From Jonathan Jarvis, former Director of the US National Park Service, about the importance of IUCN and why it's a very bad thing that the US is withdrawing after decades of valuable and contructive involvement. @iucnwcpa.bsky.social @adamiucnwcpa.bsky.social 🌎🌐

How do we measure life on Earth? 🌍🌱 The new summary report from the 2025 US-UK Forum on Measuring Biodiversity, hosted by the NAS and @royalsociety.org, explores tools, challenges, and solutions for tackling the #biodiversity crisis. Read here: bit.ly/460RB7R

This is long overdue..

Add your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s latest Executive Order that appoints politicians — not scientists — to evaluate research. actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐 🐋 Nice new paper from our GEODE Lab on "The utility of dynamic forest structure from GEDI lidar fusion in tropical mammal species distribution models across Borneo and Sumatra" (https://doi.10.3389/frsen.2025.1563430). Prediction maps at Zenodo (lnkd.in/gY7e4Ytm) for conservation purposes.

So much wasted effort pursuing peanuts in the face of massive kickbacks to the uber wealthy. Simply shameful..

Conservationists Sound Alarm as Republicans Take Aim at Endangered Species Act www.commondreams.org/news/endange...

Nice interview with Ralph Keeling about the importance of carrying on the tradition..

Yes, as a committee member & co-author of this NASEM consensus study, I recommend it! 🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐 🐋 🦬🌿

A timber industry lobbyist now leads the (de)Forest Service and is refocusing on old growth. Shameful..

Gotta pay very close attention to this given the backlash against (or worse, utilization of) identified O&MG lands.

🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐 🐋 I haven’t quite figured out tagging yet (old but hopefully not in the way ;-} this very much resonated with me.. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/o...

Hopefully in the future it’ll be known as the Dipshit Blip in the Mona Loa CO2 record aka Keeling Curve..

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

Reminds me of my own pup and efforts in my home state successfully reintroducing Mexican wolves. links-1.govdelivery.com/CL0/https:%2...

What a complete abdication of one’s own humanity 🌎💔

🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐 🐋 Our reply in this week's issue of Nature to a comment on our 2023 paper "Landscape-scale benefits of protected areas for tropical biodiversity" may be of interest.. as might the original paper referenced therein! rdcu.be/ebQIP

Vive la France! 🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐 🐋

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

This guy is an amazing artist / scientific illustrator..

NEW WARNING about ARCTIC WARMING: My new #sciart accompanies research by Ted Schuur, @ecoss-nau.bsky.social et al that carries urgent warnings for the effects that global warming is having on the Arctic: news.nau.edu/arctic-warmi...

🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐 🐋 Really well done new video clip on the Permafrost Carbon Network led by colleagues here @NAU. Check it out! www.permafrostcarbon-aware.org/wp-content/u...

🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐 🐋 If you’re interested in Global Ecology join this thread! go.bsky.app/MkLHiKU DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join.

Remembering the activist and author Karsten Heuer.

Check out the latest Environmental, Ecological, Climate, Health and Sustainability journals @Ioppublishing.bsky

President Convicted Felon's abrupt mass firing of 420 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Serve employees disrupts parks, wildlife refuges, endangered species protection. www.refugeassociation.org/news/2025/2/...

Jobs cut included park rangers and interpreters, National Environmental Policy Act coordinators, endangered species biologists, trail crews, maintenance staff and wastewater treatment operators.

Check the first comprehensive assessment of biodiversity knowledge shortfalls at contimental level in today's issue of @science.org, led by Luis Pertierra. We map data coverage of the species, ecology and evolution of terrestrial Antarctic biota jhortal.com/shortfalls-k... 🌐🧪 @mncn-csic.bsky.social

Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...

The land trust strategy of funding land conservation from grants, organizational and individual donors in their communities serves as a resilient model in the Trump era. No executive order, cancelled regulation, species protection or federal funding source can fully halt local land conservation.

AIBS Statement on Recent Executive Actions Impacting Science 🧪🌐 www.aibs.org/news/2025/25...

POLITICSFEB 8, 2025 8:01 PM The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE Army At least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

"Continued access to any payment systems by DOGE members, even ‘read only,’ likely poses the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.” From a Treasury threat intelligence dept email www.wired.com/story/treasu...

There is a US Nat’l Academies of Science workshop on the upcoming 5th International Polar Year (2032-33) planned for May 20-21st this year. Stay tuned for details.. you should be able to participate from wherever you are.

"The US Forest Service has proposed an amendment to the NW Forest Plan that promotes significantly more commercial logging in our National Forests. USFS needs to hear from people across the region that our oldest #forests and trees are more important than ever." 🌏 www.sierraclub.org/oregon/blog/...

Great to have been contributing to the @ipbes.net #NexusAssessment report. Happy it has been approved by the Plenary at #IPBES11 Summary for policy makers available www.ipbes.net/nexus/media-... Final full report coming soon

USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency

Every day becomes more and more gut wrenching. www.politico.com/news/2025/02... 🧪🌎🇦🇶🐧🧬

🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐 🐋 Consider submitting your coolest / best / latest research, especially on large / global / macroscale ecology, to nonprofit IOP Publishing’s Environmental Research Ecology. publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/journals/env...

🌏 mountainjournal.org/myth-busting...

Dumb and Dumber but also Rich and Richer. They don’t give a rat’s ass about the future of the planet or humanity on it. Sad!

Has Bluesky replaced X for scientists? Take Nature’s poll 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Future #climate projections of tree cover suggest the boreal forest is headed for an open state (⬇️🌲in south & ⬆️🌲in north) But, how will boreal tree cover dynamics influence—and be influenced by—climate feedbacks? We discuss this in a new commentary @pnas.org. 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

📢🪨🚜🌧️🌊 Reminder that Yale's free online spring seminar on enhanced weathering kicks off next Friday 1/24 -- then weekly starting Monday 1/27. Details below and register here! yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Consider encouraging your reps in US Congress to support public media stations.. protectmypublicmedia.org/protect-publ...

In the face of severe wildlife declines, scientists need to understand the challenges animals face and how they’re responding to a changing planet. The ICARUS project is leveraging IoT technology to track and monitor wildlife on an unparalleled scale. 🧪🌍 My latest for @sciencefocus.bsky.social: