Final call for ForestSAT 2026! 🌲Registration closes Monday, April 27.
Join us May 4–8 in Gainesville or virtually. The program includes workshops, technical sessions, and early career mentorship. Check out the full agenda: carlos-alberto-silva.github.io/silvalab/For... and register today!
An absolutely stellar Jay gives the perfect rendition of an over-the-shoulder smolder.
They look good forward too.
And, of course, there is side eye.
Masters of the over-the-shoulder smolder, Stellar jays, no disrespect to Steller, of course, it just rolls off the tongue better, are my favorite part of taking visitors hiking in the PNW.
We currently are looking for a postdoctoral research associate (3 years with possibility to extend) with experience in community ecology, and ideally a good match with our group profile; biodiversity, land use change and urban ecology.
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With the Boston Marathon today, a good time to re-up one of the greatest figures in sports data: the distribution of marathon finish times (n=9,789,093). The spike at 4:00 is not a coincidence.
“AI is here to stay” says the makers of NFTs, the metaverse, Google Glass, Windows Phone
more American 'exceptionalism'
Join our exciting line-up of speakers – submit your abstract for the 48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions!
Deadline: 20 May
📅 13–16 October 2026
📍 Leysin, Switzerland
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Spring is going strong in Upstate New York forest understories. 🍁
A three panel photo of the desert paintbrush inflorescence in red, light orange and yellow. From Wikipedia This paintbrush is under half a meter in height and has bristly gray-green to purple-red herbage. It stands in a clump of erect stems, each topped with an inflorescence of somewhat tubular yellow green flowers. The flowers are encased in bright red to orange-red bracts, sometimes tinted with purple, and usually fuzzy with a thin coat of white hairs. The upper leaves and bracts are divided into 3–5 segments, while the lower leaves are undivided, long, and narrow.
Shades of Desert Paintbrush.
one thing I don't like about being middle aged is having to watch humans do the same dumb shit, over and over again
Electric vehicles pass tipping point, breaking the link with oil prices
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The one and only @tcamenzind.bsky.social is offering her first Postdoc position as new head of soil biology @unihohenheim.bsky.social. If you are a soil fungal ecologist and want to help establish novel methods of molecular soil ecology, don't miss the opportunity to work with her!
Americans prioritize protecting the environment over economic growth, according to Gallup.
Also "The current 63% of U.S. adults who say the government is doing too little [to protect environment] is the highest level recorded since Gallup’s initial reading in 1992." news.gallup.com/poll/708413/...
maybe pawpaw (asimina triloba?), because I'd never seen their flowers until today, and I had to wait ~10 y before my baby trees got old enough to think about reproducing
A bright red inflorescence of American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis.
This is my favorite spring flower, American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis. It is a bottomland tree in most places, but in the limestone karst of the Bluegrass, it is an abundant upland tree. What is your favorite spring flower?
Horizontal bar chart comparing agentic coding reliability across three groups. Frontier models (Claude Sonnet 4.5, Gemini Pro 3.1, GPT 4.1) score 80-100% correct. Four-months-ago's local models (Qwen 3 14B, GPT OSS 20B, Mistral 3.1 24B) all score 0%. Today's local models (Gemma 4 26B-A4B, Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B) both score 90%.
A few months ago, any LLM that I could run on my Macbook scored 0% on an agentic coding eval I put together. This month's Qwen 3.5 and Gemma 4 releases both scored 90%.
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Reviewer crisis? I just got 3 invitations to review in 15 minutes from a single (reputable, but Elsevier) journal. All completely outside my interest/expertise.
I'm an AE & though I find getting reviews a bit harder than 10 years ago, this behaviour makes me think we have an editor crisis too.
Mixed Forestation Outperforms Pure Stands in Soil Carbon Sequestration and Stability
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The @agubiogeosciences.bsky.social Union Fellows page has been updated—showcasing the depth, excellence, and impact of our community.
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interspecific variability for the win
Couldn't have anything to do with all the tax breaks we've been shoveling toward the rich and corporations, could it?
There are many ecological issues that cannot be addressed experimentally
Also, experiments in ecology work by controlling for many driver variables & so are severely limited by context specificity & excluding many interactions
They only show how x affects y, not the importance of x in real systems
Earth crescent showing over the horizon of the moon.
The famously terse entry for “Earth” in the Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy was wrong in one important way.
There’s nothing “unremarkable” about our home.
What traffic in the Strait of Hormuz looks like:
The Carbon Brief Profile: United States | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @jjgoodman.bsky.social #CBarchive
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finally some good news for wind power in the USA!?
In March, renewables produced more than a third of US electricity for the first time ever, even overtaking gas generation! Wind and solar combined reached over a quarter (26%) for the first time.
arth sets at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, over the Moon’s curved limb in this photo captured by the Artemis II crew during their journey around the far side of the Moon. Orientale basin is perched on the edge of the visible lunar surface. Hertzsprung Basin appears as two subtle concentric rings, which are interrupted by Vavilov, a younger crater superimposed over the older structure. The lines of indentations are secondary crater chains formed by ejecta from the massive impact that created Orientale. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region.
Our planet draws closer to passing behind the Moon in this image captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby, about six minutes before Earthset. Earth is in a crescent phase, with sunlight coming from the right. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over muted blue in the Australia and Oceania region. The lines of small indentations on the Moon’s rugged surface are secondary crater chains. These structures are formed by material ejected during a violent primary impact.
The lunar surface fills the frame in sharp detail, as seen during the Artemis II lunar flyby, while a distant Earth sets in the background. This image was captured at 6:41 p.m. EDT, on April 6, 2026, just three minutes before the Orion spacecraft and its crew went behind the Moon and lost contact with Earth for 40 minutes before emerging on the other side. In this image, the dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime, while on its day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater shows terraced edges and a relatively flat floor marked by central peaks — formed when the surface rebounded upward during the impact that created the crater.
Even more Artemis II pictures of Moon (and Earth) released by NASA. My mind still cannot comprehend this. 🤯 Visit the website for almost 8k resolution. 🔭🧪
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