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Karin Mora

@karinmora.bsky.social
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Researcher @uniLeipzig.bsky.social & @rsc4earth.bsky.social My work: #PHENOPLEXITY = #nonlinearDynamics + #complexity + #ML Analyses: plant #phenology & #biodiversity. Data: #citizenscience, #remoteSensing, #sentinel2, #eddycovariance, #DataCubes, #TLS

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CBC Conference @cbc-conference.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
#CBC2026Leipzig #Biodiversity #ClimateScience #SoilScience #BehaviouralScience #SustainableEconomy #EcosystemModelling #FutureForest #FutureCities #PublicPolicies #SustainableFutures #NaturalCapital @unileipzig.bsky.social @ufz.de @idiv-research.bsky.social
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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
We present TaxonMatch, a tool designed to align taxonomic names, resolve synonymy, and correct typographical and structural inconsistencies across species name databases www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #biodiversity #taxonomy #bioinformatics
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Rebekka B. @rebekkabrandt.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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Valentin Ștefan @veralis.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Excited to share a new paper led by our colleagues at #DLR! We trained AI to recognize 15 European fly pollinator families and estimate how confident it is, helping ecologists use AI more responsibly. Paper: lnkd.in/dBAWW3hB Code: lnkd.in/du7dD2hc #pollinators #aiforgood #aifornature #UFZ #iDiv
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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Too many mediocre men talk over capable women. Study of problem-solving teams: Men dominate the conversation, taking 50% more turns and saying 69% more than women. Men with low skill speak more than women with high skill. It's long past time to value competence over confidence.
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Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics - Freie Universität Berlin @fub-remotesensing.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
*** Data set alert *** We are excited to share our new 3D forest dataset 🌲🌳🌿💻📊 121 terrestrial laser-scanning plots across Europe, all scanned using the same protocol and scanner! From pines to oaks and spruce, it’s a journey through the continent’s forests in millimeter detail. #TLS #Riegl
Dataset structure of the advertised Terrestrial laser scanning dataset collection.
The collection contains 121 forest plots, each 50 x 50 m at 1 cm spatial resolution. The collection is structured in 5 campaigns, one in Galicia, Spain, one in La Palma, Spain, one in Ostlandet, Norway, one n Brandenburg, Germany and one in Czechia. For each campaign a picture of an example point cloud is shown.
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Simone Conradi @sconradi.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
A fair coin "knows" π. Stop flipping when heads first outnumber tails. The expected fraction of heads is π/4. Average many trials → estimate π. Result by J. Propp, animated for #PiDay. Made with #Python #NumPy #Matplotlib and @marimo.io #Mathematics #MathArt #CreativeCoding
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Mélanie Weynants @melanieweynants.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Jahrzehnte lang erkämpfte Gesetze zum Schutz von Natur, Trinkwasser und Gesundheit werden gerade zugunsten kurzfristiger Wirtschaftsinteressen still und leise abgeschafft. Alle Menschen in Europa sind betroffen. Unterschreibe die Petition. #HandsOffNature www.nabu.de/natur-und-la...
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Hände weg vom Naturschutz
Die EU will zentrale Naturschutzgesetze lockern. Gemeinsam können wir das verhindern. Gib jetzt deine Stimme ab – für starken Schutz von Mensch und Natur!
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Karin Mora @karinmora.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Study on Above- & #below-groundTrait coordination across 90 #angiosperm and #gymnosperm #tree species in a #commonGarden experiment highlights different resource strategies associated with #leaf & #fine-root traits. led by Anvar Sanaei. @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social @journalofecology.bsky.social
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Above‐ and below‐ground trait coordination across 90 angiosperm and gymnosperm tree species in a common garden experiment
This research highlights the significance of elucidating the mechanisms behind above-and below-ground organs. The varying trait coordination across clades indicates different resource acquisition str...
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Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples. 1. Women are credited less in science than men. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Women are credited less in science than men - Nature
The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.
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Karin Mora @karinmora.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Join us in Leipzig for this exciting conference #CBC2026Leipzig #Biodiversity #ClimateScience #BehaviouralScience #RemoteSensing #forest #ClimateImpact #ClimateExtremes #SpatialTheory #LandUse #Sustainability #WaterCycle and more topics @unileipzig.bsky.social @ufz.de @idiv-research.bsky.social
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Miguel-Ángel Fernández-Torres @miguelangelft.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
We are thrilled to bring the #XAI4CV Workshop back to @cvprconference.bsky.social , celebrating its 5th Anniversary!🚀Submit your latest research in #XAI. We accept papers & demos across 2 tracks! #CVPR2026 xai4cv-workshop.github.io/xai4cv2026/ Please repost🔁
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Fantastic study on the adaptation of species populations on temperature changes, led by former #sDiv Postdoc Viktoriia Radchuk. This is part of the #synthesis group @idiv-research.bsky.social www.idiv.de/straitchange & also shows how long it sometimes takes to finish complex studies.
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sTraitChange | iDiv
iDiv members: Holger Schielzeth Ulrich Brose Callum Lawson
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Nicolas Audebert @nshaud.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
torrentfreak.com/nvidia-conta... corporate ethics is an oxymore
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NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books * TorrentFreak
NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training.
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Karin Mora @karinmora.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
#Read the latest #cityFable on the joy of #frozenRivers urbanmole.is?p=54975
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The Coldest Winters Calm the Longest Rivers - Urban Mole
Jack Frost nips at your toes, then goes and takes a bath in the nearby river. It freezes. Time to dust off the ice skates! Christopher Mollison
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Karin Mora @karinmora.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Only a week ago we had an amazing #winterScape in #Leipzig. The #FrozenRiver was full of #joyAndLaughter. @urbanmole.bsky.social links observation with art and story. #WeNeedStories #WeNeedArt #Leipzig #cityTales #cityFable #urbanGaze #cityScapes #bruegelPainting urbanmole.is?p=54975
Urban winner landscape with frozen river and people frolicking on it.
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Guy Pe'er @guypeer.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This is so outrageous that there are hardly any words to describe the disgrace. The EU marks a low moment for citizens' health, for science, for democracy, for biodiversity, and for farmers. Congratulations for those who've just shown us who's the real boss in this puppet theatre.
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The research org CNRS will end access to the Web of Science, shifting towards qualitative research assessment and open tools. It’s a strong move for #OpenScience, reducing reliance on proprietary metrics and supporting fairer, more transparent evaluation.
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The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science
From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'
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Johannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The DFG research training group on the Economics of Connected Natural Commons: Atmosphere and Biodiversity (ECO-N) at Leipzig University is happy to announce vacancies for another 14 doctoral researcher positions. www.eco-n.org uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/9... @unileipzig.bsky.social
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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 10/12/2025
The obsession with “star scientists” and “attracting top talent” fundamentally misunderstands research and higher education. Create a healthy environment that is attractive to all manner of scientists. Because that run of the mill, non-transformative, maybe slightly boring research matters, too.
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Karin Mora @karinmora.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
#PatternFormation in the real world. This looks like spiral waves which can be modelled by the reaction–diffusion system of Fitzhugh–Nagumo type 🤓🤩
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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
🚨New blog post: Replicators, rejoice! Episode 1 of the new series is out: “A New README.” A practical guide to transforming messy project folders into clear, well-structured documentation that strengthens transparency and reproducibility. See more at i4replication.org/dont-panic-a...
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Don’t Panic: A Researcher’s Guide to Replication Packages
Episode 1: A New README Who Needs a README? Imagine coming across a really cool paper in a top journal. The kind of paper you wish you wrote yourself; the…
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Karin Mora @karinmora.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Origin of the Universe and Comics 🤓❤️🧐
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Karin Mora @karinmora.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
🌊Watch out for the AI slop flood 🌊 “I don’t find this a compelling argument for putting your name on 100 papers that you could not have possibly meaningfully contributed to” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
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Karin Mora @karinmora.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
🌺🌸🌼 Flowers are still around. I spotted these freeze-hardy species on my walk in Leipzig Hoary alyssum/Berteroa incana Black horehound/Ballota nigra Shepherd's purse/Capsella bursa-pastoris With the help of #FloraIncognita.
Hoary alyssum/Berteroa incanaBlack horehound/Ballota nigraShepherd's purse/Capsella bursa-pastoris
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Karin Mora @karinmora.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Really nice visualisation of tree evolution, physiology, and processes! Great for teaching. Thanks for sharing!
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CREAF @creaf.cat · 05/12/2025
Today #WorldSoilDay we’re shining a light on the most hidden and underrated part of plants: 🌱 ROOTS 🌱 But not just any roots… let’s talk about SUPER ROOTS 🦸
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Karin Mora @karinmora.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Excited 😄 & tired 😴 after my last talk for this year 🎉 @ Inst. of Environmental Systems Research, Uni Osnabrück. Thanks Frank Hilkert for being such a welcoming host! Thanks to all who joined for Q&A 😊 Andreas Focks & all I thoroughly enjoyed discussing ML, maths modelling & bifurcation analysis
With me are Jonas Wahl and Frank Hilkert (thanks for the pics)
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Karin Mora @karinmora.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
This goes into my #teaching slides on #NoCorporateLLMs for learning. Beware of #SkillAtrophy
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Karin Mora @karinmora.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
#knowledgeSlavery is a very fitting term!
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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
As someone who has begun changing his wardrobe to match his classes and science (and because I love it), I approve this message. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Embracing my silly side makes me a better scientist. I wish I’d done it sooner
Humor has helped this professor connect with students and colleagues—and remain resilient during hard times
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Oisin Mac Aodha @oisinmacaodha.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Traditional clustering methods aim to group unlabelled data points based on their similarity to each other. However, clustering, in the absence of additional information, is an ill-posed problem as there may be many different, yet equally valid, ways to partition a dataset.
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Karin Mora @karinmora.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
“Info overload &misinformation get a lot of attention. Meanwhile, the people who work to the standards of science to uncover reliable information & share knowledge & protect public’s access to it-s.a.librarians,editors,research integrity officers & specialist journalists-are overlooked & undermined”
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Karin Mora @karinmora.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
New preprint for the #DeepFeatures project: Why choose between spatial detail and temporal fidelity in #EO data? We developed a #ContextAware #multimodalAI framework that unifies satellite data ( #Sentinel1 & #Sentinel2) into a single, high-resolution view of land surface properties. #AI4Science
Comparison between Sentinel-2 RGB imagery (left in each pair) and PCA projections of the learned feature embeddings (right) for twelve representative locations.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Academia has a problem in elevating terrible people into positions of power. "Sure, this person is a narcissist and sociopath, but they get things done! That's a bargain I'm willing to make." It is indeed hard to get things done in academia, so I understand the temptation. But it often ends badly.
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Karin Mora @karinmora.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
“Originally a “computer” was a person ...” “Credited or not, these pioneering women & their contributions have been mostly forgotten, & only in recent decades have their roles come to light again. But why were they obscured by history in the first place?” physicsworld.com/a/the-forgot...
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The forgotten pioneers of computational physics – Physics World
Iulia Georgescu highlights the forgotten pioneers of computational physics and calls for a wider appreciation of research software engineers
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
There are over 1️⃣6️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ gas & oil lobbyists at COP30 👇 What a shocking failure. Would you allow tobacco lobbyists into a world health conference? There will be 0️⃣ lobbyists at the National Emergency Briefing on the #climate and #nature crisis on 27th November. Is your MP attending? www.nebriefing.org
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ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas @ergabiodiv.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Read more about the projects: www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/erga-at... @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social @ikeririsarri.bsky.social
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ERGA at the BioHackathon Europe 2025
Are you interested in bioinformatics and eager to connect with peers worldwide while working on projects with direct applications for the life sciences? Join this year’s BioHackathon Europe between 3–...
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Lena Sachsenmaier @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Over 2,600🌳 #trees during the 2018–2020 #drought : • Traits disadvantageous in normal years became beneficial under drought • Trees grew better with neighbours whose hydro-functional traits differed from their own 🗞️Paper out now @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Hydro‐Functional Traits and Their Dissimilarity to the Neighbourhood Buffer Tree Growth Against the 2018–2020 Central European Drought
Climate change is putting forests at risk. Our research shows that a tree's water-use strategy largely determines its growth across years: whereas one strategy performs better in normal years, the ot....
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Mike Walker @maerkelig.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
"We’re looking at four more years of #deregulation [#simplification 💩]. They have accepted that rolling back much of the green deal is their mandate, and when you’re holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail” #Weber #EPP
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
New study led by @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social shows: forest stands made up of tree species with different water-use strategies (not just many species) grow better in drought years. #iDivResearch #Biodiversity www.idiv.de/diverse-fore...
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Diverse forests are more resistant to climate change
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Karin Mora @karinmora.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Excited to be @ #partWiss25 today & share my #spatioTemporal analysis approach to study plant group behaviour from #citizenScience. #Phenology from ground observations would’t be possible @ large scale without enthusiastic #FloraIncognita users. Thanks for organising @alettabonn.bsky.social + Team
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 12/11/2025
You thought the pictures from last night were incredible? Look at this!
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Karin Mora @karinmora.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
😲 Who knew that you only have to establish your own journal to have higher profit margins than the pharma or the oil industry… 😲 With us scientists loving to work for free… Put that keyboard away. Your super-yacht is waiting. 🛥️ An insightful analysis on the Drain of Scientific Publishing 📈
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Karin Mora @karinmora.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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Ben Jennings on Cop30 – cartoon
As talks get under way in Brazil, the Paris agreement’s architect, Christiana Figueres, says the absence of the US is good for Cop30
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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 11/11/2025
Prof. @tokehoye.bsky.social (Aarhus University) and I have an open PhD position (jointly advised) on biodiversity monitoring with camera trap networks. Deadline: 15-Jan-2026 Please help us share this post among students you know with an interest in Machine Learning and Biodiversity! 🤖🪲🌱
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Karin Mora @karinmora.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Time for some music after another intense week with an ESA review meeting, teaching, great science discussions, and way too much screen time. Vince Guaraldi Rain, rain go away m.youtube.com/results?sp=m...
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Karin Mora @karinmora.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Do you really want to use corporate AI LLM as search engines? “Google said its Gemma models were built for AI developers and researchers, not for factual assistance or for consumers.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Experts find flaws in hundreds of tests that check AI safety and effectiveness
Scientists say almost all have weaknesses in at least one area that can ‘undermine validity of resulting claims’
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