My favourite aspect of our research is interdiscipinarity. Thinking about plant physiology, global change, machine learning, instrument building, then deep in irish winter mud as we install some more minirhizotron tubes with @ianpalk.bsky.social and @ryanbrennan.bsky.social Cool science coming up!

Phoebe (third from right) won a prize for her poster at @sebiology.bsky.social Plant.Ecophys. Summer School in Portugal last month! Thats the first prize @psb-trinity.bsky.social has ever won, on our first chance, from the first phd student! I'm very proud! 😀

Nice to be back in Edinburgh this week for #rhizosphere7. Now I'm full of interesting ideas, met lots of new and old #root and #soil friends, and even seen the inside of the building I graduated in (it was being renovated back then and full of scaffolding). Super worth it 🌱

Last minute twist on these positions: they are available for EVERYONE, not just EU nationals 🎉 Closing date is tomorrow on some adverts (I won't be able to find and fix them) but we will consider late applications through to early next week (Monday 16th) #roots #rootecolology #biogeochemistry #phd

⏰ I’m advertising not 1️⃣ but 3️⃣ positions!⏰, one RA and two #PhD s (fully funded 4 year EU/UK fees) as part of my team at @tcddublin.bsky.social looking at how roots work in natural ecosystems and influence greenhouse gas fluxes 🌏 🍃 🌲 💻

we're back again with our EGU session on vegetation responses to global change, in Vienna next year at #EGU25! We like submissions at different scales. Hope to see you there (with an abstract submitted 😜) meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

big milestone for the Plant-Soil Function group at Trinity today as Nadja baked our first ever research cake from the #RootCheck Research Ireland #NationalChallengeFund
#NextGenerationEU project (soil corable chocolate cake)

Here's me at #IUFRO2024 , talking about a topic dear to my heart - forest canopy nitrogen uptake, how trees in the anthropocene may cheat N competition with microbes by taking up N from deposition over the canopy- thanks to a dissemination grant from the CLEANFOREST cost action

Rare snow in Ireland plus a feathered friend

Our session on 🌿vegetation function and global change 🌍(at any scale) 🛰️📏is back for the 5th time 🎉 We'd love to see you in Vienna or online at #EGU24 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/sessio... w/ co-convenors M DeKauwe, V Rolo, Y Luo and @scaldararu.bsky.social

Very happy to have contributed to this comparison of #minirhizotron segmentation methods. Generalisation is very important for new techniques doi.org/10.1186/s130...

is bluesky for job adverts? i have a 1.5 year (+?) 👩‍🔬 postdoc 👨🏽‍🔬position here at 🌿TCD Dublin🌿 identifing indicators of root health for new tech development as part of a new project! (more info on that when i'm allowed...)