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Emily Solly
@plantsoilemily.bsky.social
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Soil scientist and biogeochemist into PlantSoilMicrobe interactions, Roots, and maintaining healthy and functional Forests under global change.
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egu.eu
💰 Do you need #financial #support to attend #EGU26?

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Submit your abstract by 1 December 2025 and get support through one of our three participation support schemes for #EGU26!

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Image description: A road leading towards mountains. Text reads: 'travel support, fee waivers, and EDI participation support. Deadline to submit your abstract by 1 December 2025 for financial support."
November 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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science.org
When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.

Read more on #STEMSTEAMDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON
A child's drawing of a female scientist, with the text: What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before
November 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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frantecol.bsky.social
Fantastic opportunities here in a wonderful group!
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katiefield4.bsky.social Katie Field @katiefield4.bsky.social · 21d
🌿🍄‍🟫🌱🍄We’re recruiting!!🌿🍄‍🟫🌱🍄

I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:
November 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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egu-sss.bsky.social
🧟 Soil Fun Fact: Zombie carbon, or when the underground comes back to life!

Soil holds more carbon than all plants + the atmosphere, but when disturbed, some of it “rises from the dead” as CO₂!

🎃 Keep that #ZombieCarbon buried this #Halloween 🌱

#EGUSSS #SoilScience #CarbonCycle
October 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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mrmbuee.bsky.social
Soil phosphate availability drives the shifts in the mycorrhizal types in the dual mycorrhizal Quercus serrata.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Soil phosphate availability drives shifts between arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal fungi in the dual mycorrhizal plant Quercus serrata
Dual mycorrhizal plants are associated with both arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) and ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungi that differ in cost and effectiveness for nutrient acquisition. Little is known about env.....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
plantsoilemily.bsky.social
New paper out led by Boaz Himan: 14C‐Age of Carbon Used to Grow Fine Roots Reflects Tree Carbon Status - Plant, Cell & Environment - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... presenting novel insights from a Swiss alpine treeline 🌲⛰️🌡️📈
14C‐Age of Carbon Used to Grow Fine Roots Reflects Tree Carbon Status
Trees along an elevation gradient near the Alpine treeline used carbon fixed within the last two years to grow their needles and branches, and carbon fixed two to ten years ago to grow their fine roo....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
plantsoilemily.bsky.social
Happy to see this paper published! We used a mesocosm platform to study how soil water limitation intensity alters the cycling of nitrogen at the tree-soil interface rdcu.be/eCB3L
August 27, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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avnimalh0tra.bsky.social
Excited to see this paper out! We used NEON data to explore the relationship between fine root and soil carbon stocks. With @sr-weino.bsky.social @katerinageorgiou.bsky.social @aaberhe.com @josephtumber.bsky.social @mingzhenlu.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1038/s432...
Fine root and soil carbon stocks are positively related in grasslands but not in forests - Communications Earth & Environment
A positive relationship between fine root carbon and soil organic carbon stocks is well established in grasslands, particularly at greater depths, but the relationship varies across forests, based on ...
doi.org
July 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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laylugli.bsky.social
Please delight yourselves in the magic of belowground research! wur.yuja.com/V/Video?v=89... Amazing video produced by the team of @moniqueweemstra.bsky.social from Wageningen University
Riddles in the Dark
In the dense and biodiverse San Emilio ForestGEO plot of Costa Rica, every tree tells a story. Not just above ground, but deep below the surface. Discover how different trees adapt to their environmen...
wur.yuja.com
May 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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idiv-research.bsky.social
🌈 Celebrating diversity at #iDiv! This week —and every week— iDiv affirms that diversity in all its forms strengthens science, community, and collaboration. 🧬
June 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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frantecol.bsky.social
Take note, Dutch government. Von der Leyen is right. We are nowhere without free, open, funded science.
evahyldgaard.bsky.social Eva Hyldgaard 🇩🇰 Dane for Democracy @evahyldgaard.bsky.social · May 5
Strong words from Ursula von der Leyen today:

“Science belongs to humanity. We must protect it, prioritize it, and give it the freedom it needs to flourish.”

At the launch of the EU’s “Choose Science - Choose Europe” initiative, she announced four key actions.

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May 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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loutsi.bsky.social
The AmazonFACE project is offering post doc scholarships, based in Manaus, Brazil!
April 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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heuckmeike.bsky.social
It was a great opportunity to present at #EGU25.

Thanks to @loutsi.bsky.social, @plantsoilemily.bsky.social, Tessa Camenzind and the other co-conveners for organising such a nice session!
April 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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richardnair.bsky.social
check out our new review paper about how to put all the stuff below the leaves together to understand whole ecosystem phenology 🌿🌏🌳 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Below the leaves: Integrating above‐ and below‐ground phenology for earth‐system predictability
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
doi.org
April 29, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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anabastos.bsky.social
Attending #EGU @egu.eu & care about mental health & diversity in academia? Join our Union Symposium Monday, 16:15–18:00 in Room E1. Co-organized with @polarocean.bsky.social @geocarolina.bsky.social Sabine Hörnig and Anita Di Chiara. Read more on @lucialayr.bsky.social blog post @egubg.bsky.social
Highlighted event: Opening up about Mental Health across Career Stages in the Geosciences
EGU 2025 is almost upon us! While a highlight of the year for many scientists, a big conference like this can also come with feelings of stress or anxiety for many. (If that’s you – you are not alone!...
blogs.egu.eu
April 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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jen-zhenli.bsky.social
New Paper Alert!@naturecomms.bsky.social
Thanks to the great team! @giannamars.bsky.social @scott-saleska.bsky.social @elbrodie.bsky.social @emerge-bii.bsky.social and many others! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A framework for integrating genomics, microbial traits, and ecosystem biogeochemistry - Nature Communications
Microbes drive the Earth’s biogeochemical cycles. Here, Li et al. present a framework for integrating genome-inferred microbial kinetic traits into ecosystem mechanistic models, and use it to benchmar...
www.nature.com
April 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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irnasa.bsky.social
🚨 Talent in #science should have no gender, but the data speaks for itself. On #8M, our staircase reminds us that #equality is still a challenge. We climb steps toward a future where women scientists have the same opportunities. 💜👩‍🔬 #WomenInScience #IRNASA
March 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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ecotron-cnrs.bsky.social
📢 #Postdoc Opportunity! 🌱🔬
Join an #Ecotron project on soil #carbon sequestration @ecotron-cnrs.bsky.social

🔗 Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

📍 Work with @alex-ecology.bsky.social & @cbiogeo.bsky.social

📢 Please share!

#Soil #Biochar #Weathering #AcademicJobs #JobOffer #CarbonScience
March 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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ymalhi.bsky.social
In our new paper in @science.org, we show that tropical forests are changing over time, but too slowly to track climate change. Our article, led by @jeaggu.bsky.social just out:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
@forestplots.bsky.social
Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change
Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt to climate change is of pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this is still widely unknown. This knowledge gap is particularly acute in high-b...
www.science.org
March 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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spun.earth
Our newest research on plant-fungal trade published today in @nature.com.

The work, led by scientists from Vrije Universiteit, Princeton University, SPUN & AMOLF combines robotics, mycology & biophysics to reveal underground supply-chain dynamics.

Open access:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A travelling-wave strategy for plant-fungal trade. An image of a microscopic view of fungi. Nature logo.
February 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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petrana.bsky.social
Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
A screenshot of Maggie Smith's "Good Bones" Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.
January 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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realhopejahren.bsky.social
I have uptaken
the NO3-
that was in
the B horizon

and which
you were probably
saving
for spring

Forgive me
it was nutritious
so nitrogenous
and oxidized
fern growing on the forest floor
January 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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mrillig.bsky.social
An interesting read in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social

Extinction of experience among ecologists

www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Extinction of experience among ecologists
Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining. We call for greater attention to this ongoing loss of direct field experience within the ecology community, as it could have widespread consequences for science and education, ultimately hindering efforts to address the ongoing biodiversity crisis.
www.cell.com
January 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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elenakramer.bsky.social
Are you a plant science researcher working towards a PhD or an early career researcher who completed their PhD no more than five years ago? Consider applying to the Next Generation Scientists 2025 meeting, sponsored by New Phytologist! #botany
www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...
Next generation scientists 2025
www.newphytologist.org
December 13, 2024 at 6:25 PM