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Matthias Sprenger
@matthiasprenger.bsky.social
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Hydrologist working on catchment hydrology, ecohydrology, stable isotopes, and Critical Zone research, https://matthiassprenger.weebly.com/
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sholtodavid.bsky.social
Graphical Abstracts are my passion 08 Aug 2025 ($3090.00 APC)
August 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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newphyt.bsky.social
Improving the representation of plant water stress and water use in Earth System Models

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Measurement-model-remote sensing framework to improve and scale predictions of ecosystem response to climate change across landscapes.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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josephtumber.bsky.social
New Assistant Professor Posting:
@dartmouthears.bsky.social @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social
Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry and/or Geobiology
apply.interfolio.com/176517

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November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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leafwarbler.bsky.social
Amid all happy election results tonight, here’s one that’s giving me joy: my friend & colleague @louierivers3.bsky.social was elected to the Chapel Hill city council!
“His campaign priorities included preparing for climate change, expanding housing opportunities and expanding community engagement.”
November 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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elimartinezs.bsky.social
🚨Calling all #TreeRing lovers!🚨

Join us at #EGU26 for session CL1.2.1 Interdisciplinary Tree-Ring Research

Abstracts exploring tree rings from all perspectives and disciplines are welcome!

Submit here:
tinyurl.com/475xjjfu

K. Treydte, J. Jevšenak, A. Eckes-Shephard, @pieterzuidema.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 6:36 AM
matthiasprenger.bsky.social
P.C.D. (“Chris”) Milly, Horton Medal Awardee 2024:
"That prioritization of scientific career over private life stings even more as I’ve realized how our science is sometimes ignored anyway—or applied only selectively—to favor powerful, capitalist interests instead of a
sustainable common good."
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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gregggonsalves.bsky.social
Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.
November 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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dartmouthears.bsky.social
We are looking to hire a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor in the general areas of stable isotope biogeochemistry and/or geobiology! For more information and to apply see apply.interfolio.com/176517 -- review begins November 15!
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October 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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agu-h3s.bsky.social
HUGE HYPE for our #CatchmentCup2025 WINNER by overwhelming majority: the ONÇA Catchment in Brazil!!! Thank you to everyone who voted for their favorite catchments throughout the past month to make this all possible. Happy last day of Catchment Cup and Happy Halloween 🎃 from AGU H3S! 🎉🎉🎉
October 31, 2025 at 9:05 PM
matthiasprenger.bsky.social
Exciting scientific finding, confirming a tyrannosaurus species based on growth rings of dino bones. Happy for the research team at the Natural History Museum, who are always on site to answer questions about the Dueling Dinosaurs - except when it's in peer review, as it was at my last visit 😀
October 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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charlottegrossiord.bsky.social
🌿Postdoc opening in Urban Ecophysiology at WSL Lausanne - start March 2026. Join Horizon Europe FRAIMwork on green walls: carbon sink, water use efficiency & air quality. Apply via WSL careers page: m.refline.ch/273855/1786/... @wslresearch.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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benbondlamberty.bsky.social
A fabulous #postdoc opportunity to work with my colleague Nick Ward at PNNL on forest trace gas cycling, studying a poorly constrained component of the Earth system! Please share widely: careers.pnnl.gov/jobs/10985?l...
Post Doctorate Research Associate – Forest Trace Gas Cycling in Sequim, Washington | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PNNL is hiring a Post Doctorate Research Associate – Forest Trace Gas Cycling in Sequim, Washington. Review all of the job details and apply today!
careers.pnnl.gov
October 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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lukeplunkett.com
kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school
October 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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dahlgeoed.bsky.social
The Geology Dept at WWU is hiring an Assistant Prof in Hydrology! Come be my colleague in a great department! More info in the attached flyer, and at hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...
Assistant Professor of Hydrogeology About Western: Western Washington University, with over 15,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia. Western has additional sites in Anacortes, Bremerton, Everett, Port Angeles, and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes, such as being named one of the top public master's-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report. About the Geology Department: The Geology Department has 17 faculty, offering BA, BS and MS programs in Geology, Geophysics, and Science Education, serving approximately 190 majors. The department has strengths in field and lab-based teaching and research in geomorphology, igneous petrology, geophysics, hydrogeology and envionmental/engineering geology, planetary geology, sedimentology, science education, and structure/tectonics. Additional information about our programs can be found at https://geology.wwu.edu/. The Geology Department strives to further Western's identity as an institution that welcomes and embraces diversity and encourages applications from diverse candidates. About the Position: The ideal candidate will support our department's ability to produce workforce-ready geoscientists. We seek individuals who are enthusiastic about teaching and who will establish a productive research program that involves undergraduate and Master's-level students. Broad areas of research interest may include, but | are not limited to, groundwater-surface water interactions, environmental hydrogeology, and groundwater systems (e.g-geothermal, fault zone, coastal, mountain). Teaching responsibilities will in…
October 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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waterbarnes.bsky.social
As authoritarianism takes over, I guess this make sense 🙃 retractionwatch.com/2025/10/10/s...
Soil scientist previously named in citation scandal appointed to editor role at Elsevier journal
Artemi Cerdà A soil scientist who resigned from several journals in 2017 after being linked to manipulated citations has been appointed to the editorial board of a journal copublished by Elsevier a…
retractionwatch.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
matthiasprenger.bsky.social
Our new research analyzing high-frequency soil moisture data from 40 NEON sites across 17 US ecoregions reveals the widespread occurrence of Preferential Flow (PF) & its drivers across continental scale environmental gradients. Published in AGU's Geophysical Research Letters
doi.org/10.1029/2025...
Ubiquity and Causes of Soil Water Preferential Flow Across 17 Ecoregions
Preferential flow (PF) is ubiquitous across the USA and occurs in up to 60% of all rainfall events ≥2 mm Rainfall intensity, soil texture, and antecedent soil moisture emerge as critical in gener...
doi.org
October 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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agu-h3s.bsky.social
Keep those votes rolling in! The second head-to-head for Round 1's snow-dominated catchments is...East River vs Oldman!

Scroll to the thread below for facts on these catchments! And VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!
www.agu-h3s.org/rivercup
East River Watershed Oldman River Basin
October 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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laurahelmuth.bsky.social
Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org
The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...
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October 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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jpgannon.bsky.social
More about the app Paolo referenced, and that I am excited about (!) here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Interactive Learning in Hydrological Modelling With a Web‐Based Tool
We introduce a web-based tool to explore hydrological modeling in classrooms. The app can be run in any internet browser on a variety of devices. The app and code are available for free. We include m...
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October 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
matthiasprenger.bsky.social
As a new prof, I am exploring approachable ways to teach about catchment hydrology modeling. A lack of students'coding skills are limiting the opportunities. Google Gemini with Canvas has the potential to code simulators based on text input. See screen recording of quick example. What do you think?
October 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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cuahsi.bsky.social
Navigating Academic Waters Webinar Series Continues!
Join us for, Expanding Funding Landscape: Non-Federal Funding Opportunities
OCT 8 / 1-2PM ET

Diversifying funding streams is becoming more important in hydrology and environmental science.
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details.
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
@uslter.bsky.social

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Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim
Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.
www.uni-hohenheim.de
October 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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eth-eaps.bsky.social
We are empowering early career female researcher in Earth and Planetary Sciences: apply now for the ETH Zurich Judith McKenzie fellowships! Be part of a growing network of women shaping the future of science! Application deadline is 31 October 2025.
Funding opportunities
The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at ETH Zurich awards different fellowships for visiting post-tenure professors or research scientists, PhD students, and Postdocs.
eaps.ethz.ch
October 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
matthiasprenger.bsky.social
As I take with students our first water samples for isotope analyses in North Carolinian catchments I think of "a magic dwells in each beginning". It's fun to have a study site nearby and add to ongoing NCSU and USFS research.
October 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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sciencevs.bsky.social
This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
October 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM