New perspective piece on ditch greenhouse gas research I had the pleasure to collaborate on. Key research priorities are provided. Not surprisingly, many studies neglect to include N2O. There is still much work to be done in this space and I'm looking forward to the next era of ditch research!

Pleased to say this paper has been accepted and coming soon to @iopp-environment.bsky.social. Led by @tksilver.bsky.social and with an all-star cast of supporting authors. A lovely way to end the year. Merry Ditchmas all!

Being the First in Your Family to attend College Is Not a Deficit—It’s a Distinction www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view... "It means learning how to do college while doing college—a dual curriculum that tests not only intellect but resilience, adaptability and faith." #edusky #firstgen #college

Against the odds, I've been awarded a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award by the Australian Research Council! I am truly humbled by this opportunity and grateful for the support of many wonderful people both in my professional and personal circles. 1/3 www.unisq.edu.au/news/2025/12...

First Australian rainforests, now Africa's. Seems like a sad common theme and tipping point is happening across the world.

Hello Christchurch! It's been a while since I've been back in the South Islands dramatic landscape. Looking forward to some freshwater science soon at he NZFSS and AFSS conference

Great to get a heads up so I can plan not coming into work for the rollercoaster of emotions that will likely ensue...🫠

Really cool audio story on our recent ditch paper by @emfurd.bsky.social. Let's all pay more attention to our ditches...

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Vote for your favourite human dominated river. Go the Waikato!

Spent my week sampling weirs and rivers in regional SE Queensland with my MSCN student. It was hot work, but some absolutely beautiful and truely Australian waterways. It's been a while since I've worked in flowing waters!

Mobilized heavy metals in the Artic. "There are few places left on Earth as untouched as these rivers,". "But even here, far from cities and highways, the fingerprint of global warming is unmistakable. No place is spared." Another indirect effect of climate change on freshwater ecosystems.

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In a pseudo pond pollution experiment I had students undertake as part of their assessment for an undergraduate water science course @soaes-unisq.bsky.social, it was great to see how monitoring of simple water quality variables cumulated to multiple insights into water quality deterioration. 1/n

Happy to be involved in this massive paper about overlooked artificial channels!

It's out! 🧪 "Lines in the landscape," on the under-appreciated importance of #ditches as diverse ecosystems: doi.org/10.1038/s432.... By @peatymike.bsky.social, @fluitans.bsky.social, @drtatariw.bsky.social, @timaukel.bsky.social, @jordannabergman.bsky.social, @juliecrabot.bsky.social, ...

Currently marking some student poster assessments while on holiday as the kids nap, and am finding the visual results of their pond water pollution experiment very intriguing! In my second year water science @soaes-unisq.bsky.social, students conduct a backyard mini-pond experiment. 1/2

Celebrating a 100 citation (Google Scholar) milestone for my pub on N2O sinks in farm dams! Truly one of the most exciting datasets I've had the pleasure to work with and has profoundly altered the direction of my research. Still searching for answers! Pub link 👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Quick trip to Brisbane this week to attend the 20th World Lake Conference. It was a pleasure to be a part of the International Colloquium to explore global challenges facing lake systems. There was much agreement on including youth at all stages of integrated water management.

Recently, I did a little radio piece for ABC Southern Queensland Breakfast to explain where water flows after heavy rainfall and how Australia’s catchment systems operate. 👉If you're interested, you can listen to the interview here tinyurl.com/4b6vu678

🌏Using a global database of the radiocarbon content of rivers, isotopic mass balance suggests that about 60% of river carbon dioxide from millennial or older carbon sources Read the latest research article published in Nature by our former external editor, Joshua Dean www.nature.com/articles/s41...

No advert out yet, but I will recruiting a 2yr postdoc, start date autumn 2025, at @livunigeog.bsky.social soon. Lowland and upland peatlands, GHGs, DOM and water chemistry. Plenty of fieldwork. Feel free to drop me a DM or email if you might be interested, and please spread the word.

The day has arrived - first lecture for my brand new course, Catchment and Water Management. After many months and nights of work leading up to this moment, I'm nervous and excited to offer this course. Here's hoping the students appreciate it and there are not too many kinks to iron out!

Reading student feedback on my 2nd year ecology course: "As a result of this course I am analysing my environment, noticing more interactions in nature and taking a more interested approach to bush walks and nature play with my children." My job's done here, guys!🥲 #teaching #academia #ecology

How cool! A paper with my UofR crew has just been recognised as a #TopViewedArticle Artificial water bodies are interesting! Link to the paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Last week I had the pleasure of hosting our @soaes-unisq.bsky.social undergrad students studying Water Science during the WAT1101 residential school. In true Toowoomba style, the students had the full immersion experience, with consistent rain during the entire 3 days of our field tour.

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A visiting group of students from Northwest University studying agriculture and water resources spent a day doing water science with me. We made our own Secchi discs and had a lovely time out on the campus stormwater pond. Not much clarity today but the turtles didn't mind! @soaes-unisq.bsky.social

The people who produce this Mauna Loa atmospheric CO₂ record have a lab in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, about 50 miles (80 km) from the observatory. By closing the lab, it'll be really difficult to maintain the CO₂ observations.

CSAS researcher @jackiewebb.bsky.social is part of an international team who has completed the first global synthesis of CO2 and N2O emissions from ditches and canals. Check out this critically important research work. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Welcome to Food/ClimateSky! - sharing silly thoughts is called “manureposting” - we don’t say “lol” or “lmao” we say “N₂O” or “N₂OOOO” - like methane, our posts are forgotten relatively quickly but are 80 times more potent than others’ posts over a 20-year time period

Happy to have contributed to this global ditch paper by @tksilver.bsky.social and @peatymike.bsky.social! Great to see CO2 and N2O getting some of the attention in anthropogenic aquatic emissions. Put it on your reading list folks 📖

📣 Our new study is out now! The importance of ditches and canals in global inland water CO2 and N2O budgets @globalchangebio.bsky.social @peatymike.bsky.social @jackiewebb.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Really happy to see this paper out. Fantastically led by @tksilver.bsky.social and with an all-star supporting cast!

Sharing on behalf of my ex-postdoc supervisor Prof Kerri Finlay - two advertisements for graduate student and postdoctoral fellowship positions available at the University of Regina. There are so many amazing research questions within this long-term dataset to work on.

Fantastic Friday news! Our new paper led by @tksilver.bsky.social accepted in Global Change Biology: "The importance of ditches and canals in global inland water CO2 and N2O budgets" An all-star cast of authors including @jackiewebb.bsky.social and many others not (yet) on Blue Sky.

Proud to be a part of the authorship team on this one! Groundwater discharge contributes large amounts of carbon dioxide to coastal ecosystems and warrants inclusion in their carbon budgets. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Teaching Justice in the Geosciences Matters - Eos search.app/ndSTiGbDt7rG... Some good examples here I might steal for my water science courses.

The IPCC should hire the BBC’s graphics team for AR7, at least for the SPM.

Cool opportunity for a biogeoscientist ECR. Please nominate your research students/ friends/ colleagues / heroes!

Lately I've been sketching out my scientific ideas and, just like hand writing, it's incredibly useful. Here, I'm revising an old figure for a new grant. I'm trying to conceptualise an example of time series data I'm proposing to collect to capture N2O source-sink shifts* *Obviously not to scale

Aquatic science folks: Would anyone mind sharing a conference poster that presents some kind of water quality time series data? I'm developing a water science course where students will make a poster on water quality data they collect during the trimester. I would love to provide some examples!

Curious about emissions from aerobic rice? We tracked soil fluxes of CH4, N2O, and CO2 in temperate irrigated aerobic rice. N2O was a big deal and CH4 wasn't The case study is a first for Australia & highlights the need to carefully manage N fertiliser to reduce those “trade-off” N2O emissions.

Warning to environmental scientists! 🧪🦑🌎🐟 The journal STOTEN has been placed on hold by Clarivate, meaning it is under investigation and may lose its indexing (including impact factor). Consider publishing elsewhere. mjl.clarivate.com/search-results

Fellow #water #science peeps: what are the most important topics in water science/resource management that students today need to learn for the future? To start, I'm thinking the increasing reliance on artificial aquatic ecosystems, pressure of climate change, & managing polluted waters. Thoughts?

Beautiful day to be in the thick of it. Taking sediment cores to understand the carbon footprint of this swamp/irrigation recycle storage. So many fish that I tripped over a big one. Autumn is my favourite time to be in the field now that it's not 40C anymore 😅

Interested in floating solar and how it impacts hosting freshwater ecosystems? If so, check out this call for submissions to an upcoming special issue! 🧪💦 www.kmae-journal.org/component/co...

My former postdoc supervisor, Kerri, is seeking graduate students to conduct research in aquatic ecology at the University of Regina, Canada. Projects will involve using Community Based Water Monitoring for recreational and agricultural water use. kerrifinlay.wixsite.com/kerri/contac...

Currently enjoying holiday time back home in NZ and made it a priority to visit Tāne Mahuta - the oldest living kauri tree. Estimated to be over 2000 yrs with a diameter of 4.4m. Being in the presence of such an ancient tree brings some people to tears. I was in absolute awe.

Love this article on fostering scientific thoughts into creative ideas. "Where can you start to boost your scientific creativity? Take a colleague you like out for a coffee and ask them: ‘What is your worst idea?’" Anyone want to be my scientific buddy and hear my bad ideas? 😅