Martin Jung
Researcher at @iiasa.ac.at | LA & Fellow @ipbes.net | AE @consbiog.bsky.social | #macroecology | #conservation | #biodiversity | #remotesensing | #systemsthinking | martinjung.eu
Fixing bugs and saving ducks 🦆
- Reposted by Martin JungCritiques of AI are valid; but many climate-based arguments reveal our bias toward small individual actions over real systemic change. e.g. ⬇️ An LLM query = running a microwave for seconds An hour of Netflix = enough to make popcorn Yet few are boycotting their fav shows. Interested? Read more:
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- Reposted by Martin Jung“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. — @davidobura.bsky.social , @ipbes.net Chair
- Reposted by Martin JungMarco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
- Reposted by Martin JungIt’s reached that time of year again where I gently suggest you hang on to your manuscripts and submit them early in 2026. Otherwise they’re likely to just sit on a virtual to do list for the next 3 weeks sending auto-reminders to editors/reviewers. 🎄
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- Happy to see our work in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social out🎉 Building on the @ipbes.net Nexus Assessment, we review evidence surrounding the expansion of conservation areas and how they interact with other sectors (Read for free here authors.elsevier.com/a/1m57vcZ3X3...) (1/4) 🧪 #conservation #nexus
- We highlight that any expansion of conservation areas can have positive and negative consequences across the Nexus. These effects are pervasive and vary in magnitude across realms, protection governance types and sectors. (2/4)
- How are we going to navigate this challenge? We argue that integrated spatial planning (GBF Target 1) can provide a key way forward to maximize positives and minimizes negatives outcomes. In the planning for future conservation areas these interlinkages should be explicitly considered. (3/4)
- I invite those interested in the matter to also read Chapter 3 of the Nexus Assessment ( zenodo.org/records/1385... ), which provides a comprehensive overview of future sectoral interactions also for non conservation area related issues. (4/4)
- Reposted by Martin Jung🌍 Interested in the 2026 IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP)? Join our #YSSP26 Application Webinar for Europe & Asia to learn how to prepare a strong application and hear from alumni. 🗓 19 Nov 2025 | 1-2pm CET 📩 Register by 17 Nov: yssp.admin@iiasa.ac.at ▶️ iiasa.ac.at/early-career...
- Reposted by Martin JungJust learned that you can boost the usefulness of your Google search results massively by adding -ai to your query. You're welcome.
- Chapter 3 of the @ipbes.net Nexus assessment, which I have contributed to, has now been openly released. We assessed the evidence on how future nexus interactions accross the nexus will likely behave under different scenarios. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... @iiasa.ac.at
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- New spatial-explicit pan-European opportunity cost layers now out from the @naturaconnect.bsky.social project 🎉 Spencer et al. Opportunity cost estimates for spatial conservation prioritisation across terrestrial Europe. Sci Data 12, 1583 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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- Reposted by Martin JungTrends in indirect drivers have an effect on both direct drivers and nexus elements. -IPBES #NexusAssessment Report Want to know more? Check the Summary for Policymakers already available in English: ipbes.net/nexus/media-release
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- Extremely happy to announce that @iiasa.ac.at will host the first author meeting of the @ipbes.net Spatial Planning and Connectivity assessment. iiasa.ac.at/news/sep-202...
- Reposted by Martin JungEXPOSED: Google's £33 million contract to push Israeli propaganda in the UK Google's has run 39 Israeli government-paid-for ads on its platforms in the UK alone, trying to discredit reports on the Zionist's genocide in Gaza www.thecanary.co/global/world...
- Reposted by Martin JungFresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it: rdcu.be/eEcIt
- Small article out on projecting European potential natural vegetation types. Code and data available, and maybe useful for some :) doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
- #IALE2025 is about to kickoff. Looking forward to learn more about the current state of the science. If you are there, don't miss my talk on Friday 😀
- Reposted by Martin JungYikes - the land surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant is up for sale! Lot 1 is top-quality chalk downland bursting with wildflowers & butterflies - orchids, skippers… going for £950k. It absolutely needs to be preserved. Hope the NT or similar can buy wdcdn.co/media/pdf/0f... wdcdn.co/media/pdf/0f...
- Reposted by Martin Jung📖Published📖 Authors introduce GECOT, an open-source command line tool for solving budget-constrained multispecies landscape connectivity optimization problems when measuring landscape connectivity with the probability of connectivity indicator 👇 buff.ly/uWrazth
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- Another assessment in line with our previous work emphasising the need to distinguish management when mapping forest cover, loss and gain www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- See also doi.org/10.1038/s418... and doi.org/10.1111/ddi.... for a biodiversity exposure assessment. I guess the point has been made clear now...
- Also just out: Our new review in @ecography.bsky.social on how ecological models tend to incorporate land use. Reviewing and benchmarking ecological modelling practices in the context of land use doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
- Systematic conservation planning (SCP) has been established as key approach to identify where conservation efforts are to be prioritized. But how can they be assessed, compared or interrogated 🧐 Here we present ODPSCP, a new open protocol for the intercomparison of SCP doi.org/10.1111/csp2... (1)
- It is long known that factors such as stakeholders, monitoring, or a clear theory of change are frequently omitted in SCP projects. With conservation priority maps steadily increasing, it will become evermore important to ease comparisons and allow methods and assumptions to be scrutinized (2)
- Furthermore, the issue is that there isn’t a single priority map given any set of data. Even prioritizations performed on the same data can markedly differ with targets, grain and scale, costs, actions, penalties, and other constraints (see animation using identical input features) (3)
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View full threadUnsure what to fill out? Check out a few of the example protocols on the repository. PRs also welcome! github.com/iiasa/odpscp Lastly, I thank my wonderful co-authors and people trying to make conservation planning more accessible and understandable. @naturaconnect.bsky.social (6)
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- Interesting new paper on European conservation targets and land-use conflicts Land of opportunities: aligning organic farming and conservation targets in Europe doi.org/10.1080/0964...
- Reposted by Martin JungIn a new interdisciplinary Nature Climate Change Perspective paper, led by me, @lisgilmore and Rachael Shwom, we offer a critical perspective on #climate and social “tipping points.” 🎁: rdcu.be/d2gBC 🧵
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- Academic and still reviewing papers? Reed this post and consider again if you hear about a journal named 'Discover XXX' asking for your help...
- Interesting new indicator similar to the Red List Index, the Green Status Index of Species Recovery (GSI) A global indicator of species recovery doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
- New paper and data led by @martacimatti.bsky.social and contributing to the @naturaconnect.bsky.social project out! The Accelerating Exposure of European Protected Areas to Climate Change doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
- Provocative read? I think terminology and acknowledging what we don't know is key here... Questioning the Sixth Mass Extinction doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
- Reposted by Martin JungNaturaConnect's Piero Visconti and @martinjung.eu (IIASA), contributed to the Science for Policy Report on the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030. Their contribution focuses on how biodiversity indicators can more effectively track the link to increased protection efforts. Read more: buff.ly/wOYHswl
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- Our new work on the impact of #conservation and management actions on bird populations within European protected areas is out. 🦆🦅 One finding being that management actions targeting habitats might help species more adjusting to impacts of climate change. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
- Reposted by Martin JungIntegrated spatial planning is used to identify where restoration, conservation and production across Europe could maximize benefits to species conservation and climate mitigation under changing needs for food, bioenergy and timber to 2030 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Our new work led by @milliechapman.bsky.social on the NRR is out in @natureecoevo.bsky.social 🎉 Integrated spatial planning can identify opportunities for restoration, while considering future land demand and burden sharing. Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415... @iiasa.ac.at @naturaconnect.bsky.social
- Reposted by Martin JungSo happy to share our Review paper A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Martin Jungthere has been something of a fox development 🦊🦊🦊
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- Reposted by Martin Jung🦍 Conservation is not just about saving nature. It’s about building futures. Emmanuel de Merode, Director of Virunga National Park, delivered a powerful lecture at IIASA that reminded us what's possible—even in the most fragile regions of the world. 📺 Watch and read more 👉 iiasa.ac.at/congolecture
- If you are interested in more upcoming datasets like these, follow the @naturaconnect.bsky.social account 😀 In the pipeline: Openly available data on conservation opportunity costs, current and future distributions of species and habitats, ecosystems, protection priority maps and much more...
- New #NaturaConnect data paper on defining FRVs for mammals out @globalmammal.bsky.social ! Quite useful for baseline setting and #conservation-planning. "Conservation targets for European terrestrial mammals using the favourable conservation status concept." doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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- Damn, the SEDAC centre more or less shut down (data still accessible through NASA). Including many critical datasets such as gridded human population data and so forth. www.ciesin.columbia.edu/content/data
- Important article highlighting issues of an often forgotten area. #freshwater #biodiversity Rapid decline of Caspian Sea level threatens ecosystem integrity, biodiversity protection, and human infrastructure. doi.org/10.1038/s432...
- New #NaturaConnect data paper on defining FRVs for mammals out @globalmammal.bsky.social ! Quite useful for baseline setting and #conservation-planning. "Conservation targets for European terrestrial mammals using the favourable conservation status concept." doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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- Reposted by Martin JungExciting overshoot conference coming up at IIASA ⬇️
- Reposted by Martin JungCheck this out — American stocks were on par with global stocks up until late January — and have now dropped terribly since then Gosh I wonder what happened in late January?
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- Crazy times when stock markets and financial investors are proclaimed as 'Radical Left Lunatics'. Was this what Marx meant to say when workers should unite 😅
- Wow, so I guess the #TeslaTakedown is working.
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- Great to be part of this exciting new project! With @iiasa.ac.at we are contributing with socio-economic and conservation assessments across Europe!
- Happy to start tweeting in Bluesky by announcing that we have just started a new Horizon Europe project SafeNet we’re coordinating at Luke with my dear colleague Jukka Forsman and me. Aiming at improving biodiversity and protecting old-growth forests of Europe. Regards from the kick-off @luke.fi
- Reposted by Martin JungHappy to start tweeting in Bluesky by announcing that we have just started a new Horizon Europe project SafeNet we’re coordinating at Luke with my dear colleague Jukka Forsman and me. Aiming at improving biodiversity and protecting old-growth forests of Europe. Regards from the kick-off @luke.fi
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- New paper out from the NaturaConnect project 🎉 Narrative scenarios for nature protection and restoration in Europe following the Nature Futures Framework ! doi.org/10.1007/s002... @globalmammal.bsky.social @nestorfdez.bsky.social @ipbes.net @lmjoconnor.bsky.social
- Was an interesting experience contributing to this many-analysts study (team eucalyptus here, yeah), which is now out in BMC Biology 🥳 doi.org/10.1186/s129... It always reminds me of this wonderful xkcd comic (source: xkcd.com/2560/) 😂
- 🌿 We're hiring researchers in quantitative environmental science! 👉We are looking for new colleagues @iiasa.ac.at who are interested in a career in quantiative enviromental science and ecological modelling. Vienna, Austria. 🎯 International environment 👥 Open to all nationalities, support with moving
- ✅ Attractive salary (negotiable depending on experience). ✅ Flexible working conditions and home office. ✅ No teaching load, opportunities to work on own research profile. #biodiversity #conservation #postdoc #phdjob #modelling #ecology #systemscience #conservationplanning
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- Lots of great #biodiversity #conservation and #scenario contributions in this new special issue dedicated to Georgina Mace! ‘Bending the curve towards nature recovery: building on Georgina Mace's legacy for a biodiverse future’ royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
- Also great summary by @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social on why it is so challenging to model (and project) biodiversity. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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