One of my personal highlight of current AI is no more direct interaction with matplotlib.

Want to get some experience in science writing? Consider writing for the BG blog! @egubg.bsky.social blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg...

We're hiring a full-time research software engineer for biodiversity & bioacoustics! Position offers a strong research component with independence + research pub opportunities and real-world impact. expected salary range $111K - $116K. dse.berkeley.edu/news/were-hi...

I am interested in working with an artist on a graphic novel on soil and/ or global environmental change. The lab would have money to fund this. Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?

If you are into vegetation modeling and disturbance recovery, meet me at #AGU25 this week! ❄️ Oral on disturbance recovery in the boreal forest - Tue, 8:50 - 9:00 tinyurl.com/oralBoreal 🔥 Poster on new approaches in fire recovery modeling - Wed, 14:15 tinyurl.com/joshmodels @schmidtdse.bsky.social

Wrapping up the year at the BG blog with some holiday book recommendations 📚 🤗 Check it out!

It's been a while since I tidied - here is 2023 population per country in a fun bubble chart 🌎🌍🌏 #TidyTuesday

Are you studying vegetation dynamics 🍃, tree mortality 🪵, or other aspects of the terrestrial carbon cycle? 🌍 Consider submitting to our #EGU26 session "Present & future global vegetation dynamics & carbon stocks from observations & models". We'd be delighted! ☺️ 👉 www.egu26.eu/session/57391

Do you like forests and computer models? 🌳🧑‍💻 Within the Future Forests excellence cluster, we are hiring two modellers for 7 year (!) positions here in Freiburg. A scientific coordinator role: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004... And and a scientific programmer role: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

🌱 Meet the #EGU #Biogeosciences Division Team 2025/26! From soil microbes to ocean carbon, our BG team brings together diverse voices from across the globe. Get to know the people behind the science: #ECS reps, division officers, policy leads & more 📖 Read more: blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg...

Excellent work led by @ttkeller.bsky.social and important for stewarding forests w/ high-severity #fire regimes @esajournals.bsky.social @uwmadscience.bsky.social

Beautiful!

Train tracks around the world 🚂🛤️🛤️🛤️ I was really interested in this slice of this weeks' #TidyTuesday data, unfortunately there is not much happening 🥲 #trains #tracks #travelingbytrain #bytrain

Late to the party for this week's #TidyTuesday 🦢🦢🦢 #cranes #dataviz #ecology #ggplot (Code as always here: github.com/lucialayr/Ti...)

I continue to find this Elsevier equity survey puzzling - by which logic is Greece in Western Europe?

📣 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👍