Kale Sniderman
Palynologist, paleoclimatologist, plant biogeographer | vegetation and climate history | fossil pollen
- Reposted by Kale SnidermanAs botanists and Plant Architects in Montpellier 🌿, his vision of forests 🌳 profoundly shaped the way we think about and observe plants. A giant has passed, but his legacy will remain a major source of inspiration, worthy of our deepest admiration and gratitude.
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- Reposted by Kale Sniderman🌿My two (botanical)-cents🔍 In this forum paper, I reflect on the value of plant-identification expertise and offer a few ideas on how we can better highlight the role of botanists and their knowledge. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- scholars should actually have read the articles they cite! Who knew?
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- Reposted by Kale SnidermanIt is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.
- Reposted by Kale SnidermanIt’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.
- Reposted by Kale SnidermanThe dismantling of NCAR should be the trending story on Bluesky, not the fucking Oscars leaving ABC for YouTube.
- Superbly informative (and entertaining)
- It may turn out this way; but there are competing forces at work, in which AMOC breakdown leads to increased rainfall over the Amazon; link.springer.com/article/10.1... 1/3
- and this study, with similar findings agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 2/3
- ...and this one, same story www.nature.com/articles/s43... 3/3
- while this one suggests AMOC shutdowns lead to drying in northern Amazonia, & wetting only in southern Amazonia (but are AMOC shutdowns during Heinrich stadials analogous to AMOC shutdowns today?) 4/3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Kale SnidermanVery happy. A paper just out of the oven. It is a piece of work made possible only after many years of thinking about, and looking at, an old problem from multiple perspectives. And with the magical brushstrokes of our artists, Gabriela and Ariadna. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Kale Snidermandoi.org/10.1016/j.hi... The Mismeasure of Neanderthals. Our latest paper, a critical review of Neanderthal iconography through time, with epistemological, paleobiological, ethical, and aesthetic contributions. Thank you for reading and for your comments.
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- Reposted by Kale SnidermanThe second paper from my PhD has now been published ✨ This paper explores using a combination of fossil pollen and place-names to provide a broader record of past landscape change and the connections to anthropogenic influences in Leicestershire. Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1177/0959...
- though it should be pointed out the ChatGPT was unaware until prompted that Borneo also has native Photinia/Stranvaesia and Raphiolepis species
- Yep, LLMs make unbridled demands on power/water & are mega-plagiarism; but it's also useful to monitor where this is going. I have to admit to being surprised by ChatGPT's ability to generate appropriate criteria for evaluating plausible botanical source taxa for fossil 'Prunus' in lowland Borneo
- Reposted by Kale SnidermanThis is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.
- I would like to see a curve of the proportion of each regional flora occupied by woody taxa with opposite-decussate leaves 🧪🌿
- Well if you attended a scientific congress in, er, a white nationalist police state, this is the preparation you'd expect.
- An amazing accomplishment, the 670 kyr long high Andes Lake Junin vegetation record www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌿
- 😂😂😂
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- This cleverness fails for earth science papers generally, where the last author is often someone barely involved in the study, and the lab head is often 2nd author. Biologists continue to assume their conventions = science conventions
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- This is excellent. We just need another 50 or 100 similarly minded billionaires. Though taxes are more accountable and probably yield less idiosyncratic outcomes
- On the money as usual. It is actually bad
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- Which are more painful, desk rejections or rejections following peer review?
- Die back and apparent recent mortality of Eucalyptus macrorhyncha (red stringybark) in the Mullum Mullum valley, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 🧪🌿.
- Angiosperms "kindly" facilitated change-management workshops for sullen Gnetaleans and Cheirolepids 🧪🌾
- I remember my dad jumping with joy as he brought in the morning newspaper with the all-caps headline, "NIXON RESIGNS". I miss him terribly but he'd be rolling and rolling in his grave now
- One of the truly compelling features of using an LLM as a coding tutor, rather than, say, asking human coders for advice at Stack Overflow, is that the LLM is polite, never complains about your failure to provide a reproducible example, and is uninterested in being an arsehole.
- by contrast, Decalobanthus peltatus (Convolvulaceae) belongs to a small (~20 spp) and recent Malesian/inner Pacific radiation of fast-growing vines. It probably arrived in Australia within the past million years or so
- the cycad Bowenia spectabilis (Zamiaceae), Daintree rainforest, Queensland Wet Tropics. Bowenia has been kicking around Australia since at least the late Cretaceous 🧪🌿
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- Decalobanthus peltatus (previously within polyphyletic Merremia) is a megatherm Convolvulaceae vine colonising cyclone-damaged Daintree rainforest (NE Queensland). Totally feral on Pacific Islands, esp where not native (no surprise). See George Staples' superb revision tinyurl.com/42dk4pe2 🌿🧪
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Kale SnidermanThis is a lovely article. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- How good is this
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- Not a hint of exaggeration
