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Excellent piece on the burden placed on African academics of working with researchers from the Global North “My Flight Arrives at 5 am, Can You Pick Me Up?”: The Gatekeeping Burden of the African Academic www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Each year we celebrate remarkable ecologists in our BES awards🏆 Categories cover the breadth of experiences and career stages, so let us know which ecologists inspire you! Make your nominations by 7 April https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/bes-prizes/

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I'm #hiring: PDRA to join my #ukriflf project to understand how forest structure, function and dynamics are linked in Europe, using high resolution remote sensing data (TLS, UAV-LS). Based in Cambridge. Please share! 🌳⚡🛰️🌲 Full details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50447/ #pdra #forests #lidar

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Google, Microsoft, and Meta's increasing use of data centers has resulted in increased air pollution from extensive fossil fuel energy consumption and associated public health costs related to treating cancers, asthma, and other similar issues, valued at over $5.4 billion in the past five years.

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Diversity is our greatest asset, even if the government disagrees… They not like us! POC in STEM are here to stay. They tried to rig the game but you can’t fake influence! Mustard on the [Be][At] bro. Happy Black History Month!

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Meeting on academic fraud, Oxford, 7-9th April. www.sjcfairsmeeting.com (turn VPN off if it doesn't load!) Small meeting with limited places so register now (or book an online ticket). With stunning list of speakers, plus an unconference discussion element www.sjcfairsmeeting.com/general-4

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Our newest paper led by Julián Tijerín-Triviño finds that #climatechange is slowing the productivity of European #forests: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.70011 A 🧵: We used 3 surveys over 15-30 years from >13,900 NFI plots in Mediterranean, temperate and boreal regions (1/5)

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The most pressing need is missing. UKRI must re-establish a culture that: actively addresses bullying, halts the hemorrhaging of experienced staff, and shifts the balance between 'the centre' V councils (as per the Grant review) to lower stress on key operational staff. wonkhe.com/blogs/eight-...

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It's been a long time since Private Eye's satire has made me audibly wince, but this is so to the point if it were a knife people would demand it be banned.

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Excited to give a keynote at the event: "Putting Science into Action: building a research system to address environmental crises" Oxford Martin School @ox.ac.uk 20 March 2025, 09:30-14:00 All welcome to attend. Places are limited, so register now: www.agile-initiative.ox.ac.uk/events/event...

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Come join us at @rbgkew.bsky.social for a paid summer internship. You will be estimating the aboveground biomass 🌳🌳🌳 at the beautiful Wakehurst. careers.kew.org/vacancy/summ...

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If you think, as I do, that GB News' open hostility to the LGBT+ community and Black and Brown people tacitly encourages violence we've made it very easy for you to tell Sky, one of its biggest advertisers, to stop funding hate. Please use and share. action.goodlawproject.org/sky-stop-fun...

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How different birds would act on a first date...a thread. (From us to you this #ValentinesDay) 💕👇

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📖Published📖 Addressing the need for improved tree species classification, Puliti et al. present the FOR-species20K dataset, a large, diverse, individual tree point cloud DL-ready benchmark dataset for platform and sensor agnostic tree species classification tasks 🌳 🌎 🧪 https://buff.ly/4hI7P8F

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I'm proud to be a member and trustee of an academic society whose commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion is unwavering. Join the BES! @britishecolsoc.bsky.social www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/equi...

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A call from European earth observation (EO) specialists wrt the importance of EO in underpinning the Forest Monitoring Law (FML) forwards-project.eu/open-letter-...

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We're VERY close to 60,000 complaints. Help us make this complaint the biggest in Ofcom's history 👇 goodlaw.social/i1m8

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5 women spoke up about their professor's sexual misconduct. LSE's response? A botched investigation and keeping him in post. We're supporting one of the women as she takes action. But we need your help 👇 goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

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I’ve been adding slowly to my #Quaternary science starter pack but aware lots have joined since I made it. It is (not accidentally) biased toward female scientists, so in case you need to diversify your follows, take a look! Keep sending suggestions - I’m happy to add you/them. go.bsky.app/71XJ4jH

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New opportunity for catalyzing conservation research in Africa: www.cambridge-africa.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

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Don't kid yourself that all academics are on the same page right now: there were faculty that were openly against DEI when the first versions emerged, decades ago -- I was there. My guess is that they're pretty chuffed these days, the ones that aren't dead anyway.

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When can we get Elon Musk to take over Elsevier?

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Delighted to see this major initiative finally out. Led by @stefanopuliti.bsky.social and leveraging the huge @3dforecotech.bsky.social community's efforts we present a major AI benchmarking dataset with classification results for point cloud tree species identification. (1/3)

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#DEI - My university’s (UK) failure to confront homophobia has forced me to quit www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/my-u... via @timeshighered.bsky.social

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Our EEG seminars are mushrooming again: Toby Kiers shows how imaging robots let us measure the dynamics of nutrient flows through fungal networks underground. She co-founded the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks! Public at @cst.cam.ac.uk FW11 tomorrow talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...

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We have a permanent position open at @ciceroclimate.bsky.social , working on calibration and general awesome-ification of the CLM-FATES model, across a fun set of projects www.finn.no/job/fulltime... Flexible wrt career stage and the balance of science/technical work. Tell all your friends!

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We are still recruiting Brazilian experts in species ID at Pivotal. It's remote flexible work so a really handy side gig. If you can identify Brazilian plants or mammals from photos, of frogs, bats or birds from audio, please apply! 🧪 www.researchgate.net/job/1018369_...

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Interested in tropical peatlands? On 17-18 February, we have the first ever scientific conference on African peatlands, at the Royal Society in London. Free to attend+streamed online (w/ French subtitles). Register here: https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2025/02/african-peatlands/

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Someone who has brought in tens of millions of dollars and has 40 to 60 people in his group is obviously a big deal at any institution. So, for that institution to let him go says a lot. But another institution is just going to take him in and act like nothing happened? #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky

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The only surprising thing about this is that the university has actually taken action despite the $$ behind this researcher. So many have suffered from or know about problematic men in universities, and usually nothing happens and you're gaslit/ignored.

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<1 month to apply! Want to learn how to make the most of ecological data using supercomputers? Check out the projects. Our is especially cool ;) "Decoding biological colour: leveraging AI to analyse big data on animal images in a changing world" www.exageo.org/phd-student-... @lec-reefs.bsky.social

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When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

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If anyone involved has the bandwidth to be put in touch with a journalist about this please DM me. There are options available to ensure anonymity. Feel free to dm me through another person.

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There is one day left before our travel grant closes! If you are PhD student looking for funds to support your work in the ecological field, you can apply for our training and travel grant. The application submission deadline is January 24 at 11:59 PM (GMT). Find out more here:

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Very happy to see this paper out where we found that diverse forest structures enhance resilience to climate change. Main findings👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

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Why no English speaking outlets covering such an egregious case of abuse by a high profile scientist? Thomas Crowther dismissed from ETH after multiple cases brought against him over multiple years. @natureportfolio.bsky.social @scinews.bsky.social @theguardian.com @britishecolsoc.bsky.social

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If it gestures like a duck and is a conspicuous supporter of ducks then, I gotta say, my base case is gonna be: it's a duck. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 36 days ago • 34 comments

Settings --> moderation to mute words Switch off the news and socials. It's okay to protect yourself and concentrate on the things you can control. Lobby the @royalsociety.org or resign (if applicable). Check in on your Jewish friends/colleagues. Be kind to yourself.

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