We are recruiting!!! Are you fascinated by #biocrust & #drylands & looking for a postdoc position? Do you like working in an interdisciplinary team bridging basic science with applied science? Enjoy the beauty of the Mojave, Sonoran, & Chihuahua Desert? We invite your application

And here is a cool table, showing what remains when you drop experimental, superseded, deprecated, defunct, questioning, and reexported functions, from tidyverse packages.

Calling all lovers of podzols, hydropedology, and weathering! We have a new open access paper out looking at the influence of lateral flowpaths on soil weathering at Hubbard Brook.

Wtf is a geospatial lake house (wrong answers only)

Bring it on old man winter

Pleased to announce the first big one. I hope it does the body of scientific knowledge justice. A million thanks to all of those that contributed and supported me and kept me going every time I wanted to give up. I am very blessed and thanks be to God. Locally enhanced digital

My brain holds complex 3D models of all the properties I forage, 100s of acres & varieties rendered down to individual trees & integrated across years & seasons & capable of high accuracy forecasting. It's not a high information volume problem, it's about low reward density

**not me squeezing in a cheeky li'l R package over the weekend** humus.rocks/hydricsoils/ Already learned a bunch of minutia about hydric soils indicators I never have gleaned from just reading the guide... #hydric #soil #wetlands #rstats

It’s a very special day when one can share the fascinating world of #biocrusts with an icon in #soil science. #SoilBiodiversity #cyanobacteria #drylands #NRCS

Undergraduates UNLV - looking for a summer REU opportunity this year and want to discover dryland soil microbes UNLV College of Sciences? Submit an application here: lter.jornada.nmsu.edu/outreach/reu-p…

Got an async flatgeobuf reader working in Python tonight (with s3, gcs, azure support) via geoarrow-rust! This will support bounding-box queries as well, directly from remote files.

Plug for {jNSMR} #rstats 📦. It is an interface to the (Java) Newhall model for soil climate, notably used for estimating moisture/temperature regimes with US Soil Taxonomy. Try and break it, I've been thinking about polishing it for CRAN. github.com/ncss-tech/jNSMR

Pokin' around in some ash beds, paleosols, punky volcanic breccia and other stratigraphic mysteries in the USACE diversion ditch around Chico, CA. Great times in the field with Andrew Conlin, Darren Pinnegar and Theresa Kunch

Michael Baym Will Ratcliff BioRender Richard Sever I also sent them two example articles with Biorender figures under CC BY and they told me the articles will need to be corrected. When I sent them 9000 more articles they ghosted me...

Lots of work went into these soil cards ~70 years ago

PSA: All #rstats package on #cran will get an official DOI! This will facilitate bibliometrics and giving credit to R package authors. Registering all 20,000+ packages will still take a few more days. But the first couple of thousand are already live. Example:

Do soil enzyme activity assays need buffers? No. Building on previous work, we find buffers (i) *suppress* activity of phosphatase and (ii) alter apparent kinetic properties relative to water. doi.org/10.1016/j.soil… With Skye & soils & JordonWade.bsky.social Natural Resources Conservation Service Soil Health Institute

#dataviz #maps Comparing hill-shade maps in R using {terra} vs. {whitebox} - along with impressive effects of {ggblend}. Example code for Sikkim in #India. Data: #elevatr by U.S. EPA Full Code🔗tinyurl.com/maps-shaded Tools #rstats #ggplot2 #ggblend by Matthew Kay, #whitebox by Qiusheng Wu

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