This was a fun collaboration about the role AI can play in scaling biodiversity information to meet corporate reporting requirements. While the technology can enable significant capacity, it needs to be applied in a way that builds on existing science. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Great coverage of Bear Gulch 🔥 in @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social +excellent context RE 🔥 west of Cascades from UW's Crystal Raymond. @uw-sefs.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social #HarveyLab #wffrc This is burning very close to our existing 🌲🔥 research sites. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Great to see Zia Mehrabi win the Frontiers Planet Prize, along with many colleagues, including lead author Laura Vang Rasmussen. Zia will be presenting this important work at the @the-nss.bsky.social meeting in October.

This shameful dismantling of NSF will materially affect the nation's economy, health, national security, and environment. The NSF spokesperson didn't go on the record with their name because they know it's wrong. A coward. www.science.org/content/arti...

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Really nice summary of the status of LLMs in social science research.

Today! Stand Up For Science - Seattle: 12-3pm, Seattle Center, Mural Amphitheatre. #standupforscience

New paper on how potential for implementing natural climate solutions in Washington counties intersects with socio-economic vulnerability. The paper highlights how human livelihoods, esp. in rural areas, are interact with carbon management. @phillevin.bsky.social journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

At what spatial resolution should we map forest carbon from space? [1/2] In our letter @science.org led by Laura Duncanson we reflect on whether a pursuit of ever-higher resolution maps is necessarily a good thing. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Post-doc with the Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute (ERI) to work w/a team of natural and social scientists on adaptation in the Midwest in sectors that relate to the intersection of urban green infrastructure with wildlife conservation and natural resource management.

Our read of the evidence is similar to this paper: even with ambitious demand-side efforts (minimize food waste, shift high-meat diets toward plants, cut biofuels) there is still an “inescapable need for yield increases” to feed 9-10 billion people while halting biodiversity loss and climate change.

The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?