🔥Wildfires are growing in frequency and intensity worldwide. How do they affect the flow of carbon from forests into downstream waters? 🌳🌊 Our new paper @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social with @waterik.bsky.social @ecfreewoman.bsky.social now online to read: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025... 🧵1/n

Proof that climate change is real and horrible: www.bbc.com/news/article...

🔸Innovative finance is driving a wetland investment revolution. 🔸Breakthroughs such as blue bonds, carbon markets and biodiversity credits are scaling up action. Learn more: www.global-wetland-outlook.ramsar.org #WetlandsWednesday #GWO2025

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Null results matter, but too often, they never see the light of day. When journals only publish splashy findings, we lose valuable science. That's why I'm excited about 2-pagers at @StacksJournal.bsky.social. Streamlined publishing for results that deserve to be shared. 🧪 #SciPub #AcademicSky

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Lakes contain most of the liquid fresh water on the planet, but they are also among the most rapidly degrading ecosystems. Ahead of #WorldLakeDay on August 27, see how you can take #GenerationRestoration action to safeguard these vital freshwater bodies: www.decadeonrestoration.org/lakes

Hot off the press! 🌐🌍🦑🍁💧🧬🔬🔎🌱📚 🧪 💡 🗣️

We are so excited our newest paper led by @ecfreewoman.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social is now out @pnas.org 🤩 Read it here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🌲 We followed a forest as it was logged to understand what happens to soil carbon at a molecular-scale. Here's what we learned. 1/n

"By contrast, in 2025 thus far, Bluesky has driven "a hundred times as many page views" to Southern Fried Science as Twitter." arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Deadline for applications is 28 February 2025. Do get in touch if you have any questions.

The full programme is now available! Take the chance, learn more about freshwater restoration, Nature-based Solutions and Ecosystem Services. The webinar is open for everyone and FREE to join. 🔗 Register here: project-merlin.eu/webinars.html

🚨 The next MERLIN webinar will take place very soon! This time it is all about 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗶𝘁 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀, from the funding gap, the introduction of an integrated modelling framework, to embedding a wide array of ecosystem services in an extended CBA. Register here: project-merlin.eu/webinars.html

Around 15% of the world’s peatlands have been drained for agriculture alone. UNEP’s Global Peatland Hotspot Atlas highlights the major threats facing these vital ecosystems and offers a global snapshot of their current status: www.unep.org/resources/re...

Very good news

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Research that resolves chemicals in an environment is key to understanding how ecological systems work. 🧪🌐💧🧬🔬🦠https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp7174

Carbon at the bottom of the ocean is so structurally complex and soil complexity increases with depth. 🌍🧪 #biogeochemistry #ecologyofmolecules

To make discoveries, scientists need to master a pre-existing body of knowledge that is specialised and grows exponentially. This burden is why scientists that make transformative discoveries are increasingly interdisciplinary and lead large, collaborative teams. Collaboration is essential. ⚗️🧪🧫🧬🔬🔭📡

🌊 Save the Date! 🌍 #SAME18 — Aquatic Microbiomes on a Changing Planet 📍 Barcelona, Spain | 🗓️ Sept 28 – Oct 3, 2025 At the iconic PRBB 🧬🌿 Join us to explore the frontiers of aquatic microbial ecology. 📢 Stay tuned for more info and follow us on Bluesky! #MicrobialEcology #MarineMicrobiology #SAME18

Academic interested in moving to Canada? 🇨🇦 Canada Excellence Research Chairs program is now live. @ucalgary.bsky.social is looking for (amongst others) senior research chair in Mountain Water Security. 🧪⚒️❄️ #academicsky Please repost far and wide! research.ucalgary.ca/research/our...

COMPASS! Impeccably organised and oh-so-fun to idea share: @icbm-uol.bsky.social @hanse-ias.bsky.social @chandnisidhu.bsky.social @daniel-petras.bsky.social tras.bsky.social @thilogross.bsky.social @nichollebell8.bsky.social @ecochangegroup.bsky.social @seamicha.bsky.social @prossel.bsky.social

With a cool plain-langauge summary posted at the @eawag.bsky.social webpage! :)

Lone wolf and constantly on the move. @ceciliapad.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

"keystone molecules": A beautiful illustration also featured in our perspective on the ecology of molecules!🧪🌐💧🧬🔬🦠 #academicsky with @florianaltermatt.bsky.social @tiannapeller.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Oh yes. Let's have a look inside Antarctica.

Wow! 1/3 of US lakes in no joke. Excited to read in more detail. Congratulations to the authors on an important piece of work.

Wow. Excited to think about if/how this plays with biological function and (modifiable?) environmental condition arcinstitute.org/manuscripts/... 🧪 🦠 🔬 ⚗️

BlueSky: Looking to make an academic webpage for grants/jobs but not sure if I’ve got the right vibe/content: erikacfreeman.com. Any tips, examples, or resources? Would love feedback and happy to trade feedback too! #academicsky 🧪🙏

A metagenomic ‘dark matter’ enzyme catalyses oxidative cellulose conversion www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

What separates life from death? Mary Shelley once wrote: "To understand life, we first need to understand death". In this movie, we see how a single-celled organism dies. The same matter in both pictures. It is not the same state or the same integrated complexity. youtube.com/watch?v=4bj6...

A most excellent idea

A nice one from the folks over at PNNL! @jamesstegen.bsky.social Deterministic... but the driver a mystery. Some good brain juice. 🧪🌐💧🧬🔬🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A positive vision: One day the Catalogue of Life extends to molecules: fully annotated, their functions and interactions mapped in ecosystems! 🔍 #ScienceDreams 🌐🌍💧🧬🔬📚 🦠

The European Research Council is on Bluesky now 🧪

“ “It’s the song not the singer” (ITSNTS) theory does that, also claiming that evolution by natural selection of processes is more easily understood and explained as differential persistence than as differential reproduction” 🧪🌐🧬🦠 #ComplexSystems www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

🧪 💡 🗣️ Just as genomics revealed the hidden world of individual microbes and their interactions, it's time to uncover the "ecology of molecules"—how individual compounds and compound communities shape ecosystem processes. 🌐🌍🦑🍁💧🧬🔬🔎🌱📚 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Organic matter is made up of more than one thing. 🧪 🌍 💦 🌊 🌲

“Organisms are made of more than one thing.”

This is a beautiful answer. But, if that is the answer... What was the question? "What does it mean to be "thriving" in science? " 🧪

Postdocs who can effectively integrate AI tools while bringing uniquely human insights may find themselves more valuable on the job market: www.forbes.com/sites/bernar... 🌐🧪🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁💧

🌐🧪🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁💧 Showcasing new NLP tools for ecology. How else can we take advantage and adapt to these new tools? If you want to follow along; more cool science from the Aquatic Sci Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/Lf9iN2C

@zoeschlanger.bsky.social This looks like some goooood ecosystem science content 🌐🧪🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁💧

If Canadian universities had a bit of vision, they would be launching a Manhattan project to poach every US-based top researcher. And the federal government would be drastically expanding tri-council funding and creating an expedited review process for those holding NSF and similar grants.

The early-career success of academic researchers is better predicted by their publication record during their postdoctoral years than by where they obtained their PhD, according to a study of 45,572 academic careers worldwide. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🌐🧪🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁💧 Aquatic Sciences... A starter pack :)

🌐🧪🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁💧Should academia follow tech companies' lead and offer funding for egg freezing? Will this help retain women during the tenure track? www.cofertility.com/freeze-learn...

External N loading reductions may strengthen and quicken the recovery of shallow lakes from eutrophication, both now and equally well in a warmer future. Very Schindlerian! 🌐🧪🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁💧

🌐🧪🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁💧 What does a leaf want to be when it grows up? An amphipod?

Just out #Ecology: The #year of a #leaf: Tracking the fate of leaf litter and its nutrients during #aquatic #decomposition and consumption. 🌳🌿🍁🦐 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #EvaCereghetti et al @eawag.bsky.social @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social #ecosystem 🧵 1/5