🚜 Up to 3.13% ($3.3 Trillion for 2023) is spent on global direct subsidies most responsible for nature’s decline. 🛡️ Only ~0.14% ($135-156 Billion) per year is actually spent on biodiversity conservation. Let’s shift the money away from destruction and into restoration.

Beans growing in a tropical dry forest.

Invigorating.

So far this week: dendrometer, wood (stem) moisture sensor, and sap flow sensor, all surrounded with radiometers (4 components) above and below this tree, all this in 4 dominant trees. #UFRB #INSA #UFCG

Tree crown level radiometers installation this week in Brazil 👌🏽

Here is a new short and didactic video within the scope of our ESRC/UKRI 3R project: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeX9.... Great contributions from @infracursions.bsky.social led by @amypenfield.bsky.social, narration by @pedrosrlima.bsky.social. PT version at www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QXp... #watercycle

Ranching, Resources and Resilience: Uncovering the Impact of Land Grabbing in the Amazon

YouTube video by Rodolfo Nóbrega

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Fieldwork in a rural area in Brazil this month, where we are instrumenting water monitoring systems with local residents to understand the impacts of drought on community water supply and crop production.

Fresh dendrometer in a couple of Commiphora leptophloeos (locally known by the Indigenous name 'Umburana de Cambão'). Next month we will be installing below/above canopy radiometers and sap flow sensors.

Decolonising hydrology: Reflecting on positionalities for sustainable and just futures. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Decolonising hydrology: Reflecting on positionalities for sustainable and just futures

Colonialism continues to have an enduring impact on hydrological research, practice, and education. This paper examines the colonial legacy in hydrolo…

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Cats and I on a empty campus day due to Carnival. #notAI

Research Associate/Fellow in Amazon Palaeoecology (Fixed Term) www.simplyhired.co.uk/job/yu073BU3...

North-South research collaborations often reproduce structural inequities, privileging Northern research frameworks. ISABELLA ABODERIN shows that only reflexive, deliberately designed partnerships can transform research, rebalancing knowledge and power globally. verfassungsblog.de/reflex-and-t...

My current PC background is quite realistic and moves the entire time.

A good day to visit a flux tower and a giant cactus tree :)

I’m happy to announce our @hsj-iahs.bsky.social special issue on “Progress in coupled land–atmosphere systems for hydro-meteorological processes” is now open to submissions: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... #ICCLAS @iahs-aish.bsky.social

#Cocreation in #Hydrology & #Water Resources Management at #EGU2026! Keynote: Seifu Tilahun (IWMI) Deadline: THIS THURSDAY Jan 15, 13h CET We need communities, Indigenous peoples, NGOs & practitioners to make knowledge that works. Part of #IAHS #HELPING decade. Submit: lnkd.in/eBPk8kz8

Working with drylands and/or (semi-)arid catchments? Please consider our session on hydrological processes in dryland catchments www.egu26.eu/session/55943

Luciano Moreira is breeding billions of mosquitoes to fight disease, such as dengue, in Brazil. He’s part of Nature’s 10. 🧪

This scientist is breeding billions of mosquitoes to fight disease in Brazil

Luciano Moreira is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.

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Bettina Schaefli and I warmly invite you to submit abstracts to a new EGU session HS2.2.5 New Developments in Hydrological Synthesis Abstract submission: www.egu26.eu/session/55911 1/6

The second episode on the @egu.eu #Blog on our Working Group on co-creation: Co-creating water knowledge (Part 2): Our achievements and ongoing activities of our working group blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs... @natalieceperley.bsky.social @iahs-aish.bsky.social

Co-creating water knowledge (Part 2): Our achievements and ongoing activities of our working group

The story so far, and how it developed We left you in part 1 of our blog (Hydrological Sciences | Co-creating water knowledge (Part 1): The history and future of an interdisciplinary working group) tw...

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Why should hydrologists pay attention to #co-creation? In this @hs.egu.eu #Blog, we tell the story of the #interdisciplinary @iahs-aish.bsky.social Working Group "Co-creating water knowledge", active since 2023. This is the first part, so stay tuned for the second one on Friday: bit.ly/443VXcV

Co-creating water knowledge (Part 1): The history and future of an interdisciplinary working group

HELPING and the co-creation of a working group In 2023, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) , inaugurated a new Scientific Decade, called HELPING – IAHS Science for Solutions...

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Very happy to be part of this amazing team. Thank you @cabot-institute.bsky.social for supporting us!

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A team of epidemiologists and hydrologists based in the UK and Brazil are developing a novel approach to preventing leptospirosis. This disease is expected to increase as climate change brings more rainfall and flooding. Find out more in our new video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTAv... #COP30

At @egu.eu, our #WorkingGroup "Co-creating Water Knowledge" is presenting two sessions: Co-creation in Hydrology and Water Resources Management bit.ly/3WAB5pv Co-creation in Practice (Short Course) bit.ly/4oOgPg4 Join us, and consider submitting an abstract. For info: bit.ly/4oSImNC

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#EGU26 is already on its way 🎉! Abstract submissions are officially open until 15 January 2026, 13:00 CET. Let the journey begin and submit your abstract NOW! 👉 Visit https://www.egu26.eu/ for more information!

Water deficit emerges as a key regulator of above-ground biomass across tropical dry ecoregions (in the Caatinga). Kuddos to Alexandre for leading the surveys and the discussion so well! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Soil–climate interactions drive above-ground biomass in the Caatinga, the largest Neotropical seasonally dry tropical forest - Plant and Soil

Background and aims Soil properties are key drivers of vegetation structure, yet their influence on above-ground woody biomass (AGBW) in seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs) remains underexplored, ...

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What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision

Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.

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On Friday, I will present our work on #CoCreation of #WaterKnowledge at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, one of the historically #BlackUniversities of the US. Thanks to Dr. Hubert Hirwa for the invitation. doi.org/10.1080/0262... @hsj-iahs.bsky.social @iahs-aish.bsky.social

Look at the lovely post that Christina @oriescc.bsky.social shared for the EGU Hydrology Division @hs.egu.eu ! blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...

Looking Back at IAHS2025 in Roorkee: Hydrologists Assemble in India

Between October 5 – 10, 2025, the XIIth Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences ( IAHS ) took place in Roorkee, India.  Overall, more than 600 hydrologists assemb...

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Ending the week with this paper just out "Global Assessment of Environmental and Plant-Trait Influences on Root: Shoot Biomass Ratios" @globalchangebio.bsky.social by Ruijie Ding, Colin Prentice & @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Funded by REALM-precursor to LT

The Ganges river yesterday. Incredible visit. Thank you IIT Roorkee for organising this!

Photo of the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO, 235 m) captured from the smaller installation tower (81 m).