Important paper. Need to consider fugitive emissions of nitrogen if ammonia is used in significant quantities as a fuel - e.g., shipping.

Our team and Chownlab are recruiting for 3yr postdoctoral fellowship and 3.5yr PhD studentship. Q1 2023 start. Focused on how climate change will affect microbial biodiversity and biogeochemistry in terrestrial Antarctica. Ads out soon, but informal inquiries welcome meanwhile.

Please RT! Continuing (tenured) academic position (starting at Lecturer or Senior Lecturer) in Water Science. Join our excellent, inclusive & welcoming team Monash Earth, Atmosphere and Environment 🌏🌪️🍃. Monash University is a global top 50 university and Aus/Melbourne is wonderful! Closes 15 Nov. timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listin…

⭐️⭐️ Closes in < two weeks ⭐️⭐️ Outstanding opportunity for a junior to mid-career water scientist to build their career in our very supportive research and educational environment Monash University Monash Science Monash Earth, Atmosphere and Environment 🌏🌪️🍃

UniSuper members – show your support for resolutions calling on UniSuper to improve its climate plan. Written by Saphira Rekker & supported by many experts in the field, these resolutions must be adopted by UniSuper: unisuperdivest.org/resolutions-to…

Biogeochemistry of bark! Great talk by Damien Maher at #AusME22

Scientific productivity is stagnating: we get less innovation per dollar of R&D. One reason is risk aversion: we fund incremental projects & established researchers. Patrick Collison & Heidi L. Williams make the case for faster, curiosity-driven research. wsj.com/articles/stagn…

Very important thread. The 'we don't have enough raw material for renewables' line is being repeated a lot.

Our latest paper. Nitrate rich groundwater stimulates phytoplankton production but not secondary production in an estuary. Environmental flows stimulate both including Black Bream larvae. Great collaboration across biogeochemistry/ecology sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Incredible opportunity for a talented water scientist -> closing in one week! We are a welcoming and inclusive team, and Monash University is very supportive employer

Today, our open letter signed by 118 scientists and experts calls on the Government to listen to the science and prevent new coal and gas developments. 📢 RT to add your voice to the call. 🖊️ Add your name to the open letter: theaus.in/nonewfossilfuel #auspol #climate

Important note to the Australian federal government regarding the safeguard mechanism.

Two lectureship (equiv to Asst Prof) posns available Monash Chemistry in Phys Chem and Clean Energy. Come and join our growing team. #ozchem tinyurl.com/5ewsssmn

Coastal marine megaripples are metabolic hotspots with highly dynamic oxygen exchange – Check out our new aquatic #EddyCovariance paper: aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… Image: Google Earth

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Utrecht University Utrecht University in the Netherlands has withdrawn itself from the World University ranking World University Rankings provided by Times Higher Education. As this has generated quite some reactions - praise, questions, some doubts, I want to provide some context. Hence a thread 🧵1/16

High-profile economist Jeffrey Sachs is due to give a speech at Monash University this week. Staff are on strike. On behalf of the staff union at Monash University, I have written to Professor Sachs asking him not to cross our picket line. Jeffrey D. Sachs

Sharing our new manuscript in The ISME Journal led by Dr Tess Hutchinson and Perran Cook. By tracking how the carbon in glucose is broken down in samples and isolates, she definitely shows fermentation dominates in sands, anaerobic respiration in muds. academic.oup.com/ismej/article/…

Monash's School of Biological Sciences currently hiring -- multiple positions in global change biology, plant community ecology and botany or phycology. careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/…

So excited to see this out! Aerated environments can be major sources of methane. This is due to the activities of aerotolerant methanogens. In the process, we show unexpected feedbacks between pollution and climate change. Ning Hall Perran Cook biorxiv.org/content/10.110…