Dan Brown
@geodgb.bsky.social
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Dan Brown
@geodgb.bsky.social
· Mar 3
New paper on how potential for implementing natural climate solutions in Washington counties intersects with socio-economic vulnerability. The paper highlights how human livelihoods, esp. in rural areas, are interact with carbon management. @phillevin.bsky.social journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
This was a fun collaboration about the role AI can play in scaling biodiversity information to meet corporate reporting requirements. While the technology can enable significant capacity, it needs to be applied in a way that builds on existing science. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Corporate Biodiversity Reporting Can Be Scaled With AI and Earth Observation—But Will Miss the Point Without Guidance From Conservation Scientists
New biodiversity and ecosystem reporting frameworks require companies to collect data on multifaceted impacts on complex ecological systems over space and time while offering them limited guidance on....
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This was a fun collaboration about the role AI can play in scaling biodiversity information to meet corporate reporting requirements. While the technology can enable significant capacity, it needs to be applied in a way that builds on existing science. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Great coverage of Bear Gulch 🔥 in @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social +excellent context RE 🔥 west of Cascades from UW's Crystal Raymond. @uw-sefs.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social #HarveyLab #wffrc
This is burning very close to our existing 🌲🔥 research sites.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
This is burning very close to our existing 🌲🔥 research sites.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Inside the fight to slow down WA’s roller coaster Bear Gulch fire
The Bear Gulch fire sparked July 6 and has burned into the Olympic National Park. Things are heating up again.
www.seattletimes.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Great coverage of Bear Gulch 🔥 in @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social +excellent context RE 🔥 west of Cascades from UW's Crystal Raymond. @uw-sefs.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social #HarveyLab #wffrc
This is burning very close to our existing 🌲🔥 research sites.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
This is burning very close to our existing 🌲🔥 research sites.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Great to see Zia Mehrabi win the Frontiers Planet Prize, along with many colleagues, including lead author Laura Vang Rasmussen. Zia will be presenting this important work at the @the-nss.bsky.social meeting in October.
Congratulations to Future Earth community member Zia Mehrabi, one of three international winners of the 2025 Frontiers Planet Prize!
He was recognized for research showing how agricultural diversification can benefit both human and environmental health. He'll receive $1M to scale up his work. 🌱🌍
He was recognized for research showing how agricultural diversification can benefit both human and environmental health. He'll receive $1M to scale up his work. 🌱🌍
June 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Great to see Zia Mehrabi win the Frontiers Planet Prize, along with many colleagues, including lead author Laura Vang Rasmussen. Zia will be presenting this important work at the @the-nss.bsky.social meeting in October.
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This shameful dismantling of NSF will materially affect the nation's economy, health, national security, and environment. The NSF spokesperson didn't go on the record with their name because they know it's wrong. A coward. www.science.org/content/arti...
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
www.science.org
May 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
This shameful dismantling of NSF will materially affect the nation's economy, health, national security, and environment. The NSF spokesperson didn't go on the record with their name because they know it's wrong. A coward. www.science.org/content/arti...
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FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
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BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Really nice summary of the status of LLMs in social science research.
1. @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans and myself have a new piece in Science on "AI" Large Models, pushing back against much of the collective wisdom about what they can and can't do. Official below, unpaywalled at henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod... . So why this now?
Large AI models are cultural and social technologies
Implications draw on the history of transformative information systems from the past
www.science.org
March 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Really nice summary of the status of LLMs in social science research.
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Today! Stand Up For Science - Seattle: 12-3pm, Seattle Center, Mural Amphitheatre.
#standupforscience
#standupforscience
Stand Up for Science 2025 - Seattle, WA
Eventbrite - Stand up for Science presents Stand Up for Science 2025 - Seattle, WA - Friday, March 7, 2025 at Mural Amphitheatre at Seattle Center, Seattle, WA. Find event and ticket information.
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March 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Today! Stand Up For Science - Seattle: 12-3pm, Seattle Center, Mural Amphitheatre.
#standupforscience
#standupforscience
New paper on how potential for implementing natural climate solutions in Washington counties intersects with socio-economic vulnerability. The paper highlights how human livelihoods, esp. in rural areas, are interact with carbon management. @phillevin.bsky.social journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
March 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM
New paper on how potential for implementing natural climate solutions in Washington counties intersects with socio-economic vulnerability. The paper highlights how human livelihoods, esp. in rural areas, are interact with carbon management. @phillevin.bsky.social journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
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At what spatial resolution should we map forest carbon from space?
[1/2] In our letter @science.org led by Laura Duncanson we reflect on whether a pursuit of ever-higher resolution maps is necessarily a good thing.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
[1/2] In our letter @science.org led by Laura Duncanson we reflect on whether a pursuit of ever-higher resolution maps is necessarily a good thing.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Spatial resolution for forest carbon maps
www.science.org
January 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
At what spatial resolution should we map forest carbon from space?
[1/2] In our letter @science.org led by Laura Duncanson we reflect on whether a pursuit of ever-higher resolution maps is necessarily a good thing.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
[1/2] In our letter @science.org led by Laura Duncanson we reflect on whether a pursuit of ever-higher resolution maps is necessarily a good thing.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Post-doc with the Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute (ERI) to work w/a team of natural and social scientists on adaptation in the Midwest in sectors that relate to the intersection of urban green infrastructure with wildlife conservation and natural resource management.
Postdoctoral Researcher (Faculty)
The Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute (ERI) is seeking a postdoctoral scholar to work closely with a team of natural and social scientists to evaluate the state of adaptation in th...
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January 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Post-doc with the Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute (ERI) to work w/a team of natural and social scientists on adaptation in the Midwest in sectors that relate to the intersection of urban green infrastructure with wildlife conservation and natural resource management.
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Our read of the evidence is similar to this paper: even with ambitious demand-side efforts (minimize food waste, shift high-meat diets toward plants, cut biofuels) there is still an “inescapable need for yield increases” to feed 9-10 billion people while halting biodiversity loss and climate change.
Sustainable high-yield farming is essential for bending the curve of biodiversity loss | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Food production does more damage to wild species than any other sector of human activity,
yet how best to limit its growing impact is greatly contested. Reviewing progress
to date in interventions tha...
royalsocietypublishing.org
January 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Our read of the evidence is similar to this paper: even with ambitious demand-side efforts (minimize food waste, shift high-meat diets toward plants, cut biofuels) there is still an “inescapable need for yield increases” to feed 9-10 billion people while halting biodiversity loss and climate change.
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The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?
The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?
Across the globe, vast swathes of land are being left to be reclaimed by nature. To see what could be coming, look to Bulgaria
Abandonment, when it came, crept in from the outskirts. Homes at the edge of town were first to go, then the peripheral grocery…
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2024 at 5:11 AM
The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?