"This shows an ambitious clean air zone can drive pollution levels down, rapidly restoring children's stunted lung growth" 👏👏👏 www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mathias Disney
@matdisney.bsky.social
Scientist, trees, forests, carbon, ecosystem structure and function, in all the ways. One tree at a time. Prof at UCL Geography, and NCEO
Ulez has delivered remarkable public health gains in a short period. Sadiq deserves more credit than he’s had for defying Labour pressure to U-turn after Uxbridge. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds
Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone
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As simulations grow in complexity, a set of non-trivial issues emerge: diminished identifiability as free parameters become too numerous relative to exp. constraints & difficulties grasping causality. In our new 📄, we point to potential avenues to move #CellBio forward 👇 arxiv.org/abs/2608.06998
Simulating is not always understanding: When model complexity obscures biology
In cell biology, computational models of biological systems range from minimal representations with a handful of parameters to whole-cell simulations tracking thousands of molecular species across a c...
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The Ramsey Lab@theramseylab.bsky.social · 2w agoNew 📄 🚨! #CellBio is teeming with simulations comprising an extraordinarily high number of components. We argue that model complexity will not automatically lead to a better understanding of biological systems & discuss how modeling practices could be repurposed: arxiv.org/abs/2608.06998 #philsci
This is one of most maddening, dreadful, missed opportunity, cynically anti-cycling schemes I've seen in a while. Amhurst Rd, Hackney looks lovely at 1st glance (@hackneycycling.org.uk). But very wide, not heavily used pavement + relatively narrow carriage + planting - cycle tracks = conflict &...
Let’s be very clear that the media narrative “Labour's ‘woke’ rewilding” in the wake of the fire(s) in our Peak District valley is thick with disinformation. 🌍🔥Thread 1/15
A Comparison of Mobile Laser Scanning Data Acquisition Methods in Closed Forest, Open Woodland and Sub-Alpine Woodland Ecosystems Tiede et al. Read the full paper here: zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A Comparison of Mobile Laser Scanning Data Acquisition Methods in Closed Forest, Open Woodland and Sub‐Alpine Woodland Ecosystems
This study demonstrates that the mobile laser scanning (MLS) sampling density required to reliably characterise vegetation structure increases with a site's structural complexity. Applying a five-lev....
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Some out of context quotes from my latest sub stack "REF is cancelled as the exercise is no longer a priority" "We are living in the ‘everything is fine’ meme" "aligns Universities closer to business than to primary schools." Read the context here 👇
Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social · 2mo agoA Stupid Idea: Why the UK university crisis needs something politically impossible substack.com/@kirstygrain...
"These Boots Are Made for Walking: Sex-Specific Physiological and Metabolomic Strategies Reflect Male-Skewed Vulnerability to Ocean Warming in a Keystone Amphipod" doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... 👏👏👏
These Boots Are Made for Walking: Sex‐Specific Physiological and Metabolomic Strategies Reflect Male‐Skewed Vulnerability to Ocean Warming in a Keystone Amphipod
Sex-specific responses to ocean warming shape thermal tolerance, fitness, and metabolomic profiles in a keystone amphipod. Females exhibit higher thermal limits and broader safety margins than males....
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The Netherlands has introduced a €49 monthly ticket for unlimited nationwide train travel—a bold political response to soaring energy costs. When prices at the pump rise, you can either double down on car dependency, or give people attractive alternatives. The Dutch are (again) choosing the latter.
V sad to see the death of the Major Oak- a piece of living history & one of many incredible ancient trees in the UK that don't get the protection they deserve. They are literally priceless. We scanned this tree a couple of years back - now a monument: skfb.ly/psEIs
Major Oak, Sherwood Forest - 3D model by SCATTER (@SCATTER.project)
The Mayor Oak is located within Sherwood Forest & believed to be 800 - 1,100 years old. With a girth of 10.76m, this tree appears to have grown in a clearing for most of its long life which enable...
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And the blog itself. What happened to bucket five? open.substack.com/pub/anotherw...?
What Happened to Bucket Five?
The curious case of funder costs. Why less might not be more.
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🚨 New research by us! 📣 Most British drivers don't know how dangerous SUVs are to other road users, but adding information to SUV marketing materials seems to do almost nothing to change people's plans to buy SUVs Here's a 🧵 on why harder action is going to be needed 1/10
Trying to refreeze Arctic sea ice by pumping ocean water onto its surface is infeasible and a distraction from emissions cuts, but it signals how desperate we are because we’re simply not decarbonizing fast enough (or at all).
My trip to meet the scientists trying to refreeze the Arctic
In this week’s newsletter: The melting of the Arctic’s summer sea ice is the most visible upshot of the climate crisis. Refreezing it might be a long shot – but do drastic times call for drastic measu...
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Yes! I'm writing about it right now! Look at this world-wide research that just released. It's incredible. a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth/story/a-hidd...
A hidden infrastructure — SPUN
Step through the story: A hidden infrastructure — an interactive exploration of Earth’s underground fungal networks.
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V sad to see the death of the Major Oak- a piece of living history & one of many incredible ancient trees in the UK that don't get the protection they deserve. They are literally priceless. We scanned this tree a couple of years back - now a monument: skfb.ly/psEIs
Major Oak, Sherwood Forest - 3D model by SCATTER (@SCATTER.project)
The Mayor Oak is located within Sherwood Forest & believed to be 800 - 1,100 years old. With a girth of 10.76m, this tree appears to have grown in a clearing for most of its long life which enable...
skfb.ly
We will soon be advertising a 3-year postdoctoral position at Bristol aimed at enhancing our modelling capacity to better characterise vegetation recovery & legacy effects following fire. Please keep us in mind if this is your speciality 😀 🔥🌳 🌱
📖 Published📖 ForestForTrees: An R package to infer forest structure from remote sensing data🌳 ForestForTrees enables transparent, sensor-agnostic inference of complete forest size-abundance distributions from remotely sensed canopy data🌍🌲 👇️
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A new TOP FIVE has just dropped. The @ukri.org TOP FIVE shortest timescales from call opening to closing. And you won't believe the winner 👀
Temperature and aridity effects on terrestrial ecosystems’ intrinsic quantum yield 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Sandoval et al. @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience
Given the slow pace of global coal phase-out, the results of a study in Nature Sustainability reveal a constraint on solar performance that, if unaccounted for, could lead to a systematic overestimation of the transition’s contribution to climate and air quality goals. go.nature.com/4wUkgqC 🧪
Tree physiology is essential for interpreting Miyake events 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 👆 A #Commentary by Joonas Uusitalo on this article by Hessl et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience
New paper from Sruthi Krishna Moorthy and @ymalhi.bsky.social examines 60 years of tropical ecology research 🌍 The study highlights the growing dominance of tropical forest research and persistent global inequities in tropical ecology authorship. doi.org/10.1111/btp....
Shifting Trends in Tropical Ecology Research Over Six Decades
We analyzed over 170,000 tropical ecology publications (1960–2023) using a large language model to extract study location and biome information at scale. We show that research has grown across all bi....
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Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.
Can 3D scanning help cities manage trees better? From 1–5 June 2026 in Bratislava, our 3D Urban Tree Intelligence hackathon will test sensors, workflows and practical outputs for urban tree monitoring. Companies, cities and researchers, check it out: martinmokros.github.io/3D-Urban-Tre...
Our paper on decolonising field ecology was featured on a new BBC documentary as an example of how woke has gone too far on university campuses. Needless to say, I'm thrilled. This is impact! @biotropica.bsky.social 🌍 1/6
English teachers (both primary & secondary), this is for you: UCL's Centre for Climate Change Education has just added new resources for teachers on helping pupils connect with nature via English teaching. They've got loads for other subjects too. Do share! climateeducation.org.uk/professional...
Job opening: Science Lead in Trees & Forestry Division at DEFRA in the UK. 🌲🌳 www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
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Of course UCL is one of these universities... is it 'disagreeing well' if you do it covertly? 🤔
Maryam Aldossari@maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 4mo agoBritish universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students… Firm, has been paid at least 440,000 pounds ($594,000) by universities since 2022. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...
TEN post-doc openings at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity. Yes, you read that right. TEN.
LCAB Postdoctoral recruitment
The Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (LCAB) is a major research centre funded by the Leverhulme Trust to increase knowledge of how the relationship between humanity and the natural worl...
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