Climate Doom is not a mobilization strategy. 🏭🔥🚒😨😒 New @pnas.org: Psychological inoculation against climate doom doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Erle Ellis
@erleellis.bsky.social
Exploring the ecology of an increasingly human planet. Prof. Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC Anthromes, Anthroecology & Anthropocene https://anthroecology.org/people/ellis/
How much is your country doing to enable people and nature to thrive together? Find out @agu.org 2026! Nature Relationship Index (NRI) hdr.undp.org/nature-relat... @undp.org #AGU26
What comes after acknowledging? "Earth is our relative". www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/o...
Opinion | I’m Native American. Land Acknowledgments Are Infuriating. (Gift Article)
Conservatives who critique land acknowledgments aren’t acting in good faith, but they do have a point.
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Peak Language? 1000 BCE to 1000 CE? The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene
Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...
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"To the extent that you become the ecology that supports you, it becomes more and more your responsibility"
Erle Ellis@erleellis.bsky.social · 3w agoEthics and Planetary Boundaries www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
Politics is Killing Science in the USA. 🙈🙉🙊 New NSF policy would ban almost all collaborations with Chinese scientists @policyhound.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...
New NSF policy would ban almost all collaborations with Chinese scientists
Agency drops attempt to mitigate risk in favor of outright prohibition on working with most Chinese research institutions
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Welp, the transformation of the US into a country that props up misinformation over science is now complete (via @scottpwaldman.bsky.social )👇 www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans
The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans - Nature
Analysis of 128 high-coverage Indigenous American genomes shows extensive diversity shaped by several South American dispersals, ancient Australasian admixture, archaic introgression and long-term…
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The limits of coexistence - with wolves 🌍🌎 www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...
Science Magazine - Hour of the wolf
Last summer, a woman walking in a nature park near Utrecht, Netherlands, saw what she thought was a big, playful dog hurtling toward her two young boys in the distance.
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Stewardship practices enhance nature’s contributions to people 🌍 academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Stewardship practices enhance nature’s contributions to people
Abstract. Humans shape landscapes through the management of organisms and ecosystems, either degrading or sustaining biodiversity. Despite their essential
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Just going to drop this here since we haven't talked about NSF strangling geoscience for about a month. It's still strangling geoscience (and everything else) with 9% the number of grants issued compared to the 2021-2024 average. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
From beliefs to outcomes: How human conceptions of nature shape environmental trajectories 🌍 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The Global Land Programme's inaugural Week of Land System Science is happening next week June15-19! Check out the schedule at a glance and RSVP to the sessions you're interested in attending on the GLP Hub. members.glp.earth/page/week-of...
In case you believe only Befts go to the left. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/s...
Nearly Everyone, Everywhere, Veers Left When Walking
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Raise your voice against OMB's proposed rule, which threatens to reshape how scientific research is funded in the U.S. by prioritizing political agendas over scientific integrity. 📲Read statement & comment by 13 July. 🔗 spklr.io/63327EM0o7
Ecology is not yet ready for AI—and why that matters 🌎 @pnas.org doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Ecology is not yet ready for AI—and why that matters | PNAS
Ecology is not yet ready for AI—and why that matters
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This is North Korea level bullshit, and a total fucking disaster for science and for the United States alike. It doesn't matter whether it fails to pass; this kind of thinking is already penetrating NIH, NSF, NASA, etc and causing severe harm. NASEM, AAAS, AAUP, etc must condemn unequivocally.
Lawmakers propose banning all U.S.-Chinese research collaborations
Critics say bill would weaken U.S. science by cutting flows of ideas and talent
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To save nature, accelerate economic development in lower-income countries @pnas.org doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Reversing the great degradation of nature by reducing factors related to cropland expansion | PNAS
As one of the main causes of habitat loss, agricultural cropland expansion is a major threat to biodiversity. We analyze past and anticipated futur...
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Guys is it bad that the National Science Foundation has been offline since last night?
How will populations across the world change in the 21st century? 🔧 Explore for yourself with our new interactive tool!
Wildlife = Family? Wildlife = Resources? Colonial roots of wildlife relations in the Americas… phys.org/news/2026-05...
Colonial roots may explain why North and Latin America treat wildlife differently
How people view and treat wild animals can vary dramatically from one part of the world to another. In the first international study of wildlife values, research led by Colorado State University found...
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