Matthew Fagan
@velocitree.bsky.social
Moving at the speed of tree
My Ph.D. student Felipe Saad is at #AGU25, please stop by and say hi to him at his poster!
B43O-2108 Monitoring emergent tropical trees with high-resolution spectral and structural data: Landscape fragmentation and Dipteryx panamensis in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Hall EFG
Thursday: 14:15 - 17:45
B43O-2108 Monitoring emergent tropical trees with high-resolution spectral and structural data: Landscape fragmentation and Dipteryx panamensis in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Hall EFG
Thursday: 14:15 - 17:45
December 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
My Ph.D. student Felipe Saad is at #AGU25, please stop by and say hi to him at his poster!
B43O-2108 Monitoring emergent tropical trees with high-resolution spectral and structural data: Landscape fragmentation and Dipteryx panamensis in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Hall EFG
Thursday: 14:15 - 17:45
B43O-2108 Monitoring emergent tropical trees with high-resolution spectral and structural data: Landscape fragmentation and Dipteryx panamensis in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Hall EFG
Thursday: 14:15 - 17:45
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This week’s IBioS member Article Highlight!
Dr. @naomibschwartz.bsky.social and colleagues recently published an article on “The responsible use of global remote-sensing datasets.”
Read more about this article here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dr. @naomibschwartz.bsky.social and colleagues recently published an article on “The responsible use of global remote-sensing datasets.”
Read more about this article here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The responsible use of global remote-sensing datasets - Nature Ecology & Evolution
In this age of abundant remote-sensing data, global datasets are increasingly relied upon to analyse the planet at unprecedented scale and resolution. We offer three considerations on uncertainties an...
www.nature.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This week’s IBioS member Article Highlight!
Dr. @naomibschwartz.bsky.social and colleagues recently published an article on “The responsible use of global remote-sensing datasets.”
Read more about this article here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dr. @naomibschwartz.bsky.social and colleagues recently published an article on “The responsible use of global remote-sensing datasets.”
Read more about this article here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Matthew Fagan
Systematic review of evidence on Miyawaki forest restoration: Its at least 10,000 times more expensive than other techniques, yet has no well documented benefits besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Tiny forests, huge claims: The evidence gap behind the Miyawaki method for forest restoration
To scale up restoration effectively, practitioners and policymakers should prioritize methods supported by robust empirical evidence rather than relying on untested claims. Our findings highlight the...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Systematic review of evidence on Miyawaki forest restoration: Its at least 10,000 times more expensive than other techniques, yet has no well documented benefits besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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It was an honor to work with this group... and the paper is excellent, but the implications for tropical ecosystems make me really sad. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hot droughts in the Amazon provide a window to a future hypertropical climate - Nature
Thirty years of forest demographic data, combined with recent ecophysiological measurements, reveal that intense Amazon droughts sharply increase tree mortality once soil moisture falls below a thresh...
www.nature.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It was an honor to work with this group... and the paper is excellent, but the implications for tropical ecosystems make me really sad. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Also (filing this under sentences I never thought I would write) I and @forrestf.bsky.social and @simonlewis.bsky.social and others were in an *excellent* French documentary on tree planting. If your French is as bad as mine: Watch it with captions and auto translate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EFJ...
December 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Also (filing this under sentences I never thought I would write) I and @forrestf.bsky.social and @simonlewis.bsky.social and others were in an *excellent* French documentary on tree planting. If your French is as bad as mine: Watch it with captions and auto translate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EFJ...
I was happily surprised that our new Comment, “The Responsible Use of Global Remote-Sensing Datasets” is out this week in Nature Ecology and Evolution. I want to thank the editors at @springernature.com for the holiday gift of speed! Please DM me if you would like a copy of the article.
December 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I was happily surprised that our new Comment, “The Responsible Use of Global Remote-Sensing Datasets” is out this week in Nature Ecology and Evolution. I want to thank the editors at @springernature.com for the holiday gift of speed! Please DM me if you would like a copy of the article.
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Per an NIH source:
“Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”
“Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”
January 28, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Per an NIH source:
“Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”
“Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”
This is going to damage science and charity work in the US beyond repair. Every day the pause goes on, small businesses will fold and student rent won’t get paid. It’s holding a knife to the throat of America. You want to review funding? Do it. But stop it? Might as well toss our dreams in the trash
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
January 28, 2025 at 2:48 AM
This is going to damage science and charity work in the US beyond repair. Every day the pause goes on, small businesses will fold and student rent won’t get paid. It’s holding a knife to the throat of America. You want to review funding? Do it. But stop it? Might as well toss our dreams in the trash
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Large universities with vibrant medical research such as OSU and @osuwexmed.bsky.social need to put pressure on our elected officials. OSU is the 5th largest employer in the state of Ohio, and it owes much of its impact to research funding provided by NIH and other federal agencies.
NIH and other federal health agencies have been instructed to cease external communications indefinitely. This means that grant programs—the money that funds life-saving university and hospital research—are currently in limbo. This includes VA research on veterans’ health.
January 23, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Large universities with vibrant medical research such as OSU and @osuwexmed.bsky.social need to put pressure on our elected officials. OSU is the 5th largest employer in the state of Ohio, and it owes much of its impact to research funding provided by NIH and other federal agencies.
Closed down my Twitter account after ignoring it for more than a year—Elon did the wave goodbye for me. Any starter pack recs for ecological remote sensing folks who like RPGs, gardening, and distracting, funny takes on anything other than US politics? Gonna be a loong four years.
January 23, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Closed down my Twitter account after ignoring it for more than a year—Elon did the wave goodbye for me. Any starter pack recs for ecological remote sensing folks who like RPGs, gardening, and distracting, funny takes on anything other than US politics? Gonna be a loong four years.