Jon Gewirtzman

I'll be at ESA this week and would love to catch up with any friends in Baltimore! I'll be presenting on Monday afternoon (tomorrow!) for any folks who are in town yet!

10.08.2025 13:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Such a fun project & massive team effort. We sampled tree cores my 1st yr of grad school then took a year to figure out how to grind wood… ! But we were amazed to find such a complex & unexpected ecosystem inside trees. And we’ve just scratched the surface! We explored 150 trees— 3 trillion to go!

10.08.2025 12:23 — 👍 33    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 1

Exactly how we felt! Sort of “of course they’re in there”, but… a trillion prokaryotes in each of three trillion trees— that’s an astounding amount to explore!

10.08.2025 12:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So fun to be featured on this week’s @naturepodcast.bsky.social talking about the tree microbiome and could not be more thrilled to be following a story on rubber ducks.

06.08.2025 21:50 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

"in 2025 we will have flying cars" 😂😂😂

05.07.2025 16:17 — 👍 399    🔁 91    💬 8    📌 35

Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.

30.05.2025 21:32 — 👍 802    🔁 509    💬 16    📌 15

XKCD’s take on archaea

29.05.2025 20:35 — 👍 22    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 2

There was no reason the art had to be this good and yet!!

28.05.2025 12:03 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Of all shapes and sizes: a theoretical framework for animal‐mediated terrestrial heterogeneity across scales Animals redistribute elements throughout their lives by depositing wastes and carcasses. Growing evidence shows that these zoogeochemical processes enhance landscape diversity and heterogeneity world...

We often ask how does a species affect an ecosystem.
But what about all of them—together?

Our new framework predicts how animals of all shapes and sizes act within their communities to influence elemental distribution on landscapes.

w/ Janey Lienau @ecography.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

28.05.2025 11:25 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

New in Geoderma: "Soil carbon concentration drives anoxic microsites across horizons, textures, and aggregate position in a California grassland" by Emily M Lacroix, Anna Gomes, Alexander S Honeyman, Katie R Huy [...] Meret Aeppli. https://buff.ly/40aIT2B
@Stanford @unil @SLAClab @EPFLEngineering

09.01.2025 16:21 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 2

🔗: Link in bio to attend
📆: Thursday, May 8th, 19:30
🗣️: @jgewirtzman.bsky.social – The Hidden Life Inside Trees

Trees are more than just plants—they host distinct and highly specialized microbial communities within their wood.

#mycotalk #mycology #talks #mushroom

05.05.2025 22:30 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

“This budget is a recipe for ending the US' leadership in science. It would do generational damage by forcing labs to shut down, with a corresponding loss of highly trained individuals and one-of-a-kind research materials.”

02.05.2025 20:16 — 👍 11    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1

First time posting on Bluesky and first time at @egu.eu! If you're still sticking it out at #EGU2025 on Friday afternoon, join me to talk about trees, their microbiomes, and their role in the methane cycle!
doi.org/10.5194/egus...

01.05.2025 12:11 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1

A framework for integrating genomics, microbial traits, and ecosystem biogeochemistry - Nature Communications Microbes drive the Earth’s biogeochemical cycles. Here, Li et al. present a framework for integrating genome-inferred microbial kinetic traits into ecosystem mechanistic models, and use it to benchmar...

New Paper Alert!@naturecomms.bsky.social
Thanks to the great team! @giannamars.bsky.social @scott-saleska.bsky.social @elbrodie.bsky.social @emerge-bii.bsky.social and many others! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

07.04.2025 01:08 — 👍 13    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

Awards – Biogeosciences

Nominations and applications are now open for our student and early-career researcher awards!!

There are awards for travel to attend the conference, for outstanding publications, and for presentations at the conference. Please share widely with students, advisees, colleagues, and friends!

15.04.2025 17:33 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Aerosol cooling and methanogenesis suppression! A scalable-climate-solution twofer!! An additional 9 months per year should pass additionally tests— sounds like an even better investment than bitcoin.

19.03.2025 03:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog hanging over the New York skyline

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows damaged oil drums piled high at an Exxon refinery.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows cars driving down a road as smoke spews from factories in the distance and air pollution hangs over everything.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog in Los Angeles taken from a high vantage point.

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

13.03.2025 14:47 — 👍 20105    🔁 7129    💬 684    📌 537

With atmospheric methane removal an emergent research area, I’d like to create a starter pack of people on here working in this space - spanning engineering, microbiology, ecosystem science, climate finance etc. I’d appreciate some re-posts. TIA!! @katharinehayhoe.com and @globalecoguy.bsky.social

25.01.2025 08:38 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

The focus for this year's ESA meeting is "Supporting Ecologists Throughout Their Careers." The Biogeosciences Section supports students and early career scientists by awarding paper, presentation, and travel awards every year. Read more here: www.esa.org/biogeoscienc...

05.04.2024 07:15 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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The New Phytologist Innovation Presentation Grant recognizes an outstanding student oral presentation at the #ESA2024 Annual Meeting. The winner of the award receives a $500 cash prize and formal recognition from ESA and the New Phytologist. More info: www.esa.org/biogeoscienc...

28.02.2024 21:30 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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The ESA Biogeosciences Section's Gene E. Likens Award recognizes an early-career scientist (within 5 y of receiving Ph.D.) for work conducted after the completion of graduate school. The winner receives a $250 cash prize. Nominations due May 20. More info: www.esa.org/biogeoscienc...

28.02.2024 21:29 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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The ESA Biogeosciences Section's Elizabeth Sulzman Award recognizes research conducted while a graduate student, and published within two years of graduation. The winner receives a $250 cash prize. Nominations are due May 20. More info: www.esa.org/biogeoscienc...

28.02.2024 21:29 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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#ESA Biogeosciences has 3 early career researchers awards! Thanks to all #ESA Biogeosciences members! Your membership helps support these awards and recognize the amazing early career ecologists in our section. If you need to renew your membership, be sure to click the Biogeosciences Section box ✅

28.02.2024 21:26 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Did you know that the ESA Biogeosciences Section sponsors multiple student travel grants for attending #ESA2024 Annual Meeting. All student members of our section are eligible to apply! The application window opens April 15. www.esa.org/biogeoscienc...

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