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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 10d

It seems unbelievable that some journals still keep digitized versions of journal articles from over a hundred years ago *paywalled*!

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · Jul 24

🌎 🤖 💻 ☘️🌳 Interested in the intersection between #ecosystem #ecology and tech development? We're still looking for a research assistant to help with our projects about how roots - the 'hidden half' of plants - work here at Trinity College Dublin. Find the job ad here: www.tcd.ie/botany/vacan...

Vacancies - Botany | Trinity College Dublin

www.tcd.ie

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · Jun 19

Nice to be back in Edinburgh this week for #rhizosphere7. Now I'm full of interesting ideas, met lots of new and old #root and #soil friends, and even seen the inside of the building I graduated in (it was being renovated back then and full of scaffolding). Super worth it 🌱

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · Jun 10

Last minute twist on these positions: they are available for EVERYONE, not just EU nationals 🎉 Closing date is tomorrow on some adverts (I won't be able to find and fix them) but we will consider late applications through to early next week (Monday 16th) #roots #rootecolology #biogeochemistry #phd

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · Jun 5

A little less than a week left to apply for these positions! #roots #rootecolology #biogeochemistry #phd

Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · May 13

⏰ I’m advertising not 1️⃣ but 3️⃣ positions!⏰, one RA and two #PhD s (fully funded 4 year EU/UK fees) as part of my team at @tcddublin.bsky.social looking at how roots work in natural ecosystems and influence greenhouse gas fluxes 🌏 🍃 🌲 💻

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · May 30

a group hoto four people (woman, man, woman, man) standing infront of a door on a stone building covered with ivy. The words 'School of Botany' are written on the building.

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · May 30

(but we grow again in September adding another few positions that are being advertisted now! check out the other posts on my timeline to learn more 🙂)

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · May 30

a bittersweet final day for the first substantial Plant-Soil group @tcddublin.bsky.social Botany alumnus. Nadja has gone west like the elves to start a masters in Canada. We're lessened without her. Its strange to be the boss here after being on the other side before!

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · May 22

#roots #phdposition #rootecology #phd #computervision
how can we solve the unique challenges of super-high frequency field root imagery for climate change understanding? this phd will tackle this on a cross-domain project! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · May 22

#roots #phdposition #rootecology #phd
can we improve understanding of the 2nd biggest terrestrial C flux by running a root camera really fast and measuring the soil respiration on top of it? its a bit more complicated than that, but thats the big question in this PhD www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · May 13

⏰ I’m advertising not 1️⃣ but 3️⃣ positions!⏰, one RA and two #PhD s (fully funded 4 year EU/UK fees) as part of my team at @tcddublin.bsky.social looking at how roots work in natural ecosystems and influence greenhouse gas fluxes 🌏 🍃 🌲 💻

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · May 13

PhD: Plant-Soil Field Ecology / Ecophysiology -> tinyurl.com/k2ymn5mv
PhD: Computational methods to use our plant-soil image data -> tinyurl.com/4hbcwa8v
Research Assistant/Technician -> tinyurl.com/ydvbpj6n
(links will be updated to my university website once online)

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · May 13

⏰ I’m advertising not 1️⃣ but 3️⃣ positions!⏰, one RA and two #PhD s (fully funded 4 year EU/UK fees) as part of my team at @tcddublin.bsky.social looking at how roots work in natural ecosystems and influence greenhouse gas fluxes 🌏 🍃 🌲 💻

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · Apr 29

check out our new review paper about how to put all the stuff below the leaves together to understand whole ecosystem phenology 🌿🌏🌳 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Below the leaves: Integrating above‐ and below‐ground phenology for earth‐system predictability

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

doi.org

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · Apr 9

Well done! It's been a pleasure seeing your work at EGU the last few years !

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · Jan 8

There's still time to submit #EGU25!

Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · Dec 3

we're back again with our EGU session on vegetation responses to global change, in Vienna next year at #EGU25! We like submissions at different scales. Hope to see you there (with an abstract submitted 😜) meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

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Yunpeng Luo @yunpeng-luo.bsky.social · Dec 16

Two important updates for our session: 1) wonderful "vegetation response examples" (Background images) updated by Camille Abadie and 2) wonderful keynote speaker in our session: Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social . Very looking forward 😃🎊🥂:
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · Dec 4

I'm hiring! 2+2 year postdoc position on forecasting plant defence and resilience to pathogens.

Why are some plants better at defending themselves and can we model it? What role does the environment play? And how can we use all the data we have?

Deadline 13/01.

plantecomodelling.org/vacancies 🧪🌏🌾

Plant Ecology Modelling group - Vacancies

Openings

plantecomodelling.org

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · Dec 3

(we're also online for remote presentations!)

Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · Dec 3

we're back again with our EGU session on vegetation responses to global change, in Vienna next year at #EGU25! We like submissions at different scales. Hope to see you there (with an abstract submitted 😜) meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · Nov 16

I made a Root Scientists Starter Pack go.bsky.app/46hHLm3! Let me know in the comments or DM if you'd like to be added #roots #rootscientists

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · Nov 16

I made one go.bsky.app/46hHLm3! Populated by anyone with 'root' that I follow or am followed by plus a few more people that I spotted, sorry if I missed or overlooked you!

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · Nov 15

Is there a root scientists list that I can't find? Should I make one?

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · Oct 18

big milestone for the Plant-Soil Function group at Trinity today as Nadja baked our first ever research cake from the #RootCheck Research Ireland #NationalChallengeFund
#NextGenerationEU project (soil corable chocolate cake)

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · Sep 21

incidentally while lots of people say they review at least reciprocally for their publications i wonder if we correctly estimate the ratio reviews:publication necessary to make up for the skew towards junior scientists (not reviewing or ending up leaving before they 'pay back')? its clearly not 2:1

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