Hopefully, you won't let them forget. If it was me, I would want to correct the error straight away.

If it was simply a matter of redoing the references, you would have thought it would have been done in 1-2 weeks.

A whole month later and this garbage is still online. You would have thought that the authors and MDPI might be keen to quickly set things right. Seemingly not.

Just looking at the paper in a coffee break and see that I too am on a fictitious paper! I can understand reviewers not spotting all instances, but copy editors should be able to find fake papers.

A new peat paper in @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social enaccess.bsky.social

Problem is, it's chock-full of AI generated references, including several papers with my name on that don't exist. How did the reviewers not spot this?

www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/16...

Mike: you should report this back to the university. The paper should be withdrawn on the grounds of academic malpractice.

Road-induced ecohydrological changes in peatlands: Long-term dynamics and controlling factors The central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China.This study used the DigiBog_Boreal model to simulate 300-year peatland dynamics under road disturbance, asses…

Excited to see the DigiBog model, in this case DigiBog_Boreal, used by other research groups:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sometimes it's good to take a day or two and immerse yourself in your data sets and think slowly and deeply about what they might mean. Too often our time is fragmented, our thoughts rushed - the enemy of understanding.

Pleased to see this new paper with Dylan Young published: "Understanding the Carbon Balance of Peatlands: A Comment on Heinemeyer et al. (2025)". See: www.mires-and-peat.net/article/1547...

River Click on the title to browse this journal

Received an email from Wiley today about their new-ish journal River onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2750.... Can't quite believe that, of 38 associate editors, only five are women. What were they thinking?

The McMaster Ecohydrology Lab presents the 2025 #NobelPeatPrize nominees! We encourage the #peatland community to give each of these wonderful papers a read.

The winner will be announced on December 11th. #PeatPaper

What has happened since 2023?

Our latest #PeatPaper published in Hydrological Processes and led by MSc student Maia Moore!

“Ecohydrological Controls on Post-Fire Sphagnum Moss Recovery in Boreal Shield Peatlands”

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Exciting 24-month Postdoc opportunity for a peatland palaeoecologist, working with Dr Jenna Sutherland at Leeds Beckett U. on the NERC-funded InSPIRE project. Investigating initiation of new peatlands in deglaciating parts of Alaska, including fieldwork vacancies.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/ce0984li_web...

Peatland carbon – the facts Demystifying peatland carbon stores, carbon sinks, and other gassy issues

New on Peatpedia - an attempt to demystify #peatland carbon stores, sinks, and other gassy issues!

open.substack.com/pub/peatpedi...

Just accepted a request from Hydrological Processes to review a paper. I am the *25th* person to be approached. The previous 24 have turned down the request to review. No wonder some papers are a long time 'in the system', much to our frustration. Peer review can't go on like this.

Many congratulations Paul! Very well deserved.

For over 15 years the McMaster Ecohydro Lab has awarded the #NobelPeatPrize to the authors of the best peatland or peat paper of the year.

It’s that time of year again where we review papers and finalize a list of nominees.

Do you have a fave paper for 2025 you would like us to consider?

Rewilding: Ten Years of Evolution and Development Rewilding has matured into a mainstream approach in nature conservation. More than 450 academic papers on rewilding have been published since the term first appeared in print in the early 1990s. Rewil...

Our Annual Reviews paper "Rewilding: Ten Years of Evolution and Development" is now available Open Access. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Looking for a PhD in aquatic carbon/GHG cycling? Take a look at this fantastic opportunity. Led by @aquaticcarbon.bsky.social and with Amy Pickard, Jens-Arne Subke and me. Field + lab components, and lots of exciting science.

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There seems to be one study at least that suggests that tick abundance on wet blanket bog is very low (doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12141). I wonder if the part of the answer is to re-wet drained and damaged blanket bog? Have you considered tick surveys in your experimental plots?

Out of interest, who is the expert?

Has the expert published their research on ticks and burning? I am sure you can see my concern. You make strong statements based on a conversation with someone in the field. And you tag @naturalengland.bsky.social presumably in an attempt to influence policy, but where is the science?

Thanks for this.

Andreas, what is your "most likely" and "huge" assessment based on? I can only find apparently anecdotal information on the problem from the Moorland Association's website. Can you direct me to any papers on burning and ticks? There seem to be several possible causes of rises in tick numbers.

Andreas, what species of Sphagnum are you recording? Also, why aren't there any error bars for 2025?

Fab work by our PhD student Resti Salmayenti who has published her first thesis paper in Environmental Research Letters showing how drainage and land cover interact to affect fire occurrence in Indonesian peatlands. Our paper is open access here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

It’s quite a stretch to say Heather (Calluna) 'thrives' in wet conditions. It doesn’t, and is usually outcompeted by other mire plant species. That has given rise to the concept of the ‘Calluna Limit’. If a site is wet enough and the ‘wetter’ mire species return, burning isn’t needed.

A stunning dreamy planty pond. Pond covered in pondweeds

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I quote: "In parts this will definitely be the case. But not in general, that is what peat cores tell us." So, in general, we can't say anything *yet* from peat cores because the analysis has not been done. I think we need to be clear on that, and should avoid drawing conclusions from a few cores.