In our rapid selection experiment we're using hoverflies to pollinate the Brassica rapa flowers. Here's a photo from the first test run 🪰
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In our rapid selection experiment we're using hoverflies to pollinate the Brassica rapa flowers. Here's a photo from the first test run 🪰
Congratulations Marcos! @burriach.bsky.social www.creaf.cat/en/articles/...
Great opportunity to join IRTA (Catalunya) with a permanent research position in soil science. Apply here talent.irta.cat/en/jobs/6477...
Had a great time talking about root exudates at the workshop about soil health at IRTA Cabrils today. And lots of other great talks!
Desde la @academiajoven.bsky.social queremos felicitar a las personas galardonadas con los #PNI y #PNIJ en especial a los miembros de nuestra Academia:
Jesús Campos @camposgroup.bsky.social
Marcos Fernández @burriach.bsky.social
Marta Sánchez de la Torre @MSanchezdlTorre
¡Enhorabuena!👏
Last days to apply for a PhD position with us at IRTA Cabrils (Catalonia, Spain) to work on drought resistance of crops, root exudates, rhizosphere microbes, crop wild relatievs and more! talent.irta.cat/en/jobs/6147...
‘Best job in the natural world’: seed collector enlisted as modern-day Darwin to document the world’s plants www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We are hiring a full time lab technician to assist with several long-term richness/biodiversity/microbe/drought/restoration manupulation experiments at the KU field station. Applications due this week! Please share.
Job Posting - Research Technician share.google/GsSTtiW4rIm5...
For more info feel free to contact me!
#PhD position now open to work with us in Catalunya at IRTA (Cabrils) investigating domestication effects on crop roots and drought tolerance. Apply here: talent.irta.cat/en/jobs/6147...
New paper alert!
Water sources shape drought effects on mammal activity in mediterranean woodlands
Congratulations Eleni! This is the result of 6 years of continuous monitoring of animal activity in Montnegre within the Gat Fer project (DSLC-ICHN)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
{tinytable} is a dead simple, ultra-flexible, and dependency-free #Rstats 📦 to turn data frames into beautiful tables: html, word, pdf, latex, typst, markdown, etc.
v0.10.0 has cool new features and important bug fixes. Check out the detailed tutorials at:
vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
The maize in the experiment is getting BIG. We've already had some interesting early findings with the VOC measurements, and I'm looking forward to analysing the exudates! #WILD-ROOTS
Wow, looks amazing! Exudate collection on an impressive scale!
Last week we had a great kick-off meeting with colleagues and collaborators!
IRTA Torre Marimon was looking beautiful in the sunshine today.
🧪Open Postdoc position (up to 2 yrs) on Integrating Flux Data and Remote Sensing to Quantify Environmental Footprints of Agroecosystems in my lab at ETH Zurich: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Some of the beautiful flowers in the WILD-ROOTS greenhouse today.
@mpallandt.bsky.social and I were awarded financial support through the new EGU EDI Participation Support Scheme, to bring our child to #EGU25. This enables EC scientists to attend without monetary punishment for having children and no local support system. I hope more such initiatives will follow!
📢New paper! One fifth of global farmland contaminated by toxic metals @science.org
Data from 800,000 soil samples identified a high-risk zone stretching across southern Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia.
Read the full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/fifth-g...
Nice to still get to help out with the greenhouse work from time to time on the #WILD-ROOTS project
Looking good! Looking forward to seeing the results
Modern radish variety growing in plant pot with a visible pink root.
Traditional 'landrace' radish growing in a pot, and looking much weedier.
My first time growing radish in an experiment-excited to include some root crops in the #WILD-ROOTS project. The modern and traditional varieties do look quite different! @wild-roots.bsky.social
Causes i efectes de la toxicitat en organismes i ecosistemes
Cicle de conferències de l'Atzavara (Mataró), del 2 d'abril al 3 de maig
No us els perdeu!
www.culturamataro.cat/toxicitat-en...
@ichn.iec.cat @arebroc.bsky.social
Soil VOC emission measurements underway (with SPMEs) thanks to our Masters student Jordi. Will wild relatives have different emissions compared to modern crops?
Interested in ecological/environmental #stats? Join us at the EnvEcoStats conference at Lancaster Uni 1-3 July 2025 envecostats.wordpress.com 14 days left to submit an abstract - come on ecologists! @bes-quantitative.bsky.social @besmacro.bsky.social @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social #RStats
Great to spend the day at another IRTA centre today - Mas Badia - for a meeting of the Catalan working group on #soil carbon and seeing the current experiments on regenerative agriculture.
