Holy cow - hyperspectral detection of bacteria at long distance.... "The bacteria were detectable outdoors under ambient light from up to 90 m in a single 4,000-m2 hyperspectral image taken using fixed and unmanned aerial vehicle-mounted cameras." 🤯 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🆕Como centro SOMMa nos sumamos a este manifiesto 🌍👩‍🔬La Alianza SOMMa considera urgente abordar la emergencia climática con una política de país, basada en el conocimiento y las evidencias científicas, que asegure continuidad, estabilidad y consenso social. www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

Just got the nomination letter. I will be the new director of @icta-uab.bsky.social . Excited, scared, but overall happy to face this new challenge. Still, wish me luck 😅

Nothing describes our field work in Bolivia better than a picture of our kitchen table @demodrivers.bsky.social

Ruth López, a senior figure at Cristosal, the most important human rights organisation in El Salvador, was arrested by the government last night.

Nature research paper: Diet outperforms microbial transplant to drive microbiome recovery in mice. https://go.nature.com/42R2PJ5

🚨 Please share! The ATRAE Program 2025 is now open — grants for the incorporation of established scientific talent into the Spanish research system. 🌎 Special focus on applicants from the USA. 💰 €40M total funding, up to €1.2M per grant. www.aei.gob.es/en/announcem...

Here I with fellow human @trishughes21.bsky.social on History Hit chatting about the very long and mysterious course of human evolution podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Gold price hits new record! This is a disaster! It incentivizes illegal (the pseudo legal for Bolivia) gold mining in the Amazon www.investopedia.com/watch-these-...

X or #ElonMusk does not like our study "Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than #wind or #solar #energy" iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... For example, the post by @cleanenergywire.bsky.social on X was only shown 250 times, despite the large number of followers (>10,000).

War crime. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Top 20 European Alternatives to Major US Technology Services “Switching helps you comply with tight privacy rules, retain data inside the EU, and foster independent invention. For cloud storage, payments, AI, Europe has competitive, privacy-first answers” medium.com/@devlink/top...

This video is for all US citizens who are currently overwhelmed by Trump's more than 200 executive orders. THIS should be retweeted to the MAX. I never saw a more helpful video. (It's about two minutes long. It's worth a lot.)

Thanks to Ukraine, we will have a European alternative to DJI drones. kyivindependent.com/ukraine-can-...

Start looking into this: proton.me/blog/europea... Europeans need to plan digital independence from USA. Right now 5 US companies (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Visa and MasterCard) can destroy the EU in a matter of seconds, cutting us out of everything. @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu move fast!

#LIBRO En esta nueva entrega del sexto capítulo del libro "Una tormenta perfecta en la Amazonía", Timothy J. Killeen habla sobre la corrupción que rodea a las empresas Chinas que desde los últimos años han ocupado la Panamazonía. es.mongabay.com/2025/03/empr...

Samples in order, finally!!

Well, glad I am not going to the SAA in Denver. If they look at my phone I could easily be sentenced for life :-)

Well deserved. I hope it keeps going down ...

We can finally say: "A 21st-century extrapolation suggests an unprecedented increase in TC frequency, attributable to the Industrial Age warming".

Important study @science.org Advances Showing sediment records of past #tropical #cyclone activity. These types of #proxy records are incredibly important for our understanding of the impact of #climatechange on #extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We have a 4-year PhD-student opening in our lab, deadline on Wednesday noon. For anyone interested in computational genomics of ancient human, pathogen, or canid genomes. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud... If you are curious, send in an application!

When will humans go extinct? A Doctor Writes ... www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/litera...

2 hours on the decline of the human empire with the mighty @endofthepier.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/convergi...

3 post doc positions in Barcelona. If you were unsuccessful with your Marie Curie application but you got more than 85, this is a very good opportunity: creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...

COP summits are becoming like the world cup. This is insane bbc.com/news/article... What reason is there for 50,000 participants??

I think that all congresses and scientific meetings in the USA should be cancelled while Elon Musk is president.

Please share. 🙏🏻

A @johnrayinitiative.bsky.social webinar with @felix-detombeur.bsky.social and me looking at carbon sequestration in #Phytoliths asking if it can save the world. Answer- probably not, but it might help! All welcome- no science assumed! Sign up for your free place here: jri.org.uk/book_events/...

New study by ICTA-UAB unearths sophisticated year-round corn-growing system in ancient Bolivian Amazon The Casarabe culture built an innovative dual water management system of drainage canals and ponds. Published in @mongabay.bsky.social news.mongabay.com/2025/02/stud...

One of Norway's largest fuel companies just announced that they will no longer refuel US Navy vessels after Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy. “It made us sick... We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example.”

Normality bias - ‘the tendency to underestimate the likelihood or impact of a potential hazard, based on the belief that things will continue as they have in the past’ - is a very hard habit to break.

Mark Bush at the #ecte2025 the Upano civilization didn't collapse because a volcanic event

My dear friend @palaeoecology.bsky.social presenting at #ecte2025 in Amsterdam. Palaeoecology of Amazonian Ecuador

3, 2, 1… now!!! Starting the 8th conference of tropical ecology #ECTE2025 @soctropecol.bsky.social in #Amsterdam

Demodrivers post doc Kate Dudgeon presenting pre-Columbian landscape transformation in the Llanos de Mozos at #ecte2025

Very happy that Andrés Mejía Ramón has got a MSCA grant with the project "Tracking the role of subsistence in emerging sociopolitical complexity through monumentality (MONUFEAST)" and proud of being his supervisor. It's my first as MSCA supervisor, and we ranked 100%. Perfect proposal!

Capuchins are incredible animals, and even if you already knew that, this Q&A with Susan Perry, who has studied them for decades, might contain some surprises. It certainly did for me. knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

No. 1 ahead of the New York Times.

I'm not just a farmer, I'm a sentimental, localist, mystical, cows in the pasture farmer. Because of this, people are often surprised to hear how much I respect the modern food system. @charlescmann.bsky.social has just begun an excellent new series that explains this apparent contradiction.

Registration for the Radiocarbon Short Course will close 28/02. Come along if you would like to learn a bit more about radiocarbon as a dating technique or as a tracer, or you would like some training on OxCal; conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/shor... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @isotopesuk.bsky.social

Starting @endofthepier.bsky.social trilogy :-)

UK launch event for THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE HUMAN EMPIRE: 6:30 March 14, Aylsham, Norfolk, £5 in advance or on the door - details here www.thebookhive.co.uk/event/henry-...

Our large-scale biodiversity survey in the #Chaco and the #Chiquitania is running with 500+ cameras and 200+ audiorecorders in more than 20 landscapes in Argentina and Boliva - first data coming in!

Mapping the functional decline of top predators in the Gran #Chaco – a global deforestation hotspot. New paper led by @alfredoromero.bsky.social just out in Diversity & Distributions 👉https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.70003 @humboldtuni.bsky.social / @biogeoberlin.bsky.social

🧪 Report of @thomas-graham.bsky.social about our 2024 field work just published in @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/world/latin-... @demodrivers.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

In the middle of Bolivia’s worst fire season, I went with @umbamoxos.bsky.social to the scorched plains on edge of the Amazon, where archaeologists are drilling into the deep history of the mysterious forest islands. For @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...