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Dr Lisa Lobry de Bruyn

@lisalobry.bsky.social

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A/Prof at University of New England, Armidale, Australia on Anaiwan land. I study soil biology, Ants, Soil Health and local soil knowledge. I want to support practitioners in their learning journey on soil condition to protect and enhance soil condition.

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Dr Lisa Lobry de Bruyn @lisalobry.bsky.social · Nov 18

Forgot the #soil #soilscience

Dr Lisa Lobry de Bruyn @lisalobry.bsky.social · Nov 18

Watched the EU Mission Soil Week last week, and it is clear there is a need to connect soil information to actionable knowledge. Katrin Prager and I wrote about this in Soil Use and Management. Highlighted by @annakspeaking.bsky.social

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Léa Beaumelle @leabeaumelle.bsky.social · Jul 31

Cool study showing that soil animals' feeding preferences depend more on taxonomic identity than forest type
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besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#ecology #biodiversity #soil

The use of plant, bacterial and fungal resources in soil food webs of ecto‐ and arbuscular mycorrhiza‐dominated deciduous forests

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) @ieep.eu · Aug 1

🎴 Depopulation as a driver of #desertification with the loss of these people, we also lose knowledge of how to sustain vibrant agricultural landscapes.

Read these policy recommendations by @desertificationeu.bsky.social 👇

How can we reduce depopulation-driven desertification? Policy recommendations | TERRASAFE

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AgroConect @hqube.bsky.social · Aug 4

This is how the biodegradable soil sensors work 🚜
#agritech #soil #sensors

Dr Lisa Lobry de Bruyn @lisalobry.bsky.social · Jun 17

Quite late to respond but I reckon it would be cold up there!

Dr Lisa Lobry de Bruyn @lisalobry.bsky.social · Jun 17

It is a great honour to be part of the Editorial Board @sumjournal.bsky.social and taking on a larger role in the British Soil Science Societies Journal. @pdhallett.bsky.social

Soil Use and Management @sumjournal.bsky.social · Jun 16

We are delighted to welcome A/Prof Lisa Lobry de Bruyn to the Soil Use and Management editorial team as Deputy Editor, and very much look forward to working with her in this, the journal's 40th Anniversary year, and beyond!
@lisalobry.bsky.social #soil #soilscience

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robdai.bsky.social @robdai.bsky.social · Apr 9

Big tech’s new #datacenters, being built by #Microsoft #Google #Amazon, will take #water from the world’s driest areas. #drought #desertification

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas

Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents

www.theguardian.com

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Microbes.Info @microbesinfo.bsky.social · Apr 9

Beyond precision: why smarter agriculture needs systems thinking

Kansas State University is moving sustainable and resilient agriculture forward by combining cutting-edge research with farmer-driven insights to connect soil health, water use, and disease control.

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Dr Lisa Lobry de Bruyn @lisalobry.bsky.social · Apr 9

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This was supposed to be easy! Glad you're with me.

Dr Lisa Lobry de Bruyn @lisalobry.bsky.social · Mar 23

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On the right track but ran out of guesses. Had to happen at some point.

Dr Lisa Lobry de Bruyn @lisalobry.bsky.social · Mar 20

March 21 World Forest Day

Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · Mar 20

New Review online today: Moving biodiversity from an afterthought to a key outcome of forest restoration 🧪🌎 Free to access online for two weeks - share and download now! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Moving biodiversity from an afterthought to a key outcome of forest restoration - Nature Reviews Biodiversity

Forest restoration has the potential to result in substantial biodiversity gains alongside climate and human well-being benefits; however, biodiversity has historically been neglected in restoration e...

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Colby Moorberg @colbydigssoil.bsky.social · Mar 20

We collected cores, installed shallow groundwater monitoring wells, and installed IRIS films at one wetland site today. The site is mapped as the Osage series (fine, smectitic, thermic Typic Epiaquerts) on land enrolled in the Wetland Reserve Program. #wetlands #hydric #soil #redox

A soil scientist collecting a soil core using a gas-powered corer that drives a steel tube into the ground.

A shallow well made from PVC with a yellow cap surrounded by a cage with plastic IRIS films sticking out of the ground in a circle around the well. The well and films are in a clearing with trees in the background.

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Dr Lisa Lobry de Bruyn @lisalobry.bsky.social · Mar 20

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Dr Lisa Lobry de Bruyn @lisalobry.bsky.social · Mar 20

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Dr Lisa Lobry de Bruyn @lisalobry.bsky.social · Mar 16

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Dr Lisa Lobry de Bruyn @lisalobry.bsky.social · Mar 9

How did you get purple?

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I had to share this result!

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williamzhope.bsky.social @williamzhope.bsky.social · Feb 17

How to characterise the SOC fractions (the particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon ) compositionally and identify important organic and inorganic functional groups that differed by fraction simultaneously? Here is our solution. 🧪🌏#Soil

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Deep learning of the particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon fractions using a compositional transform and mid-infrared spectroscopy

We need soil organic carbon (SOC) and the SOC fractions, the particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon (POC, MAOC), to understand SOC dynamics…

www.sciencedirect.com

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KBS LTER @kbslter.bsky.social · Feb 17

Upcoming Iowa Learning Farms webinar will feature @kbslter.bsky.social scientist, @sprunger.bsky.social and her lab's work on beneficial nematodes and what they can tell us about #soilhealth.

For more details and to register, check out the story here!

www.morningagclips.com/iowa-learnin...

Iowa Learning Farms Webinar: Soil Health and Nematode Linkages

AMES, Iowa -- The Iowa Learning Farms (ILF) conservation webinar taking place Feb. 19 at noon CST will feature Christine Sprunger, associate professor of soil health, Michigan State University....

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Dr Lisa Lobry de Bruyn @lisalobry.bsky.social · Feb 16

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Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social · Feb 14

Environmental change is social change, so social sciences, humanities and the arts (SSHA) should be equal in #soil research. How to achieve that? What are SSHA anyway? See my report written on behalf of the Advisory Board of Horizon Mission Soil mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/resource-lib...

Social sciences, humanities, and the arts in the EU Mission “A Soil Deal for Europe” | Mission Soil Platform

With this document, the main aim of the Mission Soil Board is to enhance understanding of the relevance of social sciences, humanities, and the arts (SSHA) in soil research. It seeks to review the int...

mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu

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Sustainable Soils Alliance @sustainablesoils.bsky.social · Feb 14

Stay up to date with this week’s #soil news with the latest edition of The Week In Soil. This edition includes news on the Wales’ farming budget 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, the extension of Scotland’s sustainable farming incentive 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, hedgerows and soil carbon 🌳, and more!

Read it here ➡️ bit.ly/42UNiJW

#TheWeekInSoil

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Dr Lisa Lobry de Bruyn @lisalobry.bsky.social · Feb 14

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Dr Lisa Lobry de Bruyn @lisalobry.bsky.social · Feb 14

Living in suburbia doesn't mean you don't host wildlife, Brush-tailed possum leaving the chimney they reside in for the night! #wildlifephotography #possum Magic.

Possum walking on a power line and stationary while a photo taken at night