Emily Lines
Massive fan of trees, fairweather fan of data. UKRIFLF, Assoc Prof, University of Cambridge. #womeninstem she/her
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So have we just given up understanding that the purpose of a literature review is not the production of writing, but rather the production of knowledge about a subject? www.timeshighereducation.com/news/new-cha... - Reposted by Emily LinesYou won't want to miss this! Keep your calendars free and hopefully see you in Switzerland in October 🌳🍁🌐🧪
- Save the date! 48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions 📅 13–16 October 2026 📍 Leysin, Switzerland www.newphytologist.org/events/48-nps #PlantScience
- Reposted by Emily LinesThree weeks on. Still no response.
- Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.
- Reposted by Emily LinesWe've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n
- Reposted by Emily LinesThis is a great group to get involved with. Particularly looking for ECRs and people based outside the Uk to apply. But everyone welcome!
- Are you into macroecology and/or macroevolution? Want to make our field a better place? Please consider joining the BES Macro SIG Committee! We're currently recruiting for a vice chair and ordinary member(s). More info and how to apply (deadline Jan 20th!): mcusercontent.com/a9537304d9bd...
- The intake of Trinity Hall & Cambridge (& Oxford & other elite universities) is still hugely biased. 93% of children in the UK attend state schools, our state intake is 71% - we miss out on so many bright students. This is a sad, misguided & harmful decision. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
- (from the same college as this behaviour, reported a few years ago: www.theguardian.com/education/20...)
- Obviously very far from the worst thing they're doing, but definitely seems they're trying to be terrible in every possible way...
- Reposted by Emily LinesThis is insane. 🤦♂️ Why do tech giants like Elon Musk and Bill Gates keep on saying such dumb things about climate change? They have access to the best possible experts, who could actually teach them something, if they would only ask and listen…
- Reposted by Emily LinesMy favorite thing about these mental health in academia emails is that they never address the fact that the pressure stems from the consequences to one’s career if you don’t meet those goals
- Reposted by Emily LinesNew OA publication from TreE_PlaNat project @uktreescapes.bsky.social in Ecological Solutions and Evidence: Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- I know its that time of year but today I've received 5 PhD enquiries, and most are garbled LLM nonsense. I try to respond to everyone regardless, but this honestly feels insulting.
- How many #lidars is too many lidars? Dunno, but I've definitely got room for this one - very exciting to be getting involved in the low cost lidar world
- Reposted by Emily Linesah the leaves are turning and the men are giving each other prizes again the first whispers of winter
- Reposted by Emily LinesOur new perspective on what TLS can (& can't) do in forest research www.nature.com/articles/s41... - led by Eduardo Maeda w lots of great colleagues including @kimcalders.bsky.social @emilyrlines.bsky.social @louiseterryn.bsky.social @benjaminbrede.bsky.social (apols for any I don;t have @ for)
- yeah sure I can write a paper and a proposal on two totally different topics today, on 3 hours sleep and massively jetlagged. my brain is not happy with me.
- Having a great time at Silvilaser this week, full of inspiring talks&research on forest lidar. But it is heartbreaking to hear how many presenters are absent bcos they couldn't get Canada visas. We're missing out on great science and collaboration bcos of short sighted&cruel geopolitical decisions.
- Reposted by Emily LinesEvery single time. www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterra...
- Reposted by Emily LinesBravo Banksy. 👏 “A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy has appeared on the side of the Royal Courts of Justice building in central London.”
- Watching the wind... #lidar
- Reposted by Emily LinesPleased to announce that @tristramwyatt.bsky.social & I have a new article out in @uk.theconversation.com, based on work with colleagues from @scientistsforxr.earth We outline "How scientists can contribute to social movements and climate action" Here's a thread with some background & key points 🧵
- Reposted by Emily LinesWe have to be purposeful about ending the use of fossil fuels because they’re not going to end themselves anytime soon. While wind and solar are cheaper, they are not as profitable. Therein lies the problem.
- Reposted by Emily LinesIf you know researchers with expertise in forestry/agro forestry please share this permanent lectureship @bangoruniversity.bsky.social. The quality of life in north wales is fabulous: great colleagues & a stunning location. jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....
- Reposted by Emily LinesIt's never bullying says the university It's a misunderstanding, personality clash, cultural difference, performance management issue, ill-advised but unintentional A he-said-she-said situation, the accused is under a lot of pressure It's Hanlon's Razor, incompetence not bullying @jcsj.uk
- Just turned down a #manel. A 2 day event with only male speakers? To the kind woman who invited me - quit helping this kind of event, it won't serve you. Those in charge make their priorities clear when they set these programmes. Token diversity & words of reassurance do nothing. Just don't engage.
- My university is applying a 1.4% pay rise this year, our only buffer against the worsening cost of living crisis. Why aren't our leaders aren't embarrassed & ashamed to treat staff this way? #UKHE is broken in so many ways, and these pathetic'pay deals' push staff morale beyond rock bottom.
- Can we build high performing models of detailed drivers of #deforestation in data poor regions? Our newest paper, led by Amandine Debus, shows this is possible with collaboration and deep learning. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Unlike many large scale studies, we use local data & context-specific classes. We collated a dataset of detailed drivers from a wide range of sources (nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03384-z) and used this to build & test a model for classifying drivers in #GFC polygons.
- We find that: 1. High performance is possible for even detailed classes (macro-average F1 0.77). 2. Landsat-8 outperformed higher resolution PlanetScope data for classification. 3. Country-specific reference datasets, classification schemes and expertise are essential to maximise usability.
- Our study demonstrates the potential of leveraging existing available datasets and a generalised deep learning framework with only a relatively small amount of location-specific data to create a tailored model for Cameroon.
- Reposted by Emily LinesLast week was the final conference of the @3dforecotech.bsky.social network. Over 100 researchers showcasing new methods for measuring and modelling forests. We've achieved a huge amount in four years and there's much more to come.
- Why are conferences so heavily photographed? I'm at my second one in two weeks with photographers and I'm so distracted by the moving & clicking. I understand the desire to promote events but it is disruptive when you're trying to concentrate and someone's taking the 500th photo of the audience...
- Reposted by Emily LinesOur new perspective on the use (& misuse) of what we're calling virtual forests (rather than digital twins!), for forest change from space, led by @kimcalders.bsky.social w many great colleagues 🔭 🧪🔬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Why is it that every time I start making a new slide in powerpoint I get a new default font? Why?
- Reposted by Emily LinesJust out in Science: we demonstrate a micro-evolutionary shift in a single generation, involving thousands of genomic loci, giving younger ash trees more resistance to ash dieback, on average, than their parents www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp2990
- Good news research showing rapid evolving of resistance to ash dieback in juveniles. An absolute pleasure to contribute a small part to this fantastic research led by Carey Metheringham, @rbuggs.bsky.social and Richard Nichols
- Full paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Occasionally I get sent the same papers from multiple journals. I'm always amazed if authors have ignored all the detailed advice of previous reviewers on the first (or second version). All feedback is a gift - and there's no easier way to make a reviewer start with a poor opinion of your ms!
- Reposted by Emily LinesIf you are interested in learning more about efficient scalable ways of extracting time series, come to Poster P43 today Wed at #LSP25 and learn more about the open source tool PlotToSat. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Emily LinesOn my way to Living Planet Symposium #LPS25! Looking forward to meeting many of you in Vienna. Please reach out if you would like to learn more about @plottosat.bsky.social
- Reposted by Emily Lines- Too much pressure to publish. - More volume, less quality. - Predatory journals. - Crazy fees to publish your own work. - Too many low-quality papers. - Pre-prints masquerading as, peer reviewed. Academic publishing is broken. We need overhaul the system, focusing on quality not quantity.
- Reposted by Emily LinesSystemic sexism in academia: an early-career viewpoint academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
- Reposted by Emily LinesRealistic models of the potential for global reforestation suggest that it could absorb roughly 5% of human CO2 emissions. This is still worthwhile but nowhere near a solution on its own. New paper just published 🧪🌏🌐
- Reposted by Emily Lines🚨 New study: Male lead authors are more likely to have papers retracted—especially for misconduct like plagiarism. 👩🔬 Female-led research shows fewer retractions overall. 📚 Science needs not just rigor, but integrity. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jo... #AcademicPublishing #GenderInScience
- Reposted by Emily LinesVoice of Victim "I work in student support at a prestigious UK University Every year I see new female students sexually exploited by the same Professors. Every year There's nothing I can do for them. It breaks my heart The University always supports the abuser"
- Reposted by Emily LinesHappy #WorldPeatlandsDay! #PeatColours
- Super cheap #lidar fun with @mokros.bsky.social . Who needs a 100k Rigel anyway...
- Why are trees shaped the way they are? This new paper analysed 374,888 trees from 1914 species across the world to find out 👇 Thanks to the amazing @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social for his leadership of such a huge range of contributors to make this happen 👏
- So excited to finally share our new paper charting the global spectrum of tree crown architecture, out today at @natcomms.nature.com 🧪🌐 Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41... A brief thread of what we found 🧵
- Reposted by Emily LinesThis paper led by @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social was fun to participate in: The global spectrum of tree crown architecture, www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Now online!
- Reposted by Emily LinesInterested in extracting EO 🛰️ time-series at multiple plot regions? @plottosat.bsky.social makes it easy Follow us for updates, research and news! Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Code: #EO #forest #ML #time-series Tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItaZ... #EO #forest #ML #time-series
- Reposted by Emily LinesThis tutorial will guide you through the core functionalities of PlotToSat. It will help you quickly extract Sentinel-1 🛰️ and Sentinel-2 🛰️ time series at multiple plot regions. The centres of the plots are defined in an input .csv file. #EO #ML #time-series #forests 🌲 @drmiltiadou.bsky.social
- Reposted by Emily LinesWe are looking for a research ecologist to join the Board of @britishecologicalsociety.org. This influential role will help to set the strategic direction and priorities of the Society. Deadline 30 June with the role to start in December.
- Sensors, scientists and sunshine. Thanks for the great Strucnet vegetation structural dynamics meeting @kimcalders.bsky.social.
- Reposted by Emily LinesTimbervision: a YOLO-based approach to identifying and measuring timber based on RGB imagery (Steininger et al. on arXiv). This is very cool and has loads of potential applications in forestry and forest management. 🧪
- Reposted by Emily LinesOur paper published in Nature Scientific Reports looked at the #foodinsecurity experiences of people who remained in #Ukraine & those who fled to one of Europe's wealthiest countries #Switzerland. ➡️ We find that 80% of respondents faced some form of food insecurity. www-nature-com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Emily Lines📣 Calling all PhD students 📣 Want to learn how to translate research into impact? Applications for the BES POST Fellowship are now open for real-world experience working within the UK parliament to support the use of research evidence. 🗓️ Apply by 11 June
- Reposted by Emily LinesGreat news - we will be searching for a tree physiologist (tenure track) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, UBC Forestry, later this year. Stay tuned! (Please share.)
- Reposted by Emily LinesAmazing images of ESAs Biomass satellite mission opening its 12m antenna in orbit. Looking forward to seeing the first data. @esaearth.esa.int @nceoscience.bsky.social www.esa.int/Applications...
- Reposted by Emily LinesWe're hiring an assistant prof in global change ecology! Apply!!! We're vibrant, supportive, and interdisciplinary EEB community! Plz note the weird dates: We're reviewing applications beginning on ✨August 15th✨. I'm part of the SC and happy to answer questions! apply.interfolio.com/164677
- Reposted by Emily LinesAnd @emilyrlines.bsky.social also talked about using lasers in forests but not the burny kind of laser besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Emily Lines"Universities need to recognize that racism, like other forms of bias in higher ed, is a provable scientific fact, must be frank about barriers to equity, & must devise clear metrics for what they are trying to achieve & measure progress transparently." www.nature.com/articles/d41... #AcademicSky
- Such grim reading. How does this kind of culture go on so long? Universities must do better to support the trainees at the mercy of their PI's power www.tagesanzeiger.ch/eth-zuerich-...
- Thomas Crowther, whose high-impact ecology research has garnered him prominence and funding, will be leaving ETH Zürich after complaints about the environment in his lab. scim.ag/3RzRbgG
- Reposted by Emily LinesThank you ETH Zurich for sharing the results of the investigation regarding Tom Crowther, which confirm most of the concerns raised in greater depth. I'm relieved to see that ETH is going to take a closer look at how it oversees and manages the conduct of research groups. ethz.ch/staffnet/en/...
- Reposted by Emily LinesOnly a week left to apply for our Interdisciplinary Summer School on Forest Ecosystems in Oxford from 4-8 August. All costs of EU-based participants will be fully covered.
- Reposted by Emily LinesThe Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research UK have a policy If a university finds a researcher guilty of bullying, then they can't apply for grants Duh ... Unsurprisingly, policy has effect that universities never find anyone guilty of bullying, as they'd lose millions in grant money
- Reposted by Emily LinesThe Supreme Court sided with FWS. But it didn’t hear from a single trans person. This ruling sets a dangerous precedent and erases trans women from protections. It puts trans rights back 20 years. We won't stop fighting for trans rights 🏳️⚧️
- Reposted by Emily LinesHuge scale of bullying at Cambridge revealed Numbers unhappy with treatment of bullying are Toxicology 69%, Pathology 61%, Physics 58%, Cancer Research 50%, Oncology 50%, Earth Sciences 46%, History 45%, Astronomy 44% Toxicology & Pathology are well-named 😉 www.theguardian.com/education/20...
- Reposted by Emily LinesThis. An emergency recall of parliament on a weekend for British Steel. Nothing at all for UK HE which employs far more people, has already shed 10,000 academic jobs, with several institutions on the brink of collapse. A reminder: we train all the doctors, teachers, engineers, nurses, lawyers &c &c
- Reposted by Emily LinesDo you have opinions about how @britishecologicalsociety.org should use its financial resources? Apply to join the Finance Committee! DM me if you want to discuss.
- No I will not be an author on your paper I had nothing to do with. No I will not be an author on your paper I had nothing to do with. No I will not be an author on your paper I had nothing to do with. No I will not be an author on your paper I had nothing to do with.
- Reposted by Emily LinesVoice of Victim "I made some criticisms of the University Head of Dept went through my social media accounts, recording all that are negative about academic life I am now facing a disciplinary for bringing the University into disrepute "
- Just a few days left to apply for this #technician position in my group! Like #forests? #Data? #Python? Working outside? Come and help support our research using high resolution #remotesensing #lidar data to study #forests 👇 Please share!
- I am #hiring! Do you like #lidar #data and #forests? Enjoy both computational & field work? I am hiring a Computational and Field Senior Technician to join my UKRI FLF project team for 2 yrs, based in Cambridge, UK (not remote). More details here (closing April 7th) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50700/
- Reposted by Emily LinesSuper PhD opportunity with funding for either a UK or an overseas student, on the impact of governance and management structures on #conservation and community outcomes in #Cameroon. There must be some amazing applicants out there, please spread the word! www.kent.ac.uk/durrell-inst...
- Reposted by Emily LinesTwo fully-funded PhD scholarships @BangorUni in conservation social science. Deadline 5th May. If you have conservation scientists, geographers, economists, sociologists in your network do share. Details in thread below (1/3) www.bangor.ac.uk/conservation...
- Reposted by Emily LinesThe best job in science policy is available once again - dust off your CV and check it out. Go to work in a Palace, make the headlines, change the world Committee Specialist £41k - £47k Deadline 13 April housesofparliament.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...
