Adam Mahood 🌻
@adm0n.bsky.social
Plant ecologist
Fire ecologist
And stuff
Fire ecologist
And stuff
Kevin O'Connell is defeating himself at his own game of 4-dimensional chess
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Kevin O'Connell is defeating himself at his own game of 4-dimensional chess
Hi.
Myself and 10-ish other people published this article today about global fire regimes. I hope you enjoy it. 🧪🌎🔥
Thank you for your attention on this matter!
dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb....
Myself and 10-ish other people published this article today about global fire regimes. I hope you enjoy it. 🧪🌎🔥
Thank you for your attention on this matter!
dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb....
The Properties of Individual Fire Events Are Essential for Understanding Global Fire Regimes
Aim As fire activity changes globally, we need to better understand the spatial and temporal characteristics of the individual events that, when aggregated, constitute fire regimes. Most global stud...
dx.doi.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Hi.
Myself and 10-ish other people published this article today about global fire regimes. I hope you enjoy it. 🧪🌎🔥
Thank you for your attention on this matter!
dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb....
Myself and 10-ish other people published this article today about global fire regimes. I hope you enjoy it. 🧪🌎🔥
Thank you for your attention on this matter!
dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb....
Reposted by Adam Mahood 🌻
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
Is it more like, people are failing the Turing test, rather than LLMs passing it?
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Is it more like, people are failing the Turing test, rather than LLMs passing it?
WTF NOW I HAVE TO READ LITERALLY 20 PAPERS
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197...
American Journal of Botany: Volume 112, Issue 10
SPECIAL ISSUE: Understanding novel fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches
Chill out on the great work people!! I ain't got time for this!
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197...
American Journal of Botany: Volume 112, Issue 10
SPECIAL ISSUE: Understanding novel fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches
Chill out on the great work people!! I ain't got time for this!
SPECIAL ISSUE: Understanding novel fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches: American Journal of Botany: Vol 112, No 10
Click on the title to browse this issue
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
WTF NOW I HAVE TO READ LITERALLY 20 PAPERS
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197...
American Journal of Botany: Volume 112, Issue 10
SPECIAL ISSUE: Understanding novel fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches
Chill out on the great work people!! I ain't got time for this!
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197...
American Journal of Botany: Volume 112, Issue 10
SPECIAL ISSUE: Understanding novel fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches
Chill out on the great work people!! I ain't got time for this!
So, if the executive branch now has the power of the purse, and the judicial branch now has the power to legislate... Is there a point to ending the shutdown?
November 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
So, if the executive branch now has the power of the purse, and the judicial branch now has the power to legislate... Is there a point to ending the shutdown?
Chicken shit play calling on the goal line (yet again) by O'Connell here
November 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Chicken shit play calling on the goal line (yet again) by O'Connell here
Reposted by Adam Mahood 🌻
Final version now available #AmJBot @botsocamerica.bsky.social
Sequoia & Sequoiadendron: Two paleoendemic megatrees with different adaptive responses to high-severity fires
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Plants are not adapted to fire, but to fire regimes
🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🪴 #ecoevo #wildfire
Sequoia & Sequoiadendron: Two paleoendemic megatrees with different adaptive responses to high-severity fires
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Plants are not adapted to fire, but to fire regimes
🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🪴 #ecoevo #wildfire
Sequoia sempervirens (redwood; world's tallest tree) is well adapted to high-intensity crown fires (eg 2020), but Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia; world's most massive tree) is adapted to surface fires only!
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
🧪🌍🔥🌿🌳🔥🪴 @botsocamerica.bsky.social
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
🧪🌍🔥🌿🌳🔥🪴 @botsocamerica.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Final version now available #AmJBot @botsocamerica.bsky.social
Sequoia & Sequoiadendron: Two paleoendemic megatrees with different adaptive responses to high-severity fires
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Plants are not adapted to fire, but to fire regimes
🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🪴 #ecoevo #wildfire
Sequoia & Sequoiadendron: Two paleoendemic megatrees with different adaptive responses to high-severity fires
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Plants are not adapted to fire, but to fire regimes
🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🪴 #ecoevo #wildfire
Reposted by Adam Mahood 🌻
Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), “Abstract painting (722-3)” (1990), oil on canvas, 180 x 200 cm.
October 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), “Abstract painting (722-3)” (1990), oil on canvas, 180 x 200 cm.
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Thanks @billmckibben.bsky.social for your take on our new book, "Life After Cars."
www.lifeaftercars.com
www.lifeaftercars.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Thanks @billmckibben.bsky.social for your take on our new book, "Life After Cars."
www.lifeaftercars.com
www.lifeaftercars.com
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It can't, and it won't.
It's the continuation of our burning of fossil fuels, or stopping it ASAP, that will either save the world or destroy it.
It's the continuation of our burning of fossil fuels, or stopping it ASAP, that will either save the world or destroy it.
The humble plant that could save the world — or destroy it
Clean energy expansion could destroy this crucial climate solution.
grist.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It can't, and it won't.
It's the continuation of our burning of fossil fuels, or stopping it ASAP, that will either save the world or destroy it.
It's the continuation of our burning of fossil fuels, or stopping it ASAP, that will either save the world or destroy it.
Every once in a while, I hit the spam button on my email and I get a hopeful feeling. Maybe this time, the good people on the other side of this spam button are going to figure out who's sending me this stuff. What if this exact press of the spam button is the one where they finally figure it out.
October 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Every once in a while, I hit the spam button on my email and I get a hopeful feeling. Maybe this time, the good people on the other side of this spam button are going to figure out who's sending me this stuff. What if this exact press of the spam button is the one where they finally figure it out.
Really awesome stuff. They included the LA fires as a case study for attribution work, which I think will interest a lot of people.
essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...
essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...
State of Wildfires 2024–2025
Abstract. Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme wildfires globally, yet our understanding of these high-impact events remains uneven and shaped by media attention and reg...
essd.copernicus.org
October 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Really awesome stuff. They included the LA fires as a case study for attribution work, which I think will interest a lot of people.
essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...
essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...
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Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
September 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
Reposted by Adam Mahood 🌻
Southern Ocean evidence for recurring West Antarctic Ice Sheet destabilization during Marine Isotope Stage 11
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Southern Ocean evidence for recurring West Antarctic Ice Sheet destabilization during Marine Isotope Stage 11 - Nature Communications
Recurring deep ocean oxygen minimum events occur in the Pacific Southern Ocean during the warm climate interval Marine Isotope Stage 11. They are linked with perturbed Antarctic Bottom Water formation...
www.nature.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Southern Ocean evidence for recurring West Antarctic Ice Sheet destabilization during Marine Isotope Stage 11
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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WATCH: Do you have to move away from the United States in order to get a clear picture of the United States? @evanedinger.bsky.social covers the reasons he couldn’t move back to the U.S. from Europe now. Hint: #3 is about walkable cities & car dependency, but all are worth seriously thinking about.
How I View the US After 13 Years Living in Europe
YouTube video by Evan Edinger
youtu.be
October 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
WATCH: Do you have to move away from the United States in order to get a clear picture of the United States? @evanedinger.bsky.social covers the reasons he couldn’t move back to the U.S. from Europe now. Hint: #3 is about walkable cities & car dependency, but all are worth seriously thinking about.
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Super excited to see that the last chapter of my PhD on root trait - ecosystem functioning relationships is now published in @newphyt.bsky.social!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Rooting for function: community‐level fine‐root traits relate to many ecosystem functions
Humans are driving biodiversity change, which also alters community functional traits. However, how changes in the functional traits of the community alter ecosystem functions—especially belowground...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Super excited to see that the last chapter of my PhD on root trait - ecosystem functioning relationships is now published in @newphyt.bsky.social!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Interesting review in JXB:
How and why plants came to smell green: the origins, biosynthesis, and roles of green leaf volatiles
#plantscience
academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
How and why plants came to smell green: the origins, biosynthesis, and roles of green leaf volatiles
#plantscience
academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
How and why plants came to smell green: the origins, biosynthesis, and roles of green leaf volatiles
Rapidly released from damaged cells, green leaf volatiles exemplify an evolutionary adaptation conserved across terrestrial plants, serving as essential de
academic.oup.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Interesting review in JXB:
How and why plants came to smell green: the origins, biosynthesis, and roles of green leaf volatiles
#plantscience
academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
How and why plants came to smell green: the origins, biosynthesis, and roles of green leaf volatiles
#plantscience
academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
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Does body size predict abundance the same way in all environments, as predicted by the Metabolic theory of Ecology? Our new study challenges this assumption. Read it here: 📄 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Biodiversity modulates the cross‐community scaling relationship in changing environments
Organismal abundance typically declines with increasing body size, with metabolic theory predicting a universal size–abundance slope of –0.75. Using protist microcosms across gradients of species ric...
doi.org
October 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Does body size predict abundance the same way in all environments, as predicted by the Metabolic theory of Ecology? Our new study challenges this assumption. Read it here: 📄 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Reposted by Adam Mahood 🌻
Boxes also work on bobcats
October 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Boxes also work on bobcats
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In #drylands, plants don’t grow randomly — they self-organize into disordered hyperuniform patterns that help them use water wisely & endure extreme aridity. A beautiful hidden logic of nature, revealed in a new @pnas.org study doi.org/10.1073/pnas... including #Maestrelab alumni
October 8, 2025 at 6:59 AM
In #drylands, plants don’t grow randomly — they self-organize into disordered hyperuniform patterns that help them use water wisely & endure extreme aridity. A beautiful hidden logic of nature, revealed in a new @pnas.org study doi.org/10.1073/pnas... including #Maestrelab alumni
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so good from @heycappello.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
so good from @heycappello.bsky.social