Mike Dietze gives fantastic thought-provoking, entertaining,and inspiring plenary talk on ecological forecasting! Probably more good stuff in his Dietze et al. PNAS 2018 paper #LTERASM2018

O frabjous day!

discussing how top BFO distinctions-- e.g. continuants vs occurrents-- might be useful. No consensus yet at #biodiversityofsemantics wkshp

discussing how top BFO distinctions of continuants vs occurrents- is useful and/or "correct". No consensus yet at #semanticsofbiodiversity

is new ontology listed "Population & Community" on OBO Fndry. Nothing there yet. Plant Onto folks-gonna talk widem. #biodiversityofsemantics

Are 128bit IDs assigned w no coordination a good way to uniquely identify things of interest for now and forever? #semanticsofbiodiversity

Triumph 4 reality-based policy nxt 4 yrs!? Thnk u youth, thnk u women! Sandy--was that Gaia speaking?

Just back from meeting at ESA HQ on OA publishing. My take? Looking good for more liberal OA policies for ESA articles in near future!

Participated in the EEB scholarly publishing survey yet? bit.ly/eebpublishing #openaccess

#nceasSI I support 2nd amendment right to use Excel. Trying to point out how not to shoot oneself in the foot with it. DataUP is a start.

@cjlortie yep

at EarthCube end-user wrkshp on ocean ecosyst dyn. Ray Schmitt gives great talk on value of long-term monitoring, e.g. Keeling's CO2 data

#EarthCubeOcean Joanie Kleypas on using others' data: beware overconfidence in data quality. If it's out there, rschrs might use it!

meeting at CESAB, French biodiversity/ecol synthesis center in Provence. GBIF & Ecoscope both using EML as part of metadata standard!

#ESIPFed cool new data formats and R support in ArcGIS; wondering about affordability/access for developing world researchers

#ESIPFed Lubar talks about spectral auctions-- bandwidths for science use competing with commercial! Who can "outbid" whom?

#esipfed Lubar: "must conserve and protect remote sensing frequencies on national & international levels". AGU could help raise awareness

"Don’t let denial go unchallenged.”- Al Gore. RT if you’re ready to shed light on the truth. bit.ly/1fJrJla

#lterasm LTER All Scientists Meeting starting at 8000ft in beautiful Rocky Mtns; hazy from smoke tho'

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