@drkc.bsky.social
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Announcing '#Anthromes and terrestrial carbon: From the deep past to net-zero' – a new joint Special Collection from Plants, People, Planet and New Phytologist 👇
📚 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/anthrome...
@ultracricket.bsky.social @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social @ymalhi.bsky.social
📚 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/anthrome...
@ultracricket.bsky.social @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social @ymalhi.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Announcing '#Anthromes and terrestrial carbon: From the deep past to net-zero' – a new joint Special Collection from Plants, People, Planet and New Phytologist 👇
📚 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/anthrome...
@ultracricket.bsky.social @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social @ymalhi.bsky.social
📚 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/anthrome...
@ultracricket.bsky.social @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social @ymalhi.bsky.social
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"there is little reason to doubt what the aim [of the massive investment in AI] is: to embed knowledge in machines—knowledge that previously belonged to the people working in these domains."
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In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"there is little reason to doubt what the aim [of the massive investment in AI] is: to embed knowledge in machines—knowledge that previously belonged to the people working in these domains."
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O Cerrado é uma floresta invertida. Suas raízes profundas formam uma rede subterrânea que conecta a água, as plantas, os animais e as pessoas. Vem com a gente no 🧵
September 11, 2024 at 3:50 PM
O Cerrado é uma floresta invertida. Suas raízes profundas formam uma rede subterrânea que conecta a água, as plantas, os animais e as pessoas. Vem com a gente no 🧵
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New paper by @jcsvenning.bsky.social in @newphyt.bsky.social using @gbif.org mediated data:
Integrating specimen and citizen science data reveals climatic niche expansion and shifts of naturalized plants in China 🇨🇳
#CiteTheDOI: ✅
https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70680
Integrating specimen and citizen science data reveals climatic niche expansion and shifts of naturalized plants in China 🇨🇳
#CiteTheDOI: ✅
https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70680
Integrating specimen and citizen science data reveals climatic niche expansion and shifts of naturalized plants in China
This study examines the climatic niche dynamics of naturalized plants in China, emphasizing how incomplete species distribution data from digitized herbarium specimens and associated observation rec...
doi.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
New paper by @jcsvenning.bsky.social in @newphyt.bsky.social using @gbif.org mediated data:
Integrating specimen and citizen science data reveals climatic niche expansion and shifts of naturalized plants in China 🇨🇳
#CiteTheDOI: ✅
https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70680
Integrating specimen and citizen science data reveals climatic niche expansion and shifts of naturalized plants in China 🇨🇳
#CiteTheDOI: ✅
https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70680
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The annual 10 new insights in climate science are here!
Perhaps the best way to keep up with climate science news of the past year, made for lay people, policy makers and scientists alike with its different levels of detail: from simple tiles to a journal paper.
10insightsclimate.science#explore
Perhaps the best way to keep up with climate science news of the past year, made for lay people, policy makers and scientists alike with its different levels of detail: from simple tiles to a journal paper.
10insightsclimate.science#explore
10 New Insights in Climate Science
Essential research findings to support decision-making in a critical decade.
10insightsclimate.science
October 31, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The annual 10 new insights in climate science are here!
Perhaps the best way to keep up with climate science news of the past year, made for lay people, policy makers and scientists alike with its different levels of detail: from simple tiles to a journal paper.
10insightsclimate.science#explore
Perhaps the best way to keep up with climate science news of the past year, made for lay people, policy makers and scientists alike with its different levels of detail: from simple tiles to a journal paper.
10insightsclimate.science#explore
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I have a meeting in a few minutes so what am I doing until then? Looking at ARCs. This makes me VERY curious.
"How the Word Is Passed meets Braiding Sweetgrass in a cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery, told through the stories of long-lived trees."
"How the Word Is Passed meets Braiding Sweetgrass in a cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery, told through the stories of long-lived trees."
July 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I have a meeting in a few minutes so what am I doing until then? Looking at ARCs. This makes me VERY curious.
"How the Word Is Passed meets Braiding Sweetgrass in a cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery, told through the stories of long-lived trees."
"How the Word Is Passed meets Braiding Sweetgrass in a cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery, told through the stories of long-lived trees."
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If you haven't watched this, you need to. As the bodies are tragically piling up in Texas, we need to remember who is responsible for the climate crisis.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag8r...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag8r...
DENIAL, DISINFORMATION, & DOUBLESPEAK: BIG OIL'S EFFORTS TO AVOID ACCOUNTABILITY FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
YouTube video by SenateBudget
www.youtube.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
If you haven't watched this, you need to. As the bodies are tragically piling up in Texas, we need to remember who is responsible for the climate crisis.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag8r...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag8r...
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As much as I am a fan of forests & Humboldt, he formed a "[...] Eurocentric perception of forests as the ideal natural state [...] at the expense of grasslands and other open ecosystems."
Important article on bias in nature conservation policies towards forests:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
As much as I am a fan of forests & Humboldt, he formed a "[...] Eurocentric perception of forests as the ideal natural state [...] at the expense of grasslands and other open ecosystems."
Important article on bias in nature conservation policies towards forests:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Nature conservation policies are biased toward forests and neglect grassy ecosystems worldwide
Globally, grassy ecosystems (including grasslands, savannas, shrublands, woodlands, and tundra) cover 30 to 40% of the land and provide important benefits such as climate change mitigation and adaptat...
www.science.org
May 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
As much as I am a fan of forests & Humboldt, he formed a "[...] Eurocentric perception of forests as the ideal natural state [...] at the expense of grasslands and other open ecosystems."
Important article on bias in nature conservation policies towards forests:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
As much as I am a fan of forests & Humboldt, he formed a "[...] Eurocentric perception of forests as the ideal natural state [...] at the expense of grasslands and other open ecosystems."
Important article on bias in nature conservation policies towards forests:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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If you use the Biodivisity Heritage Library (I use it almost daily), you'll be saddened (and maybe angered😡) to learn that DOGE+Musk+Trump have eliminated its funding. BHL is looking for a new home. #ILoveBHL
So much f***ing winning.🤬
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...
So much f***ing winning.🤬
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...
A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. A global consortium of over 660 contributors, BHL has made more …
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org
April 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
If you use the Biodivisity Heritage Library (I use it almost daily), you'll be saddened (and maybe angered😡) to learn that DOGE+Musk+Trump have eliminated its funding. BHL is looking for a new home. #ILoveBHL
So much f***ing winning.🤬
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...
So much f***ing winning.🤬
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...
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in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list
April 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list
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It's published!
The largest research work I've ever undertaken:
Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important
Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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The largest research work I've ever undertaken:
Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important
Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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April 2, 2025 at 6:39 AM
It's published!
The largest research work I've ever undertaken:
Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important
Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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The largest research work I've ever undertaken:
Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important
Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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I celebrate new publications as an act of rebellion against the destruction of academia in Argentina.
Here we go baby!
🚀 New in the Hypothesis Description series!
We revisit Darwin’s Naturalisation Hypothesis, one of invasion science’s longest-standing ideas riojournal.com/article/1405...
Here we go baby!
🚀 New in the Hypothesis Description series!
We revisit Darwin’s Naturalisation Hypothesis, one of invasion science’s longest-standing ideas riojournal.com/article/1405...
Hypothesis Description: Darwin’s Naturalisation Hypothesis
In this contribution of the Hypothesis Description series, we provide an overview of one of the longest-standing hypotheses in invasion science: Darwin's naturalisation hypothesis. We present a brief ...
riojournal.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I celebrate new publications as an act of rebellion against the destruction of academia in Argentina.
Here we go baby!
🚀 New in the Hypothesis Description series!
We revisit Darwin’s Naturalisation Hypothesis, one of invasion science’s longest-standing ideas riojournal.com/article/1405...
Here we go baby!
🚀 New in the Hypothesis Description series!
We revisit Darwin’s Naturalisation Hypothesis, one of invasion science’s longest-standing ideas riojournal.com/article/1405...
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Darwin's 'The Power of Movement in Plants' (1880) is teeming with figures. 54 in Chapter 1 alone, documenting the “circumnutation of seedlings.”
Hard to pick a favorite, but quite fond of this one—shows the “circumnutation of a very young frond, traced in darkness…”
Hard to pick a favorite, but quite fond of this one—shows the “circumnutation of a very young frond, traced in darkness…”
November 12, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Darwin's 'The Power of Movement in Plants' (1880) is teeming with figures. 54 in Chapter 1 alone, documenting the “circumnutation of seedlings.”
Hard to pick a favorite, but quite fond of this one—shows the “circumnutation of a very young frond, traced in darkness…”
Hard to pick a favorite, but quite fond of this one—shows the “circumnutation of a very young frond, traced in darkness…”
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exciting to watch
#root
#rootforaging
#circumnutation
and
#rootangle
formation on soil in darkness - imaged via
#IRLEDs
and
#RaspberryPi
camera
#plantscience
exploring the
#hiddenhalf
- testing image analysis @bokuvienna.bsky.social using the
#DDrC
device Simon Pree et al.
#root
#rootforaging
#circumnutation
and
#rootangle
formation on soil in darkness - imaged via
#IRLEDs
and
#RaspberryPi
camera
#plantscience
exploring the
#hiddenhalf
- testing image analysis @bokuvienna.bsky.social using the
#DDrC
device Simon Pree et al.
November 30, 2024 at 10:20 PM
exciting to watch
#root
#rootforaging
#circumnutation
and
#rootangle
formation on soil in darkness - imaged via
#IRLEDs
and
#RaspberryPi
camera
#plantscience
exploring the
#hiddenhalf
- testing image analysis @bokuvienna.bsky.social using the
#DDrC
device Simon Pree et al.
#root
#rootforaging
#circumnutation
and
#rootangle
formation on soil in darkness - imaged via
#IRLEDs
and
#RaspberryPi
camera
#plantscience
exploring the
#hiddenhalf
- testing image analysis @bokuvienna.bsky.social using the
#DDrC
device Simon Pree et al.
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Or go directly to the article:
Sheng, H., Bouwmeester, H.J. and Munnik, T. (2024), Phosphate promotes Arabidopsis root skewing and circumnutation through reorganisation of the microtubule cytoskeleton. New Phytol. doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Sheng, H., Bouwmeester, H.J. and Munnik, T. (2024), Phosphate promotes Arabidopsis root skewing and circumnutation through reorganisation of the microtubule cytoskeleton. New Phytol. doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Phosphate promotes Arabidopsis root skewing and circumnutation through reorganisation of the microtubule cytoskeleton
Phosphate (Pi) plays a key role in plant growth and development. Hence, plants display a range of adaptations to acquire it, including changes in root system architecture (RSA). Whether Pi triggers .....
doi.org
October 18, 2024 at 7:50 AM
Or go directly to the article:
Sheng, H., Bouwmeester, H.J. and Munnik, T. (2024), Phosphate promotes Arabidopsis root skewing and circumnutation through reorganisation of the microtubule cytoskeleton. New Phytol. doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Sheng, H., Bouwmeester, H.J. and Munnik, T. (2024), Phosphate promotes Arabidopsis root skewing and circumnutation through reorganisation of the microtubule cytoskeleton. New Phytol. doi.org/10.1111/nph....
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Today is Charles Darwin’s birthday, 215 years ago!
Here’s his detailed diagram of the *circumnutation of tendrils*. 🌱🪴
Here’s his detailed diagram of the *circumnutation of tendrils*. 🌱🪴
February 12, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Today is Charles Darwin’s birthday, 215 years ago!
Here’s his detailed diagram of the *circumnutation of tendrils*. 🌱🪴
Here’s his detailed diagram of the *circumnutation of tendrils*. 🌱🪴
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♻️ ‘United we stand, divided we fall’: intertwining as evidence of joint actions in pea plants by Bianca Bonato and co-authors.
Full #openaccess
👉 bit.ly/496pHWS
#PlantScience
Full #openaccess
👉 bit.ly/496pHWS
#PlantScience
August 12, 2024 at 12:33 PM
♻️ ‘United we stand, divided we fall’: intertwining as evidence of joint actions in pea plants by Bianca Bonato and co-authors.
Full #openaccess
👉 bit.ly/496pHWS
#PlantScience
Full #openaccess
👉 bit.ly/496pHWS
#PlantScience
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New paper open access in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Cit sci data quality is a hot topic, and assumptions about ID accuracy are often made without evidence. We decided to test identification accuracy for a WA plants @inaturalist.bsky.social dataset
Cit sci data quality is a hot topic, and assumptions about ID accuracy are often made without evidence. We decided to test identification accuracy for a WA plants @inaturalist.bsky.social dataset
Expert identification blitz: A rapid high value approach for assessing and improving iNaturalist identification accuracy and data precision and confidence
Citizen science data are increasingly used in research and conservation, so assessing and improving data accuracy is important. We recruited 50 experts to review a dataset of Western Australian plant....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 17, 2025 at 4:42 AM
New paper open access in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Cit sci data quality is a hot topic, and assumptions about ID accuracy are often made without evidence. We decided to test identification accuracy for a WA plants @inaturalist.bsky.social dataset
Cit sci data quality is a hot topic, and assumptions about ID accuracy are often made without evidence. We decided to test identification accuracy for a WA plants @inaturalist.bsky.social dataset
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Went to downtown DC to watch them remove the Black Lives Matter mural and wrote about how the removal of such symbols reflects government policy priorities. How the removal of the BLM mural reflects the administration’s desire to remove Black people and history from large segments of American life.
Republicans Tear Down a Black Lives Matter Mural
Symbols aren’t just symbols.
www.theatlantic.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Went to downtown DC to watch them remove the Black Lives Matter mural and wrote about how the removal of such symbols reflects government policy priorities. How the removal of the BLM mural reflects the administration’s desire to remove Black people and history from large segments of American life.
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Ted Cruz said he’d found $2 billion in “woke” science grants, but his team used keyword searches that flagged things out of context, like a grant to develop a device to treat severe bleeding that mentioned “victims” and “trauma.”
www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.”
The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude meth...
www.propublica.org
February 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Ted Cruz said he’d found $2 billion in “woke” science grants, but his team used keyword searches that flagged things out of context, like a grant to develop a device to treat severe bleeding that mentioned “victims” and “trauma.”
www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
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Happy to contribute to this publication, led by Danish Ahmed & Phillip Haubrock, with many coauthors incl. @alebortolus.bsky.social l @oldenfish.bsky.social @canobarbacil.bsky.social il.bsky.social @martin-nunez.bsky.social @jan-honza-pergl.bsky.social @franzessl1.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/brv....
doi.org/10.1111/brv....
Parallels and discrepancies between non‐native species introductions and human migration
Biological invasions and human migrations have increased globally due to socio-economic drivers and environmental factors that have enhanced cultural, economic, and geographic connectivity. Both proc...
doi.org
February 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Happy to contribute to this publication, led by Danish Ahmed & Phillip Haubrock, with many coauthors incl. @alebortolus.bsky.social l @oldenfish.bsky.social @canobarbacil.bsky.social il.bsky.social @martin-nunez.bsky.social @jan-honza-pergl.bsky.social @franzessl1.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/brv....
doi.org/10.1111/brv....
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Any press outside of like Breitbart or whatever just never going to WH press briefings again seems like a no-brainer with the AP thing. You’re not missing much and this admin will leak like a sieve anyway, just do journalism instead of Daily Liar’s Theater stenography.
February 15, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Any press outside of like Breitbart or whatever just never going to WH press briefings again seems like a no-brainer with the AP thing. You’re not missing much and this admin will leak like a sieve anyway, just do journalism instead of Daily Liar’s Theater stenography.
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Please see our new paper in Nature Communications!
We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥
Our key findings are as follows ...
Please see our new paper in Nature Communications!
We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥
Our key findings are as follows ...
A fire deficit persists across diverse North American forests despite recent increases in area burned - Nature Communications
Across many North American forests, recent years with exceptional area burned are not unprecedented when considering the multi-century perspective offered by fire-scarred trees. Nevertheless, abundant...
www.nature.com
February 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Please see our new paper in Nature Communications!
We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥
Our key findings are as follows ...
Please see our new paper in Nature Communications!
We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥
Our key findings are as follows ...
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“No housework, no capitalism” (in case you’re wondering why so-called “tradwives” are suddenly all over the place)
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘It infuriates me’: why the ‘wages for housework’ movement is still controversial 40 years on
The 1970s campaign aimed to smash capitalism by recognising the value of childcare and chores. A new book looks back on how it fell apart – and how it’s relevant today
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
“No housework, no capitalism” (in case you’re wondering why so-called “tradwives” are suddenly all over the place)
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Did you miss this inspiring and positive webinar on how science can inform decisions for a better future (and how each of us can help)? If so, no worries: the recording is available here!
February 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Did you miss this inspiring and positive webinar on how science can inform decisions for a better future (and how each of us can help)? If so, no worries: the recording is available here!