📣Interested in investigating whether/how land users consider soil biodiversity🪱 in their management decisions & what consequences this have for designing incentives? While being part of an interdisciplinary research training group? Apply here⬇️ recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/33...

We already know the solution to these kinds of externality problems: heavy taxes on supply or an outright ban on the sale of fireworks. But certain champagne liberalists will immediately frame it as an attack on freedom.

There are many claims that AI is a “planet killing” source of greenhouse gases. But is it? This paper might be the most detailed estimate of the emissions associated with AI. It suggests that AI could emit as much as 30-80 *million* tons of CO2 per year. www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

📣Interested in investigating whether/how land users consider soil biodiversity🪱 in their management decisions & what consequences this have for designing incentives? While being part of an interdisciplinary research training group? Apply here⬇️ recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/33...

Success! After 2.5 months on my desk, I've succeeded to find 2 people willing to review (one already has submitted their review)🥳 Still: Reviewers invited: 26 Declined: 11 No response: 13 (of those two are still pending) Agreed: 2

📣The DFG research training group ECO-N at @unileipzig.bsky.social has just announced 14 new PhD🎓 vacancies within its 2nd cohort, on topics incl clean air💨, climate change🌀, soil biodiv🪱 and forests🌳. More info on ECO-N: www.eco-n.org Vacancy announcement: uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/9...

Falls jemand wie wir bei @agriscape.bsky.social Interesse an den Daten hinter dem KTBL-Leistungskostenrechner Pflanzenbau hat: Wir haben, basierend auf einem Skript von Christoph Pahmeyer, einen Webscraper für R gebastelt: github.com/BartoszBartk...

📣The DFG research training group ECO-N at @unileipzig.bsky.social has just announced 14 new PhD🎓 vacancies within its 2nd cohort, on topics incl clean air💨, climate change🌀, soil biodiv🪱 and forests🌳. More info on ECO-N: www.eco-n.org Vacancy announcement: uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/9...

C'mon, German is a pretty simple language

New paper in the #JARE 📄 🥳 To celebrate 50 years of the Journal of #Agricultural and #Resource #Economics, we contributed our paper "Advancing Agri-Environmental Policy with Behavioral and Experimental Economics: Insights, Innovations, and Future Directions" to the latest special issue. 1/4

Invited: 21 Accepted: 1 (and already submitted) Declined: 8 No response: 9 Uninvited: 3

Falls jemand wie wir bei @agriscape.bsky.social Interesse an den Daten hinter dem KTBL-Leistungskostenrechner Pflanzenbau hat: Wir haben, basierend auf einem Skript von Christoph Pahmeyer, einen Webscraper für R gebastelt: github.com/BartoszBartk...

I've always been wondering how many vegetarians eat gummy bears or parmesan without realising that neither is, strictly speaking, vegetarian.

It's an interesting experience to collaborate with ecologists who per default put the methods section at the end of their manuscripts because they expect them to end up in Nature (portfolio journal).

Thanks to Bartosz for presenting his work on landscape-scale agent based modeling of farm decisions in our AEEP-Seminar!

Der Campus ist schon mal sehr nett😉 Die Menschen sowieso.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Der Plan für morgen. Und da Hohenheim nicht direkt um die Ecke liegt, sitze ich gerade schon in der Tram Richtung Bahnhof. Ich bin gespannt auf den Austausch mit @arndtfeuerbacher.bsky.social und @beatleresearch.bsky.social sowie weiteren Hohenheimer Kolleg:innen.

Nachtrag: Hier dargestellt die "intermediate disturbance hypothesis". 👉 Höchste Artenvielfallt bei "mittlerer" Störung. Das gilt praktisch für alle terrestrischen Ökosysteme. /7/

Dieser Tage vertreten Irina und Andrea uns auf der MODSIM 2025 📊 in Adelaide, wo Irina ihre Arbeit zur Kalibrierung des APSIMx-Modells💻🌽 für Deutschland vorstellt und sich mit Entwickler:innen von APSIMx austauscht, um unsere Modellierungsarbeit robust und zuverlässig zu machen.

#GiveGenesAChance 🌱🧬✊ Das Öko-Progressive Netzwerk e.V. (ÖkoProg) begrüßt die Einigung zwischen Europäischem Parlament, Europäischem Rat und EU-Kommission in ihrer gemeinsamen Sitzung im Rahmen des gestrigen Trilog-Verfahrens. Zur Stellungnahme ⤵️ oekoprog.org/stellungnahm...

This retracted Nature paper was the second most referenced climate paper in 2024

Very interesting to see the diametrically opposed reactions to the #NGT trilogue compromise in my timeline.

🌱New genomic techniques #NGTs @envi.europarl.europa.eu team led by Jessica Polfjärd makes deal with @eu2025dk.bsky.social to pave the way for climate- & pest-resistant plants that give higher yields and require fewer fertilisers and pesticides. Press release⤵️ www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

I'd like to announce an exciting new postdoc position we just opened up to work on new approaches to indirect land use change assessment and risk mitigation. Please share through your networks! its.ucdavis.edu/about-us/car...

1957 begann in Deutschland das Atomzeitalter. Unten ist ein Bauer zu sehen, der noch mit einem Pferdegespann und einer Egge den Acker bearbeitet, während im Hintergrund an dem Garchinger Atomreaktor gebaut wird. Deutlicher kann man den Strukturwandel in der Landwirtschaft nicht veranschaulichen.

Another two interesting studies on soil carbon sequestration, this time by Raül López i Losada and colleagues: Synergistic effects of different practice combinations: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Sequestration potential in EU arable land: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Uh, spannend. Wieder was Interessantes was für Gesprächsstoff hinsichtlich Carbon Farming und Öko-Landbau sorgen könnte.

Important new publication: my former co-author Axel Don and colleagues have not found positive effects of organic farming on soil organic carbon stocks as compared with non-organically managed controls. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Towarzystwo wzajemnej adoracji is what this platform is.

Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement wirkt! Endlich hat beim Denkmalschutz ein Umdenken eingesetzt - das letzte KZ-Gebäude in #Leipzig wurde zum #Denkmal erklärt. Ein Erfolg der >1500 Unterzeichner*innen d. Petition von 2022 der Gedenkstätte, @ladenschluss-le.bsky.social, @julenagel.bsky.social u.a.

The art of the footnote oder Warum lese ich so was eigentlich? (P.S. So was = Habermas‘ Habil aka Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit)

Und in der Praxis kann es möglicherweise doch noch ein paar Hindernisse geben, bis das Geld tatsächlich bei den Gemeinden ankommt - wie dieser jüngste Bericht aus Brandenburg zeigt. bsky.app/profile/pleh...

Vom Prinzip sollte das wirklich Geld in Gemeindekassen spülen. Die spannende Frage ist aber, ob dass dann wirklich zu mehr Akzeptanz vor Ort führt. Das wollen wir in einem neuen Projekt gerade untersuchen. www.pv-magazine.de/2025/10/20/p...

Ich musste bei diesem Aufkleber an eure Forschung denken, @plehmann.bsky.social Weißt du, ob das Gesetz liefern kann, was es verspricht?

The count is up to 16 invited, 8 declined, 2 automatically uninvited (after a month with no reaction), 6 no response 🙈

My quote of the week: A professional with work experience and a STEM degree applies for a BSc in Business Administration. Question: “Why don’t you do an MBA?” Answer: “I’m looking for knowledge, not just a degree.”

Sometimes, when I feel like linguistically confusing my fellow German citizens, I explain to them that not only does my wife's or my daughter's name have a different ending (Bartkowski vs Bartkowska); as a family, we are Bartkowscy, but the women on their own are Bartkowskie🤡

It's that time of the year again

Nun ist es wohl offiziell, der Grünlandschmetterlings-Indikator wird nicht verpflichtend in die Nationale Wiederherstellungsverordnung in Deutschland aufgenommen. 😔🦋

Highly interesting and important paper by @goedelevdbroeck.bsky.social @yanndemey.bsky.social and others (not on Bluesky?) analyzing the reasons farmers had for their recent protests in different EU countries: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Still seeing conservation ecologists using the ‘precautionary principle’ as a catch all to constrain new ideas As the climate crisis takes hold, we are going to have to try novel approaches to conservation And some of that will involve taking risks

I've been wondering: Would it make sense to allow (and, for that matter, encourage) PhD students to conduct a replication study as part of their thesis? Where the topic lends itself to replication, of course. I sometimes feel that we equate "contribution to research" with a rather narrow...

I've been wondering: Would it make sense to allow (and, for that matter, encourage) PhD students to conduct a replication study as part of their thesis? Where the topic lends itself to replication, of course. I sometimes feel that we equate "contribution to research" with a rather narrow...

Could we please denormalize giving gifts that contain alcohol to people you don't know well?! I'm not drinking alcohol by choice, but there are sober alcoholics out there... (P.S. I'm actually in favour of denormalizing alcohol consumption in general, but that's less likely to meet with support 🤷🏻‍♂️)

Could we please denormalize giving gifts that contain alcohol to people you don't know well?! I'm not drinking alcohol by choice, but there are sober alcoholics out there... (P.S. I'm actually in favour of denormalizing alcohol consumption in general, but that's less likely to meet with support 🤷🏻‍♂️)

Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.

I'm still relatively new to this journal associate editor business, but it already sucks… I've had a paper on my desk for more than a month now: Reviewers invited: 12 Of those… Declined: 5 No response: 7

Who would have thought