🚨 The Department of Agriculture has lost nearly 20% of its workforce in 2025.   This hurts farmers and rural communities, and leaves our food supply chains vulnerable.   en.edairynews.com/usda-cuts-de...

To hell with this. @nature.com has only the power we choose to give them by publishing in their profiteering journals. We can take it all away by publishing only in society journals: @newphyt.bsky.social @plantphys.bsky.social @jxbotany.bsky.social @annbot.bsky.social @aobp.bsky.social

My #RPackageAdvent2025 recap is live! 📦✨ Get the complete guide to modern R package development: setup, docs, testing, CI/CD, and CRAN submission. All 25 days of tips, tools, and best practices in one place! Dive in! #RStats #RPackageDevelopment Link: https://drmo.site/8ny3eU

The death of Brigitte Bardot necessitated the update of this marvelous chart. Only three people mentioned in Billy Joel's banger "We Didn't Start The Fire" are still alive. Source: buff.ly/cWkphRB

Published!📖 Forest structural and functional diversity can attenuate forest productivity losses after harvesting and fires. In undisturbed forests, dominance boosts productivity via selection effects, but not after harvesting🌳🌲🌍 Read here:https://buff.ly/Gw5Hq6X

Honestly why I sought out a 2019 Subaru recently...still had buttons and dials, gr at balance of all the stuff. New ones are cool but all one screen, everything is automated too and I HATE it.

"The study found that indirect water use can be up to four times higher than direct consumption, yet tech companies rarely disclose this metric." #AI - #DataCenters - #ClimateCrisis www.euronews.com/next/2025/12...

Kindergarten Cop. 🤔

"UVA Board likely to Cost VA Taxpayers Millions in Inevitable Buy-Out for President Set Up to Fail" www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

Happy to share that our paper is out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social 😄 Experimentally increasing structural heterogeneity in forest landscapes (deadwood + canopy gaps) boosts taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of hoverflies 🪰🌳 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Registration is now open for experts interested in reviewing the first draft of the IPCC Methodology Report on Inventories for Short-lived Climate Forcers! Register here 🔗 https://apps.ipcc.ch/comments/slcf/ until midnight CET on 13 February 2026. Read more 🔗 https://bit.ly/SLCFfod

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

Really cool analysis on pop music and how it's changed over the last 50 years

Marketplace at it again.

Looks awesome and wish I could be there!

I'm 100% behind native species planting for restoration but it has to come as part of a portfolio of forestry that includes production. One of the best ways to protect remaining forests is to produce new timber elsewhere.

It's wild they put Groot in Stranger Things. Epic crossover event.

Interested in biomass growth and carbon uptake, combining tree rings and eddy-covariance science? Consider joining a new FLUXNET Working Group: fluxnet.org/fluxnet-work...

Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...

Ahh the invisible hand of the free market strikes again!

"Stop this nonsense. No one wants this."

Cypress trees in fog reflecting on glassy water #photography #naturephotography #landscape

But go easy Step lightly Stay free

How do you even spend that much?

I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉 gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

Virginia's drunk raccoon is having a moment. Drunk raccoon merchandise has already raised $120,000 for the Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter.

You have to wait over an hour on my Spotify wrapped to get to a song with lyrics.

For the record, taxes ARE the compromise.

Can all the folk who just got reminded that they’ve listened to a tonne of music on streaming this year, have a look at the music they heard and buy some on bandcamp today? 🫡🙏🏼

#Viewpoint: Improving the representation of plant water stress and #water use in Earth System Models Dukes et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience @dukesjeff.bsky.social @changliao.bsky.social @richphillipslab.bsky.social @scottmcadam.bsky.social

This is either time deaf or so on the nose it hurts. Either way we live in hell 🤣 www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

Marketplace has been wild lately.

"Through September of calendar year 2025, only 1.7 million acres received hazardous fuels reduction treatment, a decline from the four-year average of 3.6 million acres. Additionally, as of this summer, as many as 27% of Forest Service wildland firefighting positions remained vacant."

It is good to see Senators call out the USFS Chief on lack of fuels reduction, staff shortages, and impacts on wildfire in the US. www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-klob...

🎤Hi #dendrometer users! You are invited to join our new Dendrometer Network (catchy name still tbd 😜). Online meeting 10:30-12 CET Friday 12 Dec. Please share and let me know if you want to join and I will send the meeting link 🌴🎄🌳🌲

New project documenting A.I. slop graphics in academic journals neurodojo.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-...

"Overlooked and extensive ghost forest formation across the US Atlantic coast" -- wow what a comprehensive analysis by Yeung, @xiyang.bsky.social et al. 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's embarrassing how university administrations are dealing with AI.

The Flenser

Astonishing failure of peer review 🫩

The Atkins family annual marathon of LOTR extended editions on Thanksgiving has begun at 925 EST!

Carlos, Maureen and the whole team have done a terrific job of putting this all together and I am really excited where this is going!

Amazing.

📣Applications are now open! Find out more about how to apply 👇

🚨Paper alert🚨 Check out Beibei Zhang's latest work out today @royalsocietypublishing.org where we track the 3D structural recovery of Australia's Great Western Woodlands following wildfires over a chronosequence spanning half a millenia!🌳🛰️🔥🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/7) Moving from an experiment- to an observation-dominated era in global change impact research on vegetation nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Cool plot

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