📣 New BG blog post is out! In this post, Kara Sampsell tells us about her research at the Glacier d’Argentière in search of fine glacial sediment where she aimed to learn more about the microbial fauna that inhabit this environment 🏔️ blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg... Edited by @lucialayr.bsky.social

Super honored to have my #TidyTuesday viz featured in last week’s The Crunch newsletter from The Guardian Australia! 🙌 @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/news/2025/au...

It's #TidyTuesday again! This week, we looked at #frog abundance in #australia - not a lot of frogs found in the desert 🐸🏜️ #ecology #dataviz #maps

👏DSE postdoc @mayazomer.bsky.social published new research in the @jxbotany.bsky.social! It explores how #MediterraneanShrubs resprout to recover after #disturbance and their resilience to global change: bit.ly/4mAwH5p cc @cideinvestiga.bsky.social ‪‪@bmoreira.bsky.social @jgpausas.bsky.social

Holiday readings

This weeks' #TidyTuesday looked at the number of #munros (type of 🏔️) in Scotland over time. I utilized my PhD here, using an alpha-stable distribution to add texture to the mountain outline: The heavy tails create a more 'rugged' profile than the Gaussian noise I used for the snow- and tree line. ❄️🌲

Some scans from the #Mojave capturing typical scenes of post-fire recovery: Burnt juvenile #JoshuaTree that is resprouting from the base. Burnt, toppled Joshua Trees and lots of grass within the burn scar. Unburned Joshua Tree woodland in the background. #canon #kodakgold #NationalParks

As a physicist I can easily calculate time dilation from relativistic motion (time slows when you're moving fast) or proximity to a massive object (time slows in gravity) but I have yet to find a solution for emotional time dilation (the task takes five minutes to complete but six weeks to start) 🫠

Happy to share that the first chapter of my PhD was published earlier this week in Biogeosciences! 🎉 Using a DGVM, we looked at joint and separate effects of changes in climate vs. disturbance regimes on boreal forests 🌲🌳🌲❄️ Read the article 👉 bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/... Read a summary blog👇

📣 Join us for our AGU2025 session IN029 "Open Source Geospatial Workflows in The Cloud"! Can't wait to see you there :) Submissions are due *Wednesday, July 30*! Visit our website for more details and to submit: events.geojupyter.org/conferences/...

Revised the NYC metro stations art map after some feedback. Learned that less is often more #TidyTuesday #NYC #dataviz #maps

Had a look at what materials art works in in NYC metro stations are made for for today's #TidyTuesday 🚋🗽🏙️ Learned that the @nyu.edu Spatial Data Repository is a great resource for base maps. #NYC #dataviz #NYCT #maps

New blog posts! Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social shares her personal #EGU25 highlights and newest developments in inland water GHG emissions. 💧🐟🌾 Let us know some of your personal highlights of this year's #EGU25! blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg...

Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt

Late to this week's #TidyTuesday, took me a while to wrap my head around this datasets. I learned how to add #markdown rendering to #ggplot while taking a closer look at all the colors we call brown 🪺🐿️🍂🍁

Used this week's #TidyTuesday dataset to have a go at polar coordinates in ggplot! 🌐🦠

Seems fair to me, they really should work on reimbursing people faster! Got reimbursed last week for travel I took in July of 2024 🙃 And there where times during my PhD when my university owed me four-digits amounts in reimbursement which is a lot of money to not have a a grad student.

Desert plants and sunsets in the Mojave. (And also fieldwork) 🏜️ #mojave #california #ecology

Congrats, @sampottinger.com 🙌 🌽

Reading up on one of my #EGU25 highlights, presented this morning by @sergio-vicente.bsky.social Not only a fascinating piece of climate science, but also a great international, collaborative effort. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A great tool to explore EGU abstracts! I definitely found some relevant ones I hadn't been aware of. #EGU25

Sadly no in-person #EGU25 for me this year for obvious reasons. But, if you are interested in fire recovery, remote sensing or the Eastern Mediterranean, come to BG vPoster spot A on Wed, Apr. 30, 14:00-15:45 to chat or have a look at the poster here: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

Sadly no in-person #EGU25 for me this year for obvious reasons. But, if you are interested in fire recovery, remote sensing or the Eastern Mediterranean, come to BG vPoster spot A on Wed, Apr. 30, 14:00-15:45 to chat or have a look at the poster here: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

Our #EGU25 session on vegetation dynamics and the carbon cycle starts now in Room N1! Come and join 🍃

We are just 2 days away from #EGU25, and navigating a huge #conference like this still sounds intimidating 🫣? No worries- our General Assembly expert Jane Roussak has shared last-minute #protips to help you make the most of #EGU25 ✅! 🔗 Read more: egu.eu/5UUG5G

Getting some #EGU25 fomo from seeing all the fun #train2egu content 🥲 If you are considering going by train next year, too, check out our blog post from earlier this year: blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg... egubg.bsky.social

Come work with me! The posting is still open for some days, please feel free to reach out if you have questions :)

I am very happy that the topic of Mental health in Academia will be discussed to prominently this General Assembly. Check out our blog post and join the debate Monday, 16:15 - 18:00 in Room E1.

Come work with us!

We are hiring! We're looking to fill a PostDoc position on social-ecological systems. Are you excited about the spatio-temporal dynamics of coupled human and natural mountain systems? Then come join us, and work in a wonderful & diverse team + beautiful environment! www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

🎉 🌎 🪐 I'm thrilled to announce GeoJupyter, an effort to imagine and build rewarding new user experiences for working with geospatial data in JupyterLab! 🤗 I hope to see you in an upcoming community meeting or in our Zulip chat (see the post for links)! geojupyter.org/blog/2025010...

Global climate change worsens disasters, but blaming climate change alone deflects responsibility from effective local governance, infrastructure, and warning systems to multinational corporations and international climate mitigation efforts. Time to re-read @frediotto.bsky.social.

The latest @egubg.bsky.social blog has just dropped blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg... The timing is perfect for all those Early Career Researchers submitting their abstracts to present a poster at #EGU25. To understand more about the poster sessions and the awards for posters read this blog and enter👇

You’re working on your #EGU25 abstract and thinking about signing up for the OSPP award? 🏆 We talked to some people to help you understand how to participate and make the most of it 🌎🌍🌏 blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg... @eurogeosciences.bsky.social @egubg.bsky.social

The EGU BG Division has joined our #biogeoscience community here @egubg.bsky.social We will be relaying blogs and open calls here as well as BG Division and @eurogeosciences.bsky.social news and initiatives. We hope the #biogeoscience community can help spread the word we are here and follow👍

If you work on vegetation dynamics & carbon cycle, submit to our #EGU25 session BG3.1 : meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... 👇 Deadline January 15, 1pm CET @lucialayr.bsky.social, Matthias Forkel, Martin Thurner and Tom Pugh

Have you ever wondered how sensitive projections of boreal land surface properties are to future forest disturbance regimes? 🌲🌳 If you’re curious, catch me at my #AGU23 poster Wednesday afternoon! And please reach out if you want to discuss boreal forests, model uncertainty, SciArt or other things ✨

Reminder: these “disclaimers” in an account bio mean, respectively, “the entire purpose of this account is to steal other people’s work” and “we don’t care who they are”. I don’t know why such accounts are allowed here. Don’t follow or promote content theft accounts. They make the internet worse.

Since climate twitter seems to have left the building, let’s give this a try. I’m Lucia, I use math and computer models to understand the role of plants in the climate system. If you’ve seen me around on the other app, it was probably because of my drawings.

Beautiful Marin sunsets.

Of course they are

Please share! Who out there loves Sphagnum (or moss)? If you do, you are my people.

Hola! I'm Lucia, an Earth Scientist and freelance illustrator originally from the magical land of #Galicia but currently based in the UK. Here is a thread about me and what I do!

I am entering that stage of paper revision. Please let there be no final2.

Brassica xkcd.com/2827

I am starting to explore beautiful Marin County. No birding for me I think but most important question: Is it save to go hiking by myself? I do that at home all the time but we do not have mountain lions or bears in the Alps 🦁

Since climate twitter seems to have left the building, let’s give this a try. I’m Lucia, I use math and computer models to understand the role of plants in the climate system. If you’ve seen me around on the other app, it was probably because of my drawings.