@yellowbuckeye
I study old-growth forests and climate change from trees to regions and seasons to centuries. A colleague termed it RetroEcology - https://broadleafpapers.wordpress.com/ Love music in 3/4, 6/8, 5/4, 11, & other offbeat signatures (no real pun intended)
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
"Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth. None of them through the Strait of Hormuz."
—Bill McKibben
Grant Witness is hiring! We're seeking a full-time data scientist to join our team building data resources to support journalism, litigation, and activism protecting science, public health, and the rule of law. grant-witness.us/apply.html #rstats
Stand Up For Science Founder and CEO Colette Delawalla speaking at the Washington D.C. Take Back Our Science Rally!
Stand Up For Science Founder & CEO Colette Delawalla states three demands:
1. Remove RFK Jr.
2. Reinstate the American Dream of Science.
3. Science should be driven by scientists not political appointees.
Join the fight!
standupforscience.net/march7
Wearing my @skypeascientist.bsky.social swag for today's @standupforscience.bsky.social NYC rally!
"War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington -- not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict." Graduation Exercises at the United States Military Academy, 6/3/47 "Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war." Remarks at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 10/19/50 [DDE's Pre-Presidential Papers, Principal File, Box
Was browsing the Eisenhower Library site this morning trying to find a quote I remembered.
President Eisenhower, WW2 military hero:
“In my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war… none has yet explained how war prevents war.”
PlugShare and a Better Route Planner are great apps to make the long trips pretty easy
We have 2 EVs (both Kia EV6) and live in MetroWestBoston. I've taken them various long trips in all season in the NE US. No real problems. Range anxiety is surveyed to be the highest just before purchase and then rapidly dissipates once one is an owner
“Trans children are perfect.”
'A study of the tree rings in Stradivarius violins, published in the journal Dendrochronologia, revealed the most likely origin of the violins: wood from high elevation trees in northern Italy.'
Free gift article from The NYTimes www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/s...
Gah! Such a bummer. We have two EV6’s, but I know my partner wanted something a bit smaller
If I remember correctly, I think the Kia plant in GA was to produce these, or maybe it was the EV3? They were investing in the plant to bring an affordable, small EV to the U.S.
How ‘mass timber’ is reshaping housing in downtown Tupper Lake
https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/housing/how-mass-timber-is-reshaping-housing-in-downtown-tupper-lake/
In our news magazine series Climate Repair Café, we feature the courageous Dr Svitlana Krakovska, top Ukrainian climate scientist, as she drives her hard work during a brutal, exhausting war.
Yet she always thinks of her neighbors' freezing flat first.
Can you help? whydonate.com/fundraising/...
Images of conversants and book cover with details described in post
Hello #BookSky! I’m sharing details for my first two book tour stops, one of which has a virtual option 🤩
On April 6 @ 7 pm I will be in Washington, DC talking with Camonghne Felix at an event jointly put on by Lost City Books and @loyaltybooks.bsky.social!
lostcitybookstore.com/event/2026-0...
There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now
Black Oak trees glazed in ice being lit up by the rising Sun
Black Oak trees glazed in ice being lit up by the rising Sun
A snow covered and ice-glazed landscape in a tree-filled suburb of MetroWest Boston
📰Published📰How bamboo recruits underground allies to conquer forests🌳
buff.ly/i94hbII
🧪🌍️
“Droughts, by definition, have beginnings and ends,” said Michael Crimmins, a climatologist at the University of Arizona. “Aridification is a systematic shift that doesn’t necessarily have an end to it.”
www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
"2021–2023: Extreme Years of Global Drought in the Context of Long- and Short-Term Hydroclimate Trends"
New work, led by LDEO PhD student Aandishah Samara (w/ JE Smerdon, R Seager):
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
Large-scale patterns of tropical forest embolism resistance mapped across space and angiosperm phylogeny.
Combining measurements across the Amazon with 100s of floristic samples, Julia Tavares & colleagues report remarkable variation in vulnerability to drought.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just resharing this.
A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.
NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)
Directorates to follow
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Being pro-trans makes you gain votes, not lose them.
Last week, my mother took me and my kids to see the school where, 60 years ago, she was among the first wave of Black students to integrate a previously all-White school. We wanted to remind my kids that Black history is not just famous people in textbooks, it is often the people right next to you.
The US NSF has put out a "dear colleagues" letter that is essentially a yard sale list for @ncar-ucar.bsky.social
It asks questions such as, who'd like to take over some of NCAR's programs? Is anyone interested in commercial use of the Mesa Lab?
If you have thoughts, send them to NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov
This is very cool - @drkatemarvel.bsky.social et al. 'Joint probabilistic estimates of temperature and precipitation from tree ring-based reconstructions of the last millennium' ascmo.copernicus.org/articles/12/...
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...
The only way you can think AI does lit reviews better is if you’re not interested in making an intellectual argument or building theory … which uh, is pretty key to the advancement of knowledge
