🏡 Here is the data analysis for Calgary, Summer 2025. This chart shows the relationship between vegetation density (NDVI) and Land Surface Temperature (LST).

🔥 The data reveals a critical "tipping point": vegetation only starts effectively cooling the environment once it reaches a specific density threshold. Below this threshold (the left side of the curve), green spaces stay just as hot as the surrounding concrete.
Sparse or isolated trees don't act as air conditioners—they "burn" in the urban furnace right along with us.

❗ What does this mean for Calgary? Simply planting a few scattered trees isn't enough. To actually move the needle on temperature, we need dense, healthy green belts. Otherwise, it’s just a waste of water and resources.

🔗 Link to the research: https://www.datastory.org.ua/calgarys-summer-heat-a-2025-satellite-perspective/

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SBGrid's eLife paper received a citation in February from Anthony Kossiakoff from The University of Chicago in @PNASNews: Conformational ensembles of the magnesium channel CorA reveal structural basis for channel gating.

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SBGrid's eLife paper received a citation in February from Alireza Ghanbarpour from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, in Nature: Bacterial immune activation via supramolecular assembly with phage triggers.

Read more here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10060-8?utm_source=AdaptiveMailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SBGrid%20Newsletters&org=1935&lvl=100&ite=608&lea=37746&ctr=0&par=1&trk=a0NNv000001bAZJMA2

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Seriously wrong: Flood-hit Lincolnshire residents at odds with Reform MP over climate change

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/03/seriously-wrong-flood-hit-lincolnshire-residents-at-odds-with-reform-mp-over-climate-change/

SBGrid's eLife paper received a citation in February from Christopher Garcia from Stanford University School of Medicine in @SciMag : Structural ontogeny of protein-protein interactions.

Read more here: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adx6931?utm_source=AdaptiveMailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SBGrid%20Newsletters&org=1935&lvl=100&ite=608&lea=37746&ctr=0&par=1&trk=a0NNv000001bAZJMA2

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SBGrid's eLife paper received a citation in February from Oriana F. from Wesleyan University and Titus Boggon from Yale University in Nature Communications: Dual recruitment of two CCM2 molecules to KRIT1 suppresses KLF4 expression.

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In case you missed Joshua Mitchell webinar featuring Open Force Field Initiative, it is now available in our YouTube channel.

More here: https://youtu.be/4tyxCzrBreQ

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Member News: SBGrid member Andrew Kruse, professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School is featured in The Harvard Gazette for his discovery offering hope for patients with hard-to-treat heart disease.

Read more here: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/03/i-think-i-know-how-to-fix-this/

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