My Ph.D. student Felipe Saad is at #AGU25, please stop by and say hi to him at his poster! B43O-2108 Monitoring emergent tropical trees with high-resolution spectral and structural data: Landscape fragmentation and Dipteryx panamensis in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Hall EFG Thursday: 14:15 - 17:45

This week’s IBioS member Article Highlight! Dr. @naomibschwartz.bsky.social and colleagues recently published an article on “The responsible use of global remote-sensing datasets.” Read more about this article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Systematic review of evidence on Miyawaki forest restoration: Its at least 10,000 times more expensive than other techniques, yet has no well documented benefits besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It was an honor to work with this group... and the paper is excellent, but the implications for tropical ecosystems make me really sad. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Also (filing this under sentences I never thought I would write) I and @forrestf.bsky.social and @simonlewis.bsky.social and others were in an *excellent* French documentary on tree planting. If your French is as bad as mine: Watch it with captions and auto translate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EFJ...

I was happily surprised that our new Comment, “The Responsible Use of Global Remote-Sensing Datasets” is out this week in Nature Ecology and Evolution. I want to thank the editors at @springernature.com for the holiday gift of speed! Please DM me if you would like a copy of the article.

Per an NIH source: “Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”

This is going to damage science and charity work in the US beyond repair. Every day the pause goes on, small businesses will fold and student rent won’t get paid. It’s holding a knife to the throat of America. You want to review funding? Do it. But stop it? Might as well toss our dreams in the trash

Large universities with vibrant medical research such as OSU and @osuwexmed.bsky.social need to put pressure on our elected officials. OSU is the 5th largest employer in the state of Ohio, and it owes much of its impact to research funding provided by NIH and other federal agencies.

Closed down my Twitter account after ignoring it for more than a year—Elon did the wave goodbye for me. Any starter pack recs for ecological remote sensing folks who like RPGs, gardening, and distracting, funny takes on anything other than US politics? Gonna be a loong four years.