Got to talk to Berkeley News about some of our recent work on wildfire recovery in Drylands 🏜️

Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley@schmidtdse.bsky.social · last wk.

Thank you Berkeley News (@uofcalifornia.bsky.social) for featuring our suite of data science tools to support wildfire recovery: news.berkeley.edu/2026/08/05/w... #DataScience #FireRecovery #VegetationModeling #JoshuaTrees #OpenScience #OpenSource

New paper out in @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social on the future of post-disturbance recovery in boreal forests 👇 🌲🌲 We used the LPJ-GUESS vegetation model to understand how future warming might alter recovery trajectories and influence species composition. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

JGR: Biogeosciences@jgrbiogeo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Warming Drives Large-Scale Shifts in Post-Disturbance Vegetation Dynamics and Expansion of Deciduous Trees in the Boreal Forest in a Dynamic Vegetation Model agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

The website for AGU26 abstract submissions is not good.

New on the blog: @lucialayr.bsky.social visited the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area & Channel Islands National Park to assess how our #OpenSource data science tools can improve fire recovery in these arid ecosystems. 🌱 See Lucia's notes & pics➡️ dse.berkeley.edu/news/field-s...

This month, we have a really special contribution to the BG blog: soil science poems! 🤗🍂🪱

EGU Biogeosciences Division (BG) @egubg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The beauty of soil. We walk on it every day, yet rarely stop to think about the remarkable world beneath our feet. Discover how soil supports ecosystems, stores carbon, filters water, and helps sustain life on Earth. Read more on #EGU BG's blog: blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg...

One of my personal highlight of current AI is no more direct interaction with matplotlib.

Chelsea Parlett@chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 3mo ago

No matter how it improves in the future , I will never feel the same level of fondness for matplotlib as I feel, deep in my bones, for ggplot😍🥰

Want to get some experience in science writing? Consider writing for the BG blog! @egubg.bsky.social blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg...

Writing for the BG blog

Thank you for your interest in writing for the Biogeoscience Blog! The BG blog is created for and by EGU’s biogeoscience community. Please do not hesitate to reach out with any ideas, feedback or ques...

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We're hiring a full-time research software engineer for biodiversity & bioacoustics! Position offers a strong research component with independence + research pub opportunities and real-world impact. expected salary range $111K - $116K. dse.berkeley.edu/news/were-hi...

I am interested in working with an artist on a graphic novel on soil and/ or global environmental change. The lab would have money to fund this. Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?

If you are into vegetation modeling and disturbance recovery, meet me at #AGU25 this week! ❄️ Oral on disturbance recovery in the boreal forest - Tue, 8:50 - 9:00 tinyurl.com/oralBoreal 🔥 Poster on new approaches in fire recovery modeling - Wed, 14:15 tinyurl.com/joshmodels @schmidtdse.bsky.social

Wrapping up the year at the BG blog with some holiday book recommendations 📚 🤗 Check it out!

EGU Biogeosciences Division (BG) @egubg.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It’s been quite the year! ❄️🍂🌲 Before we say goodbye to 2025 and send our readers into a well-deserved holiday, our 2025-2026 editorial team shares some of their favorite Biogeoscience-themed books: tinyurl.com/bg-books Check out the article for late gift ideas and let us know your own favorites 👇

It's been a while since I tidied - here is 2023 population per country in a fun bubble chart 🌎🌍🌏 #TidyTuesday

Are you studying vegetation dynamics 🍃, tree mortality 🪵, or other aspects of the terrestrial carbon cycle? 🌍 Consider submitting to our #EGU26 session "Present & future global vegetation dynamics & carbon stocks from observations & models". We'd be delighted! ☺️ 👉 www.egu26.eu/session/57391

Do you like forests and computer models? 🌳🧑‍💻 Within the Future Forests excellence cluster, we are hiring two modellers for 7 year (!) positions here in Freiburg. A scientific coordinator role: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004... And and a scientific programmer role: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

🌱 Meet the #EGU #Biogeosciences Division Team 2025/26! From soil microbes to ocean carbon, our BG team brings together diverse voices from across the globe. Get to know the people behind the science: #ECS reps, division officers, policy leads & more 📖 Read more: blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg...

Meet your BG team 2025/2026

The Biogeoscience division team has changed over the last year, and in this blog post, we are delighted to introduce our new team of representatives and describe their roles and research interests so ...

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Excellent work led by @ttkeller.bsky.social and important for stewarding forests w/ high-severity #fire regimes @esajournals.bsky.social @uwmadscience.bsky.social

Timon Keller@ttkeller.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New paper in Ecological Applications! Management that mimics historical mosaics of fire severity could promote postfire tree regeneration under future climate change. Thanks to co-authors @monicagturner.bsky.social @rupertseidl.bsky.social @christinadollinger.bsky.social @knowlton.bsky.social

Beautiful!

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 10mo ago

Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised

Train tracks around the world 🚂🛤️🛤️🛤️ I was really interested in this slice of this weeks' #TidyTuesday data, unfortunately there is not much happening 🥲 #trains #tracks #travelingbytrain #bytrain

Late to the party for this week's #TidyTuesday 🦢🦢🦢 #cranes #dataviz #ecology #ggplot (Code as always here: github.com/lucialayr/Ti...)

I continue to find this Elsevier equity survey puzzling - by which logic is Greece in Western Europe?

📣 New BG blog post is out! In this post, Kara Sampsell tells us about her research at the Glacier d’Argentière in search of fine glacial sediment where she aimed to learn more about the microbial fauna that inhabit this environment 🏔️ blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg... Edited by @lucialayr.bsky.social

Microbial Adventures in the Mont Blanc Massif

As we passed the town of Saint-Gervais-Les-Bains on the French highway, en route to a sampling campaign, Mont Blanc’s glaciated terrain suddenly emerged above the spring foliage. Breaking the silent…

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Super honored to have my #TidyTuesday viz featured in last week’s The Crunch newsletter from The Guardian Australia! 🙌 @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/news/2025/au...

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Lucia S. Layritz@lucialayr.bsky.social · 12mo ago

This weeks' #TidyTuesday looked at the number of #munros (type of 🏔️) in Scotland over time. I utilized my PhD here, using an alpha-stable distribution to add texture to the mountain outline: The heavy tails create a more 'rugged' profile than the Gaussian noise I used for the snow- and tree line. ❄️🌲

It's #TidyTuesday again! This week, we looked at #frog abundance in #australia - not a lot of frogs found in the desert 🐸🏜️ #ecology #dataviz #maps

👏DSE postdoc @mayazomer.bsky.social published new research in the @jxbotany.bsky.social! It explores how #MediterraneanShrubs resprout to recover after #disturbance and their resilience to global change: bit.ly/4mAwH5p cc @cideinvestiga.bsky.social ‪‪@bmoreira.bsky.social @jgpausas.bsky.social

Holiday readings

This weeks' #TidyTuesday looked at the number of #munros (type of 🏔️) in Scotland over time. I utilized my PhD here, using an alpha-stable distribution to add texture to the mountain outline: The heavy tails create a more 'rugged' profile than the Gaussian noise I used for the snow- and tree line. ❄️🌲

Some scans from the #Mojave capturing typical scenes of post-fire recovery: Burnt juvenile #JoshuaTree that is resprouting from the base. Burnt, toppled Joshua Trees and lots of grass within the burn scar. Unburned Joshua Tree woodland in the background. #canon #kodakgold #NationalParks

As a physicist I can easily calculate time dilation from relativistic motion (time slows when you're moving fast) or proximity to a massive object (time slows in gravity) but I have yet to find a solution for emotional time dilation (the task takes five minutes to complete but six weeks to start) 🫠

Happy to share that the first chapter of my PhD was published earlier this week in Biogeosciences! 🎉 Using a DGVM, we looked at joint and separate effects of changes in climate vs. disturbance regimes on boreal forests 🌲🌳🌲❄️ Read the article 👉 bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/... Read a summary blog👇

Disentangling future effects of climate change and forest disturbance on vegetation composition and land surface properties of the boreal forest

Abstract. Forest disturbances can cause shifts in boreal vegetation cover from predominantly evergreen to deciduous trees or non-forest dominance. This, in turn, impacts land surface properties and, p...

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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley@schmidtdse.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 Congrats to @lucialayr.bsky.social on our team for publishing new research on how #ClimateChange and increasing disturbances, like #wildfires, are impacting boreal forests. Explore Lucia's findings: bit.ly/4miqme3 🌲 @tum.de @anjarammig.bsky.social g.bsky.social @egu.eu 📸 National Park Service

📣 Join us for our AGU2025 session IN029 "Open Source Geospatial Workflows in The Cloud"! Can't wait to see you there :) Submissions are due *Wednesday, July 30*! Visit our website for more details and to submit: events.geojupyter.org/conferences/...