New GLP ECN webinar! Storytelling for science communication & land systems transformation 📅 Sept 30, 2025 | ⏰ 10 AM ET with Dr. Nicholas Magliocca (Univ. of Alabama) Come learn how storytelling can power science & transformation. 👉 Register here: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🦋 The Land System Group is now on Bluesky! We're excited to share some interesting insights from our research group at IAMO. Keep up to date by following us.

My colleague, Patrick Meyfroidt, has 3 PhD positions and 2 Postdoc positions as part of a new ERC grant on 'land use, sustainability, and democratic backsliding'. Hoping to reach Canadian candidates through this post. landsystems-lab.earth/news/25-07-3... landsystems-lab.earth/news/25-07-3...

Our new study combines snow-water equivalent data with #climate teleconnections in an ensemble-stacking workflow to improve seasonal #streamflow forecasts in #CentralAsia at various lead times: hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...

Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature go.nature.com/450KElr

#NewPaper led by Brett R. Hankerson, @tkuemmerle.bsky.social @kampjohannes.bsky.social @danielmu11er.bsky.social and Florian Schierhorn out now in Regional Environmental Change @iamo.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Changes in #grazing patterns explain post-Soviet fire trends on the Eurasian #steppe better than #climate. More empirical evidence that the build up of biomass due to the collapse of livestock systems made Kazakhstan a global #fire hotspot: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🌿 Join Our Team as Postdoctoral Researcher in Regional Climate Downscaling at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL in Switzerland and lead the development of regional, highresolution climate scenarios for Armenia. @wslresearch.bsky.social @wsl-dme.bsky.social apply.refline.ch/273855/1747/...

The data cover 19 EU countries with up to 17 years of annual data. It includes detailed crop codes, farm identifiers, and organic cultivation status—crucial for analysing land-use changes and farming practices

A comprehensive field- and farm-level land-use dataset from the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) is now available: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #OpenData #EUAgri #LandUse #SustainableFarming

Interesting new paper on European conservation targets and land-use conflicts Land of opportunities: aligning organic farming and conservation targets in Europe doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Congratulations to Future Earth community member Zia Mehrabi, one of three international winners of the 2025 Frontiers Planet Prize! He was recognized for research showing how agricultural diversification can benefit both human and environmental health. He'll receive $1M to scale up his work. 🌱🌍

The researchers contacted the authors of the original studies -- 156 of them. And you know how many were willing to share data? 14% of them. If we're going to address replication issues, it has to start with sharing data.

In it, we bring up four main hurdles we and other women around us have faced through the early stages of our careers, and outline several (of many other) actions that we see as necessary for achieving gender equity in academia. (Nice synthesis of our piece here: www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/in...)

Come join us at the Conservation Biogeography Lab @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social and carry out work on megafauna in Europe pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/biogeo/websi...

Putting land claiming on the map reveals that the footprint of agricultural frontiers extends far into seemingly ‘intact’ forests. New paper by @o-delgiorgio.bsky.social in PNAS @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social @tkuemmerle.bsky.social @yannlepolain.bsky.social

‼️ Last chance to register ‼️ Registration for the IAMO Forum 2025 is open until June 1! ➡️ Register now: forum2025.iamo.de/about-the-co...

Our new article examines the climatic determinants of the treeline in the Carpathian Mountains and how it is likely to shift upwards with climate change: doi.org/10.1007/s105... (1)

🌎 Call for Applications!! The GLP Early Career Network & START are offering 5 Small Seed Awards (USD 1000 each) for projects led by ecr's & practitioners tackling Land System Science challenges. More info here: drive.google.com/file/d/1qHkX... Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Come and join us in Berlin - at a great university in a vibrant, livable, and green city!

Meltdown of trust in weakly governed economies Polasky+ doi.org/10.1073/pnas... via "the intrinsic tendency for inequality to grow, media to boost perceived unfairness, & self-interest to gain rewards at the expense of others" however, investment in public good can create a high-trust state

🌾Is a new drought coming to parts of Europe? ZALF and @dwdderwetterdienst.bsky.social warn: Soils in Eastern Europe and some parts of Germany are very dry. An extremely dry winter has not been able to replenish water reserves. www.zalf.de/en/aktue... #agriculture #climate change 🧪

Register now for the #iamoForum25 “Rural Roots and Routes: Navigating Complexities of Quality of Life, #Immobility, and #Migration” from 18 - 20 June in #Halle (Saale), Germany. Early bird registration is possible until 4 May. www.iamo.de/forum/2025 co-organized by @isqols.bsky.social and @oenb.at

📢 Call for Papers! 🌱🚜 Navigating Change Conference (Oct 14–15, 2025, Tashkent) explores agricultural sustainability & rural development in #centralasia. Submit your extended abstracts by June 16, 2025! Topics & details: shorturl.at/KYpuZ #agriculture #sustainability #ruraldevelopment

Ihr habt die Bilder der Massen in Belgrad gesehen – aber wie war es mittendrin? Meine Reportage für @woz.ch gibt eine von rund 300.000 Antworten. Unterwegs an einem historischen Samstag. www.woz.ch/2512/massenp...

Wo ist die EU..? Man hört leider wenig von ihr… Angst um das Lithium?

📢 Apply now: GIS training “Online Maps” in Tirana! 🌍 From April 7–11, 2025, learn map design & spatial data analysis. Free participation + €250 scholarship for Western Balkans (outside Albania). 📅 Apply by March 24 via [email protected] #GIS #Mapping #GEO_WB6 rb.gy/3ihptj

"This paper is dedicated to the memory of L. Shevtsova. A few days before the first submission of the paper, we received the sad news that L. Shevtsova was mortally wounded in a missile attack on Kyiv. She took an active part in research, whose results were partly used in our paper." 🇺🇦😔

#2 Human Geography and Global Transitions: haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/... Consider applying to join our vibrant department 👋

Two tenure track professorships at the Geography Department of @humboldtuni.bsky.social, both initially W1 (junior prof), but with TT option to W3, (full prof)! #1 Geography of Global Environmental Change: haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...

Find it difficult to link your monitoring plots to satellite data? Our new python tool PlotToSat, led by @drmiltiadou.bsky.social makes it easy for you! 📜 Paper: lnkd.in/gGufwesj ⌨️ Code: lnkd.in/gNh_YH7M 📺 YouTube tutorial: lnkd.in/g9YwS3p4 🌲 🌳 🛰️ #forests #satellites #monitoring #machinelearning

'Open Science in der Agrarökonomik' Neuer Agrarpolitik Blog mit Arne Henningsen, Dr. Julia Höhler, Robert Huber, Jens Rommel & Carola Grebitus Blog: agrarpolitik-blog.com/2025/01/20/o... Paper: doi.org/10.1093/qope... @jensrommel.bsky.social @arne-henningsen.bsky.social @robehube.bsky.social

Register by 14 February 2025: Course on “Spatial #Analysis of #Climatic #Data in R” from 3 to 7 March 2025 in #Albania. shorturl.at/cmace #geoinformation #GEO-WB6 #GIS #BMEL #WesternBalkan #Tirana

Important piece on the role of Ockham's razor in the modern world of scientific modeling in @pnas.org. Conclusion: Complex models can be quite useful, and parsimony and complexity can complement each other in helping us to gain new insights! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Congratulations to Esmaeel Adrah on the publication of his first paper in #RSE! 👏 🏷️ In this paper, we integrated #GEDI, #Sentinel-1, and #Sentinel-2 data to map tree crops in a Mediterranean environment. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Extended deadline for abstract submissions: 23 February 2025

Interested in joining the GLP Scientific Steering Committee? Know someone who would be a great fit? Let us know by emailing [email protected] by February 5! Learn more about how our SSC helps advance sustainability transformation worldwide: glp.earth/news-events/...

Vacany 📣: Junior Professorship for ‘Economics of Agricultural Landscapes’ 1️⃣ Thaer-Institute & Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) 2️⃣ W1 with Tenure Track W2 3️⃣ Apply until Feb. 3 Great institutions, location & colleagues, apply⬇️ haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...

Important comment on the urgent need for better protection of Bolivia's forest - like in the Chiquitano Dry Forest and Amazon, from forest fires --> www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #FCBC @biogeoberlin.bsky.social

Opened Special Issue "Extralegal land uses: Impacts of illicit activities and armed conflicts on landscapes" Journal of Land Use Science. Consider submitting your manuscript. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

GLP E-News in January: Call for SSC Nominations, OSM Photo Albums, TWO upcoming webinars, and more! mailchi.mp/glp/2025_1

Join us this Monday, January 20!

Now that so many people are on blue sky I want to rehype this amazing paper by Leonie Hodel, @yannlepolain.bsky.social, & myself. I really found this to be one of the most interesting papers I have participated in during the last years. It is an outcome of @glp-earth.bsky.social OSM4!

"High greenhouse gas emissions from land use" in Germany, including from forests, cropland (arable) and pastures: none act as a sink any more (mostly due to drought in the case of forests), and drained peatland release much CO2. Report: www.thuenen.de/en/themenfel...

Who owns the agricultural land in East Germany? Numbers and insights shared by my colleagues Clemens Jänicke and Daniel Müller @danielmu11er.bsky.social. institutionallandscapes.org/contribution...

🌾 Excited to share our latest research (jointly with Carla Cronauer @pik-potsdam.bsky.social): “Climate and soil conditions shape farmers’ climate change adaptation preferences” Link to the paper (open access): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🔍 Here's a quick summary of our findings

Save the Date - the next GEO-WB6 online seminar will take place on January 15th, 2025 at 11:00 AM. Labinot Kryeziu will talk about „Scale-Dependent Diversity of Agricultural Land Uses in the Republic of Kosovo“. Registration: forms.gle/VXkh2G6oMKBB... #WesternBalkans 🌐www.geo-wb6.net