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Erle Ellis

@erleellis.bsky.social
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Exploring the ecology of an increasingly human planet. Prof. Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC Anthromes, Anthroecology & Anthropocene anthroecology.org/people/ellis

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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The most awesome Anthromes viz EVER! Interact with it here: twosides.earth/src/anthromes/
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Anthromes are beautiful! On exhibit at #MoMA right now. press.moma.org/exhibition/f... www.moma.org/collection/w... c4sr.columbia.edu/projects/two...
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Herbert Sukopp (1930–2026) Urban ecologist @ESA_org esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Resolution of Respect: Herbert Sukopp (1930–2026)
Click on the article title to read more.
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People and Nature @peopleandnature.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🌊🌳 From “evolutionary processes” to “preservation,” rights-of-nature laws embed conflicting ideas. New analysis of 10 global cases highlights how disciplinary perspectives shape interpretation—and why co-creation matters. 📖 buff.ly/It6BQ6k
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Regenerative Agriculture is Not a Silver Bullet. doi.org/10.1088/1748...
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Deep Anthropocene! ⚒️🌍 Archaeology of Global Change doi.org/10.1017/aaq....
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Archaeology’s Golden Opportunity: Transforming the Science of Global Environmental Change | American Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Archaeology’s Golden Opportunity: Transforming the Science of Global Environmental Change
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 22/09/2026
I have a new piece out in Nature today on the record-breaking 2026/2027 El Niño, what impacts we should expect, and how governments can prepare. The Niño3.4 region is currently running more than 1C hotter than any prior event on record, and we remain months away from the peak www.nature.com/artic...
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Anthropocene Enlightenment? doi.org/10.1057/s415...
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Anthropocene Rewilding: Remaking Nature the Way **Some** People Want... 🪺🤨 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/c...
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Does This Bird’s Return to Britain Restore History or Rewrite It? (Gift Article)
Conservationists set up a colony of white storks in southern England, touching off a debate over whether they truly belong there.
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Intensive land use reduced global vegetation stability over the past two millennia doi.org/10.1038/s432...
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Anthropocene Event: Because Timing Matters! doi.org/10.1038/s430...
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Time matters in the case against the Anthropocene epoch - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Defining the Anthropocene as a formal epoch with a fixed stratigraphic marker and global start date remains contentious. This Comment summarizes the arguments for a time transgressive extended Anthrop...
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Why Anthropocene was rejected as an epoch. 🌍⚒️🤯 doi.org/10.1038/s430...
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Stratigraphic rationale for rejecting the Anthropocene epoch proposal - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
The rejection of the proposal for Anthropocene as a formal epoch of the Geological Time Scale has attracted wide interest in the stratigraphic aspects of the debate. Here, we clarify the distinction b...
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Equal Earth is Better... 🗺️🗺️🗺️🗺️🗺️ But Discrete Global Grids are Best! 🌎⬣🌍⬣🌏 pypi.org/project/vgri...
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Symbiocene? 🌍 doi.org/10.1002/pan3...
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Standing by to plant some!
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Overshoot makes eyes glaze over. 🫩 Cheaper, cleaner power makes people lean in. 👍 Sell the plan, not the warning. ☀️⚡️💡 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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As we breach 1.5 °C, we must replace temperature limits with clean-energy targets
Actionable goals are needed to guide the world towards what needs to happen most quickly: shifting economies to clean energy sources.
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My main concern is whether this variety truly resists blight, and if so, it is actually available…
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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
After years of testing, USDA has just approved releasing GMO American chestnut trees, potentially giving us the chance to bring back an iconic species destroyed in the early 20th century by an imported disease. (Chauvinistic note: I've had American chestnuts, and they are better than European ones.)
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USDA Approval Advances Efforts to Restore the American Chestnut
Efforts by researchers at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) to restore the American chestnut tree to the American landscape took a significant leap forward with an approved desi...
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
How does this relate to the issues raised by TACF? tacf.org/darling-58/
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Darling 58/54 | The American Chestnut Foundation
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Prajal Pradhan @prajdhan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Call for Abstracts & Sessions Happy to chair Groningen Sustainability Conference 2027 (gsc.beyondsdg.eu) and invite you to share SDG lessons for sustainability beyond 2030 on 5–10.04.2027 at @rug.nl. Submis. Deadline: 25.10.2026 @pik-potsdam.bsky.social @iiasa.ac.at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Nota bene: Most people's most transformative interaction with nature is through food systems and commodity chains...
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Do you interact with "nature"? How much? The Personalised Ecology Index... @peopleandnature.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/XR2KNJ...
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Energy and Sustainability Research Institute @esrig.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Join the Groningen Sustainability Conference 2027 ( @rug.nl) to share research, ideas & experiences shaping sustainable development beyond 2030. 5–10 April 2027 | University of Groningen Deadline for Submission: 25 Oct 2026 Submit: gsc.beyondsdg.eu #GSC2027 #Sustainability #SDGs #Beyond2030
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Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
At Our Trees, we are discussing pawpaw, which has become very popular in recent years. Are you a pawpaw fan? Read the story and take the quiz.
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The PawPaws Ripen
The rise of America’s largest native fruit
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Wild ones are such a gift!
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Yes!
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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I really like buffalo. This is the Shoshone herd, about 320 animals, in the Wind River reservation yesterday afternoon. It's sobering to consider that the entire world 's supply of free-ranging bison in 1885 was one-fourth the size of this group. We almost lost these guys.
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Wildlife moves to the Anthropocene beat(s)... doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Anthropocene + Human Evolution = ? @profmarkmaslin.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It’s nice to imagine there being a big plan for land. But we shall see how things go with the best laid forest carbon plans…
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Any way you count it, forest carbon is just greenwash. Ending fossil emissions is the problem, and forests have nothing to do with that.
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Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Ethics & Planetary Boundaries A multidisciplinary approach to the ethics of the planetary boundaries, ranging from international law to Indigenous knowledge and from science to art, and .. @simonmeisch.bsky.social @tankisandre.bsky.social @erleellis.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
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Ethics and Planetary Boundaries
Cambridge Core - Ethics - Ethics and Planetary Boundaries
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I ❤️🦬! Great article on American bison @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
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DNA reveals the hidden past of North America’s bison—and keys to their future
Scientists are racing to conserve what remains of these majestic animals’ genetic diversity
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Sorry - doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Psychological inoculation against climate doom | PNAS
Individuals encounter “climate doom,” extreme portrayals of climate change, on social media. While climate doom may be intended to motivate action,...
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Correct link here: Sorry! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Climate Doom is not a mobilization strategy. 🏭🔥🚒😨😒 New @pnas.org: Psychological inoculation against climate doom doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Fire Rainbow over West Virginia science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
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APOD: 2026 August 2 – A Fire Rainbow over West Virginia - NASA Science
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
How much is your country doing to enable people and nature to thrive together? Find out @agu.org 2026! Nature Relationship Index (NRI) hdr.undp.org/nature-relat... @undp.org #AGU26
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
What comes after acknowledging? "Earth is our relative". www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/o...
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Opinion | I’m Native American. Land Acknowledgments Are Infuriating. (Gift Article)
Conservatives who critique land acknowledgments aren’t acting in good faith, but they do have a point.
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Peak Language? 1000 BCE to 1000 CE? The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene
Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"To the extent that you become the ecology that supports you, it becomes more and more your responsibility"
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Ethics and Planetary Boundaries www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
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Ethics and Planetary Boundaries
Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Ethics and Planetary Boundaries
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Politics is Killing Science in the USA. 🙈🙉🙊 New NSF policy would ban almost all collaborations with Chinese scientists @policyhound.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...
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New NSF policy would ban almost all collaborations with Chinese scientists
Agency drops attempt to mitigate risk in favor of outright prohibition on working with most Chinese research institutions
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Earliest Americans specialized in megaherbivores 🦣🦣🦣🦣 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Hemisphere-wide evidence of Early Paleoindian megaherbivore specialization
The three earliest continent-wide cultures in the Americas focused on the largest prey, like mammoths and giant ground sloths.
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Welp, the transformation of the US into a country that props up misinformation over science is now complete (via @scottpwaldman.bsky.social )👇 www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
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Roberto Sáez @robertosaezm.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans
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The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans - Nature
Analysis of 128 high-coverage Indigenous American genomes shows extensive diversity shaped by several South American dispersals, ancient Australasian admixture, archaic introgression and long-term…
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Lessons from Blackfoot-led buffalo restoration 🦬🌎 doi.org/10.2458/jpe....
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I’d agree with you on that- but @jedokaplan.bsky.social will know better than me…
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The limits of coexistence - with wolves 🌍🌎 www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...
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Science Magazine - Hour of the wolf
Last summer, a woman walking in a nature park near Utrecht, Netherlands, saw what she thought was a big, playful dog hurtling toward her two young boys in the distance.
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Stewardship practices enhance nature’s contributions to people 🌍 academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
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Stewardship practices enhance nature’s contributions to people
Abstract. Humans shape landscapes through the management of organisms and ecosystems, either degrading or sustaining biodiversity. Despite their essential
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