Uriel Menalled
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Uriel Menalled
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Postdoctoral researcher at Virginia Tech studying the #agroecology of apple orchard systems 🍎. #Rstats, #ecology #sustainability, #FunctionalDiversity
Sampling plant and soil microbe communities in apple orchards across the mountains and valleys of Virginia!

The prettiest field season I’ve ever had!

Now time for some chemical analyses of apple phytochemicals 🧪🍎
October 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Here we go again!
August 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I can’t access the Fourth National Climate Assessment—the Trump admin took it down. It shows extreme precipitation will rise across much of the U.S., supporting my case for tillage reduction research. Farmers and researchers need this info!

Below is an old screenshot.

#ClimateChange #Farming
August 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Do you ever get frustrated when you open old code and find that functions that ran in the past were deprecated?

Enter {renv}, a package that stores all package version information in a within-project library! I've been using it for reproducible analysis and long-term code storage.
#Rstats
July 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Shout out to the #rstats {performance} package. Its check_model() function is super helpful for model evaluation.

#statistics #STEM
June 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
As someone who enjoys meat but is concerned about the environment, I found it interesting to see that poultry is relatively "light" in terms of GHG emissions per 100 g of protein and land use. Is there a catch to eating chicken that I'm missing?

Full paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
June 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Just so we are all clear, the Trump administration has not reduced total government spending. The graph below compares the last two years of spending (blue lines) to Trump (red line).

Laying off federal workers and cutting research funding undermines us.
April 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Three years of intercrop diversity left no legacy effects on weed-crop competition, likely because intensive tillage reduced diversity legacies. In contrast, broader crop system differences created lasting legacies that significantly influenced competition.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
December 18, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Interested in no-till planting winter wheat into summer-killing cover crops? We found that no-till planting winter wheat into a rolled-crimped buckwheat mulch resulted in reduced weed biomass and equivalent yields compared to a tilled control.
🧪 #ag

acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
December 13, 2024 at 4:17 PM
In an analysis of long-term weed community data, we found that cropping system management impacts weed seedbanks. However, yearly variation in crop growth affects weed biomass.

I was honored to be part of this collaborative effort between Cornell and INRAé, led by Jake Allen
doi.org/10.1002/eap....
November 26, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Promising use of remote sensing to study functional diversity at a landscape level. These authors linked NSF-NEON data with sentinal-2 data. Really cool use of #openacess data!

Plain text summary: phys.org/news/2024-04...
Peer-review paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
November 26, 2024 at 2:59 PM