@hakimabdi.com
Research scientist in geospatial ecology | Ecosystem Remote Sensingπ°οΈπ | Forests, Savannas, and Drylands | Birds and Birding in the far south of Sweden π¦πΈπͺ | Ψ§ΩΨΩ Ψ― ΩΩΩ | Own opinions, usual caveats. https://www.cec.lu.se/hakim-abdi
This is insane. π€¦ββοΈ
Why do tech giants like Elon Musk and Bill Gates keep on saying such dumb things about climate change?
They have access to the best possible experts, who could actually teach them something, if they would only ask and listenβ¦
Maybe improve the conditions for already existing carnivores such as the Gray Wolf and Cougar and conserve their habitat before bringing another carnivore back from the dead?
This is a good reminder that free data provided through private actors can be rescinded at any time if the economic winds shift.
#earthobservation #satellitedata #remotesensing #opendata
The EU has some of the world's most advanced environmental laws.
Failing to implement them costs the EU ~55 billion euros annually in health and environmental damages.
Enforcement of EU laws often takes decades, following an opaque process.
A Great Spotted Woodpecker perches on a rock, eyes closed, basking in the sunlight like someone who just needs a minute before facing the chaos of the day. With its head tilted up and one foot casually tucked away, it looks less like a bird and more like a commuter stealing a quiet moment before stepping into the Monday rush. The world can wait...right now, it's all about soaking up the calm.
Let's allll just take a minute...
#MondayMotivation
The spinelessness of that organization continues to reach new lows. Even when the future of the country is at stake, they choose to take a nonexistent "high road".
Dear people who write funding / mission proposals:
Please don't use ChatGPT to write your proposal, it's *so* obvious and really puts off the reviewer. If I have to read any more overly-verbose propopsals full of flowery words and a lack of detail then I'll explode. π
Same. Our behemoth tech corps sharing global user data with the US government β but when boogeyman China steps into the scene β
Columbus Day is conspicuously absent.
Some more good news for the Sentinel-2 mission!
Sentinel-2A, which recently retired, has been given a temporary extension, where it will support S2B and S2C to provide additional data.
Lots of hard work behind the scenes to make this happen. Glad to see it!
sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel...
I suppose this is another way to be published in Nature.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Airplane flying over a landscape, as seen in Google Earth.
Sometimes during the manual validation process for classified maps, I come across interesting artifacts in Google Earth. Today, it was an airplane flying over southern Sweden in spring 2021.
Our paper on dust storms and land-use in Mesopotamia has been accepted in Environmental Research Letters ππ₯³. It's the result of a nice collaboration with Hossein Hashemi, Amir Naghibi, and others. More information about the paper will be forthcoming.
We are recruiting two postdocs to join our Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Lab at the University of Tokyo. The topics are biodiversity monitoring and carbon dynamics in northern forests.
A new visualization showing the Keeling Curve alongside the Antarctic ice core CO2 data.
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5447
Day in the Austrian Alps.
Night the Austrian Alps.
π Happy New Year from the beautiful Austrian Alps! π May this year bring peace to our hearts, harmony to our world - especially in Palestine - and joy to our lives. Here's to a brighter future filled with love, kindness, and hope for all β₯οΈ
I've had the same thought, actually I always do when white people who commit crimes are celebrated. Had this person been black or brown, the MAGA crowd would be all over him, as would a considerable chunk of self-proclaimed "progressives" and "leftists" in the country.
A nice gift to start the holidays is the first citation to our Landscape Ecology paper on migratory birds in Tunisia, which outlined recommendations for their conservation. Want to know more but don't have time to read the entire paper? Then, check out this summary:
hakimabdi.com/blog/satelli...
All cores are running. Any time now β³β
It's amazing how living abroad can completely upend your entire worldview about something that you thought you were sure about. 4/4
That was normal for me - and I didn't know that there was a completely different world where taxes actually result in societal services that don't break the bank. Several years of living in Sweden turned me from avoiding/hating taxation to embracing it as being, on average, a beneficial thing for society. Of course, it's not perfect here and there's considerable room for improvement across several sectors from healthcare to social services, and this is an ongoing process that we have to prioritize as a society.
3/4
When I lived in the US, I did everything I could to *not* pay income tax. I used every deduction and every tax loophole I could get away with, sometimes with the help of accountants. I never thought of paying taxes as benefiting me in any substantial way because I paid for everything - I paid for my own healthcare, public transportation was a joke and I paid highway and bridge tolls to get to and from work, I got into debt for my education, and if I had children I would have to pay dearly for their daycare and save up for their college education, I paid 6-7% sales tax on most things I bought, I needed to save at least 10% of my salary towards my 401k retirement fund, my disposable income was in the form of credit cards and savings were nonexistent, I dreaded filing taxes in April because of the many convoluted forms that sometimes necessitated paying a tax accountant. The sad thing about this scenario was that my gross annual salary was only 2-3 thousand dollars below the median household income.
2/4
I recently realized something about myself. I got my salary and noticed that the deducted taxes were slightly lower. My first thought was not "yay! I paid less in taxes" but rather "I wonder what services they cut and who is affected by it". I didn't expect to think like that. Let me explain. 1/4
Some food for thought regarding the opportunities present in the integration of AI and remote sensing observations for biodiversity conservation. hakimabdi.com/blog/remote-...
Seeing these #BES2024 and #AGU24 hashtags sure gives me fomo π
Brilliant thread.
Itβs out!! We subjected soils from 30 different locations across Europe to extreme events and found that soil fungal and bacterial communities showed consistent responses that could be predicted from their origin! With @knightjar.bsky.social and many collaborators!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:
docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
Yes please, add me as well π
Yes, thanks!
