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Emma Underwood
@geospatialemma.bsky.social
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📚PhD cand. @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social modelling vegetation range shifts 🌱 / guest in @zurelllab.bsky.social MacroEco lab / PT Geospatial vol @mapaction.bsky.social 🌍
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andybrockman.bsky.social
Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.

Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.
Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors
The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).
www.thebookseller.com
September 19, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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mongabay.com
A new report traces the life cycle of fossil fuels — from exploration and extraction to combustion and decommissioning — and found stark consequences at each stage for the health of people and the planet alike.
Every stage of fossil fuel life cycle harms people & the environment: Report
A new report traces the life cycle of fossil fuels — from exploration and extraction to combustion and decommissioning — and found stark consequences at each stage for the health of people and the…
news.mongabay.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
geospatialemma.bsky.social
Thanks to all the presenters and facilitators, it has been a great day 🛰️🌍 @zalf.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Reposted by Emma Underwood
ipbes.net
A new study in @nature.com shows that abrupt changes to Antarctica’s currents, ice and glaciers are already underway – and likely to significantly intensify in the future, with global impacts for generations to come.🧪🌏

Read more in @theconversation.com 
From sea ice to ocean currents, Antarctica is now undergoing abrupt changes – and we’ll all feel them
The vast ice of Antarctica has long seemed impregnable. But sudden changes are arriving – from shrinking sea ice to melting ice sheets and slowing ocean currents.
bit.ly
September 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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ecoclimatelab.bsky.social
More coverage of the scathing review by more than 80 scientists of the report from the DOE's climate working group. It's biased, cherry picked, and written with a scientifically unsupported agenda. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump team’s contentious climate report ‘makes a mockery of science’, experts say
Over 85 top climate specialists lambasted administration’s review, calling it a ‘shoddy mess’ that downplays risks
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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500womensci.bsky.social
We are living in a post-accountability world, at least for the rich and powerful and their enablers. Tracking their actions and impacts is critical to have the kinds of accountability we need...accountability needs numbers #resist
500womenscientists.org/updates/2025...
By the numbers — 500 Women Scientists
Numbers matter. If they didn’t matter, wanna-be authoritarians wouldn’t be censoring labor statistics that don’t show them in favorable terms. The “flood the zone” strategy the Trump administration ha...
500womenscientists.org
August 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
geospatialemma.bsky.social
Poster is up at M12 in the poster arena! 🌏🌿🇦🇹 #LPS25 @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 11:18 AM
geospatialemma.bsky.social
Arrived in Vienna for #LPS25 conference! 🇦🇹🌎 @esa.int
Emma Underwood badge for #LPS25 Austria Conference Centre Vienna doorway with large poster for #LPS25 Austria Conference Centre steps with #LPS25 colourful adverts for the event
June 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM
geospatialemma.bsky.social
I am happy to share this poster will be displayed at the upcoming Kingston University ECE PGR Conference 2025!
I'd love your feedback, comments and questions 🌍
#KUECEPGRConference2025 #PhDchat #SciComm @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social
A colourful poster titled "Triple threats to tropical biodiversity: predicting the impact of future climate change, disease and deforestation on vulnerable species range dynamics with RangeShiftR"; with five sub-headers with text sections including: 1) Background, 2) Aim, 3) Methods, 4) Results and 5) Discussion. There are five figures, figure 1 is a map of Madagascar, figure 2 is a conceptual diagram of the RangeShiftR modelling framework, figure 3 is a conceptual diagram of model scenario combinations, figure 4 are maps of Madagascar showing habitat suitability of the focal tree and its wilt pathogen, and figure 5 shows a lambda graph describing population growth rates over a 100-year simulation. At the bottom of the poster are references, acknowledgements and credits.
June 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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novaramedia.com
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Help us shift the public conversation and take on the vested interests that have corrupted mainstream media.

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June 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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jsarmentocabral.bsky.social
Postdoc call in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling (up to 6 ya) at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We focus on modelling terrestrial plant communities, island biogeography, range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/CL1ny
Postdoc in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling with temporary civil servant status (“Akademische*r Rätin*Rat)
100%, A 13, Reference number: 2025/49
shorturl.at
May 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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gis4he.bsky.social
really clear overview of range shift by Emma Underwood to get everyone on the right track for their presentation..... good work. #gisruk
April 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
geospatialemma.bsky.social
Been a little while since I was last in Bristol! ✨
Happy to be talking about my latest research today at #GISRUK hosted by the University of Bristol - thanks for having me and thanks to the organisers!
#research #presentation #phd #biogeography #methods #modelling #sdm #rangeshift #climatechange
April 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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pik-potsdam.bsky.social
“Global warming continues unabated, as predicted correctly since the 1980s, millions of people are increasingly suffering the consequences,” states PIKs @rahmstorf.bsky.social on WMO report. “We can only stop the warming trend by getting out of fossil fuels fast.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024, says UN
Floods, heatwaves and supercharged hurricanes occurred in hottest climate human society has ever experienced
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
geospatialemma.bsky.social
"Nightmarish" fire spreading across Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar - according to Prof Pat Wright, it has impacted >600 acres so far
news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
‘Nightmare’ fire threatens iconic Madagascar national park
A mighty blaze in Madagascar’s Ranomafana National Park is menacing the home of the world’s rarest lemur species. Disastrous dry conditions have turned the biodiversity haven into a tinderbox. The par...
news.mongabay.com
January 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Reposted by Emma Underwood
zurelllab.bsky.social
Check out our new paper in @ecography.bsky.social
led by Jamie Kass! big team of #R pkg developers show how to improve analysis standards by combining different pkgs for species distribution models #SDM, provide a #shiny app to catalog & explore them, 3 extensive tutorials. doi.org/10.1111/ecog...
Achieving higher standards in species distribution modeling by leveraging the diversity of available software
The increasing online availability of biodiversity data and advances in ecological modeling have led to a proliferation of open-source modeling tools. In particular, R packages for species distributi....
doi.org
November 24, 2024 at 9:27 AM
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zurelllab.bsky.social
Listen to AI podcast on Kass et al. „Achieving higher standards in SDM“ earthskysea.org/ecocast-podc... by @earthskysea.bsky.social
November 25, 2024 at 7:28 AM
geospatialemma.bsky.social
My friend said this is definitely one to print out big for my office door... 🚪👇
[author: @eisforerin.bsky.social]
eisforerin.bsky.social Erin @eisforerin.bsky.social · Nov 16
My first post here definitely has to be Tendril Theory, because when I made this in 2015 I had no idea how often it would be ripped off. Tell your friends and your enemies to tag me please 😂
Image is the “Tendril Theory” cartoon, original located at eisforerin.com
December 18, 2024 at 10:44 AM
geospatialemma.bsky.social
what an incredible collection of plant photos/drawings - thank you for your idea/coding/sharing @zubaplants.bsky.social 🌻
zubaplants.bsky.social Brian Borncamp @zubaplants.bsky.social · Nov 21
I really like old herbarium illustrations. Last year I wrote some software to parse, score, and process the Oxford 400 herbarium dataset to remove the paper background and select the best photos.
If anyone needs a collection of beautiful plant photos...
github.com/borncamp/oxf...
December 18, 2024 at 9:54 AM
geospatialemma.bsky.social
"Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift."

- Robin Wall Kimmerer
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants is a 2013 nonfiction book by Potawatomi professor Robin Wall Kimmerer, about the role of Indigenous knowledge as an alternative or complementary approach to Western mainstream scientific methodologies.
November 8, 2024 at 1:16 PM
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pik-potsdam.bsky.social
Despite policy commitments, the world is not reducing unsustainable pressures on the planet. Time is running out as we approach the halfway point of the decisive decade.
Read Johan Rockström & William Ripple's view on the climate crisis & the fierce urgency of now: www.context.news/climate-risk...
We are near tipping points that will make the climate crisis worse | Context
As Hurricane Milton hits the United States, leading climate scientists warn we are close to crossing crucial tipping points
www.context.news
October 10, 2024 at 12:41 PM
geospatialemma.bsky.social
Had fun presenting and discussing my current PhD research at the Royal Geographical Society and to my department at Kingston University London last week, and also managed to squeeze in a MapAction training weekend 🤓💤
#PhD #conference #presentation #RGSIBG #KingstonUniversityLondon #MapAction #cpd
four presenters from the PGF midterm standing together at the Royal Geographical Society Two women discussing mapping at their laptops Presenting research at Kingston University London
April 30, 2024 at 8:51 AM
geospatialemma.bsky.social
 'SPACES OF ENQUIRY' 
Stanley Picker Gallery, Project Space, KT1 2QJ
Opening night: Tuesday 7th May, 5-7pm
Open 8th - 9th May, 11am - 5pm

#KingstonUniversity #London #KingstonSchoolofArt #Art #Exhibition #Collaboration #SpacesofEnquiry
An exhibition of works by artists at Kingston in response to interdisciplinary collaborations with scientific researchers across the wider Kingston University Network, exploring collective ways of knowing the world, and opening new spaces of enquiry.
April 17, 2024 at 7:46 AM