Erik Stokstad
@erikstokstad
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Reporter at Science Magazine, covering environmental research & issues. Tweets focus on news from the scientific literature. Views my own.
Washington, DC
Joined January 2009
"The project required a certain amount of craziness,” says @sara_mmendes, who took on a huge--*huge*--literature review for her dissertation.
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"Evidence of European seed dispersal crisis" from network and conservation analysis of plants spread by birds, mammals, and other creatures.
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First broad look at conservation status of animals that transport seeds raises alarms
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Truth is almost stranger than fiction.... ‘Cocaine sharks’ found in waters off Brazil | Science | AAAS
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Exciting to see our preprint covered in @ScienceMagazine by @erikstokstad. This was such a fun project, exploring the world of microbial diversity inside living trees! More than 1 trillion microbes live inside the average tree trunk | Science | AAAS
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Healthy wood contains vast numbers of bacteria, archaea, and fungi that might lead to ways to protect trees
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Brilliant article by @erikstokstad in @ScienceMagazine on the wonders of Watkins collection, looked after by @JohnInnesCentre. @bofinfarmers now has 2 projects with farmer-led trials of these intriguing wheats @slimersproject & @_truth_project Join us
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Historic traits could make modern wheat more resilient to disease and other stressors
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🌾 Excellent to see the results from 10-years of analysis of the AE Watkins landrace wheat collection led by Simon Griffiths & Shifeng Chen. 🪙 Read more about the significance of the ‘Gold mine’ it uncovers by @erikstokstad @ScienceMagazine
https://t.co/sakkhlHn3v
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Historic traits could make modern wheat more resilient to disease and other stressors
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How much stuff does it take to not be poor? About 6 tons per year | Science | AAAS https://t.co/feNutz09L6 Our work featured by @erikstokstad @ScienceMagazine
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That’s the average amount of food, fuel, clothing, and other supplies per person, researchers calculate in first-of-its-kind study
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Light pollution is rapidly increasing worldwide, causing serious harm to the natural world, human health, and astronomy. This week, a special issue of @ScienceMagazine discusses the damaging effects of light pollution and how to tackle it. https://t.co/n0p8gJeQr0
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A mortifying interview. An important wake up call. A chance to try something new. Here are our most read personal essays by scientists in 2022. @ScienceMagazine #ScienceTwitter #AcademicChatter
https://t.co/0TdKiw7d0I
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Teaching scientific failure. Writing in English. This year’s most read Working Life essays
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Are you a journalism major interested in getting more science journalism experience? Apply for the Diverse Voices Science Journalism internship at @NewsfromScience. We're looking for *three* people to join us next summer! More details here: https://t.co/6OE3l0n88C
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Young bumblebees enjoy rolling around on balls, @SamadiHGD & @LChittka have discovered. Could it be play?
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First example of insects seemingly having fun with objects adds to evidence for emotions
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Impressive video and new insights from a study of Kīlauea destructive eruption in 2018. https://t.co/uw73JqUXJR
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Ripples in molten rock helped improve flow forecasts during a destructive eruption in Hawaii
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An endangered lagoon in Europe has been granted personal legal rights.
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In a first for Europe, country borrows concept from Indigenous science to protect endangered body of water
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President Joe Biden’s administration has announced that, by the end of 2025, federal agencies must make papers that describe taxpayer-funded work freely available to the public as soon as the final peer-reviewed manuscript is published.
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Policy is a blow to journal paywalls, but its impact on publishing is unclear
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Bioengineering soybean plants to improve regulation of photoprotection—a natural process that enables plants to cope with excess absorbed light energy—improved soybean seed yield by up to 33% in field trials. Read that study and more this week in Science: https://t.co/0SmI5qA2CI
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Not sure about the salad, but everything else in the solar system looks delicious. HT @scchak
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Senate climate deal's pathway to 40% emission cuts passes muster, say energy system modelers. https://t.co/yCMbOjzfl7
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But more action is needed to reach Biden’s pledge to halve emissions by 2030
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