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Graeme Nicol @graemenicol.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Potential PhD opportunity studying soil virus ecology in our group. Please get in touch if interested!

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Soils and Biogeochemistry (SBG) Graduate Group @sbgucdavis.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

SBG students and faculty brought soil science to life last weekend at the 111th UC Davis Picnic Day! 🌱 Visitors explored Soil Science Central by painting with soil, learning texture-by-feel, and spotting live nematodes under the microscope. We love sharing our passion for soil with the community! 🤎

Three booths with white tables and tents are hosted by SBG graduate students. Pink and brown banners state "Soil Science Central."

A crowd of visitors are shown engaging with booth activities beneath three white tents. A paint pallet, brushes, and completed paintings are also shown

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Soils and Biogeochemistry (SBG) Graduate Group @sbgucdavis.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The UCD Soils Judging Team is heading to Nationals! Please consider joining Emeriti Michael Singer and Randy Southard in supporting our team at the National Championships in Wisconsin! Donations will support travel expenses so our students can proudly represent UCD on the national stage. Go Aggies!

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Jane Fudyma @jane-fudyma.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Our account moved over from Twitter - give us a follow!

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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Major, major congratulations to my colleague Joanne Emerson for receiving the PECASE! This prestigious award is recognition of amazing early career faculty who developed the most compelling and innovative NSF CAREER grants! Joanne's lab pioneers the field of soil viral community ecology 🤩 🧪🧫

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Pete Chuckran @pchuckran.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Wetting dry soil rapidly stimulates microbial activity and has important consequences for biogeochemical cycling. In our paper out today, we show that part of that response can be explained by how bacterial genomes are written (i.e. codon usage, nucleotide freq., genome size) doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Elsa Abs @elsa-abs.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

📣 All our sessions about advancing soil carbon predictions is today!

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Elsa Abs @elsa-abs.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

If you signed up for the Soil Carbon Research starter pack and are heading to #AGU2024, don’t miss our session on integrating microbial complexity to advance soil carbon predictions! 🦠🌍 Featuring invited speakers: Christina Kaiser, Jackie Weissman, Katie Rocci, and Will Wieder 🤩.

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Seth Whiteaker @growing-ecology.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

If you’re at #AGU24 next week and interested in enhanced rock weathering, let’s chat at my Monday morning poster! I’ll be sharing some lessons learned from our field trials over the last 5 years and exciting new work going on in California.

Author information for Session B11H, Poster 1429 at AGU24.

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Jane Fudyma @jane-fudyma.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Are you attending #AGU24 & curious about soil viruses? Bring your coffee & come chat w/me at my poster Weds morning titled “Resolving viral contributions to soil ecosystem functioning: a spatially designed multi-omic approach” Session B31I, Poster 1387. Pretty field pics below!

Scientist taking soil weight measurements in field

Soil samples in aluminum dishes for soil moisture measurements

Scientist taking GPS measurements in the pouring rain

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Dino Sbardellati @phagebeelicious.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Working on phage research? Dr. Catherine Hernandez and I are co-convening the "Phage Ecology: From Prophage Decision Making to Ecosystem Modulation" in-depth symposium at ASM Microbe 2025 and we want YOU to be part of it! Abstract submission is now open! More info below 🧪🦠🔬 #Phagesky #Microsky

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Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe @aaberhe.com · 21/11/2024

Faculty mentoring in academic institutions, a thread. As I advance in my academic career (read: as I keep getting more gray hair), I've come to appreciate, even more than before, the profound responsibility we (senior-ish faculty) have to support and nurture emerging talent, not diminish it.

Different forms of mentoring
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Achim Zeileis @zeileis.org · 11/06/2024

PSA: All #rstats package on #cran will get an official DOI! This will facilitate bibliometrics and giving credit to R package authors. Registering all 20,000+ packages will still take a few more days. But the first couple of thousand are already live. Example:

Screenshot from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=exams - the CRAN landing page for R package "exams".

This page now includes the DOI 10.32614/CRAN.package.exams

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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

We finally put it together! The first ICTV #Virus #Taxonomy Challenge provides a dataset of thousands of contigs from diverse viruses, asking bioinformaticians to classify them in an automated, reproducible way. See: ictv-vbeg.github.io/ICTV-Taxonom... - tell your bioinformaticians and colleagues!

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Why do we need a computational taxonomy?

A community challenge to evaluate and compare viral genome taxonomy classifiers

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