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Michael Paul Nelson

@michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social

philosopher, writer, consultant, speaker, professor. environmental and climate ethics, forests and wildlife, concepts, reason, arguments. undisciplined. www.michaelpnelson.com

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Michael Paul Nelson@michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · last mo.

New in Nature Climate Change w/ for ecologist @christopherstill and me, a philosopher 2021 PNW heat dome revealed physio. limits in forests our frameworks aren't built to see - understanding requires science and ethics Extreme heat isn't just a stressor. It's a reckoning. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Extreme heat and the limits of tree and forest resilience - Nature Climate Change

The 2021 Pacific Northwest heat dome shows how acute thermal stress challenges prevailing assumptions about ecological resilience and adaptation. Extreme heat events are revealing physiological limits...

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Scott Doney@scottdoney.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New perspective article by @michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social in @nature.com is worth reading for anyone in environmental, ecological, climate & field geosciences ‘Continuity over novelty’: why environmental science needs to rethink its focus www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Continuity over novelty’: why environmental science needs to rethink its focus

With government funding in decline, researchers should prioritize data collation and training the next generation of scientists.

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Michael Paul Nelson@michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Excellent piece! - "Conservation is not just a technical exercise, it is a moral choice about how we relate to the living world, "When nature is valued primarily for its usefulness to humans, it becomes easier to justify its exploitation." www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/...

When science overreaches: Conservation needs ethics, not just ecology and economics

Scientists have a vital role to play. But they cannot arbitrate values, nor legitimise them by implication. When they attempt to do so, they risk overstepping their authority and end up narrowing, rat...

dailymaverick.co.za

Michael Paul Nelson@michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Just spotted! - the rare and elusive tenure track position. This one in forest conservation genetics in my department - Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State. Help spread the word! jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/178...

Assistant Professor: Forest Genetics and Genomics

The Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society invites applications for a full-time (1.00 FTE), 9-month, tenure-track, Assistant Professor: Forest Genetics and Genomics position.We seek a scholar-edu...

jobs.oregonstate.edu

Johnnie Jae@johnniejae.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Stevie and the Sacred Animals follows Stevie, a smart, spunky 6-year-old Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) girl who moves from the city to her First Nation community. redpopnews.com/stevie-and-t...

"Stevie and the Sacred Animals" Brings Anishinaabe Storytelling & Language to Preschool TV With a 2027 Premiere

A new Indigenous-led kids series is officially on the way. Manitoba's Eagle Vision and Ontario's Sinking Ship Entertainment Inc. have secured the greenlight for Stevie and the Sacred Animals, a 52-epi...

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Michael Paul Nelson@michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"...we conclude that advocacy can increase the climate scientist's average perceived credibility" gc.copernicus.org/articles/9/6...

The effect of advocacy on perceived credibility of climate scientists in a Dutch text on greening of gardens

Abstract. Many climate scientists refrain from advocacy and activism because they worry it decreases their credibility. Through a survey of almost 1000 Dutch respondents, we compare responses to a tex...

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Michael Paul Nelson@michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · 7mo ago

“When people move beyond caricatures of conflict and recognize the common ground that already exists, we can begin to shift the conversation and maybe even find ways to live not just with wolves, but with each other.” www.hcn.org/articles/ame...

Americans generally like wolves − except when reminded of politics - High Country News

Recent studies found that attitudes toward wolves became more polarized when people’s political identities were activated.

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Michael Paul Nelson@michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Online finance/budgets course wanted: A colleague and I are looking for an online course focused on university finance and budgets, or maybe more generally organizational finance and budgets. Let me know if you have any suggestions and links. Thanks!

rob mahurin@robtasm.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Best advice is to wear little bells, so the bears know you're coming, and carry bear spray. It also helps to be able to identify scat. Black bear scat has undigested bits of berries and twigs. Grizzly bear scat smells like bear spray and has little bells in it.

Michael Paul Nelson@michaelpaulnelson.bsky.social · 9mo ago

“We are nearly out of time…but not out of choices. The whale asks for more space. The river asks for standing. The tern asks for habitat and room. We can give it.” Lovely piece! www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The last frontier of empathy: why we still struggle to see ourselves as animals | Megan Mayhew Bergman

Champions of exceptionalism say humans hold a unique moral status. Yet there’s only one species recklessly destroying the planet it needs to survive

theguardian.com

Paolo Crosetto@paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 9mo ago

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

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Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year.