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predirections jonathan tonkin substack subscribe sign in home chat office hours archive leaderboard about the most important discoveries can take decades or a millennium from kyoto s cherry blossoms to the keeling curve the power of thinking beyond a single lifetime aug 6 jonathan tonkin 36 21 5 predirections is returning to fully open access i tried the newsletter paywall playbook for a year and ended up with fewer supporters here is why i m taking them down aug 3 jonathan tonkin 53 18 5 invasive species impacts are higher in the global south a new paper reveals we ve been getting it all wrong and uncovers why this might be the case jul 30 jonathan tonkin 22 12 7 10 questions i ask myself i don t always have the answers these are the questions i keep coming back to jul 24 jonathan tonkin 28 2 4 built to flood why the best systems are built to flood jul 17 jonathan tonkin 46 18 14 most popular view all what i wish i knew 33 thoughts for early career researchers apr 29 2025 jonathan tonkin 98 34 30 short term thinking is killing the planet feb 23 2025 jonathan tonkin 193 80 66 the paradox of patient urgency mar 19 2025 jonathan tonkin 120 38 55 ten ideas from ecology that help explain the world jul 3 jonathan tonkin 145 26 38 sign up for insights from an active scientist direct to your inbox subscribe recent posts view all the four year planet managing century long problems with institutions built for election cycles jul 9 jonathan tonkin 54 15 14 ten ideas from ecology that help explain the world ecology can teach us a lot about how the world works jul 3 jonathan tonkin 145 26 38 is restoration chasing ghosts restoration is often trying to recreate ecosystems that no longer exist or can t jun 26 jonathan tonkin 58 49 20 we re great at documenting decline and surprisingly bad at understanding recovery recovery rewilding and why we re measuring the wrong things nexus notes 30 jun 19 jonathan tonkin 26 8 4 the elephant s mental map why our future depends on the living world guest post by tim christophersen author of generation restoration jun 11 jonathan tonkin and tim christophersen 34 9 14 the graveyard of unfinished work on sunk costs abandoned projects and when to let go jun 4 jonathan tonkin 40 18 5 ecological complexity and the erosion of scientific capacity how humans reshape ecosystems and why eroding scientific capacity makes understanding that harder nexus notes 29 may 29 jonathan tonkin 30 2 9 see all predirections weekly future focused writing on biodiversity climate and water for a changing world by prof jonathan tonkin subscribe recommendations view all 20 the green dispatch paul hormick cognitive wonderland tommy blanchard field guide to the anthropocene jason anthony karen o brien for quantum social change karen o brien climate ages silvia pineda munoz phd links tonkin lab website bluesky linkedin predirections weekly future focused writing on biodiversity climate and water for a changing world by prof jonathan tonkin subscribe about archive recommendations sitemap 2026 jonathan tonkin privacy terms collection notice start your substack get the app substack is the home for great culture this site requires javascript to run correctly please turn on javascript or unblock scripts