Allie Shenkin
@shenkin.bsky.social
Structure & function of forests, 3D process modeling, RS+field, commercialization.
Director of NAU’s Ecosystem Science & Innovation Lab.
Particularly fond of the tropics.
https://ecosci.nau.edu
@ecosail.bsky.social
@selvaflux.bsky.social
Director of NAU’s Ecosystem Science & Innovation Lab.
Particularly fond of the tropics.
https://ecosci.nau.edu
@ecosail.bsky.social
@selvaflux.bsky.social
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Our new paper is out today @newphyt.bsky.social We investigated the bias involved in woody stem CO2 efflux measurements in tropical forests - including diel and vertical variations, and used TLS to upscale vertical variations and estimate stem surface area nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Investigating the accuracy of tropical woody stem CO2 efflux estimates: scaling methods, and vertical and diel variation
Stem CO2 efflux (EA) significantly contributes to autotrophic and ecosystem respiration in tropical forests, but field methodologies often introduce biases and uncertainty. This study evaluates thes...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Our new paper is out today @newphyt.bsky.social We investigated the bias involved in woody stem CO2 efflux measurements in tropical forests - including diel and vertical variations, and used TLS to upscale vertical variations and estimate stem surface area nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Woody respiration is an important but unconstrained process in the forest carbon cycle. @mariabmills.bsky.social made real progress in Malaysian Borneo using lasers and climbing giants, so that you don't have to! She came away with great insights.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Investigating the accuracy of tropical woody stem CO2 efflux estimates: scaling methods, and vertical and diel variation
Stem CO2 efflux (EA) significantly contributes to autotrophic and ecosystem respiration in tropical forests, but field methodologies often introduce biases and uncertainty. This study evaluates thes...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Woody respiration is an important but unconstrained process in the forest carbon cycle. @mariabmills.bsky.social made real progress in Malaysian Borneo using lasers and climbing giants, so that you don't have to! She came away with great insights.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool
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#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool
March 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool
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Trying to come up with the words to say.
I'm terrified for our students.
We just received an email that an international grad student at UMN has been detained. Minnesota has laws stating police are not required to provide info to ICE. Admin claims no info was given.
How can we protect our people?
I'm terrified for our students.
We just received an email that an international grad student at UMN has been detained. Minnesota has laws stating police are not required to provide info to ICE. Admin claims no info was given.
How can we protect our people?
March 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Trying to come up with the words to say.
I'm terrified for our students.
We just received an email that an international grad student at UMN has been detained. Minnesota has laws stating police are not required to provide info to ICE. Admin claims no info was given.
How can we protect our people?
I'm terrified for our students.
We just received an email that an international grad student at UMN has been detained. Minnesota has laws stating police are not required to provide info to ICE. Admin claims no info was given.
How can we protect our people?
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They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 27, 2025 at 5:15 AM
They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.
One of the more remarkable and surprising studies I’ve read in quite a while!
Getting hit by lightning is usually bad news, but a new study led by Cary's Evan Gora reveals a tree species that actually benefits from ⚡️ strikes, and may have evolved to act as a natural lightning rod. @newphyt.bsky.social www.caryinstitute.org/news-insight...
Getting hit by lightning is good for some tropical trees
Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is, according to a new study. Published in New Phytologist, the study finds that some...
www.caryinstitute.org
March 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
One of the more remarkable and surprising studies I’ve read in quite a while!
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Trump Unable To Focus In Meeting As Pressure Of Booking Kennedy Center Summer Jazz Series Looms
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Trump Unable To Focus In Meeting As Pressure Of Booking Kennedy Center Summer Jazz Series Looms
WASHINGTON—Amid efforts to prove himself as an effective chair of the performing arts organization, President Donald Trump was reportedly unable to focus in a national security meeting Friday, distracted by the pressure of booking the Kennedy Center’s upcoming Summer Jazz Series. According to sources, the sound of his Cabinet members’ voices was essentially white noise […]
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February 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Trump Unable To Focus In Meeting As Pressure Of Booking Kennedy Center Summer Jazz Series Looms
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NSF has "archived" the "Focus on Recruiting Emerging Climate and Adaptation Scientists and Transformers (FORECAST)" program. Open only to Emerging Research Institutions (ERIs), it aims to foster community resilience and translate science for societal benefit. new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Focus on Recruiting Emerging Climate and Adaptation Scientists and Transformers (FORECAST)
new.nsf.gov
February 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
NSF has "archived" the "Focus on Recruiting Emerging Climate and Adaptation Scientists and Transformers (FORECAST)" program. Open only to Emerging Research Institutions (ERIs), it aims to foster community resilience and translate science for societal benefit. new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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🔥 Due to high demand, we're running another BurnP3+ wildfire risk modeling workshop!
1/ After a sold-out session last November, ApexRMS and NRCAN are co-hosting a hands-on BurnP3+ course at @ualberta.bsky.social in Edmonton, April 28-30. 🌲🔥
1/ After a sold-out session last November, ApexRMS and NRCAN are co-hosting a hands-on BurnP3+ course at @ualberta.bsky.social in Edmonton, April 28-30. 🌲🔥
February 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
🔥 Due to high demand, we're running another BurnP3+ wildfire risk modeling workshop!
1/ After a sold-out session last November, ApexRMS and NRCAN are co-hosting a hands-on BurnP3+ course at @ualberta.bsky.social in Edmonton, April 28-30. 🌲🔥
1/ After a sold-out session last November, ApexRMS and NRCAN are co-hosting a hands-on BurnP3+ course at @ualberta.bsky.social in Edmonton, April 28-30. 🌲🔥
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🚀 Registration Now Open for the @ELLISforEurope Summer School: AI for Earth & Climate Sciences! 🌍🤖
Join us in Jena, Germany from September 1–5, 2025
📅 Apply now through March 31. Notifications by April.
🔗 www.ellis-jena.eu/summer-schoo... 🎯
@uni-jena.de, @MPI-BGC, @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social
Join us in Jena, Germany from September 1–5, 2025
📅 Apply now through March 31. Notifications by April.
🔗 www.ellis-jena.eu/summer-schoo... 🎯
@uni-jena.de, @MPI-BGC, @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social
February 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🚀 Registration Now Open for the @ELLISforEurope Summer School: AI for Earth & Climate Sciences! 🌍🤖
Join us in Jena, Germany from September 1–5, 2025
📅 Apply now through March 31. Notifications by April.
🔗 www.ellis-jena.eu/summer-schoo... 🎯
@uni-jena.de, @MPI-BGC, @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social
Join us in Jena, Germany from September 1–5, 2025
📅 Apply now through March 31. Notifications by April.
🔗 www.ellis-jena.eu/summer-schoo... 🎯
@uni-jena.de, @MPI-BGC, @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social
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If you have a story about a program getting cancelled or "paused" and the impact on your community, tell a *local reporter* about it. They will reach audiences no one else will, which will matter to your representatives.
January 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
If you have a story about a program getting cancelled or "paused" and the impact on your community, tell a *local reporter* about it. They will reach audiences no one else will, which will matter to your representatives.
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The wonderful @eff.org has an equally wonderful guide you can use to make it MUCH harder for Meta / Facebook / Instagram to collect and monetize your personal data. It's not super easy - offer to do this for family & neighbors who might not be able to: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...
www.eff.org
January 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The wonderful @eff.org has an equally wonderful guide you can use to make it MUCH harder for Meta / Facebook / Instagram to collect and monetize your personal data. It's not super easy - offer to do this for family & neighbors who might not be able to: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Do you want to be a climate modeler? (despite the perpetual existential panic, I still wouldn't want to do anything else...) This year's CESM tutorial applications are open... www.cesm.ucar.edu/events/tutor...
CESM Tutorial Application | Community Earth System Model
www.cesm.ucar.edu
January 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Do you want to be a climate modeler? (despite the perpetual existential panic, I still wouldn't want to do anything else...) This year's CESM tutorial applications are open... www.cesm.ucar.edu/events/tutor...
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Conservatives Claim Hitler’s Nazi Allegiance Greatly Exaggerated
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January 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Conservatives Claim Hitler’s Nazi Allegiance Greatly Exaggerated
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Not that anyone asked for a large experiment on the presumably-mollifying effects of porn on violence by teenagers, but looks like we're about to get it. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u...
Supreme Court Seems Ready to Back Texas Law Limiting Access to Pornography
The law, meant to shield minors from sexual materials on the internet by requiring adults to prove they are 18, was challenged on First Amendment grounds.
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Not that anyone asked for a large experiment on the presumably-mollifying effects of porn on violence by teenagers, but looks like we're about to get it. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u...
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Mark Zuckerberg Insists Anyone With Same Skewed Values And Unrelenting Thirst For Power Could Have Made Same Mistakes
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January 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Mark Zuckerberg Insists Anyone With Same Skewed Values And Unrelenting Thirst For Power Could Have Made Same Mistakes
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Come join us as an 🦾Assistant Professor in Mechatronics and Robotics🦾! NAU is a dynamically collaborative and skilled community. I’ve been here 3 years and, as a result, have been able to advance interests I thought were only pipe dreams prior.
hr.peoplesoft.nau.edu/psp/ph92prta...
Please share!
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Please share!
January 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Come join us as an 🦾Assistant Professor in Mechatronics and Robotics🦾! NAU is a dynamically collaborative and skilled community. I’ve been here 3 years and, as a result, have been able to advance interests I thought were only pipe dreams prior.
hr.peoplesoft.nau.edu/psp/ph92prta...
Please share!
hr.peoplesoft.nau.edu/psp/ph92prta...
Please share!
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The Association for Fire Ecology is now on Bluesky!🦋 Follow us to stay up-to-date with Fire Ecology Journal articles, fire ecology news and job posts, and Fire Ecology Chats podcast episodes. Learn more about us here: fireecology.org
January 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The Association for Fire Ecology is now on Bluesky!🦋 Follow us to stay up-to-date with Fire Ecology Journal articles, fire ecology news and job posts, and Fire Ecology Chats podcast episodes. Learn more about us here: fireecology.org
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*Be my new work supervisor!*
Arizona State University is hiring a new Director of the ASU Biocollections with a concurrent appointment as a tenured associate or full professor.
*I'd really love for this person to be an entomologist so ento friends, please share!*
apply.interfolio.com/159166
Arizona State University is hiring a new Director of the ASU Biocollections with a concurrent appointment as a tenured associate or full professor.
*I'd really love for this person to be an entomologist so ento friends, please share!*
apply.interfolio.com/159166
December 30, 2024 at 5:49 PM
*Be my new work supervisor!*
Arizona State University is hiring a new Director of the ASU Biocollections with a concurrent appointment as a tenured associate or full professor.
*I'd really love for this person to be an entomologist so ento friends, please share!*
apply.interfolio.com/159166
Arizona State University is hiring a new Director of the ASU Biocollections with a concurrent appointment as a tenured associate or full professor.
*I'd really love for this person to be an entomologist so ento friends, please share!*
apply.interfolio.com/159166
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### NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ###
Global Joint Synthesis Call
"𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲"
Funding of:
➡️ Working groups
➡️ Postdocs
@several synthesis centres/initiatives🔥❤️😍
PLEASE SPREAD WIDELY! THX!
www.idiv.de/research/sdi...
Global Joint Synthesis Call
"𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲"
Funding of:
➡️ Working groups
➡️ Postdocs
@several synthesis centres/initiatives🔥❤️😍
PLEASE SPREAD WIDELY! THX!
www.idiv.de/research/sdi...
Calls | iDiv
www.idiv.de
December 2, 2024 at 6:54 AM
### NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ###
Global Joint Synthesis Call
"𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲"
Funding of:
➡️ Working groups
➡️ Postdocs
@several synthesis centres/initiatives🔥❤️😍
PLEASE SPREAD WIDELY! THX!
www.idiv.de/research/sdi...
Global Joint Synthesis Call
"𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲"
Funding of:
➡️ Working groups
➡️ Postdocs
@several synthesis centres/initiatives🔥❤️😍
PLEASE SPREAD WIDELY! THX!
www.idiv.de/research/sdi...
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Love it! I also have a nature based solution-ists starter pack that might be relevant. go.bsky.app/TVhgtMc
December 31, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Love it! I also have a nature based solution-ists starter pack that might be relevant. go.bsky.app/TVhgtMc
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Academia—indeed any creative, open-ended work—can devolve into years of overwork, burnout, procrastination. It seems almost baked in. Does this happen to you? Is there a way out?
As a New Year’s gift from me to you, take a look at this essay from @oliverburkeman.com.
ckarchive.com/b/xmuph6hrqd...
As a New Year’s gift from me to you, take a look at this essay from @oliverburkeman.com.
ckarchive.com/b/xmuph6hrqd...
The Imperfectionist: What would it mean to be done for the day?
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December 31, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Academia—indeed any creative, open-ended work—can devolve into years of overwork, burnout, procrastination. It seems almost baked in. Does this happen to you? Is there a way out?
As a New Year’s gift from me to you, take a look at this essay from @oliverburkeman.com.
ckarchive.com/b/xmuph6hrqd...
As a New Year’s gift from me to you, take a look at this essay from @oliverburkeman.com.
ckarchive.com/b/xmuph6hrqd...
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While most of us are home and chilling, it is time to watch this again. Because it is the greatest.
2021 Remaster "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with Prince, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Steve Winwood
YouTube video by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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December 23, 2024 at 11:46 AM
While most of us are home and chilling, it is time to watch this again. Because it is the greatest.
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Fun Toy Banned Because Of Three Stupid Dead Kids
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December 23, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Fun Toy Banned Because Of Three Stupid Dead Kids
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