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Karin Mora
@karinmora.bsky.social
280 followers 620 following 130 posts
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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Karin Mora @karinmora.bsky.social · Apr 2
Publication prebsky:
Inter-annual #macrophenological gradients derived using a #synchronisation #timeseries approach from #citizenscience #Floraincognita.

With Rzanny, Wäldchen, Feilhauer, Kattenborn, @gdkrmr.bsky.social, Mäder, Svidzinska, Wolf, @miguelmahecha.bsky.social

#idiv, #Breathingnature
Reposted by Karin Mora
cbc-conference.bsky.social
#CBC2026Leipzig #Biodiversity #ClimateScience #SoilScience #BehaviouralScience #SustainableEconomy
#EcosystemModelling #FutureForest #FutureCities #PublicPolicies #SustainableFutures #NaturalCapital

@unileipzig.bsky.social @ufz.de @idiv-research.bsky.social
February 27, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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rmwaterhouse.bsky.social
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
www.biorxiv.org
March 25, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Reposted by Karin Mora
rebekkabrandt.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/tsci...
March 25, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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veralis.bsky.social
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
October 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Reposted by Karin Mora
adamgrant.bsky.social
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.
December 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Reposted by Karin Mora
fub-remotesensing.bsky.social
*** 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.
March 16, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Reposted by Karin Mora
sconradi.bsky.social
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
March 14, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Reposted by Karin Mora
melanieweynants.bsky.social
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...
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!
www.nabu.de
March 11, 2026 at 3:03 PM
karinmora.bsky.social
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
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...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 11, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Reposted by Karin Mora
frantecol.bsky.social
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...
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.
www.nature.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
karinmora.bsky.social
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
March 4, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Reposted by Karin Mora
miguelangelft.bsky.social
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🔁
January 22, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Reposted by Karin Mora
smartenwinter.bsky.social
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.
January 20, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Reposted by Karin Mora
nshaud.bsky.social
torrentfreak.com/nvidia-conta... corporate ethics is an oxymore
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.
torrentfreak.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:09 PM
karinmora.bsky.social
#Read the latest #cityFable on the joy of #frozenRivers

urbanmole.is?p=54975
January 17, 2026 at 10:25 AM
karinmora.bsky.social
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.
January 17, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Reposted by Karin Mora
guypeer.bsky.social
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.
eeb.org European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · Dec 16
🗑️💢 @europarl.europa.eu just cleared away the few remaining environmental safeguards in EU farming policy

Two rushed rounds of so-called “simplifications” have gutted years of progress and handed #BigAgri exactly what it wanted: money to pollute with no strings attached ✂️

Here’s what we’ve lost ⬇️
December 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Reposted by Karin Mora
elife.bsky.social
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.
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'
buff.ly
December 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Reposted by Karin Mora
jquaas.bsky.social
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
December 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Reposted by Karin Mora
doctorzen.net
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.
December 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
karinmora.bsky.social
#PatternFormation in the real world. This looks like spiral waves which can be modelled by the reaction–diffusion system of Fitzhugh–Nagumo type

🤓🤩
manlius.bsky.social Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · Dec 9
At first glance, looks like a Gray–Scott reaction-diffusion

But it’s a fertilized starfish 🥚: proteins self-organizing into spiral waves across the membrane

Same dynamics seen in ❤️/🧠/🌊, even quantum fluids. Universality in action!

#ComplexSystems

news.mit.edu/2020/growth-...
December 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Reposted by Karin Mora
i4replication.bsky.social
🚨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...
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…
i4replication.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
karinmora.bsky.social
Origin of the Universe and Comics
🤓❤️🧐
nsousanis.bsky.social Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · Dec 6
The birth of our solar system - at last, closing up the penultimate page of this mammoth chapter exploring the origin of the universe in all its swirls of different sorts... It's been a long trip. And there is, to be sure, a lot going on on this page :)
Onward!
#Nostos #Unflattening 2
A comics page in 30 (ok, technically 33) panels - arranged five wide by six tall. We see the birth of the solar system unfold - beginning with a gas cloud in space, which is then shocked into collapse by a supernova explosion far off. The gas collapses on itself and begins to swirl. We see it gather material into its center, which heats up - and a thin disk spreading outward - with rock close to it and ice and gas and rock spread farther out. (this was the first two tiers of panels). Third tier - we see bits of dust and rock and ice stick together, then get to bigger pieces and collide, and eventually turn into planetesimals. Next row, a bigger one of these collects tons of gas and ice to itself and becomes the first planet (Jupiter) and we see the others (and some that are no longer around) form. Fifth row - these planets clear remaining dust and rock from their orbital lanes, but still pretty chaotic. a panel split into four - showing in half the collision that turned Uranus on its side, and the other showing the collision that stripped Mercury of its outer layer. We also see diagrammatically how Jupiter and Saturn moved in closer to sun at some point and then moved back outward - which among other things caused Neptune and Uranus to switch orbits, and then for row 6 - trigged the late heavy bombardment where rocks and ice and gas are flung inward at the inner planets - devastating them - but also bringing gases included water. Finally, the planets reach the more or less current configuration. I drew Saturn with a ring, which it probably didn't have - but only so people knew what it was. I drew earth with one giant continent as it might've been - but you can't really tell anyhow, the drawing is too tiny. I would've put water on Mars but I felt that would confuse everyone.
December 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
karinmora.bsky.social
🌊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...
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’
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM