Jeff Atkins
@atkinsjeff.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ Virginia Commonwealth University; displaced Forest Service scientist; ecosystem ecologist with a remote sensing problem; standard time apologist; lover of loud, noisy, weird music.
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Astonishing failure of peer review
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Astonishing failure of peer review
The Atkins family annual marathon of LOTR extended editions on Thanksgiving has begun at 925 EST!
November 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The Atkins family annual marathon of LOTR extended editions on Thanksgiving has begun at 925 EST!
Carlos, Maureen and the whole team have done a terrific job of putting this all together and I am really excited where this is going!
🌲 Great news from ForestSAT 2026! 🌍
We’re thrilled to announce that we received 480 abstracts from over 49 countries, highlighting the incredible global interest in forest research and remote sensing.
👉 For more information, visit our website. carlos-alberto-silva.github.io/silvalab/For...
We’re thrilled to announce that we received 480 abstracts from over 49 countries, highlighting the incredible global interest in forest research and remote sensing.
👉 For more information, visit our website. carlos-alberto-silva.github.io/silvalab/For...
November 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Carlos, Maureen and the whole team have done a terrific job of putting this all together and I am really excited where this is going!
Amazing.
Water level since yesterday morning at Grand Marais, Minnesota (northwest shore of Lake Superior) and Point Iroquois, Michigan (southeast end of Lake Superior).
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Amazing.
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📣Applications are now open!
Find out more about how to apply 👇
Find out more about how to apply 👇
Apply to be a BES Associate Editor - British Ecological Society
Help advance outstanding ecological research by joining our Editorial Boards! Applications are now open across all seven BES journals.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
📣Applications are now open!
Find out more about how to apply 👇
Find out more about how to apply 👇
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🚨Paper alert🚨
Check out Beibei Zhang's latest work out today @royalsocietypublishing.org where we track the 3D structural recovery of Australia's Great Western Woodlands following wildfires over a chronosequence spanning half a millenia!🌳🛰️🔥🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Check out Beibei Zhang's latest work out today @royalsocietypublishing.org where we track the 3D structural recovery of Australia's Great Western Woodlands following wildfires over a chronosequence spanning half a millenia!🌳🛰️🔥🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
November 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🚨Paper alert🚨
Check out Beibei Zhang's latest work out today @royalsocietypublishing.org where we track the 3D structural recovery of Australia's Great Western Woodlands following wildfires over a chronosequence spanning half a millenia!🌳🛰️🔥🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Check out Beibei Zhang's latest work out today @royalsocietypublishing.org where we track the 3D structural recovery of Australia's Great Western Woodlands following wildfires over a chronosequence spanning half a millenia!🌳🛰️🔥🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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✨ Paper spotlight ✨
(🧵 1/7) Moving from an experiment- to an observation-dominated era in global change impact research on vegetation
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(🧵 1/7) Moving from an experiment- to an observation-dominated era in global change impact research on vegetation
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
✨ Paper spotlight ✨
(🧵 1/7) Moving from an experiment- to an observation-dominated era in global change impact research on vegetation
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(🧵 1/7) Moving from an experiment- to an observation-dominated era in global change impact research on vegetation
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Cool plot
Shared ancestry outweighs environment in structuring global seagrass traits
Bosch et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Bosch et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Cool plot
*fewer
Linda McMahon: "The states will have less requirements because more money will go in block grants to the states ... I have called for a hard reset of education because we have failed our students."
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
*fewer
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We're currently looking for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board! 🌎🧪
If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
We're currently looking for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board! 🌎🧪
If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
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Hi all, I'll try to check in more often. Always looking for:
1) paid job/research opportunities to share with undergrads
2) cool ecophys/ecology stuff
3) connections for research & collaboration
I'm also reachable by my professional email, which is on my webpage: maryheskel.com
1) paid job/research opportunities to share with undergrads
2) cool ecophys/ecology stuff
3) connections for research & collaboration
I'm also reachable by my professional email, which is on my webpage: maryheskel.com
Plant Ecophysiology @ Macalester College – Studying leaves to landscapes in a changing world
maryheskel.com
November 11, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Hi all, I'll try to check in more often. Always looking for:
1) paid job/research opportunities to share with undergrads
2) cool ecophys/ecology stuff
3) connections for research & collaboration
I'm also reachable by my professional email, which is on my webpage: maryheskel.com
1) paid job/research opportunities to share with undergrads
2) cool ecophys/ecology stuff
3) connections for research & collaboration
I'm also reachable by my professional email, which is on my webpage: maryheskel.com
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November 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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This great thread makes a point I've been trying to convey for years. Calling all data-driven prediction or decision software "AI" is a huge gift to LLM hypemen, who want people to believe, incorrectly, that LLM data centers are crucial for solar forecasting or operating buildings and power grids.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This great thread makes a point I've been trying to convey for years. Calling all data-driven prediction or decision software "AI" is a huge gift to LLM hypemen, who want people to believe, incorrectly, that LLM data centers are crucial for solar forecasting or operating buildings and power grids.
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Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
Peter from "If Books Could Kill" voice.... freakanomics!
“Had UChicago simply matched the market, its endowment would be $6.45 billion larger today—more than enough to repay its entire debt.”
Don’t understand why these people aren’t simply fired
Don’t understand why these people aren’t simply fired
The boys at UChicago smirking right now because they proved once again, they're breaking new ground and Harvard follows after the fact.
stanfordreview.org/uchicago-los...
stanfordreview.org/uchicago-los...
November 22, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Peter from "If Books Could Kill" voice.... freakanomics!
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"Postdoctoral Research Scholar - Forest Biotechnology Group at NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA"
Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251121_NCSU.pdf
#PlantSciJobs
Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251121_NCSU.pdf
#PlantSciJobs
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"Postdoctoral Research Scholar - Forest Biotechnology Group at NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA"
Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251121_NCSU.pdf
#PlantSciJobs
Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251121_NCSU.pdf
#PlantSciJobs
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Crowd sourcing from the Bluesky hive mind: what are these patches with what look like ducts inside that I'm seeing on silver maple? They don't occur in every ring, rather sporadically. @yellowbuckeye.bsky.social @l-tulipifera.bsky.social #dendro
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Crowd sourcing from the Bluesky hive mind: what are these patches with what look like ducts inside that I'm seeing on silver maple? They don't occur in every ring, rather sporadically. @yellowbuckeye.bsky.social @l-tulipifera.bsky.social #dendro
This actually gets more intriguing the more I think on it
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This actually gets more intriguing the more I think on it
Bad news. Very bad news.
The White House just blasted this out under the headline "Good News You May Have Missed"
November 20, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Bad news. Very bad news.
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New paper out! 🌲 We explore hyperspectral indicators of vegetation vitality across scales—from individual trees to entire forests using drone & aircraft data. Insights into tree health, water availability & structure.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hyperspectral indicators of vegetation vitality across scales: From trees to forests
Remotely sensed vegetation indices (VIs) are used as indicators of vegetation vitality and warning signals that indicate stress responses at the leaf …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
New paper out! 🌲 We explore hyperspectral indicators of vegetation vitality across scales—from individual trees to entire forests using drone & aircraft data. Insights into tree health, water availability & structure.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Temperate deciduous forests are found in three global regions. We compared taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of forest plant communities among these regions in a new Ecography article led by Javier Loidi and Josep Padullés Cubino:
doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
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doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Temperate deciduous forests are found in three global regions. We compared taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of forest plant communities among these regions in a new Ecography article led by Javier Loidi and Josep Padullés Cubino:
doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
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doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
@ecography.bsky.social
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We published! I am very excited to share this story. Our study shows that Taxus mortality is not caused by competition. Many deaths began with mechanical damage from fallen trees more than a decade ago, starting a long decline that led to recent mortality.
Ku and Lutz (2025) doi.org/10.1186/s137...
Ku and Lutz (2025) doi.org/10.1186/s137...
Death and Taxus: the contribution of mechanical damage to the multiple factors associated with Taxus brevifolia mortality - Ecological Processes
Background Recent increases in tree mortality are often attributed to climate, but climate extremes may just be the last of many stressors that have unfolded over many years resulting in tree death. P...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
We published! I am very excited to share this story. Our study shows that Taxus mortality is not caused by competition. Many deaths began with mechanical damage from fallen trees more than a decade ago, starting a long decline that led to recent mortality.
Ku and Lutz (2025) doi.org/10.1186/s137...
Ku and Lutz (2025) doi.org/10.1186/s137...