@hannahritchie.bsky.social is doing the lord's work. open.substack.com/pub/hannahri...

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

Mir ist klar, dass eine Amokfahrt mich nicht stärker emotional treffen sollte, nur weil sie in meiner "Nachbarschaft" stattgefunden hat, aber sie tut es😔

Not a conference for me (way too large), but from what I see/hear each year, it's a really thoghtfully organized one in many respects. More of that at smaller conferences as well, please.

Zwischenevaluierung der Juniorprofessur✅️ Verlängerung des Dienstvertrags an der MLU✅️ Formale Habilitationsäquivalenz✅️ Die letzten max. 3 Jahre Befristung mögen beginnen.

When you buy Darjeeling tea, make a thermos flask full of it for the road, and on the train realize that it tastes like rooibos (even though the packaging definitely said Darjeeling)😭

Andere Woche, gleicher Zug, anderes Ziel. Ab nach Greifswald zu einer Verteidigung👩‍🎓

Der Witz ist: Wir zahlen ja alle schon. Der @nabu.de hat mal berechnet, dass jede Bürger:in im Ø 114€ 💶 pro Jahr für die EU-Agrarförderung 🇪🇺 ausgibt. 👉 Steuergelder, die dezidiert nicht nur für die Produktion von Nahrungsmitteln, sondern auch für Ökosystemleistungen & Biodiversität da sein sollen.

🧈 New Research | What Can Margarine Teach Us About the Future of Alternative Proteins? Thrilled to share our new article (w/ Cameron Roberts) in Global Environmental Change on the lessons that can be learned from the turbulent early history of margarine 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dank der Recherche eines Praktikanten entdeckt: ein spannend klingendes Studi-Projekt an der Uni Erfurt: www.uni-erfurt.de/universitaet...

Wichtige Ingredienz erfolgreicher Forschungsprojekte: gutes Support-Umfeld. Hier das AgriScape-Team mit unserem Beirat nach einem Tag intensiver fachlicher Diskussionen.

After France, Denmark is moving too: its Digitalisation Ministry plans to phase out Microsoft, switching to Linux and LibreOffice in the coming months. The goal is clear—reduce dependence on a handful of global tech giants and strengthen digital sovereignty.

Was man an seinem 38. Geburtstag so macht (nach Berlin zur Beiratssitzung von AgriScape fahren).

This, but for when someone on this website reinvents the idea of large-scale subsistence agriculture (“grow your own”) every 6 weeks or so

When you apply for a professorship at some German universities, you won't hear back from them until they fill the position – even if they don't even invite you for interviews. So it may take 1–2 years(!) of no official feedback. None. (Other unis here tell you they won't invite you🤷)

Petition to stop naming schools, unis, streets etc after people. Too often it turns out they were assholes at some level, but it's so difficult to get rid of them again. I know what I'm talking about, my university is named after Martin Luther.

📢 Call for Papers | Special Issue in Agribusiness 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 This special issue welcomes original empirical and theoretical research, review articles, and perspective pieces. Details can be found at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Petition to stop naming schools, unis, streets etc after people. Too often it turns out they were assholes at some level, but it's so difficult to get rid of them again. I know what I'm talking about, my university is named after Martin Luther.

🚨New paper🚨 Understanding Support for Inefficient Environmental Policy Instruments Why do governments use costly enviro standards, not more efficient pollution taxes or cap & trade? Voters misunderstand some economic principles joseph-s-shapiro.com/research/Env... 1/🧵

🌱 Is irrigation a smart climate adaptation strategy, or could it lock us into a problem? In our new paper in Earth's Future, we show how unregulated irrigation expansion in Germany can become an “irrigation trap”, intensifying food-water-energy trade-offs. Thanks @bartoszbartk.com for sharing!

New paper by @ufz.de colleagues (led by @jasminheilemann.bsky.social) on the complexities of agricultural water demand (and its impacts) under climate change and different sectoral policy scenarios: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Die LVZ zur Frage, wie man auf 50qm an die Schicksale zehntausender Menschen erinnern kann. Die Gedenkstätte für #Zwangsarbeit #Leipzig braucht dringend mehr Platz! (Paywall)

Great rage bait

One of my favourite spots in Wrocław, the neon gallery (right in the centre, but easy to miss if you don't know where to look for it).

I really don't understand the reaction/interaction dynamics on this platform. They can be frustrating, when (self-perceived) more interesting posts go seemingly unnoticed, while more trivial ones or simple reposts get all the attention…

Spannend (Erklärungen im verlinkten Text)

I lead the junior research group AgriScape jointly with my colleague Andrea Kaim, as equals. Given this, I find it annoying that it still happens that people contact only me with general (admin or other) requests. Even putting her name first on the website, slides etc. doesn't seem to help.

Plant irgendjemand in meiner Bubble, zur Fachkonferenz Agrar & Ernährung vom Tagesspiegel am 7.7. zu gehen? Ich bin noch etwas unentschlossen…

New paper by my AgriScape colleague Irina et consortes on using publicly available data to calibrate crop models: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper out, led by Samuel Fischer, on public perceptions of agri #CDR in 🇩🇪 tl;dr: people seem pretty open towards agri CDR; in contrast to some studies on tech CDR, mitigation deterrence didn't seem to be a topic participants cared about. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A downward spiral - climate change lowers agricultural productivity, leading to cropland expansion and deforestation, and thus more climate change. www.nber.org/papers/w3502...

Und nicht nur die AbL. Bei aller Kritik an dem Gesamtlade: Ich treffe immer wieder auf Landwirt:innen und auch Hauptamtliche im #Bauernverband, die richtig gut sind und mit den Zusammenarbeit gut und notwendig ist.

Ich weiß, dass sich einige hier mit großer Wonne über Landwirt:innen echauffieren. Aber derart dummes Zeug hilft wirklich niemandem. Bauern haben nie wegen des Dieselpreises demonstriert. Einige haben sich bei den Demos zB explizit gegen die Marktmacht des Handels gewandt.

Zurück in meiner ländlichen Thüringer "Heimat" staune ich immer wieder über das Bedürfnis mancher (erschreckend vieler) Leute, ihre rechte Gesinnung offensiv mit der Welt zu teilen🙈

#Helmholtz-Initiative sucht Wege, das #Wasser für die #Zukunft zu sichern: Leipzig ist eine von drei Modellregionen www.l-iz.de/bildung/fors... #Leipzig #Wassermangel #UfZ

Also: my great-grandfather was born in Austria–Hungary (Poland didn't exist at that time), lived through both World Wars, and still managed to live long enough to experience the ascent of smartphones.

À propos of nothing: when my son was born (some 18 years ago), he had all four grandparents, seven great-grandparents and three(!) great-great-grandparents (all of whom he met as a toddler). An amazing product of longevity and short generation intervals.

My lay theory of modern societies: over the last couple of decades, society has become at the same time much freer and much more complex. The former is great, but freedom and autonomy also implies many more decisions an individual has to make, without the comfort of clear, strong norms. 1/3

I am an AI sceptic, I guess. But now that my agent-based model has been translated from NetLogo (which I know fairly well) to Julia (which I know the minimal basics of), I'd be completely lost without the GitHub Copilot🤖 integration in Visual Studio Code💻 Still not letting it modify code directly😉

Die Verbreitung und Persistenz der Idee, dass „Umweltmaßnahmen [in der Landwirtschaft] langfristig immer auch alleine auf dem Markt bestehen [müssten]“, lässt mich verzweifeln. Es geht um öffentliche bzw. Allmende-Güter, bei denen Märkte systematisch versagen (deswegen haben wir überhaupt Probleme).

Perfektes Timing: ich muss morgen nach Leipzig, aber just an dem Tag beginnen a) die Leipziger Buchmesse (auf meiner Strecke wird von Fahrradmitnahme(versuchen) abgeraten) und b) ein viertägiger Streik bei den Halleschen Verkehrsbetrieben (ohne Fahrrad wird’s schwierig)…🤦

Die Verbreitung und Persistenz der Idee, dass „Umweltmaßnahmen [in der Landwirtschaft] langfristig immer auch alleine auf dem Markt bestehen [müssten]“, lässt mich verzweifeln. Es geht um öffentliche bzw. Allmende-Güter, bei denen Märkte systematisch versagen (deswegen haben wir überhaupt Probleme).

My favourite @ufz.de colleagues

Interesting paper looking at willingness of landowners(!) to participate in permanent (vs. temporary) agri-env schemes. I'd be very interested to see sth similar in DE, where this is very relevant e.g. for the planting of hedges. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

BIOECON Conference #27 “Economics, Finance and Nature Based Risks” Call for submissions is now available. The conference is at St John’s, Cambridge Uni, 6th-8th of Sept 2026. www.bioecon-network.org/pages/27th_2... Keynotes: Pr. Jennifer Alix-Garcia (Oregon State) and Pr. Robin Burgess (LSE)

Definitely worth a read.

"We used a very common statistical procedure and applied functions from standard R packages" really is not a reason for not publishing the code.

Even on my off days, hiking in the Harz mountains, I am haunted by my employer😁

I will be spending a substantial part of this week interviewing more than 20 people for three different positions...