‘Publish or Perish’ is now a card game — not just an academic’s life A player wins by racking up more citations than the competition, even if that means engaging in a little light plagiarism. A player wins by racking up more citations than the competition, even if that...

New card game:
The Publish or Perish Game (a humorous party game about academic publishing) 🧪🌎

This has happened to me most often when I’m on my bicycle. I try to smile like I’m appreciative, while at the same time continually waving to them to complete their turn. Knowing now that they were likely assassins adds a whole new dimension to these events.

“It Feels Impossible to Stay”: The U.S. Needs Wildland Firefighters More Than Ever, but the Federal Government Is Losing Them Highly skilled firefighters are the last line of defense against wildfires, but that line is fraying because the government decided long ago that they’re not worth very much.

An outstanding report from ProPublica - an indictment of how the agencies are mistreating their most valuable resource and it's not just the woefully inadequate level of compensation but also the failure to attend to cancer and emotional trauma and stress. www.propublica.org/article/wild...

Greenland Size xkcd.com/2911

Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe and accentuates impacts of climate change and fuel accumulation - Nature Communications Fire suppression removes less-extreme wildfires, concentrating fires under extreme conditions. The authors use model simulations to show how this “suppression bias” intensifies fire behavior and effec...

Please check out our new paper in Nature Communications titled "Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe and accentuates impacts of climate change and fuel accumulation" 🧪🌏

Lead author = U Montana PhD student Mark Kreider!

Thanks for highlighting this paper @kinarnicholas.bsky.social.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @ryanrbart.bsky.social
on understanding the appropriateness of water-balance closure in the context of hydrological uncertainties and
data sparcity: two watersheds in the Sierra Nevada,
and timescales, groundwater storage unknowns and
precipitation.

Hello Bluesky World!

I’m venturing back into social media after having been inactive on the previous site for the last year. Excited to interact with the science community again.