Heath Goertzen
@heathgoertzen.bsky.social
PhD student, UC Davis Soil and Biogeochemistry. Climate change, ecosystem processes, agriculture. Trying my best. Views are my own.
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Sometimes you’ve got a brilliant idea, you’ve just got to write it down, but you can’t find a napkin
NOTE ON A SMALL FRUIT-EATING BAT FROM THE MIDDLE HOLOCENE OF LAGOA SANTA, EASTERN BRAZIL https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.13.628429v1
December 18, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Sometimes you’ve got a brilliant idea, you’ve just got to write it down, but you can’t find a napkin
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Scientists are expected to do peer reviewing but no one tells you HOW. After talking with several folks about this today at #AGU24 , it seems a good time to link to this presentation I made several years ago -- feel free to use/share! docs.google.com/presentation...
Effective, efficient, and fair peer reviewing 2023
Effective, efficient, and fair peer reviewing Ben Bond-Lamberty Based on a presentation at the AGU Early Career Scientist Workshop, 2019 1
docs.google.com
December 12, 2024 at 10:18 PM
Scientists are expected to do peer reviewing but no one tells you HOW. After talking with several folks about this today at #AGU24 , it seems a good time to link to this presentation I made several years ago -- feel free to use/share! docs.google.com/presentation...
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Got U.S. undergrads looking for paid summer internships? There's a lot of great science research happening across DOE labs. Each lab has a different mission and scope, but many include geosciences research in addition to computing, physics, chemistry, and more. ⚒️🧪
Also, the U.S. Department of Energy has an undergrad student internship program with opportunities across *all* the doe national labs (in addition to local internships organized by individual labs).
But the application deadline is coming up fast: January 8!
science.osti.gov/wdts/suli
But the application deadline is coming up fast: January 8!
science.osti.gov/wdts/suli
Science Undergraduate Laboratory... | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)
The SULI program is sponsored and managed by the DOE Office of Science’s, Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) in collaboration with the DOE laboratories/facilities.
science.osti.gov
December 15, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Got U.S. undergrads looking for paid summer internships? There's a lot of great science research happening across DOE labs. Each lab has a different mission and scope, but many include geosciences research in addition to computing, physics, chemistry, and more. ⚒️🧪
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State of SARS-CoV-2 evolution (Nov. 2024).
November 19, 2024 at 4:15 PM
State of SARS-CoV-2 evolution (Nov. 2024).
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Something I find useful from base #R is the dput command.
When I have an object but I want to recreate it and copy into my script I chuck it into dput and it gives me the code that could be used to create it.
#Rstats #Datascience
When I have an object but I want to recreate it and copy into my script I chuck it into dput and it gives me the code that could be used to create it.
#Rstats #Datascience
December 7, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Something I find useful from base #R is the dput command.
When I have an object but I want to recreate it and copy into my script I chuck it into dput and it gives me the code that could be used to create it.
#Rstats #Datascience
When I have an object but I want to recreate it and copy into my script I chuck it into dput and it gives me the code that could be used to create it.
#Rstats #Datascience
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as both a scientist and an occasional scientific illustrator i'm pretty grossed out by a journal using AI imagery. not only are AI image generators fundamentally based in plagiarism (y'know, the thing we're really not supposed to do?), they're a major source of emissions + environmental degradation
🌎The Plant Ecology of Nature-Based Solutions
A Special Feature providing:
🔸focused analysis of the #plant #ecology of NbS
🔸key insights, challenges & opportunities for future research
#COP29 #COP16Biodiversity 🧵1/13 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652745...
A Special Feature providing:
🔸focused analysis of the #plant #ecology of NbS
🔸key insights, challenges & opportunities for future research
#COP29 #COP16Biodiversity 🧵1/13 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652745...
SPECIAL FEATURE: THE PLANT ECOLOGY OF NATURE‐BASED SOLUTIONS: Journal of Ecology: Vol 112, No 11
<em>Journal of Ecology</em> publishes original research on all aspects of the plant ecology (including algae), in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 2, 2024 at 12:15 AM
as both a scientist and an occasional scientific illustrator i'm pretty grossed out by a journal using AI imagery. not only are AI image generators fundamentally based in plagiarism (y'know, the thing we're really not supposed to do?), they're a major source of emissions + environmental degradation
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Excited to share our new study in @naturecomms.bsky.social showing that soil fungi, unlike bacteria, remain fully active under severe drought conditions, and also invest in synthesis of storage compounds.
Led by the amazing @loutsi.bsky.social and Alberto Canarini.
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Led by the amazing @loutsi.bsky.social and Alberto Canarini.
Thread 1/2
rdcu.be/d1Tyg
Soil fungi remain active and invest in storage compounds during drought independent of future climate conditions
Nature Communications - How climate change will impact microbial community growth is unclear. Here, the authors use a field experiment with varying global change factors, finding fungal growth more...
rdcu.be
November 29, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Excited to share our new study in @naturecomms.bsky.social showing that soil fungi, unlike bacteria, remain fully active under severe drought conditions, and also invest in synthesis of storage compounds.
Led by the amazing @loutsi.bsky.social and Alberto Canarini.
Thread 1/2
rdcu.be/d1Tyg
Led by the amazing @loutsi.bsky.social and Alberto Canarini.
Thread 1/2
rdcu.be/d1Tyg
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I just casually added 3500 (!) unique locations to our
SoilTemp worldmap. Much more to come!
Want to work with this data? Still a few days left to apply for our postdoc (or pre-doc) SoilTemp database-position!
---> www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...
SoilTemp worldmap. Much more to come!
Want to work with this data? Still a few days left to apply for our postdoc (or pre-doc) SoilTemp database-position!
---> www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...
January 11, 2024 at 8:54 AM
I just casually added 3500 (!) unique locations to our
SoilTemp worldmap. Much more to come!
Want to work with this data? Still a few days left to apply for our postdoc (or pre-doc) SoilTemp database-position!
---> www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...
SoilTemp worldmap. Much more to come!
Want to work with this data? Still a few days left to apply for our postdoc (or pre-doc) SoilTemp database-position!
---> www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...
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Please help spread the word: we have two open Field Technician positions in longleaf pine woodland restoration, with a project to develop and test predictive restoration models in South Carolina. Apply by 2/19/2024
www.brudviglab.com/post/we-have...
www.brudviglab.com/post/we-have...
January 8, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Please help spread the word: we have two open Field Technician positions in longleaf pine woodland restoration, with a project to develop and test predictive restoration models in South Carolina. Apply by 2/19/2024
www.brudviglab.com/post/we-have...
www.brudviglab.com/post/we-have...
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"We can just capture the carbon"
IT WAS ALREADY CAPTURED IN THE GROUND
YOU WERE THE ONE WHO UNCAPTURED IT
YOU KEEP UNCAPTURING IT
YOU DON'T GET CREDIT FOR RECAPTURING A TINY BIT OF IT
IT WAS ALREADY CAPTURED IN THE GROUND
YOU WERE THE ONE WHO UNCAPTURED IT
YOU KEEP UNCAPTURING IT
YOU DON'T GET CREDIT FOR RECAPTURING A TINY BIT OF IT
December 18, 2023 at 5:56 PM
"We can just capture the carbon"
IT WAS ALREADY CAPTURED IN THE GROUND
YOU WERE THE ONE WHO UNCAPTURED IT
YOU KEEP UNCAPTURING IT
YOU DON'T GET CREDIT FOR RECAPTURING A TINY BIT OF IT
IT WAS ALREADY CAPTURED IN THE GROUND
YOU WERE THE ONE WHO UNCAPTURED IT
YOU KEEP UNCAPTURING IT
YOU DON'T GET CREDIT FOR RECAPTURING A TINY BIT OF IT
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Today I learned that carbon footprints were invented by BP and pushed in a mega marketing campaign to shift the conversation from corporations to individuals and I hate everyone.
Except NPR, thanks for the reporting.
Except NPR, thanks for the reporting.
December 7, 2023 at 8:05 AM
Today I learned that carbon footprints were invented by BP and pushed in a mega marketing campaign to shift the conversation from corporations to individuals and I hate everyone.
Except NPR, thanks for the reporting.
Except NPR, thanks for the reporting.
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There is also an official strike fund if you would like to donate givebutter.com/StateScience
California’s scientist union plans to stage the first-ever strike by state civil servants
State employee unions have threatened to strike in the past, but none have ever walked off the job.
ca.finance.yahoo.com
November 10, 2023 at 1:53 AM
There is also an official strike fund if you would like to donate givebutter.com/StateScience
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"The data shows that the number of people becoming destitute is currently outstripping our ability to set up new correctional facilities to imprison them."
Concerning New Study Finds Nation’s Poverty Growing Faster Than Officials Can Build Prisons
WASHINGTON—A concerning new study released Monday by the Federal Bureau of Prisons found that the nation’s poverty is growing faster than officials can build prisons. “The data shows that the nu...
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November 6, 2023 at 4:48 PM
"The data shows that the number of people becoming destitute is currently outstripping our ability to set up new correctional facilities to imprison them."