A fantastic new mapping product for the world's inland waters, a critical driver for studying GHG emissions, biodiversity, and much more. Mapping the world's inland surface waters: an upgrade to the Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD v2) essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

Peatlands are one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks. Despite covering just 3-4% of Earth’s land surface, they’re thought to store more carbon per area than the world’s forests combined. In honor of World Peatland Day on June 2 here's three recent Mongabay stories on this critical ecosystem...

When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I used the loooong flight home from #EGU25 to finalize and push a new release of the freely-available Soil Respiration Database github.com/bpbond/srdb/ #openscience

We’re mobilizing scientists to protect NOAA and we need you too. Get involved:

I think about this map a lot. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...

This is amazing 😍😍 @500womensci.bsky.social has made cards for each state on funding for NSF and NIH avail for download bit.ly/NSF_bystate & bit.ly/NIH_bystate if they are helpful for folks

Graduating during the pandemic slowed down my process and is part of why I did two postdocs. Now as a first year faculty, all the federal grants are frozen. I love the work I do but this has all of us questioning how much www.science.org/content/arti...

168 colleagues lost yesterday, 6 in Earth Sciences alone. Today we grieved. And strategized. www.npr.org/2025/02/18/n...

Woody debris breaks down faster in tropical streams with high phosphorus. Marzolf et al. 2025. On the breakdown of woody ... in Neotropical streams, Costa Rica. Freshwater Science www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... @nickmarzolf.bsky.social @ardonlab.bsky.social @alonsoramirez.bsky.social

"their value to the nation is no longer required” 🤬 www.wired.com/story/nation...

So a former postdoc from our department had just started as a PO at NIH and was terminated in the wave of terminations last week. He is in the research triangle and a phenomenal scientist with expertise in stress and glia. If anyone in the RTI is hiring asap please let me know! #neuroskyence

Happy to share that my paper on creativity in research labs is out in the "Ten Simply Rules" article series. Ten simple rules for fostering creativity in research labs I hope you find it to be useful. #AcademicSky journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Professional societies stand together in defense of science & scientists. “science has led to humanity’s greatest advances, improving people’s lives & the health of our planet … (we’re) committed to supporting, elevating, & fighting for science & those who further it.“ www.unitedsciencealliance.org

Draining the world's peatlands for farming and mining is releasing so much CO2 that if it was a country, it would be the 4th biggest polluter in the world after China, the US, + India. And the associated losses in biodiversity are vast. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We are looking for two postdocs for a synthesis project focused on soil carbon dynamics and warming experiments. If you are excited about applying ML and process-based models to synthesize mechanisms of temperature sensitivity of soil respiration, please apply! lnkd.in/dV2wuGSe lnkd.in/diZiM9HV

New on the Latitude blog: we talk to the @ardonlab.bsky.social about their recent PLOS Climate article, which looks at how climate change and sea level rise are affecting the ecology and carbon balance of forests along the US East Coast latitude.plos.org/2025/02/behi...

I've been seen lots of feckless despair and detachedness among scientists in the US at the moment. How we might live up to this critical moment when things seem the worst. scienceforeveryone.science/p/how-ive-be... 🧪

Sharing a passion for freshwater science- We spent an evening meeting people from different institutions in NC that work in aquatic ecosystems and talking about freshwater ecosystems This was part of the "Converge Freshwater Science Series" hosted at #NCSU @ardonlab.bsky.social @agdelv.bsky.social

Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden

At least we don't have to read about this on a federal government website: At 2°C of warming, the area on Earth that is too hot for humans will triple. This is fine. 🔥🧪

I can’t wait for the second round of search terms: climate, sea level, etc. For all you scientists (and you know who you are) who think you won’t be affected because your broader impacts are amazingly still limited to training grad students and chatting to K-12 kids, this won’t stop at one list.

Wetlands are vital for #biodiversity, including as critical habitats for many migratory species.🐦🌍🧪 — @ipbes.bsky.social #LandDegradation Assessment Yet, many of these #wetlands are now threatened. Learn how wetlands support biodiversity with Ramsar for #WWD2025: www.worldwetlandsday.org

Constructed wetlands do a good job in their early years of capturing carbon in the environment that contributes to climate change—but that ability does diminish… phys.org/news/2025-01...

Has the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) weakened over the last decades? In our new study, we combine state-of-the-art CMIP6 models and observation-based estimates of the air-sea heat flux in the North Atlantic to show that the AMOC has not declined since the 1960s! 🌊

Not looking good, I'm afraid

If you're interested, you can find a summary of the latest research on wildfire and climate change in the US here: nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/2/

Coastal forests are already being impacted by sea level rise and storms: journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

How long are flowpaths from recharge through groundwater to streams? How connected are watersheds over the CONUS? tldr; much longer and way more connected than we thought. New paper in @naturewaterjnl.bsky.social with Chen Yang and Laura Condon @igwmc.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

UN special rapporteur on climate says COP and consensus-based, state-driven process is dominated by false narratives and by tech fixes that divert attention from real, equitable solutions.

Climate crisis ‘wreaking havoc’ on Earth’s water cycle, report finds

A new visualization showing the Keeling Curve alongside the Antarctic ice core CO2 data. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5447

Water sampling: from the field in La Selva Research Station in Costa Rica to the lab at NC State! @ardonlab.bsky.social

Remote sensing of coastal wetland resilience: doi.org/10.1007/s100...

I'm happy that the paper about my class on Historically Excluded and Underrepresented Scientists is now published. When I get back from Alaska, I will put the syllabus and other materials on my website and link to that here on Bluesky. In the meantime, enjoy! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A research group has produced a new partner hire scorecard, rating Research I universities based on the policies and practices for partner hires: partnerhirescorecard.org/ranking

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

“When people confess their green sins as if I were some eco-nun, I want to tell them they’re carrying the guilt of the oil + gas industry’s crimes. That the weight of our sickly planet is too much for any person to bear. And that that blame paves the road to apathy, which can really seal our doom.”

Texas has more billion dollar weather and climate disasters than any other state.

🧪New research shows that near the coast, tropical cyclones intensified faster over the 2000-2020 period than over the 1979-1999 period. This trend is projected to continue according to climate models. 🌀🤒 #hurricanes #tropicalcyclones #climatechange agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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This white paper is the result of a grass roots efroots effort to synthesize surface elevation table measurements in NC. The majority of NC coastal wetlands are not keeping up with sea level rise ecos.fws.gov/ServCat/Refe...

The most terrifying commentary I've read in a long time -- from someone who knows the climate system better than almost anyone.

70 degree weather in February makes me happrehensive as we paddled through the cypress