I always worry sunscreen will interfere with photosynthesis.

An OW shift means the substance of the political views of any one faculty member can stay the same, while the identification of those views as left, center, or right can steadily change around them, no? In that scenario the graph tracks a shift in classification rules, rather than a shift in people.

My take: this is a chart of the Overton Window shifting, not of a shift in people and their actual beliefs.

I sure hope you have time for theoretical academic exercises! Make it powerful theory that supercharges activism and praxis, reclaims the best of the ideals academies are meant to embody, and, purely through the doing, lifts moral and professional standards. Easy peasy.

Plus a freerider problem with climate incentives, I imagine.

So if x is all non-human C drawdown, x' is the subset of x that is "passive CO2 uptake", and y is the amount of human C drawdown we're counting on, then the danger is that instead of x + y, we're going to end up with x + (y - x')?

I'm not quite getting it yet. Is it simply lack of adequate standardization in how sinks are lumped or split causing dangerous confusion in what it looks like to get on track for adequate levels of CO2 removal, and the managed land thing happens to be the biggest piece of that discrepancy?

We have plenty of land to implement land sparing AND land sharing reforms to agriculture, if only we could break out of our bad crop utilization habits.

Hazelnuts IN SPACE

The partial corollary is, classical plant breeding is much more powerful than y'all think it is.

"Finally had some time to fiddle with this," she said, walking away from the crossroads, the tools of her trade glinting in the darkness.

I regret that I have no option to react other posts on this platform less positively than this one.

Solidarity with Dolores Huerta and with all survivors of sexual abuse.

Thank you to everyone who joined us at #PFG2026! 360 people gathered in Dubuque, Iowa March 11-13th for 60+ presenters hosting 35 sessions over 3 days. A special thanks to our keynote speakers, Wendy Johnson of Jóia Food & Fiber Farm and Liz Carlisle, co-editor of the book "Living Roots"!

They're more of a confederation than a unitary state.

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Just for variety, I'm going to say One by U2. The lyrics are okay, but the song is so soaringly amazing overall that being merely okay drives the ratio way up.

Look, God made whether any given tree is a boy or a girl a sacred mystery, and that's that.

Recommendation letters and reference checks are less of a communication and more of a token of completion of a minor quest: can you, the candidate, find several people willing to say multiple good things and no significant bad things about you?

Feel free to give me a shout sometime if you're ever back this way and want to grab a coffee.

The authors call this a paradox but it is anything but: generative AI, with its ability to quickly generate paper-shaped objects, is just an accelerant in a system that was already rewarding widget production over innovation.

I continue to worry this book will be heavily marbled with left-vs.-left straw man beating. But I am now convinced it will also make new and critically important points about the past, present, and future of food systems, and that whether or not I am appalled, I will be delighted. Pre-ordered.

Come work with me! Seeking an #agroforestry demonstration farm manager at the Savanna Institute.

I have been unpleasantly surprised to discover in the last 10 years that there are people who disagree with this, and I now think their numbers might be pretty high. Definitely a behavior we need to be relentless in de-norming anywhere it crops up.

That is some Animal Science s___ for sure.

I was curious about the Carthage College branding on the sign, and it turns out there is a full-on beef underway: www.facebook.com/CarthageInst... www.wgtd.org/news/dinosau...

If goal is to prep for an emergency that ideally will never (or rarely) arrive, the stockpile could theoretically be in the form of fossil fuels! Renewable electricity could be "converted" by allowing domestic ff extraction to be diverted to stockpile, or exported for cash to pay for ff imports.

As far as I know, the big gun for this is probably still pumped hydro. In regions where the water cycle allows, and if one were unconcerned with the downsides of a vast reservoir building campaign, the scaling potential is probably immense.