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

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...

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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

Look at the lovely post that Christina @oriescc.bsky.social shared for the EGU Hydrology Division @hs.egu.eu ! blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...

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

The Ganges river yesterday. Incredible visit. Thank you IIT Roorkee for organising this!

Photo of the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO, 235 m) captured from the smaller installation tower (81 m).

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....

📢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

It's been fantastic working with this team and I'm very happy our paper is out!

And here is our latest blog post on Parenting in Academia, shared as a contribution to the Young Hydrologic Society (@younghydrology.bsky.social): younghs.com/2025/09/05/n...

All set for another intense week of work in the tropics!

Visit to surface water evaporation and sap flow monitoring systems in the Atlantic forest, Bahia, Brazil. #UFRB

Embolism resistance supports the contribution of dry-season precipitation to transpiration in eastern Amazon forests: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 👏🏾

Thank you colleagues at the Ministry of Environment and UFMG for such great discussions!

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...

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...

Rainwater harvesting system in #INSA

"[...] 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...

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.

Something about LinkedIn's corporate poetry style keeps me from engaging with it. I must be doing something wrong.

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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.

Are you interested in #cocreationofwaterknowledge ? #CCWK this and other webinars are archived on our YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClp...

We are 'over the moon' 😂😂😂

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...

Scratching the surface. #SDTFs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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...

That joy of doing fieldwork with students in Devon... when the weather is actually nice ☀️

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!

Quick stop in the Cerrado.

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.

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

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....

Read this today before that Nature paper: academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

📢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...

Everyone wants a slice of Greenland right now, this is staggering: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@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!

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.

Read our latest commentary #article on #Drought #Resilience, published with @springernature.com in @naturewaterjnl.bsky.social 💡 👉 rdcu.be/d9rO2 #research

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!

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.

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" 🌿🌳🚜🪵🌍⬇️

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

This blog post aged really well: prenticeclimategroup.wordpress.com/2019/10/18/a...

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