@heathgoertzen.bsky.social
PhD student, UC Davis Soil and Biogeochemistry. Climate change, ecosystem processes, agriculture. Trying my best. Views are my own.
Sometimes you’ve got a brilliant idea, you’ve just got to write it down, but you can’t find a napkin
18.12.2024 15:04 — 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
Scientists are expected to do peer reviewing but no one tells you HOW. After talking with several folks about this today at #AGU24 , it seems a good time to link to this presentation I made several years ago -- feel free to use/share! docs.google.com/presentation...
12.12.2024 22:18 — 👍 145 🔁 52 💬 5 📌 3Got U.S. undergrads looking for paid summer internships? There's a lot of great science research happening across DOE labs. Each lab has a different mission and scope, but many include geosciences research in addition to computing, physics, chemistry, and more. ⚒️🧪
15.12.2024 15:34 — 👍 19 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 0
Evolutionary tree of SARS-CoV-2 variants in radial format, scaled to divergence (number of mutations). All Greek letters were assigned between May and November 2021, and none since "Omicron", which is enormously more diverse and divergent than any other named variant. Data from Nextstrain.org.
Graph showing mutations in SARS-CoV-2 versus time. The virus is not running out of mutational space (if anything, the most recent variant clade was above the trend line). Data from Nextstrain.org.
Graph showing mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein over time. The virus is not running out of mutational space. There was a very large jump in divergence with the arrival of BA.2.86, which evolved within a single host over a period of a year or so. Data from Nextstrain.org.
Graph showing the consistent increase in immune escape of SARS-CoV-2 variants (versus BA.2) over time. Data from Nextstrain.org.
State of SARS-CoV-2 evolution (Nov. 2024).
19.11.2024 16:15 — 👍 482 🔁 149 💬 20 📌 16
R code that show how using dput can generate code to recreate an object.
Something I find useful from base #R is the dput command.
When I have an object but I want to recreate it and copy into my script I chuck it into dput and it gives me the code that could be used to create it.
#Rstats #Datascience
This reads like something out of the book "dear committee members", it's hilarious and worth a quick read if you haven't already!
07.12.2024 22:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0as both a scientist and an occasional scientific illustrator i'm pretty grossed out by a journal using AI imagery. not only are AI image generators fundamentally based in plagiarism (y'know, the thing we're really not supposed to do?), they're a major source of emissions + environmental degradation
02.12.2024 00:15 — 👍 100 🔁 22 💬 6 📌 2
Excited to share our new study in @naturecomms.bsky.social showing that soil fungi, unlike bacteria, remain fully active under severe drought conditions, and also invest in synthesis of storage compounds.
Led by the amazing @loutsi.bsky.social and Alberto Canarini.
Thread 1/2
rdcu.be/d1Tyg
Zotero has worked pretty well for me!
25.01.2024 23:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I just casually added 3500 (!) unique locations to our
SoilTemp worldmap. Much more to come!
Want to work with this data? Still a few days left to apply for our postdoc (or pre-doc) SoilTemp database-position!
---> www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...
1. Foodweb ecology technician in a national park,
2. PhD student studying soil and biogeochemistry!
Please help spread the word: we have two open Field Technician positions in longleaf pine woodland restoration, with a project to develop and test predictive restoration models in South Carolina. Apply by 2/19/2024
www.brudviglab.com/post/we-have...
"We can just capture the carbon"
IT WAS ALREADY CAPTURED IN THE GROUND
YOU WERE THE ONE WHO UNCAPTURED IT
YOU KEEP UNCAPTURING IT
YOU DON'T GET CREDIT FOR RECAPTURING A TINY BIT OF IT
Today I learned that carbon footprints were invented by BP and pushed in a mega marketing campaign to shift the conversation from corporations to individuals and I hate everyone.
Except NPR, thanks for the reporting.
There is also an official strike fund if you would like to donate givebutter.com/StateScience
10.11.2023 01:53 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"The data shows that the number of people becoming destitute is currently outstripping our ability to set up new correctional facilities to imprison them."
06.11.2023 16:48 — 👍 1648 🔁 544 💬 11 📌 30Hi I don't know about plants! Are Welwitschia an exception to this rule?
10.10.2023 20:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
