@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! 🚀

Finanziell ist akademische "Karriere" 1 katastrophale Entscheidung. In meinem Fall: erst Teilzeit, dann Erwerbsarbeitslosigkeit. Mehrere Umzüge. Horrende Pendelkosten. 2 Wohnungen seit 2017. Aber klar, Lars, lass mal uns Akademiker_innen noch länger arbeiten lassen bis zur Winz-Rente! So attraktiv.

Thank you to the Peat4People project for inviting us from WG Peatland Science to support upcoming GHG measurements in African peatlands. Thanks to externally funded PhD thesis work by Hauke Schmülling and collaboration with @zalf.bsky.social we provide low-cost chambers and knowledge..

🌡️ For the third year in a row, every day in 2025 was more than 1°C warmer than the 1850–1900 pre-industrial level. Over a third of days were above 1.5°C.

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Hydrological Conditions Outweigh Soil Texture, Temperature, and Terrain in German Agricultural Land Use Background The availability of fertile land suitable for agriculture is limited. In the European Union, political demand for self-sufficiency in staple food production currently competes with increa...

How do we decide what grows where? 🌱🧪⚒️

Our new paper analyzes 100 years of land-use history across 3,104 sites in Germany and finds that hydrological properties shape our agricultural landscapes.

doi.org/10.1002/jpln...

@cwmsoils.bsky.social @thuenen.de

#Hydrology #LandUse #Sustainability #Soil

Heute gedenken wir der Opfer des Nationalsozialismus und der Befreiung von Auschwitz-Birkenau am 27.01.1945. Erinnern heißt kämpfen! Gerade heute, wo rechte Kräfte erstarken und Gedenkarbeit unter Druck steht. Nie wieder ist jetzt und darf nicht zur leeren Worthülse werden!

This isn't great...

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Deutsche Bahn once more gave everything in their power to inconvenience passengers. 2 days, 2 trips: total delay of ~ 5 h.

At least the sight was kind of nice

Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now A global drop in public and private investment in agricultural science in the past four decades is partly to blame for high food prices, an analysis reveals.

Comment in @nature.com: "Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A global drop in public and private investment in agricultural science in the past four decades is partly to blame for high food prices, an analysis reveals.

Very clearly a unicorn… 🦄

Gibt übrigens noch eine Klimakrise: In weiten Teilen Europas schwinden die Reserven an Süßwasser.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@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

Smelling salty winter air ❤️

Last week I had a very nice exchange with Amelie Stieg and Britta Horstmann from Leibniz central office to discuss the Leibniz SAW collaborative excellence program and using in-situ stable isotopes for detecting dynamic feedbacks in C and water cycling.

@zalf.bsky.social @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de

Fig. 2.Relationship between stomatal density of the abaxial side of the leaf sheath (SD SheathAb) and water use traits. Linear regression of whole-plant transpiration rate (TR, A) and canopy conductance (Gs, B) against SD SheathAb. Different colors refer to groups of genotypes belonging to one of the five families of the AB-NAM population that were phenotyped, with squares indicating the parents of the five nested association mapping (NAM) families. The BLUP values of each genotype were used in the regression analysis. ***Significant at P<0.001. The solid blue line indicates the regression line, and the shaded gray area indicates the 95% confidence intervals.

🌾💧 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌾💧

Zhen et al. discovered that the density of small openings—called stomata—located on barley stems is associated with whole-canopy water use much more than those located on the leaf blades 🌿🌾💧

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪

"Wer Wohneigentum erwerben will, braucht vor allem eines: Eltern, die schon welches haben."

Professor Susanne von Caemmerer and Professor Graham Farquhar are receiving an award.

Plant scientists Professor Graham Farquhar and Professor Susanne von Caemmerer transformed the world's understanding of photosynthesis, and now they have been jointly awarded the Royal Medal (Biological) from The Royal Society, at a ceremony in London.

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Was Ihr tun könnt, wenn Ihr nicht mitdemonstrieren konntet, aber das Anliegen unterstützt? Teilt Demo-Berichte, macht dadurch die Demo bekannter, verbreitet Zuversicht. &: Klickt die Beiträge auch! Das signalisiert Medien, dass das Thema auf Interesse stößt. Positives verstärken! #WirSindDieTöchter

Yellow-flowering goldenrod plants poke through the tops of rainout shelters for the International Drought Experiment (IDE) in a field at the Purdue Wildlife Area near West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. This was one of 74 IDE sites used in the study.

So the bad news is that impacts of_extreme_droughts worsened dramatically over time, but the good news is that these systems were not progressively impaired by_moderate_droughts. And, for us, it's good news that we have published these findings! Stay tuned; many more DN manuscripts are in progress.

Two panel graph showing the productivity response of ecosystems to moderate drought remained constant from 1-4 years of drought, while the productivity progressively decreased from the first to the fourth year of drought in systems consistently exposed to extreme drought.

...while the effects of droughts that were extreme (i.e., 1 in 100 year events) compounded over time, perennial grasslands and shrublands were more resilient to less extreme droughts. That is, drought-related reductions in plant growth did not magnify over more years of moderate drought. (2/3)

Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity As droughts become longer and more intense, impacts on terrestrial primary productivity are expected to increase progressively. Yet, some ecosystems appear to acclimate to multiyear drought, with cons...

The latest DroughtNet paper is out in Science today! Using coordinated experiments across six continents and 74 sites, the International Drought Experiment found differences between the effects of extreme droughts and more typical droughts... (1/3) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A view from underneath a rainout shelter made of clear corrugated plastic slats on a wood frame at the Purdue Wildlife Area, near West Lafayette, Indiana. These shelters reduced precipitation in a restored prairie as part of the International Drought Experiment. Credit: Jeff Dukes

We are really excited to announce… that our next big DroughtNet paper will be published… next week. And that’s about all we can say for now! 😁
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Congratulations to, and very proud of, Matteo Verdone who successfully (with laude!) #defended his #PhD today on #ecohydrological dynamics in #forested #catchments at @UNI_FIRENZE. Thanks a lot to the other supervisors @iljavan meerveld and @ecohydrologylab.bsky.social for their fundamental support!

Thanks @danielepenna.bsky.social fo showing me around! It was a wonderful trip to visit Re della Pietra finally! and take part in Matteo’s PhD Defence.

@zalf.bsky.social 🚀 1000+ downloads in just 4 month!! Join & Contribute: Help grow a Living Handbook for low-cost DIY Environ. Science!
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We have the same socks in the family… I think even twice 😅

Advancing sustainable agricultural transformation through the synergy of automated experimental platforms and living labs - Nature Communications Transforming agricultural landscapes to be more sustainable and resilient requires integrated and multidisciplinary approaches. Linking automated experimental platforms with living labs can accelerate knowledge gain, enhance interdisciplinary collaboration, and support real-world change by addressing key challenges in current agricultural systems.

@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...

Advancing sustainable agricultural transformation through the synergy of automated experimental platforms and living labs - Nature Communications Transforming agricultural landscapes to be more sustainable and resilient requires integrated and multidisciplinary approaches. Linking automated experimental platforms with living labs can accelerate knowledge gain, enhance interdisciplinary collaboration, and support real-world change by addressing key challenges in current agricultural systems.

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...