I'll be at ESA this week and would love to catch up with any friends in Baltimore! I'll be presenting on Monday afternoon (tomorrow!) for any folks who are in town yet!

Such a fun project & massive team effort. We sampled tree cores my 1st yr of grad school then took a year to figure out how to grind wood… ! But we were amazed to find such a complex & unexpected ecosystem inside trees. And we’ve just scratched the surface! We explored 150 trees— 3 trillion to go!

Exactly how we felt! Sort of “of course they’re in there”, but… a trillion prokaryotes in each of three trillion trees— that’s an astounding amount to explore!

So fun to be featured on this week’s @naturepodcast.bsky.social talking about the tree microbiome and could not be more thrilled to be following a story on rubber ducks.

"in 2025 we will have flying cars" 😂😂😂

Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.

XKCD’s take on archaea

There was no reason the art had to be this good and yet!!

We often ask how does a species affect an ecosystem.
But what about all of them—together?

Our new framework predicts how animals of all shapes and sizes act within their communities to influence elemental distribution on landscapes.

w/ Janey Lienau @ecography.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

New in Geoderma: "Soil carbon concentration drives anoxic microsites across horizons, textures, and aggregate position in a California grassland" by Emily M Lacroix, Anna Gomes, Alexander S Honeyman, Katie R Huy [...] Meret Aeppli. https://buff.ly/40aIT2B
@Stanford @unil @SLAClab @EPFLEngineering

🔗: Link in bio to attend
📆: Thursday, May 8th, 19:30
🗣️: @jgewirtzman.bsky.social – The Hidden Life Inside Trees

Trees are more than just plants—they host distinct and highly specialized microbial communities within their wood.

#mycotalk #mycology #talks #mushroom

“This budget is a recipe for ending the US' leadership in science. It would do generational damage by forcing labs to shut down, with a corresponding loss of highly trained individuals and one-of-a-kind research materials.”

First time posting on Bluesky and first time at @egu.eu! If you're still sticking it out at #EGU2025 on Friday afternoon, join me to talk about trees, their microbiomes, and their role in the methane cycle!
doi.org/10.5194/egus...

New Paper [email protected]
Thanks to the great team! @giannamars.bsky.social @scott-saleska.bsky.social @elbrodie.bsky.social @emerge-bii.bsky.social and many others! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nominations and applications are now open for our student and early-career researcher awards!!

There are awards for travel to attend the conference, for outstanding publications, and for presentations at the conference. Please share widely with students, advisees, colleagues, and friends!

Aerosol cooling and methanogenesis suppression! A scalable-climate-solution twofer!! An additional 9 months per year should pass additionally tests— sounds like an even better investment than bitcoin.

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

With atmospheric methane removal an emergent research area, I’d like to create a starter pack of people on here working in this space - spanning engineering, microbiology, ecosystem science, climate finance etc. I’d appreciate some re-posts. TIA!! @katharinehayhoe.com and @globalecoguy.bsky.social

The focus for this year's ESA meeting is "Supporting Ecologists Throughout Their Careers." The Biogeosciences Section supports students and early career scientists by awarding paper, presentation, and travel awards every year. Read more here: www.esa.org/biogeoscienc...

The New Phytologist Innovation Presentation Grant recognizes an outstanding student oral presentation at the #ESA2024 Annual Meeting. The winner of the award receives a $500 cash prize and formal recognition from ESA and the New Phytologist. More info: www.esa.org/biogeoscienc...

The ESA Biogeosciences Section's Gene E. Likens Award recognizes an early-career scientist (within 5 y of receiving Ph.D.) for work conducted after the completion of graduate school. The winner receives a $250 cash prize. Nominations due May 20. More info: www.esa.org/biogeoscienc...

The ESA Biogeosciences Section's Elizabeth Sulzman Award recognizes research conducted while a graduate student, and published within two years of graduation. The winner receives a $250 cash prize. Nominations are due May 20. More info: www.esa.org/biogeoscienc...

#ESA Biogeosciences has 3 early career researchers awards! Thanks to all #ESA Biogeosciences members! Your membership helps support these awards and recognize the amazing early career ecologists in our section. If you need to renew your membership, be sure to click the Biogeosciences Section box ✅

Did you know that the ESA Biogeosciences Section sponsors multiple student travel grants for attending #ESA2024 Annual Meeting. All student members of our section are eligible to apply! The application window opens April 15. www.esa.org/biogeoscienc...