Great stats papers are far and few between, this is one of them. Super elegant piece of communication about the fundamental everyday concept of interpreting variance + uncertainty. Strong recommend. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Traditionally, scientists have placed more emphasis on communicating inferential uncertainty (i.e., the precision of statistical estimates) compare...
"Fences are never mere strips of wire & wood... They are the lines w/ which we delineate our property, the distinctions we erect btw the wild world & the human-built one." For bioGraphic, I wrote about the env impacts of the Wirocene—age of the fence. #fenceecologywww.biographic.com/entangled/
Laid end to end, the world’s fences would reach the sun. What are they doing to wildlife?
Applications are open for Max Planck Research Group Leaders! An amazing opportunity to build an independent research group with ~3M€ guaranteed support over 6 years. Bonus: You can choose your favorite Max Planck Institute, including ours www.bio.mpg.de/50783/about-uswww.mpg.de/career/max-p...
Back from a marvel of a week on the Isle of Eigg. Not connected to the main grid the island generates it's own power and with the island managed by a community trust. What a contrast to the Scottish mainland with estates and the gas/oil dependency of rural communities.
My latest for @mongabay.bsky.social w. Nehru Pry uncovers how a mining company with ties to top brass in the Cambodian military grabbed an Indigenous community's forest, closed down an ecotourism venture & launched legal attacks against community members who tried to expose the damage to the forest.
STUNG TRENG, Cambodia — Rain poured down in torrential sheets as Ouk Mao guided reporters through the winding dirt tracks that were, in August, rutted with deep trenches of mud and rainwater as Cambod...
I'm about to transition my love affair from grasses to sedges 🤩 It would be so fun to look at whether sedge phenology (and everything else) generally ends up moulded by grasses through competition and fire. Another chance to talk about phenological niche separation..
Post-fire flowering is one of the coolest thing about studying fires in the Cerrado. Bulbostylis paradoxa (sedge) is my favorite, starting flowering 24 hs post-fire. Last picture: Gomphrena sp dispersing seeds < 1 month post-fire
Corruption and rights abuses flourish in lithium mining across Africa. Just as it does for the many commodities whether semi precious stones, agricultural or forest products like vanilla and cocoa.
On a Sunday afternoon in March 2023, Darlington Vito was shot in the head outside an industrial lithium mine in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe. A subsistence miner, he had been searching for chunks of o...
Amazing few weeks with an incredible team from Flinders + U Washington. Endless desert dunes and grasslands, 25 Mya leaf macro fossils, the desert in bloom, Diprotontid fossils at the edges of salt lakes with weeks of life set by sunrise and sunset.
