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Kathrin Rousk @kathrinrousk.bsky.social · 3d

We are organising a session on #Nitrogen biogeochemistry - links to other elements and biodiversity at #BIOGEOMON 2026 in Umeå! Join us! @benhoulton.bsky.social

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Naomi S. Wells @15nswells.bsky.social · 3d

Surely though there’s a worthwhile point to be made about the environmental cost of ‘foods’ relative to their nutritional value? Depressingly wasteful that precious land, fertilises, water, GHGs go into products that don’t actually help feed humanity, just designed to meet (& create) cravings

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Naomi S. Wells @15nswells.bsky.social · 4d

So true re the immeasurable role that department administrators play in our student experience (both directly and indirectly) - and so sadly apparently universal that our corporate unis don’t seem to think twice about axing the people in these roles as expendable / optimisable / digitalisable 😕

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Naomi S. Wells @15nswells.bsky.social · 5d

🤔 not super inspiring really. Usually I like my chemically suppliers to be able to differentiate between chemical compounds. Now I’m doubting myself. Has nitrite really just been a synonym for nitrate all along, missing oxygen be damned????

Screenshot from sigma Aldrich website, listing 15N labelled potassium nitrate. And also listing ‘15N labelled potassium nitrite’ as its synonym.

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Rodrigo Vargas @vargaslab.bsky.social · 7d

⭐️Nominate an Impactful Dataset

@agu.org invites you to nominate an impactful dataset!

📊Submissions will be considered for inclusion in an upcoming featured commentary published in AGU Advances.

Submit nominations by 20 October.

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@agubiogeosciences.bsky.social

Nominate an Impactful Dataset

You are invited to nominate a dataset to be included in a commentary about the impact of Earth, space, and environmental data using the dimensions of people, planet, and prosperity. Selected submitter...

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Naomi S. Wells @15nswells.bsky.social · 9d

Noted 🤣

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 15d

Report on Australian Higher Education finds:

🔹️ Council members have no lived experience of universities

🔹️ Council members have COIs with consultancy firms

🔹️ Council meetings are closed affairs that lack transparency

🔹️ Leaders' exorbitant salaries could not be justified

One submission said leaders’ salaries could not be “justified by the quality of executive decision-making, nor by the scope of executive duties. The core business of a university – teaching and research – is co-ordinated virtually entirely by ordinary non-executive staff”.

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Naomi S. Wells @15nswells.bsky.social · 15d

Yeah me too! And then a colleague was like ‘you should come to BIOGEOMON’ and I looked at the programme and it looks potentially great so now I don’t know what to do…

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Naomi S. Wells @15nswells.bsky.social · 15d

www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

About BIOGEOMON 2026 | slu.se

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Naomi S. Wells @15nswells.bsky.social · 16d

Science conferences next year: should I go to ASLO-SIL aquatic sciences in Montreal or BIOGEOMON in Umea??

Timing for the latter is much better with my teaching calendar, so really the question is: BIOGEOMON - as great as I imagine it to be? (I’ve never been to one)

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Naomi S. Wells @15nswells.bsky.social · 25d

Yeah my students use it for things like coding, clarifying new concepts, generating templates for a new writing types (eg recs). All sounds fine, but also nothing that I as an old person manage w existing tools in the same amt of time. Hard to see much ‘revolution’, just Web 2.0 (3.0)?

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 27d

With the extinction of dinosaurs, dense, closed-canopy forests could proliferate, leading to shifts in fluvial structure and accumulation of organics. This represented a profound change in the landscape, illustrated here by the incomparable Julius Csotonyi.

Two-panel illustration showing sparse trees in a Cretaceous landscape (bottom) and densely forested Paleocene landscape.

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · Sep 12

Today we celebrate the 20th anniversary AGU’s JGR: Biogeosciences!🎉

For two decades, the journal has published original research, methods, and data articles on the biogeosciences of the Earth system.

🔗 Learn how to submit: buff.ly/RcwG5Ty

#AGUPubs @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social

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Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · Aug 12

Join our COMPASS-FME project! U-Toledo seeks a postdoctoral research associate to study methane cycling in coastal ecosystems under different flooding regimes careers.utoledo.edu/en-us/job/49...

Postdoctoral Research Associate

The Department of Environmental Sciences, at the University of Toledo, OH seeks a postdoctoral research associate to study the methane cycling in coastal ecosystems under different flooding regime.

careers.utoledo.edu

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Naomi S. Wells @15nswells.bsky.social · Aug 6

So the funding for this new PRO - is this for hiring ppl, infrastructure, carrying out research, or all three? Ie, is this skewing the funding system even more (making new teams to vie for even less research $), or ‘just’ cutting contestable research $ to redistribute ppl & resources & signage?

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Naomi S. Wells @15nswells.bsky.social · Aug 6

The mesh-swathed object we’re contemplating in the pic is a fire pit we excavated & repurposed as an anchor / POM-excluder for our pumps, which were pummelled by waves and tonnes of storm-mobilised wrack all night long.

Some of the most physically challenging field work I’ve ever done. Worth it?

Naomi S. Wells @15nswells.bsky.social · Aug 6

New work out in GRL: greenhouse gas emissions across human-modified land-to-ocean aquatic continuums. We show how storms shift aquatic emission magnitude & pattern. This arose from (completely unplanned!) estuary sampling during a winter storm.

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Two scientists wearing waterproof outdoor gear standing on the shore holding a large metal object. The sea behind them has small choppy waves and the beach is covered in green seaweed wrack.

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Naomi S. Wells @15nswells.bsky.social · Aug 5

Today was spent exploring new potential alpine river study sites with Helen, Angus, & Saskia. Back and brimming with so many exciting ideas 🤗👩‍🔬

(Now just to figure out how to make these ideas happen…)

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · Jul 29

📢Call for Papers!📢

A new #AGUPubs special collection seeks submissions that advance our understanding of human-altered nutrient and carbon cycles along the land-to-ocean continuum.

🔗 Learn how to submit: buff.ly/ZgVTHsm

#AOGS2025 #Geoscience #SDGs #Nutrients #Biogeochemistry

Special Collection Call for Papers!
Changing biogeochemical cycles along the land-to-ocean aquatic continuum
Now open for submissions in Earth's Future, Geophysical Research Letters, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, JAMES, JGR: Biogeosciences, or JGR: Oceans.

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bioprotection.bsky.social @bioprotection.bsky.social · Jul 23

Recognised as a changemaker, our Director, Professor Amanda Black opens a brand-new series from the Nature podcast team — and how science, Indigenous knowledge, and leadership can shape the future of our ecosystems.

🎧 Listen now: zurl.co/aV3mu

The Māori values that make good sense in science

The Indigenous beliefs underpinning soil chemist Amanda Black's approach could deliver a more inclusive research culture, she says. The Indigenous beliefs underpinning soil chemist Amanda Black's approach could deliver a more inclusive research culture, she says.

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Ben Taylor @taylorecolab.bsky.social · Jul 17

Excited to share our new global estimate of nitrogen fixation out now in Nature! This work sets a new gold standard for understanding how much nitrogen is fixed in the terrestrial biosphere. Huge thanks so Carla Reis Ely for leading this incredible work! urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

Global terrestrial nitrogen fixation and its modification by agriculture - Nature

Biological nitrogen fixation may impose stronger constraints on the carbon sink in natural terrestrial biomes and represent a larger source of agricultural nitrogen than is generally considered in ana...

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Naomi S. Wells @15nswells.bsky.social · Jul 3

Cool!

Naomi S. Wells @15nswells.bsky.social · Jul 2

I’m pretty empathetic to editors being humans with other things going on in their lives / jobs, same with reviewers. But seriously I’m losing my mind here.

Naomi S. Wells @15nswells.bsky.social · Jul 2

Tfw you submitted your manuscript revisions >2 months ago and the revised manuscript is STILL listed as ‘awaiting reviewer assignment’ 🤯😩😭🙏

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Lauren Magliozzi, PhD 💧 @limnologylauren.bsky.social · Jul 2

New @agu.org session! Reduced nitrogen from source to impact: an interdisciplinary session on reduced nitrogen's complex environmental role. Invited speakers include USGS limnologist Dr. Michael Meyer @mishafredmeyer.bsky.social & Georgia Tech atmospheric scientist Da Pan #AGU2025 🧪🔥⚒️

A flyer for an AGU 2025 session titled, "A082: New Perspectives on the Exchange of Reduced Nitrogen Between the Atmosphere, Land, and Water from Remote Sensing, in situ Measurements, and Modeling Approaches"

The description reads,

"Reduced nitrogen from source to impact! From wildfires to agricultural inputs, diverse sources of reactive nitrogen drive significant ecological changes including eutrophication, harmful algal blooms, and aquatic food web disruption across multiple environmental systems. Submit an abstract to our interdisciplinary session exploring atmospheric, terrestrial, and aquatic perspectives. We welcome contributions using remote sensing, field measurements, and modeling approaches that span complexity and spatiotemporal scales. Sections: Atmospheric Sciences, Biogeosciences" The conveners are Dr. Matthew Davis, Dr. Kimberley Corwin, and Dr. Lauren Magliozzi of Colorado State University. There is a QR code for the submission link, and the deadline is listed as 30 July 2025.

The text is black on white boxes with blue accents, and the background features a blue sky with large, white clouds.

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