Matt Clark 🌳🌄🏖️
@mattcscience.bsky.social
Social-ecological systems scientist | fair weather adventurer | full-time fool Currently @ Thriving Oceans Hub, University of Sydney 🦘 Research: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=-CrrMPQAAAAJ
If you're wondering why we keep lurching from "the longest ever wet period" to "longest ever dry period", then (wherever you are in the world) this article explains it: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...
Why isn’t it raining?
One statistic helps us understand climate change—and why we are lurching from droughts to floods to droughts again
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Want to do a PhD to work on models of opinion dynamics and the inequalities of information flow, with an emphasis on climate change and climate policy? Apply by October 15 to work with Ago Merico and myself, based at @leibniz-zmt.de in Bremen, Germany. www.leibniz-zmt.de/en/vacancies...
Doctoral candidate (gn) - WG Systems Ecology
Das Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung (ZMT) erforscht tropische und subtropische Küstenökosysteme und ihre Bedeutung für Natur und Menschen erforscht.
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Out today in, we combine local ecological knowledge and remote sensing to describe the status and conservation opportunities for Zanzibar's "forgotten" coral rag forests www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Multiple threats and conservation opportunities in the forgotten coral rag forests of Zanzibar, Tanzania
Coral rag forests are a dry, and usually dwarfed, forest type scattered along an extensive coastline from Kenya to Mozambique, representing major hubs…
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New blog post! Let's say an effect you are interested in varies between countries and you want to explain some of that cross-cultural variation. What could possibly go wrong? www.the100.ci/2026/05/20/f...
Friends don’t let friends run moderated cross-country regressions
Header image: Moderate cross-country slopes (Photo: By Erik W. Kolstad - Flickr, CC BY 2.0,) Here’s a particular genre of article that relies on multiple data collection sites, such as studies anal...
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There is a fully-funded PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to pursue dissertation research among the Mayangna of Nicaragua, expanding a longitudinal study of subsistence strategies and behavioral ecology. Please share the posting! www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
NSF LTER program “archived”. LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”. This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings. My heart is breaking.
"The proposal also cuts all funding for the NSF division that funds research on the social sciences and economics. At an internal all-hands meeting on Friday, NSF leaders announced that they would dissolve the agency’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate based on the budget request"
Matthew Facciani@matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew Trump budget proposal would drastically cut science funding while adding 1.5 trillion in military spending (a 44% increase). www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Cultural evolution accelerated human range expansion by more than two orders of magnitude | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Cultural evolution accelerated human range expansion by more than two orders of magnitude | PNAS
Humans occupy a geographic and ecological range wider than that of any other extant vertebrates, having rapidly expanded into nearly every habitat ...
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Paper out today resulting from a collaboration with @careglobal.bsky.social and @worldwildlife.org, tracking the long-term effectiveness of paired conservation and development projects in the Primeiras e Segundas region of Mozambique. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Catalyzing community-led conservation governance through integrated conservation and development in coastal Mozambique
Between 2008 and 2018, the CARE-World Wildlife Fund Alliance implemented an integrated conservation and development project in the Primeiras e Segunda…
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New #causalinference paper just dropped! As an ecologist, I was trained to ask: "What do the data tell me?" This paper: there are only specific instances when this question is appropriate—when you lack domain knowledge, which we often have! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How much forest is there? 🌳🌲🌎🌍🌏🌐 Scientists agree on only 26% of global mapped forest area @cp-oneearth.bsky.social www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
Global forest dataset incongruence creates high uncertainties for conservation, climate, and development policy
A comparison of 10 global forest datasets showed that technical differences created substantial uncertainty in estimates in forest carbon, forest-poverty relationships, and forest biodiversity habitat...
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Seeking applicants to a qualitative social science post-doc position - located at Purdue University, but collaborating with me and others on the human dimensions of white-tailed deer and cwd management. www.schooljobs.com/careers/ummi...
Job Opportunities | University of Montana, Helena College & UM Western
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Just a few quotes from the Declaration of Independence
New paper out today in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com by the #GlobalSharkTrends team: Bending back the curve of shark & ray biodiversity loss; Read the paper here: rdcu.be/eZ9n9 @sfu.ca @sfubiosciences.bsky.social @earth2ocean.bsky.social
One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
🚨Job alert! The ENDOW project is hiring a Research Officer in Research Database Management, to be based at @lsemethodology.bsky.social. Oversee & expand our database & contribute to research on social & economic inequality. Deadline 15 February. Share & reach out! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Yet another example of what happens if we allow LLMs to become a form of epistemic grounding for society.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 8mo agoThis is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
Really fun to go on ABC News Australia to talk about @tom-pienkowski.bsky.social, @morenamills.bsky.social, and my new paper (along with several coauthors not on bluesky). See more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... @catalyzconserv.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au @ic-cep.bsky.social
Out today in @natecoevo.nature.com 'Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot'. Co-led by me and @tom-pienkowski.bsky.social as part of @catalyzconserv.bsky.social at @ic-cep.bsky.social & @imperialsci.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Amidst the collective push to establish nature conservation initiatives, little attention has been paid to ensuring that they persist over time. The abandonment of conservation commitments is a blind ...
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Check out @ranjmurali.bsky.social's new paper "Understanding multiple pathways of the impacts ofsocio-economic shocks on large carnivores" in plain language! relationalthinkingblog.com/2025/09/18/p...
Plain language summary: What happens to large carnivores when human societies experience shocks?
By Ranjini Murali, Altynai Adabaeva, Sixto Angulo, Rosario Arispe, Matthias Baumann, Arash Ghoddousi, Amirhossein Khaleghi Hamidi, Martin Jansen, Leili Khalatbari, Igor Khorozyan, Oswaldo Maillard,…
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We're hiring a climate scientist here at @umassboston.bsky.social in the School for the Environment! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us... - more on the call in the image and its alt text. COME JOIN US! #climatescience
[COMMENTARY] “Now is the time for Zanzibar’s government to reexamine past and future investment decisions to ensure they respect Zanzibar’s natural heritage and conserve it for future generations,” says a new op-ed. ** Views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily of Mongabay.
Zanzibar must act to conserve its natural & cultural heritage for the future (commentary)
Zanzibar has a reputation as an island paradise in the Indian Ocean. Lying 20 kilometers (12 miles) off the East African mainland, it is governed as a semiautonomous zone of the United Republic of…
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Another nice write up on our letter in Science, this time through @mongabay.com and with some great images. news.mongabay.com/2025/10/zanz...
Zanzibar must act to conserve its natural & cultural heritage for the future (commentary)
Zanzibar has a reputation as an island paradise in the Indian Ocean. Lying 20 kilometers (12 miles) off the East African mainland, it is governed as a semiautonomous zone of the United Republic of Tan...
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Matt Clark 🌳🌄🏖️@mattcscience.bsky.social · 10mo agoNice write-up by The Citizen on our recent letter in @science.org. They do a great job presenting the counterargument made by developers: www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/zan...
Nice write-up by The Citizen on our recent letter in @science.org. They do a great job presenting the counterargument made by developers: www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/zan...
Scientists call for relocation of Pemba hotel project
Global environmental scientists have urged the Zanzibar Investment Promotion Authority (Zipa) to relocate construction of a five-star tourist hotel from Pemba’s Ngezi Forest Reserve
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Matt Clark 🌳🌄🏖️@mattcscience.bsky.social · 10mo agoOut in @science.org today. The Ngezi forest of Zanzibar is likely the most intact oldgrowth tropical dry forest in East Africa, if not the continent; it also houses tons of endemic species and gives resources to thousands of people. Bulldozers are waiting at its edge www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Redefine how the world measures progress! 🌍🧑🌾🌽🌎🌴🐬🌏🚵♀️🍄🌐👍 Join the Global Expert Consultation to develop The Nature Relationship Index (NRI) @undp.org <15 mins to make a difference anu.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... > Deadline: Oct 15, 2025 > Background: rdcu.be/etpiQ
Human transformation of past terrestrial ecosystems @natrevbiodiv.nature.com #anthromes 🌍🌐 doi.org/10.1038/s443...
Human transformation of past terrestrial ecosystems - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Human actions have shaped ecosystems for thousands of years, and have profound effects on biodiversity and environmental processes. This Review explores the ways that humans have modified past ecosystems and the methods available for researchers to study these changes, as well as indicating how understanding historic change can inform conservation strategies.
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This is extremely cool: 700 years worth of archaeological artefacts being collected from old nests of bearded vultures (strong contender for the best vulture) www.popsci.com/environment/...
Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts
Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.
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