It took a long way, but FINALLY! Happy to share our efforts to investigate how #drying alters the #biodiversity control of 🍂decomposition in #RiverNetworks. We found that JUST 6 days of drying⚠️ halves decomposition rates due to structural community shifts🪲➡️🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Police: Officer brutally kicked by protestor Reality: Officer brutally kicked protestor Until footage of the actual events emerged, police and politicians called for more powers to the police. Will they now call for demilitarization of the police? counter-investigations.org/investigatio...

If you are a scientist working with fluvial ecosystems, consider signing this position paper emphasizing the importance of the upper Drina River as a biodiversity hotspot and refugia. Its intact hydromorphology is currently threatened by several hydropower projects.

Der @vcoe.bsky.social macht aktuell eine Umfrage zu Hitze und Klimawandel-Anpassung in Bezirken/Gemeinden und die würden sich über Leute freuen, die mitmachen! vcoe.at/klimawandel-...

Much needed piece in times of transphobia and institutionalized discrimination against trans and queer people! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Urine from intensive care patients contain pharmaceutical concentrations that are up to 10 000 times higher than what is frequently found in wastewater. This offers a great opportunity for effective on-site removal of pharmaceuticals. See our new #OpenAccess study here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

If you want to encourage (as you should) the EU to drastically ramp up their budget for biodiversity in the coming financial framework you can sign this petition: fundnature.scientists4future.at

Can a #scientist also be an environmental #activist?🤔 How much should scientists take part in conservation advocacy? Interested about those questions? Then, check this nice piece to reflect about how much we scientists can do to protect our natural heritage www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How does #biodiversity control 🍂decomposition in #RiverNetworks? In our new Ecological Monographs paper, we show that 🪲macroinvertebrate key taxa drive decomposition, while #FunctionalDiversity reduces decomposition #variability! Network-scale #BEF in action, check it out! doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Do you use the #rstats package dataRetrieval? We are looking for users to join us for usability testing. Your input will help shape the future of the package as we update functionality to serve USGS water data from new APIs. Interested? Email [email protected] github.com/DOI-USGS/dat...

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... . EFFS (www.freshwatersciences.eu/effs/index.a...). for researchers working in aquatic ecology and limnology: "Fresh Blood for Freshwater" conference series on March 13, 2025 as an online event!

OUT NOW: PFAS in firefighting foam - what 3M knew about toxicity and when they knew it. Our article in today's Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

BREAKING: Der sächsische Landtagsabgeordnete Nam Duy Nguyen wurde von der Polizei Sachsen in Riesa BEWUSSTLOS geschlagen! Nam Duy war als parlamentarischer Beobachter vor Ort und wies sich gegenüber der Polizei sogar als Abgeordneter aus. Die Polizeigewalt in Riesa ist einfach unfassbar.

University of Innsbruck among more than 60 other universities/institutions saying fuck you and goodbye to X science.orf.at/stories/3228...

Important petition to keep the Tagliamento, one of the last big alpine rivers free-flowing. www.freetagliamento.org/it_IT/home-e...

I REALLY hope both NSF & NASA see this and follow suit w similar rules. 🧪 Even the biggest journals would *have* to allow it or all the biggest publicly-funded research results would go elsewhere. Publicly-funded research hidden behind private-profit paywalls needs to go the way of the 8-track. 🗑️🔥

My latest post. Six of the nine planetary boundaries have been crossed and it turns out most of the contribution towards these transgressions is from the wealthiest 10% of consumers. I discuss a recent paper that uncovered these results and some of the potential to turn things around.

Save the free-flowing stretch of the Tagliamento, where new barriers are planned www.freetagliamento.org/it_IT/home-eng

I applaud the people of South Korea. May all our democracies have their backbone. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Simple and effective

If you're a scientist, consider joining the call to urge the reversal of the Green Deal rollback docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Ni Una Menos in piazza a Buenos Aires, contro Milei e la «femminizzazione della povertà» https://ilmanifesto.it/ni-una-menos-in-piazza-a-buenos-aires-contro-milei-e-la-femminizzazione-della-poverta

Important piece of research about challenges queer and trans people face in science journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

"striving for value-free science is both unattainable and undesirable" I agree 100%