A US service member is missing and this is the first we've heard from the president.

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Fig. 2 Individual and interactive impacts of soil physicochemistry, microbes, fauna, and plants on soil organic matter (SOM) dynamics.

#TansleyReview: #Soil organic matter dynamics under changing #precipitation regimes

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This study shows the important connections between landscape evolution and soil organic carbon storage. It's the work of a great research team including Manisha Dolui, Teneille Nel, @aaberhe.com, @teamrat.bsky.social, @emsaurios.bsky.social, and many others.

Schematic cross-sections showing transects used to sample the buried Brady Soil on loess tablelands in the western Great Plains. A longer transect downwind from the windward tableland edge allowed sampling at various depths of burial by loess. A shorter transect on the eroding table edge sampled the soil at increasingly shallow depths resulting from erosion.

Happy to share another paper from the loess tablelands of the Great Plains, on organic C in buried soils and how it becomes susceptible to decomposition. We sampled the Brady Soil along transects of decreasing depth of burial and increasing erosional exposure. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

(🧵 6/6) This review synthesizes current research on how climate change-induced alterations in precipitation patterns, both directly and indirectly, affect the amount, composition, and persistence of soil organic matter.

(🧵 5/6) Their collective expertise spans soil organic matter dynamics, nutrient cycling, soil chemistry, soil ecology, soil mechanics, and vadose zone hydrology.

🌱 The authors behind the paper 🌱

(🧵 4/6) The authors of this Tansley review consist of soil biogeochemists and an environmental soil physicist affiliated with universities across the United States and South Korea.

Fig. 2 Individual and interactive impacts of soil physicochemistry, microbes, fauna, and plants on soil organic matter (SOM) dynamics.

(🧵 2/6) The amount, intensity, and frequency of precipitation have been changing around the world due to climate change. Changing precipitation can impact interactions among plants, microbes, fauna, and soil minerals, altering soil organic matter dynamics.

Fig. 1 Research history of soil organic matter (SOM) dynamics at the plant–fauna–microbe interfaces under changing precipitation and soil water availability.

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(🧵 1/6) Soil organic matter dynamics under changing precipitation regimes
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Individual and interactive impacts of soil physicochemistry, microbes, fauna, and plants on soil organic matter dynamics.

#TansleyReview SOM under changing precipitation regimes

Min et al. @teamrat.bsky.social

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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"We spoke with nine C-level U.S. airline executives and senior officials across six U.S. carriers for this story. They expressed varying degrees of skepticism, but none felt the cuts were without some level of political interference."

Grew up under a dictatorship, they attacked expertise first. This is alarmingly familiar. Trust in expertise is the foundation of modern civilization. Even as a researcher, I rely on expert knowledge I could never master in a lifetime. Rejecting that isn’t freedom, it’s how societies collapse!

Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science

“Despots want science that has practical results,” said Paul R. Josephson, an emeritus professor of history at Colby College and author of a book on totalitarian science. “They’re afraid that basic knowledge will expose their false claims.”

Bill Jury receiving medal

The Soil Physics Kirkham Medal was given to Bill Jury at the Kirkham Conference in Fukushima. He had an illustrious career at UC Riverside before retiring as Distinguished Professor Emeritus. #soil #soilphysics #kirkhamconference #sssa

James B. Milliken named 22nd president of the University of California The University of California Board of Regents today approved the appointment of James B. Milliken as the 22nd president of UC’s world-renowned system of 10 campuses, six academic health centers, and t...

It’s official, JB Milliken will be the 22nd President of the University of California system. It was a privilege to represent UC faculty interests in this search.
… he currently serves as Chancellor of the UT System, previously led the CUNY system, U of NE and was v. Pres of UNC

Defining soil science: Balancing fundamental research and societal needs Soil science's identity emerges from studying Earth's complex living and nonliving systems across scales. Defining soil science requires balancing practical impacts with fundamental scientific explo.....

Gardner (1991) argued that “if basic soil science did not exist, there is ample evidence that we need to invent it.” While practical applications are valuable outcomes of soil science research, they should emerge from a deep understanding of soil systems rather than define the discipline's scope.

📢 New pub: Defining #soil science: Balancing fundamental research and societal needs, in Soil Science Society of America Journal doi.org/10.1002/saj2...
@teamrat.bsky.social & I argue, soil science, though crucial for solving environmental challanges, should not be defined solely by its applications

Pope Offers Mass on Island Beacon for Refugees (Published 2013) With a service before 10,000 people, Francis seeks to call attention to a humanitarian problem at what has become a gateway for thousands of migrants.

Pope Francis’s first papal visit was to Lampedusa, where thousands have perished. There he criticized the “globalization of indifference”. He said we “have forgotten how to cry” for migrants and “take care of each other,” in his homily.

It seems the indifference is worsening everywhere.

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Opinion | What the War on California’s Water Is Really About If we are to take seriously the threats of drought, climate change and water security, we should not reduce this place to a warring of two — or even many — sides.

the so-called war over California’s water is a dangerous, flawed trope that reduces certain water uses to right or wrong, and turns the Delta into a place with no local stakes. Faced with threats of drought, climate change and water scarcity, we should not reduce this place to a warring of... sides.

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Thousands of highly cited scientists have at least one retraction Database shows that researchers with retracted papers had higher self-citation rates and published more than those without retractions.

"Thousands of highly cited scientists have at least one retraction"

"Oransky says the results throw into question the practice of ranking scientists on the basis of citations at all."

The Ahwahnee at Yosemite

A foggy and rainy Yosemite. #yosemite

Heron on a bridge

Heron on a bridge.

Picture of white fronted geese standing on shallow water

Geese at the Merced National Wildlife Refuge.

A blue heron basking under the morning sun at @ucmerced.bsky.social