New PhD position in tree ecophysiology at BiFoR-FACE (Uni of Birmingham) 🌳 Looking at tree carbon and water dynamics under elevated CO2 and warming 🌡️ Start Jan 2026. See more info here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/376950

🇨🇳 Every second, China bolts down ~100 solar panels. H1 2025: 67% of global solar already. And before decade’s end, China’s solar capacity ALONE will eclipse the whole US grid. The first true electrostate is here—rising at hyperscale, rewriting energy history in real time. ⚡☀️ #Solar #EV #Energy #BESS

“Here, we painted some stick figures of bicycles on the road so drivers can practice running them over.”

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

If you want the Forest Service to be anything other than just a logging company get in those public comments, people

If you're wondering whether electric cars will replicate the inequalities automobility represents, check this out.

Critics slam renewables for land use but ignore fossil fuels' huge impact. Germany's Hambach lignite mine: 85 sq km pit, 300m deep, snapped from ISS. My first ever energy research protect professionally was on the externalities of lignite. In short: they are very significant!

Warum macht der Postillon wieder mal besseren Informationsjournalismus als viele andere?

Critics of renewables often point to land use as a reason not to invest in wind & solar. Land use IS a real issue for all energy assets incl renewables (unless on-site). But what critics conveniently forget is the huge land impact of fossil fuels. Aerial view of fracking sites in Wickett, Texas. 👇

"Why do we have to kill kids?" @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org

Excellent new video from PBS Terra about the long term climate change impact on the probability of death across the USA:

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have. I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

“The big perspective change from ancient DNA study is that people living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the same place thousands of years before” news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

There are no words to describe how excited and honored I am to take on the role. Already had such amazing support from the plant pathology community in Switz and cannot wait to grow the team further and see how far we can get in tackling our fungal foes. Look out for jobs starting in May 2026!

We mourn the passing of our Editor-in-Chief Steve Long. His vision to establish one of the first journals dedicated to Global Change over 30 years ago was truly ahead of its time. Through GCB, researchers have demonstrated that biology and ecosystems are not simply victims of global change..

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Disruptive innovation is a term popularised by the American academic Clayton Christensen. This is a prime example: learning effects lead to reduced cost of solar leading to more adoption resulting in more learning effects because of modularisation. Killer graph from @ember-energy.org

"We need to be thinking about the future" said the Climate Change Minister chaser.com.au/national/gov...

Come and join us in our new home - great colleagues and brand new facilities

We are hiring! The #PlantBio department at UIUC is looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in Plant-Fungal interactions. Application deadline is October 31st @dallingjim.bsky.social see the link below for more details: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

If robotaxis are Sputnik, ubiquitous, affordable, accessible public transit is a space elevator.

It's just a sports ban. It's just a bathroom ban. It's just a healthcare for kids ban. It's just a military service ban. It's just a federal jobs ban. It's just a university housing ban. It's just a passport & visa ban. It's just one Constitutional right. It's just your status as free citizens.

Alexander Gerst - Astronaut. Hörts euch an! Wir haben nur diesen einen Planet! Und erweitert einfach mal euren Blickwinkel auf die Welt! Was würden Aliens über uns denken? 😏

Understand what gov't is claiming right to do. Take away the "alleged." Assume US military stops vessel & finds drugs aboard. If what US did w/ moving boat is legal, then it would be equally legal to line up crew of stopped boat, shoot them all in head, then blow up boat. For drug crime. No.

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Perfect. thehardtimes.net/culture/good...

Spread the word 😃 Our department has an open position at the Assitant Professor level 🌱

The Norwegian Government has made a new tourism ad, and it's surprsingly honest and informative! 🇳🇴

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100. Our paper on that is out today.🧵

Et voila! Case proven. #solar

Congratulations and well deserved, Graham and Susanne 👏 youtu.be/euvGH-gOiV0?...

There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt. This is simply false. - UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh - panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life

In 1933 the Nazi Party looted and destroyed the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sex Research) in Berlin, the first clinic for modern gender-affirmation surgeries in the world. The Institute's library and archives were publicly burned.

“Drax” sounds like the exclamation you make when you’ve been caught doing something bad.

I see Markus Ferber MEP has not noticed that battery electric cars are now - on average - cheaper to buy in China than petrol ones, and we could do the same in Europe. The notion that keeping car driving affordable is connected to still using internal combustion engines is *ridiculous*.

Because destroying the US is not enough, Trump is using tariffs, visa restrictions, and trade deals to pressure other countries to abandon climate goals and increase fossil fuel use, further destroying the world and the future.

I think about this quote a lot...

To be clear what happened here. Israel bombed a hospital. They waited for paramedics and first responders to arrive. Then they bombed it again. This is known as the 'double tap'. You are watching unfathomable evil, armed and facilitated by the West.

Wer an Originalität, Integrität und Glaubwürdigkeit in der Politik interessiert ist, wird Habecks Ausscheiden aus der Politik bedauern, gerade auch dann, wenn man in vielem anderer Meinung war. Wer anders Meinende nicht aushält, jubelt und schimpft hinterher.

Superb www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.

Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities theconversation.com/cycling-is-t...

New PhD position in Plant Ecophysiology🌳 Study how atmospheric & soil drought shape tree carbon & water relations at the VPDrought experiment in Switzerland. Start Jan 2026. Apply here: m.refline.ch/273855/1759/... @wslresearch.bsky.social

Full article in The Irish Times:

v good post here about how 'The Ocean Cleanup' and direct air capture are remarkably similar in a bunch of (bad) ways --->> www.linkedin.com/pulse/ocean-...

The thing about 'act as if your house is on fire' is that you can get out of your house It's more like our boat's on fire. Or indeed our spaceship

I fear there is deep truth here.