Kate Scow

DOE climate report response form We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me. We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.

🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨

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This week, United Nations SG António Guterres met with Brazil’s President Lula to accelerate global climate plans ahead of #COP30.

Leaders were urged to:
- Submit strong climate plans in 2025
- Support transitions in developing countries

More on #COP30 in Belém: cop30.br/en

“@theguardian.com is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch #The89Percent Project—and highlight the fact that the vast majority of the world’s population wants climate action.”

Story by @dpcarrington.bsky.social ⤵️

Water levels of the Yangtze river, China just crashed from exceptional high levels to exceptional low levels in a matter of two months...

Shows the graph with text so the context of the graph can be understood as the legend is in Chinese Source: https://x.com/yangyubin1998/status/1854199441865187584

Thirstwaves also intensify non-linear in a warmer climate

One example from last year and the exceptional drop of the Yangtze river

"Thirstwaves:Prolonged Periods of Agricultural Exposure to Extreme Atmospheric Evaporative Demand for Water"; agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

#climate

Guess which animal made @theguardian.com's INVERTEBRATE OF THE YEAR!

The amazing Milnesium #Tardigrade, which is the star of my up-and-coming documentary Antarctica Unearthed! 🦠🧪 #scicomm

Even more reasons for very modest optimism Ten more.

I offer you these reasons for very modest hope not because I want you to deny the awfulness of what’s occurring, but because I want you to see we are not necessarily doomed.

Here’s this week’s summary of 10 reasons for very modest optimism. robertreich.substack.com/p/even-more-...

YouTube video by SPUN Mycorrhizal Fungi: The Roots of Life on Land

Stunning exhibition at Somerset House, London, reveals the world at our feet. Artists and thinkers unearth the soil’s secrets and connect the underground to the big issues facing our planet today.

Great to see our film playing at the exhibition. Watch it here: youtu.be/0-hS4HoW5fM?... #fungi

Who funds biomedical research? @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Every time I see a piece of Georgia O'Keefe's more geological art, I feel like she just *gets* rocks. Sediments, bedding, erosion, paleosols, anything in them. She gets it.

With just 5 years to go, the world is failing on a vital deal to halt biodiversity loss All countries must accelerate efforts to avert the biodiversity crisis, and preserve Earth’s precious natural places for future generations.

With just 5 years to go, the world is failing on the Global Biodiversity Framework to conserve and restore biodiversity.
"In fact, we're actively destroying biodiversity faster than ever in human history."
theconversation.com/with-just-5-...
Paper here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🌏🌐🧪#bioinvasions

Life in academia Hi there! I am a professor of ecology at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. In this channel I'm talking about life in academia from graduate student to running a lab and everything in between. Topics ...

If you do not know it already I would certainly recommend the channel of @mrillig.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@mrillig You will find there very helpful videos about life in academia. Topics include publishing, writing, reviewing, research strategy, rejections and success - and plenty of advice

I keep recommending this website for multivariate analyses for microbial ecology: sites.google.com/site/mb3gust...

Post-doctoral Researcher (ReGeNL line 3): Monitoring outcomes of regenerative agriculture

Are you a post-doc interested in monitoring soil health and other dimensions of regenerative agriculture? We have a 4.5 yr position to lead a monitoring programme at 1000 farms across the Netherlands. This is part of a large project on regenerative agriculture. For more details see the link below.

Book announcement for "The Carbon Wave."

It's official: I'm writing a book. Should be out early fall 2026. Thrilled to be working with MIT Press.

YouTube video by Life in the Soil Life in the Soil: Microplastic effects on soil

The third video in the 'Life in the Soil' channel is out, and it deals with soils under threat, specifically the effects of microplastic pollution.

Hope you find it useful, please share it in your networks! :)

youtu.be/jCSLB2X-HNQ

The gut microbiome signature from different diets in 20,000 individuals. Red meat intake correlated with reduced cardiometabolic health; the opposite for plant-based foods or in omnivores with enriched plant-based intake
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The dissimilarity between multiple management practices drives the impact on soil properties and functions - Soil Ecology Letters Higher dissimilarity between restoration factors boosted soil microbial activities when multiple factors jointly applied. More diverse management practices enhanced soil aggregate stability and improv...

New paper out in Soil Ecology Letters:

The dissimilarity between multiple management practices drives the impact on soil properties and functions

Led by PhD student Huiying Li, together with PhD students Rebecca and Yanjie, and postdocs Bo and Anika in the team.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This Map Lets You Plug in Your Address to See How It's Changed Over the Past 750 Million Years The interactive tool enables users to home in on a specific location and visualize how it has evolved between the Cryogenian period and the present

Enter your location & track it thru geologic time. It's sooooo awesome ⚒️ www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m...

New in Geoderma: "Soil carbon change in intensive agriculture after 25 years of conservation management" by S Carolina Córdova, Alexandra N Kravchenko, Jessica R Miesel & G Philip Robertson. https://buff.ly/3BPCbqv

Systematic mapping of experimental approaches to studying common mycorrhizal networks in arbuscular mycorrhiza Common mycorrhizal networks (CMN) capture the imagination of researchers and the public alike and have played a large role in communicating about mycorrhiza in general. With many of the claims about ...

Great summary by Lehmann & @mrillig.bsky.social of evidence base for CMNs in AM systems. Some big data gaps revealed. Despite all the hype/buzz, CMN studies make up <2% of mycorrhizal research. Sensible recommendations provided to move forward. 👍

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Saving the World’s Fungi Might Save Us, Too | Atmos Mycological advocates and researchers are racing the clock to protect fungi before they go extinct.

It's the end of the year! Here are some of my favorite things I worked on in 2024. Coming in at number 1, this piece I reported on saving the world's fungi: atmos.earth/saving-the-w...

IPBES nexus report: Five takeaways for biodiversity, food, water, health and climate - Carbon Brief “Fragmented governance” between biodiversity, climate change, food, water and health is putting all of those...

NEW – IPBES nexus report: Five takeaways for biodiversity, food, water, health and climate

✍️ @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org

🔗 Read here ⬇️

The Nexus Assessment Report authors hold hands and raise their arms as the celebrate on stage at IPBES 11

After years of work and hours of perseverance, the #NexusAssessment Report has been approved by the Plenary at #IPBES11.

Kudos and congratulations to the experts on this monumental achievement!

Soil fungi remain active and invest in storage compounds during drought independent of future climate conditions Nature Communications - How climate change will impact microbial community growth is unclear. Here, the authors use a field experiment with varying global change factors, finding fungal growth more...

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.
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Global influence of soil texture on ecosystem water limitation - Nature Through their effects on soil hydraulic properties,&nbsp;soil texture and sand content are shown to have&nbsp;broad implications for the terrestrial water cycle and carbon sink, and specific implicati...

This paper from Andrea Carminati's group is fascinating.

#readinglist

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just joined BlueSky. Great idea. Please add me!