Paul Hallett
@pdhallett.bsky.social
Professor in Soil Physics at U. Aberdeen. President British Society of Soil Science. Researching solutions to food and environmental security, mainly interactions between plants, microorganisms and the physical behaviour of soil.
Halfway point on a trip to @lancasteruni.bsky.social for a PhD viva.
May 14, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Halfway point on a trip to @lancasteruni.bsky.social for a PhD viva.
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Really enjoying my time in 🇪🇹 as part of the CROSSROADS -SSA project. Looking at #underutilsed #plants and investigating their potential for improving #soilhealth.
Great day in the field yesterday at some agropastoral plots south of Hawassa.
Great day in the field yesterday at some agropastoral plots south of Hawassa.
March 13, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Really enjoying my time in 🇪🇹 as part of the CROSSROADS -SSA project. Looking at #underutilsed #plants and investigating their potential for improving #soilhealth.
Great day in the field yesterday at some agropastoral plots south of Hawassa.
Great day in the field yesterday at some agropastoral plots south of Hawassa.
Day 2 of meetings in Hawassa, Ethiopia is planning for CROSSROADS-SSA led by Jo Smith This project explores under-utilised plants to restore soils through biodiversity. An add-on is a rainfall siimulator we built last week to explore soil erosion mitigation. @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Day 2 of meetings in Hawassa, Ethiopia is planning for CROSSROADS-SSA led by Jo Smith This project explores under-utilised plants to restore soils through biodiversity. An add-on is a rainfall siimulator we built last week to explore soil erosion mitigation. @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social
Day 1 of project meetings in Hawassa, starting off with SMILE Project, Ethiopia . Great work making soil restoration a marketable opportunity to improve rural incomes at the same time as the environment. Led by Awdenegest Moges (Dr.) from Hawassa University.
March 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Day 1 of project meetings in Hawassa, starting off with SMILE Project, Ethiopia . Great work making soil restoration a marketable opportunity to improve rural incomes at the same time as the environment. Led by Awdenegest Moges (Dr.) from Hawassa University.
First year soil science practical to >180 students. I love teaching this one since its my only chance to get the entire @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social Biology (some some Geoscience) students interested in soils.
February 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
First year soil science practical to >180 students. I love teaching this one since its my only chance to get the entire @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social Biology (some some Geoscience) students interested in soils.
Happy Friday -"You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game," www.cbc.ca/sports/hocke...
McDavid snaps overtime winner as Canada trumps United States in 4 Nations Face-Off final | CBC Sports
Connor McDavid scored at 8:18 of overtime as Canada defeated the United States 3-2 in a riveting 4 Nations Face-Off final Thursday.
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February 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Happy Friday -"You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game," www.cbc.ca/sports/hocke...
2nd year practical on soil compaction and root growth. PhD student Faraj Elasloul explaining root growth vs penetration resistance to one student.
February 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
2nd year practical on soil compaction and root growth. PhD student Faraj Elasloul explaining root growth vs penetration resistance to one student.
Cool PhD project combatting soil erosion in Ethiopia with indigenous agricultural plants. Funded by @ukri.org QUARTILES DLA and complementary to a couple new projects with Ethiopian scientists funded by REDAA and GCBC so you will be surrounded by a team.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
January 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Cool PhD project combatting soil erosion in Ethiopia with indigenous agricultural plants. Funded by @ukri.org QUARTILES DLA and complementary to a couple new projects with Ethiopian scientists funded by REDAA and GCBC so you will be surrounded by a team.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Nice article. Little steps make up science.
This week’s newsletter talks about why science is so hard, or at least one reason….this was something I struggled with at the beginning of my PhD.
I wonder if other people feel or felt the same way? Let me know….
#AcademicSky
open.substack.com/pub/matthias...
I wonder if other people feel or felt the same way? Let me know….
#AcademicSky
open.substack.com/pub/matthias...
Why science is hard, or at least one reason why it is difficult
And how to cope (at least with this one particular aspect)
open.substack.com
January 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Nice article. Little steps make up science.
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Still time to apply to this PhD studentship to join my group, to be co-supervised by @pdhallett.bsky.social, Jo Smith (UoA) and Fiona Fraser (SRUC) at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social and @srucnews.bsky.social
Deadline to apply 17th January!
Deadline to apply 17th January!
🔊Job offers!📢. We will have a few post-doc and PhD studentship positions to join our research team in Aberdeen. Please apply or disseminate the first one below on:
📢 Soil microbial growth and resilience to environmental change
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
📢 Soil microbial growth and resilience to environmental change
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
EASTBIO: Soil microbial growth and resilience to environmental change. at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EASTBIO: Soil microbial growth and resilience to environmental change. at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
January 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Still time to apply to this PhD studentship to join my group, to be co-supervised by @pdhallett.bsky.social, Jo Smith (UoA) and Fiona Fraser (SRUC) at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social and @srucnews.bsky.social
Deadline to apply 17th January!
Deadline to apply 17th January!
I have just started as President of the British Society of Soil Science. This is a tremendous organisation with over 900 members, spanning from students to educators, technicians, scientists, professionals and basically anyone with an interest in soils. Read more- soils.org.uk/blog/welcome...
Welcome from our new President - British Society of Soil Science
Professor Paul Hallett from the University of Aberdeen has officially commenced his term as British Society of Soil Science President for 2025 and 2026, as of 1 January. Prof Hallett works in the Scho...
soils.org.uk
January 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I have just started as President of the British Society of Soil Science. This is a tremendous organisation with over 900 members, spanning from students to educators, technicians, scientists, professionals and basically anyone with an interest in soils. Read more- soils.org.uk/blog/welcome...
Up in Shetland for Christmas. Passed a sheep that looks like a sheepdog.
December 27, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Up in Shetland for Christmas. Passed a sheep that looks like a sheepdog.
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🎄CHRISTMAS CRACKER 🎄
Advancing nature-based solutions through enhanced #soil health monitoring in the United Kingdom
Giuliani, Warner, Campbell, Lynch, Smith and Smith
#soilscience #soils @statog91.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @eci-bio.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/sum....
Advancing nature-based solutions through enhanced #soil health monitoring in the United Kingdom
Giuliani, Warner, Campbell, Lynch, Smith and Smith
#soilscience #soils @statog91.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @eci-bio.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/sum....
December 17, 2024 at 8:13 PM
🎄CHRISTMAS CRACKER 🎄
Advancing nature-based solutions through enhanced #soil health monitoring in the United Kingdom
Giuliani, Warner, Campbell, Lynch, Smith and Smith
#soilscience #soils @statog91.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @eci-bio.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/sum....
Advancing nature-based solutions through enhanced #soil health monitoring in the United Kingdom
Giuliani, Warner, Campbell, Lynch, Smith and Smith
#soilscience #soils @statog91.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @eci-bio.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/sum....
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🎄CHRISTMAS CRACKER 🎄
The formation of peat—Decreasing density with depth in UK peats
Worrall, Clay, Heckman, Ritson, Evans, & Small
#soil #soilscience #soils @fredworrall.bsky.social @garethclay.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/sum....
The formation of peat—Decreasing density with depth in UK peats
Worrall, Clay, Heckman, Ritson, Evans, & Small
#soil #soilscience #soils @fredworrall.bsky.social @garethclay.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/sum....
December 18, 2024 at 10:13 AM
🎄CHRISTMAS CRACKER 🎄
The formation of peat—Decreasing density with depth in UK peats
Worrall, Clay, Heckman, Ritson, Evans, & Small
#soil #soilscience #soils @fredworrall.bsky.social @garethclay.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/sum....
The formation of peat—Decreasing density with depth in UK peats
Worrall, Clay, Heckman, Ritson, Evans, & Small
#soil #soilscience #soils @fredworrall.bsky.social @garethclay.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/sum....
We have a cake rota at research group meetings. Festive theme today with Xmas Brownies. Discussion topic is Rangifer tarandus soil compaction by Dr Nick Claus.
December 17, 2024 at 9:28 AM
We have a cake rota at research group meetings. Festive theme today with Xmas Brownies. Discussion topic is Rangifer tarandus soil compaction by Dr Nick Claus.
Reposted by Paul Hallett
🎄CHRISTMAS CRACKER🎄
A bioassay of crop response to fertilizer nutrients in #soils from a chronosequence of reclaimed natural gas pipeline rights-of-way
Muitire, Zvomuya, Amarakoon, Adesanya & Mante
#soilscience #soil @umanitoba.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/sum....
A bioassay of crop response to fertilizer nutrients in #soils from a chronosequence of reclaimed natural gas pipeline rights-of-way
Muitire, Zvomuya, Amarakoon, Adesanya & Mante
#soilscience #soil @umanitoba.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/sum....
A bioassay of crop response to fertilizer nutrients in soils from a chronosequence of reclaimed natural gas pipeline rights‐of‐way
Construction of underground pipelines on cropland impacts the soil ecosystem, resulting in crop yield losses persisting for several years after right-of-way (ROW) reclamation. Information on whether ...
doi.org
December 16, 2024 at 10:30 AM
🎄CHRISTMAS CRACKER🎄
A bioassay of crop response to fertilizer nutrients in #soils from a chronosequence of reclaimed natural gas pipeline rights-of-way
Muitire, Zvomuya, Amarakoon, Adesanya & Mante
#soilscience #soil @umanitoba.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/sum....
A bioassay of crop response to fertilizer nutrients in #soils from a chronosequence of reclaimed natural gas pipeline rights-of-way
Muitire, Zvomuya, Amarakoon, Adesanya & Mante
#soilscience #soil @umanitoba.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/sum....
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⏰ NEW POST AVAILABLE ⏰
We are looking for an enthusiastic PhD candidate interested in #remotesensing & #imageanalysis with respect to #underutilisedplants as well as learn more about #soil #health in Sub-Saharan Africa.
You also get to work with me! Please share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
We are looking for an enthusiastic PhD candidate interested in #remotesensing & #imageanalysis with respect to #underutilisedplants as well as learn more about #soil #health in Sub-Saharan Africa.
You also get to work with me! Please share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
EASTBIO: Remote Sensing and Image Analysis of the Distribution of Underutilised Plants for Restoration of Soil Health in Sub-Saharan Africa at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EASTBIO: Remote Sensing and Image Analysis of the Distribution of Underutilised Plants for Restoration of Soil Health in Sub-Saharan Africa at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD...
www.findaphd.com
December 13, 2024 at 3:42 PM
⏰ NEW POST AVAILABLE ⏰
We are looking for an enthusiastic PhD candidate interested in #remotesensing & #imageanalysis with respect to #underutilisedplants as well as learn more about #soil #health in Sub-Saharan Africa.
You also get to work with me! Please share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
We are looking for an enthusiastic PhD candidate interested in #remotesensing & #imageanalysis with respect to #underutilisedplants as well as learn more about #soil #health in Sub-Saharan Africa.
You also get to work with me! Please share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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📣🐝🐝 From bees to crops and back again! Competition funded PhD available in my lab to model feedbacks between pollinators and land use under global change.
Please do get in touch! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Please do get in touch! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
EASTBIO: From bees to crops and back again: coupling pollinators and land use dynamics in a changing world at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EASTBIO: From bees to crops and back again: coupling pollinators and land use dynamics in a changing world at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 13, 2024 at 6:32 PM
📣🐝🐝 From bees to crops and back again! Competition funded PhD available in my lab to model feedbacks between pollinators and land use under global change.
Please do get in touch! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Please do get in touch! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Microplastics in soil PhD project combining soil physics and microbiology - applications due by 17 January. Working with a multidisciplinary supervisory team including @micecoevo.bsky.social . www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
EASTBIO: Microplastics as degraders of soil biological habitat at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EASTBIO: Microplastics as degraders of soil biological habitat at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 13, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Microplastics in soil PhD project combining soil physics and microbiology - applications due by 17 January. Working with a multidisciplinary supervisory team including @micecoevo.bsky.social . www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
There is an open discussion in SOIL on an article about plant physiology and global soil carbon research. If you click on this link you can add your views - egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
Two assigned reviews are already posted, but the more comments the better the discussion.
Two assigned reviews are already posted, but the more comments the better the discussion.
Missing the input: The underrepresentation of plant physiology in global soil carbon research
Abstract. Plant processes regulating the quantity and quality of soil organic carbon inputs such as photosynthesis, above- and belowground plant growth, and root exudation are integral to our understa...
egusphere.copernicus.org
December 13, 2024 at 12:44 PM
There is an open discussion in SOIL on an article about plant physiology and global soil carbon research. If you click on this link you can add your views - egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
Two assigned reviews are already posted, but the more comments the better the discussion.
Two assigned reviews are already posted, but the more comments the better the discussion.
Currently searching papers to write a discussion of a paper and I am having to include 'not biochar' as a search term to keep the hits manageable and relevant.
December 12, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Currently searching papers to write a discussion of a paper and I am having to include 'not biochar' as a search term to keep the hits manageable and relevant.
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Happy world soil day! Just about… 🌱 This year’s theme is “Caring for Soils: Measure, Monitor, Manage” which is about using soil data to make the right decisions.
As someone who loves photography, I wanted to share a barley root system forming its own unique soil. Enjoy!
#worldsoilday #soil #barley
As someone who loves photography, I wanted to share a barley root system forming its own unique soil. Enjoy!
#worldsoilday #soil #barley
December 5, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Happy world soil day! Just about… 🌱 This year’s theme is “Caring for Soils: Measure, Monitor, Manage” which is about using soil data to make the right decisions.
As someone who loves photography, I wanted to share a barley root system forming its own unique soil. Enjoy!
#worldsoilday #soil #barley
As someone who loves photography, I wanted to share a barley root system forming its own unique soil. Enjoy!
#worldsoilday #soil #barley
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When @kkormas.bsky.social advises you to be on bsky you just go and do it, despite the fact that you are 'the social media girl' that everyone comes for advice 🤭🤣
December 10, 2024 at 3:10 PM
When @kkormas.bsky.social advises you to be on bsky you just go and do it, despite the fact that you are 'the social media girl' that everyone comes for advice 🤭🤣
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Looks like I have joined Bluesky... 👋
So here's some 'blue sky' to show you a large part of what I do: #phd on #grasslands ; #plants and #soil #scientist
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So here's some 'blue sky' to show you a large part of what I do: #phd on #grasslands ; #plants and #soil #scientist
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December 11, 2024 at 6:48 AM
Looks like I have joined Bluesky... 👋
So here's some 'blue sky' to show you a large part of what I do: #phd on #grasslands ; #plants and #soil #scientist
👇
So here's some 'blue sky' to show you a large part of what I do: #phd on #grasslands ; #plants and #soil #scientist
👇
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❗️The abstract submission and registration for Rhizosphere 6 is now open! 🌾🌿
www.rhizo6.org/home
please join us in Edinburgh next year for what should be an exciting meeting.
@hutton.ac.uk
#rhizosphere6
www.rhizo6.org/home
please join us in Edinburgh next year for what should be an exciting meeting.
@hutton.ac.uk
#rhizosphere6
Rhizosphere 6 - Rooting for Earth
Welcome to Rhizosphere 6
We are looking forward to welcoming the global rhizosphere research community to Edinburgh for Rhizosphere 6 in June 2025. The meeting will foster exchange, interaction and ...
www.rhizo6.org
December 9, 2024 at 4:03 PM
❗️The abstract submission and registration for Rhizosphere 6 is now open! 🌾🌿
www.rhizo6.org/home
please join us in Edinburgh next year for what should be an exciting meeting.
@hutton.ac.uk
#rhizosphere6
www.rhizo6.org/home
please join us in Edinburgh next year for what should be an exciting meeting.
@hutton.ac.uk
#rhizosphere6