Santa Claus🎅 is early this year 🤩#justout paper led by Stuart Grandy Amanda Daly w\ Andrea Jilling @ecol_chloe Rich Phillips & others INRAE "A microbial framework for nitrogen cycling solutions in agroecosystems" One Earth Permanent link here: doi.org/10.1016/j.onee…

Michelle and I are thinking of everyone impacted by the wildfires in California, and are grateful for the work of the heroic firefighters and first responders. If you're looking for ways to help, go to: time.com/7205547/los-an…

Stop Believing the Lies About California’s Wildfires and Water Issues So many people simply don’t understand what’s actually happening in California. The blame game, especially targeting Governor Gavin Newsom, has become a favorite pastime for Republicans and social media

If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.

This is a huge deal. “Indirect costs”, as they’re called, from NIH still pay for direct science — eg, funding science labs, lab upkeep — but also university administration. Cutting this line item by billions of dollars is going to threaten university jobs but also potentially

This is off the scale brilliant. ♥️🎶

New paper alert, led by Melanie Brunn on "Tree carbon allocation to root exudates: Implications for carbon budgets, soil sequestration, and drought response" academic.oup.com/treephys/artic…

Ectomycorrhizal trees are different and it matters for soil organic matter! We show these mutualisms are not functionally homogenous, with implications for the generalizability of coarse mycorrhizal associations in understanding forest ecosystem function. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Just published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry and well done Dr Manon Manon Rumeau, funded by Natural Environment Research Council and BIFoR . College of Life and Environmental Sciences Root exudate stoichiometry is a key driver of soil N cycling: implicat... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Growth–Mortality Coordination Differs Among Xerophytic Versus Mesophytic Tree Species During Severe Drought 🔗 buff.ly/EusvJo2

📜New on our blog: NSF DEB is reaffirming its commitment to ecological research, with updates on funding, engagement opportunities, and proposal tips. Don’t miss your chance to connect — DEB Program Officers will be at the Annual Meeting this August! esa.org/esablog/2025/0…

We used NEON data to explore the relationship between fine root and soil carbon stocks. With Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila Mingzhen Lu Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe (she/her)👩🏽‍🔬🌍 et al. doi.org/10.1038/s43247…

New TSMP: EXERCISE AS MIRACLE DRUG Two big studies in the last 12 months: 1. Euan Ashley, the chair of medicine at Stanford, and a team of bioinformatics researchers put rats on treadmills, cut into their tissues, and found that exercise basically improved every measurable