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Manuel Helbig

@manuelhelbig.bsky.social
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Climate scientist interested in anything that connects land and atmosphere

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Jan Böhmermann 🤨 @janboehm.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Hier kann man einfach Gutes tun ... UND sich aktiv an Demokratie beteiligen! LET'S GO!
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David Olefeldt @olefeldt.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Wildfire causes accelerated permafrost thaw in northern peatlands due to summer-time processes (reduced shading and soil heating) not due to winter-time processes (snow dynamics). Patience pays off - I helped instrument the site in 2014, and now completed by Stephanie Wright! doi.org/10.1002/ppp....
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
“Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.”— Ronald Purser www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
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Julie Talbot @julietalbot.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This one is for the peatland nerds: We are organizing a session on 💧water in peatlands 🌿 at the ASLO conference in Montreal May 12-16 2026 - join us! Deadline for abstract submission Nov 25, more info here www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202...
A nice deep blue pond in a peatland. Sparse spruce trees in the background
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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
@bioclimatology.bsky.social hosted a fascinating workshop on fluxes anywhere and anytime thanks to all the old and new friends from across the German speaking parts of Europe for attending. here is a list of talks and speakers. and thanks to the Goettingen team for hosting
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Shin Asayama @shinasayama.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
"Researchers are scrutinizing AI-generated sentences while implicitly enabling these systems to choose which scholars are cited ... which research directions might be promising. They are accepting the outputs even though the underlying information has been distorted." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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AI chatbots are already biasing research — we must establish guidelines for their use now
The academic community has looked at how artificial-intelligence tools help researchers to write papers, but not how they distort the literature scientists choose to cite.
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Abigail Swann, PhD @ecoclimatelab.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Maybe the land carbon sink is weaker than we thought. Big implications: "A lower-than-expected land carbon sink would also imply that the land biosphere may be closer to transitioning from a net carbon sink to a net source than current models predict" Randerson et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The weak land carbon sink hypothesis
Satellite-derived time series of vegetation carbon do not support a strong Northern Hemisphere net land carbon sink.
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Sean Michaletz @seanmichaletz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Fully funded PhD in #Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver! 🍁 Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology, and more. Start Sept 2026/Jan 2027. michaletzlab.org Please share! #PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool
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Manuel Helbig @manuelhelbig.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
First data coming in from our Doppler Wind Lidar at the Acadia Research Forest AmeriFlux site in New Brunswick @ameriflux.bsky.social @fluxnet.bsky.social Cool to see high-resolution vertical wind profiles over the forest
Vertical wind profile data from a Doppler Lidar
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Manuel Helbig @manuelhelbig.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Finally, the Streamline VS Doppler wind lidar at the @ameriflux.bsky.social Acadia Research Forest in New Brunswick, Canada is up and running producing vertical and horizontal wind profiles! Opening new opportunities to study land-atmosphere interactions and boundary layer dynamics!
Wind lidar at an Acadian forest in NB, Canada
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Jan Böhmermann 🤨 @janboehm.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Eine Idee, woran man eine Wahlentscheidung am 23. Februar 2025 festmachen könnte ... youtu.be/zvBCKISmQOE
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Woran man erkennen kann, wen man am 23. Februar 2025 wählen sollte ...
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KarSteN Haustein @khaustein.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
2024 is almost history and the global temperature forecast for the remaining few days is rock solid now. Time to wrap up. In most datasets, 2024 will be 0.1 degree C warmer than 2023. Also, 2024 will be the 1st individual year above the 1.5 degree Paris warming threshold in all datasets. (1/10)
Graph with blue and red bars which represent temperature departures from the reference time period (1850-1900). the first year is 1850 and the last year (which coincides with the highest value) is 2024.graph with blue and red dots which represent temperature departures from the reference time period (1850-1900). the first year is 1850 and the last year (which coincides with the highest value) is 2024.
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Julie Talbot @julietalbot.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The message from the latest work by @ipbes.bsky.social is clear: "Previous and current approaches have failed to halt or reverse nature's decline at a global scale". We can't tackle the underlying causes of nature's decline (wealth concentration, gain prioritization) without questioning capitalism
A figure from the Transformative change report summary by IPBES showing the underlying causes (capitalism, nature-people disconnection) of nature's decline
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Doerthe Tetzlaff @tetzlaffecohyd.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Come and WORK with us - a super seldom opportunity: ONE tenure track scientist/groupleader position & TWO postdocs all on ecohydrological modelling in different landscapes (incl. peatlands) in Berlin, Germany email me if any questions. Check out the different positions here www.igb-berlin.de/en/jobs
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Martina Schlaipfer @knowyouronion.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
🚨Now also available in English. 🔍 Research assistant UQTR: carbonique.ca/en/join.html Our dynamic team 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 consists of 8 professors, several research assistants and students based @uqam.ca, @umontreal.ca, @universitelaval.bsky.social, McGill and UQTR, and will continue to grow. #PeatECR #PeatSky
Natural marsh site near Lac Saint-Pierre in southern Quebec
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Manuel Helbig @manuelhelbig.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
So happy to see the first batch of flux tower data for our Acadia Research Forest site online ameriflux.lbl.gov/sites/sitein... @fluxnetecn.bsky.social
Acadian forest with boundary layer clouds
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 04/12/2024
A paper in Nature presents a machine learning model, called ‘GenCast,’ that can produce a reliable probabilistic weather forecast, expressed as probabilities of various outcomes, based on current and future weather. go.nature.com/3B8PsdD 🧪
This is figure 2, which shows a visualization of forecasts and tropical cyclone tracks.
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Manuel Helbig @manuelhelbig.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
We are looking for a postdoc to join our group at @gfz.bsky.social in Potsdam, Germany to work on drones, GHG, and peatland restoration. Apply until Jan 5th! And come talk to me @agu24.bsky.social if you’re interested! @fluxnetecn.bsky.social
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Cameron Homeyer @atmoscientist.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
📰Breaking News : the University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in social and/or behavior sciences applied to weather and climate studies! Come work with us! apply.interfolio.com/158935
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Joeri Rogelj @joerirogelj.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Climate action is falling terribly short Time to bury the 1.5C goal? Absolutely not - why the 1.5 goal must prevail (even when global warming exceeds 1.5C) My opinion for Project Syndicate 👇 www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
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The 1.5°C Target for Global Warming Must Prevail | by Joeri Rogelj - Project Syndicate
Joeri Rogelj argues that the threshold established by the Paris agreement remains crucial – even if it is breached.
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Pierre Gentine @pierregentine.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Excited to share our new paper led by Jiangong Liu on thermal acclimation of canopy photosynthesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Evidence for widespread thermal acclimation of canopy photosynthesis - Nature Plants
Analysis of the FLUXNET2015 dataset provides observational evidence for widespread thermal acclimation of canopy-scale photosynthesis and its timescales across diverse biomes, improving its representa...
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