In all scientists is a crappy little writing elf waiting to be unleashed for a first draft. Mine is nocturnal and works best between 9pm and 2am

How do you take your nitrogen? In Arctic rivers, the answer is, increasingly, “organic.” New #AGUPubs research from @nyutandon.bsky.social, @carnegiescience.bsky.social

A beautiful silvery checkerspot butterfly hanging out in my garden today! Earlier in the season there were a ton of checkerspot caterpillars chowing down on my Maximillian sunflowers (a preferred host plant for the checkerspots).The joys of a native garden! 🌻

A soil scientist’s day at the beach

I’m excited to share this publication, based on the research of my first MS student, Jacob Clements! He conducted a very fun experiment that examined the effect of different soil moisture and wetting patterns on nitrate and phosphate biogeochemistry in riparian soils urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

What the Grapes of Wrath… drove through a little dust storm this week in southwest OK. I’m perpetually shocked that there are still land managers in OK that allow fallow land to sit uncovered and unvegetated for a growing season.

This past month we built 24 rainfall exclusion shelters for our USDA-funded project to study the effects of drought, fertilizer, and hay harvest on soil biogeochemistry and plant community composition! I’m super proud of the team for the hard work!

What a delightful and wild race to attend for the first time in person!

New publication out on the transformation of ferrihydrite in salty systems, with implications for our understanding of iron oxides on Mars! In @agu.org JGR Planets onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Even just looking at images of nature changes our brain and can reduce physical pain, a new study by @maxsteininger.bsky.social and colleagues finds!

I think about this map a lot. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...

We are looking for two postdocs for a synthesis project focused on soil carbon dynamics and warming experiments. If you are excited about applying ML and process-based models to synthesize mechanisms of temperature sensitivity of soil respiration, please apply! lnkd.in/dV2wuGSe lnkd.in/diZiM9HV

“Why do I need NOAA? I’ve got a weather app.” Is equivalent to asking “Why do I need farms? I can go to the supermarket.” www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...

I wrote about NASA, its people and the mission to connect us. slate.com/technology/2...

We R so back #Rstats

Hang this in the Louvre 🔴

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

Beautiful day of fieldwork on the plains! We are setting up rainfall exclusion by nutrient addition plots to understand soil inorganic carbon cycling in response to land use intensification and climate change.

New in Geoderma: "Soil carbon concentration drives anoxic microsites across horizons, textures, and aggregate position in a California grassland" by Emily M Lacroix, Anna Gomes, Alexander S Honeyman, Katie R Huy [...] Meret Aeppli. https://buff.ly/40aIT2B @Stanford @unil @SLAClab @EPFLEngineering

Some very sad news. Dr. Moore's impact in the meteorological community stretched far and wide. Condolences to Dr. Moore's family and his weather colleagues at OU.

Tiffany Legg, PhD candidate in the OK Critical Zone Biogeochemistry Lab, came up with this masterpiece while in a fieldwork planning meeting yesterday.

Not sure where to start with this. Many of the dunefields on the semiarid margin in northern China were increasingly stabilized by vegetation from the late 90s onward (evident from remote sensing and ground observations). In part because of a decline in strong sand-driving winds, along with ...

I’m old enough to remember that in 2015, a detailed report by many scientists found that a dietary pattern higher in plants & lower in animal-based foods was better for both health & sustainability in the US. USDA/HHS argued at the time that sustainability was “out of scope” of dietary guidelines.

An entire bank of posters on finding orphan oil and gas wells

I can almost hear the judgement of my languishing datasets as I buckle down to write a review paper over the holiday

If you're at #AGU2024 check out all the groundbreaking science from CSU's Soil Carbon Solutions Center affiliates. Our team is sharing the latest science on models and data for regenerative land management and soil health, carbon and nutrient dynamics, greenhouse gas MRV, and so much more.

I am not at #AGU24, but my graduate student, Dani Storms, is in DC representing the Oklahoma Critical Zone Biogeochemistry lab group! Check out her poster this afternoon.

🧵 On the day Remco Evenepoel was knocked off his bike by a postal worker and broke multiple bones, the Belgian Postal Group's stock price dropped 2% to a new all-time low... 📉 @escapecollective.bsky.social

Happy world soils day! To celebrate, take a look at this soil profile that lives in my brain rent-free. It is an alluvial soil that has interacted with sulfide- and methane-rich, anoxic groundwater. These interactions have resulted in a lot of cool mineral transformations (and pretty colors)

BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce: We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky! We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct. Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions. Let's get into it!

Hot off the press - New paper assessing the utility of SOC/clay in northeast North America. We found that SOC/clay is too clay biased and that SOC/SOCexpected in pasture systems is much more appropriate tool to assess SOC levels in temperate North America. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I’m told the mood within the FIA is reflective #F1 #QatarGP

Nearly 60% of people live in cities, and 70% of the world's GHG emissions come from urban areas - so I'm delighted to co-curate a new starter pack with urban planner + smart city advocate @brenttoderian.bsky.social! It's full of people & organizations at the nexus of cities and climate action. ⬇️

Always love the Pitbull jump scare outside of the restrooms by my office, courtesy of the department’s graduate students. Especially fun on days when nearly no one is on campus 😅

Hawks fans chanting "the Earth is round" as Kyrie Irving goes to the line

Buried paleosols hold a LOT of #Carbon. What happens when they are exposed? McMurtry et al. show “paleosols defy expectations of C content and reactivity” Getting to the root of the problem: Soil carbon and microbial response... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"People working in soil carbon credit markets are aware of the [model] limitations..." But techbros would never game carbon models & fabricate carbon credits. Farmers are being paid millions to trap carbon in their soils. Will it actually help the planet? | Science | AAAS https://buff.ly/3YdazT3

If you want to learn what you think about something, write about it. Here’s how I do it, produced in the hope that some of my thoughts about writing are interesting or useful to someone out there. www.forkingpaths.co/p/how-i-write

My sister makes the coolest jewelry around! Check out her newest collection of magical rings 🧚‍♀️🦄🔮

And a shot of ecology 😎

Recent publication from my lab group about community engaged urban soil science! Especially important to consider as the new Artesol soil order gains recognition. acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/PZZKVZ...

One-page letter of intent for a grant proposal

I draft all of my introductions for manuscripts and proposals on paper first! My trusty notebook is much less judgmental than a blank screen 😳 #academicsky

The Hodges Lab were awesome presenting their work to our peers at the Soil Science Society of America this past week! 🔬🧪🌱