#MonksHillLab @zalf.bsky.social Trilogy complete. 1. Build-It-Yourself: Low-Cost Systems for Ecophysiology zenodo.org/records/1962... 2. Building the 'How' of Science doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 3. Scientific Communication Assets zenodo.org/records/1979... No story, just tools. Reuse freely.

@zalf.bsky.social No lab? No Tools? No problem! We present the #MonksHillLab (#ZALF_ECO) "Lab on Wheels", a fully autark (solar powered) maker space allowing to construct (e.g. solder & program) and validate sensors presented in our Handbook (zenodo.org/records/1794...)! Field test follow soon! 🚀

@zalf.bsky.social Finally tested our new "collegue" today, a CNC desktop drill. With it, the capabilities of the "EcoTecAnalytics Lab" of #MonksHillLab (#ZALF_ECO) will advance even more....here alow cost PAR and NDVI Sensor (more details? see: zenodo.org/records/1794...)

Thank you, Sir, for speaking plain truth.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

@zalf.bsky.social New colleague alert! 🚨 The #EcoTecAnalytics_Lab of #ZALF_ECO just leveled up. Our new desktop CNC machine has arrived and started its first shift this week. Ready to build some more cool stuff. 🛠️

Great to see our paper making the cover of @globalchangebio.bsky.social ! With a picture of a long-term experiment in Kenya 🇰🇪 @johansix.bsky.social @cirad.bsky.social @gatienfalconnier.bsky.social @mcorbeels.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The project will be co-supervised by Maire Holz and myself @zalf.bsky.social as part of @bexplo.bsky.social. You will spend time in the greenhouse and the lab as well as in data synthesis and conceptual thinking. jobs.zalf.de/jobposting/a...

@zalf.bsky.social a lab's strength is its shared toolkit - and we mean more than hardware. Our open-source ECR skill development session series (zenodo.org/records/1862...) now contains 10 first sessions, including scientific writing and thesis brackets preparation.....317 Downloads and counting!

@zalf.bsky.social Sometimes state-of-the-art research relies on state-of-the-1949 engineering. Shoutout to this glorious vintage viscometer, still churning out beautiful data 75 years later. A testament to good design! #MonksHillLab #LabGear #Physics #HistoryOfScience

@zalf.bsky.social busy times in our new EcoTecAnalytics Lab. Hosting guest researcher Therese & Asadhu (Rwanda & Uganda), building rugged, low-cost GHG measurement systems (CH4, CO2 and ET) for their work on agricultural used tropical peatlands (guided by Hauke @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social) #DIY

Nächste Woche Montag geht es weiter mit unserer Vortragsreihe zu neuen Moorlandschaften. Das wird dieses Mal sehr spannend, weil es um eine Frage geht, die auch viele in der Praxis Beteiligte interessiert: Besteht die Gefahr von Nährstoffausträgen? Insbesondere auch für Genehmigende interessant!

Laut Netzwerk-Steuergerechtigkeit gehen uns jährlich bis zu 200 MILLIARDEN Euro durch Steuerhinterziehung und aggressive Steuervermeidung verloren. Geld, mit dem wir die Regelsätze fürs Bürgergeld viermal finanzieren und trotzdem noch erhöhen könnten. Holt das Geld bei den Reichen!

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@zalf.bsky.social (#MonksHillLab; #ZALF_ECO) just in time established our new "EcoTecAnalytics Lab" for a nice touching end of 2025. Next year eager to start more low-cost ecophysiological sensor development in that fantastic new environment!!

Just submitted a comment paper to a journal (discover sustainability).They reclassified it as a Review, then rejected it because it “lacks review methodology.” The academic publishing machine: inventing a problem, then penalizing you for it. Peak Kafka.

@zalf.bsky.social and @marenecohydro.bsky.social a lab's strength is its shared toolkit - and we mean more than hardware. This living doc is our open-source session guide with 2 of 7 sessions (soon more): zenodo.org/records/1767... #MonksHillLab #PhD #ScienceCulture #SkillBuilding #OpenScience

🌍 Michelle Chevelev-Bonatti (ZALF) war bei der Berlin Science Week in zwei Panels 🇲🇽 Beim mexikanischen Wissenschaftstag ging es um KI & Innovation 🇧🇷 In der brasilianischen Botschaft debattierte sie über nachhaltige Ernährungssysteme. 👉 Mehr: www.zalf.de/de/aktue... #Nachhaltigkeit #ZALF

Tiny (unimportant but satisfactory) update: new MonksHillLab Logo is ready now better reflecting all the low cost DIY sensor development we do!

🚜💡Bridging science & practice: Sensors & living labs to speed up agri transformation. @ZALF_Leibniz shows the way. #LivingLab #Agroflux www.zalf.de/en/aktue...#LivingLab#Agroflux@marenecohydro.bsky.social @monkshilllab.bsky.social

🚜💡 Forschung trifft Praxis: Sensoren & Reallabore sollen den Wandel der Landwirtschaft beschleunigen. Das ZALF zeigt wie. #LivingLab #Agroflux www.zalf.de/de/aktue...#LivingLab#Agroflux@marenecohydro.bsky.social @monkshilllab.bsky.social

🗞️ New article in Biogeosciences #EGU by Martino E. Malerba et al. ⬇️

@zalf.bsky.social 🚀 1000+ downloads in just 4 month!! Join & Contribute: Help grow a Living Handbook for low-cost DIY Environ. Science! zenodo.org/records/1710... 🤝 You’re Invited! 💬 Reply here or DM. All contributors will be credited clearly in version updates. #OpenScience #DIY #Sustainability

Inspiring presentations today at our annual Perennial workshop! Huge thanks to our PhD students Veronika and Anna for sharing their research, and to Kernza experts Tim and Doug for their deep insights into perennial grain agriculture. @beccsweden.bsky.social @thelandinstitute.bsky.social

Happy to share that our opinion note on experimental platforms like #Agroflux and their potential for aiding sustainable agricultural transformation is now published in nature comms! Thanks to all co-authors and especially @monkshilllab.bsky.social and @chengchen! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@zalf.bsky.social (#ZALF ECO) How can sensor platforms like #Agroflux, when combined with #livinglabs accelerate sustainable agriculture? Our opinion piece in @Nature Comms discusses this synergy. Grateful to @marenecohydro.bsky.social, Cheng Chen, Frank Ewert & more! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ich hoffe, dass es hilft Menschen für die wunderbare Welt des Bodens zu begeistern. Aber auch für die Wissenschaft, die hinter diesen Erkenntnissen steht. Hier der Link zum Buch: www.ullstein.de/werke/mutter...

In this Working Scientist profile, Kelly Cobey describes to Nature how her early career experiences sparked a campaigning zeal, which is now focused on predatory publishing and responsible research assessment. #WomeninSTEM #Academicsky 🧪

🚀 Join & Contribute: Help Build our Living Handbook for low-cost DIY Environmental Science! (850+ downloads in just 3.5 months!) zenodo.org/records/1710... 🤝 You’re Invited! 💬 Reply here or DM. All contributors will be credited clearly in version updates. #OpenScience #DIY #Sustainability

@zalf.bsky.social Our Handbook for low-cost DIY systems passed another milestone and 🚀 Just hit 850 downloads in 3 1/2 month! Soon to come our first long range wireless data transfer option for the mini weather station EVE. 👉 10.5281/zenodo.15562591 #OpenScience #MonksHillLab

🌱Plant recolonization after fen rewetting results in an intermediate phase with strongly increased net CO2 & CH4 fluxes @danica-a.bsky.social @monkshilllab.bsky.social @zalf.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @marenecohydro.bsky.social @annetteprochnow.bsky.social 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

... and also progress with @zalf.bsky.social ECO's new automatic window chambers soon to be used in Ghana (Edem Halolo in AquaTrans with CSIR-SARI), Bolivia (Hauke Schmülling in ChazyLoco with University Greifswald) and Brandenburg (Sophue von Witten in FORMULA with University Giessen)!

Progress regarding @zalf.bsky.social ECO's new low-cost DIY CO2, ET and CH4 autochambers (video and Prototype by our PHD Milan Kretzschmar)!

Gestern war Tag der Vielfalt am ZALF! 🌍🌈 Wir haben Diversität gefeiert – ein zentraler Wert für freie, kreative & exzellente internationale Forschung. Vielfalt bedeutet für uns nicht nur Unterschiedlichkeit, sondern ist eine Quelle der Innovation, Offenheit & wissenschaftlichen Stärke.

@zalf.bsky.social Our Handbook for low-cost DIY systems 🚀 Just hit 500 downloads! Now with software tools, incl. a first chapter with the "MonksHillLab Logger App": 📱 Collect data via Android + Bluetooth 📝 Directly digitize field measurements 👉 10.5281/zenodo.15562591 #OpenScience

Finally, our water vapor isotope bag paper is out. Congrats to Adrian for his patience! His next chapter will be water isotopes of ET and machine learning based modeling… amt.copernicus.org/articles/18/...

@zalf.bsky.social 🚀 250 downloads in just 11 days! Thanks to everyone who explored "Build-It-Yourself: Low-Cost Systems for Field Ecophysiology" – our open handbook for DIY environmental measurement systems. 📘 doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #OpenScience #FieldEcophysiology #DIYScience #ZALF

🚜🌍 Just released version 1.4 of "Build-It-Yourself: Low-Cost Systems for Field Ecophysiology". Our Open Handbook for DIY Environmental Measurement Systems. 🧪 Open science and Real Worls Use & Regional Hubs (Ghana/Philippines) at the core. 🧷 Check here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🔎 Feedback welcome!

Moin! Und immer wieder Montags: Laßt uns aufhören GEGEN etwas & stattdessen nur noch FÜR etwas sein: FÜR Empathie FÜR Wissenschaft FÜR Vernunft FÜR Respekt FÜR Klimaschutz FÜR Fortschritt & Innovation FÜR Frieden & Akzeptanz FÜR GLEICHBERECHTIGUNG! FÜR alles, was NICHT Rechts ist! Gern RP.

#MonksHillLab news! The #AgroFlux component #SensorWeb has a new family member. Our "MonksHillLab Bluetooth App" allows to connect to our Low-Cost DIY sensor devices (e.g. for CO2, ET and NDVI) used for ecophy. research. The App visualize received data, saves it and allow for easy charing/transfer.

Evaluation of my TT stage passed. And I got a traditional present.

"I've never heard of them being raised to match the height of the crop over time - plant material is often trimmed inside the chamber". Is it just me or does the quality of reviews for scientific journals (here soil&tillage research on use of chamber volume extension) sharply decreases?

@zalf.bsky.social starting into 2025 with more proffessionalized (not accounting for the baby blanket in the back) variants of our low-cost DIY GHG measurement systems!

Check out the new paper by #MonksHillLab (@waelalhamwi.bsky.social) in #Biogeoscineces (bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/...) presenting our novel low-cost, do-it-yourself gas exchange measurment system for e.g. pot experiments (@zalf.bsky.social).

Many thanks to Julia Haak from Berliner Zeitung for covering our new project at Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), #WetNetBB www.berliner-zeitung.de/mensch-metro...

Die Dänen machen in der Agrarumweltpolitik Nägel mit Köpfen (Pestizid-Steuer gibt's schon länger, neuerdings eine Steuer auf THG-Emissionen aus der Tierhaltung, nun massive Aufforstung/Wiedervernässung). Wäre spannend zu überlegen, ob/inwieweit das auf Deutschland übertragbar wäre.

@zalf.bsky.social using semi-good westher yesterday for a foto shoot with our new, autark, #low-cost , #DIY autochambers for CO2 and ET flux measurements. #MonksHillLab

@zalf.bsky.social start of Establishment of automatic GHG emission measurements with Milan and Dnaica at the first #WetNetBB site in #Paulinenaue. Perfect weather...not. chambers soon to come. #MonksHillLab

....our PHD Edem #AquaTrans with other @zalf.bsky.social colegues visited SARI/northern Ghana to discuss promising sustainable agricultural practices which might help to improve water use in western africa. He will start CO2/ET measurements with semi-automatic, low cost chambers soon. #MonksHillLab