Halfway point on a trip to @lancasteruni.bsky.social for a PhD viva.

Really enjoying my time in 🇪🇹 as part of the CROSSROADS -SSA project. Looking at #underutilsed #plants and investigating their potential for improving #soilhealth. Great day in the field yesterday at some agropastoral plots south of Hawassa.

Day 2 of meetings in Hawassa, Ethiopia is planning for CROSSROADS-SSA led by Jo Smith This project explores under-utilised plants to restore soils through biodiversity. An add-on is a rainfall siimulator we built last week to explore soil erosion mitigation. @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social

Day 1 of project meetings in Hawassa, starting off with SMILE Project, Ethiopia . Great work making soil restoration a marketable opportunity to improve rural incomes at the same time as the environment. Led by Awdenegest Moges (Dr.) from Hawassa University.

First year soil science practical to >180 students. I love teaching this one since its my only chance to get the entire @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social Biology (some some Geoscience) students interested in soils.

Happy Friday -"You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game," www.cbc.ca/sports/hocke...

2nd year practical on soil compaction and root growth. PhD student Faraj Elasloul explaining root growth vs penetration resistance to one student.

Cool PhD project combatting soil erosion in Ethiopia with indigenous agricultural plants. Funded by @ukri.org QUARTILES DLA and complementary to a couple new projects with Ethiopian scientists funded by REDAA and GCBC so you will be surrounded by a team. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Nice article. Little steps make up science.

Still time to apply to this PhD studentship to join my group, to be co-supervised by @pdhallett.bsky.social, Jo Smith (UoA) and Fiona Fraser (SRUC) at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social and @srucnews.bsky.social Deadline to apply 17th January!

I have just started as President of the British Society of Soil Science. This is a tremendous organisation with over 900 members, spanning from students to educators, technicians, scientists, professionals and basically anyone with an interest in soils. Read more- soils.org.uk/blog/welcome...

Up in Shetland for Christmas. Passed a sheep that looks like a sheepdog.

🎄CHRISTMAS CRACKER 🎄 Advancing nature-based solutions through enhanced #soil health monitoring in the United Kingdom Giuliani, Warner, Campbell, Lynch, Smith and Smith #soilscience #soils @statog91.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @eci-bio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/sum....

🎄CHRISTMAS CRACKER 🎄 The formation of peat—Decreasing density with depth in UK peats Worrall, Clay, Heckman, Ritson, Evans, & Small #soil #soilscience #soils @fredworrall.bsky.social @garethclay.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/sum....

We have a cake rota at research group meetings. Festive theme today with Xmas Brownies. Discussion topic is Rangifer tarandus soil compaction by Dr Nick Claus.

🎄CHRISTMAS CRACKER🎄 A bioassay of crop response to fertilizer nutrients in #soils from a chronosequence of reclaimed natural gas pipeline rights-of-way Muitire, Zvomuya, Amarakoon, Adesanya & Mante #soilscience #soil @umanitoba.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/sum....

⏰ NEW POST AVAILABLE ⏰ We are looking for an enthusiastic PhD candidate interested in #remotesensing & #imageanalysis with respect to #underutilisedplants as well as learn more about #soil #health in Sub-Saharan Africa. You also get to work with me! Please share! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📣🐝🐝 From bees to crops and back again! Competition funded PhD available in my lab to model feedbacks between pollinators and land use under global change. Please do get in touch! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Microplastics in soil PhD project combining soil physics and microbiology - applications due by 17 January. Working with a multidisciplinary supervisory team including @micecoevo.bsky.social . www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

There is an open discussion in SOIL on an article about plant physiology and global soil carbon research. If you click on this link you can add your views - egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... Two assigned reviews are already posted, but the more comments the better the discussion.

Currently searching papers to write a discussion of a paper and I am having to include 'not biochar' as a search term to keep the hits manageable and relevant.

Happy world soil day! Just about… 🌱 This year’s theme is “Caring for Soils: Measure, Monitor, Manage” which is about using soil data to make the right decisions. As someone who loves photography, I wanted to share a barley root system forming its own unique soil. Enjoy! #worldsoilday #soil #barley

When @kkormas.bsky.social advises you to be on bsky you just go and do it, despite the fact that you are 'the social media girl' that everyone comes for advice 🤭🤣

Looks like I have joined Bluesky... 👋 So here's some 'blue sky' to show you a large part of what I do: #phd on #grasslands ; #plants and #soil #scientist 👇

❗️The abstract submission and registration for Rhizosphere 6 is now open! 🌾🌿 www.rhizo6.org/home please join us in Edinburgh next year for what should be an exciting meeting. @hutton.ac.uk #rhizosphere6

I’m at the British Society of Soil Science Annual Meeting at Glamorgan Cricket Ground Cardiff on World Soil Day. Impressive talk & posters so far. Cricket pitch tour showed it was all about soil physics.

Paper in the journal Soil and Tillage Research. Data was generated by Yang Guo (joint first author) during her PhD with Pete Smith and @pdhallett.bsky.social. Kirsten was funded by UKRI Marie Curie fellowship guarantee scheme.

Martyn Roberts celebrating his successful PhD viva. His main university PhD supervisor Josie Geris captured his topic of temporary storage areas to improve field hydrology brilliantly with the icing on the cake.

Yeterday, our paper on the role of soil texture on ecosystem transpiration limitation was published in the last issue of Nature. Interested by a short summary? That's here 👉 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Group debates today by the Plants, Soils and Sustainability class arguing FOR or AGAINST either monocultures, regenerative agriculture, GM crops or animal production being effective uses of soils for food security. All science based and one included a soil 'aggregates are great’ slide.

Published a couple months back before joining this platform. Microplastics = micropores, which may boost physical stability but also provide a microbial habitat where it’s probably bad news. We just started a new @ukri.org project to explore more. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Now that I am here on Bluesky, for any new followers interested in soil organic matter, here is my recommendation of a recent review by Henry Janzen- his papers are always worth reading for wisdom and insight. Open Access bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Another snowy start in Aberdeen. Behind the glass is PhD student Faraj Elsakloul, harvesting a big greenhouse study exploring saline-sodicity impacts on physical constraints to root growth.

Just published - soil sensor and conditioner study by Maria Marin as part of the @ukri.org NERC/ NSF Signals in the Soil projects. Calibrate your sensors before using them! bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Rhizosphere6 will be held 15-19 June 2025 in beautiful Edinburgh. Website to launch soon. Here’s the landing page. www.rhizo6.org

I reckon if we calculate the sequestration of carbon specialists from X to BlueSky, it has now exceeded 4 per Mille.

A snowy start of the day in Aberdeen.

From an Honours project. Light soil is a real Links (sand) golf course. Darker soil is a sandy loam golf course, 1 km inland. This is after 48 hours wetting and the Links is still completely hydrophobic. Devised a clever ball bounce test to play with this week.

We are hiring a PhD student in Soil Science at TU Berlin - N2O and N2 emissions at the microscale - see thread below 👇

🚨 PhD Opportunity! 🌾 Join the DFG project MOFANE @TUBerlin ! Explore how crop residue management affect N₂O+N2 emissions using cutting-edge tools like 15N labeling & X-ray µCT imaging. 🌍 📍 Soil Science Berlin 🧪 GHG 🧩Soil Structure Apply now: tinyurl.com/y6uek7dj #PhD #SoilScience

That’s a wrap for my 2024 soil science lectures. Many of these students are going to be tomorrow’s superstars. A really nice class. @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social

Talk about a late adopter. I only just found out that Blue Sky even exists. Here to see some nice posts about science.