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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 4h
Introducing our Microbes of the Month for October, Cyberlindnera hibernica and Barnettozyma discipulorum!

The two novel yeast species were discovered from forest soil samples collected in County Cork, Ireland, by students at University College Dublin.
A forest in Ireland. Text reads “Microbe of the Month – Selected from IJSEM” and “ Cyberlindnera hibernica and Barnettozyma discipulorum.” A caption below explains how the two novel yeast species were isolated by students at University College Dublin.
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globalecounit.bsky.social @globalecounit.bsky.social · 3h
🌱 Compared to natural forests, long-term Eucalyptus monocultures reduce soil health and biodiversity, which can threaten overall ecosystem stability. 🌿
Yukun Lu @jpreixach.bsky.social @csic.es @creaf.cat @iec.cat
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Green Supply Chain DIH @greensupplychain.bsky.social · 2h
How can we monitor & assess #soilhealth?
Which are the ways to improve #agricultural productivity & security?
Can we empower #farmers to optimize the use of resources?
#Soil #data is the answer🌱📊
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Food and Agriculture Organization on X: "From climate action to farmers' empowerment, soil data and information are the cornerstones of sustainable soil management. Here are 6 reasons it’s essential! https://t.co/uW8w4UqBa7" / X
From climate action to farmers' empowerment, soil data and information are the cornerstones of sustainable soil management. Here are 6 reasons it’s essential! https://t.co/uW8w4UqBa7
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Tony R. Walker @tonyrwalker1.bsky.social · 2h
Conventional and #biodegradable #agricultural #microplastics: effects on #soil properties and microbial functions across a European pedoclimatic gradient

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Conventional and biodegradable agricultural microplastics: effects on soil properties and microbial functions across a European pedoclimatic gradient
Agricultural plastics like mulching films may become a major source of microplastic (MP) soil contamination during their degradation and fragmentation…
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Katysheridan @krshe.bsky.social · 22h
“There was a real feeling of validation that Indigenous knowledge could contribute in a very meaningful way to revitalization efforts. And this spread to most people that have been working on the project – those doing the planting or the engineering hydrology,” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront
A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton
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UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social · 18h
💦 Last Saturday’s QRRC Open House went very well! Our colleague Dr. Phil Owens shares that 50+ people attended, with about 30 of those being community members including Xatsull First Nation and Williams Lake Indian Band members.

#QRRC #rivers #salmon #hydrology #researchmatters #UNBCInTheField
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Forest Ecosystems @forestecosyst.bsky.social · 1d
Understanding how drought impacts tree growth is crucial for predicting forest futures. New study in China's Western Tianshan Mountains shows varying recovery based on elevation and drought intensity.🌲
#drought #forest
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Paola Mazzoglio @paolamazzoglio.bsky.social · 6h
🚨 New paper out! 🚨
We studied who contributes to data rescue citizen science projects and why. From retired data pros to environmentally engaged volunteers, discover what drives participation in #citizenscience projects in the field of #hydrology. doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Critical Zone News @cznews.bsky.social · 2h
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Dr Chris Skinner FRGS @geoskinner.games · 5h
Help shape the future of UK Flood Hydrology and play an active role delivering the UK's Flood Hydrology Roadmap - join the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group (STAG).

Details: www.hydrology.org.uk/assets/UK%20...
UK Flood hydrology roadmap. Be part of the change. Join the scientific and technical advisory group. Apply now by October 17th. Link in post.
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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · 3h
📰Record-breaking 2024 #Amazon fires drive unprecedented carbon emissions and #ecosystem degradation.
The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre reveals that the Amazon rainforest has just undergone its most devastating forest fire season in over two decades.

🧵Read more here: egu.eu/9DQY14
Image description: A forest fire with text that reads: 'Press release Record-breaking 2024 Amazon fires drive unprecedented carbon emissions and ecosystem degradation A new study by researchers at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre reveals that the Amazon rainforest has just undergone its most devastating forest fire season in over two decades, which triggered record-breaking carbon emissions and exposed the region’s growing ecological fragility despite a slowing trend in deforestation. www.egu.eu '
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Critical Zone News @cznews.bsky.social · 2h
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 3h
Ah good,
The sea
The sea as seen from a train window
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Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 3h
We publish in Ecology 30 years of Arctic wildlife monitoring on Bylot Island (Nunavut, Canada)! Our long-term dataset tracks 35 species across 400 km² of tundra, providing rare insights into community dynamics, food webs, and climate responses. Open data for all at bitly.cx/OnOI2 🌍🦊🦉🦑 🧪🌿🌐
Arctic fox on Bylot Island (Nunavut, Canada). Picture by Louis-Pierre Ouellet.
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Critical Zone News @cznews.bsky.social · 6h
#CriticalZone at #AGU25
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Dohee Kim @doheekim.bsky.social · 8d
📢We are excited to announce that our lab members will present their latest research at #AGU25!
We look forward to sharing our recent findings with the community and welcome everyone to attend our sessions. See you at NOLA! #AGU25
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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 23h
🚨 Last chance to enter to win an #AGU25 pelican!

➡️ Propose your name for the #AGU25 mascot by Friday, 10 October: buff.ly/7c5fEe3
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AGU Catchment Hydrology Technical Committee @agucatchhydro.bsky.social · 22h
This week in our #AGU25 #CatchmentHydrology Early Career series, we highlight: “Transferability of machine-learning-based modeling frameworks across flood events for hindcasting maximum river water depths in coastal watersheds” by Maryam Pakdehi et al. (2024).
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Critical Zone News @cznews.bsky.social · 14h
#CriticalZone #photography
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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 15h
If you think that trudging 22 km through a peatland while watching for polar bears in order to collect science data is a good time then my undergraduate/graduate field course in August 2026 might be just for you!

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Critical Zone News @cznews.bsky.social · 15h
Join the Critical Zone Network of Networks. Meet scientists, develop connections, answer complex questions about the inner workings watersheds. Find out more here: bit.ly/CZ_NoN_main 🌐🧪
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Critical Zone News @cznews.bsky.social · 15h
“Snow cover is a critical element of the Earth’s climate system, influencing energy exchange and water storage,” report the authors. Tiny perturbations prove equally critical." 🌐🧪
Shifting the Snow Margin
The steel-blue twilight above Eurasia’s winter steppe is deceptive.
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Critical Zone News @cznews.bsky.social · 16h
In limestone country, water threads caves and springs, shuttling carbon between rock, microbes, and rivers. Groundwater microbes fix CO₂ in the dark, while flow paths set the balance. Better models can reveal this hidden sink. 🌐🧪
Coupled water-carbon cycling in karst regions: a review of processes and modeling
The role of inland water bodies in the global carbon cycle is receiving increasing attention, particularly in karst regions where high hydrological co…
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Critical Zone News @cznews.bsky.social · 16h
From river to lake, the microbiome reconfigures. Nutrient-cycling genes rise upstream; downstream, tight gene–community networks orbit microcystin producers. Expression follows biotic ties more than broad gradients, revealing cooperative engines behind cHABs. 🌐🧪
Spatio‐Temporal Resolution of Microbial Functions and Taxa Associated With Cyanobacterial Harmful Algae Blooms Along a 500‐Km Aquatic Continuum in the Lake Erie Watershed
The aquatic microbiome can influence cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms. Abundances of genes and transcripts for phosphorus acquisition, denitrification and nitrogen fixation were higher upstream, w...
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Critical Zone News @cznews.bsky.social · 16h
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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · 18h
Good Morning!
May you enjoy peaceful walks

#photography #landscsape #seascape #scape #beach #solitude #peace #gift #EastCoastKin
An almost flat calm green sea beneath a clouded but bright sky, with a wedge of golden sand. In the distance a lone figure is deliberately walking through the shallow water, enjoying the space, solitude and simple sensations.
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Flor Yannelli *typo queen* 👽🌱🪁(she/her/ella) @floryannelli.bsky.social · 17h
Very moving keynote at #rae2025 with Dr Cockle and Nuñez entitled “Towards an anticolonial ecology: approaches to weaving ties, sharing power and sowing hope.”
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Critical Zone News @cznews.bsky.social · 19h
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 19h
Some ‘fall’ color happening here in #Tucson… well, actually Fouquieria splendens sheds and dumps its leaves quickly in response to episodic rainfall so not truly ‘fall’ colors just correspondence to time since last monsoon rains
Yellow leaves about to fall off of a Ocotillo plant in Tucson - Fouquieria splendens
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Critical Zone News @cznews.bsky.social · 1d
"Substrate quality—what microbes eat—matters too, as soil ecologists have observed since the first litter-bag studies. Leaves carry more nitrogen and less lignin than woody branches; in size terms, leaf fragments are like thin pages, twigs like compact pencils." 🌐🧪
Warming the Hidden Hearth: Microbes, Leaves, and the Faster Breath of Soil
On a winter night you can almost hear the soil tick—roots locked in frost, microbes drowsing beneath a quilt of leaves, the whole forest bed working at a slowness that mocks our clocks.
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