The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The original fish doorbell, located here in #Utrecht! 🐟🔔

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

Human exposure to wildfires in Catalonia has increased markedly over the past 30 years—driven not by more burned area, but by urban expansion into fire-prone landscapes. Figure below shows the trend clearly. DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

While the strain on academic #publishing is real, here is a monthly reminder to always respond to invitations for #PeerReview! Ignoring these messages just exacerbates the problem for everyone involved. Let's not do that 🧪🌏⚒️

Australia’s Banksia has fruits that are serotinous, opening after fire. Wildfires clear competing vegetation + deposit nutrients in the soil = good conditions for seedling establishment. 📷: Banksia ornata by davidsando CCBYNC4. #Proteaceae #serotiny #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Last night RU launched 40 missiles/400 drones, destroying substations, transmission lines, power plants 2 DTEK power stations severely damage. Temperatures expected to fall to −20C/-4F by Mon. Without air-defense and diplomatic support, Ukraine’s energy crisis is becoming humanitarian crisis.

Our recent publication featured in @awi.de news! 🔥 Full paper currently available as in press here: www.nature.com/articles/s43... Will share more on it once the final version is online 🧪⚒️🌏

AWI researchers have found evidence suggesting that humans may have influenced fire activity in eastern Siberia more than 5,000 years ago — earlier than previously assumed. 🔥 By analyzing charcoal particles from sediment cores, they were able to reconstruct a 10,000-year history of wildfires.

Very thankful for this powerful plea for #renewable energy and #solar power in particular. Long, but worth seeing, especially for folks from the #US! Not going to spoil the twist, see for yourself: youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?... 🌞⚡️

Thanks for the comic relief

How did the #intensity of #wildfires change throughout the past in one of the coldest regions in the world? 🔥❄️📉 To answer this question, we used #BPCAs from sediment samples from #Yakutia, #Siberia. Find our results, now published open access, here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🌏⚒️

New research - Including carbon emissions from permafrost thaw and fires reduces the remaining carbon budget for limiting warming to 1.5C by 25% #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Interested in pursuing your PhD in Alpine Ecology? How do ecosystems emerge after glacial retreat? Come with us @ufz.de as a PhD researcher on the development of vegetation and microbiome in glacier forelands. recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/33... #ecojobs #ecology #Alps #AlpineEcology

Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers. Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social

New publication! 🔥 Led by Ziru Hao and Kai Li from Zhejiang Normal University, this study in QSR reconstructs #wildfire activity over the past c. 35,000 years at Erhai Lake, #Yunnan, #China, discussing links to spring insolation & Asian Summer #Monsoon: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🌏⚒️

My first field expedition as a PhD student taught me that no matter how perfect your “sampling plan” is, the conditions of bog itself is what ultimately determines how many soil measurements you can take. Here’s a #Sciku about this, from my lab notebook 🧪 to Bluesky! #wetland #peat #phd #scicomm

How fast can a forest recover from wildfire? Researchers were curious about how the recovery of the soil was affected by different ecosystems. It turns out that different systems recover differently: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... Research in #Catena: doi.org/10.1016/j.ca...

1/ Cultural burning returns to the Sierra foothills — KQED For the first time in living memory, Maidu tribes are bringing back ancestral fire stewardship to care for the land. 🔗 www.kqed.org/science/1999...

An open letter organized by US-based researchers working in Greenland opposes any takeover of the territory go.nature.com/3YBbU7d

Have a nice transition to -76 BP! Another year in which we'll have to stand up for science, democracy, and a just peace for Ukraine. Greetings from lovely #Ljubljana, #Slovenia - view from the Nebotičnik towards the Julian #Alps 🗻

Another thought on the generative AI debate. As more and more AI slop papers come out, it becomes *more* important to actually read the papers and *more* important to gain domain expertise to spot fakes. An AI generated summary of an AI generated paper isn't going to tell you the paper is fake.

🧪🚨PhD opportunity! ‼️ interested in #permafrost, #carbon cycling, #uranium #isotopes, #karst and #speleothems? ⚗️🥼☢️ Come join our karst research team @northumbriauni.bsky.social ! For questions: DM! Find out more 👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Spread t/ word! @bgs.ac.uk @annabelwolf.bsky.social

I’m really concerned about early career scientists using generative AI in writing, because writing is how we think and reflect. There’s almost nothing *more* human than that, and to give that gift away to a machine is almost unconscionable to me

NEW – Guest post: Why carbon emissions from fires are significantly higher than thought | Prof Guido van der Werf Read here: buff.ly/8xbbdFn

Opportunity to present your #research at the inaugural #BeNeLux #Geography #Conference! 🌐🎤 Abstract submission now open for our session - join us in Leuven, Belgium next April and connect with researchers from the varied and diverse fields of #geography! More information: lnkd.in/gmDp94Q8 🧪🌏⚒️

Opinion piece: Removing #DeadTrees will not save us from fast-moving #wildfires. In PNAS Front Matter: https://ow.ly/qvta50XuOrz#DeadTrees#wildfires #logging #ClimateChange #ForestFire

Die Deutsch-Ukrainische Gesellschaft (@de-ua-gesellschaft.bsky.social) heute mit einer wichtigen und lesenswerten Pressemitteilung zum sogenannten "Friedensplan" der US-Regierung: deutsch-ukrainische-gesellschaft.de/publications... #ukraine #europa #usa

Opportunity to present your #research at the inaugural #BeNeLux #Geography #Conference! 🌐🎤 Abstract submission now open for our session - join us in Leuven, Belgium next April and connect with researchers from the varied and diverse fields of #geography! More information: lnkd.in/gmDp94Q8 🧪🌏⚒️

One year ago, I made a personal academic #website! For its first anniversary, I've added a #Gallery with some of my favorite #geography impressions of previous fieldwork, excursions, and trips. I hope many more will follow. Feel free to take a look! 📸 www.rameshglueckler.com/pages/gallery

Post-work round of the #Paleo board game with fellow researchers of our @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #paleoecology group - we survived the wolf pack attacks and made it to the next level 🐺🔥

🧪🌍🔥⚕️ Inter and intra-continental smoke transport impacts air quality and therefore, human health. A single bad fire season can have significant impacts in terms of premature death. A report on the 2023 fire season in Canada www.nature.com/articles/s41... (h/t @aberron.bsky.social )

New in Global Change Biology: Hydroclimatic rebound—wet periods fueling vegetation growth, followed by rapid drying—drives extreme fires in California’s non-forested biomes. Findings improve early warning & fire forecasts. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

I'm very pleased on behalf of co-authors to be able to share this, just published, paper summarizing the @bburnedscience.bsky.social Fire Emissions Workshop in Nov 2023. MODIS has been critical to fire emission estimation for the past two decades & the paper reviews 9 widely used emissions datasets.

New preprint alert 📢 We present a dataset of modern hydrochemistry, macrophyte diversity, and discuss the relationships to the surrounding terrestrial environment from 66 climate-sensitive lakes from Yakutia💧 Available for open discussion at: doi.org/10.5194/egus... #permafrost #alaas #sedDNA

Today I am joining @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social as a postdoctoral researcher! Looking forward to evaluating long-term boreal #wildfires and #vegetation responses to past climatic changes, contributing paleoecological insights to an effort of improving ESMs and their future projections! 🔥🌲

The fact that this publication is fully published online right now is wild. Publishers need to be held accountable for failing to prevent AI sci-slop like this being published in their journals. It undermines any legitimacy whatsoever.

"We found that the tipping point where the shutdown becomes inevitable is probably in the next 10 to 20 years or so. That is ... why we have to act really fast to cut down emissions,” says @rahmstorf.bsky.social in @theguardian.com's report on a new #AMOC study: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Brief reminder that you can find a truly #decentralized platform, with no central authority able to just lock you out, over at #Mastodon: joinmastodon.org #Mississippi

Europe's wildfires worst on record - with a month of the burning season to go - More than 1m hectares torched so far this year, with records also broken for CO2 and toxic air pollutants #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

1/4 Please see our new paper just published in Global Change Biology: “Intensifying fire season aridity portends ongoing expansion of severe wildfire in western US forests”. 🧪🌍🔥

Very nice reporting on Portugal's leading role in adapting to more severe #wildfire seasons. Recommendation to watch (airing times in linked article) 🔥🌍🧪

Incredible growth in the scale of devastating Iberian Peninsula #wildfires through mid-August reflected in #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS estimated fire emissions with Spain reaching it's highest annual total of past 23 years (& Portugal's since 2017) @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int #IIFF

Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless. Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold.

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY: Come work with us in the Harvey Lab at Univ. of Washington (depts.washington.edu/bjhlab/)! We're hiring a postdoc in Forest Disturbance and Landscape Ecology. Full details here: ap.washington.edu/ahr/position... Application review starts Aug 31

No #fieldwork this year, so time to look back. 2017 was my fieldwork at the #Batagay Megaslump in #Siberia, the largest known retrogressive thaw slump on earth. A prime example of abrupt #permafrost thaw that exposes ancient permafrost. In two photographs, see ellipses with people for scale.

Happy to share our new paper: we show that human-caused climate change is raising the odds of extreme climate-driven fire years across forested regions of the globe @climate-guy.bsky.social @pyrogeog.bsky.social rdcu.be/evJkX #ClimateChange #Wildfires

Very glad to see this hot 🔥 journal! It fills what for me always felt like a gap in the fire research journal landscape. Happy to follow along and consider for future publications! #pyrogeography #wildfires 🌏🧪⚒️

I was in British Columbia last month to learn about wildfires, which got me thinking about how we see the forests around us, and how it is not necessarily good thinking. 1/x

1/4 Our research team just published a new paper: "Aspen impedes wildland fire spread in southwestern United States landscapes". Aspen forests are thought to be more resistant to burning compared to conifer forests, but this has not been well studied. 🧪🔥