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
Way to much red on this map. Western fire season could be crazy this year unless some of this deficit gets made up soon!
February 8, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Way to much red on this map. Western fire season could be crazy this year unless some of this deficit gets made up soon!
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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!
The 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...
January 14, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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!
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
January 14, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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
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Scientists are supposed to be happy when their predictions are skillful, right?
Why do I not feel happy?
Why do I not feel happy?
December 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Scientists are supposed to be happy when their predictions are skillful, right?
Why do I not feel happy?
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
January 1, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Today was the last day for our SPRUCE experiment. Bringing it to a close after 10 years! mnspruce.ornl.gov
Some grim projections in here jimehansen.substack.com/p/global-tem...
Global Temperature in 2025, 2026, 2027
James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha, Dylan Morgan and Jasen Vest
jimehansen.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Some grim projections in here jimehansen.substack.com/p/global-tem...
More shit going down... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center in Colorado
Governor Jared Polis warned that breaking up Boulder’s NCAR would put ‘public safety at risk’
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
More shit going down... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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
doi.org
December 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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
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
December 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
#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
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...
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...
doi.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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...
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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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...
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
www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🪱🐜 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...
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...
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...
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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.
fortune.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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!
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...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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....
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!),
August 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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.
August 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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?
August 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Field work! Weedy edition… Can you find the Populus deltoides?
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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.
August 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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.
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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
societyoffellows.umich.edu
August 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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...
And on the 6th day the lord created Illumina, and he said, “Damn, that craps expensive!”
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.
July 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM
And on the 6th day the lord created Illumina, and he said, “Damn, that craps expensive!”
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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)
careers.pageuppeople.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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...
Chaos on the way home from the beauty shop! FYI - photos were taken at pickup and in driveway. No laws were broken during drive. 😉
July 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Chaos on the way home from the beauty shop! FYI - photos were taken at pickup and in driveway. No laws were broken during drive. 😉
“Highlight”…. Not a single Regional office or Research station in the PNW. States with most majestic forest and some greatest producers of forest products
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July 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
“Highlight”…. Not a single Regional office or Research station in the PNW. States with most majestic forest and some greatest producers of forest products