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Ian Palk

@ianpalk.bsky.social

PhD student in PSB Group at Trinity College Dublin studying soil respiration & plant-soil interfaces | Building novel & accessible sensors for field deployment | Harvard alum | Climate researcher who loves tinkering with electronics & science communication

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

My favourite aspect of our research is interdiscipinarity. Thinking about plant physiology, global change, machine learning, instrument building, then deep in irish winter mud as we install some more minirhizotron tubes with @ianpalk.bsky.social and @ryanbrennan.bsky.social Cool science coming up!

three male scientists kneeling/squatting in a forest next to a buried minirhizotron tube. Two wear baseball caps, one a bright yellow beanie.

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Ian Palk @ianpalk.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

If you're curious what I'm up to, I'm working on engineering new and improved technology for an automated minirhizotron! This will be a crucial instrument for my PhD research on soil respiration. Follow my progress on @psb-trinity.bsky.social! #rootecology #ecology

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I completely agree with this! It's so hard to understand the belowground and the world is big and variable so overall accuracy over a big sample may get us closer to useful truth. We need to be cautious we're actually making measurements to a reasonable standard but more precise =/= always better!

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

My amazing research group @psb-trinity.bsky.social made their own bluesky account (@psb-trinity.bsky.social) as I'm not active enough!! Please give them a follow for info about things we're doing on #rootecology and #biogeochemistry here in Botany at @tcddublin.bsky.social 🌍🌿🌳

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