Fig. 1 We measured relative humidity every 5 min during the growing season in the Biodiversity, CO2, and Nitrogen (BioCON) experiment in central Minnesota in 2012.
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(🧵 1/6) Diversity affects microclimate temperature and humidity: an overview of the evidence and major unanswered questions
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A photo of Prof. Liesje Mommer and the text below: "Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Liesje Mommer is Professor of Belowground Ecology at Wageningen University & Research and a leading expert on plant-soil interactions and biodiversity. Her research focuses on how belowground processes - particularly root interactions, soil microbes, and pathogens - shape ecosystem functioning, productivity, and resilience.
Poster for the CBC 2026: Conference on Connecting Biodiversity, Climate and Human Behaviour Sept 21-24, 2026 Leipzig, Germany Organized by: UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Universität Leipzig
🌎 The 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗸𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 that the 𝗖𝗕𝗖 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 will have the honor of presenting is 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳. 𝗟𝗶𝗲𝘀𝗷𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 (𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆, 𝗪𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 @w-u-r.bsky.social)
I am helping coordinate one of these sessions on biodiversity and microclimate, please submit abstracts and join us! Our new review paper on this subject is out today: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
They should cut a deal with Weinstein to testify against every single one of them in court. It’s a house of cards.
Students applying for NSF funding are having their applications “returned without review” for being “ineligible,” despite their proposed research falling squarely within the application guidelines. eos.org/research-and...
Or the Supreme Court said ICE can detain ppl based on color of skin but we can’t admit them to college based on color of skin. Or they said protesters aren’t allowed in church but same week armed agents were storming the local mosque without a warrant
Remember like 3 months ago when NSF said we aren’t allowed to fund programs that serve protected groups but we are allowed to serve unprotected groups.
There have been 3 total firearms homicides in Minneapolis this year, 2 of them when citizens were killed by feds, per Star-Tribune
I cannot imagine the devastation this family is experiencing today. This statement is powerful and must be read.
I live in Minneapolis. I’ve been trying just calling Republican members of my family to tell them about my day. No news stories, no rhetoric, just step by step what I see and what I feel.
"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.
Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
If initial reports are true, they shot someone who they'd wrestled to the ground. Potentially an observer. These agents must be arrested and brought to justice.
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
Some families aren't leaving their homes as aggressive ICE operations continue in Minnesota, leaving their children confined and stressed. Across the Twin Cities, kids are anxious and afraid. n.pr/45ThqWO
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
The most popular sled at today’s Art Sledding event in Minneapolis.
✊💙 Cedar Riverside is organized. from Somali youth to grandmas, DSA to West Bank businesses, Mixed Blood to Augsburg students.
it’s a beautiful thing to bare witness to.
"It was the most miserable day of my whole life. But I would do it again because I think that people need to know how evil ICE is and that this is happening." - Alice Valentine of St. Cloud, pepper sprayed and jailed by ICE for trying to protect immigrant neighbors
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
NEWS: A day after the Minneapolis shooting, Secretary Noem quietly signed a new policy barring congressional visits to ICE facilities without a week's advance notice. That policy change led to three MN Dems being blocked from accessing an ICE facility today. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Minneapolis public schools are closed today and tomorrow. Friday should be a general strike. We need collective action.
if you tried to do this in the us, you'd have a billion dollar conservative moms group lobbying against it 12 hours later and credulous news articles taking their claims seriously in 24 bsky.app/profile/davi...
New: Trump’s ICE Has A Troubling Target: At-Risk Teenagers
In recent months, federal agents have arrested dozens of teenagers who at one point were in government custody as unaccompanied children. Some were arrested on their 18th birthdays– at government shelters.
www.huffpost.com/entry/immigr...
