Super cool talk by @colinaverill.bsky.social on the effect (and manipulation) of soil microbiome (mycobiome) on growth of forests.

Basically doing for forests what fecal transplants do for managing C diff

If you're working in enhanced rock weathering and you hate your lysimeters... know that we hate them too. There is a better way! Reach out - we're happy to help folks deploy this new approach.

We're deploying this method at our microbiome restoration X ERW trial in Wales with @thecarboncom.bsky.social. It's probably the only way we can get weathering data at high enough resolution to properly model weathering rates and associated carbon removal.

Lysimeters only work if the soil has enough water. If you've ever tried, it seems like these instruments barely work. Jones et al. instead use an ultra centrifuge to measure alkalinity at any soil moisture level, and demonstrate this method is more effective for detecting changes in ERW projects.

Didn’t know you rode an OPEN! Love these bikes

Love this so much 💙💙💙

This feels like some clutch your pearls attitude! Don’t know enough to evaluate, it’s not open access (so everyone who’s not at an academic institution can’t read, which seems to be self defeating in and of itself)