This is insane. 🤦‍♂️ Why do tech giants like Elon Musk and Bill Gates keep on saying such dumb things about climate change? They have access to the best possible experts, who could actually teach them something, if they would only ask and listen…

My favorite thing about these mental health in academia emails is that they never address the fact that the pressure stems from the consequences to one’s career if you don’t meet those goals

New OA publication from TreE_PlaNat project @uktreescapes.bsky.social in Ecological Solutions and Evidence: Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I know its that time of year but today I've received 5 PhD enquiries, and most are garbled LLM nonsense. I try to respond to everyone regardless, but this honestly feels insulting.

How many #lidars is too many lidars? Dunno, but I've definitely got room for this one - very exciting to be getting involved in the low cost lidar world

ah the leaves are turning and the men are giving each other prizes again the first whispers of winter

Our new perspective on what TLS can (& can't) do in forest research www.nature.com/articles/s41... - led by Eduardo Maeda w lots of great colleagues including @kimcalders.bsky.social @emilyrlines.bsky.social @louiseterryn.bsky.social @benjaminbrede.bsky.social (apols for any I don;t have @ for)

yeah sure I can write a paper and a proposal on two totally different topics today, on 3 hours sleep and massively jetlagged. my brain is not happy with me.

Having a great time at Silvilaser this week, full of inspiring talks&research on forest lidar. But it is heartbreaking to hear how many presenters are absent bcos they couldn't get Canada visas. We're missing out on great science and collaboration bcos of short sighted&cruel geopolitical decisions.

Every single time. www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterra...

Bravo Banksy. 👏 “A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy has appeared on the side of the Royal Courts of Justice building in central London.”

Watching the wind... #lidar

Pleased to announce that @tristramwyatt.bsky.social & I have a new article out in @uk.theconversation.com, based on work with colleagues from @scientistsforxr.earth We outline "How scientists can contribute to social movements and climate action" Here's a thread with some background & key points 🧵

We have to be purposeful about ending the use of fossil fuels because they’re not going to end themselves anytime soon. While wind and solar are cheaper, they are not as profitable. Therein lies the problem.

If you know researchers with expertise in forestry/agro forestry please share this permanent lectureship @bangoruniversity.bsky.social. The quality of life in north wales is fabulous: great colleagues & a stunning location. jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....

It's never bullying says the university It's a misunderstanding, personality clash, cultural difference, performance management issue, ill-advised but unintentional A he-said-she-said situation, the accused is under a lot of pressure It's Hanlon's Razor, incompetence not bullying @jcsj.uk

Just turned down a #manel. A 2 day event with only male speakers? To the kind woman who invited me - quit helping this kind of event, it won't serve you. Those in charge make their priorities clear when they set these programmes. Token diversity & words of reassurance do nothing. Just don't engage.

My university is applying a 1.4% pay rise this year, our only buffer against the worsening cost of living crisis. Why aren't our leaders aren't embarrassed & ashamed to treat staff this way? #UKHE is broken in so many ways, and these pathetic'pay deals' push staff morale beyond rock bottom.

Can we build high performing models of detailed drivers of #deforestation in data poor regions? Our newest paper, led by Amandine Debus, shows this is possible with collaboration and deep learning. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Last week was the final conference of the @3dforecotech.bsky.social network. Over 100 researchers showcasing new methods for measuring and modelling forests. We've achieved a huge amount in four years and there's much more to come.

Why are conferences so heavily photographed? I'm at my second one in two weeks with photographers and I'm so distracted by the moving & clicking. I understand the desire to promote events but it is disruptive when you're trying to concentrate and someone's taking the 500th photo of the audience...

Our new perspective on the use (& misuse) of what we're calling virtual forests (rather than digital twins!), for forest change from space, led by @kimcalders.bsky.social w many great colleagues 🔭 🧪🔬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Why is it that every time I start making a new slide in powerpoint I get a new default font? Why?

Just out in Science: we demonstrate a micro-evolutionary shift in a single generation, involving thousands of genomic loci, giving younger ash trees more resistance to ash dieback, on average, than their parents www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp2990

Good news research showing rapid evolving of resistance to ash dieback in juveniles. An absolute pleasure to contribute a small part to this fantastic research led by Carey Metheringham, @rbuggs.bsky.social and Richard Nichols

Occasionally I get sent the same papers from multiple journals. I'm always amazed if authors have ignored all the detailed advice of previous reviewers on the first (or second version). All feedback is a gift - and there's no easier way to make a reviewer start with a poor opinion of your ms!

If you are interested in learning more about efficient scalable ways of extracting time series, come to Poster P43 today Wed at #LSP25 and learn more about the open source tool PlotToSat. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

On my way to Living Planet Symposium #LPS25! Looking forward to meeting many of you in Vienna. Please reach out if you would like to learn more about @plottosat.bsky.social

- Too much pressure to publish. - More volume, less quality. - Predatory journals. - Crazy fees to publish your own work. - Too many low-quality papers. - Pre-prints masquerading as, peer reviewed. Academic publishing is broken. We need overhaul the system, focusing on quality not quantity.

Systemic sexism in academia: an early-career viewpoint academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Realistic models of the potential for global reforestation suggest that it could absorb roughly 5% of human CO2 emissions. This is still worthwhile but nowhere near a solution on its own. New paper just published 🧪🌏🌐

🚨 New study: Male lead authors are more likely to have papers retracted—especially for misconduct like plagiarism. 👩‍🔬 Female-led research shows fewer retractions overall. 📚 Science needs not just rigor, but integrity. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jo... #AcademicPublishing #GenderInScience

Voice of Victim "I work in student support at a prestigious UK University Every year I see new female students sexually exploited by the same Professors. Every year There's nothing I can do for them. It breaks my heart The University always supports the abuser"

Happy #WorldPeatlandsDay! #PeatColours

Super cheap #lidar fun with @mokros.bsky.social . Who needs a 100k Rigel anyway...

Why are trees shaped the way they are? This new paper analysed 374,888 trees from 1914 species across the world to find out 👇 Thanks to the amazing @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social for his leadership of such a huge range of contributors to make this happen 👏

This paper led by @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social was fun to participate in: The global spectrum of tree crown architecture, www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Now online!

Interested in extracting EO 🛰️ time-series at multiple plot regions? @plottosat.bsky.social makes it easy Follow us for updates, research and news! Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Code: #EO #forest #ML #time-series Tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItaZ... #EO #forest #ML #time-series

This tutorial will guide you through the core functionalities of PlotToSat. It will help you quickly extract Sentinel-1 🛰️ and Sentinel-2 🛰️ time series at multiple plot regions. The centres of the plots are defined in an input .csv file. #EO #ML #time-series #forests 🌲 @drmiltiadou.bsky.social

We are looking for a research ecologist to join the Board of @britishecologicalsociety.org. This influential role will help to set the strategic direction and priorities of the Society. Deadline 30 June with the role to start in December.

Sensors, scientists and sunshine. Thanks for the great Strucnet vegetation structural dynamics meeting @kimcalders.bsky.social.

Timbervision: a YOLO-based approach to identifying and measuring timber based on RGB imagery (Steininger et al. on arXiv). This is very cool and has loads of potential applications in forestry and forest management. 🧪

Our paper published in Nature Scientific Reports looked at the #foodinsecurity experiences of people who remained in #Ukraine & those who fled to one of Europe's wealthiest countries #Switzerland. ➡️ We find that 80% of respondents faced some form of food insecurity. www-nature-com/articles/s41...

Anyone know of a good guide for how to write a literature review for #stem #phd students?

📣 Calling all PhD students 📣 Want to learn how to translate research into impact? Applications for the BES POST Fellowship are now open for real-world experience working within the UK parliament to support the use of research evidence. 🗓️ Apply by 11 June

Great news - we will be searching for a tree physiologist (tenure track) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, UBC Forestry, later this year. Stay tuned! (Please share.)

Amazing images of ESAs Biomass satellite mission opening its 12m antenna in orbit. Looking forward to seeing the first data. @esaearth.esa.int @nceoscience.bsky.social www.esa.int/Applications...

We're hiring an assistant prof in global change ecology! Apply!!! We're vibrant, supportive, and interdisciplinary EEB community! Plz note the weird dates: We're reviewing applications beginning on ✨August 15th✨. I'm part of the SC and happy to answer questions! apply.interfolio.com/164677

And @emilyrlines.bsky.social also talked about using lasers in forests but not the burny kind of laser besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Universities need to recognize that racism, like other forms of bias in higher ed, is a provable scientific fact, must be frank about barriers to equity, & must devise clear metrics for what they are trying to achieve & measure progress transparently." www.nature.com/articles/d41... #AcademicSky