Dr. Foley with an important and sobering 🧵. We can not soil health our way out of climate change.
In my opinion, the people overhyping regenerative ag are engaging in pretty pernicious and covert greenwashing.

For those asking about the next UBER GRC/GRS, we want to let you know that GRC eliminated the UBER conference from its portfolio after the 2023 conference because 'GRC does not support conferences focused on, or perceived to be focused on, social justice.' 1/4
#UBERGRC

From Mazeika's wife:
The love and support that you have shown us is incredible. THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart. I have added an update on Mazeika's health and on our situation on the GoFundMe site. Please continue to share across platforms: gofund.me/ef794952

There are 24 hours in a day. For our jobs, some of us fit mentoring, teaching, service, outreach, research grant & paper writing, into a day. Others are only doing the research part. We are judged using the same metrics in merit/tenure, awards, and grant reviews. Time is finite.

My lab recently finished an undergraduate project on anthropogenic litter in urban streams. It's a small-ish data set and the study probably isn't high impact but we'd like to try to publish it. Does anyone have recommendations on journals that might be a good target?

“impossible to be a top-line manager & administrator & mentor & researcher & writer & outreach officer & IT expert & online instructor & pedagogical innovator & recruiter & teacher & marker & external examiner & press pundit & grant bidder & editor &look after your own wellbeing”

I don't understand academics. Our brain = our bread and butter. Without it properly functioning, we cannot work.
We read peer reviewed lit and trust it. That lit says: covid = bad for brain.Really bad!
Yet no mitigation in our conferences or classrooms.
Our workplaces are unsafe.

Fantastic thought piece of infusing sustainability in higher ed & how we might use the sustainable development goals & local opportunities within this work. I like the interplay between working across disciplines & valuing what disciplines bring into this work (vs fusion)

Academia is just the endless completion of little tasks in order to read and write. You think you've completed all your little tasks and can now read and write and BOOM, more little tasks. Forever.

Very IMPORTANT study

- Vaccines or prior infection DO PROTECT against infection for low and moderate exposure to virus

- Do NOT be protect if HIGH exposure

So N95 masks, ventilation, filtration are CRITICAL, they can turn high exposures into low or moderate, avoid infection!

I've been thinking about this chart in context of the recent catastrophic changes at universities, for example UNC Greensboro closing their physics program. A thing students often aren't told:
*Undergrad programs actively try to increase majors in order to remain open.*

“Despite increased representation of women across the scientific career ladder, institutions routinely fail to support their career advancement or value their input.” Gender Equity:Toward redefining values. nature.com/articles/s4155…

Excited to be keeping this awesome company with these incredible scientists
#BIOGEOMON24
Dr. Stefanie Whitmire Rachel Gabor Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏞️💦⚛️ Abby Yancy

Reflecting on posts of post-holiday stress: I think academic PIs (especially juniors) simply have too many jobs to do for 1 person. We need to be administrators, scientific leaders, teachers, someone who fights for money and even psychologists at times. This is objectively hard.

I want to send this final paragraph from Tyler Austin Harper's essay on the humanities The Atlantic to every professor and administrator as we wind up the first semester. Exactly my experience as a student and now as a prof.

I’m not on here much anymore and I don’t think a lot of my network is either, but little announcement – I’ve left academia. More info below. I’ll miss a lot of things, first & foremost my students, but new challenges and adventures await! shorturl.at/jAGR1 #leavingacademia

🥳Congratulations to our 5 #TinyGrants awardees selected out of 50 applicants: David Carchipulla-Morales, Kenta Koyanagi, Caitlin Mayernik, Xiating Chen, Kush Paliwal, receiving a $300 award each.🥳

Thank you to Hydrology Section AGU for providing the funding to support our early-career ecohydrologists!

AGU has been great this week! And now that it's Friday, I finally get to talk about our work testing novel ozone nanobubble technology to control cyano-HABs at the Inland Lake Session.
If you aren't science-ed out, there's lots of good lake (and other) stuff today!

'Models won't fix our problem, people will.'

Inspirational #AGU23 Witherspoon Lecture talk from Nandita Basu!

Yeah!!! We at the AGU Water Quality technical committee (AGU Water Quality) are excited to be awarding five students with $200 awards for their creative haikus describing their research. We will drop one haiku every 30 minutes - stay tuned :).