access the dataset: shorturl.at/H4vG8
This study sets a benchmark for defining reference ecosystems in Sphagnum-dominated #peatlands of Eastern Canada, analyzing 168 peatlands to describe #bryophyte habitats.
🔗 Read the article: shorturl.at/8VND2
📂 Access the dataset: shorturl.at/H4vG8
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Proud moment here, I started to work on this data during my PhD in 2016 and now almost 10 years later, this paper is published.
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This is like my mom cracking herself up by standing outside the back door loudly telling the dog to “go pee” because it sounds like a rather serious insult in Chinese (狗屁).
Until one of her students walked up to find her venerable professor yelling 狗屁! out into the neighborhood.
Until one of her students walked up to find her venerable professor yelling 狗屁! out into the neighborhood.
November 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This is like my mom cracking herself up by standing outside the back door loudly telling the dog to “go pee” because it sounds like a rather serious insult in Chinese (狗屁).
Until one of her students walked up to find her venerable professor yelling 狗屁! out into the neighborhood.
Until one of her students walked up to find her venerable professor yelling 狗屁! out into the neighborhood.
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Cool use of a clumped isotopologue in wood! - Isotopic evidence for elevated photorespiration during the last glacial period www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Isotopic evidence for elevated photorespiration during the last glacial period - Nature Geoscience
Low carbon dioxide levels during the last glacial period enhanced photorespiration in trees across North America, indicating a decline in land plant productivity, according to measurements of clumped ...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Cool use of a clumped isotopologue in wood! - Isotopic evidence for elevated photorespiration during the last glacial period www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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"An analysis of U.S. Forest Service data by a wildland firefighter advocacy group shows that wildfire mitigation efforts in New Mexico— including prescribed burns and other hazardous fuel treatments—are down by 53% since President Donald Trump took office in January." 🔥🌏 sourcenm.com/2025/11/06/w...
Wildfire mitigation in New Mexico down 53% since Trump took office • Source New Mexico
An analysis of U.S. Forest Service data shows that wildfire mitigation efforts in New Mexico down by 53% since Trump took office in January.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"An analysis of U.S. Forest Service data by a wildland firefighter advocacy group shows that wildfire mitigation efforts in New Mexico— including prescribed burns and other hazardous fuel treatments—are down by 53% since President Donald Trump took office in January." 🔥🌏 sourcenm.com/2025/11/06/w...
What we haven't seen yet this Atlanatic hurricane season is how much more storm strengthening this will produce. #ZackLabe, do you have measures for that?
Waters are much warmer than average in the western Atlantic. Our Climate Shift Index: Ocean system indicates that these warm temperatures were made over 200x more likely due to human-caused climate change.
You can track this every day at @climatecentral.org: csi.climatecentral.org/ocean?lat=29...
You can track this every day at @climatecentral.org: csi.climatecentral.org/ocean?lat=29...
August 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
What we haven't seen yet this Atlanatic hurricane season is how much more storm strengthening this will produce. #ZackLabe, do you have measures for that?
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A little Eastern tailed-blue enjoying our Inula.
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August 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A little Eastern tailed-blue enjoying our Inula.
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read this article from Quanta magazine if you want to find out how bad we are at avoiding evil in our AI systems. #ChatGPT #AI #alignment www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-was-f...
The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine
The new science of “emergent misalignment” explores how PG-13 training data — insecure code, superstitious numbers or even extreme-sports advice — can open the door to AI’s dark side.
www.quantamagazine.org
August 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
read this article from Quanta magazine if you want to find out how bad we are at avoiding evil in our AI systems. #ChatGPT #AI #alignment www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-was-f...
We need similar laws in #Canada
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Electrifying news! New York is the first state to adopt an all-electric building code prohibiting fossil fuels in new construction. A federal district court judge recently upheld the law requiring the standard, slamming a prior judgement on gas bans. My latest: www.canarymedia.com/articles/car...
August 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
We need similar laws in #Canada
Canada, like the US, reflexively tries to protect auto industry jobs. This needs a rethink. China will take their jobs soonerr or later. What climate-friendly jobs can we retrain them to do? #climatechange #globalwarming
August 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Canada, like the US, reflexively tries to protect auto industry jobs. This needs a rethink. China will take their jobs soonerr or later. What climate-friendly jobs can we retrain them to do? #climatechange #globalwarming
Yep guess we're not raking enough up here in Canada. #climatechange #globalwarming
You can see and smell the Canadian wildfire smoke in southern Michigan this morning. Not healthy, so best to limit time outside. This is what human-caused climate change looks and smells like. US greenhouse gas emissions contribute to making this situation worse.
August 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Yep guess we're not raking enough up here in Canada. #climatechange #globalwarming
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Another first for me today, with the arrival at lunch of a Yellow-legged Asian Hornet. It went straight for the paté, where it was summarily dispatched by my bee-keeping mother-in-law. (I should point out in France, not the UK.) #BioInvasions
August 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Another first for me today, with the arrival at lunch of a Yellow-legged Asian Hornet. It went straight for the paté, where it was summarily dispatched by my bee-keeping mother-in-law. (I should point out in France, not the UK.) #BioInvasions
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Helsinki is also building a city-wide heat pump district heating system. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/08/29/helsinki-is-building-the-worlds-largest-heat-pump-to-keep-its-homes-warm
Finland is building a giant heat pump to cut CO2 from warming homes
The heat pump will be part of a plant that will warm around 30,000 homes in Finland’s capital city.
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August 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Helsinki is also building a city-wide heat pump district heating system. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/08/29/helsinki-is-building-the-worlds-largest-heat-pump-to-keep-its-homes-warm
And our number of smoke filled days is up. Welcome to the #climatechange #globalwarming world!
So far this year Canadian wildfires have burned an area (much) larger than the total area of Nova Scotia and PEI combined.
August 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
And our number of smoke filled days is up. Welcome to the #climatechange #globalwarming world!
Hannah Cairo solved a major math problem at age 17. She's skipping undergrad to go into a Ph.D. www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...
#womeninmath #womeninSTEM #math
#womeninmath #womeninSTEM #math
At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine
After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.
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August 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Hannah Cairo solved a major math problem at age 17. She's skipping undergrad to go into a Ph.D. www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...
#womeninmath #womeninSTEM #math
#womeninmath #womeninSTEM #math
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Spotted Bee Balm is the best Bee Balm. Bees, flies, and wasps love this plant. It self sows readily and it's easy to grow from seed. No cold, wet, stratification required. 🌱 #nativeplants
July 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Spotted Bee Balm is the best Bee Balm. Bees, flies, and wasps love this plant. It self sows readily and it's easy to grow from seed. No cold, wet, stratification required. 🌱 #nativeplants
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💚A wee green sweat bee on swamp milkweed😍 I love its buggy eyes👀
#pollinators #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky 🌱 #asclepiasincarnata #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation
#pollinators #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky 🌱 #asclepiasincarnata #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation
July 19, 2025 at 3:40 AM
💚A wee green sweat bee on swamp milkweed😍 I love its buggy eyes👀
#pollinators #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky 🌱 #asclepiasincarnata #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation
#pollinators #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky 🌱 #asclepiasincarnata #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation
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I didn't realize just how many of my newly planted cardinal flowers / Lobelia cardinalis would be the white morph. It's probably half and half. 🌱 #nativeplants
July 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I didn't realize just how many of my newly planted cardinal flowers / Lobelia cardinalis would be the white morph. It's probably half and half. 🌱 #nativeplants
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An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail drinks nectar from Dense Blazingstar. I grew this L. spicata from seed. For a few years it was all white, as expected. A few years ago, some of the flowers came up purple. Every year, more of the flowers come up purple. 🌱 #nativeplants #bugsky
July 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail drinks nectar from Dense Blazingstar. I grew this L. spicata from seed. For a few years it was all white, as expected. A few years ago, some of the flowers came up purple. Every year, more of the flowers come up purple. 🌱 #nativeplants #bugsky
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Pigea floribunda - Shrub Violet
Endemic to the southern states of Australia, these native violets are currently flowering in the Perth Hills. These plants are known to hyperaccumulate nickel in their leaves.
#ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling
Endemic to the southern states of Australia, these native violets are currently flowering in the Perth Hills. These plants are known to hyperaccumulate nickel in their leaves.
#ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling
July 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Pigea floribunda - Shrub Violet
Endemic to the southern states of Australia, these native violets are currently flowering in the Perth Hills. These plants are known to hyperaccumulate nickel in their leaves.
#ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling
Endemic to the southern states of Australia, these native violets are currently flowering in the Perth Hills. These plants are known to hyperaccumulate nickel in their leaves.
#ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling
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Fortunate timing on a walk around the yard today: got to see this zebra swallowtail enjoying the butterfly weed. 🦋🌱 #invert #nativeplants
July 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Fortunate timing on a walk around the yard today: got to see this zebra swallowtail enjoying the butterfly weed. 🦋🌱 #invert #nativeplants