Matthias Baumann
matthiasbaumann.bsky.social
Matthias Baumann
@matthiasbaumann.bsky.social
Senior Scientist @Humboldt-University Berlin working with large geospatial datasets and satellite data to understand land-use change.
Remote Sensing | GIS | causal analysis | environmental impact evaluation | carbon credits

https://hu.berlin/baumann
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@camillabrunet.bsky.social is a conservation-behavior #scientist interested in wildlife management, #conservation, movement and spatial #ecology. She will start her #phd studies, where she will investigate how changes in agricultural land use can influence the behavior of large mammals.
#newmember
October 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Look at this beautiful Puma with these beautiful flowers 🤩!
A photo of our camera trap in Uturungo, Argentina.

#wildcamera #cameratrap #puma #argentina #biogeography #research
September 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Last weekend @alfredoromero.bsky.social and Marie Pratzer were invited to talk at the #LongNightofClimate in Berlin. They had a lot of fun and enjoyed this inspiring, interesting and important event!
Film: "Bolivia Burning"
look at some more information here: www.langenachtdesklimas.de

#LNDK #BTS
September 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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August 6, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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In seinem letzten Interview als Bundestagsabgeordneter beschreibt Robert Habeck nochmal präzise, was die Union gerade tut: Sie spaltet das Land mit quatschigem Kulturkampf, um von den Problemen abzulenken.

Lesenswert:
Robert Habeck tritt ab: „Ich will nicht wie ein Gespenst über die Flure laufen“
Ex-Vizekanzler Habeck verlässt den Bundestag. Die Grünen hätten ihre neue Rolle nun gefunden, sagt er der taz. Und dann gibt er Julia Klöckner noch eins mit.
taz.de
August 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Building sustainability science on solid ground: our framework uses shared social-ecological units to integrate diverse data streams. Tested in Rwanda, adaptable elsewhere. Open, reproducible, and ready for interdisciplinary teams. #Rwanda #Restoration @biogeoberlin.bsky.social shorturl.at/qHaQ0
August 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Our study on biodiversity loss embodied in trade is featured in @mongabay.com tinyurl.com/2edpu626 . Unfortunately, we at @biogeoberlin.bsky.social could not contribute to this news piece. Glad, though, that @nature.org calls the study 'very timely'
Link to the study: tinyurl.com/3xubzpbe
Pasture and agricultural expansion in Gran Chaco drive biodiversity loss: Study
A recent study has identified how cattle pasture and agricultural expansion, driven by global demand for beef and soy, is causing biodiversity loss in the Gran Chaco region of Argentina and Paraguay. ...
tinyurl.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Madison, Wisconsin, is the best.
July 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Check this out!
#SPD
@orkanoezdemir.bsky.social hat diese wichtige Ergänzung für @larsklingbeil.bsky.social auf Instagram gepostet - schaut rein!

www.instagram.com/reel/DLhp2pE...
July 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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One more week to apply to this exciting PhD position! come join the Conservation Biogeography group at Humboldt-University Berlin (hu.berlin/Biogeography) .@biogeoberlin.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Das 15. (!) Land in Europa ohne Kohle. Wir sind dann in 13 Jahren dran.
Aber Deutschland hat angeblich Klimaschutz „überbetont“.
June 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Climate change reduces farming efficiency, which leads to more land use to grow enough food, which leads to more emissions, and so on and so forth...

Major paper coming out on this feedback loop in a couple of days from the University of Minnesota, @projectdrawdown.bsky.social, and others!
‘On a knife edge’ – hot dry spring threatens arable harvest
Analysis suggests the harvest could be one of the worst in records stretching back to the 1980s.
www.independent.co.uk
June 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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🐄🐂 Putting landless cattle on the map! 🐄🐂
New paper in Env. Research Letters on mapping cattle intensification from space - across South America's dry diagonal doi.org/10.1088/1748... @erc.europa.eu @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social @pedrofernandez91.bsky.social #SystemShift @biogeoberlin.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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We traced how soy and beef production in Argentina and Paraguay impact mammal diversity—and who’s driving it. Spoiler: It’s not just exports. Read the paper: shorturl.at/bpPEH

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June 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Putting land claiming on the map reveals that the footprint of agricultural frontiers extends far into seemingly ‘intact’ forests.
New paper by @o-delgiorgio.bsky.social in PNAS @pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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@yannlepolain.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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This is a really good article about how AI works. And, more importantly, how it doesn’t….

www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works
Despite what tech CEOs might say, large language models are not smart in any recognizably human sense of the word.
www.theatlantic.com
June 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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June 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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#EnvironmentDay | A new research paper has linked the Gran Chaco #biodiversity decline to the domestic & foreign demand for soy & beef. Our researcher, Michael Lathuillière, contributed to the article, which assessed the decline due to domestic & international trade of Argentine soy & Paraguay beef⬇️
www.sciencedirect.com
June 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Project Meeting at @leuphana.bsky.social in our #dfg project on ecosystem restoration in #rwanda

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May 23, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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🚨 Überraschung: Deutschland verfehlt seine #Klimaziele. Der neue Bericht des Expertenrats für Klimafragen zeigt klar: Deutschland steuert auf eine krachende Kollision mit den Klimazielen zu. Und das in einem Jahr, in dem uns ein neuer #Hitzesommer droht. 🧵 (1/4)
May 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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The positive impact of protected areas can extend well beyond their boundaries! #conservation 👇🧵

New paper in Biological Conservation, led by Pablo Yair Huais (Univ. Cordoba 🇦🇷) analyzing PA effectiveness in the #Chaco, including leakage and blocking effects outside PAs.
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May 8, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Wolf wieder einfacher abzuschießen: Artenschutz ja, aber nicht vor der eigenen Tür taz.de/Wolf-wieder-...
Wolf wieder einfacher abzuschießen: Artenschutz ja, aber nicht vor der eigenen Tür
Das EU-Parlament beschließt, dass Wölfe in der Europäischen Union leichter abgeschossen werden können. Dabei leisten die einen Beitrag zur Natur.
taz.de
May 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM