To measure change in soil #carbon: sample T-zero vs ~5yrs, right? Or use space-for-time design? Turns out there’s a problem w that.. Eric Slessarev describes two artifacts that exaggerate importance of initial SOC stocks doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16… A big issue for soil #CDR calcs??

Adam Rackis My question with testing techniques is always "does this improve my overall productivity". I've found that pure write-the-test-first TDD doesn't do that so I mostly avoid it Bundling tests in the same commit as the implementation DOES help my productivity simonwillison.net/2022/Oct/29/th…

Here is my deep-dive on weather - an attempt to demystify the weather industry and weather observations from space. 3 infographics to help digest the content: #1 An overview of the weather operating stack - including the public and private sector (as always, non-exhaustive)

We're celebrating today! The first round of v3 System Flight loggers and sensors has arrived. Designed by Bobby Schulz; manufactured by Caltronics Design. Used to collect data with: Vasudha Sharma, UMN Turfgrass Science, pesticide drift risk, and weather. Funding MN ENRTF, NIFA, University of Minnesota

Fengyi Hu's dedicated team at Yunnan University has succeeded in developing the first high yielding perennial grain in history. A harbinger of what's possible and what's to come. doi.org/10.1038/s41893…

My wife and I welcomed Ada Elizabeth into our family this morning. Everyone’s tired but healthy and well. Very thankful.

Finally got the sensors in the ground for the 2022/23 winter kill study! Looking forward to seeing all the data in the coming years. UMN Turfgrass Science Thank you again to Eric Watkins and his team for this opportunity to participate!

Taking a look at data coming in from recently deployed #WinterTurf sensor nodes. New interface for viewing data is great--excellent work by GEMSInformatics sensing team Bryan Runck Bobby Schulz and others

Temperature is dropping time to get research sensors in the ground for Winterturf UMN Turfgrass Science Marquette Golf Club

Ya'll please pay attention here --- this work has fundamentally changed how I think about who's rural...huge implication for future of food systems, development, civilization 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

Colorado State University will host a 10 day short course “Bayesian Models for Ecological Data” from June 5 – June 16, 2023. There is no tuition and travel costs will be partially covered. See nrel.colostate.edu/projects/bayes… for details and how to apply. Please share widely!

|| NEW RESEARCH || Smallholder farms have and can store more carbon than previously estimated 📄 bit.ly/3WkJJGG @sieg_SAS Bryan Runck @XinyiTuSoil Regis Chikowo

Underestimating farmers and soil C by soils grids: let's get out and document the real SOC status! #ClimateAction #farmeragency #savesoils

Which ag soils can sequester a lot of carbon? And how much can they sequester? ARS scientists & partners improve these predictions with data-augmented public databases. A crucial tactic for mitigating climate change and improving food security. Learn more: loom.ly/N4gXErM

Working on a chapter on Plant Cognition for my book "Liquid brains". Germination is one of the most exciting phenomena, which involves decision-making and dealing with future uncertainties. Overwhelmed by the diversity of seeds, biological time capsules that compute their worlds.

Perfect day for some field work. Installing sensors and collecting data from our field research projects. Soil, Water, & Climate GEMSInformatics Bryan Runck

Let’s be a bit cautious. AI Foundation models in ag *could* be revolutionary. They could also be extremely bad, providing reasonable-looking but wrong and unverifiable predictions. Slow and steady wins the race. newsroom.ibm.com/2023-08-03-IBM…

Don't miss this issue of Hole Notes featuring Bryan Runck's (Bryan Runck) article "WinterTurf Environmental Sensing Going Global: Understanding the Drivers of Winter Kill"!

Installing the winter study sensor today. These sensors will measure oxygen, carbon dioxide, moisture, sunlight, and soil temperature. The data compiled will help us all learn more about winter injury. UMN Turfgrass Science Eric Watkins Michelle DaCosta Cornell Turfgrass GCSAA CAGCS MetGCSA