How every layer of science's "self-correcting machinery" failed when Iva Veseli and I simply wanted to reproduce the findings of a high-profile study on gut microbiome and autism:
merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...
Electrify homes! Reduce exposure to NO2! 🙂 More programs like this one, please, to make induction stoves and heat pumps accessible to rural households, regardless of income!
Earth.
Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun. 🧪🔭 #Artemis
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15 days left! Submit abstracts and travel scholarship requests by April 15 for the EFI2026 Conference.
Join EFI in Toronto on August 4-7 to share cutting-edge research in ecological forecasting, to network, and to build capacity through working groups and workshops.
Find details at bit.ly/efi2026.
🎉 Release v3.3 of our open-source Python package for scenario analysis and visualization of integrated-assessment & energy-systems models...
Highlights:
- A new method to compute shares from timeseries data
- Better integration with the #ixmp4 database ecosysystem
- Support for Python 3.14
A massive No Kings crowd turns out in Minneapolis, Minnesota
thoughts on today:
1) the protests are good, actually
2) you should go to one of you can
3) it will do you good to see how many other people also hate this guy
4) you might meet people who you can organize with
5) there are more of us than there are of them
6) we are going to win
Figure showing comparative changes in cottonwood biomass allocation among stem, limbs, leaves and roots over time between the control—no irrigation and low fertilizer inputs, and the high irrigation and high fertilization treatment.
Figure showing average percent soil carbon to a depth of 150 cm in 25 cm increments for 4-year-old (a) cottonwood fertilized, (b) cottonwood unfertilized, (c) sycamore fertilized, (d) sycamore unfertilized, (e) sweetgum fertilized, (f) sweetgum unfertilized, (g) based on Natural Resources Conservation Service soil survey data (https://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/), and (h) in the adjacent agricultural field. Values are followed by the 95% confidence interval.
... measurements, including the full excavation of tree root balls for comprehensive estimation of belowground biomass and soil carbon 😍
It was fun to collaborate and help get this study revived and finalized!
This paper reports on a 6-year comparative field trial that was initiated with commercial partners more than 30 years ago, but only recent resurrected and written up long after any commercial sensitivities had elapsed. The trial featured extensive tree physiological and environmental...
New paper in @annalsapplbio.bsky.social – "Overcoming environmental constraints to high-yielding eastern cottonwood productivity in the southeastern United States" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
Joint ESA-AGU special collection: Ecological Forecasting in the Earth System onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... Props to @rqthomas.bsky.social @careylab.bsky.social @sokole.bsky.social and colleagues for their leadership on this!
Harmonizing Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Observations Over CONUS NEON Sites: Assessing the Information Contributions of Multiple Data Constraints
🔗 buff.ly/MrRU0SY
The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of:
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
Today was the last day for our SPRUCE experiment. Bringing it to a close after 10 years! mnspruce.ornl.gov
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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#AGU25 folks, there is a rapid- response town hall TODAY on the #NCAR dismantling at 1 pm, La Nouvelle Orleans ballroom C (per an AGU media advisory)
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
We could get rid of half of the radiative forcing of climate caused by aviation if we could get airlines to stop making contrails, mostly by flying a few thousand feet higher or lower.
New open-access paper from a climate physics perspective.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
📢📢📢 The application window is now open for YCNCC's Fall 2025 Postdoctoral Fellowship call. Details and application via the below link. We will start reviewing applications after 12/1. Please share widely!! naturalcarboncapture.yale.edu/opportunitie...
Excellent, well-informed new podcast! Like a ship entering a storm, we’re now entering the overshoot - a world above 1.5 degrees C #globalwarming. This requires a whole new mindset,
explored by Laurie Laybourn.
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
Reminder: two more days to apply for this opportunity!
Yessss new paper is OUT! Scott Ferrenberg led this effort to tease apart "nurse plant" effects in the Chihuahuan Desert.
Spoiler alert: don't underestimate the power of a little shade in arid systems
@scottferrenberg.bsky.social
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High-level conclusion: the environmental footprint of poplar-derived cellulosic ethanol production is much more sensitive to poplar yield than it is to poplar biomass quality (sugar content).
Similar what we concluded previously for switchgrass— doi.org/10.1021/acss...
