Kay Strain 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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I study climate variability, invasive species, and fire in drylands!! | they/them
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🚨New paper alert! 🚨
We show that root exudation by cheatgrass in dry soils accelerates soil nutrient cycling!
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We show that root exudation by cheatgrass in dry soils accelerates soil nutrient cycling!
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Root Exudation by an Annual Grass Modifies Soil Biogeochemical Cycling: A Mechanism for Invasion
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September 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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🚨New paper alert! 🚨
We show that root exudation by cheatgrass in dry soils accelerates soil nutrient cycling!
rdcu.be/eFwch
We show that root exudation by cheatgrass in dry soils accelerates soil nutrient cycling!
rdcu.be/eFwch
Root Exudation by an Annual Grass Modifies Soil Biogeochemical Cycling: A Mechanism for Invasion
rdcu.be
September 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
🚨New paper alert! 🚨
We show that root exudation by cheatgrass in dry soils accelerates soil nutrient cycling!
rdcu.be/eFwch
We show that root exudation by cheatgrass in dry soils accelerates soil nutrient cycling!
rdcu.be/eFwch
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1. In an alarming move, the Trump administration has banned trans coverage for federal employees and their families, including youth and adults.
It mandates faith-based conversion therapy coverage.
It is one of the largest removals of coverage in the US.
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It mandates faith-based conversion therapy coverage.
It is one of the largest removals of coverage in the US.
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Trump Admin Bans Coverage For Trans Govt Employees, Mandates Conversion Therapy Coverage
The OPM memo states that all health plans for government workers must cover faith-based approaches to gender dysphoria while banning gender affirming care coverage.
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August 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
1. In an alarming move, the Trump administration has banned trans coverage for federal employees and their families, including youth and adults.
It mandates faith-based conversion therapy coverage.
It is one of the largest removals of coverage in the US.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
It mandates faith-based conversion therapy coverage.
It is one of the largest removals of coverage in the US.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Fuels Mediate the Influence of Climate Teleconnections on Wildfires in Dryland Ecosystems
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August 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Fuels Mediate the Influence of Climate Teleconnections on Wildfires in Dryland Ecosystems
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Science folks!🧪
I'm curious what was the best departmental seminar series you ever attended? What were the things that made it successful and fun?
I'm curious what was the best departmental seminar series you ever attended? What were the things that made it successful and fun?
July 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Science folks!🧪
I'm curious what was the best departmental seminar series you ever attended? What were the things that made it successful and fun?
I'm curious what was the best departmental seminar series you ever attended? What were the things that made it successful and fun?
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This morning, smoke from wildfires in Canada fill the skies over the northern Plains and Midwest.
July 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This morning, smoke from wildfires in Canada fill the skies over the northern Plains and Midwest.
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#Wildfire "While the most dramatic spikes in phosphorous, nitrate, organic carbon and sediment generally occurred in the first one to three years, some contaminants lingered for much longer."
Aftermath of wildfires lingers
theconversation.com/after-the-sm...
Aftermath of wildfires lingers
theconversation.com/after-the-sm...
After the smoke clears, a wildfire’s legacy can haunt rivers for years, putting drinking water at risk
Scientists analyzed water quality in 145 watersheds after wildfires and found dramatic spikes in contaminants.
theconversation.com
June 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
#Wildfire "While the most dramatic spikes in phosphorous, nitrate, organic carbon and sediment generally occurred in the first one to three years, some contaminants lingered for much longer."
Aftermath of wildfires lingers
theconversation.com/after-the-sm...
Aftermath of wildfires lingers
theconversation.com/after-the-sm...
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A nice summary from Nevada Today of our recent paper on Pinyon-Juniper woodland dynamics in @pnas.org. Check it out!
www.unr.edu/nevada-today...
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Human intervention or natural dynamics? Rethinking theories on woodland expansion | University of Nevada, Reno
New research challenges long-standing beliefs about rising tree densities in the West’s dry woodlands
www.unr.edu
June 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A nice summary from Nevada Today of our recent paper on Pinyon-Juniper woodland dynamics in @pnas.org. Check it out!
www.unr.edu/nevada-today...
www.unr.edu/nevada-today...
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Stunning image of wildfire smoke from the Manitoba fires across eastern North America over a three day period.
GOES Imagery from the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere at Colorado State University and NOAA
GOES Imagery from the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere at Colorado State University and NOAA
June 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Stunning image of wildfire smoke from the Manitoba fires across eastern North America over a three day period.
GOES Imagery from the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere at Colorado State University and NOAA
GOES Imagery from the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere at Colorado State University and NOAA
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If you think the seasons are feeling… different, you may be right.
Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ecological and evolutionary consequences of changing seasonality
Climate change and other anthropogenic drivers alter seasonal regimes across freshwater, terrestrial, and marine biomes. Seasonal patterns affect ecological and evolutionary processes at different eco...
www.science.org
May 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
If you think the seasons are feeling… different, you may be right.
Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Why has woody plant density been increasing in dryland ecosystems? In a new paper in @pnas.org we show that increasing tree density in pinyon-juniper woodlands could largely be a result of long-term population growth, rather than recent anthropogenic effects. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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May 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Why has woody plant density been increasing in dryland ecosystems? In a new paper in @pnas.org we show that increasing tree density in pinyon-juniper woodlands could largely be a result of long-term population growth, rather than recent anthropogenic effects. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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🌡️⚡Extreme weather whiplash is accelerating
Rapid temperature flips – sudden swings from extreme heat to extreme cold – are happening more often, getting more intense, and hitting faster as the world warms.
The poorest nations are hit hardest.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414...
🧪 #SciComm
Rapid temperature flips – sudden swings from extreme heat to extreme cold – are happening more often, getting more intense, and hitting faster as the world warms.
The poorest nations are hit hardest.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414...
🧪 #SciComm
Rapid flips between warm and cold extremes in a warming world - Nature Communications
Rapid temperature flips between hot and cold extremes will become more frequent, more intense, and more rapid globally by the end of the twenty-first century, which is exacerbated in world’s breadbask...
doi.org
April 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
🌡️⚡Extreme weather whiplash is accelerating
Rapid temperature flips – sudden swings from extreme heat to extreme cold – are happening more often, getting more intense, and hitting faster as the world warms.
The poorest nations are hit hardest.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414...
🧪 #SciComm
Rapid temperature flips – sudden swings from extreme heat to extreme cold – are happening more often, getting more intense, and hitting faster as the world warms.
The poorest nations are hit hardest.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414...
🧪 #SciComm
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The Sacramento weather service office just sent an email detailing product changes amid "critically reduced staffing"
Highlights:
Phone lines no longer answered
Reduced staffing from 6pm to 6am
Forecast discussions issued only 1x/day
Limited social media posting
Advisories mainly issued by day shift
Highlights:
Phone lines no longer answered
Reduced staffing from 6pm to 6am
Forecast discussions issued only 1x/day
Limited social media posting
Advisories mainly issued by day shift
April 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The Sacramento weather service office just sent an email detailing product changes amid "critically reduced staffing"
Highlights:
Phone lines no longer answered
Reduced staffing from 6pm to 6am
Forecast discussions issued only 1x/day
Limited social media posting
Advisories mainly issued by day shift
Highlights:
Phone lines no longer answered
Reduced staffing from 6pm to 6am
Forecast discussions issued only 1x/day
Limited social media posting
Advisories mainly issued by day shift
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Timescale Matters: Finer Temporal Resolution Influences Driver Contributions to Global Soil Respiration
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#carboncycle
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#carboncycle
April 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Timescale Matters: Finer Temporal Resolution Influences Driver Contributions to Global Soil Respiration
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#carboncycle
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#carboncycle
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The Response of Carbon Uptake to Soil Moisture Stress: Adaptation to Climatic Aridity
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April 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The Response of Carbon Uptake to Soil Moisture Stress: Adaptation to Climatic Aridity
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NOAA's Climate Prediction Center released its April 2025 outlooks. Warmer-than-average temperatures are favored across much of the U.S., with drought likely to persist or expand in parts of the southern Plains and Southwest. Read more: www.climate.gov/news-feature...
April 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
NOAA's Climate Prediction Center released its April 2025 outlooks. Warmer-than-average temperatures are favored across much of the U.S., with drought likely to persist or expand in parts of the southern Plains and Southwest. Read more: www.climate.gov/news-feature...
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The Impact Map or Federal Cuts Tracker Map is finally live‼️
Check the 🗺️ out theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m...
Explore how federal cuts are affecting your state or community and share this WIDELY 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Check the 🗺️ out theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m...
Explore how federal cuts are affecting your state or community and share this WIDELY 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
March 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The Impact Map or Federal Cuts Tracker Map is finally live‼️
Check the 🗺️ out theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m...
Explore how federal cuts are affecting your state or community and share this WIDELY 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Check the 🗺️ out theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m...
Explore how federal cuts are affecting your state or community and share this WIDELY 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Cory Booker is on the senate floor right now explaining how climate change in the Great Basin is defined primarily by increasing variability rather than net change, meaning wet years get wetter and dry years get drier.
Cory Booker is on the senate floor right now explaining the difference in the microbiome of different populations of stickleback may be driven by factors you haven't even considered, dude
Cory Booker is on the Senate floor right now explaining how surface mass balance is not the same as total mass balance, and how a positive annual surface mass balance does not imply an ice sheet is actually growing.
April 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Cory Booker is on the senate floor right now explaining how climate change in the Great Basin is defined primarily by increasing variability rather than net change, meaning wet years get wetter and dry years get drier.
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Utah just banned fluoride in drinking water, undoing decades of science-based public health progress.
Time for a fluoride #factcheckfriday:
Time for a fluoride #factcheckfriday:
March 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Utah just banned fluoride in drinking water, undoing decades of science-based public health progress.
Time for a fluoride #factcheckfriday:
Time for a fluoride #factcheckfriday:
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corrected link (oops) esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Limited directional change in mountaintop plant communities over 19 years in western North America
Plant communities on mountain summits are commonly long-lived, cold-adapted perennials with low dispersal ability. These characteristics in tandem with limited area to track suitable conditions make ...
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March 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
corrected link (oops) esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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A Global Meta‐Analysis of Land Use Change on Soil Mineral‐Associated and Particulate Organic Carbon
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March 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A Global Meta‐Analysis of Land Use Change on Soil Mineral‐Associated and Particulate Organic Carbon
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Just a woman scientist saying that no matter what I am allowed to say about climate change to funders/govt, the bogs will have their say.
March 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Just a woman scientist saying that no matter what I am allowed to say about climate change to funders/govt, the bogs will have their say.
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Higher Plant Diversity Does Not Moderate the Influence of Changing Rainfall Regimes on Plant–Soil Feedback of a Semi‐Arid Grassland
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March 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Higher Plant Diversity Does Not Moderate the Influence of Changing Rainfall Regimes on Plant–Soil Feedback of a Semi‐Arid Grassland
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