What actually determines the soil water plants can use? We're calling for papers on pore structure, root plasticity, and rhizosphere processes shaping true water accessibility. ➡️ Find out more: https://bit.ly/4fET9I1 #soil #Soilscience
Diogo B Proietti
@provete.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at UFMS, Brazil. Interested in Biodiversity synthesis. Humboldt fellow. Manuela’s dad. Advisor. Senior Editor at J Biogeography and Ecology and Evolution. Open science activist. 🐸☀️🌳🚫👕👖
Interested in doing a postdoc in plankton ecology, on topics of community assembly, trait-based ecological resilience, stressor interactions, harmful algal blooms and others? Contact me to discuss developing a proposal for MSU's EEB Presidential Postdoc Fellowship (Nov 1 application deadline).
Lars Brudvig@lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 2d agoJoin us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
COMO AS CIDADES SE VENDEM AO RENTISMO Em busca de caixa, prefeituras “securitizam” suas arrecadações – leiloando-as com “descontos” obscenos. Resultados: captura da riqueza urbana num ciclo sem fim de endividamento, perda da capacidade de planejar e avanço das privatizações
Como as cidades se vendem ao rentismo | Outras Palavras
Em busca de caixa, prefeituras “securitizam” suas arrecadações – leiloando-as com “descontos” obscenos. Resultados: captura da riqueza urbana num ciclo sem fim de endividamento, perda da capacidade de...
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Priscilla Lau@prilau.bsky.social · 6d agoOur paper (also, my first first-author paper) is now available in MEE early view! In this study, we introduced a state-dependent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model we implemented in RevBayes to test adaptive hypotheses in macroevolution. (1/3) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
📣Journalists--The @ntbgarden.bsky.social journalism fellowship is being held in Miami, Florida for the first time this fall! Get your applications in.
Apply for the National Tropical Botanical Garden's Environmental Journalism Program at The Kampong in Miami - National Tropical Botanical Garden
Offered in Miami, Florida November 8-14, 2026 The Hawai‘i-based National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) is […]
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Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
SE HOUVE CAMPANHA CONTRA VACINA CONTRA COVID E 2 MILHÕES DE PESSOAS MORRERAM POR ISSO, QUEM LIDEROU TAL CAMPANHA TEM QUE RESPONDER CRIMINALMENTE.
GDP counts pollution as growth. Deforestation as growth. Bottled water after rivers die as growth. It is time to count what actually matters: A planet that can still sustain 8 billion of us.
New journal - Approaches in Entomology: Methods, Philosophies, and Ethics Open now for submissions! ✅Diverse article formats ✅Multidisciplinary scope ✅Dedicated to methods & philosophies ✅Published by Royal Entomological Society Discover more: https://bit.ly/4a33rjo @respublications.bsky.social
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It’s not enough to make a paper exist
There are many things I was wrong about, early in my career. When I posted just recently about my discomfort with “done is better than perfect” advice, it reminded me of one of those things. For at…
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Last February, I visited Trish Priest and her colleagues at Otago and gave a few lectures. In this one, I present an overview of the course that @jevinwest.bsky.social and I developed for colleague students about how to live, learn, work, and thrive in an AI world.
How to thrive in a ChatGPT world: Modern‑day oracles or bullshit machines? –Professor Carl Bergstrom
YouTube video by University of Otago - Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka
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🌎Marco Rubio assume controle político e financeiro de Caracas, diz jornal De acordo com relatos de mais de uma dúzia de funcionários de ambos os países consultados pelo jornal, Rubio atua como administrador da Venezuela.
Marco Rubio assume controle político e financeiro de Caracas, diz jornal
De acordo com relatos de mais de uma dúzia de funcionários de ambos os países consultados pelo jornal, Rubio atua como administrador da Venezuela
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The fate of the Atlantic Ocean current that keeps Europe’s climate warm depends on our carbon emissions and the rate of ice melt from Greenland, but there is a chance that a shutdown is already inevitable
Collapse of AMOC ocean current may already be locked in
The fate of the Atlantic Ocean current that keeps Europe’s climate warm depends on our carbon emissions and the rate of ice melt from Greenland, but there is a chance that a shutdown is already inevitable
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Now's your chance to collect citeable 'at a glance' posters from @dev-journal.bsky.social & @dmmjournal.bsky.social at #ISSCR2026, including 'Stem cell-based models of early human development' by @liliulab.bsky.social and @jun-wu-lab.bsky.social l. Visit @biologists.bsky.social booth #1005.
Historian of science Margaret Rossiter (b #OTD in 1944) coined the term #MatildaEffect (1993). Named after suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage, the Matilda Effect describes a systemic bias where women's scientific achievements are ignored, minimized, or directly attributed to their male colleagues. 1/3
🚨 New blog post! 🚨 Collaborating on Quarto documents can be tricky, especially if you're working with people who don't need to write code 🫂 So I've pulled together some options for collaborating on Quarto documents into a blog post! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/collabo... #QuartoPub #RStats
Collaborating on Quarto documents – Nicola Rennie
Collaborating on Quarto documents, particularly non-technical collaborators who don’t want or need to edit any code, is hard. This blog post outlines a few different options that might make it a littl...
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When and where do plant traits matter? See how climate and environment shape coexistence Antorán et al. @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social @iicg-urjc.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Interviewed authors of new @science.org for debut of popsci in @theinnovation.bsky.social 🧬 📝 China’s 🇨🇳 Science 🇺🇸 Nature 🇬🇧 Cratered surfaces of Moon/Mercury/Mars recreated Earth’s traumatic lost childhood due to deep impacts in deep time www.the-innovation.org/article/doi/...
Deep impacts in deep time explains Earth’s lost childhood
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In what may be one of Earth’s craziest forms of mimicry, researchers in 2023 reported a species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it. Learn more during #InsectWeek: https://scim.ag/4mM2aS9
Readers react to Tyler Jagt's essay, "My Students Can't Read." https://chroni.cl/43Qb1dD
Opinion | How Bad Is the Student Reading Crisis, Really?
Readers react to Tyler Jagt’s essay, “My Students Can’t Read.”
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📢 New RoRI Report: The Future of Peer Review Peer review is at a breaking point. Strained by hyper-competition & AI, we need system-wide reform. Read here: rori.figshare.com/articles/report/The_Future_of_Peer_Review_A_system-wide_perspective/32685351?file=65684898
What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.
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A new El Niño is coming, and we can see its first signs from space. This video shows sea-surface temperature anomalies from 1–7 June 2026, relative to the 1991–2020 average. We use anomalies because El Niño begins as a subtle shift from normal: www.esa.int/Applications...