Richard Nair

🌎 🤖 💻 ☘️🌳 Interested in the intersection between #ecosystem #ecology and tech development? We're still looking for a research assistant to help with our projects about how roots - the 'hidden half' of plants - work here at Trinity College Dublin. Find the job ad here: www.tcd.ie/botany/vacan...

McEwan hall, Edinburgh, in the sunshine

Nice to be back in Edinburgh this week for #rhizosphere7. Now I'm full of interesting ideas, met lots of new and old #root and #soil friends, and even seen the inside of the building I graduated in (it was being renovated back then and full of scaffolding). Super worth it 🌱

Last minute twist on these positions: they are available for EVERYONE, not just EU nationals 🎉 Closing date is tomorrow on some adverts (I won't be able to find and fix them) but we will consider late applications through to early next week (Monday 16th) #roots #rootecolology #biogeochemistry #phd

A little less than a week left to apply for these positions! #roots #rootecolology #biogeochemistry #phd

a group hoto four people (woman, man, woman, man) standing infront of a door on a stone building covered with ivy. The words 'School of Botany' are written on the building.

(but we grow again in September adding another few positions that are being advertisted now! check out the other posts on my timeline to learn more 🙂)

a bittersweet final day for the first substantial Plant-Soil group @tcddublin.bsky.social Botany alumnus. Nadja has gone west like the elves to start a masters in Canada. We're lessened without her. Its strange to be the boss here after being on the other side before!

#roots #phdposition #rootecology #phd #computervision
how can we solve the unique challenges of super-high frequency field root imagery for climate change understanding? this phd will tackle this on a cross-domain project! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

#roots #phdposition #rootecology #phd
can we improve understanding of the 2nd biggest terrestrial C flux by running a root camera really fast and measuring the soil respiration on top of it? its a bit more complicated than that, but thats the big question in this PhD www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

⏰ I’m advertising not 1️⃣ but 3️⃣ positions!⏰, one RA and two #PhD s (fully funded 4 year EU/UK fees) as part of my team at @tcddublin.bsky.social looking at how roots work in natural ecosystems and influence greenhouse gas fluxes 🌏 🍃 🌲 💻

PhD: Plant-Soil Field Ecology / Ecophysiology -> tinyurl.com/k2ymn5mv
PhD: Computational methods to use our plant-soil image data -> tinyurl.com/4hbcwa8v
Research Assistant/Technician -> tinyurl.com/ydvbpj6n
(links will be updated to my university website once online)

⏰ I’m advertising not 1️⃣ but 3️⃣ positions!⏰, one RA and two #PhD s (fully funded 4 year EU/UK fees) as part of my team at @tcddublin.bsky.social looking at how roots work in natural ecosystems and influence greenhouse gas fluxes 🌏 🍃 🌲 💻

Below the leaves: Integrating above‐ and below‐ground phenology for earth‐system predictability Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

check out our new review paper about how to put all the stuff below the leaves together to understand whole ecosystem phenology 🌿🌏🌳 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Well done! It's been a pleasure seeing your work at EGU the last few years !

There's still time to submit #EGU25!

Two important updates for our session: 1) wonderful "vegetation response examples" (Background images) updated by Camille Abadie and 2) wonderful keynote speaker in our session: Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social . Very looking forward 😃🎊🥂:
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I'm hiring! 2+2 year postdoc position on forecasting plant defence and resilience to pathogens.

Why are some plants better at defending themselves and can we model it? What role does the environment play? And how can we use all the data we have?

Deadline 13/01.

plantecomodelling.org/vacancies 🧪🌏🌾

(we're also online for remote presentations!)

An advert for the EGU session 'Vegetational Functional Responses to Global Change Across Multiple Methods and Scales'.The background picture is a mixed coniferous forest and the EGU 2025 logo and EDI log are displayed prominently. The text reads: As the terrestrial biosphere moves into states without a present climate analogue, we need mechanistic understanding of ecosystem processes and their linkages with ecosystem function. This session brings togther scientists interested in advancing our fundamental understanding of ecosystem processes. We welcome studies on a range of scales, from greenhouse and mesocosm experiments to large field manipulative experiments, remote sensing studies, and modelling. We encourage contributions of novel ideas and hypotheses in particular those from early stage researchers and hope this session can create an environment where such ideas can be discussed freely.

we're back again with our EGU session on vegetation responses to global change, in Vienna next year at #EGU25! We like submissions at different scales. Hope to see you there (with an abstract submitted 😜) meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

I made a Root Scientists Starter Pack go.bsky.app/46hHLm3! Let me know in the comments or DM if you'd like to be added #roots #rootscientists

I made one go.bsky.app/46hHLm3! Populated by anyone with 'root' that I follow or am followed by plus a few more people that I spotted, sorry if I missed or overlooked you!

Is there a root scientists list that I can't find? Should I make one?

big milestone for the Plant-Soil Function group at Trinity today as Nadja baked our first ever research cake from the #RootCheck Research Ireland #NationalChallengeFund
#NextGenerationEU project (soil corable chocolate cake)

incidentally while lots of people say they review at least reciprocally for their publications i wonder if we correctly estimate the ratio reviews:publication necessary to make up for the skew towards junior scientists (not reviewing or ending up leaving before they 'pay back')? its clearly not 2:1

it really feels like it can't be solved bottom up... there needs to be some kind of solid reward mechanism. its not like a line about being a reviewer makes much diffence on ECR CVs...

📢📢full funded (EU-UK) PhD project with me at Trinity College Dublin doing cutting edge stuff with automated root measurements to understand ecosystem greenhouse gas fluxes 🌍🌿🌳💻: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #roots #phdposition #rootecology

Nitrogen availability and summer drought, but not N:P imbalance, drive carbon use efficiency of a Mediterranean tree‐grass ecosystem We used a long term nitrogen- and nitrogen and phosphorous addition experiment in a Mediterranean tree-grass system to understand how these factors and weather change its ability to effectively seque....

🌿NEW PAPER 🌍... doi.org/10.1111/gcb..... how nutrient availability change a mediterranean 'savannoid' ecosystem - different nutrient paths to the same C cycling. Extra N is making these systems better C sinks, but long term drying and warming trend means C losses in the long term

We really need slack in our carbon budget and we aren't even following our wildly optimistic carbon budget

I agree with the issues with the visualisation of effects in the 'classic' bounduary graphic. But the concept is so embedded in teaching now I'm worried about switching and confusing students

Cautionary remarks on the planetary boundary visualisation Abstract. The planetary boundary (PB) concept has captured attention across academia and the public alike. Its unique visual representation has been key to the development of the concept and its disse...

"Cautionary remarks on the planetary boundary visualisation"

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