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Tom Sizmur
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Soil Scientist at the University of Reading interested in biogeochemistry, regenerative agriculture, soil health, sustainable food, environmental pollution, soil food webs, organic amendments, and biodiversity https://sites.google.com/site/tomsizmur/home
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We're recruiting a Postdoc in Soil and Crop Sciences to work on the LEGUMINOSE Project during the final year to collect additional data in the field and the laboratory, undertake data analysis, write papers, and share the findings with stakeholders. Apply online: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Picture of a row of lupin plants with purple flowers intercropped with a row of wheat plants in alternate rows
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Webinar on climate smart cocoa well underway and this is the view of the team behind the scenes www.linkedin.com/posts/tomsiz...
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February 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Check out our new publication that demonstrates methylmercury sorption to microplastic fibers is orders of magniture lower than concentrations in seston (suspended particles comprising algae/bacteria) and doesn't elevate methylmercury exposure to fiber ingesting organisms.
doi.org/10.1093/etoj...
Figure showing methylmercury concentrations in seston reported in a global meta-analysis by Wu et al. (2019) alongside predicted concentrations of MeHg sorbed to polyethylene terephthalate microplastic fibers based on the same concentrations in water, predicted using parameters of the Langmuir, Freundlich, and Brunauer–Emmett–Teller sorption models. Regardless of which model parameters were used to predict the hypothetical sorption of MeHg to PET microplastic fibers at realistic environmental concentrations, the median sorption to fibers was more than four orders of magnitude lower than the concentrations of MeHg observed in seston.
January 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Sam Kehoe asks “Should we ferment our food waste?” at the UDST Zero Waste workshop.
Sam Kehoe presenting a PowerPoint slide on anaerobic fermentation to an audience
January 9, 2025 at 6:31 AM