Ecologist trying to measure soils & understand them. Like ancient history, art, biodiversity, coffee, data, mountains, sailing, skiing, tides, trees
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We often talk about how to get research into policy, but there is far less discussion about how we get evidence into practice within NGOs and non-profits. A paper shows that evidence use is heavily shaped by relationships and organisational constraints in professional practice.
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We’ve been a bit quiet lately due to intensive work across #forest, #lab and #R🌳💻
News from the 🇩🇪 part of #Carbonweb experiment:
- First δ¹³CO₂ results received from @uniGoettingen
- #Invertebrates scanned and sorted🐜
- #SOM fractionation ongoing
@godemelie
@Andrey_G_Zuev
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"Toward repurposing global passive air sampling networks for insect monitoring: Promises and pitfalls of airborne eDNA" doi.org/10.32942/X2ZD4Z
ALT Order richness for each sampling method. (A) Rarefaction (solid lines) and extrapolation (dashed lines) curves of insect order richness for Malaise traps (orange) and PUF-PAS (blue). Shaded areas represent 95% credible intervals. (B) Order richness for each sampling method. Lines connect the same sampling event, representing higher order richness in Malaise traps (red), same order richness sampled (gray), and higher order richness in PUF-PAS (green). The orders Mantodea, Mecoptera, and Plecoptera were detected in the Malaise traps only, whereas Psocoptera was detected only in the PUF-PAS. (C) Venn diagram with the communities sampled by each method, with silhouettes of the orders and percentages of convergence and divergence. Silhouettes were downloaded from PhyloPic.
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The descent from Bidean nam Bian is difficult for the average walker when in winter condition. However, if you have planks on your feet, it is a good deal more straightforward, and considerably quicker, as these gents found out yesterday.
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For the hardy souls that descend on foot from Ben Macdui to the Lairig Ghru, it is a 30 minute study in careful foot placement and jars to the joints. Yesterday for Blair Aitken it was little more than a 2 minute descent on beautiful spring snow.
📷 Blair Aitken british-backcountry.co.uk/sk…
Aidan Keith retweeted
Join our soil ecology research team at the University of Coimbra and help us decode the living world beneath our feet — from molecules to European-scale policy. 🪱🧬🌍
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What does a forest sound like around the world? 🌍🎧
In our new 📄 in Global Ecology and Biogeography we show that forests have distinct 🔊 fingerprints, with clear differences between tropical and temperate soundscapes.
📄🔎onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Aidan Keith retweeted
Creativity can get you to places which logic can't.
Useful to entrepreneurs, who want this. Highly unappealing to box-tickers, whose jobs depend more on the defensibility of decisions than the quality of the outcome.
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How can biological indicators give us a clearer picture of soil health? And how do land use, climate and vegetation shape soil biodiversity and function across Europe? Find out the answers to these questions and more in the video of our latest webinar: youtube.com/watch?v=zJr_NLdw…
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The soil web is perhaps the last great frontier of soil! 🌌🪱 Despite its importance, soil biology remains an overlooked area of soil science and policy. Join this webinar to find out the latest tools and technology in this area: ai4soilhealth.eu/event/decod…
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The European Parliament has had its final vote on the first EU-wide directive for soil monitoring, making soil monitoring policies a hot topic right now. Watch the video of our latest webinar for a deep dive into the subject: youtube.com/watch?v=4A0EJ_w5… #SoilMonitoring #SoilHealth
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@zecojls & @sandersoil are looking for a young talented pedometrician (data-driven soil scientist) to join our team -- linkedin.com/jobs/view/43057…
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📣📣 Call For Donations! 💰💰
I am raising funds to finance the 2025 'glacier subfossil wood' field campaign!
Do you want to continue hearing tales about glaciers and trees? 🧊🌲💍
I need your help! 🤍
To learn more:
wemakeit.com/projects/glacie…
🙏🙏 Please share it widely! 🙏🙏
Aidan Keith retweeted
📣📣 Call For Donations! 💰💰
I am raising funds to finance the 2025 'glacier subfossil wood' field campaign!
Do you want to continue hearing tales about glaciers and trees? 🧊🌲💍
I need your help! 🤍
To learn more:
wemakeit.com/projects/glacie…
🙏🙏 Please share it widely! 🙏🙏
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The biggest threat to innovation is internal politics and an organizational culture which does not accept failure, and/or does not accept ideas from outside, and/or cannot change.
Aidan Keith retweeted
New funding opportunity for projects on soil health 📣
#MissionSoil’s SoilTribes offers grants from €25k to €100k for creative, cultural & community projects on soil restoration.
Open to EU and #HorizonEU associated countries.
Apply by 10 Oct 2025 👉 europa.eu/!MJdpWF
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📢The Global Soil Biodiversity Conference 2026 abstract submission deadline is coming up quickly 🐛🐜🕷️🦠🪱
Abstracts are due July 15th 23:59 PDT ‼️
Submit an abstract 👇
globalsoilbiodiversity2026.o…
@gsbc2026
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3 days left to apply for a postdoc position in our group in Lund for a new project, where we will combine image and spectral analysis to study soil biodiversity with focus on pathogenic fungi. More info 👇
#fungi #Raman_spectroscopy #soilchips
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/job…