If you see this, quote post with flowers from your gallery. 🌱🌿 #nativeplants

Birdbill dayflower, Sacramento Mountains, southeastern New Mexico.

So it turns out that “pressing it into people’s hands” meant this book was one of my Christmas presents 😅. This is now the first book I read in 2025, and I really enjoyed it! Learned something new in every chapter and very well-written. Highly recommend! @bengoldfarb.bsky.social

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The first knitting project I’ve ever finished was also probably the best holiday gift I gave this year - a table runner that I sent to my aunt and uncle 😊

Wind chill Tuesday morning... COLD.

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Happy World Soil Day!

Soil scientists, reply in the comments - what’s a course you took or a book or article you read that significantly influenced your soil science career? For me, it’s definitely the soils field course I took in undergrad, because I realized I love doing soil taxonomy!

I had the opportunity to go to North Carolina in September for the NRCS’s Basic Soil Survey training. While traversing the floodplain of an area we were practicing mapping, my team found this soil. Between the lithologic discontinuity and the gleying, none of us had ever seen anything like it. #soil

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I've missed this until now: an excellent review of 100s of studies of no-till/conventional crop yields and soil OM comparisons across Canada. Partial summary at canadianagronomist.ca/wp-content/u...
Full paper at
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...

I think it’s time for me to start posting on here again 😅 so here’s a thread about one of the most interesting things I got to do this past field season at work: looking at the effects of legacy timber harvest in the Sacramento Mountains in southeastern New Mexico. 1/

Forest Service is hiring recent and upcoming graduates from associate’s through doctoral degree programs for soil scientist (www.usajobs.gov/job/772216800) and ecologist (www.usajobs.gov/job/772154100) positions!

Pretty clear skies in ABQ! Alicia made a “pinhole” with her hands—you can just about see the partial eclipse image on the sidewalk.

Got a picture of the ring of fire through eclipse glasses! Also made a pinhole projector with paper and that worked really well too

Although I’m a soil scientist, as part of my job I have to identify plants in the field. Here are a couple of interesting ones I saw a few weeks ago: pineywoods geranium (Geranium caespitosum) and rockspirea (Holodiscus dumosus).

Been studying up on plants of the mountains of New Mexico for work. I think the prize for the weirdest common name of a plant I’ve seen this week goes to turkey-tangle fogfruit (Phyla nodiflora is the scientific name). LOL.

Been playing Metazooa for a few days now…definitely challenging!

🪸 Animal #36 🪲
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
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🔥 9 | Avg. Guesses: 6.4

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