Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 12/06/2026This is a great opportunity at our university! Please forward to suitable candidates! 021
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Thanks for inviting me to our neighbour university @uni-jena.de to tomorrow! See you at the BioGeoColloquium @ellisunitjena.bsky.social 030
Reposted by Miguel D. MahechaJohannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 09/04/2026If you haven't seen it yet, our international Conference on Connections between Biodiversity, Climate, and Human Behaviour is taking shape: cbc-conference.org Abstract deadline next Friday, 14 April. Great keynote speakers and nice side-events, please check out the programme or get in touch! 286
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 31/03/2026We have a job! uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/a...uni-leipzig.b-ite.careersScientific researcher (postdoc position) (m/f/d/x) 055
Reposted by Miguel D. MahechaEos @eos.org · 19/03/2026Researchers analyzed 40 years of satellite greenness data and tracked the center of mass of global vegetation. They found that the planet’s center of greenness has been shifting northward and eastward and that this movement has accelerated over the past decade. eos.org/articles/ear... 4178
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Come and join my team and work with the amazing @gdkrmr.bsky.social ! 010
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Our PNAS paper in a mini nutshell! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 172
Reposted by Miguel D. MahechaLeipziger Zeitung @leipzigerzeitung.bsky.social · 25/02/2026#GlobalGreening: Wie der globale Wandel die #Vegetation Richtung #Nordosten verschiebt www.l-iz.de/bildung/fors... #Leipzig #UFZ #iDiV #Klimawandell-iz.deGlobal Greening: Wie der globale Wandel die Vegetation Richtung Nordosten verschiebt · Leipziger ZeitungEine Gruppe von Forschenden unter Leitung des Deutschen Zentrums für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv), des Helmholtz-Zentrums für 083
Reposted by Miguel D. MahechaiDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 23/02/2026🌍 The earth’s green is increasing and its centre is moving north-east. Vegetational shift to the north is even stronger in the southern summer – surprising new facet of #globalgreening 🌱 Published in PNAS 1/x 12613
Reposted by Miguel D. MahechaProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 27/02/2026The wave of green that sweeps Earth from the north in boreal summer to the south in austral summer is shifting due to climate change. Researchers found the centroid of the wave moving northward since 1982 and eastward since 2010. In PNAS: ow.ly/PjPU50YmYKz 0168
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Our team is highly international! When we came close to publishing our latest PNAs paper, we decided to use that diversity not only in the research — but also in the outreach. We built an interactive website explaining the results greenwave.earth in Chinese ... 182
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Interesting media pattern: our new PNAS paper on the global green wave is mostly covered in languages linked to the authors (German, Spanish, Italian …), strongest response from DE. Why does the origin of a study matter so much for coverage when the science itself is global? bsky.app/profile/migu... 111
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 26/02/2026www.geo.fr/environnemen...geo.frChangement climatique: une "vague verte" se déplace lentement vers le nord et l'est de notre planèteUne équipe de chercheurs allemands constate une progression de la "vague verte" vers les régions du nord et de l'est du globe. Le phénomène, encore peu connu, est lié au réchauffement climatique. 120
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Unsere Studie von @chs42.bsky.social super für den @spiegel.de aufbereitet! 030
Reposted by Miguel D. MahechaTobias Goldhammer @tgoldhammer.bsky.social · 24/02/2026This is soooo cool. Check out this thread and the paper by @miguelmahecha.bsky.social @gdkrmr.bsky.social and colleagues and also make sure to play with the moving viridistice at greenwave.earth 💚greenwave.earthThe Green Wave 011
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Very happy to finally share a paper that has been in my mind for a long time 🌍 🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgAccelerated north–east shift of the global green wave trajectory | PNASViewed from space, a “green wave” seasonally traverses Earth’s surface, from the north in boreal summer to the south in austral summer. This wave r... 1259
Reposted by Miguel D. MahechaKarin Mora @karinmora.bsky.social · 18/11/2025New 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 111
Reposted by Miguel D. MahechaInternational Space Science Institute (ISSI) @issibern.ch · 23/10/2025🌲🌲🌲 This week, @miguelmahecha.bsky.social and international colleagues examine as part of the ISSI Forum how genetic information can enhance the prediction and management of forest futures under accelerating climate change. 🌲🌲 031
Reposted by Miguel D. MahechaScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 10/06/2025#DataWeekLeipzig 2025 has started! In the opening keynote @miguelmahecha.bsky.social spoke about "Environmental research in a data-rich age" and discussed how #AI can help to supplement missing information in the field of environmental data. Find the stream here: 👉 2025.dataweek.de/live.html 041
Reposted by Miguel D. MahechaAna Bastos @anabastos.bsky.social · 20/05/2025How long does it take until we detect forced signals in global and regional land carbon fluxes? And can we use dynamical adjustment to reduce the noise and shorten the detection time? Check out LiNa's paper 👇 egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... Co-advised by @sebastian-sippel.bsky.socialegusphere.copernicus.orgConstraining the time of emergence of anthropogenic signal in the global land carbon sinkAbstract. The global land carbon sink has increased since the preindustrial period, driven by increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration and climate change. However, detecting these anthropogenic signal... 1135
Reposted by Miguel D. MahechaMaximilian Söchting @soechting.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Major update to Lexcube.org - our interactive Earth System Data Cube visualization tool & my PhD project! ➡️ What’s new? 🌍 Region borders (or any GeoJSON) overlaid in the visualization! 🌎 Record GIF/MP4 animations! 🌏 Progress & dataset boundary indicators! ...and many more improvements 👇 1122
Reposted by Miguel D. MahechaBig Earth Data @bigearthdata1.bsky.social · 03/04/2025📢Interactive Earth system data cube visualization in Jupyter notebooks by Maximilian Söchting (@soechting.bsky.social), Miguel D. Mahecha (@miguelmahecha.bsky.social) et al. 👉https://doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2025.2471646 #opensource #3D #datacube #visualization #Jupyter #geoscience #remotesensing 051
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 23/03/2025🌍 PhD student wanted in AI for Climate Extremes 🌿 Heatwaves, droughts, and heavy rain are intensifying—threatening vegetation, forestry, and agriculture. Join us to develop weakly supervised ML to detect and explain climate impacts in satellite data. 171
Reposted by Miguel D. MahechaStefan Holzheu @holzheustefan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Vorschau auf die Druckversion des #S4FAppell an die Politik Zeichnung noch möglich bis Montag 24.03. 23:59 Uhr Öffentliche Übergabe des Appells: Dienstag, 25.03. 09:30 Uhr, Nordende Friedrich-Ebert-Platz www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o... 612278
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Excited to share the latest paper emerging from the fantastic PhD thesis of @soechting.bsky.social! Interactive Earth System Data Cube visualization in Jupyter Notebooks! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1111
Reposted by Miguel D. MahechaImage and Signal Processing • ISP @isp-uv-es.bsky.social · 25/02/2025🚨 New paper out in @naturecomms.bsky.social We review how #AI is transforming modeling & understanding extreme weather & climate events like floods, heatwaves, and wildfires🌍🔥💨 🔗Read it! isp-uv.short.gy/AIforExtreme... 1117
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 25/01/2025🌍 Climate extremes, such as compound heatwaves and droughts, are increasing in both frequency and intensity, yet predicting their impacts on terrestrial ecosystems remains a challenge. Machine learning holds promise, but traditional datasets often struggle to represent these rare events effectively. 1131
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Are you interested in how vegetation influences climate? We tried to summarise a bit what comes to our mind 😀. Great experience working with Diego Miralles, Jordi Vila, and Tim McVicar! 🌳 nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.comNYAS PublicationsVegetation does not merely respond to climate: it actively shapes it. Plants cool and moisten the air, regulate carbon dioxide levels, alter sunlight reflection, and influence winds. These impacts ca... 0206
Reposted by Miguel D. MahechaElif Oezmen @elifoezmen.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Point of no return. Diesen Tag und diese Nachricht werde ich den Rest meines Lebens nicht vergessen. Denn heute habe ich eingesehen, dass man mir und meinesgleichen in meinem Geburts- und Heimatland niemals eine sichere Heimat bieten wird. search.app/kscX74bMF3Qj...search.appMerz gibt deutliche Botschaft: „Aberkennung der deutschen Staatsbürgerschaft“Merz zeigt sich unzufrieden mit den Einbürgerungsrichtlinien der Ampel. Bei einem Sieg bei der Bundestagswahl hat der CDU-Chef vor, einiges grundlegend zu verändern. 19832281087
Reposted by Miguel D. MahechaPeter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 25/12/2024If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...newsweek.comElon Musk takes aim at WikipediaThe billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump. 420122156344
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I often see review articles showing trends of key-words in papers as proof of a topic's relevance. Why not normalize for the overall publication growth in the subject area? What do we actually learn from this?? I really don't understand 🤔 ... 172
Reposted by Miguel D. MahechaReto Knutti @retoknutti.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Redrawing the global warming stripes. In a new paper led by Sebastian Sippel published in Nature today, we show that the early 20th century global ocean surface temperatures and thereby global mean surface temperature were warmer than previously thought. Thread... (1/13) 724778
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Now that everyone’s finally on Bluesky, I’m sharing our little summer paper again! 😄📄 071
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The #iDivConference2024 was great discussions and amazing colleagues and friends! I am very happy that Karin Mora et al.; Chaonan Ji et al. and @dmlmont from my team could present their recent studies and plans and got excellent feedback! 120
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 16/11/2024So, we managed to survive review and published it is: npg.copernicus.org/articles/31/...npg.copernicus.orgLearning extreme vegetation response to climate drivers with recurrent neural networksAbstract. The spectral signatures of vegetation are indicative of ecosystem states and health. Spectral indices used to monitor vegetation are characterized by long-term trends, seasonal fluctuations,... 071
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 12/11/2024"Deep Moisture"??? Wow, it seems like we’re now competing with the beauty industry for the best project names! 😱💦🖥️😂 020
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 21/10/2024New preprint on an Open-Access and Interactive Database for Aerial Imagery to Uncover Global Tree Mortality Dynamics by my amazing PhD student Clemens Mosig with Janusch Vajna-Jehle and Teja Kattenborn and >100 coauthors! Check the website deadtrees.earth and paper www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...deadtrees.earthdeadtrees.earthAn open database for accessing, contributing and visualizing remote sensing-based tree mortality data. 072
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 18/10/2024Without words! @spdfraktion.de and @gruene-bundestag.de, is education and research really of no importance to you anymore? How much longer can the #BMBF be entrusted to leadership like this? www.spiegel.de/politik/deut... Oh.. speaking already means losing project support @fdpbt.de??spiegel.de(S+) Bildungsministerium: Bettina Stark-Watzinger zieht FDP-Gefolgsleute erfahrenen Beamten vorForschungsministerin Bettina Stark-Watzinger ersetzt reihenweise verdiente Beamte durch FDP-Gefolgsleute, auch wenn diese wenig Ahnung haben. Besonders ein Fall ist pikant. 011
Reposted by Miguel D. MahechaJohannes Quaas @jquaas.bsky.social · 19/09/2024Recently published: deforestation leads to an increase in albedo, but this cooling effect of climate is by almost half compensated for by decreases in cloudiness www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comDecreased cloud cover partially offsets the cooling effects of surface albedo change due to deforestation - Nature CommunicationsThis study shows that deforestation locally reduces global low-level and tropical high-level clouds, with the resulting warming partially counteracting the cooling of increased surface albedo. 032
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 20/09/2024To get 2 reviewers/paper, I have to invite >20. Meanwhile, I receive daily requests that I mostly decline because I'm committed to project reviews, tenure evaluations, teaching, team management, proposals. So I can't blame anyone, but how do we fix this? 🤔 #SustainablePeerReview what is this??? 330
Reposted by Miguel D. MahechaRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 26/08/2024Nice short reminder and example that visualizations are analyses --- representation strongly influences interpretation 35818
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 26/08/2024And published: esd.copernicus.org/articles/15/...esd.copernicus.orgCautionary remarks on the planetary boundary visualisationAbstract. The planetary boundary (PB) concept has captured attention across academia and the public alike. Its unique visual representation has been key to the development of the concept and its disse... 042
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 16/08/2024Very proud to be the first follower of @isp-uv-es.bsky.social 😀 030
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 05/06/2024Paper alert! We have discussed how #ClimateExtremes and #Biodiversity interact ... quite a long narrative, but ending in a few concise recommendations for future research: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.comBiodiversity and Climate Extremes: Known Interactions and Research Gaps<em>Earth's Future</em> is a transdisciplinary, open access AGU journal examining the state of the planet, sustainable and resilient societies, and the science of the Anthropocene. 020
Reposted by Miguel D. MahechaAna Bastos @anabastos.bsky.social · 22/04/2024On #EarthDay2024 I am happy to share that on May 1st I’ll join Leipzig University as a Professor for Land-Atmosphere Interactions I look forward to working & teaching with all brilliant & kind colleagues at @rsc4earth.bsky.social, LIM & beyond! 🌍🛰️read more below ⬇️uni-leipzig.deWie anfällig sind Wälder gegenüber Extremereignissen?Die Erdsystemwissenschaftlerin Dr. Ana Bastos wird ab 1. Mai 2024 an der Universität Leipzig das Institut für Erdsystemforschung und Fernerkundung verstärken. In ihrer Forschung verknüpft die künftige... 2133
Reposted by Miguel D. MahechaChristiane Werner @chriswernerlab.bsky.social · 23/03/2024Please RT: looking for you if you are a motivated post-doc working on VOC an Eddy-Covarianz for our #ECOSENSE project. Please apply here uni-freiburg.de/universitaet... more info: www.ecosense.uni-freiburg.de Foto Yannick Layer 055
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 21/01/2024🌍 Exciting opportunity for Earth System Sciences researchers! 🚀 The Deep Earth System Data Lab, supported by ESA, offers a unique chance for research teams. Learn more here at the "Announcement of Opportunity": www.earthsystemdatalab.net/index.php/aoo/ #EarthSystemSciences #ESA 042
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 18/01/2024I am so very happy to see this out! A great tool for data cube visualisation by @soechting.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/soec... 042
Miguel D. Mahecha @miguelmahecha.bsky.social · 11/12/2023The Planetary Boundary concept is based on a strong visualisation. However, we argue that (1) the PB figure exaggerate via quadratic scaling of effect sizes, (2) colour gradations are highly non-linear, and (1)+(2) amplifies the perception of high-risk areas: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... 2113