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I can't agree with this more. Mainly because this is how I'll get published in Nature ("check out this tree doing something I didn't expect!") I don't want to see any more global maps of anything too like ecology is conducted from a moon base.

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Ok so this is some good news?? www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Only NINE DAYS left to vote in Eucalypt of the Year 2025: The Travel Edition! Don't miss out on your chance to win one of 20 awesome #eucalypt prize-packs! Vote now: www.surveymonkey.com/r/2Q9NHGK #EucalyptoftheYear2025 #NationalEucalyptDay2025 #LoveAGum #ozplants #ecotourism #aussieroadtrip #trees

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Excellent first PhD paper from @aaronheap.bsky.social using Wilson's Prom as a case study to examine the long term impacts of high severity short interval fire - Diverse forest types all converge on a homogenised structural form and this persists for decades. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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1/n Our team just published a new paper in Global Change Biology 🧪🔥 The title succinctly describes the main take home message, but here's the deal: We produced gridded, fine-scale (resolution = 30m) daily fire progression maps for 623 wildfires in the SW US using satellite fire data. read on ...

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Good to see the @us.theguardian.com highlighting the devastating loss of foresters, rangers and other experts under the new administration in the US. With cuts being proposed to the public service here in Victoria, Aust, it's a bleak time for public lands globally www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Studies like this just make me bemoan how eucalypts in Australia are - by and large - pretty unreliable for widescale tree ring studies. This sort of reconstruction of fire history here would be A++ and really help with a lot of understanding of the role of fire in the landscape.

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Conservation isn’t just about protecting land—it’s about where and how we do it. If protecting one area pushes deforestation, farming, mining elsewhere (biodiversity leakage), we risk a net loss. Smart site selection, demand reduction & sustainable offsets are key! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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For Victorians - this is a audio-visual exhibition currently on in Kyneton explores different people's perspectives on a the Wombat Forest, which has had a long contentious history. You can listen to it hear - and full disclosure, I'm one of the people interviewed. sites.google.com/view/framing...

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"I think it’s quite clear, based on the impacts of recent fire seasons, that the current status quo isn’t working," said Dr. Jen Baron, a postdoctoral researcher at UBCO and co-author of the wildfire coexistence study. ubyssey.ca/science/ubc-... @forestry.ubc.ca

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"We as a society need to start planning for the fires [of] the next fifty years if we want to reduce the impact on the things we value... We face serious and difficult questions about how to create safe, liveable environments." @trentpenman.bsky.social www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianou...

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This story has been brewing for a while and the number of men saying they are just worried about bad science is appalling. If you have anything other than compassion for the victims, you are supporting a culture that enables and even rewards bad behaviour. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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The Little Desert fire burning ~65,000ha in a day is crazy. Interesting to see how this fire compares to fire history. Left is mapped fires from 1970 by decade, more red = more recent. Fire is a key part of this landscape, but this recent one seems to be homogenising the historical mosaic of fires.

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Was good to provide some comment on this, along with a range of excellent vegetation scientists! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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I also saw Frenzal Rhomb when I was 12 (or maybe 13) at an all-ages gig and I also agree it was art.

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Wake up babe. New ball and cup model just dropped

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Tim's got a really good thread here. On the topic of "controlling fire", I periodically get to hear proposals from engineers (it's always engineers) on their ideas to "solve fire". The most recent memorable one was to coat forests in an organic glue-like paste which would stop foliage from burning.

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Smoke from prescribed fire can also be dangerous but comes in lower doses and brings the advantage of not including vaporized furniture, houses, vehicles, etc.

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Hello, so, I'm an anthropologist who has studied wildfires for over a decade and, just recently, handed in a book manuscript for peer review on the pathologies of wildfire management in Australia and, to a lesser extent, Canada and the US. It's called "How to Control Fire" (TBC).

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It was great to have a chat about eucalypt flammability on ABC Drive in WA yesterday. From 48:56 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Eucalypts always get blamed for fire. While it's true they're flammable & their role in fires matter, they can be a convenient scapegoat to avoid coming to grips with living in very fire prone areas (which, ironically, eucalypts have had no problem adapting to) www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

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I often use Watch Duty as an example of truly needed tech solutions for wildfire. Drones and AI are never going to prevent wildfires or put them out. But communications before, during, and after fire is a massive gap that tech can absolutely help solve.

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Here's the reality about the #LAFires this week: this isn't the first time ANY of these places have burned. Not even close. In 2018, we mapped CA fire history to look at fire frequency across SoCal. Santa Monica Mtns area burns more than anywhere else -- up to once per decade in a given spot. 🧵

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Santa Ana Wind (SAW) driven fires do occur in January but typically are not large and damaging. Figure below shows number of SAW fires for 1950-2020. These SAW fires are driven by wind speed and drought. www.publish.csiro.au/WF/WF23190

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'Moritz argued that we need to move beyond “preventing” fires, anyway - it’s more important that we think of land use & urban planning as public health measures... "If there are any lessons that we can take away, it’s that we have to learn to coexist with this kind of inevitable natural hazard.”'

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Good discussion on how nature laws do not enable ecosystem restoration. My general take is that most conservation legislation (and thinking, for that matter) is mostly designed to be reactive ("stop that") rather than proactive ("do this"). www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

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