Interested in #agdata? Then join us at the @rothamsted.bsky.social data hackathon using the rich long-term data from our Long-term experiments, North Wyke Farm Platform and Insect Survey @rothamsted-lte.bsky.social, @thefarmplatform.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/rotha...

Leaving Zimbabwe 😢 ... and moving to Sweden!🥳

Had a classic Reviewer 2 this morning. They wrote half their comments in CAPITAL LETTERS, APPARENTLY OBLIVIOUS TO THE FACT THAT IT READS LIKE SHOUTING 😂 🧪🌱🌾🌐

'Empathy is a kind of strength' - wish we had more world leaders who thought this way...

I love that this has struck a chord. This was a chance for me to think out loud about some of the things I've learned over the years in my research career. If you're an #ECR, you might find something useful. You also might not, but take a look and if you like it, subscribe for more.

On May 15th at 9:00 (CET), I will be presenting my HDR dissertation 'Sustainable intensification of smallholder farming systems for improved food security and adaptation to climate change in Africa' Use this link to join online: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

Open postdoc position in my lab @earlhaminst.bsky.social @quadraminstitute.bsky.social We will generate large-scale soil metagenomes to research the impact of agriculture on healthy soil microbiomes, developing strategies to increase carbon retention: jobs.earlham.ac.uk/Details.asp?... Please RT

On the importance of maintaining professional distance in research labs: how much harm in academia (maybe) comes from seemingly good intentions. Recorded spontaneously today in Ishikawa, during a hike, since this has been on my mind. Let me know what you think! #AcademicSky youtu.be/ppbnxMkgo3Q

Don't forget to apply for this PhD in lovely Aotearoa! Closes 30th April

In the news this week, what do you have in common with 89% of the rest of the world but think you are in a minority? It turns out that although we feel like a silent minority we are actually a rather large majority. 1/n

In a new paper, we propose the 'ecological yield gap' as a framework to strengthen collaboration between agronomists and ecologists in our quest to enhance on-farm ecosystem services in ways that effectively sustain crop yields while minimising input use: doi.org/10.1016/j.gf... 🧪🌱🌾🧑‍🌾🐞💚🤎

📢 New #PhD offer. You have a MSc degree in agronomy, soil science or plant ecophysiology AND you are from Kenya? This offer might be for you. "Contribution of #agroforestry systems 🌳 🌽 🥑 🐐 to provisioning ecosystem services, #climatechange adaptation and mitigation in Kenya" Deadline: 31.05.2025.

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

Accurate simulation of the provision of nitrogen by soil organic matter is critical in low-input smallholder systems. recrutement.cirad.fr/job/job-cher... Join us at Cirad - Postdoc position to help with crop model intercomparison @agmip.bsky.social

Could drought and poor soil undermine the performance of intercropping ? Our study in semi-arid Zimbabwe found that the benefits of intercropping are maintained even with water and N stress. doi.org/10.1016/j.fc... Congrats Illiana Kwenda - A nice combination of field experiments and modelling

New online! Crop pest responses to global changes in climate and land management

Lots of excellent advice in this piece. The core message - only through writing do you really think and order your thoughts into logical sense. Makes a case for not using AI for 1st draft because you bypass the thinking step www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturebiotech.bsky.social #PlantScience

Soil conditions can significantly increase rainfall in the world's megastorm hotspots, a new UKCEH-led study has found ⛈️ . The ground-breaking research led by @drexomole.bsky.social is set to transform early warning systems in tropical regions. See our news: www.ceh.ac.uk/press/soil-c... 🧪 1/

The Swedish Research Council is offering 2 million SEK grants directed at scholars from outside Europe who want to relocate to Sweden and work at Swedish research institutions. The call opens 15 April. www.vr.se/english/just...

PhD offer in the #GALILEO project @lerouxlouise.bsky.social @cirad.bsky.social @mcorbeels.bsky.social "Multi-criteria & multi-scale assessment of performances & trade-offs induced by #agroforestry 🌳 🌽 🥑 🐄 for #climatechange resilience" Deadline: 11 May 2025: gaia.umontpellier.fr/documents/SU...

Lovely view from a hilltop in Chipata, #Zambia. 🌱🌳🌽🐐🌍

Nice of the White House to put my own little mistake into perspective 🫣😬 www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

🚨We are hiring🚨ECR with a PhD within 7 years? Tenure track position (akin to Assistant Prof) in Earth and Env Data Science at U of Gothenburg, Sweden. Expertise in remote sensing and machine learning. Work on climate change, Earth systems, biodiversity, #EO, #UAV Deadline May 10 tinyurl.com/58ft38du

📢 You are from Sub-Saharan Africa, have a MSc in biological science? Here is a PhD offer in 🇰🇪 w\ ICIPE, Univ Embu, CIRAD: "Evaluation of impact of #agroforestry 🌳🌽 & conventional farming systems on belowground #biodiversity 🐜🪱 & regulating services" 📅 19 Mar 2025 scholarships.icipe.org/calls/51

PhD position in the UK on invasive plants with a fantastic supervisor 🤩🌱🌿🧪

Just out - new paper exploring associations between weed species' life history strategies, the environments they grow in, and whether they are perceived as 'problematic' weeds or not 🌱🌾🚜 Led by my colleague Darwin Hickman: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

I wrote this about the “boys have no role” models narrative - there are so many problems for both male and female and much of them lie in underfunding of youth centres, schools and a perilous job market where people are paid the bare minimum thecosmicshamblesnetwork.substack.com/p/the-death-...

Part-time postdoc position available in my group to work in the @onestop-project.eu and @daisyproject.bsky.social projects testing novel invasive species detection and monitoring tools in living labs. 1 year initially, but potential to extent.

Definitely read and act on this if you're a researcher from the global north working with researchers in the global south. 🧪🌾🌍

Found this little guy guarding my room... 🐸💚🌍 #zambia

Just a reminder about the postdoc position in the post quoted below, applications close 7th March! 👇 Also colleagues are advertising another similar one, on using large data sets to investigate the drivers of pest and pathogen outbreaks in agriculture: www.slu.se/en/about-slu... (closes March 19)

Beautiful interview very much worth a read! On science, empathy, resilience, and birds 🧪🌱🐦‍⬛ (the podcast version is even better)

In case anyone just needs a nice photo of a tree right now

While holding my phone this afternoon I managed to accidentally paste a random previous email into reply to an email with 420 recipients 😳

*** Survey on parasitic weeds in Europe [EN/FR/NL]*** Are you a European farmer or working with European farmers? Please do our online survey on parasitic weeds: tinyurl.com/parasiticweeds

Field season in Zambia! 🌾🌱🌦️📏 We're investigating whether different crop diversification options have different outcomes depending on the climate and farming system context.

INRAE is recruiting: a vacancy for a PERMANENT researcher in our unit is open!   🧪 Your area of research in our unit: 🐄 Agronomy applied to Grassland’s ☘️   Interested? Go to INRAE Jobs website to apply! jobs.inrae.fr/en/open-comp...

Postdoc opportunity for someone with good data wrangling and analysis skills to explore the effects of agroecological farming practices using long-term experiment datasets 🌾🌻🌦️🌐📈🤎💚🧪 At SLU in Uppsala, Sweden, with Riccardo Bommarco, Giulia Vico, and me: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Our book «  towards pesticide-free agriculture » is available for FREE ( except for paper version) : www.quae.com/produit/1916... Authorship of the map ( B. Nowak, G. Marliac bioRxiv 2024.11.25)

So I wasn’t planning to rehash the same arguments I made last week on the need to look at food through systems lens & not just insecurity. Yet, here we are because earlier this week, I saw an article in The Guardian whose sub-heading made me pause. news.thin-ink.net/p/moonstruck

More fun things appearing in the garden now it's the rainy season 🍄🌱 #Harare #ecology

Does anyone have any recommendations for multi-day hikes in Europe, up to 3 weeks long but not too technical? Thanks in advance for any suggestions! ⛰️🥾🌲🌼🏕️🏞️

Happy New Year! I updated my webpage of envirionment-related scholarships, grants, & awards: www.aerinjacob.ca/funding--awa... It includes: * science * action & policy * communication * travel awards * international tho' emphasis on N Am, Africa, & women Please share. #ConservationFunding

It was another stunning year for global climate and weather extremes. As data is processed and released in the first two weeks of January, you are going to be hearing all about these new historical records. Apologies for my many graphs in advance! 😬 Spiral below produced by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5190

It is finally raining in Harare - and there are suddenly tiny frogs all over my door step 🐸💚

Recent advances in #soilscience all point toward potential for internal soil nitrogen cycling to meet a much greater proportion of crop N needs than currently thought! 🌾🦠🤎 🧑‍🌾🧪 New commentary with @stuartsoil.bsky.social, @remicardinael.bsky.social, and others: doi.org/10.1016/j.on...

« Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use, leaving a substantial surplus for additional consumption, public luxury, scientific advancement and other social investments. » www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

accidental garden art! 🌱

A call from some of my colleagues at SLU for us agricultural researchers to be more curious about each other's perspectives, and also about our own assumptions 🕊️: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

hi BlueSky friends! has anyone come across a helpful guide or set of principles on when/how it is appropriate vs inappropriate to use generative AI in academic writing? it would be nice to have something as a basis for discussion with students and collaborators