a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐

2) But the real elephant in the room is *your effect of interest*. @aaronjfisher.bsky.social is right in that statistical significance doesn't tell you if an effect is practically or theoretically meaningful. But that neither means that p-values are useless, nor does it depend on the sample size. >

You can find anything on the Earth's surface. Anything detectable from space using Earth Index, an AI tool that you train quickly by selecting examples of your target (i.e., farms, wastewater, etc). What an epic tool from @earthgenome.org for geospatial analysis: www.earthgenome.org/earth-index#...

🚀 🌪️ Launched Storm Events Database today w/ #thecommons & #internetofwatercoalition. We're unlocking 1.9 million US severe weather events from 1950 to the present! 🔗https://ourcommoncode.org/digital-service-case-studies/sed Explore the platform: stormevents.internetofwater.app

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 🧪🍎

New "Fidelity" #rstats package release with Abbey Neat can quantify and compare the specificity of #microbiome communities associated with certain hosts or groups! It intelligently handles rare taxa removal. And check that handcrafted hex sticker! 😍

I'm excited about this nice way to collect plot-level species observations, calculating percent coverage or species counts! If you haven't checked our Pl@ntNet, I find it to be the best app for plant ID. @plantnet.bsky.social #PlantEcology #OpenData #CitizenScience youtu.be/BU4ckJgRlHg?...

Source: ScienceDaily search.app/M7ugv

After a master's, PhD, and postdoc at Cornell, I now set my sights on Virginia Tech, where I will be doing my second postdoc. At VTech, I'll be in Susan Whitehead's lab studying how plant and soil microbe diversity impacts apple quality. I'm looking forward to learning some chemical ecology!

Okay, this is super cool! I wonder if we could use some similar approach to think about the diversity of ancient cropping systems 🤔. Anyone want to collaborate? #Agroecology #STEM #Paleobotany

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

Predictions of climate change are uncertain. That’s why we need to keep finding out how our atmosphere works, says Tim Palmer go.nature.com/414QrVV

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

Forest cover enhances pest control by birds and bats independently of vineyard management intensity 🌲🧪 Highlights the ecological and economic value of birds and bats as natural pest control agents in vineyards 🦇🌏 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Shout out to the #rstats {performance} package. Its check_model() function is super helpful for model evaluation. #statistics #STEM

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...

Two global meta-analyses of cover cropping report that, on average, cover crops increase the yield of following crops by 2.6% (Peng et al. 2024) to 9.1% (He et al. 2025) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Interested in modelling multiple ecosystem services and their interactions but don't know where to start? Check out our OA new paper! We combined expert knowledge and network analyses to build conceptual system maps and guide data-gathering efforts. 🌎🧪🌐 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Conventional and organic farms with more intensive management have lower soil functionality | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In putting together the new version of the Mapping with R course, I came across lots of great resources for learning to make maps in #rstats. Here are some of my top recommendations, all of which are available online for free.

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.

As someone who researches greenhouse gases, I’m absolutely sickened by this. What’s next??Smoking is healthy? Mercury is great in cocktails?

This #rstats package 📦 is absolute treasure trove🤌🚀 Super well done, kudos to the authors👏👏👏

New #rstats pkg gander is now on CRAN! gander is a coding assistant that knows how describe the objects in your global R environment. So, when you're working with data, LLMs will know the names, types, and distributions of data columns, resulting in much more effective completions.

It does not take long (<3 mins) to send a message to your US representatives urging them to protect our public lands. Our current admin wants to sell our public lands monumentsforall.org

Want to learn more about random effects? Here is a GiHub repo I made for a random effects workshop. It includes talk notes and an R code exercise. github.com/UrielMenalle...

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

"AMF increased soil carbon by an average of 21%. However, this result was context-dependent. Controlled laboratory experiments... showed a significant net positive effect... In field experiments, the impact of AMF on soil organic carbon depended on soil type and initial organic matter content."

"If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares" Imagine 3 billion more hectares for fully wild ecosystems. Diet is THE elephant in the room when it comes to reversing nature collapse. ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

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🤔 Looking for food system research inspiration? The Plotline has a great variety of open-source agriculture data. I recommend a visit to their website: theplotline.org

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...

Not long ago, Debby and I took a crack at producing a comic on various topics in ecology. What resulted was “Ecology Stories #1”, on the topic of Biodiversity. michaelkaspari.org/2022/02/04/i...

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/...

Looking to fold @uscensusbureau data into your workflows? Our latest blog shows how to use #tidycensus to explore & visualize social vulnerability indicators in the Western U.S., with #reproducible code! 🔗: waterdata.usgs.gov/blog/acs-maps/ #rstats #DataViz #WaterInsecurity #OpenScience

New paper 🚨 In this age of Internet education and AI, classrooms must offer hands-on activities that promote critical thinking. Last year, I taught a course on cover crops with educators at six universities across the US; hands-on activities were a big part of our #curriculum. 🧵 1/3

We have used a climate dataset for the AUS Northeast to model optimal #covercrop planting dates at the farm level. This ARCO-ERA5 dataset would allow similar models globally. Local performance measurements are needed to generate the algorithm.

Can't happen fast enough! e360.yale.edu/features/tre...

An amazing paper describing a way to create a sampling protocol for species based on ecological suitability and road networks. Critical for ecologists interested in invasive species. The best part about this paper: it provides an #Rstats package and website for straightforward implementation.

Trait-based habitat filtering guides my study of weed community assembly and might also apply to soil microbe community assembly: "Soil microbiomes exhibited a small, but highly consistent and phylogenetically conserved, response under the imposed extreme event."

I created a new starter pack for farmers, agronomists, researchers, and supporters of #soilhealth and #regenerativeagriculture, from small farms to watersheds to global scale adoption. Let's all collaborate and learn from each other. Let me know if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/SWVwnSi

A really really good point about climate change! It's not just the averages that should concern us: increasingly "extreme" events accelerate the predicted climate change disruptions.

Hey y'all. I've created an #agroecology starter pack for folks interested in how we create, manage, research, and advocate for more sustainable agricultural systems across the world. Please let me know if you'd like to be added! Currently v. short list as I'm new to Bluesky. go.bsky.app/6d3FswT

Turns out the more farm diversification the better when it comes to ecological AND social outcomes! Thanks so much to Laura Rasmussen, Ingo Grass, Zia Mehrabi, and Claire Kremen for leading this amazing synthesis effort and team... Check out the paper in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Food has a big climate problem. But we can fix it. drawdown.org/insights/fix...

My research indicates that the more phylogenetically related crops and weeds are, the more intensely they will compete. When crops are established before weeds, this can be used as a method of targeted weed management. #agroecology #phylogenetics doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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....

Finally, I get to analyze the final chapter of my PhD, looking at various cropping sequences and management tactics for no-till organic crop production—summarized in a video I made below. If anyone has experience using machine learning in #agronomy experiments, let's chat! vimeo.com/731060656

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...

Conserving many small areas is better for biodiversity than conserving a few large areas—assuming some level of connectivity. Fascinating use of #modeling to address #sustinability issues!