Rethinking Global Soil Degradation: Drivers, Impacts, and Solutions Key soil degradation processes, for example, compaction, erosion, salinization, acidification, alkalization, or nutrient loss, are examined Major drivers such as deforestation and unsustainable f...

New paper out, an epic review led by Nima Shokri.

Rethinking Global Soil Degradation: Drivers, Impacts, and Solutions

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An honour and a privilege to present my research here in Manchester for the British Society of Soil Science Conference.
In my talk I presented research from the EU AI4SOILHEALTH project focussing on the need for soil assessment Frameworks focussing on soil quality.

Enjoyed it. Thanks for the invite

Aberdeen 3-2 Hearts from a few years ago. Ryan Hedges with a very late winner.

Does Aberdeen not beating Celtic on Saturday come close?

An amazing day for a club I've supported my whole life. @afc.co.uk winners of the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏆 for the first time since 1990.

A superb accomplishment by the club.

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Nature has launched its seventh global survey of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) doctoral students, which will probe graduate students’ views about their goals and challenges, and their experiences of their studies so far. Survey runs until June 11. #Academicsky 🧪

Delighted to be involved in this recent paper which has just been published in Ecological Solutions and Evidence alongside colleagues from @ox.ac.uk and @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social. #NatureBasedSolutions #Biodiversity #SoilHealth

Link is here. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Upcoming webinar explores how Indigenous Peoples' knowledge contributes to understanding biodiversity-water-food-health connections.

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✍️Register via ONet for "Indigenous Peoples and the #NexusAssessment" here: onet.ipbes.net/index.php/no...

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Last week I attended #EGU25 to share my research in a poster session. Link to the abstract: doi.org/10.5194/egus...

It was a great experience to present my research, listen to fascinating talks, and meet familiar names in person

#bere #betterbarley #biophysics #soil

It’s official! 🎉

The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will host #IPBES12, which will be held from 3 to 8 February 2026. Additional info will be communicated in the coming weeks.🌍🧪

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Trying to do my thing @egu.eu. Thanks to those who came to our session on #soil #health #indicators.

More information can be found here ⬇️. Colleagues from @ai4soilhealth.bsky.social will be in attendance.

Some highlights from Day 1 @egu.eu. Joined some interesting sessions on #organic #farming #agriculture #fieldwork and much more.

Busy day tomorrow with convening our session on #soil #health #indicators. Come and join us if you like!

I arrived in Vienna ahead of the @egu.eu conference next week. Spending the weekend in 🇨🇿 first before I travel to 🇦🇹 on Sunday. See you at the event!

An energising week of learning and collaboration for healthier soils in Europe at #SoilHealthNow!

It was brilliant to see the excitement in the room for #opendata, and to contribute to crucial discussions on bridging science and society.

Thank you to @opengeohub.bsky.social for hosting 👏

Managed to get some opportunity for downtime today and last night also. Nancy has certainly surprised me with some excellent sights. Always good to tick off another corner of 🇫🇷✅

Enjoyed my time in Nancy🇫🇷 at the @shbenchmarks.bsky.social GM.

Witnessed some interesting scientific work ongoing.

Intrigued to keep following these updates over the weeks and months ahead.

Thanks all for making me feel welcome while there in my role as @ai4soilhealth.bsky.social correspondent.

Faster Fitter Stronger. Surely that has been to the direction. Looking forward to tuning into this in more detail. 👍

Tom Hengl: Why don’t we celebrate the champions of land restoration? YouTube video by AI4SoilHealth

Why don’t we celebrate the champions of land restoration like we honour Olympic heroes? 🏅

Leading scientist @tomhengl.bsky.social from @opengeohub.bsky.social discusses why and how we should create a culture to do this, in a new podcast.

Listen now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VW7...

#SoilHealthNow! is less than a week away!

🎤💡 An exciting headline of experts, oral talks, workshop, and discussion forums will create a space where soil mission projects can build a thriving network.

🌐 2025.ai4soilhealth.eu

⚠️ Tickets are officially sold out!

@ai4soilhealth.bsky.social

Off on my travels again as I set off to 🇫🇷 for the Soil Health Benchmarks meeting representing @ai4soilhealth.bsky.social. Looking forward to seeing how our sister EU project is getting on. And ofc to explore another part of France! @shbenchmarks.bsky.social

An incredible trip to 🇪🇹.
Lots of fantastic memories created and the start of a new research project kicking off. Can't wait to get into the guts of it. #underitilisedplants #soilhealth

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.

Great start to day 1 of the CROSSROADS -SSA project meeting here in Hawassa, Ethiopia 🇪🇹.
Looking forward to an educational and life developing week here out in Africa.
It's been a real eye opener so far.

A Soil Monitoring Law for Europe Over 60% of European soils are unhealthy, costing the European Union €40.9–72.7 billion annually. This figure can rise to €140 billion if all degradation processes are included. Soil degradation wors...

41-72.7 Billion Euros💶is the estimated cost of soil degradation in 🇪🇺(erosion, carbon & nutrient loss, compaction, land take) 🌍. Can ⬆️increase up to 140 billion if contamination🐈‍⬛, health issues and loss of biodiversity 🦟🪲🐛taken into account.
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Got my vaccinations for 🇪🇹 completed this week.

4 weeks on Saturday, I'll be heading out to Hawassa for our project meeting with @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social colleagues in Biological Sciences.

It'll be the trip of a lifetime and my first ever trip to Africa.

I can't wait. #soils #plants #Ethiopia

Job Available: Knowledge Transfer Associate in soil carbon analysis and accounting at Uni Edinburgh and Plan Vivo

To build a tool that combines model estimates and field data, provides outputs, and quantifies uncertainty in the voluntary carbon market.

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Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Environmental Modelling:Whiteknights Reading UK

We're recruiting a 10 month PDRA in spatial (GIS) modelling of soil carbon and water quality at the UK scale: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Things are starting to creep ever closer ahead of my trip to 🇪🇹 for the Crossroads project.
Excited but also nervous to make my first ever venture to Africa.

The start of March will roll around in no time. Final lot of vaccinations next week and then it will definitely start feeling even more real.