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Avni Malhotra @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social · 23d

Congrats @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social! Very well deserved!

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ETH Zurich @ethz.ch · 26d

ETH Zurich climate scientist @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social is the first Swiss citizen to receive the prestigious German Environmental Award bestowed by the German Federal Environmental Foundation.

Congratulations for receiving this award for outstanding research!

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Great honour for ETH climate researcher Sonia Seneviratne

ETH Professor Sonia Seneviratne is the first Swiss citizen to receive the prestigious German Environmental Award bestowed by the German Federal Environmental Foundation. The climate researcher shares ...

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Avni Malhotra @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thanks, Jordi! We tried aboveground litter too. No luck. Soil Ca has interesting trends though.

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Avni Malhotra @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social · Aug 13

@sr-weino.bsky.social @katerinageorgiou.bsky.social @aaberhe.com @billingslab.bsky.social @stuartsoil.bsky.social @mingzhenlu.bsky.social @josephtumber.bsky.social

Avni Malhotra @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social · Aug 13

We tried a range of covariates to explain the variability in forest root and soil carbon relationships but couldn’t. We conclude that while grasslands, especially at depth, may be good candidates for increasing soil carbon by increasing root carbon, forest dynamics remain elusive.

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Avni Malhotra @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social · Aug 13

We standardized the data to be able to evaluate deviations from a 1:1 line. Sites above this line suggest net accrual of fine root carbon as soil carbon. Sites below suggest net priming or other processes at play.

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Avni Malhotra @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social · Aug 13

Grasslands showed expected positive relationships between fine root and soil C. But forests were perplexing.

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Avni Malhotra @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social · Aug 13

We asked a simple question in this paper. Are fine root and soil carbon stocks related across sites? We used NEON data (root and soil data from 42 sites across the USA).

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Avni Malhotra @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social · Aug 13

It’s hard to post about papers these days but I’ll try. Better slow than never. Here’s a blog post about our recently published paper. communities.springernature.com/posts/gettin...

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Avni Malhotra @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social · Jul 18

@drbenrunkle.bsky.social

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Avni Malhotra @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social · Jul 18

A great essay from a beloved colleague! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Reflecting on the Tenure Track From Mid‐Career

I offer advice and reflections on research, teaching, and service in a tenure-track position I provide advice for the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER grant program I suggest ways to say ...

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Sophie von Fromm @sophievf.bsky.social · Jul 16

🚨🌍Are you attending #AGU25? Are you working on soil stabilization and change? Than this session is for you:

Soils in the Anthropocene: Cross-scale Mechanisms of Stabilization and Change (B081)

With @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social @katie-rocci.bsky.social @katerinageorgiou.bsky.social Sam Weintraub-Leff

a cat peeking out of a wooden door with the caption " getting on this meeting ?? "

ALT: a cat peeking out of a wooden door with the caption " getting on this meeting ?? "

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Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila @josephtumber.bsky.social · Jul 10

Attending #AGU25 and want to talk Roots?!
Consider submitting an abstract to our session by July 30th ⏲️
🧪🌳🌎

post for session with agu banner on top, left is session title: B061 - Measuring and Modeling the Role of Roots and Belowground Processes in Biogeochemical Cycles"
Beneath is convener names: Emma Hauser
Avni Malhotra
M. Luke McCormack
S. Joseph Tumber-Dávila
and to the right is the session abstract, which can be found in the attached link

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Jaan Pärn @jaanparn.bsky.social · Jul 4

@ INTECOL Wetlands conference, Datu Prof Lulie Melling of TROPI Sarawak giving plenary talk on research and outreach in tropical

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Fahad Ali Kazmi @kazmifa.bsky.social · Jul 1

Today, I presented a study based on GHG and related #microbiome in Réunion Island #peatland forests at the 12th #INTECOL Wetlands Conference, Tartu, #Estonia

#peatlandN2O #erc @emlabtartu.bsky.social

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Katie Rocci, PhD @katie-rocci.bsky.social · Jul 2

Really interesting paper from some great folks! Love to see us learning more about root effects on soil C!

Avni Malhotra @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social · Jul 1

Excited to see this paper out! We used NEON data to explore the relationship between fine root and soil carbon stocks. With @sr-weino.bsky.social @katerinageorgiou.bsky.social @aaberhe.com @josephtumber.bsky.social @mingzhenlu.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1038/s432...

Fine root and soil carbon stocks are positively related in grasslands but not in forests - Communications Earth & Environment

A positive relationship between fine root carbon and soil organic carbon stocks is well established in grasslands, particularly at greater depths, but the relationship varies across forests, based on ...

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Avni Malhotra @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social · Jul 1

Excited to see this paper out! We used NEON data to explore the relationship between fine root and soil carbon stocks. With @sr-weino.bsky.social @katerinageorgiou.bsky.social @aaberhe.com @josephtumber.bsky.social @mingzhenlu.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1038/s432...

Fine root and soil carbon stocks are positively related in grasslands but not in forests - Communications Earth & Environment

A positive relationship between fine root carbon and soil organic carbon stocks is well established in grasslands, particularly at greater depths, but the relationship varies across forests, based on ...

doi.org

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Jaan Pärn @jaanparn.bsky.social · Jun 29

INTECOL Wetlands Conference officially kicked off in Tartu! A week of exciting meetings and discussions on the future of marshes, swamps and peat bogs ahead! @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social @monicapalta.bsky.social @luke.fi @mikkespenberg.bsky.social @etechlab.bsky.social #ÜloManderHappy

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Avni Malhotra @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social · Jun 18

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Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila @josephtumber.bsky.social · Jun 18

Very excited to see this massive effort out that was led by Mingzhen Lu that showed widespread rooting bimodality across NEON sites 🧪🌎🌳

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A continental scale analysis reveals widespread root bimodality - Nature Communications

This study shows that many plants form a second, deeper root layer underground, enabling access to nutrient-rich deep soil. This previously unnoticed rooting pattern adds to the growing recognition th...

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Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · Jun 11

Now online: "Permafrost, Peatland, and Cropland Regions Are Key to Reconciling North American Carbon Sink Estimates" by Kelsey Foster et al., including @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social w/ Stanford, PNNL, NAU, and NRC colleagues agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Permafrost, Peatland, and Cropland Regions Are Key to Reconciling North American Carbon Sink Estimates

Additional sink inferred by inversions in just 16% of North America accounts for the discrepancy between top-down and bottom-up estimates Statistically significant differences between top-down an...

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Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · Apr 27

Monday afternoon at #EGU25

"Soils and Environmental Change" - session BG3.49 convened by @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social and colleagues 28 Apr 16:15–18:00 in room E2 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

Session BG3.49

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Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila @josephtumber.bsky.social · Mar 7

The problem is that some people will use this as personal justification for submitting a review written solely by LLMs
(&even then I have issues with the article's message)

I've already seen this happen
its frustrating & time consuming as an author to deal with these useless LLM generated reviews

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Mar 6

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail.

I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review

Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.

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Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · Feb 13

"AquaMEND: Reconciling multiple impacts of salinization on soil carbon biogeochemistry" by my colleague Jianqiu Zheng @vlbailey.bsky.social et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

AquaMEND: Reconciling multiple impacts of salinization on soil carbon biogeochemistry

Soil salinization, exacerbated by climate change, poses a global threat to coastal ecosystems and soil function. Salinity affects soil carbon cycling …

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Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · Jan 7

"Biogeosciences Leaders of Tomorrow: @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social Special Collection on Emerging Scientists" - spotlighting research from emerging biogeoscientists acknowledged by their peers as future leaders in their field. Nominations are open!

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Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences Call for Papers: Biogeosciences Leaders of Tomorrow

<em>Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences</em> is an AGU journal publishing papers on the biogeosciences of the Earth system and the extension of this research to planetary studies.

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