🌱💛 Happy #InternationalSoilDay!

A little love today for the soils that feed us, ground us, and surprise us with how alive they are 🪱

From all of us at EGU SSS: keep exploring, keep caring, and keep your hands a little dirty.

#SoilLove #SoilScience #EGU #EGUSSS

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🎓 I am giving a short (22 min) presentation for Brandon University’s CTLT: “Building teaching materials with Quarto”

📅 Nov 20, 2025 – 9:38 AM CST (UTC-6)

🔗 Zoom link & slides: github.com/alex-koiter/presentations/tree/main/Quarto

Drop in, learn, and see what is possible with Quarto!

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Screenshot from Forest Service USDA website with notice about the Government Shutdown. Text states "The Radical Left Democrats shut down the government. This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse for mission critical functions. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people."

Working on some paper revisions and encountered some interesting messaging on the USDA webpage. Some propaganda with your soils research...

A Gentle Introduction to Open Science Steffi reviews a talk on open science. Don’t forget that it takes courage; be kind to yourself!

"A Gentle Introduction to Open Science"

I love this post by Steffi LaZerte on @ropensci.org. Gentle indeed, and pragmatic.

ropensci.org/blog/2025/09...

Coworking and Office Hours next week!

Theme: Drawing publication-ready plots using R

Tuesday August 5th 09:00 Australian Western (01:00 UTC)

Join @emitanaka and @steffilazerte

- General coworking
- Work on some figures and plots for your own work
- Explore ways of making publication-ready […]

Person with shoulder length dark hair wearing a jacket, pants and boots, stands in a field. A blue sky is next to them.

Charitha Hansima is earning her PhD in soil science at the University of Manitoba. Her research is especially relevant for Prairie agroecosystems, where sustainable management of soils is key. Learn more in this #GroundedInSoils blog post: wp.me/pclOv9-xo

Bridges and Communities. My Journey as an rOpenSci Champion Developing the ARcenso package with rOpenSci and presenting it to R communities

A wonderful reflection by Andrea Gomez Vargas on her experience of the @ropensci.org Champions program, and making Argentine census data standardized and accessible along the way ropensci.org/blog/2025/05... #rstats

(Y en Espanõl! ropensci.org/es/blog/2025... #rstatsES)

I am looking for some general information on the variability of geochemistry &colour properties in soils. Anyone have any good resources for me to check out? To design a efficient soil sampling campaign its always good to have an idea of what the variability I should be expect. #soil #soilscience