Dr. Katrin Fleischer
@kaaze7.bsky.social
Ecologist, Scientist, Biogeochemistry of the Amazon rainforest, Roots, Soils, Phosphorus, Trait-based modelling; Assistant Professor, VU Amsterdam; AmazonFACE, Tropiroot
We only have one Amazon. It’s full of priceless wonders and sacredness. Declare Indigenous Lands in the Amazon Free from Extraction! amazonwatch.org/take-action/...
Declare Indigenous Lands in the Amazon Free from Extraction! | Amazon Watch
Add your voice to this global call in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples from across the Amazon.
amazonwatch.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 AM
We only have one Amazon. It’s full of priceless wonders and sacredness. Declare Indigenous Lands in the Amazon Free from Extraction! amazonwatch.org/take-action/...
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🌱 Great energy at our TropiRoot Fall 2025 meeting!
Had a wonderful talk and discussions on several ongoing synthesis projects, data initiatives and new ideas for collaborative work on below ground dynamics!
👇 Read more and join us:
🔗 tropiroottrait.github.io/TropiRootTrait
#TropiRoots #Roots
Had a wonderful talk and discussions on several ongoing synthesis projects, data initiatives and new ideas for collaborative work on below ground dynamics!
👇 Read more and join us:
🔗 tropiroottrait.github.io/TropiRootTrait
#TropiRoots #Roots
October 15, 2025 at 12:52 AM
🌱 Great energy at our TropiRoot Fall 2025 meeting!
Had a wonderful talk and discussions on several ongoing synthesis projects, data initiatives and new ideas for collaborative work on below ground dynamics!
👇 Read more and join us:
🔗 tropiroottrait.github.io/TropiRootTrait
#TropiRoots #Roots
Had a wonderful talk and discussions on several ongoing synthesis projects, data initiatives and new ideas for collaborative work on below ground dynamics!
👇 Read more and join us:
🔗 tropiroottrait.github.io/TropiRootTrait
#TropiRoots #Roots
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Please join this starter pack if you are connected or interested to the TropiRoot Network. go.bsky.app/3jG9f7z
January 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Please join this starter pack if you are connected or interested to the TropiRoot Network. go.bsky.app/3jG9f7z
Could not make it to #BES2024 or to the cross-biome tree root trait and function session @moniqueweemstra.bsky.social and I organized? No worries, I will summarize it here.
December 13, 2024 at 11:29 AM
Could not make it to #BES2024 or to the cross-biome tree root trait and function session @moniqueweemstra.bsky.social and I organized? No worries, I will summarize it here.
Reposted by Dr. Katrin Fleischer
It was an absolute pleasure to be part of the thematic session at #BES2024 lead by @moniqueweemstra.bsky.social and @kaaze7.bsky.social. I presented work on holistic belowground functioning by the #sUnderfoot group including results from @josephtumber.bsky.social and @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 4:51 PM
It was an absolute pleasure to be part of the thematic session at #BES2024 lead by @moniqueweemstra.bsky.social and @kaaze7.bsky.social. I presented work on holistic belowground functioning by the #sUnderfoot group including results from @josephtumber.bsky.social and @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social
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Not a talk, but a *whole Thematic Session* about roots at #BES2024! Chaired by Katrin Fleischer @kaaze7.bsky.social and me! Hope to see y'all there tomorrow morning, or some other time at the meeting @britishecolsoc.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Not a talk, but a *whole Thematic Session* about roots at #BES2024! Chaired by Katrin Fleischer @kaaze7.bsky.social and me! Hope to see y'all there tomorrow morning, or some other time at the meeting @britishecolsoc.bsky.social
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TropiRoot Updates 📢📢📢 TropiRoot leadership team met today to discuss about some exciting stuffs: the upcoming leadership elections, new grant proposals and out reach efforts. If you are interested to joining us or learning more, please visit tropiroottrait.github.io/TropiRootTra... #tropiroots
December 6, 2024 at 4:58 PM
TropiRoot Updates 📢📢📢 TropiRoot leadership team met today to discuss about some exciting stuffs: the upcoming leadership elections, new grant proposals and out reach efforts. If you are interested to joining us or learning more, please visit tropiroottrait.github.io/TropiRootTra... #tropiroots
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On Monday a large demonstration to stop higher education and research cuts will take place 🇳🇱
On Monday the Dutch government will revisit its shortsighted plans.
A failure to do this creates a real setback that neither this nor next generations deserve.
@woinactie.bsky.social #highered #academicsky
On Monday the Dutch government will revisit its shortsighted plans.
A failure to do this creates a real setback that neither this nor next generations deserve.
@woinactie.bsky.social #highered #academicsky
November 24, 2024 at 9:47 AM
On Monday a large demonstration to stop higher education and research cuts will take place 🇳🇱
On Monday the Dutch government will revisit its shortsighted plans.
A failure to do this creates a real setback that neither this nor next generations deserve.
@woinactie.bsky.social #highered #academicsky
On Monday the Dutch government will revisit its shortsighted plans.
A failure to do this creates a real setback that neither this nor next generations deserve.
@woinactie.bsky.social #highered #academicsky
Hi there. I am Katrin and I work for and often enough in the Amazon rainforest. I want to understand how this magical forests functions belowground and build better models for it. Who wants to know more about that?
November 22, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Hi there. I am Katrin and I work for and often enough in the Amazon rainforest. I want to understand how this magical forests functions belowground and build better models for it. Who wants to know more about that?
Going to BES this year? Come to our session on Tree roots and functions.
Only 2.5 wks until the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social meeting! Join us for cross-biome view on Tree Roots and Function chaired by @kaaze7.bsky.social and me. We invited awesome speakers: Claire Fortunel; Grace Handy; Oscar Valverde; Mateus Dantas; Meng Zhou; and @joanabergmann.bsky.social!
November 22, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Going to BES this year? Come to our session on Tree roots and functions.
The eye knows. We know. It’s incredibly painful to just watch on while preventable collapse of our live support system unfolds.
Here's my column this week, about the astonishing moment in which we find ourselves: facing the greatest predicament humankind has ever confronted, and doing sweet FA about it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Picture an all-seeing eye scanning the dying Earth – and then lighting on our ‘solutions’ at Cop29 | George Monbiot
What would it witness in Azerbaijan? A species that knows it is destroying itself but is too greedy to change course, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2024 at 10:41 AM
The eye knows. We know. It’s incredibly painful to just watch on while preventable collapse of our live support system unfolds.
The long-planned protest against the mega cuts on higher education by the Dutch government has been cancelled. One day ahead. Smells like deliberate fear tactics to keep people quiet. nos.nl/l/2544350u
Onderwijsprotest geschrapt, Utrecht vreest geweld pro-Palestijnse demonstranten
De gemeente heeft de organisatie aangeraden om de betoging af te blazen, omdat een pro-Palestina-organisatie die mogelijk met geweld zou willen kapen.
nos.nl
November 13, 2024 at 3:50 PM
The long-planned protest against the mega cuts on higher education by the Dutch government has been cancelled. One day ahead. Smells like deliberate fear tactics to keep people quiet. nos.nl/l/2544350u
Potatoes, maize,cacao 🥔🌽🍫- things we eat daily. We are told who “brought them over” but we are hardly told who we should really thank. Ancient Amazonians cultivated them and many other foods already thousands of years ago in ingenious agroforestry style.
November 13, 2024 at 10:58 AM
Potatoes, maize,cacao 🥔🌽🍫- things we eat daily. We are told who “brought them over” but we are hardly told who we should really thank. Ancient Amazonians cultivated them and many other foods already thousands of years ago in ingenious agroforestry style.
It’s not the time to give up. We are here and you all give me back good energy.
November 12, 2024 at 5:53 PM
It’s not the time to give up. We are here and you all give me back good energy.
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I made a list (or 'starter pack') of Land Surface Modelers, because that's the kind of thing one does on #bluesky. Please tell your friends and also (v. important) TELL ME if you want to be added. We need more people here! go.bsky.app/Mw4tJ3t
November 10, 2024 at 9:58 PM
I made a list (or 'starter pack') of Land Surface Modelers, because that's the kind of thing one does on #bluesky. Please tell your friends and also (v. important) TELL ME if you want to be added. We need more people here! go.bsky.app/Mw4tJ3t
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As we try to deduce how we got here, we shouldn't forget the billionaires who bought this election and spent decades promoting myths to delude us into accepting inequality and divide us by race, class, gender, religion & politics so we don't challenge their power.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Trump’s victory adds record $64bn to wealth of richest top 10
Share surge increases Elon Musk’s fortune by $26bn in a day as Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin and Bill Gates also benefit
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2024 at 11:54 AM
As we try to deduce how we got here, we shouldn't forget the billionaires who bought this election and spent decades promoting myths to delude us into accepting inequality and divide us by race, class, gender, religion & politics so we don't challenge their power.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
It’s understandable to despair and feel hopeless right now. Findings ways to unite and empower is needed more than ever. I just became monthly donor of amazonwatch.org.
Amazon Watch | Protecting the rainforest and our climate in solidarity with Indigenous peoples
For over 25 years, Amazon Watch has worked to protect the Amazon rainforest and defend the rights, lives, and territories of Indigenous peoples.
amazonwatch.org
November 7, 2024 at 10:05 AM
It’s understandable to despair and feel hopeless right now. Findings ways to unite and empower is needed more than ever. I just became monthly donor of amazonwatch.org.
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I'm a climate scientist living in Texas who served as a lead author on the National Climate Assessment under the previous Trump administration. I witnessed first-hand its chilling impact on access to data, funding & publication of research, implementation of solutions, and scientists themselves. 🧵
Trump victory has sweeping climate change consequences
From the endorsement of climate denial to a brain drain of climate scientists, Trump's victory will bring major changes.
www.axios.com
November 6, 2024 at 4:25 PM
I'm a climate scientist living in Texas who served as a lead author on the National Climate Assessment under the previous Trump administration. I witnessed first-hand its chilling impact on access to data, funding & publication of research, implementation of solutions, and scientists themselves. 🧵
Wombats are real. Humans share the world with wombats. Half of my life was wasted for not knowing. Happy wombat day.
Today is World Wombat Day so I must again say that my favourite ever blessing is an Indigenous Australian one and it goes "may the wombat of happiness snuffle through your underbrush"
October 22, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Wombats are real. Humans share the world with wombats. Half of my life was wasted for not knowing. Happy wombat day.
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Dass man in Berlin offenbar die #Anschlusszusage für Postdocs wieder kippen will, weil #WissZeitVG Möglichkeit zur Länderregelung bislang nicht explizit einräumt, zeigt: Das muss sich noch ändern, wir brauchen 1 #Länderöffnungsklausel!
& übrigens, Berlin: Was für 1 fatales Signal an #IchBinHanna 👎
& übrigens, Berlin: Was für 1 fatales Signal an #IchBinHanna 👎
Seit Samstag ist sie überall: die #Länderöffnungsklausel, die in Sachen #WissZeitVG doch noch Fortschritte bringen könnte. Was es mit diesem Vorschlag von @rosefeldt.bsky.social auf sich hat & warum aktuelle #BerlHG Entwicklung eindrücklich die Notwendigkeit einer solchen Klausel zeigt: #IchBinHanna
Länderöffnungsklausel im WissZeitVG: Ermöglichen statt Blockieren!
Seit Samstag liegt ein Vorschlag auf dem Tisch, der das Zeug hat, die verfahrene WissZeitVG-Debatte doch noch auf die Zielgerade einer konstruktiven Lösung zu befördern: die Länderöffnungsklausel!
arbeitinderwissenschaft.substack.com
October 22, 2024 at 7:30 AM
Dass man in Berlin offenbar die #Anschlusszusage für Postdocs wieder kippen will, weil #WissZeitVG Möglichkeit zur Länderregelung bislang nicht explizit einräumt, zeigt: Das muss sich noch ändern, wir brauchen 1 #Länderöffnungsklausel!
& übrigens, Berlin: Was für 1 fatales Signal an #IchBinHanna 👎
& übrigens, Berlin: Was für 1 fatales Signal an #IchBinHanna 👎
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Our ambitious experiment in the Amazon rainforest - AmazonFACE
FACE: Free Air CO2 Enrichment
6 rings of towers: 3 will keep CO2 levels within them high so we can study how rainforest trees respond. eg does growth keep increasing at high CO2?
Crucial knowledge for calculating future carbon budgets
FACE: Free Air CO2 Enrichment
6 rings of towers: 3 will keep CO2 levels within them high so we can study how rainforest trees respond. eg does growth keep increasing at high CO2?
Crucial knowledge for calculating future carbon budgets
September 13, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Our ambitious experiment in the Amazon rainforest - AmazonFACE
FACE: Free Air CO2 Enrichment
6 rings of towers: 3 will keep CO2 levels within them high so we can study how rainforest trees respond. eg does growth keep increasing at high CO2?
Crucial knowledge for calculating future carbon budgets
FACE: Free Air CO2 Enrichment
6 rings of towers: 3 will keep CO2 levels within them high so we can study how rainforest trees respond. eg does growth keep increasing at high CO2?
Crucial knowledge for calculating future carbon budgets