@csymons.bsky.social

@mphebert.bsky.social, Sierra Cagle, Celia Symons, & I are co-hosting a session at ASLO-SIL 2026. If you work with imaging, -omics or (AI-based) pipelines, please consider submitting an abstract!

SS031: Emerging ideas and technologies transforming aquatic trait-based ecology @aslo.org

Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold.

We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940.

2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

24% of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction !

👉 By Sayer et al. Jan 2025 in Nature
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔑 Multi-taxon global IUCN red list freshwater fauna (23,496 species) assessment shows that pollution, dams, water extraction, agriculture and invasion are the main threats.

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"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A striking image of a coastline. A photo of UNESCO DG Audrey Azoulay appears over the background image, along with her quote which reads "Our planet is facing growing environmental and social crises. Increasing evidence shows that these issues cannot be addressed through gradual action – our social and economic systems instead need large-scale transformative change."

The #TransformativeChange Report highlights the diverse perspectives of Indigenous Peoples and local communities and demonstrates that their practices and lifestyles are often rooted in knowledge and value systems that promote sustainability.

— Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO DG

Why Are Quebec's Wetlands Disappearing? – The Rover In Montreal, where 80 per cent of wetlands have disappeared, locals are fighting to make Quebec enforce its own environmental laws.

therover.ca/why-are-queb...

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️

So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?

We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary

#WomeninSTEM

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Taxing Farm Animals’ Farts and Burps? Denmark Gives It a Try. Cows and pigs produce a large share of planet-warming methane. A new tax is part of a plan to clean that up.

Denmark, home to five times more livestock than people, is set to make history as the first country to tax methane from animal burps and manure in a bold climate move.
bit.ly/3ZtQc5l #methane #tax #milk #livestock
@climatenews.bsky.social @climate.skyfleet.blue @wedonthavetime.bsky.social

I created a Winter #Limnology starter pack - please let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed)!
go.bsky.app/UnKfRfA

One of my favourite data discoveries this year: Google's mind-blowing ARCO-ERA5 dataset: hourly data for ~300 climate variables, available globally from 1940! 🤯

Loadable with a single line of Python code from a single cloud-friendly Zarr file! Below: a month of wind waves + swell: 🌊

I am looking for a PhD student to start in fall of 2025 at MSU. Potential topics include trait-based approaches to plankton community resilience, temperature effects on communities, harmful algal blooms and many others. Please get in touch if interested. More info: www.kl-lab.group.

thanks!!

may I please be included? thank you!