Nature-based solutions for climate change mitigation - forests, peatlands and more. Views expressed are my own. She/her. Sheffield/Cambridge, UK. Mostly at @leramiles.bsky.social
Let's see if this place can do its #magic!
I am looking for fellow #firstgen #PhD students (independent of the field) to make a little #outreach series -- estimated release will be end of September/start of October.
Comment below what you do if you want to be involved. If you don't want to comment, shoot me a message 😊
Hello! We are a small independent bookshop in Stow, in the Scottish Borders. We are no longer using Twitter, for obvious reasons, but could use some new followers on Mastodon and other social media channels - where our presence is smaller than on Twitter. Please help / share this is you can! Thank you.
Gavin Schmidt is a climatologist based in New York City. He is a highly respected scientist, and when he speaks out like this, we need to listen...
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When I took over as Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, I inherited a project that tracks temperature changes since 1880. Using this trove of data, I’ve made climate predictions at the start of every year since 2016. It’s humbling, and a bit worrying, to admit that no year has confounded climate scientists’ predictive capabilities more than 2023 has.
For the past nine months, mean land and sea surface temperatures have overshot previous records each month by up to 0.2°C — a huge margin at the planetary scale. A general warming trend is expected because of rising greenhouse-gas emissions, but this sudden heat spike greatly exceeds predictions made by statistical climate models that rely on past observations. Many reasons for this discrepancy have been proposed but, as yet, no combination of them has been able to reconcile our theories with what has happened.
The 2023 temperature anomaly has come out of the blue, revealing an unprecedented knowledge gap perhaps for the first time since about 40 years ago, when satellite data began offering modellers an unparalleled, real-time view of Earth’s climate system. It could imply that a warming planet is already fundamentally altering how the climate system operates, much sooner than scientists had anticipated. It could also mean that statistical inferences based on past events are less reliable than we thought, adding more uncertainty to seasonal predictions of droughts and rainfall patterns.
Much of the world’s climate is driven by intricate, long-distance links — known as teleconnections — fueled by sea and atmospheric currents. If their behavior is in flux or markedly diverging from previous observations, we need to know about such changes in real time. We need answers for why 2023 turned out to be the warmest year in possibly the past 100,000 years. And we need them quickly.
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That's just an excerpt. I encourage you to read the whole thing.
FULL ESSAY -- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00816-z
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
There is a free online Conservation Genetics Workshop running March 27-29 at the link below. The goal is to identify barriers to using these methods, and also to foster some collaborations among scientists. It involves some group work/discussions after each seminar. It runs for 2 hours each day.
https://molecular-ecology.org/materials.html
#academia #biology #conservation #science #workshops #seminars #MolecularEcology #ecology #PopulationGenetics
Une note de politique de @unepwcmc résume les découvertes majeures sur les tourbières du #bassinduCongo au bout de cinq dernières années de travail collaboratif dans le cadre du projet CongoPeat.
En savoir plus ➡️ https://congopeat.net/fr/briefings/
Our new briefing on the central Congo Basin peatlands. Congratulations to the whole CongoPeat team, and thanks for sharing so much about this extraordinary tropical forest ecosystem and its people. #peatlandsmatter
RT @CongoPeat on Twitter - Policy brief from @unepwcmc shares major findings from five years of research into the #CongoBasin peatlands, under the @CongoPeat scientific programme.
Read the brief: https://congopeat.net/briefings/
I'm proud to be quoted in Ashley Bardhan's article for Inverse, discussing PC Gamer's 30 years of gamedev with not a single woman listed, as well as addressing discrimination in the games industry overall.
“I don't want to see a single game dev panel without women on it, a studio photo without a ton of women in it, or a single notable game dev list without several women on it. We're already creating amazing things. Hire us and let us create them with you.” https://www.inverse.com/gaming/pc-gamer-women-in-video-games
#gamedev
#Applications open for Iso Lomso #fellowship at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies:
"Iso Lomso means ‘the eye of tomorrow’ in isiXhosa: seeing towards the future, laying the foundations for tomorrow. The programme is aimed at African scholars who have obtained a doctoral degree within the preceding seven years and who hold an academic position at a university or research institution anywhere in Africa."
deadline 15 February 2024
https://stias.ac.za/fellowships/iso-lomso/
Are you an Early Career Scientist in Earth System and Data Science?
Check out the program of the NFDI4Earth Academy and join us!
Deadline is November 30, 2023.
Visit https://www.nfdi4earth.de/2participate/academy to learn more.
#DAM #Geo.X #Geoverbund_ABCJ #NFDI #NFDI4Earth #ECR #DataScience #Earth #EarthSystemScience
📢 The #GRASSGIS team is announcing the third call for student grants!! 🚀
https://grass.osgeo.org/news/2023_11_09_student_grants_announced/
We offer student grants for projects that include #development of GRASS #documentation, tests, new features or #geospatial tools and bug fixing 🙌
➡️ Check the wiki for details on how to apply and suggested topics:
https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Student_Grants
Apparently my new dishwasher has arrived. It’s super quiet and very stylish, but I’m not quite sure how reliable the washing quality is. #CatsOfMastodon
Afforestation and climate mitigation: lessons from #Chile @TrendsEcolEvo
Article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534723002458
Blog: https://jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2023/11/30/afforestation-and-wildfires-in-chile/
Left: The contribution of tree #plantations to #burned area is increasing
Right: #forest plantations act as a net carbon source in contrast to the #native forests (#sink)
@ecology @wildfirescience @nature @biodiversity @conservation @management @chileconciencia @chilebosque @arcana2023
I still cannot get over the wonder and mystery of what gall wasps can do to plants. This is bio-engineering! The wasp lays her egg and somehow the plant makes a structure that is not a fruit, it is not a seed, it is not a leaf or stem. It's a wholly recombinant architecture customized to the needs of the growing young larva. The plant provides food and shelter-- It's like a cancer, but with a purpose.
How did it evolve? How is it done!?
(Photo by Timothy Boomer, https://wildmacro.com/)
In case you haven't yet had your daily dose of climate $&!*: "Reduction in sea ice in Antarctica has resulted in the deaths of an estimated [5,000 to] 10,000 emperor penguin chicks [in 2023 alone].
"In 2022, satellites recorded a colony of emperor penguins disappearing into the Bellingshausen Sea as the ice they were living on melted away.
"The chicks had not fully developed waterproof feathers and they most likely froze to death."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12J9uJBjHhw @BBCRD #climate #heat #Antarctica
More than 7,500 people have been evacuated or ordered to stay indoors as the worst #wildfire🔥 in at least four decades ravages the Canary island of #Tenerife 🇮🇨, burning through 2,600 hectares of land & drawing closer to the capital, Santa Cruz https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/17/tenerife-wildfires-force-thousands-to-evacuate-or-stay-indoors
📖 According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, the world will end on a Saturday. A Saturday quite soon, in fact.
The whole of our six-part adapation of @neilhimself and Terry Pratchett's wonderful 1990 fantasy Good Omens is on BBC Sounds now - and you can listen from anywhere in the world. Tell your friends, good or evil.
#NeilGaiman #TerryPratchett #fantasy #drama #funny #GoodOmens
https://bbc.in/3qgSXt7
RT https://twitter.com/EndangeredLands
The Endangered Landscapes Programme are recruiting a new Seascapes Programme Manager to develop, promote and manage the grant-making process for the #restoration of seascapes across Europe. This role is full time and based in Cambridge, UK. #BiodiversityJobs
https://www.endangeredlandscapes.org/job-opportunity-with-the-elp-seascapes-programme-manager/
Happy to jump in as a #MastoHelper!
I'm Tom! I found it confusing at first, and I'm still learning new things, but really the basics are exactly that: basic (though it doesn't always feel that way when you haven't figured them out yet).
If you feel you might need a hand getting over the first couple of hurdles, I might be able to help. And if I can't, at least you've met someone who doesn't seem to have absorbed this stuff from the ether. Where I can't help you, I'm pretty certain I'll have someone nice in my network who can.
The best thing to do, if you can't find an answer to a question* you're looking for is to put it in a reply to this post.
*Preferably related to getting started on Mastodon, but I'll give anything a go.
