In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night: Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at? **pause** Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

More on the decline and fall of Steven Levitt statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/24/m...

Amazing work from former climate.gov staff. The Fifth National Climate Assessment is accessible again online!

This is bonkers - in popular energy-related areas, 10 -15% of the TOTAL papers are reviews or perspectives @pubs.acs.org #ACSEnergyLetters Editorial: Should You Really be Writing A(nother) Review Manuscript? pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

A truly sad loss. For many of my generation, Julieta Fierro was a great inspiration to dare to study science in a country with limited opportunities such as Mexico. May she rest in peace and may her legacy as a science communicator never be forgotten.

My book Cultural Analytics in R: A Tidy Approach has just been published! It showcases how tidy data can be used in cultural analytics workflows, from text analysis, machine learning, network science, etc. Check it out: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #tidyverse #rstats #digitalhumanities

European banks face significant vulnerability to ecosystem degradation and climate change Ceglar+ doi.org/10.1038/s432... in Euro area "72% of the analysed companies" have a high dependence of ES + "100 [banks] are responsible for 87% of the total biodiversity footprint" of banks

What is the cost of wildfire, windthrow and bark beetles for Europe’s forestry? We estimate that disturbances reduce Europe’s forest value by €115 bn, more than doubling to €247 bn under severe climate change. Led by @johannesmohr.bsky.social, out in @natclimate.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Measuring flood underinsurance in the USA Amornsiripanitch+ doi.org/10.1038/s415... "Underinsurance...totals US$15.7 billion annually. Among at-risk households, 88% are underinsured ...At least 70% of at-risk households would benefit from purchasing flood insurance, even as prevailing prices rise"

🌍 Unga akademins dag 2025 – Vetenskapen som brobyggare Medverkar: Erkki Tuomioja, Finlands utrikesminister 2000–2007 & 2011–2015, ordförande för Historiker utan gränser. 📅 23 oktober, Stockholm 🔗 Anmäl dig här: sv-se.eu.invajo.com/event/sverig... #UngaakademinsDag

Nos complace anunciar la próxima reunión de la Sociedad Española de Sistemas Complejos 🗓️ 21-23 enero 2026 |📍Sevilla ✏️Manda tu contribución hasta el 30 Oct 2025 🌐 Info: cs3.es/conference-2... ¡Esperamos veros a todos en Sevilla!

We’re hiring (again)! 🌊🐟 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (≈ US Assistant Prof) in marine biology/marine ecology @ Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, NZ. NZ lifestyle, fantastic temperate reefs, a marine lab by the sea, & great colleagues 🌊 Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/366jnm5d

One thing is positive about the now withdrawn climate skeptical report of the DOE: it has clearly shown how climate skeptics have no honest and convincing arguments. They work by misrepresenting and distorting the scientific evidence. tamino.Wordpress.com/2025/09/12/h...

One in six species on Earth experienced extraordinarily high temperatures across more than 25% of their range in 2024--the hottest year on record. For most, this was the second year of extreme heat, likely compounding risks. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New study finds that warmer oceans could cut populations of Prochlorococcus — the tiny phytoplankton that produce ~20% of Earth’s oxygen and form the base of many marine food webs — by up to 50% in tropical seas by 2100 if surface waters keep rising above ~28 °C. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣Join us at DEEP! We have several open positions at the moment: - Postdoc Fellow in Evolutionary Genomics - PhD student in Fungal Evolutionary Biology - PhD student in Fungal Biology - Research engineer in Fungal Biology Help us spread the word! 🗣️ @stockholm-uni.bsky.social

Don't forget, you are someone's weird colleague

🌍 Call for Papers! Submit to the Progress in Physical Geography special issue: Coding Earth: Open Source Solutions in Physical Geography 📅 Deadline: 18 Dec 2025 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/home/ppg #OpenSource #OpenScience #GISchat #RSpatial #GeoPython

Come be my colleague! The Department of Psychology at Princeton and @princetonneuro.bsky.social‬ are jointly searching for an Assistant Prof in Cog Neuro. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

REMINDER: You can submit a written comment or sign up to provide an oral comment to the CDC's immunization committee that RFK Jr has stacked with antivaxxers. The deadline is Sept 13. Written submission link: www.regulations.gov/document/CDC... Oral sign up link: www2.cdc.gov/vaccines/aci...

Two research projects are looking for PhD students. One of the projects is about how AI is changing the labour market. The other one will examine how violent crime affects sexual and reproductive health in Mexico. Last application date is 1 October. www.su.se/department-o...

Local Adaptation May Help Mitigate Feminisation of Sea Turtle Populations Globally 🔗 buff.ly/UB5QTbc

It's all in the title: Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss & degradation www.nature.com/articles/s41... Comprehensive analysis of current + projected future success of reef restoration. Most important predictor of site selection is accessibility, not ecological factors

Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it: rdcu.be/eEcIt

How climate change and deforestation interact in the transformation of the Amazon rainforest Franco+ doi.org/10.1038/s414... "analyzed long-term atmospheric and land cover change data across 29 areas in the Brazilian Legal Amazon from 1985 to 2020, using parametric statistical models"

Tree carbon no solution to fossil carbon. 🌍🌐 (but 😍🌳🌳👍)

Now running the #CCS2025 satellite on Complex Systems, Data Analytics, and Human Behavior (tribute to Alfredo Morales) The room is literally full!!

Do ants modify their nest architecture to fight epidemics (like us)? Yes! At #CRAB Luke Leckie just showed us his results on this matter. He basically maps nest architecture into network structure and studies the evolution of that under well-defined infection periods. #CCS2025

Would a health insurance company even cover treatment for measles, polio, and rubella in a state without vaccine requirements?

If you miss my talk today at #CCS2025 Structural controllability and management of cascading regime shifts, here are the slides and pre-print. slides: www.juanrocha.se/presentation... pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2501.00206 I'll be in Siena this week, happy to discuss science over coffee or wine!

We welcome this initiative launched by South Africa and led by Professor @josephestiglitz.bsky.social. ⚠️According to wid.world, the poorest half of the world's population owned just 2% of global wealth in 2023, while the richest 10% controlled 76%.” www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Cool to see @manlius.bsky.social talking about almost immortal organisms and complex systems at the #CCS25

"Today, we stand together in dissent against the current administration's focus on harmful deregulation, mischaracterization of previous EPA actions, and disregard for scientific expertise."

It does not happen very often nowadays, but it is interesting to discover new regime shifts. Here is a paper that frames salt water intrusion in lakes as a regime shift phenomenon, describing mechanisms and hysteresis: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people.

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 Assistant Professor in Global Change and Disease Ecology at Stony Brook University, Department of Ecology & Evolution. Deadline: October 1. #AcademicJobs #tenuretrack #facultyjobs apply.interfolio.com/171403 (I love being here. Come join!) @stonybrooku.bsky.social

Can we map species richness across taxonomic groups from space? Promising results for fungi, plants, insects and birds in a mountain forest landscape, obtained by @corneliussenf.bsky.social et al. by combining different sensors (EnMAP, Sentinel-1/2). doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

I've added a few new features to {grateful}, the package that facilitates citation of #rstats packages, and I'd love feedback before submitting to CRAN 🧵

Regeringen har gett Stockholms universitet och Göteborgs universitet uppdraget att utforma ett medborgarskapsprov för den som vill bli svensk. Universiteten ska ägna sig åt forskning och inte rent politiska uppdrag, menar Stockholms universitets rektor Hans Adolfsson. www.dn.se/sverige/hard...

Apps due Oct 8! Why join the #EDSsummit? 💡 Interdisciplinary ideas 🌎 Environmental impact 🤝 Lasting community Apply now: 2026 NCEAS Environmental Data Science Summit Application See post below to hear from a past EDS attendee ⬇️ #EDSsummit #envdatasci #openscience #climatedata #earlycareer

Coastal Hypoxia in the Indian Ocean: Unraveling Drivers of Spatio‐Temporal Variability 🔗 buff.ly/Sp0DnHF

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege. www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r...

Summer 2024 featured unprecedented warmth in the European Arctic, causing melting of 1 % of the total ice volume on Svalbard. Bad news is that in 2100 and even in the optimistic SSP1-2.6 emission scenario, 50% of the future summers will be warmer than 2024. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Want to #TaxTheRich? Try the 2025 version of the Global #WealthTax Simulator 🎛️ ✔️Select any region/country or the world as a whole ✔️Input your preferred tax rates ✔️Adjust depreciation or tax evasion parameters ✔️See how much revenue you'd raise ▶️ wid.world/world-wealth... We tested with France 👇🇫🇷

Only 2.5% of animal biomass is human. Still, that fraction is reshaping the fate of the whole 🌍.

Cities with the worst air quality www.iqair.com/world-most-p... of 25 most polluted 15 in India 7 Pakistan 1 each in Kazakhstan, Chad, & China see also WHO database www.who.int/data/gho/dat...

How can we better deal with wildfires like those currently devastating many Mediterranean landscapes? 3 messages from the @easac.bsky.social report: 1️⃣Prioritise climate & landuse action 2️⃣Consider fire risk in treeplanting projects 3️⃣‘Live with fire’: public health & education easac.eu/publications...

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

Another @stanforddoerr.bsky.social Stanford search for a Tenured Professor in Climate Science! Applications due Oct. 30 🌊 🌎 🌡️ facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...