A must-read from the @washingtonpost.com's @sadbumblebee.buzz on the cultural burning resurgence taking place in N California. We have a terrible relationship with fire, but the Karuk, Yurok and others show us that a better relationship is possible. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Years ago, at a workshop we held on changing wildfire risk in western Washington, I was struck by the analogy that preparing communities for megafires in our fuel-rich forests is similar to tsunami: rapid evacuation, because they can't be fought. Nice coverage by @rdzombak.bsky.social. Gift link.

Heartbreaking and enraging. And make no mistake: this is theft. These reports belong to the American people. You can still download the past three National Climate Assessments here: repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/61...

Obit of Étienne-Émile Baulieu, the French biochemist and physician who developed the synthetic steroid used in the abortion pill, RU-486 (mifepristone). #GiftLink www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/h...

This much needed commentary explains why forest carbon offsets programs are 🐂💩. "... carbon storage as a nature-based solution will merely serve as a feel-good action and a distraction from meaningful efforts to reduce fossil based carbon loading of the atmosphere" 🔥🧪🌏

Getting back to our roots… medium.com/@intertribal...

Yertle the Turtle - a classic from Dr. Seuss and quite spot on for the times we are living in. cpb-ap-se2.wpmucdn.com/global2.vic....

AFE beat me to the post! Excited to share this paper. We lived through these massive wildfires in 2014 and 2015 and can now share some lessons from them, including areas that have started to reburn.

Join us tomorrow at 2pm when Dr. Susan Prichard @susanprichard.bsky.social will present "Lessons from first-entry burns and reburns: from novel fire exclusion to fire-adapted landscapes" as part of the FFERAL Lecture Series! Register here: tinyurl.com/5n74jrpm

A message from Jim Durglo, a long time indigenous forest and fire management advocate. medium.com/@intertribal...

www.leuphana.de/en/ Come work in our unique long-term grassland priority effect experiment, POEM, in the beautiful Lüneburg Heathland. PhD position available in my lab to start ASAP to see if sowing forbs or legumes early continues to affect root distribution.

I don't know why it took me so long to make the switch, but after painfully slow Google searches resulting in sponsored results and trying to work with add-ons to resolve the issues, I moved to Mozilla Firefox. Fast, specific searches have returned!

Job opportunity!! Communications and social media coordinator for the Thunderbird Collective. Come change the world of fire with us! More job postings to follow in the next month

Great collection of articles centered on Canadian wildfire science cdnsciencepub-com.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/topic/cjfr-c...

This job at UBC (Vancouver Campus) also looks amazing. forestry.ubc.ca/career-oppor...

My colleague Jen Hollis just shared this awesome job in Perth Australia for a fire ecologist. Sharing with just the community that I follow on BlueSky. WA = Western Australia! search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...

Stoked to have contributed to this new paper in BioScience - "Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes". "Within protected areas, there is an urgent need to rethink what we are protecting: the current landscape conditions or the landscape dynamics that generate those conditions" 🧪🌍

Been working on this story and paintings for months, and following this industrial road proposal for years. At last, here's a brief tale of tribes' generations-long fight to preserve the integrity and connectivity of their ancestral lands and waters, and the wild foods that they sustain.

Baked my Grandma's recipe for bread pudding today. Comfort food was called for after another brutal week in the news. Sharing for all of you bread pudding and raisin lovers out there. Others should probably pass on this one.

Don’t Believe Him www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o... This is a most insightful article on King Trump. Do read, it'll cheer you up.

Join us tomorrow, February 11 at 10am PT for the second session of the CFSC Seminar Series! Sara A. Clark and Jenna Archer will present "Realignment of Federal Environmental Policies to Recognize Fire’s Role." Register here: https://buff.ly/3E9xqsG

So, what did you do with your winter weekend? Backed up my datasets that were on federal cloud computing resources. Sharing in case you need the reminder to do so.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The FFERAL Lecture Series returns on January 29th at 3pm with Professor Don Hankins! Join us in person or via Zoom for the inaugural lecture on "Ecocultural Stewardship of Oak Woodlands and Riparian Forests for Diverse Outcomes." Register here:

Yes. I keep coming back to the points Julie Cordero-Lamb, Teresa Romero and I made in this article: bsky.app/profile/jdal...

Fueling Collaboration's panel discussion about "Expanding the Fuels Planning Toolkit" will be held on January 16, 10:00-11:30 AM CT. For more information and to register: www.fuelingcollab.com/episode-5-3 #firescience #prescribedfire #RxFire

I've seen a few posts asking what those who have lost everything in #LAFires can do now. Strongly recommend looking at resources from @afterthefireusa.bsky.social on their website. Started by Tubbs Fire survivors. They've been through it, follow their advice. afterthefireusa.org

About 70% of native bees in the US nest in the ground and are the most vulnerable bees to our high-pesticide agriculture. Native bees are the backbone of pollination services yet are in steep decline. If we value our abundant food supply, we need to protect our native bees. 🧪 🌍 tinyurl.com/54xjat4j

"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is absed on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex hisory will determine our lives."

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil 4x more than electric cars due to their staggering uptake in China and elsewhere.

www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no... "In practice, scientists have found that humanity’s relationship to the natural world is far more complex than we often assume..,"

Check out this series - www.springeropen.com/collections/...

A challenge to models of old forest deveopment in the PNW: the biggest paradigm shift I have witnessed for this region, including respectful engagement with Indigenous experts. Sharing two important articles: www.frontiersin.org/journals/env... esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Something hopeful to share today as we grasp at some goodness in the world. Forest Climate Adaptation Strategies - ESRI Experience Map: experience.arcgis.com/experience/f...

Happy to share a newly published paper co-led by Jessie Thoreson, Kathy McCovey, and Colleeen Rossier. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Wow. This aspen science story is awesome.

Of all of the short-sighted decisions. Once again, short-term risk reduction contributes to mounting risks associated with excluding fire from fire-adapted ecosystems of California. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Indigenous Wisdom - Lyla June Johnson www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwYv...

Inspiring op ed by @firebobbc.bsky.social and @amycardinal.bsky.social vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

Sharing an important PNAS perspective piece from my colleague Don Hankins on ecocultural stewardship. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Want to help make old natural history collection be digitized and publicly available? Check out all of these projects where you can transcribe labels of old museum collections. It's kinda fun to see what the next one will be :) www.zooniverse.org/organization...

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ScienceSky 🧪 can chime in here too, but this is all true and not getting better. I get dozens of spam emails from predatory journals daily, and it's definitely still "publish or perish" out here in academia. Gift link : wapo.st/4b4sKPu

Unfortunately, wildfire preparation is becoming a necessity for ever-growing swaths of the nation. What can we learn from Indigenous communities about fighting fire with fire? Find out on the latest episode of Climate One, now streaming on all major podcast platforms.

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