This is so outrageous that there are hardly any words to describe the disgrace. The EU marks a low moment for citizens' health, for science, for democracy, for biodiversity, and for farmers. Congratulations for those who've just shown us who's the real boss in this puppet theatre.

The research org CNRS will end access to the Web of Science, shifting towards qualitative research assessment and open tools. It’s a strong move for #OpenScience, reducing reliance on proprietary metrics and supporting fairer, more transparent evaluation.

The DFG research training group on the Economics of Connected Natural Commons: Atmosphere and Biodiversity (ECO-N) at Leipzig University is happy to announce vacancies for another 14 doctoral researcher positions. www.eco-n.org uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/9... @unileipzig.bsky.social

The obsession with “star scientists” and “attracting top talent” fundamentally misunderstands research and higher education. Create a healthy environment that is attractive to all manner of scientists. Because that run of the mill, non-transformative, maybe slightly boring research matters, too.

#PatternFormation in the real world. This looks like spiral waves which can be modelled by the reaction–diffusion system of Fitzhugh–Nagumo type 🤓🤩

🚨New blog post: Replicators, rejoice! Episode 1 of the new series is out: “A New README.” A practical guide to transforming messy project folders into clear, well-structured documentation that strengthens transparency and reproducibility. See more at i4replication.org/dont-panic-a...

Origin of the Universe and Comics 🤓❤️🧐

🌊Watch out for the AI slop flood 🌊 “I don’t find this a compelling argument for putting your name on 100 papers that you could not have possibly meaningfully contributed to” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

🌺🌸🌼 Flowers are still around. I spotted these freeze-hardy species on my walk in Leipzig Hoary alyssum/Berteroa incana Black horehound/Ballota nigra Shepherd's purse/Capsella bursa-pastoris With the help of #FloraIncognita.

Really nice visualisation of tree evolution, physiology, and processes! Great for teaching. Thanks for sharing!

Today #WorldSoilDay we’re shining a light on the most hidden and underrated part of plants: 🌱 ROOTS 🌱 But not just any roots… let’s talk about SUPER ROOTS 🦸

Excited 😄 & tired 😴 after my last talk for this year 🎉 @ Inst. of Environmental Systems Research, Uni Osnabrück. Thanks Frank Hilkert for being such a welcoming host! Thanks to all who joined for Q&A 😊 Andreas Focks & all I thoroughly enjoyed discussing ML, maths modelling & bifurcation analysis

This goes into my #teaching slides on #NoCorporateLLMs for learning. Beware of #SkillAtrophy

#knowledgeSlavery is a very fitting term!

As someone who has begun changing his wardrobe to match his classes and science (and because I love it), I approve this message. www.science.org/content/arti...

Traditional clustering methods aim to group unlabelled data points based on their similarity to each other. However, clustering, in the absence of additional information, is an ill-posed problem as there may be many different, yet equally valid, ways to partition a dataset.

“Info overload &misinformation get a lot of attention. Meanwhile, the people who work to the standards of science to uncover reliable information & share knowledge & protect public’s access to it-s.a.librarians,editors,research integrity officers & specialist journalists-are overlooked & undermined”

New preprint for the #DeepFeatures project: Why choose between spatial detail and temporal fidelity in #EO data? We developed a #ContextAware #multimodalAI framework that unifies satellite data ( #Sentinel1 & #Sentinel2) into a single, high-resolution view of land surface properties. #AI4Science

Academia has a problem in elevating terrible people into positions of power. "Sure, this person is a narcissist and sociopath, but they get things done! That's a bargain I'm willing to make." It is indeed hard to get things done in academia, so I understand the temptation. But it often ends badly.

“Originally a “computer” was a person ...” “Credited or not, these pioneering women & their contributions have been mostly forgotten, & only in recent decades have their roles come to light again. But why were they obscured by history in the first place?” physicsworld.com/a/the-forgot...

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There are over 1️⃣6️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ gas & oil lobbyists at COP30 👇 What a shocking failure. Would you allow tobacco lobbyists into a world health conference? There will be 0️⃣ lobbyists at the National Emergency Briefing on the #climate and #nature crisis on 27th November. Is your MP attending? www.nebriefing.org

Read more about the projects: www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/erga-at... @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social @ikeririsarri.bsky.social

Over 2,600🌳 #trees during the 2018–2020 #drought : • Traits disadvantageous in normal years became beneficial under drought • Trees grew better with neighbours whose hydro-functional traits differed from their own 🗞️Paper out now @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"We’re looking at four more years of #deregulation [#simplification 💩]. They have accepted that rolling back much of the green deal is their mandate, and when you’re holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail” #Weber #EPP

New study led by @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social shows: forest stands made up of tree species with different water-use strategies (not just many species) grow better in drought years. #iDivResearch #Biodiversity www.idiv.de/diverse-fore...

Excited to be @ #partWiss25 today & share my #spatioTemporal analysis approach to study plant group behaviour from #citizenScience. #Phenology from ground observations would’t be possible @ large scale without enthusiastic #FloraIncognita users. Thanks for organising @alettabonn.bsky.social + Team

You thought the pictures from last night were incredible? Look at this!

😲 Who knew that you only have to establish your own journal to have higher profit margins than the pharma or the oil industry… 😲 With us scientists loving to work for free… Put that keyboard away. Your super-yacht is waiting. 🛥️ An insightful analysis on the Drain of Scientific Publishing 📈

Prof. @tokehoye.bsky.social (Aarhus University) and I have an open PhD position (jointly advised) on biodiversity monitoring with camera trap networks. Deadline: 15-Jan-2026 Please help us share this post among students you know with an interest in Machine Learning and Biodiversity! 🤖🪲🌱

Time for some music after another intense week with an ESA review meeting, teaching, great science discussions, and way too much screen time. Vince Guaraldi Rain, rain go away m.youtube.com/results?sp=m...

Do you really want to use corporate AI LLM as search engines? “Google said its Gemma models were built for AI developers and researchers, not for factual assistance or for consumers.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

🌍 Reducing scientific travel cuts CO2 emissions but fragments the scientific networks. With Tommaso Alberti on the @egu.eu Nonlinear Processes blog, we move from carbon accounting to carbon investment: travel less, but travel with purpose to keep science connected. 👉 blogs.egu.eu/divisions/np...

Check out: New PhenObs paper published in ‘Basic and Applied Ecology’. We used historical data from Vienna and recently collected data from PhenObs to investigate whether phenological changes due to climate change (temporal scale) are also reflected on a spatial scale. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...

📖Published📖 Using observations from ground-based seismometers and trunk-mounted accelerometers, authors isolated and analysed tree sway signals based on spectral decomposition and vibrational mode tracking 🌳 Find out more here 👇 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/PBqOGcv

The seismic fingerprint of wind-induced tree sway @besmacro.bsky.social lead by Umlauft @scadsai.bsky.social w @chriswernerlab.bsky.social , Wirth @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social , Gerberding, Kattenborn @ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social #forestMonitoring #ML #timeSeries #treeSway #spectralAnalysis

#Poetic #Phenology #PlantTraits

“The process of making a nonlinear feedback model is itself a nonlinear feedback process.”

📢 BREAKING: The new #StateOfClimateAction 2025 report is live! The report finds global efforts fall far short of what’s needed to keep the #ParisAgreement goal within reach—not a single one of the 45 indicators is on track for 2030. Read the report: bit.ly/4o6hPwm #COP30 @wriclimate.bsky.social

More evidence that we must consider carefully if & how we use corporate LLMs. They’re bad search engines. “European Broadcasting Union (EBU) & BBC has found that AI assistants … routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform.” www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Lab’s 1st preprint! Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate. @cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation. He is on the job market!

🚨#JobAlert Are you currently a #student living in Germany and looking for a part-time & remote job? This opportunity is waiting for you! #EGU are looking for a Community Development Assistant work-student to join their communications team! 📅Apply by 24 October 2025. Learn more here: egu.eu/9Y1PZ8

Big data: Some statistical issues 🌎🌐 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Mid-September a new #BioSmoke campaign in Spain kicked off 🇪🇸. Julia Olbrich collected pyrophyte leaf samples, while Kai Weber (@kai-jwd.bsky.social) ran vegetation surveys and drone-based LiDAR & hyperspectral imaging in a region with high wildfire risk near Albacete (Castilla-La Mancha).

RIP Jane Goodall (1934-2025) 🌸❤️🌸 One of the few visible women of my childhood. In 1962 she had no degree and became only the 8th female PhD student at University of Cambridge.

New #GreenToGrey analysis includes land of any size, where #EEA excludes areas <50,000 sq metres. BUT many little areas add up! “resulting in estimates 1.5 times larger than the EEA’s calculations” Let’s help them expand this analysis globally visit greentogrey.eu #sentinel2 #citizenScience

Nature in Europe is being lost piece by piece. Using our method, journalists from 11 countries have uncovered the extent of the nature loss. www.theguardian.com/environment/... The #greentogrey project was coordinated by @journalismarena.eu in collaboration with NRK.

#Forests are good for you! 🌳🌲🌳 paper led by Loic Gillerot with our wonderful @biodiversa.eu Dr.Forest consortium @idiv-research.bsky.social @ufz.de @melissamarselle.bsky.social