Ryan R. Bart
ryanrbart.bsky.social
Ryan R. Bart
@ryanrbart.bsky.social
Disturbance ecohydrologist. I study the interactions between water, vegetation, and fire under a changing climate.
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New card game:
The Publish or Perish Game (a humorous party game about academic publishing) 🧪🌎
‘Publish or Perish’ is now a card game — not just an academic’s life
A player wins by racking up more citations than the competition, even if that means engaging in a little light plagiarism. A player wins by racking up more citations than the competition, even if that...
www.nature.com
August 4, 2024 at 9:51 PM
This has happened to me most often when I’m on my bicycle. I try to smile like I’m appreciative, while at the same time continually waving to them to complete their turn. Knowing now that they were likely assassins adds a whole new dimension to these events.
Driving PSA xkcd.com/2932
May 15, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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An outstanding report from ProPublica - an indictment of how the agencies are mistreating their most valuable resource and it's not just the woefully inadequate level of compensation but also the failure to attend to cancer and emotional trauma and stress. www.propublica.org/article/wild...
“It Feels Impossible to Stay”: The U.S. Needs Wildland Firefighters More Than Ever, but the Federal Government Is Losing Them
Highly skilled firefighters are the last line of defense against wildfires, but that line is fraying because the government decided long ago that they’re not worth very much.
www.propublica.org
March 24, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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Greenland Size xkcd.com/2911
March 25, 2024 at 10:41 PM
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Please check out our new paper in Nature Communications titled "Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe and accentuates impacts of climate change and fuel accumulation" 🧪🌏

Lead author = U Montana PhD student Mark Kreider!
Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe and accentuates impacts of climate change and fuel accumulation - Nature Communications
Fire suppression removes less-extreme wildfires, concentrating fires under extreme conditions. The authors use model simulations to show how this “suppression bias” intensifies fire behavior and effec...
www.nature.com
March 25, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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Hydrology Paper of the Day @ryanrbart.bsky.social
on understanding the appropriateness of water-balance closure in the context of hydrological uncertainties and
data sparcity: two watersheds in the Sierra Nevada,
and timescales, groundwater storage unknowns and
precipitation.
How realistic are water‐balance closure assumptions? A demonstration from the southern sierra critical zone observatory and kings river experimental watersheds
Hydrological Processes is an international hydrology journal publishing high-impact, process-oriented manuscripts in all the main areas of hydrology.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 17, 2024 at 1:01 AM
Hello Bluesky World!

I’m venturing back into social media after having been inactive on the previous site for the last year. Excited to interact with the science community again.
February 15, 2024 at 1:22 AM