Jenny Bower
@geodermatologist.bsky.social
Pedologist (Soil Health Institute) and mycophile in Carrboro, NC 🏳️🌈
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So much appreciation for the Canadian government employees who poured this much love into soil survey art. Thanks @geodermatologist.bsky.social for pointing me towards this goldmine!
September 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
So much appreciation for the Canadian government employees who poured this much love into soil survey art. Thanks @geodermatologist.bsky.social for pointing me towards this goldmine!
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Join us in supporting NIH and NSF in local papers across the country!
Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠
sciencehomecoming.com
sciencehomecoming.com
Science Homecoming
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February 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Join us in supporting NIH and NSF in local papers across the country!
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Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.
February 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.
purrr::quietly()
January 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Happy National Maple Syrup Day! Celebrate by celebrating soil calcium biogeochemistry—an oldie but a goodie: research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/4...
Response of sugar maple to calcium addition to northern hardwood forest | US Forest Service Research and Development
research.fs.usda.gov
December 17, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Happy National Maple Syrup Day! Celebrate by celebrating soil calcium biogeochemistry—an oldie but a goodie: research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/4...
Saturday recreational tree climb. Trees are magic
December 7, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Saturday recreational tree climb. Trees are magic
Well played, Pantone, we see you naming a 2.5YR 5/4 color of the year for #WorldSoilDay
Mocha Mousse: immerse yourself in Pantone’s colour of the year
Mocha Mousse: immerse yourself in Pantone’s colour of the year
‘Mocha Mousse’, aka Pantone 17-1230, has been named colour of the year. Described as a ‘warming, brown hue imbued with richness’, the coffee tone is predicted to dominate the design industry over the next 12 months
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www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Well played, Pantone, we see you naming a 2.5YR 5/4 color of the year for #WorldSoilDay
Where are all the podzols for #WorldSoilDay? Here’s one from a 200-year soil study in the Green Mountains, Vermont. The field tech was so proud of this pit—check the right angle on the side!
December 5, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Where are all the podzols for #WorldSoilDay? Here’s one from a 200-year soil study in the Green Mountains, Vermont. The field tech was so proud of this pit—check the right angle on the side!
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Here's some gorgeous wetland soil for #worldsoilday! This sample's got some ~Fe-bulous~ redoximorphic features & is a nice example of how wetlands paint with iron oxides 🧪🌎⚒️ #soilscience
December 5, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Here's some gorgeous wetland soil for #worldsoilday! This sample's got some ~Fe-bulous~ redoximorphic features & is a nice example of how wetlands paint with iron oxides 🧪🌎⚒️ #soilscience
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Soil isn't just underground. With the help of networks of mycorrhizal fungi, soils are formed even on the most vertical cliffs.
Underground Explorer Felipe Morales Armijo is working w/@spununderground.bsky.social to map vertical fungi across the cliffs of Mexico.
Happy World Soils Day.
Underground Explorer Felipe Morales Armijo is working w/@spununderground.bsky.social to map vertical fungi across the cliffs of Mexico.
Happy World Soils Day.
December 5, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Soil isn't just underground. With the help of networks of mycorrhizal fungi, soils are formed even on the most vertical cliffs.
Underground Explorer Felipe Morales Armijo is working w/@spununderground.bsky.social to map vertical fungi across the cliffs of Mexico.
Happy World Soils Day.
Underground Explorer Felipe Morales Armijo is working w/@spununderground.bsky.social to map vertical fungi across the cliffs of Mexico.
Happy World Soils Day.
Happy World Soil Day! This year’s theme is “caring for soils”. We are all soil stewards. Here’s a soil I’m trying to build structure in through OM additions and de-lawnification
December 5, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Happy World Soil Day! This year’s theme is “caring for soils”. We are all soil stewards. Here’s a soil I’m trying to build structure in through OM additions and de-lawnification
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Happy world soils day! To celebrate, take a look at this soil profile that lives in my brain rent-free. It is an alluvial soil that has interacted with sulfide- and methane-rich, anoxic groundwater. These interactions have resulted in a lot of cool mineral transformations (and pretty colors)
December 5, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Happy world soils day! To celebrate, take a look at this soil profile that lives in my brain rent-free. It is an alluvial soil that has interacted with sulfide- and methane-rich, anoxic groundwater. These interactions have resulted in a lot of cool mineral transformations (and pretty colors)
So proud of my town. #Carrboro
The small town of Carrboro, North Carolina is suing one of the country's largest electric utilities, Duke Energy, over climate change -- here's my story for @npr.org
www.npr.org/2024/12/04/n...
www.npr.org/2024/12/04/n...
A North Carolina town is suing utility Duke Energy over climate change
A small North Carolina town is suing Duke Energy for costs from climate change, claiming the utility knew its fossil fuel power plants were heating the planet and deceived the public.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2024 at 1:31 AM
So proud of my town. #Carrboro
I missed this post genre, it hits the same dopamine receptors as being in the woods with other naturalists
Imbrication of cobbles in the Rockfish River. See if you can deduce the current flow direction.
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December 1, 2024 at 5:50 PM
I missed this post genre, it hits the same dopamine receptors as being in the woods with other naturalists
Thank you to farm workers for our food
This is how those fresh and fragrant bundled herbs like parsley get to your grocery store. Workers spend 8 hours a day on their knees harvesting this crop that is used in our #Thanksgiving stuffing. #WeFeedYou
November 28, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Thank you to farm workers for our food
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Healthy peatlands are one of our best climate heroes, storing carbon for thousands of years. Healthy peatlands are gloriously mucky. Drained peatlands might grow food for some time but are a massive source of greenhouse gas emissions. Keep bogs wet - please share!
November 24, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Healthy peatlands are one of our best climate heroes, storing carbon for thousands of years. Healthy peatlands are gloriously mucky. Drained peatlands might grow food for some time but are a massive source of greenhouse gas emissions. Keep bogs wet - please share!
Sunday afternoon at the game lands. Highlights: Cortinarius caperatus, strongly expressed subangular blocky peds in a roadcut, and fall colors of sweetgum and muscadine.
November 24, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Sunday afternoon at the game lands. Highlights: Cortinarius caperatus, strongly expressed subangular blocky peds in a roadcut, and fall colors of sweetgum and muscadine.
November 23, 2024 at 5:55 AM
My wife and I signed up for a neighborhood turkey trot. The proceeds go to the food pantry, and they give you $50 if you beat the record time. I’m losing my mind, the record is held by Shalane Flanagan
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalane...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalane...
Shalane Flanagan - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
November 23, 2024 at 5:07 AM
My wife and I signed up for a neighborhood turkey trot. The proceeds go to the food pantry, and they give you $50 if you beat the record time. I’m losing my mind, the record is held by Shalane Flanagan
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalane...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalane...
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ICYMI... took me a few days to stumble upon this one go.bsky.app/HADDT8P
November 17, 2024 at 3:55 PM
ICYMI... took me a few days to stumble upon this one go.bsky.app/HADDT8P
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A fun way to start on a new platform: obscure memes related to a specific corner of a discipline that I didn't even know existed until college--soil science.
November 16, 2024 at 12:39 AM
A fun way to start on a new platform: obscure memes related to a specific corner of a discipline that I didn't even know existed until college--soil science.
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Megadiversidad de #suelos en el parque infantíl del Parque Nacional, #Bogotá #urbansoils #geodiversity
November 15, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Megadiversidad de #suelos en el parque infantíl del Parque Nacional, #Bogotá #urbansoils #geodiversity
