Diego Riveros-Iregui

@carbonshed.bsky.social

Professor at UNC Chapel Hill. he/him #firstgen #latino 🤙🏼 🇺🇸&🇨🇴 Website: https://diegori.web.unc.edu

We (Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech) are #hiring TWO tenure-track Molecular Microbiology professors! Review of applications starts 1 Nov. I'm happy to answer questions about the department, VT, life in Blacksburg, etc.! More info / to apply: jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/assista... 🧪👩‍🔬🦠 #academicjobs

Assistant/Associate Professor - Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

Job Description The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech seeks applicants for two (2) tenure-track research and teaching positions at the Assistant/Associate ...

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Professors across the South: We still need your voice. There’s still time to complete the survey and share your experiences in higher education. Please participate—and encourage your faculty colleagues to do the same. Every response helps. Make your voice heard. #HigherEd #AcademicFreedom

Matthew Boedy@matthewboedy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The 2026 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are faculty in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas please take a second to fill it out: forms.gle/iLheVskd4wcA...

There will probably be far fewer foreign students on college campuses nationwide this fall following the Trump administration’s crackdown on international visas. A new report predicts international enrollment will decrease by 9.5 percent this fall.

Foreign student enrollment will fall nearly 10%, report predicts

A report released this week forecasts a decline of about 111,000 international students at U.S. colleges and universities.

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🔴Forte terremoto de 7.4 atinge a Colômbia e causa destruição em várias cidades A capital, Bogotá, e as cidades de Cali, Manizales e Pereira foram os locais mais atingidos. Países vizinhos também sentiram o tremor. Vejam 🎥 no fio abaixo com mais de 50 postagens. "Ver tópico completo" 🧵1/...⤵️

This is a *fantastic* video that explains exactly WTF is going on with Taylor Farms and how tracing works TLDR: - they are responsible - the false positive was only on one of several samples - it’s difficult to test parasites - there may still be other sources - Taylor Farms is being shady AF

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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Hydrology Paper of the Day @kriddie.bsky.social @carbonshed.bsky.social on carbon cycles in peatlands associated with páramo streams: the Andes Mountains of Ecuador; hydrometeorological and continuous measurements of pCO2; understanding hydrological connectivity; seasonality; and metabolic controls.

Diego Riveros-Iregui@carbonshed.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Happy to share @kriddie.bsky.social's latest paper, out today in Biogeochemistry. Among her many findings: 1) hydrologic connectivity drives high CO2 fluxes, 2) low pCO2 & pCH4 are indicative of high emission rates, and 3) opposite hysteresis DOM/CO2 to the same storm! Read it here: rdcu.be/fk0o4