5 more days to apply... open call for applications for the #sensingmountains 2026 international and interdisciplinary summer school for early career scientists...

https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/weiterbildung/sensing-mountains/

https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/geography/sensing-mountains/2026/

...very nice selection of keynote speakers from different scientific fields...

Anita Bernatek-Jakiel (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Melanie Elias (HTW Dresden, Germany)
Norbert Pfeifer (TU Wien, Austria)
Fabian Schneider (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Thomas Zieher (Austrian Research Centre for Forests, Austria)

#earthobservation #remotesensing #closerangesensing #geography #geoscience #bioscience #environment #naturalhazards @uniinnsbruck

Quanta Magazine picks for the top stories in bioscience this year. I assume there will be a video about the top 3 at some point. The Maths and Physics videos are already available.

#QuantaMagazine #Biology #Bioscience #ReviewOfTheYear https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-biology-20251215/

Our new bibliometric study reveals how a tiny typographic error, confusing the German Eszett (ß) with the Greek beta (β), has created hundreds of false positives like ß-catenin and ß-glucuronidase in major databases:

 https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-08-2025-0222

Even leading journals weren’t immune. The paper highlights how small linguistic mistakes can undermine metadata quality and scientific search precision.

#bioscience #indexing #metadata #librarianship #linguistic

“Humanity is on path toward ‘climate chaos,’, scientists warn” | Great article by @byianjames in @latimes about our ( @williamjripple et al) new #Bioscience study (paywalled):

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-10-29/state-of-climate-2025

“22 of Earth’s 34 ‘vital signs’ are flashing red, new climate report reveals — but there’s still time to act” | Nice article on our new #Bioscience article by Sascha Pare for @LiveScience:

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/22-of-earths-34-vital-signs-are-flashing-red-new-climate-report-reveals-but-theres-still-time-to-act

“The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink” | Honored to be a co-author with @williamjripple and the rest of this team of leading climate researchers on this new article in #BioScience:

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf149/8303627