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Just out! Cyanobacteria in biocrust prefer to be with their own kind and the biocrust microbiome shapes itself around this preference. Shout out to great co-authors Fin Warsop Thomas Ana Giraldo-Silva Ferran Garcia-Pichel for their efforts and teamwork! nature.com/articles/s4370…

Great reporting from our local newspaper on our efforts to use biocrust to deal with the secular dust pollution problems in AZ... Restoring desert crusts may control dust pollution better than spraying water azcentral.com/story/news/loc… via azcentral

Contributions of hypolithic cyanos to landscape-scale soil carbon are not to be dismissed... Awesome collaboration with Heather Throop, the DERT group , and NUST in Windhoek. Just out. | Home authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00…

Just found out I was awarded a Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education grant. Can't wait to get out in the field and start working with those soil microbes!

What I did last summer... just out annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/an…

Congratulations to our newest graduate, Patrick Kut, who successfully defended his MS thesis: "The Effect of Hydration Pulse Duration on the Diversity and Composition of Soil Microbiomes" finding who is who in the NIR / TOR continuum

Ah, one more thing today... From an awesome team made up of several generations of students (some still here, some just graduated, some post-docs or faculty now) meet CRUSTIVOLTAICS and its promise to scale up soil restoration: nature.com/articles/s4189…

Oh.. one more link on CRUSTIVOLTAICS nature.com/articles/s4189…

and what a beautiful, to the point visual on our work from the folks at ASUNews! #crustivoltaics news.asu.edu/20230420-using…

‘Crustivoltaics’ could restore vital ecosystems, benefit solar farms | KJZZ kjzz.org/content/184482…

congratulations Thuong! Ferran Garcia-Pichel

Excellent piece on our work by Jenessa Ducombe at EOS. Beautifully and accurately written. Thanks you! Solar Panels Nurse Desert Soil Back to Life eos.org/articles/solar…

Excellent Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University video on our Arizona Board of Regents funded work, with Herckes Lab, Matt Fraser and CBBG to rid arizona of dust pollution. Thanks everyone. It looks awesome. Natural remedies to reduce dust-storm intensity in Arizona youtu.be/oa-bzFjD8U4?si… via YouTube

Just submitted before the holidays... Check out our new preprint on the #evolution of #multicellularity in #cyanobacteria biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Great collaboration between Berlin, Bristol and Seville Prof Sanchez-Baracaldo Joanne Boden Mercedes Nieves-M Enrique Flores García

Excited to be holding a seminar on "Crustivoltaics for large-scale restoration of biocrust cover in arid soils" at the SER webinars on January 18 noon Eastern US time us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Do you jump at new opportunities, or you ponder before acting? Patrick Kut's new paper shows that soil microbes respond to water pulses differently.. some act quickly and some ponder, which defines who benefits from pulses of different duration. rdcu.be/dEAM0

An evolutionary optimum amid moderate heritability in prokaryotic cell size dlvr.it/T7F4PP

Our latest study on microbial cell size evolution is published in Cell Reports! Congratulations to graduate student @hsecairam and collaborator Ferran Garcia-Pichel (1/n)

I will be interviewing candidates for a Ph.D. position involving desert microbes, arid soils, plants and restoration. If interested please send me an email: [email protected]