Amazing work by Dr. rini astuti and Yuti Ariani Fatimah on how expert witnesses affiliated with the palm oil industry advanced court evidence that "undermined the anthropogenic nature of fires" and portrayed companies as victims of natural disasters. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A (very!) poetic lament on the loss of research & teaching in academia, where your signature is prized more than your intellect doi.org/10.1093/brain/…

Please retweet/apply: Sony Women in Technology Award Early- to mid-career female #STEM researchers whose work has a positive impact on society and planet. Due 31st May. womenintechnology.sony.com #womeninSTEM #WomenInTech For Women in Science

Looking for hires: 1 postdoc, 1 RA, 1 PhD student related to the Climate Transformation Programme (Cluster 3 - NbS). If keen, please dm or email me your CV. Thank you! findajob.agu.org/job/8023619/cl…

It is impossible to be a top-line manager & administrator and mentor and researcher & writer & outreach officer & IT expert and online instructor & pedagogical innovator & recruiter and teacher... & look after your own wellbeing. No-one can do that. Yet that’s what is often asked

A PNAS Special Feature gathers recent research on biodiversity and climate change in Indonesia. The collection highlights accomplishments in biodiversity as well as the need for greater support and funding for scientific research in Indonesia. In PNAS: ow.ly/Cigj50RkKO0

Asst Prof JaniceSHLee shares with CNA about the importance of #interdisciplinaryresearch and incorporating non-STEM disciplines when it comes to addressing #environmentalissues around the world! #science #womeninstem #STEMeducation channelnewsasia.com/listen/climate…

Instead of wasting time on an overwritten whataboutism on words, language, rhetoric by a once-admired novelist read this short and sharp essay by Arundhati Roy. Grateful for her moral clarity in these times. scroll.in/article/106486…

Late post - pleased to have co-led this work, using long-term ecosystem property & biodiversity datasets to assess impacts of #fire and potential for natural recovery in tropical #peatland. Many thanks to many contributors and supporters!

The global and connected world of vegetable oil trade. But while this international network is quite well known, local subsistence oil production and use is just as important. portals.iucn.org/library/node/5…

Such a great review on ZDCs and palm oil independent smallholder inclusion, great work Dr. Kimberly Carlson & team!

On amplifying #diversity, #equity & #inclusivity in #STEM; a lovely read with bits that I identified very strongly with as a female Asian in Europe. How diverse are our perspectives or do we sit in an echo chamber?! nature.com/articles/d4158…

🔥Hot off the press 🔥in Policy & Society Journal uniting conservation biology and the policy sciences, Ben Cashore , Altaf Virani , Lahiru Wijedasa (Dr) and I argue for better anticipatory policy design for biodiversity conservation in the peatlands of Southeast Asia. doi.org/10.1093/polsoc…

Calling for papers for our special issue of "forests sustaining agriculture" in the journal Landscape Ecology. Share your work on how ecosystem services provided by forests and trees contribute to agricultural production, resilience and adaptation: link.springer.com/journal/10980/…

Good insights on how polarizing social media have been in the vegetable oil debate.

Biodiversiy is declining, yet we have limited knowledge about how that affects human well-being. My work linking bats, insecticide use, and human infant health is out today in Science (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…), and tells a complex story about how those are connected.