#NewPaper by Song et al.! How do trees handle changes in water availability as our planet is getting warmer? 🌳🤔David Gampe and his colleagues found: The growth in 78.4% of the studied trees was limited by moisture availability.
🔗 More findings: https://www.geo.lmu.de/geographie/en/latest-news/news-overview/news/new-article-in-agricultural-and-forest-meteorology-bfda08f1.html
This week LTG Oslo members will be attending #LREC2026 in Mallorca to present several new papers . #NLProc
Come chat with us and check out our papers now available from the conference proceedings (https://lrec.elra.info/conference/2026/main)👇🧵
#NewPaper out: Twenty-five years of Neobiota: building a community for invasion science in Europe and beyond by Ingo Kowarik and many great colleagues @TheresaHenke
While the influential role of scientific associations in shaping research fields is well recognized, their impact within the domain of invasion science remains underexplored. This review combines qualitative narrative with quantitative metrics to trace the development of Neobiota, the first European non-profit and non-governmental scientific association dedicated to the study of biological invasions. Since its foundation in 1999, the Neobiota network has aimed to foster scientific exchange and collaboration, advance and integrate research across all dimensions of invasion science, and disseminate findings to support evidence-based policies. Evolving rapidly from a German working group into Europe’s leading network for invasion science, Neobiota has united researchers and practitioners across disciplines, taxa, and national boundaries. In contrast to many other associations, Neobiota operates with a low-threshold, non-bureaucratic governance model, promoting inclusivity and cross-border engagement. We document how its biennial conferences—hosted in 12 European countries between 2000 and 2024—have supported thematic diversity (ranging from molecular biology to socio-economy), increasing international participation (9–47 countries globally), and active policy outreach. Thematically, the focus of research presented at conferences has shifted over time from ecological patterns and species inventories to environmental impacts, predictive modeling, management strategies, and socio-political dimensions of invasions. Trends in equity reveal progress toward gender parity among keynote speakers and session chairs. Neobiota has also supported the dissemination of knowledge through two publication platforms: the Neobiota series (2000–2008) and the open-access, peer-reviewed journal NeoBiota launched in 2011. This journal currently operates under an Editorial Board with 75 subject editors and a team of five Co-Editors-in-Chief. We conclude that over the past 25 years, Neobiota has been instrumental in building a cohesive and inclusive scientific community globally, advancing and disseminating interdisciplinary research on biological invasions, and informing policy, particularly in support of legal frameworks to prevent and mitigate the negative impacts of non-native species.
I came across this excellent paper on the philosophical underpinnings of Machine Learning (as a discipline). It's well worth a read.
http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06754
The summary (from the paper) is:
Machine learning is a style of reasoning, and is as rhetorical as any other. It
• Takes data as fact (not a core object of enquiry)
• Presumes the data is “random” (as an omnibus sanitisation protocol)
• Purports to learn representations of the world (from the “intrinsic structure of data”)
• Presumes that knowing the world suffices to control it
• Takes categories as features of the world (to avoid grappling with the hard choice)
• Avoids grappling with the tension between the individual and the aggregate
• Confuses and conflates data and information
• Valorises method above all
• Judges methods solely via canned “benchmarks”
• Makes black boxes, without providing the associated data-sheets.
• Construes its products as fully autonomous, when it is mere partial delegation.
It has honed its style of reasoning so that the style is invisible. It has thus successfully turned itself into a self-perpetuating thought-style — in other words, a “discipline”.
#ML #MachineLearning #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #assumptions #philosophy #rhetoric #NewPaper
I examine the technology of machine learning from the perspective of rhetoric, which is simply the art of persuasion. Rather than being a neutral and "objective" way to build "world models" from data, machine learning is (I argue) inherently rhetorical. I explore some of its rhetorical features, and examine one pervasive business model where machine learning is widely used, "manipulation as a service."
Thrilled to finally share the paper @deepseek and I cooked up: a formal framework where the Special Orthogonal Group of Existentialism determines whether you’re ↑ or ↓.
Yes, there’s a Dasein Potential. Yes, the math checks out. 😎
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/grand-unified-theory-contextual-orientation.htm
New paper out:
Daniel Kissling, Henrique Pereira and many nice colleagues: Building the backbone for Europe’s biodiversity monitoring.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44358-026-00140-6
#biodiversity #monitoring #Europe #newpaper #newpublication
#xp
Understanding biodiversity loss and achieving global commitments requires effective biodiversity monitoring. This Roadmap outlines the necessary steps to achieve a transnational European Biodiversity Observation Network built around Essential Biodiversity Variables, combining targeted sensing methods, spatial design, data sharing, data integration and modelling workflows, and coordinated governance to deliver policy-ready insights.
Anyone interested in ocean skin temperatures derived from microwave imagers? #NewPaper
This is the last in the series where we look at the uncoupled system - it's all or nothing from here on!
New publication in #EcologicalModelling! Benedikt Hartweg & his colleagues simulated tropical forests in #Brazil under disturbance scenarios and fitted allometries at different spatial scales. Super helpful insights for the new #BIOMASS mission by @esa
🔗 Learn more on our blog: https://www.geo.lmu.de/geographie/en/latest-news/news-overview/news/new-publication-in-ecological-modelling.html
#science #research #newpaper #ecologicalmodelling #forest #geography #remotesensing
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