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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So the spun mycorrhizal guy composed the music for the new tom cruise movie?

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Andy Roddick just said “what better day than on 9/11” about Shelton tiafoe

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Having no flag next to the Russian players on the broadcast… I don’t get it. That makes it even more obvious they’re Russian. There’s no other countries with no flag! I think it’s easier for me to tell a player is Russian cause there’s no flag than it would be to recognize the Russian flag lol

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If root exudates were worth the same as gold bullion- hell I’d be a rich man

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Trump and Infantino both trying to be the last person to hand off the trophy 🤣

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

British commentating is the best. “Gianni and Donald engaging in a pleasant conversation” going to be an all timer for me

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Swiss people man 🤣 🤣

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Fuck it, I’m starting to like Ronaldo

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

All the fun teams to root for officially out. At this point just hoping for a Messi Ronaldo final

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

How do trees change the carbon they release belowground as forests warm? Muratore et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/JZIATM...

Specific root exudation in maple and oak across control, nitrogen addition, soil warming, and combined warming × nitrogen treatments

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

British commentator called a sloppy foul “agricultural”. Definitely going to be using that one

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The British World Cup commentators call the wave the “Mexican wave”

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The World Cup “referee view” strikes me as one of the worse technological developments in sports broadcasting

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This is how to construct a veggie burger

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The nyt cooking writers share too much information about their personal lives in their recipe newsletters

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Why does duolingo teach you podcast before computer 😭

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

MBTA bus driver just refused to let a fire truck merge and slammed on the horn when the truck turned on the siren. Fireman just smiled and shook his head. Incredible stuff happening in this city

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

There’s this place on mass ave in Cambridge called “Italian waters” that just sells bottled water

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Great bit out there for a sci fi movie to have the AI android character speak in chatgpt cadence

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Benny Feldman @feldfrog.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

First they came for my neighbor and I was like damn that’s crazy. Then they came for me and I was like Ah shit shit shit shit fuck

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

so wait, do you get worse at football as you get older? it seems to me like you would get better at it since you'd have more time to learn football facts

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Are they just gonna make the president the person of the year every time there’s an election?

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

i'm writing a screenplay called Heart Of A Champion about a guy who has a cold and has to sneeze and blow his nose all the time, but still gets a lot of work done on the computer. not sure yet but i think it'll probably wind up being a christian movie

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Al Michaels: Aaron rodgers, now that’s a guy who makes his opinion known Kirk herbstreit: oh absolutely, and his teammates love him for that, he really— Michaels: sometimes you wish he’d stay quiet about it! Herbstreit: oh absolutely

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Trying to decide if I care enough about Bruce Springsteen to watch this movie that I know is gonna be terrible

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

My boy Jared Goff is so charismatic

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

The achievable carbon uptake from planting trees is much lower than previous estimates, and even lower than many nations have committed to. New paper by Wang et al. in Science. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🌏🌳🌲🌐

Fig. 3. Estimated mitigation potential from forestation varies with land availability assumptions. (A) Global and regional ecosystem carbon sequestration. BA19 (10), GR17 (8), and Qin24 (24) refer to respective assumptions of land potentially available for forestation. The “committed” assumption considers only national commitments, and “achievable” shows currently achievable land limited by availability defined in Qin24 (see materials and methods section M3). (B) The currently achievable mitigation potential varies among countries and income groups. Country-specific data are available in data S3 (24). Country codes and corresponding income groups can be found in table S6.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Totally changed my view on Gaza when I learned that the starving kids were… also really sick

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Cybertruck just let me merge. Maybe we aren’t so different after all…

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

We put together a really exciting session on root exudation at #ESA2025 tomorrow, with an elite group of speakers! I suspect this is the first (but hopefully not last!) exudate-focused session at ESA. Hope to see you there!!

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Jon Gewirtzman @jgewirtzman.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Such a fun project & massive team effort. We sampled tree cores my 1st yr of grad school then took a year to figure out how to grind wood… ! But we were amazed to find such a complex & unexpected ecosystem inside trees. And we’ve just scratched the surface! We explored 150 trees— 3 trillion to go!

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 05/08/2025

“look i don’t care what it’s about just give me 300 words”

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 21/07/2025

Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.

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Jon Levy @jonlevybu.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I know so many dedicated and brilliant scientists who work (and I guess now worked) at EPA. The loss of expertise and ability to make science-informed decisions will have lasting damage for our health. Academics and advocates will have to try to fill the gap. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

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E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 15/07/2025

"My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people." Written by an Ivy League professor who studies the Holocaust; who served in the IDF. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Having grown up in a Zionist home, lived the first half of my life in Israel, served in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer and spent most of my career researching and writing on war crimes and the Holocaust, this was a painful conclusion to reach, and one that I resisted as long as I could. But I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

i'm the guy who replies to your top 10 favorite albums list, an extraordinarily subjective and exclusive list by its very definition, with "you forgot music o'clock by gary guitar and the rockin' instrument band"

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/07/2025

This is just going to be the first of many, many stories you are going to read about big tech companies faking "AI for climate" claims. The sheer volume of AI-climate-washing going on right now is huge, and it's very likely most of the claims are fabricated or exaggerated archive.is/8sYNv

Meta has been accused of using faulty data to train an artificial intelligence climate tool, with scientists claiming the Big Tech group raised false hopes about the feasibility of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at scale.
The tech company said last year that it had helped researchers with the elusive problem of identifying materials to efficiently remove carbon dioxide from air, by publishing a “groundbreaking” data set on which it also trained free-to-use machine learning models.
But none of the 135 materials that Meta’s research said could bind CO₂ “strongly” had that characteristic, while some did not exist, according to researchers from Heriot-Watt University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).
“I wish they had computed a bit less and thought a bit more,” said Berend Smit, a professor of chemical engineering at EPFL, describing some of Meta’s results as “nonsense”. “You get the impression that the Big Tech mentality is do first, think later.”

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

we worked so hard on this, nights and weekends, trying our best to do a good job for the American people

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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth. www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

Excerpt from proposed NOAA budget showing zero funding for Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes

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Alison E. King @alisonelinor.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Paper now out in Science Advances — “Soil carbon formation is promoted by saturation deficit and existing mineral-associated carbon, not by microbial carbon-use efficiency” with Noah Sokol science.org/doi/epdf/10....

Map of the U.S. showing sampling sites (left) and results from subsequent laboratory incubation (right) showing positive association between existing mineral-associated organic carbon (MAOC) and new MAOC formation.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade

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Nikhil @ncharisoil.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

This is interesting, because he says he wants to create “in-house” publishing outlets instead. I’ve often thought institutions should publish peer-reviewed manuscripts directly to repositories rather than subscribing to the journal system, but this shows there’s some value to having a third party

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 23/05/2025

BREAKING: Judge blocks Trump administration from revoking Harvard enrollment of foreign students reut.rs/3FfWGi3

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