Today I asked ChatGPT about the topic I wrote my PhD about. It produced reasonably sounding explanations and reasonably looking citations. So far so good – until I fact-checked the citations. And things got spooky when I asked about a physical phenomenon that doesn’t exist.

The U.S. has reached a fusion-power milestone. Will it be enough to save the planet? - NPR apple.news/ALT8ZQ-5BTuGpz…

Nice Jared Farmer essay about old trees. I like the concept of chronodiversity. nautil.us/the-ancient-wi…

MakieCon 2023 is happening! Makie is a data visualization ecosystem for the The Julia Language , with high performance and extensibility. Full announcement discourse.julialang.org/t/makiecon-202…

You work on measuring and modelling carbon, water, and energy fluxes across scales?👉Submit your abstract to the @EGU_BG session BG3.13 with a keynote by Christiane Werner from Universität Freiburg

I am all for #renewables but not at the cost to #biodiversity and important #wildlife habitats: a solar farm has been approved where #bison roam & lesser spotted eagles hunt — on the #Białowieża glade / Polana Białowieska #Natura2000 #unescoworldheritage wydarzenia.interia.pl/wiadomosci-lok…

📣 The General Assembly of European Geosciences Union #EGU23 will take place in April, and our scientists are convening or co-convening more than 10 sessions, covering a wide array of topics: bgc-jena.mpg.de/events/33192/2… @EGU_BG

13 talks about "Al for Earth and Sustainability Science" ➡️1st Feb till end of May 2023🗓 as the part of @AlforGood Lecture series. Curators: Markus Reichstein, Prof. Dr. Gustau Camps-Valls ISP • Image and Signal Processing, Prof. Dr. Joachim Denzler @CvJena & Maria Piles. bit.ly/3w7CSFb

Is ChatGPT a blessing or a curse for academic research and education? Probably (both)². A 🧵 with my personal reflection including a set of practical examples [1/n]

📣 Calling scientists in the field of ecosystem ecology & biogeochemical cycles in the Earth System. We expect to have an opening for a director and scientific member of Max Planck Society and seek nominations. Details here: bgc-jena.mpg.de/en/news-nomina… Sönke Zaehle (@[email protected]) Markus Reichstein

Check this important new Science Magazine paper led by Jasper (Caspar) Roebroek in his PhD jointly performed at #EU #JRC & ETH Zürich: "Releasing global forests from human management: How much more carbon could be stored?" D-USYS@ETH Gregory Duveiller Alessandro Cescatti science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Cómo convertir la sequía en una gigantesca oportunidad para la regeneración y la prosperidad.

Time to time, I get asked my thoughts on time management in academia. I finally found time to transcribe those into unmanaged impressions that I wrote for our junior faculty mentoring group. Appreciate your time in reading and share any comments! flux.aos.wisc.edu/unmanaged-time

New article from Ulisse Gomarasca and coauthors on the propagation of leaf-level trait coordination at the ecosystem scale. nature.com/articles/s4146… A nice collaborative initiative Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry EU_ScienceHub FLUXNET_Coop TRY network and many others!

#JobAlert We have another cool open position on using ESA Earth Observation and #MachineLearning to forecast #drought impacts and crop #yield. For details see: climers.geo.tuwien.ac.at/climers/news/1… Feel free to RT!

STACK OVERFLOW JUST ANNOUNCED THEIR OWN AI!!! OverflowAI is a tool, that will also have a VS Code plugin. The way this works, if you are on the site and ask a question, it will produce the answer for you while also citing the sources it used to produce the answer. You can then

Still some days to apply for a very interesting PhD at Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and @CvJena, associated with ELLIS Unit Jena J.Dentzler, Markus Reichstein, @hanna123987 Subject: towards a renewed cartography of human impact on landscapes with AI, EO and ML. 🛰️💻🌍🌿🗺️🤖 bgc-jena.mpg.de/imprs/applicat…

We still have a great #Postdoc position open Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in our Ecosystem Function from Earth Observation to work on the CoForFunc project. We seek to link tree functional diversity and remote sensing over the Congo Basin Forests. 🛰️🌲🌳🌴🌍 Deadline Oct 22 bgc-jena.mpg.de/en/career/19-2…

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