Harald Crepaz
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Harald Crepaz
@crepazharald.bsky.social
Plant ecologist @ Eurac Research, South Tyrol, Italy | PhD candidate @ Univ. of Innsbruck

Climate Change 🌍 | Alpine grassland 🌱 | Phenology 🌻 | Phenocam 📷 | Microclimate 🌦️ | Mountains 🏔️ | Hockey 🏒

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4006-0844
Attended the first eLTER Science Conference in Tampere last week. Grateful for the chance to present my PhD work and visit SMEAR II in Hyytiälä. Thanks to the organizers for a well-run and important event!
July 3, 2025 at 8:52 AM
My posters are up at the #eLTER2025SC! 🌿
You’ll find them at stands 10 and 11.
I’ll be there from 17:15 to 18:30 – stop by for a chat! #eLTERcommunity
June 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A hare 🐇 hiding, and seagull chicks 🐤 waddling around in a specially set-up breeding area for gulls — right in the middle of the city.
June 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Just arrived in Tampere for the first-ever @elter-ri.eu Science Conference 🌍
A full week ahead focused on long-term, system-level ecosystem research:
🔬 Critical zone & socio-ecological integration
📊 Interdisciplinary sessions & workshops
🌱 Field visits to LTER sites
June 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Congrats @mattande.bsky.social ! 🎉 Well deserved 👏👏
We’re thrilled to share that @mattande.bsky.social has won the prestigious Stefan M. Gergely Prize! 🏆 Awarded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) for outstanding research on biodiversity and ecosystems.
Big congrats, Matteo! 👏🌿

📸 ÖAW / D. Hinterramskogler
June 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Our 💯 hours to #SaveAmericasForecasts starts tomorrow!

Tune in to hear over 200+ US meteorologists and climate scientists share the importance of federally funded weather and climate research!

wclivestream.com
May 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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New study on bats & agriculture in mountain ecosystems! 🦇🌄
Using passive acoustic monitoring🎧, we explore how agricultural practices impact bat diversity, with natural elements promoting richness & manure hills having a negative effect
@chiarapaniccia.bsky.social @andreashilpold.bsky.social
Balancing bats and agriculture: Investigating the effects of agricultural management practices on bat species diversity in mountain ecosystems
Changes in agricultural land use and farming practices have been recognized as significant drivers of biodiversity loss, especially when they involve …
www.sciencedirect.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
It appears that Elon Musk's Starlink satellites are falling out of orbit at a rate of 120 per month, each releasing 30 kilograms of aluminum oxide that depletes the ozone layer. The concentration of these oxides in the atmosphere has increased eightfold since 2016.
March 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Apparently, Russia seized half of America faster than it did one-fifth of Ukraine. Selenskyj was made a fool of in the Oval Office as part of a staged spectacle intended to give Trump an excuse to abandon Ukraine and blame Selenskyj, which is why TASS was there live, while Reuters or AP were not.
March 1, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Qualche simpaticone ha creato un BOT per generare migliaia di firme false nella petizione di Vincenzo Lorusso di DonbassItalia utilizzando nomi russi di fantasia alquanto "perculanti" immaginate la faccia di quelli del Ministero quando scopriranno che moltissime firme sono false :) #GalinaSbatilova
February 21, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Das erste Felsenschwalbenpärchen ist aus dem Winterquartier zurück - sieht aus, als wäre der Winter vorbei 🪶🌞
February 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Kann ja mal passieren 🤷‍♂️
February 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Eine emsige Biberfamilie hat Naturschützern in Tschechien viel Geld und Arbeit erspart. Während die noch um Genehmigungen und Fördergelder rangen, schufen die Biber kurzerhand ein Sumpfgebiet.
Tschechien: Biber bauen Damm, der sonst 1,2 Millionen Euro gekostet hätte
Eine emsige Biberfamilie hat Naturschützern in Tschechien viel Geld und Arbeit erspart. Während die noch um Genehmigungen und Fördergelder rangen, schufen die Biber kurzerhand ein Sumpfgebiet.
www.spiegel.de
February 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Mistral AI's Le Chat runs 13x faster than ChatGPT, processes 1,000 words per second compared to ChatGPT's 650, and shows better image generation capabilities than DALL-E. The system operates with API costs at $8 per million tokens, while GPT-4 charges $30.
February 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
According to the EU's Copernicus Programme, January 2025 was globally the warmest January on record with a 13.23°C average temperature, measuring 1.75°C above pre-industrial levels. Most remarkable: this record warmth occurred during La Niña conditions, which typically provide a cooling effect (1/4)
February 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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It’s time for THE charger.

Today, the USB-C becomes officially the common standard for charging new mobile electronic devices in the EU.

It means better-charging technology, reduced e-waste, and less fuss to find the chargers you need!

#DigitalEU
December 28, 2024 at 7:09 AM
To summarize this whole inhumanity: Russia once again shot down a civilian aircraft and afterwards denied it emergency landing on Russian soil. Additionally, it jammed the GPS in the area and diverted the plane to Kazakhstan - hoping it would crash into the Caspian Sea to erase all evidence
December 26, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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December 23, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Climate change advances snowmelt timing, threatening specialized plant communities in alpine snowbeds. Our 3-year study investigates snowbed communities at two LTER sites in the Italian Alps, combining high-resolution microclimate data, phenological monitoring & phenocams 🏔️
Phenological responses of alpine snowbed communities to advancing snowmelt
Our study investigates the phenological responses of five typical snowbed species to advancing snowmelt using in situ monitoring, phenocam imagery and predictive modelling. Over 3 years, we found tem....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 13, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Fascinating how state media tactics with bots, paid followers and hired influencers hit a wall on Bluesky. Decentralized algorithms doing their thing. Who would've thought.

www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
Bluesky boom worries Chinese media | Semafor
State outlets, which put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Musk’s social media platform, have recently seen their growth plateau.
www.semafor.com
December 9, 2024 at 9:18 AM
Another snowy day at our measuring stations: 10-20cm fresh snow captured by our phenocams across the LTER area Matschertal/Val Mazia ❄️

More data 👉 dashboard.alpenv.eurac.edu/d/mOR0eeoMk/...
December 8, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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🥁 Ecologist working in mountains: We still have spots in the Mountain Ecology Starter Pack for Scientists working on various aspects of Mountain Ecology ⛰️ 🏞️🌄 👇. Let me know if you would like to be included. 🌎 🧪 🌐
go.bsky.app/V5Ydank
December 1, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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Fine-scale alpine plant community assembly: Relative roles of environmental sorting, dispersal processes and species interactions 🌾 🌎🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Fine‐scale alpine plant community assembly: Relative roles of environmental sorting, dispersal processes and species interactions
This study examines the contributions of environmental filtering, dispersal limitation and plant interactions to changes in local alpine plant communities over two decades. It identifies environmenta...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 4, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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Interested in an internship in bird monitoring in the Alps? By means of traditional and innovative methods? Or writing a thesis on mountain bird ecology? Have a look at this opportunity within our team!#bird#ecology#Alps#biodiversity#monitoring
eurac.onboard.org/jobs/kmEz8E4...
Intern for the ornithological survey (automatic and in field) within the Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol project
Eurac Research · Bozen/Bolzano
eurac.onboard.org
December 8, 2024 at 8:34 AM