We're hiring! For Fall 2025, Assistant/Associate Professor in the area of Microbe-Plant Interactions.

Very excited to share our latest paper in Global Change Biology introducing elevated levels antibiotic resistance genes as a new factor of global change A short🧵 #antibiotics #environment onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc…

This postdoc position for SPRUCE project is open again! Initial candidate had accepted but got offer that worked better for family. If you’re interested or know someone, please have them apply ASAP! Looking to move fast now. jobs.ornl.gov/job/Oak-Ridge-…

Still open! Im planning on two more weeks until I make the interview list. Apply to join us ORNL Biology and Environment

Cool new study alert! - Two novel Archaeorhizomyces species isolated from ericoid mycorrhizal ... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The very inspiring award ceremony and lecture from Rodolfo Dirzo at this weeks ESA conference is now online. Nerd out my eco-friends! youtu.be/mN8b_C-yZ2I?si…

At the SPRUCE experiment doing some peat sampling and N2O flux measurements this week. Most are very low but a few of the hotter plots are letting off a bit of nitrous oxide!

In case you were waiting for the combined, three position ad! UTK Microbiology is hiring TTF for Fall 2025. Come join us!!

Weeks activities. Planted trees collected from PNW in Jan and grew as cuttings 2 months in greenhouse. Pulled & pinned drip irrigation system! Now dripping at 2g/hr Next week install weather stations in PNW on our temp/precip gradient… Repeat again next year? Science!

What determines transfer of carbon from plants to mycorrhizal fungi? For the past 2 years, we debated this question. And I mean debated. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… #TansleyReview New Phytologist 1/n

End of final day of the JGI Users Meeting. Awesome as always, but glad to be headed home tomorrow! usermeeting.jgi.doe.gov

Never thought I would retweet this fella, but he ain’t wrong!

Many good colleagues doing good work are featured in this! -“What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic” ornl.gov/arctic

Pass this on to your best and brightest students that might be interested in internships at ORNL this summer! Oh... and happy World Soils Day!