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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I've worked with Dorota twice and she's great! 😃

Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

@psb-trinity.bsky.social Secret Santa - almost so delayed we we would be closer to the next one, but totally worth the wait! 😍

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Things written on the back of herbarium labels are fascinating. This is a particularly enigmatic scribble. Is it a map?

A scan of a herbarium label (TCD0088160), photoshopped to show the scribbles on the back. See this link for the full specimen: http://54.72.131.62/iiif/2/TCD0088160.jpg/full/full/0/default.jpg

A scan of a herbarium label (TCD0088160), reading "Orchidees, Serapias lingua (Helleborine langue), Plaine de Bilheres, May 1876" with a later note "Near Pau, Besses-Pyrenees, France". See this link for the full specimen: http://54.72.131.62/iiif/2/TCD0088160.jpg/full/full/0/default.jpg

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

🌿🌍🌳⚠️Job alert! ⚠️ Fully funded #PhD in @psb-trinity.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social, looking how plant trait patterns vary and potentially link to ecosystem functioning! Linking in with our current phenology/GHG projects! Full advert here: tinyurl.com/TCDtraitsPhD

The front door of the School of Botany and Trinity College Dublin, a victorian grey stone building, with Wisteria in bloom

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This week some of our @psb-trinity.bsky.social group were installing minirhizotron (root observatory) tubes at the Majadas de Tiétar eddy covariance site in Extremadura, Spain.

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Last week, Phoebe, Ian and I were in Valencia for a meeting for our Spanish tree-grass field site. It was lovely seeing all our collaborators and so cool seeing some of @psb-trinity.bsky.social showing off their PhD projects outside of our group. I'm very proud ☺️ root measurements there coming soon!

Three people standing infront of a sign saying VALENCIA at the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencas, Valencia, Spain

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Open access makes the rich get richer #science #publishing #academia 🧪🗺️ nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Global south countries publish less with open access

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

If you're looking for an #EGU26 session to submit your abstract on plant functional biogeochemistry/ecophysiology, how about ours? We'd love to have your submission!

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I really enjoyed working with Dorota on making the figures for this paper and here is a lovely thread from her about making it!

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Interested in how plants work under global change and stress? We're running a EGU session again. We fiddle with the title every year but try and stay friendly. We welcome studies at lots of different scales and methods. Hopefully see you at #EGU26 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

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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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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 · 29/10/2025

Phoebe (third from right) won a prize for her poster at @sebiology.bsky.social Plant.Ecophys. Summer School in Portugal last month! Thats the first prize @psb-trinity.bsky.social has ever won, on our first chance, from the first phd student! I'm very proud! 😀

a group of six people standing infront of a projector

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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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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 28/09/2025

It seems unbelievable that some journals still keep digitized versions of journal articles from over a hundred years ago *paywalled*!

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

🌎 🤖 💻 ☘️🌳 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...

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Vacancies - Botany | Trinity College Dublin

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

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 🌱

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

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

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

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!

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

#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...

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Soil Respiration Partitioning with Automated Root Measurements at Trinity College Dublin on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Soil Respiration Partitioning with Automated Root Measurements at Trinity College Dublin, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

⏰ 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 🌏 🍃 🌲 💻

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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...

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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.

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Yunpeng Luo @yunpeng-luo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

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 😃🎊🥂: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

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 🧪🌏🌾

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Plant Ecology Modelling group - Vacancies

Openings

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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...

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

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

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

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

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

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)

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

📢📢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

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

🌿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

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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....

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Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

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

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

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

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Ana Bastos @anabastos.bsky.social · 02/08/2024

🚨Come work with us @UniLeipzig! We are searching for a scientific programmer in Earth System modelling 🌦️🌲🌡️ Collabs with LIM, @rsc4earth.bsky.social & beyond, #WorkLifeBalance diverse & inclusive workplace. 3yrs up to permanent. Apply by Sep. 10👇 tinyurl.com/LUlandint

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Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Programmierer) (m/w/d) in Erdsystemmodellierung

Institut für Erdsystemwissenschaft und Fernerkundung

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 28/06/2024

Here's me at #IUFRO2024 , talking about a topic dear to my heart - forest canopy nitrogen uptake, how trees in the anthropocene may cheat N competition with microbes by taking up N from deposition over the canopy- thanks to a dissemination grant from the CLEANFOREST cost action

A scientist (me!) standing in front of a projected slide. The scientist is on a stage. The slide has cartoon trees on it.

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

looking forward to our session. Vegetation and ecosystem responses to global change - function and carbon-water relations! tomorrow bright and early first thing on 8.30 EGU Monday morning #EGU24 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/sessio...

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

📢We're recruting a RA for #NCF RootCheck #NationalChallengeFund #NextGenerationEU project. Come work with us to validate our development of next generation plant root assessment tools tinyurl.com/RootCheckRA #NextGenerationEU

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

In which BBC Wales neatly encapsulates our national media's inability to respond appropriately to the most significant social movement of this generation, replete with three completely worthless rage quotes from anonymous social media users.

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Garth Hill: Welsh dragon covered in graffiti on trig point

A trig point on a popular trail has been daubed in graffiti in an act of

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

any recommendations for a citation manager that integrates well without lag in google docs with lots of references? i use zotero offline but its becoming unusable in collaborative documents because of the wait every time i need to fix a citation

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

Rare snow in Ireland plus a feathered friend

A seagull in the snow in an urban setting. It leaves a trail of seagull footprints behind it as it walks along a wall

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

I really enjoyed my small part in participating in this review of how we can infer functioning of plants and their biogeochemical implications in the past through fossil plant traits! 🌿🌍⏳ doi.org/10.1111/nph....

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Functional traits of fossil plants

<em>New Phytologist</em> is an international phytology journal owned by the New Phytologist Foundation publishing original research in plant science and its applications.

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Really enjoyed having @moniqueweemstra.bsky.social visit us at TCD today! Lots of interesting root stuff! So much so I forgot to take pictures...

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