Murray Lark 🇿🇼
@geostatlark.bsky.social
Statistician, studying soils & crops, mostly in Africa. Collaborating on history of soil surveys in colonial Africa. Professor of Environmetrics, University of Nottingham. Lay Dominican, Marxist, Zimbabwe-UK dual national. 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇸
rdcu.be/eNBga New paper out in Sustainable Agriculture: the design of on-farm trials
Designing on-farm trials: an example with interventions to improve micronutrient status of grain crops
npj Sustainable Agriculture - Designing on-farm trials: an example with interventions to improve micronutrient status of grain crops
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November 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
rdcu.be/eNBga New paper out in Sustainable Agriculture: the design of on-farm trials
High point of the week was realising a long ambition to visit Broome Bridge over the Royal Canal in Dublin, where Hamilton discovered the rule for quaternions.
September 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
High point of the week was realising a long ambition to visit Broome Bridge over the Royal Canal in Dublin, where Hamilton discovered the rule for quaternions.
Multiple soil and landscape properties are associated with the spatial variation of selenium concentration in maize grain in Malawi
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Multiple soil and landscape properties are associated with the spatial variation of selenium concentration in maize grain in Malawi - IOPscience
Multiple soil and landscape properties are associated with the spatial variation of selenium concentration in maize grain in Malawi, Nalivata, Patson C, Ligowe, Ivy S, Chagumaira, Christopher, Mossa, ...
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September 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Multiple soil and landscape properties are associated with the spatial variation of selenium concentration in maize grain in Malawi
doi.org/10.1088/2976...
via @ioppublishing.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1088/2976...
via @ioppublishing.bsky.social
A new paper with colleagues in Zambia in the InSTAnZa project. The moral of the story is "never throw away old soil maps just because you have a new one"
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August 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A new paper with colleagues in Zambia in the InSTAnZa project. The moral of the story is "never throw away old soil maps just because you have a new one"
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
A new paper out of the CEPHaS project: measuring water retention in soils from conservation agriculture trials and using the Van Genuchten parameters to model infiltration.
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August 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A new paper out of the CEPHaS project: measuring water retention in soils from conservation agriculture trials and using the Van Genuchten parameters to model infiltration.
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This week the Israeli ministry of science & innovation asked me to review a proposal on technology for improved land management. I told them not while the IDF continues it's murderous campaigns. And this week we also heard how 95% of Gaza's farmland has been laid waste by Israel. 🇵🇸
This week the Israeli ministry of science & innovation asked me to review a proposal on technology for improved land management. I told them not while the IDF continues it's murderous campaigns. And this week we also heard how 95% of Gaza's farmland has been laid waste by Israel. 🇵🇸
More than 95 percent of Gaza’s agricultural land unusable, UN warns
Israeli attacks on land, wells and greenhouses exacerbating the already critical risk of famine in Gaza, the FAO says.
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July 31, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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This week the Israeli ministry of science & innovation asked me to review a proposal on technology for improved land management. I told them not while the IDF continues it's murderous campaigns. And this week we also heard how 95% of Gaza's farmland has been laid waste by Israel. 🇵🇸
This week the Israeli ministry of science & innovation asked me to review a proposal on technology for improved land management. I told them not while the IDF continues it's murderous campaigns. And this week we also heard how 95% of Gaza's farmland has been laid waste by Israel. 🇵🇸
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In our latest #OA #HistoryMatters piece, the team of Milo Gough, Bryson Nkhoma, Elias Chirwa, @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social, Charles Knapp, Tracy Morse, and Wapulumuka Mulwafu explore the history of present day #Fisheries management in #LakeMalawi:
bit.ly/4lmkjoT
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July 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
In our latest #OA #HistoryMatters piece, the team of Milo Gough, Bryson Nkhoma, Elias Chirwa, @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social, Charles Knapp, Tracy Morse, and Wapulumuka Mulwafu explore the history of present day #Fisheries management in #LakeMalawi:
bit.ly/4lmkjoT
bit.ly/4lmkjoT
£440 for a two-day meeting in Manchester, about £10 short of what EGU costs for 5 days in Vienna. What does British Society of Soil Science think it is for, @pdhallett.bsky.social ?
July 7, 2025 at 5:08 AM
£440 for a two-day meeting in Manchester, about £10 short of what EGU costs for 5 days in Vienna. What does British Society of Soil Science think it is for, @pdhallett.bsky.social ?
‘The pope is Peruvian’: elation in country where pontiff served as bishop www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m....
‘The pope is Peruvian’: elation in country where pontiff served as bishop
Leo XIV celebrated as second Latin American pope having spent many years in Peru’s church
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May 9, 2025 at 5:14 AM
‘The pope is Peruvian’: elation in country where pontiff served as bishop www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m....
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“‘Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers,’ Francis wrote in his last meditations on Good Friday. ‘Theirs is the construction site of Hell.’”
April 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“‘Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers,’ Francis wrote in his last meditations on Good Friday. ‘Theirs is the construction site of Hell.’”
Visiting Highgate Cemetery
April 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Visiting Highgate Cemetery
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This, on capitalism’s devaluing human life, is important.
Resist Britain's slide into an anti-human dystopia
The shameful passage of the assisted dying Bill where safeguards have been all but jettisoned is symptomatic of a hyper-liberalised society where the cult of individualism reigns supreme, argues KEVIN...
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March 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This, on capitalism’s devaluing human life, is important.
Ornithological distractions in Harare this morning. Red eyed doves, laughing doves, red waxbill, bulbul, weaver bird and a purple-crested turaco (lourie).
March 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Ornithological distractions in Harare this morning. Red eyed doves, laughing doves, red waxbill, bulbul, weaver bird and a purple-crested turaco (lourie).
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The Tories trashed Dfid's international reputation for efficiency and expertise.
Labour came in and decided that the Development portfolio was a part-time Government job.
And then they brought in swinging cuts.
Not sure why I wasted my time voting for them.
The Tories trashed Dfid's international reputation for efficiency and expertise.
Labour came in and decided that the Development portfolio was a part-time Government job.
And then they brought in swinging cuts.
Not sure why I wasted my time voting for them.
US isn’t first country to dismantle its foreign aid office − here’s what happened after the UK killed its version of USAID
In 2020, British Conservatives cited cost-cutting to force the UK’s foreign aid office into a merger. Five years later, it hasn’t recovered its budget or expertise.
theconversation.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:35 AM
theconversation.com/us-isnt-firs....
The Tories trashed Dfid's international reputation for efficiency and expertise.
Labour came in and decided that the Development portfolio was a part-time Government job.
And then they brought in swinging cuts.
Not sure why I wasted my time voting for them.
The Tories trashed Dfid's international reputation for efficiency and expertise.
Labour came in and decided that the Development portfolio was a part-time Government job.
And then they brought in swinging cuts.
Not sure why I wasted my time voting for them.
Reposted by Murray Lark 🇿🇼
Inconsistent approaches to how sex is recorded in publicly-funded research has led to “widespread loss” of data over past decade, warns government-commissioned review by @profalices.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/widespr...
‘Widespread loss’ of sex data in gender question confusion
‘Default target’ of sex questions should be sex at birth, with ‘male’ and ‘female’ the possible answers, says government-commissioned review
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March 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Inconsistent approaches to how sex is recorded in publicly-funded research has led to “widespread loss” of data over past decade, warns government-commissioned review by @profalices.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/widespr...
Kopjes at Chiremba bear Harare. See Ollier's Two cycle theory of tropical pedagogy for one hypothesis about their origin
March 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Kopjes at Chiremba bear Harare. See Ollier's Two cycle theory of tropical pedagogy for one hypothesis about their origin
Locust on a Euphorbia milii, Alex Park, Harare
March 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Locust on a Euphorbia milii, Alex Park, Harare
Much respect to Anneliese Dodds for her principled stand. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Anneliese Dodds resigns over Keir Starmer’s decision to cut aid budget
Exclusive: International development minister warns it will be ‘impossible’ to retain funding in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine
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February 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Much respect to Anneliese Dodds for her principled stand. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Currently back home in Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 doing a teaching block at UZ. My walk back each evening through northern Harare passes jacaranda and other exotic trees, but pleased to see this Erythrina abysinnica, an honest indigenous African tree, holding its own.
February 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Currently back home in Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 doing a teaching block at UZ. My walk back each evening through northern Harare passes jacaranda and other exotic trees, but pleased to see this Erythrina abysinnica, an honest indigenous African tree, holding its own.
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Loving and Merciful God,
We come before You in prayer, lifting up Your servant, Pope Francis, in his time of need.
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We come before You in prayer, lifting up Your servant, Pope Francis, in his time of need.
cafod.org.uk/pray/prayer-...
Prayer for the health of Pope Francis
We join our voices with all those around the world who are praying for Pope Francis' health.
cafod.org.uk
February 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Loving and Merciful God,
We come before You in prayer, lifting up Your servant, Pope Francis, in his time of need.
cafod.org.uk/pray/prayer-...
We come before You in prayer, lifting up Your servant, Pope Francis, in his time of need.
cafod.org.uk/pray/prayer-...
Harare limbering up for more rain, while I think about dambos.
February 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Harare limbering up for more rain, while I think about dambos.
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The people of Europe stand with Ukraine against the threat of a false peace as much as brutal war. Because of our shared history. Because of our shared future. Because it is just. Because it is necessary. And because they deserve nothing less. Don't abandon them. #SlavaUkraini
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"Don't Abandon Them" - Marsh Family adaptation of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" about Ukraine
YouTube video by Marsh Family
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February 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The people of Europe stand with Ukraine against the threat of a false peace as much as brutal war. Because of our shared history. Because of our shared future. Because it is just. Because it is necessary. And because they deserve nothing less. Don't abandon them. #SlavaUkraini
youtu.be/u8GftJEa4_8
youtu.be/u8GftJEa4_8
Visiting IITA at Ibadan, Nigeria, with @Rothamsted colleagues for project planning. A beautiful site with forest and wetland as well as field plots and labs.
January 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Visiting IITA at Ibadan, Nigeria, with @Rothamsted colleagues for project planning. A beautiful site with forest and wetland as well as field plots and labs.
This new paper, with colleagues at World Bank, uses pilot survey data to assess options for augmenting standard "household surveys" with soil sampling to provide information on soil quality to go with dietary and socio-economic data.
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authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00…
December 29, 2024 at 5:16 AM
This new paper, with colleagues at World Bank, uses pilot survey data to assess options for augmenting standard "household surveys" with soil sampling to provide information on soil quality to go with dietary and socio-economic data.
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00…
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00…