Abstract deadline is TODAY for #AGU26. Working on climate action in higher ed? Campus living labs, fossil-free pathways, students driving real solutions? Present your work and ideas in SY009: Climate Action in Higher Education agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...

Yulissa led this continental-scale look at how temporal averaging warps modeled soil respiration. @yperezrojas.bsky.social is new to Bluesky, give her a follow.

JGR: Biogeosciences@jgrbiogeo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Jensen's Inequality Quantifies How Temporal Averaging of Moisture Inputs Affects Modeled Soil Respiration Across Continental Scales agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Yulissa's continental-scale dive into how temporal averaging warps modeled soil respiration was a delight to advise. @yperezrojas.bsky.social is new to Bluesky, give her a follow. #soil #soil-modeling #respiration

Ben Bond-Lamberty@benbondlamberty.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Interesting analysis led by Perez Rojas and @teamrat.bsky.social

"209. A particular responsibility rests on the shoulders of those who work in the field of research. All the key players in this field — scientists, business owners, investors, academic authorities, politicians and others — must work with a transparent and responsible mindset,... #ENCYCLICAL #AI

Teneille Nel’s presenting at EGU results from the collaborative work of Manisha Dolui @moreorloess.bsky.social @emsaurios.bsky.social @aaberhe.com and many others. Here is the paper fresh off the press: soil.copernicus.org/articles/12/...

New paper on destabilization of buried soil organic carbon under changing moisture regimes, based on incubation experiments with the Brady Soil, a prominent paleosol in the Great Plains loess sequence. Teneille Nel et al., soil.copernicus.org/articles/12/...

Destabilization of buried carbon under changing moisture regimes

Abstract. Paleosols formed by the burial of topsoil during landscape evolution can sequester substantial amounts of soil organic carbon (SOC) over millennia due to protection from surface disturbances...

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A US service member is missing and this is the first we've heard from the president. Need I say more

TrumpReposter@trumpreposter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

KEEP THE OIL, ANYONE?

So. Does the world feel better now?

#TansleyReview: #Soil organic matter dynamics under changing #precipitation regimes @aaberhe.com et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue @teamrat.bsky.social

This study shows the important connections between landscape evolution and soil organic carbon storage. It's the work of a great research team including Manisha Dolui, Teneille Nel, @aaberhe.com, @teamrat.bsky.social, @emsaurios.bsky.social, and many others.

Happy to share another paper from the loess tablelands of the Great Plains, on organic C in buried soils and how it becomes susceptible to decomposition. We sampled the Brady Soil along transects of decreasing depth of burial and increasing erosional exposure. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

(🧵 6/6) This review synthesizes current research on how climate change-induced alterations in precipitation patterns, both directly and indirectly, affect the amount, composition, and persistence of soil organic matter.

(🧵 5/6) Their collective expertise spans soil organic matter dynamics, nutrient cycling, soil chemistry, soil ecology, soil mechanics, and vadose zone hydrology.

🌱 The authors behind the paper 🌱 (🧵 4/6) The authors of this Tansley review consist of soil biogeochemists and an environmental soil physicist affiliated with universities across the United States and South Korea.

(🧵 2/6) The amount, intensity, and frequency of precipitation have been changing around the world due to climate change. Changing precipitation can impact interactions among plants, microbes, fauna, and soil minerals, altering soil organic matter dynamics.

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) Soil organic matter dynamics under changing precipitation regimes nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @teamrat.bsky.social @aaberhe.com

#TansleyReview SOM under changing precipitation regimes Min et al. @teamrat.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

"We spoke with nine C-level U.S. airline executives and senior officials across six U.S. carriers for this story. They expressed varying degrees of skepticism, but none felt the cuts were without some level of political interference."

The Air Current@theaircurrent.com · 9mo ago

With little recourse, U.S. airline leaders skeptical of DOT flight cut justification theaircurrent.com/airlines/air... (via @willguisbond.com & @jonostrower.com) #staycurrent

Grew up under a dictatorship, they attacked expertise first. This is alarmingly familiar. Trust in expertise is the foundation of modern civilization. Even as a researcher, I rely on expert knowledge I could never master in a lifetime. Rejecting that isn’t freedom, it’s how societies collapse!

Republicans Against Trumpism@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 10mo ago

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

“Despots want science that has practical results,” said Paul R. Josephson, an emeritus professor of history at Colby College and author of a book on totalitarian science. “They’re afraid that basic knowledge will expose their false claims.”

Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science

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The Soil Physics Kirkham Medal was given to Bill Jury at the Kirkham Conference in Fukushima. He had an illustrious career at UC Riverside before retiring as Distinguished Professor Emeritus. #soil #soilphysics #kirkhamconference #sssa

It’s official, JB Milliken will be the 22nd President of the University of California system. It was a privilege to represent UC faculty interests in this search. … he currently serves as Chancellor of the UT System, previously led the CUNY system, U of NE and was v. Pres of UNC

James B. Milliken named 22nd president of the University of California

The University of California Board of Regents today approved the appointment of James B. Milliken as the 22nd president of UC’s world-renowned system of 10 campuses, six academic health centers, and t...

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Gardner (1991) argued that “if basic soil science did not exist, there is ample evidence that we need to invent it.” While practical applications are valuable outcomes of soil science research, they should emerge from a deep understanding of soil systems rather than define the discipline's scope.

Defining soil science: Balancing fundamental research and societal needs

Soil science's identity emerges from studying Earth's complex living and nonliving systems across scales. Defining soil science requires balancing practical impacts with fundamental scientific explo.....

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📢 New pub: Defining #soil science: Balancing fundamental research and societal needs, in Soil Science Society of America Journal doi.org/10.1002/saj2... @teamrat.bsky.social & I argue, soil science, though crucial for solving environmental challanges, should not be defined solely by its applications

Pope Francis’s first papal visit was to Lampedusa, where thousands have perished. There he criticized the “globalization of indifference”. He said we “have forgotten how to cry” for migrants and “take care of each other,” in his homily. It seems the indifference is worsening everywhere.

Pope Offers Mass on Island Beacon for Refugees (Published 2013)

With a service before 10,000 people, Francis seeks to call attention to a humanitarian problem at what has become a gateway for thousands of migrants.

nytimes.com

the so-called war over California’s water is a dangerous, flawed trope that reduces certain water uses to right or wrong, and turns the Delta into a place with no local stakes. Faced with threats of drought, climate change and water scarcity, we should not reduce this place to a warring of... sides.

Opinion | What the War on California’s Water Is Really About

If we are to take seriously the threats of drought, climate change and water security, we should not reduce this place to a warring of two — or even many — sides.

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"Thousands of highly cited scientists have at least one retraction" "Oransky says the results throw into question the practice of ranking scientists on the basis of citations at all."

Thousands of highly cited scientists have at least one retraction

Database shows that researchers with retracted papers had higher self-citation rates and published more than those without retractions.

nature.com

The Ahwahnee at Yosemite

A foggy and rainy Yosemite. #yosemite

Heron on a bridge.