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Damien Rius

@damienrius.bsky.social
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researcher @cnrsecologie.bsky.social studying fire and other disturbances in Cold Forests and beyond. Love to climb on various stuff, incl. trees & mountains.

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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
While on vacation, our latest paper, led by @cecileremy.bsky.social, was published! Cecile did a fantastic and important job bringing together a group of paleoecologists and modellers to advocate for combining paleodata with forest models to better understand cascading disturbances. Congrats!
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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Multiple disturbances in Québec, Canada - how do insects and wildfires interact? Looking for a postdoc in an interdisciplinary research team? We are offering a 2-year postdoc position in the RETROPEST project at @chrono-env.bsky.social Deadline July 7th, details here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
In paleoecology we often use proxy-based reconstructions to characterize disturbance response to climate change. In our last paper @jonathanlesven.bsky.social examine how Holocene temperature inferences can be biased by wildfires, in Québec's boreal forests. Congrats ! @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
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Influence of environmental factors on pollen- and chironomid-based Holocene temperature inferences: A multisite comparison in eastern Canada
Reconstructing past climate conditions in boreal ecosystems remains a complex challenge due to the intricate interactions between both external and in…
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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
le culot : une définition. www.leparisien.fr/politique/cr...
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Crise politique : « Ceux qui ont joué la déstabilisation de Sébastien Lecornu sont les seuls responsables du désordre », lâche Macron
Depuis l’Égypte, où il assiste au « sommet pour la paix » à Gaza, Emmanuel Macron est revenu sur la situation politique, très tendue, en Fra
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Climate Watcher @pmagn.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Our toxic dystopian world @1.5C “It’s a bad-news scenario. It’s quite scary.” Decades of mining have left northern Canadian soils contaminated with metals like arsenic and lead, which are now being released as wildfires burn through peatlands and old industrial zones www.ehn.org/toxic-metals...
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Toxic metals may be spreading through wildfire smoke as Canadian peatlands burn
A thick cloud of smoke from hundreds of wildfires in Canada is carrying more than just carbon, as scientists warn that arsenic, lead, and other toxic metals trapped in soil could be released into the ...
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Cécile Remy @cecileremy.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Coring lakes in Šumava forests in Czech Republic to study ecological processes linked with bark beetle outbreaks. Thanks @damienrius.bsky.social and @petrkunes.bsky.social for this very nice and interesting fieldwork! Can't wait to see what we'll discover 🧐🌲🪳😲🤩
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Petr Kuneš @petrkunes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Returning to Šumava's lakes to study recent <200 years bark beetle disturbances with @damienrius.bsky.social and @cecileremy.bsky.social 🌲🪲
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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Coring lakes un the Sumava mountains, Czech Republic, with @petrkunes.bsky.social and @cecileremy.bsky.social, to track past bark beetles outbreaks!
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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Hi #sedaDNA community! We are looking for a postdoc to join our team @chrono-env.bsky.social in developing qPCR and ddPCR methods to reconstruct past insect outbreaks. This 2 yr position will be part of a larger @agencerecherche.bsky.social project that that integrates paleoecology, sedaDNA and ⬇️
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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
voila où mènent les ZRR. Chers collègues de @chrono-env.bsky.social , il faut vraiment continuer à refuser ça !
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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Global risk of wildfire across timber production systems, by Bousfield et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41... High-intensity wildfires increase with timber plantations in many temperate countries (orange), and will only continue to grow if the climate keeps warming 🧪🌍🔥🌳🍁🌐 wildfires
Fig. 3: National-level plantation wildfire risk effect size and percentage of timber-producing forest under plantation systems.
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Polémix @polemix.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Pour ceux qui ont raté l'intervention d'Emmanuel Macron hier, rassurez-vous, lui aussi.
Macron TF1
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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
d'une hypocrisie insupportable quand on vit au quotidien ce qu'est la réalité de la recherche française. In other words for US colleagues : the level of bullshit here is through the roof!
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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Congrats to T. Suranyi for his excellent first paper ! this is going to advance our understanding of climate change, both past, present and future, but it's also crucial for a lot of projects in disturbance ecology, coupling paleo & modeling ! @chrono-env.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
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Chironomid assemblages in surface sediments from 182 lakes across New England and Eastern Canada: Development and validation of a new summer temperature transfer function
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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Today we cored the first lake for the RETROPEST ANR project in the Pipmuakan area, west of Manicouagan, Québec, in collaboration with the Canadian Forest Service and Conseil des Innus de Pessamit! @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @chrono-env.bsky.social @chrono-env.bsky.social
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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
French research system: go big, go international. French administration: hold my beer. If you want to fund international partners for fieldwork they'll have to fill in 472 forms and provide 876 documents that only exists...in France. Then we'll reimburse your international partners. Well, maybe...
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Association for Fire Ecology @afe-fireecology.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
We are dedicated to supporting the wildland fire community and making it clear that the global fire crisis will not be solved by lack of funding, resources, or people. Read AFE’s statement on recent US federal actions here: fireecology.org/news/afe-sta...
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AFE's Statement on Recent US Federal Actions: — Association for Fire Ecology
We are dedicated to supporting the wildland fire community and making it clear that the global fire crisis will not be solved by lack of funding, resources, or people. Click to read AFE’s statement on...
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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Interesting work by van der Meersch et al. out in Ecology Letters, nicely illustrating that process-based models are more robust than correlative models for predicting species distributions under novel climatic conditions doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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Paleorecords Reveal Biological Mechanisms Crucial for Reliable Species Range Shift Projections Amid Rapid Climate Change
Climate change has created an urgent need for reliable projections of species distributions. By hindcasting forest tree range shifts across Europe over the last 12,000 years, we show that process-exp...
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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
If you want to know more about how we leverage paleo-data to better understand and predict fire and vegetation dynamics in the face of climate change in southwestern France, have a look at the video, with Adam Ali, @mhurteau.bsky.social , Florence Mazier. @agencerecherche.bsky.social
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Mégafeux, la forêt des Landes pour comprendre | Reportage CNRS
YouTube video by CNRS
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Cécile Remy @cecileremy.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🎙️Notre podcast AprèsLaThèse est maintenant sur Bluesky ✨ N'hésitez pas à nous suivre pour ne manquer aucune actualité!
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Yan Boulanger @trailgeek.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
1/ 🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 "Timber harvesting was the most important factor driving changes in vegetation composition, as compared to climate and fire regime shifts, in the mixedwood temperate forests of Temiscamingue since AD 1830" 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1... A🧵
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Timber harvesting was the most important factor driving changes in vegetation composition, as compared to climate and fire regime shifts, in the mixedwood temperate forests of Temiscamingue since AD 1...
Context The vegetation composition of northeastern North American forests has significantly changed since pre-settlement times, with a marked reduction in conifer-dominated stands, taxonomic and funct...
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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
New paper! Forest disturbance through drought, windthrow, pest outbreaks and fire is increasing in Europe, driven by past planting decisions and climate change. In Germany alone, more than 500,000 ha of mostly Spruce died back in 2018-2022. Led by Anne Graser, we studied biodiversity responses...
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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Their majesties Dent Blanche & Matterhorn, yesterday. Better enjoy the mountains in winter before there is no winter left: isotherm 0° was >3000m today🤯
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Mickaël Correia @mickacorreia.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Très joli triplé racisme - cumul des mandats - déni climatique de la part de François Bayrou à peine trois jours après sa nomination. #champion
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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
sujet brûlant !
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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
1/ Please see our new paper! 'Contemporary fires are less frequent but more severe in dry conifer forests of the southwestern United States'. #Wildfire 🧪🌏🔥
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Contemporary fires are less frequent but more severe in dry conifer forests of the southwestern United States - Communications Earth & Environment
Contemporary fires are less frequent than those occurring in the past, but their severity results in higher tree mortality, based on a comparison of historical and contemporary fire severity using den...
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Julien Ruffault @julienruffault.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
New scientific paper! We've evaluated the performance of fire weather indices (FWIs) for predicting wildfire activity in Mediterranean France 🔥🔥🌳 Which indices are the most effective? ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Wildfires #FireWeather
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Dr. Ramesh Glückler @rglueckler.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
Making #paleofire data #FAIR: Read our new report, published today in the new #PAGES Magazine, on integrating the Global Paleofire Database into the #Neotoma #Paleoecology Database! This step will have benefits for data curators and users, but a lot of work is still ahead 🔥🧪🌏
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First steps towards integrating the Global Paleofire Database with Neotoma | PAGES
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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Master Student Internship! In the framework of the Fire-Landes Project (PI: A. Ali) we offer an internship in Chrono-Environnment lab, Besançon, France. If you're interested into wildfires and climate change, please contact me !
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Damien Rius @damienrius.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
Check out our last paper about fire regimes in Québec during the Holocene by Augustin Feussom. Congrats !! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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