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Rémi Cardinael
@remicardinael.bsky.social
Soil scientist & agronomist (PhD, Habil./HDR) @cirad.bsky.social #SOC #GHG #ClimateChange

Editor-in-Chief: EGU SOIL journal @egu-sss.bsky.social
Associate Editor: Agroforestry Systems

https://agents.cirad.fr/R%C3%A9mi+Cardinael/Homepage
It's the time of the year where you see a lot of colleagues sharing they are on the 2025 Highly Cited Researcher list from Clarivate, congrats to them 👏 .
November 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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🚨 Job alert 🚨

Come work with us as a postdoc modelling the impacts of climate change on plant-soil interactions and C sequestration!

Apply here before the 3rd of December: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Check out this video of the project you will be working in: vimeo.com/1133112953?s...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Congrats to Rumbidzai Nyawasha 👏 who succesfully defended her PhD on 11/11/2025 at the University of Zimbabwe!

Thank you 🙏 to the examiners Cecile Gomez, Tiphaine Chevallier, Hatirarami Nezomba and to the other members of the jury!

Her work here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ca...
November 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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New study looks at changes in regularity of #CropFailure, #heatwave and #wildfire exposure for different future #climate scenarios and reports major shifts in dominant periods when moving from pre-industrial to current climate conditions. @pik-potsdam.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Shifting dominant periods in extreme climate impacts under global warming - Nature Communications
This work investigates changes in regularity of crop failure, heatwave and wildfire exposure for different future climate scenarios. Major shifts in dominant periods are observed when moving from pre-...
www.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Bad news for large natural carbon sinks: "Our findings suggest the potential for a similar response to climate change by woody aboveground biomass in moist tropical forests globally, which could culminate in a long-term switch from carbon sinks to carbon sources."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source - Nature
A transition from carbon sink to source for the aboveground woody biomass of moist tropical Australian forests has occurred, driven by increasingly extreme climate anomalies.
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Next #job hire: Our own PhD position within #MultiStress to be funded as KAAD scholarship @unituebingen.bsky.social is out: You're East African scholar interested in #maize #root & #rhizosphere traits +their response to #biotic & #abiotic stress? Ready to perform work in #Germany & #Kenya? APPLY NOW
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Ouverture des journées annuelles du PEPR FairCarboN au Croisic, France
November 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
L’unité AIDA @cirad.bsky.social était à Kigali au 6ème congrès mondial d’ #agroforesterie🌳🌽🐄 et a participé activement à l’animation de sessions, aux présentations orales et posters, tout en apportant sa contribution au comité scientifique du congrès.
Plus d'infos ⬇️
ur-aida.cirad.fr/actualites/6...
October 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Yes it is....

Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data
Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Some pictures of the field tour, visiting sites of the Green Gicumbi project #WCA2025 during the World Congress on #Agroforestry in Rwanda 🇷🇼. Tree planting in tea plantations, beautiful forests of « pegs » to grow climbing beans, made of branches from Grevillea robusta and other tree species.
October 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Official opening of the World Congress on Agroforestry #WCA2025, about 700 attendees, 78% from Africa 👍!
October 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The 6th World Congress on #Agroforestry 🌳 🌽 🐄 #WCA2025 will start tomorrow in Kigali, Rwanda 🇷🇼 @cifor-icraf.org. Full programme here:
agroforestry2025.org/fr/

Looking forward to meeting again colleagues and friends!
6th World Congress on Agroforestry – Kigali – Rwanda, 20-24 October 2025
agroforestry2025.org
October 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Erosion is a big issue in Rwanda 🇷🇼. We visited a trial @canallsproject.bsky.social studying the impact of Fanya juu terraces, combining trenches, mounts and fodder grasses (+Grevillea robusta here) to reduce #erosion in cassava cropping systems, #intercropping with legumes, and manure addition.
October 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
A great day in the field in Rwanda 🇷🇼 visiting the Kayonza research station and on-farm experiments, especially on cassava-maize #intercropping @canallsproject.bsky.social @oneacrefund.bsky.social @cirad.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Reposted by Rémi Cardinael
Good news: carbon intensity has declined

Bad news: carbon emissions increased, due to the rapid rise in world GDP

Also bad news: the chance of staying below 2°C remained low, at 17%

Better news: chance of going above 3°C has gone down substantially, from 26% to 9%
Mitigation efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and meet the Paris Agreement have been offset by economic growth - Communications Earth & Environment
Global carbon dioxide intensity declined from 2015 to 2024 following the Paris Agreement, but total emissions still increased due to economic growth, according to a global analysis of population, gros...
www.nature.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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PhD opportunity with me at University of Edinburgh linked with Forest Research, funded by E5 DTP.

On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network.

Pic: one of our Scottish sites.

e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
October 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Kick-off meeting of our African Union Soil Observatory (#AUSO) project today in Nairobi, Kenya. @ec.europa.eu @cirad.bsky.social @saegroupethz.bsky.social

Here is the website of the project:
auso.faraafrica.org
October 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Can soil-crop models mostly tested in temperate conditions be relevant under tropical conditions to simulate long-term #soilorganiccarbon #yields? A study based on 4 trials in Kenya 🇰🇪 @mcorbeels.bsky.social @gatienfalconnier.bsky.social @johansix.bsky.social

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
October 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Notre unité de recherche AIDA "Agroécologie et intensification durable des cultures annuelles" @cirad.bsky.social a un nouveau logo! Vous aimez?

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Our research unit AIDA "Agroecology and sustainable intensification of annual crops" has a new logo! Like it?

ur-aida.cirad.fr/en
October 3, 2025 at 6:11 AM
We have a new permanent researcher position in our research unit @cirad.bsky.social

Agricultural researcher specialising in the provision of tropical soil ecosystem services

Deadline: 19/10/2025

recrutement.cirad.fr/job/emploi-c...
Cirad - Agricultural researcher specialising in the provision of tropical soil ecosystem services
recrutement.cirad.fr
October 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Annual meeting of the IntercropVALUES Horizon Project in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Great opportunity to share progress made in the different workpackages, meet colleagues and plan work for the coming year. #intercropping
October 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Terrestrial Microbial Ecology at SLU, Uppsala

www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor* in Terrestrial Microbial Ecology | slu.se
SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life
www.slu.se
September 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
September 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Logging changes the composition of the organic matter in nearby streams, making the organic matter more reactive. According to the authors, these changes are enough to flip logging from a carbon-sink to carbon-neutral or even a carbon-source. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
September 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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📢📢📢 New peer-reviewed Comment in @springernature.com Climate Change authored by @yalecncc.bsky.social Scientific Leadership Team member and Yale School of the Environment Professor Mark Bradford on "Upstream data need to prove soil carbon as a climate solution." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Upstream data need to prove soil carbon as a climate solution - Nature Climate Change
Causal approaches employed at the scale of commercial agriculture are required to build high-quality evidence that climate-smart agricultural interventions result in real emissions reductions and removals. Such project-scale empirical data are additionally required to demonstrate and advance the viability of process-based models and digital measurement, reporting and verification as tools to scale soil carbon accounting.
www.nature.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM