“NCAR has played a greater role in advancing weather prediction & atmospheric modeling than perhaps any other single entity in the world,” says @weatherwest.bsky.social
Dismantling NCAR would be “like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.” KH
The Trump regime wants to dismantle a world leading climate research center. Why? Because the US has become a petrostate where the government has been captured by fossil fuel interests.
They’re calling climate science “green new scam research”, in full denial of reality. 🤯
The 2025 Physics Nobel Prize was awarded for macroscopic quantum tunneling. What is this and what is it good for? I have a brief summary.
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#OnThisDate Niels Bohr was born! This Danish theoretical physicist received the Nobel Prize in 1922 for his foundational contributions to understanding #quantumtheory. Celebrate by exploring one of his lesser-known papers, which had a massive impact on #quantummechanics: https://ow.ly/xCbW50X5S5z
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit." This Collection celebrates the contributions by the awardees. ⚛️ 🧪
🏅 Former Berkeley Lab senior scientist John Clarke has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. His research on quantum tunneling in electric circuits paved the way for today’s quantum computers and sensors. 🧠 This brings LBNL’s Nobel count to 17!
@nobelprize.bsky.social
@uofcalifornia.bsky.social
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”
We are now part of the Global Ecology starter pack 3.
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Model-free is never free, at best is hidden.
Many methods are powerful, and most of them work very well. Within the basin of their assumptions. 🧪
#ComplexityThoughts #ComplexSystems
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Happy Earth Day!
New insights into how hierarchical brain organization influences cognitive functions, could inform strategies for targeted neuromodulation therapies.
#ComplexNetworks #Neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
a glacier
From climate shifts to economic collapse, tipping points can change everything.
Prof. Chuixiang Yi and his team call for a clearer way to understand resilience — and help us see the warning signs before it’s too late www.gc.cuny.edu/news/rethink...
Interested to work on a less-studied greenhouse gas, namely COS exchange of a forest with the atmosphere? We have an open 4-yr PhD position in our international group. at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. 🧪 More details here: 🧪
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
“Where is everybody?”
Over lunch, Enrico Fermi posed a question that still haunts astrophysics (and, let me say, #ComplexSystems): if life is common in the universe, why haven't we seen evidence of it?
The Drake Equation sets the stage for this paradox.
Pic: NASA
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New study highlights the active role of humans in the hunter-farming transition. Varying population growth and mortality rates, driven by competition between hunter-gatherers and farmers, shaped agricultural development in these regions. @andrejpaleo.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
How Michaelis–Menten kinetics can represent ecosystem-scale respiration: scale and applicability
We explore when MM works — and when it doesn’t — in capturing ecosystem respiration across scales. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
#ClimateScience #Ecophysiology #SystemsThinking
Promote urban biodiversity to benefit people & nature!
🌍😀🐛 @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social
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28 PhD Funded Positions; Doctoral allocation competitions 2025 at AgroParisTech, Campus Agro Paris-Saclay in France
28 PhD Funded Positions; Doctoral allocation competitions 2025 at AgroParisTech, Campus Agro Paris-Saclay in France: The selection of doctoral candidates for ABIES grants will take…
www.nature.com/articles/s44... “…we describe the reforestation approaches and forest restoration methods currently used and how they affect biodiversity; summarize the knowledge gaps of biodiversity outcomes of forest restoration; and describe the emerging opportunities for future restoration…”
A tree burning inside after a lightning strike.
Credit: Glenn Ratcliff
Exactly. What are those Republican congressmen and senators talking about behind closed doors? What are they telling their children? How do they see their future? How can they not wake up in the morning and find themselves transformed into a giant beetle?
Our perspective paper on resilience and tipping points is now out! We outline key principles to guide future research on these critical topics, from dynamical systems to real-world applications.
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#Resilience #TippingPoints #Ecology
What are the implications of considering #TippingPoints in #restoration strategies?
Thanks to the organizers of the #RamonMargalefColloquia &
@ricardsole.bsky.social for the opportunity to give this lecture!
Some topics were: #ClimateChange #WarningSignals #DynamicalGhosts #Antrhopocene
I'm launching a new monthly maths column, and what better day to do it than Pi Day? Read on to learn what an ancient Egyptian scribe called "Directions for Knowing All Dark Things", why Newton was ashamed by pi, and how our best estimate was wrong for a century
www.newscientist.com/article/2471...
Continental divides separate one drainage basin from another. Here is a gorgeous view of the continental divides in North America. Source: buff.ly/3vKHwq7
🚨 Excited for the latest paper from the lab, led by Zhang & Arsham.
Can we coarse-grain a #ComplexNetwork while preserving macroscopic network flows?
Surprisingly, the answer is positive, and we have shown it by means of StatPhys + Machine Learning.
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How do we test the (Gaia) theory of planetary self-regulation (Lovelock-Margulis)? We just started our experimental implementation on bioreactors using #synbio to bring planetary scale to the Lab.Exciting day! @vmaull.bsky.social @ftmaestre.bsky.social @vdlorenzo.bsky.social @jordiplam.bsky.social
