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Jonathan Tonkin
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"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Dad | Associate Professor & Rutherford Discovery Fellow @UCNZ | #ecology, #biodiversity, #forecasting, #freshwater, #climatechange | surf obsessed | AE @ESAFrontiers | ref='https://tonkinlab.org'>tonkinlab.orga> | Subscribe for free to predirections.substack.com
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Jonathan Tonkin
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"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Alexander Verbeek
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He looked at me as if waiting for supporting words, but I couldn't find any. Claus somehow interpreted my silence as an encouragement to continue; he suddenly opened up about his experiences, uncertainties, and fears that formed lasting invisible scars.
theplanet.substack.com/p/some-pilgr...
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Katharine Hayhoe
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This is what's going on over on X. Friends don't let friends stay there. Tell them how good it is here! (or on Threads! or even on LinkedIn!)
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Jonathan Tonkin
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These are cool Heather!
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Jonathan Tonkin
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"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." — Albert Einstein
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IPBES
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Why does biodiversity matter? 🤔🌏🧪
Anne Larigauderie, @ipbes.bsky.social Exec. Sec. interviewed by Business Insider Japan on the importance of our work after the announcement that IPBES will receive the 2024 Blue Planet Prize.
Read: www.af-info.or.jp/en/af_magazi...
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Andy Reisinger
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What does the @IPCC_CH AR6 say about GHG emission metrics (GWP, GTP, GWP* etc)? This was covered in an in-session workshop at the June #SB58 subsidiary bodies meeting of the @UNFCCC. A nerdy thread on the findings from WGIII from a mitigation perspective🧵1/26 (re-post from twitter, sorry)
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Mike Dickison
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If anyone in Ōtautahi Christchurch is interested in Wikipedia and becoming a volunteer editor, we're having a meetup on Sunday morning in Tūranga cafe (which also has amazing cheese scones).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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Jonathan Tonkin
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What can we do other than stop climate change? 1. Increase access to green spaces. 2. Protect local biodiversity. 3. Increase people’s capability and motivation to engage with nature through education. 4. Minimise the risk of encounters of harmful species in green spaces.
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Jonathan Tonkin
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These changes can lead to feedback loops, whereby people lose motivation to interact with nature as they progressively lose contact with nature.
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Jonathan Tonkin
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These reduced experiences can come from restricted distributions of species, but also changes in the timing of species’ activities, such as wildflowers flowering or migration of animals. And people may be less motivated to interact with nature when local weather patterns are becoming more extreme.
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Jonathan Tonkin
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Climate change is reducing people’s direct experiences with nature. It has the potential to lead to this extinction of experience. We need to understand these impacts as the extinction of experience can have negative impacts on both humans and the environment.
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Jonathan Tonkin
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A new extinction is emerging with climate change: the extinction of experience or the progressive loss of interactions people have with nature. This is particularly evident in children.
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Jonathan Tonkin
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@ethanfreedman.bsky.social hi. I’d love to be added to the list please.
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Jonathan Tonkin
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If we want public transport to be taken seriously in NZ, buses just can’t be 20 minutes late. People lose trust and choose to get back in their cars.
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Jonathan Tonkin
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Totally eh. That's a cool pic though, Naomi!
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Jonathan Tonkin
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Aren't they just!!
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Jonathan Tonkin
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Amazing pics! Special ecosystems aren't they!?
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Jonathan Tonkin
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Flying over the South Island's braided rivers is so special. I'll never get sick of it.
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Jonathan Tonkin
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This one struck a chord relative to my other posts here at least. If you're interested in biodiversity, climate change, and water resource management, check out my newsletter here and subscribe: predirections.substack.com
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Jonathan Tonkin
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Seriously, you can’t tell me that braided rivers are not the coolest things! Tasman River, New Zealand.
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Jonathan Tonkin
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My latest post is out: On hope, apathy and scaremongering. A bit more of a personal message here, but I'm keen to get your thoughts on this. How do we balance these things when trying to get the message across with impact?
predirections.substack.com/p/on-hope-ap...
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Jonathan Tonkin
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Waiau River, New Zealand. Current channel vs. historical. That’s a lot of function and biodiversity that’s been gobbled up by centre-pivot irrigators.
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Jonathan Tonkin
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Te Pūnaha Matatini
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We've got an internship available for a University of Auckland student to use data science and computational modelling to explore the effect of initiatives that give young people the opportunity to experience science, technology, engineering and mathematics → bit.ly/3L4hjga
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Jonathan Tonkin
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My latest post is out: On hope, apathy and scaremongering. A bit more of a personal message here, but I'm keen to get your thoughts on this. How do we balance these things when trying to get the message across with impact?
predirections.substack.com/p/on-hope-ap...
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Jonathan Tonkin
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"Natural historians, however, are a dying breed. It’s hard to fund basic natural history because it doesn’t often result in the headline grabbing news items that funders and universities are interested in. But for forecasting, such information is all too regularly a critical gap."
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Jonathan Tonkin
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Peak Covid signals coming through strong via Garmin’s body battery measurements the past few days!
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Jonathan Tonkin
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Jonathan Tonkin
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Massive effort! Congrats.
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James Orr
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I’m really excited to share our new synthesis of 2,396 (!) multiple-stressor experiments conducted in freshwater ecosystems that’s just been published in Ecology Letters: doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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Jonathan Tonkin
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"Natural historians, however, are a dying breed. It’s hard to fund basic natural history because it doesn’t often result in the headline grabbing news items that funders and universities are interested in. But for forecasting, such information is all too regularly a critical gap."
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Jonathan Tonkin
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Super proud supervisor moment. Gabrielle Koerich won best student presentation at the recent Ecological Forecasting Initiative conference in Helsinki for her work on modelling bryophyte distributions in Antarctica.
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Jonathan Tonkin
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My newsletter is now ten posts old. I think I can sustain this pace: one article every 1-2 weeks.
Biodiversity-climate nexus, with a touch of water resource management: predictions, redirections, adaptations.
If you're interested, go check in out. It's free.
predirections.substack.com
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Jonathan Tonkin
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I have a combo of jet lag and Covid from my travels! Boo!
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Jonathan Tonkin
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Can ecological forecasts help us in our fight to bend the curve of biodiversity loss?
I argue that forecasting is fundamental in our quest to stem biodiversity loss, providing actionable information. But many challenges persist.
predirections.substack.com/p/can-ecolog...
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Jonathan Tonkin
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Thanks! I hear you. Rule 5 emphasise that the level of intervention will be context-dependent. In such cases, you'd need to be more proactive in your intervention by helping it get ahead in the presence of invasive species.
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Jonathan Tonkin
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Absolutely.
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Annie Leymarie
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Rule No 5 seems pretty key: "Use natural regeneration whenever possible Leveraging natural processes can be more effective and sustainable than planting new trees and can lead to much greater carbon capture and biodiversity gains. And, in fact, it can be substantially cheaper."
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Jonathan Tonkin
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Can ecological forecasts help us in our fight to bend the curve of biodiversity loss?
I argue that forecasting is fundamental in our quest to stem biodiversity loss, providing actionable information. But many challenges persist.
predirections.substack.com/p/can-ecolog...
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Jonathan Tonkin
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My latest post considers rules for reforestation. It summarises a great paper from 2021 that introduced these rules to optimise carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery and livelihood benefits.
predirections.substack.com/p/rules-for-...
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Jonathan Tonkin
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My latest post considers rules for reforestation. It summarises a great paper from 2021 that introduced these rules to optimise carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery and livelihood benefits.
predirections.substack.com/p/rules-for-...
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Jonathan Tonkin
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Super looking new synthesis centre open in Cape Town for climate solutions synthesis research. I love the look of this centre. They’ve opened a new call. Projects come with a postdoc for the two year project tenure.
ascendclimate.org
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Jonathan Tonkin
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Happy to be part of this global study on human drivers of decomposition rates in rivers.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Jonathan Tonkin
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Visited the wonderful Hinewai Reserve in the Banks Peninsula yesterday. Love the way tissue droppers are dealt with!
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Jonathan Tonkin
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On science and activism: can we be truly objective as scientists?
I reflect on a recent paper that has gone viral on twitter about distinguishing science from activism.
I’d love to hear your thoughts. Go check out the newsletter and subscribe if you want to see more.
#science #activism #research
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Shaun Hendy
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I can’t recall a grimmer time for science in Aotearoa. Commentary from @lcsnz.bsky.social and @nicgaston.bsky.social here www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2024/05/30/b...
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Jonathan Tonkin
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On science and activism: can we be truly objective as scientists?
I reflect on a recent paper that has gone viral on twitter about distinguishing science from activism.
I’d love to hear your thoughts. Go check out the newsletter and subscribe if you want to see more.
#science #activism #research
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Jonathan Tonkin
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I hit peak professor! 😂😂😂
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Brian J. Enquist
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In our latest paper in PNAS, we ask: How can scientific progress be accelerated to meet the urgent challenges of the Anthropocene? We point to significant barriers in forecasting & prediction efforts for the biosphere 🧵👇 🧪🌎🦋 1/n www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#ScienceTwitter #Ecology #Anthropocene
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