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New exciting work 🧪by Kai Huang and team: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Topography‐Mediated Soil Moisture Controls Forest Hillslope‐Scale NO and N2O Emissions

Conceptual diagram illustrating soil NO and N2O emissions along a temperate forest hillslope. Left panel: Automated soil gas chambers were deployed along a forest hillslope to measure high-resolution...

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In new work by Elizah Stephens, she looks at soil N emissions after wildfires. Wildfire increased soil NO emissions. N2O emissions did not differ significantly; however, only burned soils produced N2O fluxes that were statistical outliers up to ∼165 × higher. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wildfire alters nitrogen cycling to increase soil emissions of nitric oxide (NO) and the heterogeneity of nitrous oxide (N2O) in California chaparral

Wildfires drive ecosystem nitrogen (N) loss globally through combustion of plant biomass and by depositing N-rich ash onto soils to stimulate emission…

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You wanna know if deeply rooted grasses put more carbon in the ground? "Sometimes you've gotta rent a van and drive around the country..." So said @ericslessarev.bsky.social & team in this wonderful study. 12 sites in central/eastern USA... dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Assessing the Effect of a Deep‐Rooted Grass on Belowground Carbon Storage in Cultivated Land: Insights From a Multi‐Site US Study

Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum, L.) stored significantly more carbon in root biomass than shallow-rooted crops at 12 sites across the USA Switchgrass had no detectable effect on soil organic carbo...

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📢 Call for Expression of Interest – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship (MSCA PF) We are looking for a candidate to develop a proposal on: Nitrogen cycling in arid and/or drought-affected ecosystems, with a focus on soil microbial processes (including fungi).

📢 Call for Expression of Interest – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship (MSCA PF)

Alberto Canarini@albertocanarini.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢 Call for Expression of Interest – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship (MSCA PF) We are looking for a candidate to develop a proposal on: Nitrogen cycling in arid and/or drought-affected ecosystems, with a focus on soil microbial processes (including fungi).

“NCAR has played a greater role in advancing weather prediction & atmospheric modeling than perhaps any other single entity in the world,” says @weatherwest.bsky.social Dismantling NCAR would be “like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.” KH

Trump administration plans to break up largest federal climate research center

Russ Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said the National Science Foundation "will be breaking up" the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado.

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AGU has a Congressional email and call script up on NCAR:

Save NCAR from being dismantled today!

The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation.

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#AGU25 B22F. Geoclimatic Drivers of Nitric Oxide (NO), Nitrous Oxide (N2O), and Nitrogen (N2) Emissions: Microscale to Global-Scale Controls I Oral Day/Time: Tuesday, 16 December 2025: 10:30 - 12:00, NOLA CC, New Orleans Theater A @agubiogeosciences.bsky.social

Exciting new 🧪 work by Kai Huang on #soil N emissions after warming a forest for 6 years @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

The GRFP announcement from NSF cuts out an entire cohort of 2nd year students from consideration, without warning. This is so deeply unfair that it warrants a formal protest from the scientific community. If someone wants to work with me to craft an open letter and solicit signatures, LMK.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

We are witnessing a full blown war on science, public health & truth itself. Let me be clear: Vaccines have prevented more than 1.1 million deaths, 500 million cases of illness & 32 million hospitalizations. That's a lot of moms and dads who don't have to bury their children.

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say

The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness

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The World Is Wooing U.S. Researchers Shunned by Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/b...

The World Is Wooing U.S. Researchers Shunned by Trump

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Everyone needs to understand that dismantling NSF will have devastating long term consequences in our competitiveness and innovation in science, technology and beyond. 1/

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

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Did you know? 99% of all new medications resulted from federally-funded university research through #NIH Learn more about #ResearchSavesLives: hub.jhu.edu/research-sav....

In new work by Sharon, we studied whether changes in #soil N in response to shifts in precipitation may favor tradeoffs between AOA and AOB nitrifiers and the emission of NO and #N2O 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Nitrogen Availability and Changes in Precipitation Alter Microbially Mediated NO and N2O Emissions From a Pinyon–Juniper Dryland

Climate change is altering precipitation regimes that control nitrogen (N) cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. In ecosystems exposed to frequent drought, N can accumulate in soils as they dry, stimula...

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I am crushed to learn that a brilliant researcher at CDC/NIOSH with decades of expertise and seminal papers on flu virus in respiratory particles and effectiveness of masks has been fired.

Exciting! And likely occurring in soils as well to help explain the rapid reduction of 15N-nitrate to N2O we observe in sunny California deserts. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Bacterial denitrification drives elevated N2O emissions in arid southern California drylands

Despite dry and hot summers, denitrifiers endure through months in deserts and produce large N2O emissions after rainfall.

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Gemma Reguera 🌎@microgem.bsky.social · last yr.

Very interesting finding: photochemical formation of N2O in freshwater and marine waters. The N cycle gets more complex. 🧐 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Very interesting finding: photochemical formation of N2O in freshwater and marine waters. The N cycle gets more complex. 🧐 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Sunlight drives the abiotic formation of nitrous oxide in fresh and marine waters

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent greenhouse gas and the main stratospheric ozone-depleting agent, yet its sources are not well resolved. In this work, we experimentally show a N2O production pathway no...

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Folks, very bad news for #LongCOVID. Deep breath. 29 awarded grants to do with COVID and Long COVID have been rescinded by NIH. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Just heard that Trump is putting an end to atmospheric monitoring site NY67 that is run out of my lab. This is one of the oldest NADP sites in the US, continually measuring acid rain and other pollutants since 1977. Closing it down is tragic.

We strongly denounce the Trump Administration’s latest round of NASA firings and office closures, which will undermine the agency’s ability to carry out its missions to advance scientific knowledge and benefit humanity.

Eos@eos.org · last yr.

NASA has closed its Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy, Office of the Chief Scientist, & DEIA branch of the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity, firing 23 people. "Reductions in force of entire offices will not help us get back to the Moon or to Mars." 🧪 🔭

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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AGU has joined a lawsuit challenging the firing of probationary employees at federal agencies. These actions weaken science, harm public health & the environment, and threaten national security. 🧵 #StandWithScience

Our next DEI committee event for @agubiogeosciences.bsky.social is in two weeks. ‘Community empowerment: Thriving together despite the unknowns’) to continue building and strengthening our community. Register here: tinyurl.com/biogeothriving2

AGU Biogeosciences@agubiogeosciences.bsky.social · last yr.

In a remarkable show of unity, today 48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 members call on Congress to protect the future of science. Our elected officials must act now so we have a hope of avoiding long-term damage to the US science enterprise. www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...

48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science

48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science

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