Chris Schadt
@chrisinknox.bsky.social
Scientist, Dad, Husband (not necessarily in that order). Believer that a diverse science, leads to the the best science. Views are my own. He/him
An excellent essay on the life and legacy of Carl Woese from a UCIC author. Long but wonderful read. books.juandavidcampolargo.com/jailbroken/a...
Carl Woese | Jailbroken People | Juan David Campolargo Books
Carl Woese in Jailbroken People, Appendix B of The Jailbroken Guide to the University: Carl Woese’s life resonates with me because it confirms something I...
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"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence
Field work at the SPRUCE site again last week installing and troubleshooting LICOR 8100 and ABB/Eosense systems to measure gas fluxes in part of the bog where we are doing a water table drawdown pilot study this year. I even got to do Sphagnum layer veg surveys!
SCIENCE FIGHTERS! We need YOU to rally with us on March 7th in Washington D.C. or at your local rally! Visit standupforscience.net/march7 to learn more! #March7 #rally #standupforscience #science #savescience
Get in, dorks. We're ready for round two. RALLY TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! 🔬🧪✊ March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC Learn more at www.standupforscience.net/ma... (link in our bio.)
Way to much red on this map. Western fire season could be crazy this year unless some of this deficit gets made up soon!
This position is still open. The Weisberg lab is recruiting a postdoc or Ph.D. student to study horizontal gene transfer in plant-associated microbial communities. Please see the job ad for more information and feel free to contact me if you have any questions!
Alexandra Weisberg@weisbergaj.bsky.social · 12mo agoThe Weisberg Lab at Oregon State University is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar in molecular microbiology to study mobile genetic element host range and transmission in microbial communities. Please see the full job description here: files-dev.cqls.oregonstate.edu/Weisberg_Lab...
Good news for new year! This paper is the Editor's Pick for the Jan 1st issue of @phytopathology.bsky.social! Great collaboration w/ Luz Serrato-Diaz who was a Visiting Graduate Fellow in 2019 working with myself & @microbiojess.bsky.social at ORNL on RADseq analyses of this important pathogen
Scientists are supposed to be happy when their predictions are skillful, right? Why do I not feel happy?
Today was the last day for our SPRUCE experiment. Bringing it to a close after 10 years! mnspruce.ornl.gov
The preprint for a new study is now available on biorxiv! Day late for #worldsoilday, but out none the less! Stands of Populus trees were studied over the steep temp/rainfall gradients of the Cascade Mts of Washington State to understand their effects on microbial interactions
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#WorldSoilDay Healthy soil = Healthy food = Healthy humans = Healthy planet 70% of our soil is already degraded. Let’s act before it’s too late. #SaveSoil SaveSoil.org
Stealing idea from another on here. In honor of #worldsoilday, reposting my first paper. Was just talking with an intern today about the ancient TA cloning/sanger sequencing techniques we used back then, but I've basically doing the same research for over two decades now! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Seasonal Dynamics of Previously Unknown Fungal Lineages in Tundra Soils
The finding that microbial communities are active under snow has changed the estimated global rates of biogeochemical processes beneath seasonal snow packs. We used microbiological and molecular techn...
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🪱🐜 Happy #WorldSoilDay!! 🕷️🪲 Although we celebrate soil everyday, today is a great reminder to appreciate the breadth of diversity beneath our feet. Check out the GSBI atlas to explore the organisms that call soil home! www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/atlas-introd...
Atlas Introduction — Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative
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Happy world soil day to all those "dirty" nerds that celebrate! Some pleasing pics of few times I got away from my desk to get dirty! - www.un.org/en/observanc...
I have a standing search from google for ORNL research stories. This one lit up my feed today :( Unfortunately my unofficial guess is that 12% probably cost even more in energy than the humans would!
MIT report: AI can already replace nearly 12% of the U.S. workforce | Fortune
The window to treat AI as a distant future issue is closing.
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Great new study about a group of fungi first reported in my dissertation work! -- Short‐ and long‐read metabarcoding of Archaeorhizomycetes reveals high phylogenetic diversity structured by vegetation and climate --New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Short‐ and long‐read metabarcoding of Archaeorhizomycetes reveals high phylogenetic diversity structured by vegetation and climate
Archaeorhizomycetes is a class of globally widespread soil-dwelling fungi, originally proposed to be associated with plant roots, but their ecology and nutritional mode are not clearly defined. To i...
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Final peat coring campain of our decade+ effort on the SPRUCE experiment in MN this last week. We had a big team effort to complete 4X as many cores as in past campaigns (more replicates and archive material!),
Just pulled out my plots/sensors from Oregon on Wychus Creek the week before last. Last night 1 of those sites looks to have burned (top center circle) in Flat Fire, and fire is approaching another site just decommissioned at Camp Polk (bottom left circle) and outskirts of Sisters OR.
Field work! Weedy edition… Can you find the Populus deltoides?
Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.
Come work at the UMich Biological Station as a Michigan Fellow (you don't have to be a biologist)! Apply today: societyoffellows.umich.edu/uncategorize...
Apply Now: Michigan Society of Fellows 2026-2029 Postdoctoral Fellowships – University of Michigan Society of Fellows, Established 1970
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And on the 6th day the lord created Illumina, and he said, “Damn, that craps expensive!”
Kevin Bird@stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · last yr.Legend says the ancient Babylonians once tried to sequence and annotate God's own genome, and for their ambition and hubris they were forever cursed to have different annotation formats and standards so they could never do genomics with ease again.
Kenyon is hiring a TT microbiologist! Please share widely. I’m the search chair & am happy to answer any questions. careers.pageuppeople.com/695/cw/en-us...
Kenyon College - Details - Assistant Professor of Biology (Tenure-Track)
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Chaos on the way home from the beauty shop! FYI - photos were taken at pickup and in driveway. No laws were broken during drive. 😉
