Wildfire causes accelerated permafrost thaw in northern peatlands due to summer-time processes (reduced shading and soil heating) not due to winter-time processes (snow dynamics). Patience pays off - I helped instrument the site in 2014, and now completed by Stephanie Wright! doi.org/10.1002/ppp....

“Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.”— Ronald Purser www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

This one is for the peatland nerds: We are organizing a session on 💧water in peatlands 🌿 at the ASLO conference in Montreal May 12-16 2026 - join us! Deadline for abstract submission Nov 25, more info here www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202...

@bioclimatology.bsky.social hosted a fascinating workshop on fluxes anywhere and anytime thanks to all the old and new friends from across the German speaking parts of Europe for attending. here is a list of talks and speakers. and thanks to the Goettingen team for hosting

"Researchers are scrutinizing AI-generated sentences while implicitly enabling these systems to choose which scholars are cited ... which research directions might be promising. They are accepting the outputs even though the underlying information has been distorted." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Maybe the land carbon sink is weaker than we thought. Big implications: "A lower-than-expected land carbon sink would also imply that the land biosphere may be closer to transitioning from a net carbon sink to a net source than current models predict" Randerson et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Fully funded PhD in #Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver! 🍁 Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology, and more. Start Sept 2026/Jan 2027. michaletzlab.org Please share! #PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool

First data coming in from our Doppler Wind Lidar at the Acadia Research Forest AmeriFlux site in New Brunswick @ameriflux.bsky.social @fluxnet.bsky.social Cool to see high-resolution vertical wind profiles over the forest

Finally, the Streamline VS Doppler wind lidar at the @ameriflux.bsky.social Acadia Research Forest in New Brunswick, Canada is up and running producing vertical and horizontal wind profiles! Opening new opportunities to study land-atmosphere interactions and boundary layer dynamics!

Eine Idee, woran man eine Wahlentscheidung am 23. Februar 2025 festmachen könnte ... youtu.be/zvBCKISmQOE

2024 is almost history and the global temperature forecast for the remaining few days is rock solid now. Time to wrap up. In most datasets, 2024 will be 0.1 degree C warmer than 2023. Also, 2024 will be the 1st individual year above the 1.5 degree Paris warming threshold in all datasets. (1/10)

The message from the latest work by @ipbes.bsky.social is clear: "Previous and current approaches have failed to halt or reverse nature's decline at a global scale". We can't tackle the underlying causes of nature's decline (wealth concentration, gain prioritization) without questioning capitalism

Come and WORK with us - a super seldom opportunity: ONE tenure track scientist/groupleader position & TWO postdocs all on ecohydrological modelling in different landscapes (incl. peatlands) in Berlin, Germany email me if any questions. Check out the different positions here www.igb-berlin.de/en/jobs

🚨Now also available in English. 🔍 Research assistant UQTR: carbonique.ca/en/join.html Our dynamic team 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 consists of 8 professors, several research assistants and students based @uqam.ca, @umontreal.ca, @universitelaval.bsky.social, McGill and UQTR, and will continue to grow. #PeatECR #PeatSky

So happy to see the first batch of flux tower data for our Acadia Research Forest site online ameriflux.lbl.gov/sites/sitein... @fluxnetecn.bsky.social

A paper in Nature presents a machine learning model, called ‘GenCast,’ that can produce a reliable probabilistic weather forecast, expressed as probabilities of various outcomes, based on current and future weather. https://go.nature.com/3B8PsdD 🧪

We are looking for a postdoc to join our group at @gfz.bsky.social in Potsdam, Germany to work on drones, GHG, and peatland restoration. Apply until Jan 5th! And come talk to me @agu24.bsky.social if you’re interested! @fluxnetecn.bsky.social

📰Breaking News : the University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in social and/or behavior sciences applied to weather and climate studies! Come work with us! apply.interfolio.com/158935

Climate action is falling terribly short Time to bury the 1.5C goal? Absolutely not - why the 1.5 goal must prevail (even when global warming exceeds 1.5C) My opinion for Project Syndicate 👇 www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

Excited to share our new paper led by Jiangong Liu on thermal acclimation of canopy photosynthesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...