🌲 A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for the NASA’s new PACE mission: introduction to PACE’s hyperspectral, near daily observations of the world’s forest ecosystems Workshop!🌲 Registration for ForestSAT 2026 is now open: carlos-alberto-silva.github.io/silvalab/For...

Save the date! 48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions 📅 13–16 October 2026 📍 Leysin, Switzerland www.newphytologist.org/events/48-nps #PlantScience

🚨 GAMs have moved on—so it’s time for an update. On March 3, 2026 (17:00–19:00 CET) I’ll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R 📺 YouTube livestream link: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K... #RStats #mgcv #GAMs #gratia #statistics 🧪

We just extended the talk/poster abstract submission deadline for the next international microclimate conference! You can now register until March 1st at meb-network.com/meb-2026/ Thank you for your great contributions so far! 🌅

Oooh love this. Easiest way to parallelise anything in #rstats. Just add futurize() to your favourite function call www.jottr.org/2026/01/22/f... Thanks @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social HT @rstats.blaze.email

🗺️ fastfocal: fast moving-window and point extraction for rasters in R, optimized for large windows and common focal stats via FFT. Built on terra. https://cran.r-project.org/package=fastfocal #rstats #giscience #rspatial

New on the Belowground blog: How old do herbs live? plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/h...

Back from holiday and it's finally time to post about this. I am taking on a section editor role for the new diamond open access journal Biogeography, put together by @biogeographyjfab.bsky.social. That means that it's free to publish and free to read. (thread) biog.journals.sup.org/index.php/bi...

Forests in Šumava and Bavarian Forest NP are getting wild - describing their structure with #LiDAR was very helpful for #microclimate modelling. Here are a just few pics from the #fieldwork:

We paired #microclimate with #LiDAR to create 5m resolution temperature grids for the #BohemianForestEcosystem (NP Šumava and NP Bavarian Forest)🍁 Beside large microclimatic variability, our data reveals also systematic differences from #SoilTemp, #ForestTemp and #ERA5-Land doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Introducing the NASA Earthdata Plugin for QGIS! With the NASA Earthdata plugin, you can search, filter, preview, and download NASA datasets directly inside QGIS, no programming needed. It’s designed for anyone who wants fast, seamless access to NASA data within their existing GIS workflow.

🚀 Exploring COGs (Cloud‑Optimized GeoTIFFs) in R with the terra package (e.g., visualizing the internal tile structure). See: guide.cloudnativegeo.org/cloud-optimi... #RStats #RSpatial #Geospatial #CloudNativeGeo #GISchat

I ignored the strip.clip argument in #ggplot2 for way too long 😲 Combined with a small negative margin tweak, you can place facet labels inside each panel. A tiny trick that makes small multiples feel so much cleaner. 🔵 no manual coordinates 🔵 inherits theme styling 🔵 scales nicely when resizing

A growing list of 2026 geospatial conferences is live 🌍 URL: github.com/Nowosad/conf... If you know of additional GIS or remote-sensing events, please contribute. PRs and suggestions are welcome. #GISchat #Geospatial #SpatialData #Conferences2026

{collinear} 3.0 is now on CRAN (yay! 🥳) This #rstats package automates multicollinearity management to improve model robustness and interpretability. You can learn more at blasbenito.github.io/collinear/, but here's a summary of the most exciting new features: 🧵 1/5

Nice to have such a motivated excursion to our #microclimate research plot! @spacetimeeco.bsky.social

wow. Science of the Total Environment is no longer indexed in Web of Science. Be aware when deciding where to submit your papers...

🌍 How trustworthy are your spatial predictions? In my talk for the Rome R Users Group, I showed practical ways to evaluate where spatial predictions are trustworthy, and where they aren't. Slides: jakubnowosad.com/rome2025 Video: youtu.be/uZe7thh80MI #RSpatial #RStats #GISchat #SpatialModelling

tmap or ggplot2 for maps? 🗺️ David O’Sullivan breaks down the trade-offs in a blog post. URL: dosull.github.io/posts/2024-1... #RStats #RSpatial #Maps #tmap #ggplot2

A new release of the mgcv #RStats 📦 is out on CRAN and Simon Wood (U Edinburgh) has added some significant new features despite the small bump in version number: 🌟 scasm() for estimating GAMs with shape constrained smooths. Can be used with any family & smoothness selection is via the EFS method

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Atmospheric #VaporPressureDeficit structures #forest #bryophyte communities across #landscape our new #microclimate research in @egubg.bsky.social #Biogeosciences journal BIG congratulation to the very first paper from our #bryophyte lover Anna Růžičková! doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...

#ForestSoils are more than dirt beneath our feet: they regulate water, store carbon, & support #biodiversity 🌱 On 18 November, the #HoliSoils Webinar Series continues with a session dedicated to understanding & mapping forest soils across Europe! Sign up now ➡️ holisoils.eu/holisoils-we...

Atmospheric #VaporPressureDeficit structures #forest #bryophyte communities across #landscape our new #microclimate research in @egubg.bsky.social #Biogeosciences journal BIG congratulation to the very first paper from our #bryophyte lover Anna Růžičková! doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...

Submit an abstract to our #EGU2026 session "Microclimate Variation and Heat Impacts on Vegetation: From Molecules to the Biosphere"(meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...) @kalimiddleby.bsky.social @santiagotrueba.bsky.social @sonyageange.bsky.social @egu.eu @egubg.bsky.social @hs.egu.eu

📣So happy to share the PhorEau model, combining models of forest dynamics, plant water relations, and process-based SDM = linking ecophysiology, ecology & biogeography 🌳📈💻 gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/... ➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC

our new research - proximal #RemoteSensing below ground :)

💡 Came across this nice tool today: 🎨 qualpal for algorithmically choosing maximally distinct colors under certain restrictions #dataviz JOSS paper, online tool, R package #rstats joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...

Still want to make cleaning biodiversity data shrimp-ler? 🦐 Good news: We just updated our Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R book, so you still can! We've updated data for 2025, added new content & fixed lots of silly typos 😀 Live the shrimp-le life: cleaning-data-r.ala.org.au #rstats #ecology 🧪🌏

Dr. Brett Scheffers will be giving our October Funk lecture! If you are interested in how micro-scale variation in climate and habitat interact to shape biogeographic patterns, you won't want to miss this talk! Learn more here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/oc...

very interesting reading about #macroecology patterns emerging...just everywhere :) and what biological mechanisms we can (or rather can not) infer from such patterns

Occlusion in forest laser scanning is often seen as a problem, but it can also be an opportunity. Our new preprint tries to find the positives in the things we haven't seen. 🌲🌳🧪 eartharxiv.org/repository/view/10336/

If you maybe missed the #EOSummerSchool2025 at WICC, video-recordings 📼 and lecture materials are now available: youtube.com/playlist?lis... The event was organized in collaboration with EO Council (www.eo-council.nl), Netherlands Space Office (www.spaceoffice.nl/en/) and SURF (www.surf.nl/en/).

📖 Book release! Hinterland. Archeologie severočeských pískovcových krajin. Co-edited by Petr Pokorný, contributions from Jindra Prach and Jan Hošek (CTS). An illustrated journey (100+ images) through 20,000 years of sandstone landscapes, from the Ice Age to today. 🔗 www.kosmas.cz/knihy/559021...

🔔 Register now for the #C3S User Workshop on 20 Oct. in Prague, an in-person event for users to explore climate data tools and real-world applications, with hands-on training and networking opportunities. 📅 Sign up by 30 September: climate.copernicus.eu/c3s-user-eng...

interesting method to measure #microclimate: about fiber-optics use in #microclimatology see also e.g. Tyler et al. (2008) Journal of Glaciology doi.org/10.3189/0022... Lutz et al. (2012) Northwest Science doi.org/10.3955/046.... Seyfried et al. (2016) Vadose Zone Journal doi.org/10.2136/vzj2...

We just published a paper that shows including lateral flow of soil moisture matters for climate once you get down to km-scale modelling of the land surface. More and more of our work is at these scales so we need to start including processes like this. 🧪 hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...

Had a privilege and pleasure to teach terra pkg (created by @roberthijmans.bsky.social et al.) and spatial sampling with R together with Alexandre Wadoux at the #EOSummerSchool2025 at WICC. You can follow the terra tutorial from here: differ.blog/p/processing... 📹: youtu.be/q9sQkg7BeAc?...

New on CRAN: mlr3spatiotempcv (2.3.4). View at https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=mlr3spatiotempcv

Like #microclimate, #tundra, #plants and experiments? Then apply for this position with @juliakemppinen.bsky.social Highly recommended....

📢 Materials from the OpenGeoHub Summer School 2025 (“Data Science for Earth Observation”) by Krzysztof Dyba are now online. Discuss how to access, process, and analyze satellite data with #RStats. 👉 github.com/kadyb/OGH2025 #RSpatial #RemoteSensing #GISchat

Our paper now in @nature.com Scientific Data "Global 30-m annual median vegetation height maps (2000–2022) based on ICESat-2 data and ML" doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🌍 stac.openlandmap.org/gpw_gsvh-30m... 📱 global-pasture-watch.projects.earthengine.app/view/gsvh-30m 📰 landcarbonlab.org/insights/glo...

🌳 New Tansley Insight! What really limits tree growth—carbon source or sink? 🤔 I argue it’s not either/or but a distal → proximal continuum: from photosynthesis to transport and cell division, drivers act together to shape C allocation & growth 🌱🌍 🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70516

We can't wait to hear Dr.Brian McGill's talk for this month's Funk lecture! Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/se...

Got inspired by all the fantastic research at #gfoe2025? Save the date for an even larger gathering of excellence in #ecology and #evolution at the joint #NSO2026 and #gfoe2026 meeting with @gfoesoc.bsky.social! See you on 14-17 Sep 2026 in Denmark! nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/nordic...

What drives photosynthesis temperature sensitivity? New #GCB paper from #MichaletzLab grad #JosefGaren uses #FAsTeR to show it's 1‑day weather, not traits, origin climate, or phylogeny! www.researchgate.net/publication/... @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca @globalchangebio.bsky.social

New R-package alert! 🚨 With tabs it has never been easier to reconstruct altitudinal shifts of biogeographical systems over time. Whether in the ocean 🏝️, shallow seas 🪸 or mountains ⛰️; tabs can project spatial configurations shaped by climatic conditions. ➡️ doi.org/10.21425/fob...

Do you use the gridded CRU-TS climate dataset? Here's a reminder that you can find the source observations in the observations folder, here: crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg... The format of these observation files is described here: crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg...

🌲 What if a terrestrial laser scanner cost ~€2k, and still delivered reliable forest data? We built one. And it works. → DBH accuracy ~1.5 cm → Tree height ~1 m → Open hardware + open software Accessible 3D forest monitoring Wherever you are, get in touch 🌍 Preprint: bit.ly/3HneatY #LiDAR