Lingon
@lingon.bsky.social
Mostly posting about ecology and related areas of science, with occasional cycle nerdery and cat pics. Stockholm, Sweden #Ecology, #Rstats
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In 1931, German engineer Herr Richter attached 12 solid-fuel rockets to a bicycle, which were ignited by a large battery. One report says he managed to reach 88 kmh before being thrown from the bike. He wasn't seriously injured, but that's the last anyone heard of his Raketenrad.
January 10, 2026 at 8:07 PM
In 1931, German engineer Herr Richter attached 12 solid-fuel rockets to a bicycle, which were ignited by a large battery. One report says he managed to reach 88 kmh before being thrown from the bike. He wasn't seriously injured, but that's the last anyone heard of his Raketenrad.
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This article strikes a chord with me. With mobile laser scanners and GNSS receivers I can now collect as much data in a few days as used to take weeks. Great! Except that's less time spent in the forest really looking at the trees. 🧪🌏🌲🌳 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI
In the race to embrace new technologies, some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature.
www.nature.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:16 PM
This article strikes a chord with me. With mobile laser scanners and GNSS receivers I can now collect as much data in a few days as used to take weeks. Great! Except that's less time spent in the forest really looking at the trees. 🧪🌏🌲🌳 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io
January 3, 2026 at 4:15 PM
How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io
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This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
www.nature.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...
March 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...
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Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
December 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
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Less than 48h left to buy an Interrail pass with 25% discount (I already have!). Buy now, activate any date in next 11 months.
About Interrail and how to buy: www.seat61.com/how-to-use-a...
About Interrail and how to buy: www.seat61.com/how-to-use-a...
December 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Less than 48h left to buy an Interrail pass with 25% discount (I already have!). Buy now, activate any date in next 11 months.
About Interrail and how to buy: www.seat61.com/how-to-use-a...
About Interrail and how to buy: www.seat61.com/how-to-use-a...
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New paper: Identifying hotspots of greenhouse gas emissions from drained peatlands in the European Union
Identifying hotspots of greenhouse gas emissions from drained peatlands in the European Union - Nature Communications
An EU-wide analysis shows that drained peatlands are major, underreported sources of greenhouse gases. By mapping emission hotspots, the study provides guidance for targeted rewetting and strengthens ...
www.nature.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
New paper: Identifying hotspots of greenhouse gas emissions from drained peatlands in the European Union
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
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Aaaand it's happening! Bookings for the "Aurora" Basel-Malmö just went live a minute ago! Tickets are both available now at
shop.sbb.ch
and
shop.oebbtickets.at/
With nightjet.com also being an outlet, this will follow in probably a few minutes. Tickets and categories are the same as in classic NJ.
shop.sbb.ch
and
shop.oebbtickets.at/
With nightjet.com also being an outlet, this will follow in probably a few minutes. Tickets and categories are the same as in classic NJ.
November 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Aaaand it's happening! Bookings for the "Aurora" Basel-Malmö just went live a minute ago! Tickets are both available now at
shop.sbb.ch
and
shop.oebbtickets.at/
With nightjet.com also being an outlet, this will follow in probably a few minutes. Tickets and categories are the same as in classic NJ.
shop.sbb.ch
and
shop.oebbtickets.at/
With nightjet.com also being an outlet, this will follow in probably a few minutes. Tickets and categories are the same as in classic NJ.
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❗️Our next workshop will be on Oct 30, 2 pm CEST titled Data Literacy in Julia for Rtists by
@dwinkl.bsky.social
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
@dwinkl.bsky.social
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
October 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
❗️Our next workshop will be on Oct 30, 2 pm CEST titled Data Literacy in Julia for Rtists by
@dwinkl.bsky.social
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
@dwinkl.bsky.social
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
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![Comic. [two connected spacecraft hovering in space above the Earth] Houston, the view is superb. We can see the continents spread out below us, right where they’ve been since the Earth formed. [caption] I still can’t believe we developed spaceflight before we figured out that the continents moved.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicp2ka5asjgkmgfdfj33vnjb5bbvk3vnyao6ju5kipxcdc23pqasm@jpeg)
October 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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With all due respect, when did the US ever
"lead the charge" on confronting climate change, even rhetorically, let alone in terms of actual energy policy?
"lead the charge" on confronting climate change, even rhetorically, let alone in terms of actual energy policy?
"As Trump abdicates U.S. leadership on climate change, Asia is filling the void" | New op-ed by Benjamin Horton & myself for the @sfchronicle.com: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
As Trump abdicates U.S. leadership on climate change, Asia is filling the void
OPINION: The U.S. once led the charge in confronting the planet’s most pressing challenges. But today, that leadership is eroding. Nowhere is this loss more visible than in climate science.
www.sfchronicle.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
With all due respect, when did the US ever
"lead the charge" on confronting climate change, even rhetorically, let alone in terms of actual energy policy?
"lead the charge" on confronting climate change, even rhetorically, let alone in terms of actual energy policy?
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation
Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
The popular night train from Stockholm to Berlin via Hamburg that started in 2022 is being cancelled from September next year as the current government refuses to support it when the current contract runs out. Depressing... jarnvagar.nu/sj-staller-i... @seatsixtyone.bsky.social
SJ ställer in nattågen till Berlin – Järnvägar.nu
SJ ställer in nattågen mellan Stockholm och Berlin sedan regeringen föreslagit att det särskilda anslaget till trafiken ska upphöra. 31 augusti nästa år körs det sista tåget.
jarnvagar.nu
October 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The popular night train from Stockholm to Berlin via Hamburg that started in 2022 is being cancelled from September next year as the current government refuses to support it when the current contract runs out. Depressing... jarnvagar.nu/sj-staller-i... @seatsixtyone.bsky.social
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Reconstructing animals from their fossilized remains requires meticulous artistry and scientific rigour.
What was done to bones partly of a woolly rhinoceros discovered in Germany in 1663 arguably involved neither.
Behold the 'Magdeburg Unicorn' in all its tea-spitting glory.
(Yes, it's real.)
What was done to bones partly of a woolly rhinoceros discovered in Germany in 1663 arguably involved neither.
Behold the 'Magdeburg Unicorn' in all its tea-spitting glory.
(Yes, it's real.)
June 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Reconstructing animals from their fossilized remains requires meticulous artistry and scientific rigour.
What was done to bones partly of a woolly rhinoceros discovered in Germany in 1663 arguably involved neither.
Behold the 'Magdeburg Unicorn' in all its tea-spitting glory.
(Yes, it's real.)
What was done to bones partly of a woolly rhinoceros discovered in Germany in 1663 arguably involved neither.
Behold the 'Magdeburg Unicorn' in all its tea-spitting glory.
(Yes, it's real.)
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Apropos nothing at all, this is from Romps, Tots and Boffins.
September 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Apropos nothing at all, this is from Romps, Tots and Boffins.
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Rekordavverkningar gör att Sverige helt missar (de i sig otillräckliga) klimatmålen.
Det får regeringens egen klimatexpert att kritisera – alla.
– Alla partier har låtit det här gå under radarn, säger professor John Hassler.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/al...
Det får regeringens egen klimatexpert att kritisera – alla.
– Alla partier har låtit det här gå under radarn, säger professor John Hassler.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/al...
Regeringens klimatexpert: Avverkningarna har inte tagits på allvar
Rekordavverkningar gör att Sverige helt missar klimatmålen. Det får regeringens egen klimatexpert att kritisera – alla. – Alla partier har låtit det här gå unde
www.aftonbladet.se
September 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Rekordavverkningar gör att Sverige helt missar (de i sig otillräckliga) klimatmålen.
Det får regeringens egen klimatexpert att kritisera – alla.
– Alla partier har låtit det här gå under radarn, säger professor John Hassler.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/al...
Det får regeringens egen klimatexpert att kritisera – alla.
– Alla partier har låtit det här gå under radarn, säger professor John Hassler.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/al...
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In a sense we are already geoengineering the planet today, but badly. Humans are cooling the climate by emitting 75 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide into the lower atmosphere, almost entirely as a byproduct of burning fossil fuels.
September 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In a sense we are already geoengineering the planet today, but badly. Humans are cooling the climate by emitting 75 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide into the lower atmosphere, almost entirely as a byproduct of burning fossil fuels.
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Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
September 23, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
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eight years as a statistical consultant and ecologists still manage to collect weird data that I'm not immediately sure what to do with
(it's fun though!)
(it's fun though!)
September 19, 2025 at 4:07 AM
eight years as a statistical consultant and ecologists still manage to collect weird data that I'm not immediately sure what to do with
(it's fun though!)
(it's fun though!)
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A sobering eulogy for the magnificent old-growth Teakettle forest that just burned in the s Sierra, and how USFS leadership repeatedly failed to support the mgmt actions that likely would have saved it from severe fire effects. A telltale ex of the bigger crisis in our national forests & at USFS. 🌎
The Garnet Fire has burned through a place I have worked since 2002. A place I hold dear. We knew this wasn't a matter of if, but when. Unfortunately the leadership on the Sierra National Forest didn't have the same urgency that we did. My eulogy for Teakettle.
www.hurteaulab.org/blog/a-eulog...
www.hurteaulab.org/blog/a-eulog...
A Eulogy for Teakettle
Justice William O. Douglas, in his dissenting opinion of the Supreme Court’s decision in Sierra Club v. Morton, said “Contemporary public concern for protecting nature’s ecological equilibrium...
www.hurteaulab.org
September 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
A sobering eulogy for the magnificent old-growth Teakettle forest that just burned in the s Sierra, and how USFS leadership repeatedly failed to support the mgmt actions that likely would have saved it from severe fire effects. A telltale ex of the bigger crisis in our national forests & at USFS. 🌎
On the enduring value of Wikipedia and how it is now under attack www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive
The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.
www.theverge.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:08 AM
On the enduring value of Wikipedia and how it is now under attack www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher in statistics to develop methods for analyzing large scale biodiversity and ecosystem function data at the University of Helsinki.
This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to do advanced Bayesian modeling with direct link to real world applications.
This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to do advanced Bayesian modeling with direct link to real world applications.
📢 Post doc! Want to join our team?
We are looking for 3 post docs in biodiversity science, genetic indicator assessment, and ecological statistics for a fixed term of 2 years!
Come unravel the drivers and consequences of global change on biodiversity with us!
DL 24.9.
#universityofhelsinki
We are looking for 3 post docs in biodiversity science, genetic indicator assessment, and ecological statistics for a fixed term of 2 years!
Come unravel the drivers and consequences of global change on biodiversity with us!
DL 24.9.
#universityofhelsinki
3 Post doc positions in biodiversity science, genetic indicator assessment and ecological statistics
3 Post doc positions in biodiversity science, genetic indicator assessment and ecological statistics
jobs.helsinki.fi
September 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher in statistics to develop methods for analyzing large scale biodiversity and ecosystem function data at the University of Helsinki.
This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to do advanced Bayesian modeling with direct link to real world applications.
This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to do advanced Bayesian modeling with direct link to real world applications.