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Cool data integration: digital soil map + APSIM plant modelling + climate data CSIRO

New paper in Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment- Soil Health to Enhance Ecological Restoration and Conservation -by Raupp - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… Wiley Ecology & Evolution

The bacteria in your gut depend on where you are in the social network. And the microbes within us treat our social networks as the extended environment in which they thrive. They can spread from person to person. New #HNL work out today in nature. 1/

Our lab has some exciting news - we've just been awarded a large ARC Discovery grant to 'advance soil health assessments with #ecoacoustics'. Watch this space for more research on the sounds of the underground🪱🪲🕷️🐜🎶🎧 jakemrobinson.com/blog/click-cra… royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

On the very beautiful, green and very lush, Fat Pig Farm, in Tasmania - for Grounded organised by Matthew Evans and friends And spent an hour or two last night with the peerless Richard Flanagan Two days coming up of swapping notes with switched on Aussie farmers

Congrats to Matthew Evans & team for hosting the inaugural Grounded festival. A diverse bunch brought together for innovation, community, learning thru doing & tackling our grand challenges via the lens of sustainable farming Commentary by Simon Crerar linkedin.com/posts/simoncre…

Nice surprise to see Invisible Friends mentioned in Richard Dawkins’s brilliant new book The Genetic Book of the Dead 🧬

Join me for a talk on 'Urban soil biodiversity: the hidden key to healthy communities and thriving ecosystems!' 🦠🪱🪲🐜🧬 Online on Thursday 20th March at 4 pm (ACDT; GMT+10:30). Hosted by #GreenAdelaide Be sure to register (for free) here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/da41a8c9…

Overlapping soil and gut microbiome compound processing potential in a gradient of ecosystem quality and subjects with type 2 diabetes biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_genomic

NASA rover discovers largest organic compounds yet found on Mars theguardian.com/science/2025/m…

Crows are excellent problem solvers, and scientists claim their intelligence is like that of a seven-year-old humans

Many young people have written to the ABC with a similar story: they feel like they did everything "right" but will never achieve what previous generations did. It's a story that defined the past week in politics. ab.co/4ioiCVs

Micron-level accuracy of Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM creating extremely smooth, stress-free edges

Over the course of 3 days scientists pumped 10 tons of cement into an abandoned ant hill. After weeks of digging, the colony’s intricate & impressive structure is revealed. This one [From: Ants! Natures Secret Power]

New job at CSIRO to work in the CSIRO soil and landscape group. jobs.csiro.au/job/Canberra%2…

🌳Exciting PhD opportunities at Flinders University in restoration ecology! Projects on soil microbiomes, ecoacoustics, restoration monitoring & environmental microbiomes. Each well funded and closely linked with industry More details here: linkedin.com/posts/martinbr…

Preprint update [now to peer review] - Are degraded ecosystems a blind spot for global health? - Do soil microbiomes & monomethyl branched-chain fatty acids connect healthy ecosystems to healthy people? biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The alarm system of termites 🔊 [📹 BBC]

Excited to announce #SoilYourselfSeptember! A speaker series promoting the soil, gut and mind connection! Led by the Grounded Minds Consortium (a Deakin University & Flinders University collaboration). Book your free tickets here: jakemrobinson.com/sys #soilhealth #guthealth