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Really nice work showing revegetation drives big declines in soil erosion across China, with large consequences for soil carbon. Authors call out this biophysical pathway is largely ignored in practice changes designed to build and maintain soil carbon. pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

Attending AGU (American Geophysical Union) annual meeting next week? Join us at our CDR Happy Hour Thursday next week (RSVP link below). We'll be nerding out with CDR leaders across academia, government and industry. eventbrite.com/e/agu-cdr-happ…

Attending AGU (American Geophysical Union) or in the DC area? Join us for our CDR Happy Hour, cohosted with Kateri, on December 12! This event is free but space is limited so please RSVP at the link below if you plan to attend. #AGU24 eventbrite.com/e/agu-cdr-happ…

My journey in the Crowther lab has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. I'm incredibly grateful to have been part of a community that values care, collaboration, and creativity, empowering everyone to thrive as scientists and human beings.

Great visit to Funga 🍄in Austin TX Thanks Colin Averill for the tour and the great conversations on fungi and the future of forestry!

The Crowther Lab is a talented team of kind humans. Thank you, Tom, for creating such an inspiring and supportive environment where we could collaborate on meaningful science and dream big! It has been an honor to be a part of this incredible team!

How class shapes Academia — Academics from poorer backgrounds introduce more novel scientific concepts but are less likely to receive recognition: citations, nominations, awards. Humanities have the least social mobility, quantitative fields have the most papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Realising the promise of AMF biofertilisers through more applied research 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… #Commentary by Salomon and Watts-Williams highlighting the recent work by Koziol et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… Dr Stephanie Watts-Fawkes Matt Salomon

New year, new preprint! I’m excited to share this work with Nahuel Policelli, Lindsey Adams, Abigail Li, and Jenny Bhatnagar (she/her), "Microbial functional guilds and genes are key to explaining soil nutrient cycling alongside soil and plant variables": doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

Really enjoying this piece led by @DrSuzanneSimard pushing back on the criticisms of common mycorrhizal network research. Highly reccommend! frontiersin.org/journals/fores…

Pleased to announce that the Pellegrini group will be moving to Stanford University to join the Department of Earth System Science in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability School of Sustainability in Sept. 2025. If you're interested in working on Qs regarding how systems respond to global change, contact me!

Criticism is a vital part of science. But there’s a fine line between holding people accountable and orchestrating a campaign to tear them down. The how matters.

This should be a good one! Join us to talk soil inoculation for ecosystem recovery with a panel of scientists who have been working deeply on this question

Assessing Soil Health with Underpants. In this short news piece in Science (see science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…) we report on our citizen science project where 2000 pieces of underwear were buried by 1000 citizens all across Switzerland. The overall goal was to assess soil quality and

Interested in forests? Fungi? soils? or Climate change? On Wednesday we have the visit of Colin Averill from Funga We are sure that this will be a great event. If you don't know Colin, this is his Ted talk: ted.com/talks/colin_av…

We're hiring an early career data scientist at Funga! Austin TX based. We use ML to integrate forestry observations and fungal microbiome datasets, to better understand how to restore forest fungal biodiversity. job-boards.greenhouse.io/funga

You can now download the entire community matrix for ~83,000 samples (with metadata) and ~75,000 fungal taxa with just one click! Explore the GlobalFungi database.

📣GSBI Speaks is back again in one week! Join us to learn about soil inoculation 🦠🍄 March 19, 2025, 9:30 MDT, 11:30 EDT, 15:30 GMT, 16:30 CET Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regist… Learn more here: globalsoilbiodiversity.org/webinar-23-soi…

Strong evidence that soil health & biodiversity can improve under regenerative agricultural practices but a whole systems approach is needed. Great to have our own microbass involved in this new report from British Ecological Society 🚜🌱🪲 britishecologicalsociety.org/end-of-the-bro…