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Received a complimentary physical copy of a book chapter I wrote with Markus Owen, Johannes Postma, Christian Kuppe, Chris Black and Jonathan P. Lynch. I think it came out looking really nice! Hope it's useful to all aspiring #OpenSimRoot users!

Want to learn how to use #OpenSimRoot (or any of the other excellent models which will be featured) to simulate plants in 3D like in this video? Join the #CropsInSilico symposium & hackathon on Wednesday! cropsinsilico.org/2022-annual-me…

Shut down fossil fuel production sites early to avoid climate chaos, says study theguardian.com/environment/20…

Some of what's going on with food & climate: ➡️ lowest grain inventory levels the world has ever seen are now occurring  ➡️ corn belt won't be suitable for corn by 2100 ➡️ key Indian breadbasket state to run out of water in 17 years ➡️ Indian heatwave reduced wheat crop by 10-30%

Will a freak heatwave in Europe killing thousands of old people finally spur our governments into taking serious climate action or is that delusional optimism?

Modelling root loss reveals impacts on nutrient uptake and crop development (Ernst D Schäfer, Markus R Owen, Leah R Band, Etienne Farcot, Malcolm J Bennett, Jonathan P Lynch) buff.ly/3wMQdnf ASPB #PlantSci

Delighted to share our new paper modelling the effects of root loss. Very many congratulations Ernst Schafer! Ernst D Schafer Markus Owen Etienne Farcot Malcolm Bennett and Jonathan Lynch academic.oup.com/plphys/advance…

This also means that the code for simulating root loss with OpenSimRoot is now available to everyone at gitlab.com/rootmodels/Ope… Please note that the most recent OSR updates still need to be integrated, this will happen over the next few weeks.

Instructions on how to recreate the results from this paper are now publicly available, as well as the code used! See: gitlab.com/rootmodels/Ope…

Massive wealth redistribution would not only help everyone at the bottom greatly and address all the problems associated with economic inequality (crime, social unrest, breakdown of solidarity) but also put a dent in reducing our emissions!

Update: I've started a new postdoc in antibiotic resistance modelling at AUMC so a bit of a change in scenery for me! I will still be available for root and OpenSimRoot related inquiries but my response times will be a bit longer.

The 7 hottest days on Earth in the last 100,000+ years all happened in the last week: July 6 ~ 17.23°C / 63.01°F July 7 ~ 17.20°C / 62.96°F July 4 ~ 17.18°C / 62.93°F July 5 ~ 17.18°C / 62.92°F July 8 ~ 17.17°C / 62.90°F July 10 ~ 17.12°C / 62.81°F July 9 ~ 17.11°C / 62.79°F

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Presented some of my work modelling gonorrhoea infection dynamics at the MAGIcIAN & OASIS dissemination meeting

Israël bombardeert Den Haag, kabinet overweegt nog geen sancties speld.nl/2024/05/29/isr…

This is a huge scandal. USAID & State Department refugee bureau both said Israel blocked aid to Gaza. But Blinken told Congress the opposite, so they wouldn't have to heed US law that'd force cutting off weapons to Israel. As in, the Biden-Harris admin is complicit in war crimes.