Choices in model building can drastically influence the outcomes. So which sorts of models📊 can best predict the impact of climate change on crop yields🌽? Balsher Singh Sidhu (ਬਲਸ਼ੇਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਿੱਧੂ) Bye Milind Kandlikar Navin Ramankutty investigated further: 📄doi.org/10.1007/s10584…

UCLouvain's transdisciplinary research Congress is of to a bang with an inspiring talk from Prof. Flurina Schneider, highlighting the role of cooperatives in increasing farmer agency. Looking forward to presenting tomorrow!

#paperoftheday , a new series on energy and land systems ; today Johnson et al. 2021 “Energy matters: Mitigating the impacts of future land expansion will require managing energy and extractive footprints" 👇 fediscience.org/@pmeyfroidt/10…

The more it circulates, the better it helps opening eyes...: transparency.twitter.com/en/reports/cov…

📢 #JobAlert | #DataScientist (Stockholm, Sweden) 📢 Join Trase – a SEI and Global Canopy initiative – to tackle major environmental and sustainability challenges through global supply chain transparency. 🗓️ Deadline: 6 January 2023 🔗 Apply now: buff.ly/3VIVs1F

Who’s funding the global trade in cocoa – and how much deforestation is hidden in these financial flows? New data from Trase, Neural Alpha & @ELI_UCLouvain trase.finance/explore #ISCR2022

Our new paper is out in @Bioscience today! We explain how an increased focus on social processes in ecosystem restoration can improve equity and effectiveness of restoration interventions ⚖️🌳 Why is this, and how can this be achieved? A thread:

Recent Elon bans: Elonjet Jack Sweeney (ran elonjet) Mastodon IGD News Aaron Rupar Donie O’Sullivan (CNN) Drew Harwell (WaPo) Matt Binder Ryan Mac (NYT) Micah Lee (Intercept) Keith Olbermann “Free speech absolutist” my asscheeks

Let this sink in: Elon Musk hath decreed that all links to Mastodon should be flagged as malware. This is, of course, a baldfaced lie, and he knows it. So the CEO of Twitter is lying to everyone on Twitter, and to all its advertisers, even to all of his defenders.

#BeingJohnMastodon ? Who's that guy John Mastodon? >> Oh, it's Mastodon (@[email protected]) ! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ ? "competing social media company"? >> No, an open-source platform supporting decentralized not-for-profit communities of people communicating with each other. So many flaws in one sentence...

Good company

This is the periodic reminder that you don't have to stay here, where basically you're in the private playground and entirely at the mercy of someone with whom you may not share the values. There are other places. abcnews.go.com/Business/wireS… newsweek.com/elon-musk-blas…

A platform explicitly designed to trigger and encourage harrassment, hate, trash, & trolling, by guiding haters towards more victims. And make money out of it.

qoto.org/@psmaldino/110… [email protected] - New paper on auditing Elon's early impact on Twitter. - Hateful users became more hateful - Hate increased dramatically - There was no overall change in bots Paper (accepted to ICWSM 2023) is here: arxiv.org/abs/2304.04129