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A tupiniquim eco/hydrologist.
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Giulio Castelli
11 days ago
At
@egu.eu
, our
#WorkingGroup
"Co-creating Water Knowledge" is presenting two sessions: Co-creation in Hydrology and Water Resources Management
bit.ly/3WAB5pv
Co-creation in Practice (Short Course)
bit.ly/4oOgPg4
Join us, and consider submitting an abstract. For info:
bit.ly/4oSImNC
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Water deficit emerges as a key regulator of above-ground biomass across tropical dry ecoregions (in the Caatinga). Kuddos to Alexandre for leading the surveys and the discussion so well!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Soil–climate interactions drive above-ground biomass in the Caatinga, the largest Neotropical seasonally dry tropical forest - Plant and Soil
Background and aims Soil properties are key drivers of vegetation structure, yet their influence on above-ground woody biomass (AGBW) in seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs) remains underexplored, ...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11104-025-07921-6
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Giulio Castelli
21 days ago
What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision
Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03416-7
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Giulio Castelli
22 days ago
On Friday, I will present our work on
#CoCreation
of
#WaterKnowledge
at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, one of the historically
#BlackUniversities
of the US. Thanks to Dr. Hubert Hirwa for the invitation.
doi.org/10.1080/0262...
@hsj-iahs.bsky.social
@iahs-aish.bsky.social
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Look at the lovely post that Christina
@oriescc.bsky.social
shared for the EGU Hydrology Division
@hs.egu.eu
!
blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...
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Looking Back at IAHS2025 in Roorkee: Hydrologists Assemble in India
Between October 5 – 10, 2025, the XIIth Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences ( IAHS ) took place in Roorkee, India. Overall, more than 600 hydrologists assemb...
https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs/2025/10/16/looking-back-at-iahs2025-in-roorkee/
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LEMONTREE
about 1 month ago
Ending the week with this paper just out "Global Assessment of Environmental and Plant-Trait Influences on Root: Shoot Biomass Ratios"
@globalchangebio.bsky.social
by Ruijie Ding, Colin Prentice &
@rodolfonobrega.bsky.social
🔗
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Funded by REALM-precursor to LT
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The Ganges river yesterday. Incredible visit. Thank you IIT Roorkee for organising this!
about 1 month ago
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Artur Lourenço
about 1 month ago
Photo of the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO, 235 m) captured from the smaller installation tower (81 m).
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Do conservative leaf traits drive biomass allocation strategies that optimise root-zone water storage and help maintain transpiration under highly seasonal precipitation? Not sure we answer this in this paper, but at least we have results to start discussing it...
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
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Global Assessment of Environmental and Plant‐Trait Influences on Root: Shoot Biomass Ratios
We assembled a large global dataset by combining several previous compilations to test eco-evolutionary optimality (EEO) hypotheses about how plants allocate carbon above- and below-ground (root: sho...
https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70543
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INFRACURSIONS Project
about 1 month ago
📢Call for Abstracts📢 Two-day workshop aiming to develop an
#interdisciplinary
discussion about the epistemologies & practices of scale Scholars from ANY discipline are invited to submit by 3rd Nov 2025 📅23-24 Feb 2026 📍Bristol, UK 🌐
bit.ly/438ddgt
#CallforAbstracts
#CallforPapers
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It's been fantastic working with this team and I'm very happy our paper is out!
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about 1 month ago
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And here is our latest blog post on Parenting in Academia, shared as a contribution to the Young Hydrologic Society (
@younghydrology.bsky.social
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younghs.com/2025/09/05/n...
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Parents in Academia
Raising a child in combination with a full-time career is no easy feat. That is true in general and maybe even more true in academia. Juggling the workload, conference attendance, or the potential …
https://younghs.com/blog/parents-in-academia/
about 2 months ago
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All set for another intense week of work in the tropics!
3 months ago
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Visit to surface water evaporation and sap flow monitoring systems in the Atlantic forest, Bahia, Brazil.
#UFRB
3 months ago
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Embolism resistance supports the contribution of dry-season precipitation to transpiration in eastern Amazon forests:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501585122
3 months ago
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Thank you colleagues at the Ministry of Environment and UFMG for such great discussions!
3 months ago
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A few years ago, we visited the soil-survey archives of a region in Brazil. We digitised the data and began developing a framework for developing soil maps that accurately (pedologically) represent soil profiles in the tropics. The result is here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A scalable framework for soil property mapping tested across a highly diverse tropical data-scarce region
Reliable soil property maps are essential for environmental modeling, yet conventional mapping methods remain costly and time-consuming. We developed …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950289625000326?via%3Dihub
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For context, the mother is an NHS staff member and the father is a Senior Lecturer at Exeter. This country is becoming very hostile to immigrants.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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UK Home Office tells parents their children should return to Brazil alone
While Ana Luiza Cabral Gouveia and Hugo Barbosa can remain, letter says sons, 11 and eight, must go back to Brazil
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/18/uk-home-office-brazilian-family-children-return-alone
5 months ago
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Artur Lourenço
5 months ago
Rainwater harvesting system in
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"[...] modellers stitch together data and theories from disparate locales, weaving them into seemingly universal hydrological frameworks. [...] however, it risks creating 'geographical chimera' of mismatched empirical parts [...]".
www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/al...
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Water Models as Geographical Chimera: Precipitation Interception Routines as an Example of 'Patchwork Empiricism' John T. Van Stan II Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, Cleveland...
https://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol18/v18issue2/778-a18-2-3
6 months ago
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Cabot Institute for the Environment
6 months ago
Cabot researchers, Josephine Walker, an expert in epidemiology and
@rodolfonobrega.bsky.social
, an ecohydrologist, have been collaborating with Ana Maria Silva (a Cabot MScR graduate) on the ground in Brazil and Federico Costa who is based at Baha University in Brazil.
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Something about LinkedIn's corporate poetry style keeps me from engaging with it. I must be doing something wrong.
6 months ago
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6 months ago
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KinarNicholas.bsky.social
6 months ago
Hydrology Paper of the Day
@rodolfonobrega.bsky.social
on extending the MOD16 evapotranspiration algorithm for MODIS: an improvement of spatiotemporal resolutions via the ESTIMET algorithm; day and night ET over all sky conditions; a comparison with EC data over Brazil; and spatial comparisons.
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Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley
6 months ago
Are you interested in
#cocreationofwaterknowledge
?
#CCWK
this and other webinars are archived on our YouTube channel.
www.youtube.com/channel/UClp...
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We are 'over the moon' 😂😂😂
6 months ago
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In times of AI we show how some robust tweaks can greatly improve well established ET models. It was a pleasure to have Cinthia in Bristol and discuss every step of this research!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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ESTIMET: Enhanced and Spatial-Temporal Improvement of MODIS EvapoTranspiration algorithm for all sky conditions in tropical biomes
We developed an ET model, namely the Enhanced and Spatial-Temporal Improvement of MODIS EvapoTranspiration (ESTIMET), for local-to-regional ET monitor…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425725001750
7 months ago
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Scratching the surface.
#SDTFs
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
7 months ago
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Richard Nair
7 months ago
check out our new review paper about how to put all the stuff below the leaves together to understand whole ecosystem phenology 🌿🌏🌳
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Below the leaves: Integrating above‐ and below‐ground phenology for earth‐system predictability
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
http://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70057
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That joy of doing fieldwork with students in Devon... when the weather is actually nice ☀️
8 months ago
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Juliano Sarmento Cabral
8 months ago
Call for applicants: fully-funded ISPF British Council Workshop on Future range of Amazonian Biodiversity, 27/7-2/8 in Manaus. We will train UK- and Brazil-based ecologists and conservationists on mechanistic range models and on Amazonian ecosystems. Details:
shorturl.at/hIa7Z
. Re-post, please!
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ISPF UK-Amazonia Workshop Future range of Amazonian Biodiversity - University of Birmingham
Call for participants in a fully funded workshop on modelling Amazonian biodiversity
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/collaborate/global-engagement/brazil-institute/ispf-uk-amazonia-workshop-future-range-of-amazonian-biodiversity
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Quick stop in the Cerrado.
8 months ago
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Peter Watson
8 months ago
Happy to share Bobby Antonio's paper on applying generative machine learning to improve skill at forecasting rainfall in East Africa:
doi.org/10.1029/2024...
Particularly interesting aspects are improvements in the diurnal cycle and getting good performance in an extreme season.
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Postprocessing East African Rainfall Forecasts Using a Generative Machine Learning Model
We combine generative machine learning with conventional postprocessing to improve short range precipitation forecasts over East Africa The postprocessed forecasts show substantial improvements c...
https://doi.org/10.1029/2024MS004796
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Probably one of the most underrated aspects of EGU is the free childcare service provided during the conference. As someone who has already used this service, I can't recommend it enough. The booking system opens TODAY at 13:00 CET.
www.egu25.eu/attend/child...
@egu.eu
#EGU25
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EGU25 - Childcare service
https://www.egu25.eu/attend/childcare.html
8 months ago
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History Workshop
8 months ago
UK universities are in crisis. Dave Hitchcock (@davehitchcock.bsky.social) on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be approached as an interdependent system.
www.historyworkshop....
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A Decade of Crisis
The UK's universities are in crisis. Dave Hitchcock on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be understood as an interdependent system.
https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/education/a-decade-of-crisis/
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Read this today before that Nature paper:
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
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On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities
You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a
https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/148/3/687/8058558
8 months ago
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Amy Penfield
8 months ago
📢postdoc opportunity📢 The Infracursions project is hiring TWO postdocs to undertake research on resource extraction in South America.
#amazonia
#anthro
#deforestation
#infracursions
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find-in...
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https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find-internal/list/details.html?jobId=373203&jobTitle=Postdoctoral%20Research%20Associate%20(PDRA)%20in%20Social%20Anthropology%20x%202
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Liz Bagshaw Glaciology
8 months ago
Everyone wants a slice of Greenland right now, this is staggering:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Fearing toxic waste, Greenland ended uranium mining. Now, they could be forced to restart - or pay $11bn
The island is being sued by a mining company over its decision, and faces paying nine times its annual budget in damages if it loses
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/05/greenland-mining-energy-transition-minerals-environmental-laws-uranium-rare-earth-toxic-waste-investor-state-dispute-settlement-isds-aoe?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Mariana Madruga de Brito
9 months ago
@taiscarvalho.bsky.social
is mapping national & subnational drought plans 🌍💧—and we need your help! If you know of official drought plans (especially in non-English-speaking countries), please share them here
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Your expertise can help ensure no region is overlooked!
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Help us map drought plans! 🌍
We are gathering national and subnational drought plans and need your assistance! So far, we’ve identified drought plans for 75 countries, but we want to ensure we haven’t missed any important documen...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfMMp8vXxi135UsBnZ7ZKjVa3dIN5EHELF2kSQW82LV6OIEMg/viewform?fbzx=-818640485994451556
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We can't overlook the boost that language models have given to the use of em dashes in students' essays and dissertations. I used to like them (the em dashes). Grrr.
9 months ago
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Dr. Marthe Wens
9 months ago
Read our latest commentary
#article
on
#Drought
#Resilience
, published with
@springernature.com
in
@naturewaterjnl.bsky.social
💡 👉
rdcu.be/d9rO2
#research
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Drought resilience demands urgent global actions and cooperation
Nature Water - The global drought community and policy representatives gathered at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification’s 16th Conference of the Parties (UNCCD COP16) in...
https://rdcu.be/d9rO2
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Young Hydrologic Society
9 months ago
The Young Hydrologic Society is on Bluesky now!✨ We, like many other scientific societies, decided to join the Bluesky platform. The scope of this account will be the same as before: We'll post updates on conferences, workshops, seminars, webinars, vacancies, etc. Follow us for updates! Cheers!
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Engage with the method not the madness - Nature Reviews Physics
The boundaries between science and pseudoscience are not always clear cut, as topics move in and out of the culturally accepted core of science. Rather, science needs to be judged on the merits of its...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-025-00809-5?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=natrevphys
9 months ago
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It's a real shame EGU (
bsky.app/profile/euro...
) is not posting anything on BlueSky (despite ~5K followers here) but has kept business as usual on X'treme.
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https://bsky.app/profile/eurogeosciences.bsky.social
10 months ago
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James Palmer
10 months ago
Calling environmental geographers, political ecologists and STS scholars working on carbon farming, afforestation, peat restoration & related topics! Please consider our 2025 RGS-IBG session: "Carbon Creations and Creative Carbons: The Politics of Carbon in Land Management and Restoration" 🌿🌳🚜🪵🌍⬇️
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CfP Carbon Creations RGS-IBG 2025 FINAL
Call for papers RGS-IBG 2025, Birmingham, UK, 26–29th August Carbon creations and creative carbons: the politics of carbon in land management and restoration Conveners: Kärg Kama (University of Birmin...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E_e687wyxCfZXsLbHWb7zmDSNuEnvUM0fNkReqmrXCA/edit?tab=t.0
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Working in forest/vegetation-related water science? Please consider submitting your abstract to our session on "Forest Water Dynamics across Spatial and Temporal Scales":
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
Solicited speaker: Noemi Vergopolan (Rice University)
@danielepenna.bsky.social
10 months ago
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This blog post aged really well:
prenticeclimategroup.wordpress.com/2019/10/18/a...
10 months ago
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www.spectator.co.uk/article/most...
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Most-read 2024: Decline and fall – how university education became infantilised
We’re closing 2024 by republishing our five most-read articles of the year. Here’s No. 2: David Butterfield’s cover piece from October on the decline of British universities. Last month, after 21 year...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/most-read-2024-decline-and-fall-how-university-education-became-infantilised/
11 months ago
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Raphael Viscarra Rossel
11 months ago
Good piece by
@natureportfolio.bsky.social
. The erosion of thinking time—driven by admin, bureaucracy, industry agendas, and unrealistic output targets—stifles curiosity-led science. These pressures undermine innovation and the intellectual freedom vital for real progress. 🧪🌱🌍
#ScienceIsNotBusiness
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