Aidee Guzman
@soilsandbees
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Assistant Professor @ Stanford. I care about rural livelihoods, just food systems, and agroecology. Nerding out on soil health, mycorrhiza, & bees. 👩🏽🌾🍄🐝
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Some long-awaited news… In summer 2024, I will join
@Stanford
as an Assistant Professor in the Dept of Biology!!
I'm so excited to continue building collaborations, strengthening community partnerships, & mentoring students in agroecological research!
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Happy to share that one of my dissertation chapters is out in
@NewPhyt
: “Crop diversity enriches arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in an intensively agricultural landscape”. 🥳 🥬🥦🌶🥕🍆🥒🍓🥳
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I finished my PhD a year ago, but my dad still continues to tell me how proud he is of me.
My dissertation was dedicated to my parents. My work is inspired by all the land they’ve called home. Importantly, my parents have taught me more than what a book can offer.
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As we continue to grieve the lives lost to police brutality and racism (Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, & more), with the leadership of
@kenleecalhoun
&
@prettynwhitty
several of us ask
@ESPM_Berkeley
to take anti-racist actions bc words are not enough.
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Since today is
#WorldSoilDay
, I thought I'd share some of my favorite things related to soils – especially those that remind us that the line between science and society is blurred. A thread 🧵 (1/n)
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Our paper is out! Led by Margiana Petersen-Rockney & Peter Bauer, we demonstrate how "diversifying" processes in agroecosystems are needed to increase "adaptive capacity" (the ability to respond flexibly to ecological stressors). 👩🌾🐄🍅🦠💧
@ESPM_Berkeley
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I'm so happy!!! Fresno County is finally vaccinating Food & Ag workers starting today (3/1). So I spent this morning (successfully) booking appointments for my parents and extended family. I feel so much relief. ❤️
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I'm looking forward to recruiting lab techs, PhD students, and postdocs for the Agroecology Research Group
@Stanford
. If you are interested in working with me, please reach out!!
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Can't believe the day is almost here... 😬 But if anyone wants to catch my finishing talk, it will be tomorrow April 29, 3:30PST. More details below. 🙂
Thrilled to have our very own
@soilsandbees
as
@ESPM_Berkeley
's 2021 Distinguished Lecture by a Graduate Student! Please join us for her talk on Thursday 👩🏾🌾🐝🌷🍆
(see subtweet for more zoom details)
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This makes me so happy. 🎉
Gisel starting working with me her 1st year of undergrad. Now we are graduating together!! 🥰🥳
So many congratulations to our lab's grads, Gisel DeLaCerda and DOCTOR Aidee Guzman, PhD
@soilsandbees
!! 💐🎉
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Sharing this piece about my dad’s story (from farm worker to cattle driver) that I’ve been thinking about for years. Sharing something so personal is scary but I am so grateful that this story is part of the
@commonmag
#FarmworkerPortfolio
— led by
@TrustMiguel
💫
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I should mention- we also got funding for course development & a TA-ship. People need $ support for this work! I'm inspired to be working w/
@prettynwhitty
,
@KenzoEsquivel
,
@phoebeparkers
, & others in
@ESPM_Berkeley
Graduate Diversity Council. There's power in collective action!
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Congratulations,
@clairekremen
!!! 🙌 It's been wonderful being part of the
@WoRCSLab
for my PhD! 🐝 🐞
#UBC
conservation biologist Claire Kremen is the winner of the 2020 Volvo Environment Prize, recognizing her world-class research on how humanity can feed itself while also protecting
#biodiversity
.
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Remember: BIPOC organizers and communities got us here. TY ❤️ Let’s go into this decade fighting and following the lead of BIPOC — for truly radical change. We need more. ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
#Milwaukee
#atlanta
#Philadelphia
#Detroit
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With everything going on, it was good to get some good news today. A former mentee emailed me that she got accepted to a master’s program (fully funded via a fellowship 🥳).
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When my family immigrated, their “home” traveled in the form of recipes and seeds/plants.
Food is love for my family. So for my graduation, they prepared 2 goats in barbacoa - which results in a 2 day celebration.
#FoodAroundTheWorld
#FoodAroundTheWorld
means carrying traditions from El Pedregal Hidalgo to the Central Valley California.
Barbacoa is a community celebration. Meat is carefully wrapped in pencas de maguey(agave) & slowly cooked underground. Thank you for sharing
@soilsandbees
& congrats!
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I’m very proud of our department
@ESPM_Berkeley
#cola4all
. It’s time. ✊
The Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management just declared themselves strike ready! 16 departments down!
#cola4all
#spreadthestrike
#COLAStrike
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Wow! This was so wonderful. My dad got to tune in and listen to me nerd out about soil health and mycorrhizal fungi – in Spanish!!! This makes this career path completely worth it! Thank you
@flordefrijol
and
@FarmlandCA
🥕🌶🥦🥬🥰
Looking forward to joining Pepe Reyes en El Gallito, 93.7FM Bakersfield this afternoon to talk about soil heath via
@FarmlandCA
. Thanks
@flordefrijol
for coordinating!
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Join us this 8/2 at 11am for
#ESA2021
: “Emerging Pursuits in Agroecology: Forging New Interdisciplinary Research Connections and Collaborations”. Talks by A.L. Guzmán,
@leahlrrenwick
, K. Garcia,
@EmiliaCorderoOc
,
@nlmedina17
, &
@synanthropica
. ID/info:
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@doctora_nature
I still remember filling out applications and not knowing what to put for my parents education because “less than high school” didn’t capture it...
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From experience being in *liberal* college towns, I feel this so much!
@BalaChaudhary
saying *location of the college is not a driving factor for racism in academic settings...where I teach (Chicago), which is very diverse, stem programs are still predominantly white* 🙌
#ESA2020
OM Gosh, the
#ESA2020
Ecology Underground live session has >230 participants tuned in this morning! All eager to hear renowned ecologist
@BalaChaudhary
speak about her research and anti-racism leadership in
#ecology
.
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Can't wait to join Liz (
@lizwcarlisle
) for the launch of her incredible new book, "Healing Grounds". 🙌 Also, it is such a treat for Ricardo Salvador (
@cadwego
) to be moderating! 🙌 Join to hear about climate, justice, and regenerative agriculture.
We're doing a virtual book launch for Healing Grounds!
Tuesday, March 29, 10am PT/11am MT/noon CT/1pm ET
Ricardo Salvador (
@cadwego
) is moderating!
Aidee Guzman (
@soilsandbees
) is speaking!
I will be soaking up their wisdom!
Join us!!:
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My favorite thing about growing up in the Central Valley: the sunsets!!
Had to stop on the way hope to catch this stunning sunset, enhanced by a field being irrigated.
#California
#sunset
#CaliforniaCoastRange
#CentralValley
@MercedCounty
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A sneak peek of one of my dissertation chapters that was recently accepted... I'll share more when the final published version is available. 😊
#mycorrhiza
Read some of the recent accepted articles from New Phytologist 📖
🌱 Guzman et al.
@soilsandbees
#mycorrhiza
🌱 Ferreira de Carvalho et al.
@DrJulieFerreira
@RousseauGueutin
🌱 Bauke et al.
#wheat
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A million congrats
@cschell_canids
!!!! 🎉
@espm_gdc
is celebrating! 🎉 Damn. So excited for the force you are about to bring to
@ESPM_Berkeley
!!! ✊
We're coming home!! Starting in July 2021, I will officially be joining the faculty of
@ESPM_Berkeley
as an Assistant Professor! I'm honored/humbled to join an amazing network of colleagues at
@UCBerkeley
, and excited to return to my home state.
#BlackandSTEM
@BlkMammalogists
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Wow! Such a neat surprise to see our paper on this list of incredible ecology and evolutionary biology papers. 🦠 🐜 🍄 🌲 🐺 🧬 🐝 Check them out!
Best papers of 2021 in ecology and evolutionary biology (and some related fields), according to members of Mordecai (
@morde
), Peay (
@mykophile
), and Fukami labs at
@Stanford
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Another highlight of this years SSSA conference is meeting someone who grew up just 8min away in a similar little farmworker community in the Central Valley … who is also doing sustainable ag work! We’re out here, Val!
@vxl_zxy_zxy
✊
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How do cover crops *jointly* affect soil carbon and yields? Check out our paper!
Our paper on how
#covercrops
jointly affect soil carbon and crop yields is out in
@naturesustainab
! First authored by former undergraduate in our lab, Isaac Vendig, along with
@soilsandbees
@KenzoEsquivel
@lcponisio
@allegra_mayer
& Gisel De La Cerda
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Thank you
@prettynwhitty
for keeping me grounded this year! 🥰And, especially, for your support this semester when several of us in
@espmgdc
decided to lead a course on anti-racism in environmental science! ✊
Need a good read? Check out the
@GradDivision
article on the Anti-Racism course
@soilsandbees
,
@KenzoEsquivel
,
@phoebeparkers
, Rosalie, and I developed this fall!! Shout out to all in
@espmgdc
and
@ESPM_Berkeley
who helped us along the way! And what good lookin folks too right?🥰
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Check out our paper in
@Ecology_Letters
led by
@claire_willing
! 💫 🌲 We find that soil fungal communities are structured by habitat fragmentation. In contrast, root-associated fungi are conserved despite habitat fragmentation. 🌲 See thread for more details!
Check out our work on coast redwood fungal communities across a habitat fragmentation gradient! With Grady Pierroz,
@soilsandbees
,
@leanderegg
,
@chenggucb
,
@DevinColemanDer
,
@mycotajohn
, Tom Bruns, and Todd Dawson. A 🧵 (1/4)
⬇ awesome photo credit:
@ambrose_anthony
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For me even realizing there was a “hidden academic language” was challenging. I’m in my 6th year & I’m only now realizing I could have asked for more from faculty. My immigrant parents have a 1st grade education (at most) so academia could might as well be another planet for them
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The Agroecology Research Group will ask ecological Qs in agroecosystems (biotic interactions to ecosystem functioning)–framed by the principle that agriculture is not isolated from socio-political contexts. In doing so, I hope we can support farmers through research & outreach.
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If I had one wish this coming year, is that reviewers for all these (fellowship) applications would ignore all typos and think "2020 IS NOT NORMAL. I'll let this typo pass".
#PhDChat
#AcademicChatter
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Yes! So incredible to see this much support from
@ESPM_Berkeley
alum. I love the support for
#BlackintheIvory
! But, now, it is time to see these anti-racist actions into fruition. ✊
Wow! 130
@ESPM_Berkeley
Alumni, spanning 2 decades, stand in solidarity with the current grads who sent demands for anti-racist action last week! Thank you
@AB_Wesner
for leading this charge!
#BlackLivesMatter
#BlackInTheIvory
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#COVID19
has reached the rural town I grew up in. My heart has been hurting. Many in my family are farm workers or factory workers and are also undocumented. They pick and can the food we dearly cherish right now. They're not protected. Not now. Not ever.
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Many thanks to others who assisted in development and writing of the letter
@kjohannetsiegel
@katherinewolf
@avscoy
@KenzoEsquivel
@ScrapNaturalist
@IndigenizeSci
@phoebeparkers
, Alexandra Kahn, Ben Goldstein, Rosalie Z. Fanshel, Lucy Andrews, Yvonne Socolar... & all who signed
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I wonder if
@michaelpollan
would considering revising Omnivore’s Dilema, in which Joe Salatin was prominently featured, for a 2nd edition and including BIPOC leaders who’ve long been pushing agroecology and just food systems such as
@UrbanTilth
No longer a fan.
Practices may be ok but the man is a jackass!
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@aaberhe
being nominated to lead the Department of Energy Office of Science is giving me so much hope!! ✊🎉 🥳🎉✊
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Thank you
@itatiVCS
for the encouraging advice on advocacy and STEM for shy folks! It's a journey but it is crucial to get our voice - when the anger fills our bellies - out there for change.
#ReclaimingSTEM2020
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Looking forward to joining Pepe Reyes en El Gallito, 93.7FM Bakersfield this afternoon to talk about soil heath via
@FarmlandCA
. Thanks
@flordefrijol
for coordinating!
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Lastly, I truly still can't believe that this is the journey I am on… younger me in that small rural town in the San Joaquin Valley would have never imagined I'd be a professor...
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Thanks for the shoutout
@UCBerkeleyFood
! Looking forward to this event and “sitting” with an amazing group of panelists. ✊🌽🌶🍇🍓✊
Dig into the practice, research discipline, and social movement of agroecology with
@ucsccasfs
at 1:30 PT on 10/7. This esteemed panel includes
@UCBerkeley
PhD student
@soilsandbees
!
Register here:
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Translation my dissertation dedication message in image above:
For my mom and dad,
who crossed mountains and hills,
always carrying in their heart their love for their land.
Thank you for everything and, above all,
for reminding me to never forget my roots.
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Who says your can’t dress nice and be a field ecologist? 🙂
Also shoutout to
@soilsandbees
for doing the sledge-hammering in her nice outfit right before hosting a faculty search town hall for
@ESPM_Berkeley
! We’re lucky to have a lab full of amazing women soil scientists who are never afraid of getting their hands a little dirty
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Looking forward to being part of this event! Come hear other wonderful people chat about agroecology ✊❤️🍓🍇🥬🥦🌶🥕❤️✊. Thanks for the shoutout
@adamjcalo
!
Important forthcoming panel promising the clarify the contours of agroecology: science, movement, practice. 👇
@soilsandbees
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These cabinet members resigning are cowards. Why not stay and invoke the 25th amendment? Hypocrites.
BREAKING: Betsy DeVos has resigned due to Trump’s incitement of violence.
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So happy to share that our research on how on-farm diversification supports specialist pollinators,
#squashbee
, and
#nativebees
is published! Just in time for🎃season!
Most of all, I am so happy to demonstrate how small-scale farmers in the Central Valley are supporting bees.
New Research: On-Farm Diversification in an Agriculturally-Dominated Landscape Positively Influences Specialist Pollinators
#Sustainable
#FoodSystems
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Gabe Trujillo was tragically taken from his loved ones while doing PhD fieldwork in Mexico. It’s been an incredibly painful loss for his community. Please consider supporting his loved ones in celebrating his life:
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Congrats, Damian!! He was a strong support for me and others in
@ESPM_Berkeley
. When it felt like ppl weren’t listening, Damian along with
@fishteph
were there for us.
This amazing human being just learned he’s been promoted to full professor! Congratulations to
@ESPM_Berkeley
’s newest full prof Damian Elias!
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After a few years, I am super excited that a research project I finished a week before I started grad school is finally published- my first first author! It took a lot of sweat and tears as I navigated the confusion and stress of grad school. Bees! 🐝
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Yes! I'm tired of the pressure to become an emotionless robot in academia. Thanks incorporating comedy into STEM
@kylemarian
@Reclaiming_STEM
#ReclaimingSTEM2020
I am loving this comedy in science communication workshop. It's so nice to laugh :)
#ReclaimingSTEM2020
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“Fossey’s “active conservation” included physical torture, psychological torture, and kidnapping of local people near her field site in Rwanda, as she enacted a neo-colonialist conservation program rooted in white supremacy.”
When I say we need "truth and reconciliation" in conservation, THIS is what is on my mind:
@PolEcoNet
@CAPE_AAG
@ENTITLE_blog
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This journey is not possible without community. So I'm continuously grateful for all the colleagues, friends, and family who have supported and cheered me on… 💫 Thank you all so so much. 💫
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Ey!
@hoodecologist
talking about the socio-economic dimensions and consequences of climate change driven heatwaves here in CA.
How rising temperatures and drought landed California in crisis
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Please share widely!!👩🏽🌾 There's an incredible opportunity to work with UC cooperative extension to provide services to small/mid-scale, diversified, and socially disadvantaged farmers...👩🏽🌾🌶🍆🥕🍓🥬👩🏽🌾 And you get to work w/ farm advisors, like
@valleyruth
, doing amazing work!
There's still time to apply for 7 new Small Farms Community Educator positions! Join our team working to expand UC Cooperative Extension services around the state for small- to mid-scale, diversified, and socially disadvantaged farmers:
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On a similar note, one of my favorite tweets I've ever read was by
@latifnasser
who relates how soils influence voting patterns in the US: (8/n)
The US election is tomorrow. If you, like me, are tired of horse-race-style reporting, and need to zoom out, I wanna tell you a story. It’s about an ancient force influencing the election. And, as a bonus, it’ll give you an Easter egg to watch for as the returns come in. THREAD
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That said, growing up, my family’s language was that of kindness. 💕There was no politics of scarcity -that plagues academia. My parents always said “donde come uno, comen dos”.
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Thanks to
@CivilEats
for sharing
@highcountrynews
@jkutzie
piece about some of the work I’ve been doing for my PhD.
“Sustainable farming practices are happening in the Valley, and if these farmers are actually providing (soil health benefits) then, shouldn’t we think about them more? And support them?”
@highcountrynews
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Yes! This completely made my day! This needs to be assigned in all environmental science/studies courses! We need to stop separating the environment from the racist and unjust structures that form it.
#BlackLivesMatter
I am beyond thrilled to share our new paper in Science today, "The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments".
#urbanecology
#BlackLivesMatter
@aaas
@BEcologists
@BlackAFinSTEM
@uwearthlab
@UWEnvironment
@uwtacoma
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There’s no doubt that California’s San Joaquin Valley is an agricultural powerhouse. But what does the future hold?
✨Read about the visions for more sustainable use of fallowed lands in this region.
By
@theo_whitcomb
for
@HighCountryNews
.
“We’d really like to see land be retired around communities where there's massive overpumping,” said
@water_doctora
of
@LCJandA
.
@theo_whitcomb
reports on the future of California's San Joaquin Valley.
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I couldn't have said better. Mentorship is a key component for BIPOC students to persist in STEM.
Very cool paper in
@PNASNews
! Having mentors and advisors we can relate with matters so much for our desire to persist in STEM.
Also I'm so elated to have been cited by these badass women 🤩💪🏾
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If you missed this yesterday,
@lizwcarlisle
book "Healing Grounds" was published! 🙌
It's pub day for Healing Grounds, and I'm making a strong case for regenerative agriculture as a powerful climate solution IF
(1/19)
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Composting is an exciting process. In
@edgeeffectsmag
, Michelle Niemann
@mlniemann4
writes on how "today’s composting methods are a product of imperial science and plantation agriculture": (9/n)
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Ooof not going to lie all the
#Botany2022
tweets have made me feel so nostalgic... Botany was the first national conference I attended and I have so many good memories –– including meeting the amazing
@xingonaDirtSci
Second, I want to share how the stars aligned when I met
@soilsandbees
many moons ago when we attended the Botany conference. As
@KenzoEsquivel
said it, “everyone knows Aidee” and you are truly blessed to get the opportunity to meet her. Photo of 1st meeting and now:
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I often get the same question when discussing the role of soil biodiversity in agriculture: but what about yield?
To this question,
@frantecol
provides a great thread on why we need to go beyond a reductionist view on soil biodiversity.
A common response to studies finding that certain agricultural practices reduce soil biodiversity and functioning is "BUT DOES IT REDUCE YIELD"
In my opinion, this question is a symptom of a reductionist world view. Here's why. 🧵
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Happening today at 11am PST! 🥳🍆🍓🌶🥕🥬🥳
Join us this 8/2 at 11am for
#ESA2021
: “Emerging Pursuits in Agroecology: Forging New Interdisciplinary Research Connections and Collaborations”. Talks by A.L. Guzmán,
@leahlrrenwick
, K. Garcia,
@EmiliaCorderoOc
,
@nlmedina17
, &
@synanthropica
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a sense of belonging in academia = friends who see you for your whole self… 🥲
thank you
@katrinawnoFEMA
since we first met at a conference over 7 yrs ago!
Second, I want to share how the stars aligned when I met
@soilsandbees
many moons ago when we attended the Botany conference. As
@KenzoEsquivel
said it, “everyone knows Aidee” and you are truly blessed to get the opportunity to meet her. Photo of 1st meeting and now:
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#EntSoc19
If you want to come hear about how
#squashbee
🎃 🐝 respond to farm diversification practices, I’ll be giving a talk today (11/17) at 2:20pm in Rm 262. 🎃 🐝 Also catch other amazing pollinator 🐝 🐝 talks in the same session.
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@EEB_POC
Yes! Thank you for this work.❤️A push back to "Revise all course syllabi to include 50% or more Black scholars & scholars of color" in our letter to faculty is that it's *unfeasible*. This is wrong. It perpetuates the notion that BIPOC don't belong/exist in environmental sciences
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Thank you for these resources! ❤️ You can't think about agriculture without considering Black farmers. Right now, Black farmers are leading the way to make agriculture more sustainable and undo the trauma that settlers caused by weaponizing agriculture.
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Amidst everything, this is the best thing to happen today, this week, this month, this year. Congratulations Monica M. White
@thegardengriot
!!!!
I am the first Black woman to earn tenure in the history of the College of Agricultural Life Sciences est. 1889.
#BlackintheIvory
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I needed to see this today.
"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." -Audre Lorde
As requested: My wellness statement for students:
1. "Working until exhaustion is NOT a badge of honor; it shows that you are out of balance." As an educator, I play an important role in modelling that behavior for students. Please consider a similar statement for your classes
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@agronomistag
First, our models did not test the response of root colonization to AMF diversity so not sure where you are drawing that conclusion. 1/
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First, this beautiful piece by Ama Codjoe in
@Orion_Magazine
titled "This Land Was Made: Considering the soil that bears witness to America": (2/n)
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Love this! 💕🙌
Just a quick reminder that no matter where we live or what challenges our communities face, there is still *so much* worth saving. This is a photo from
#Bakersfield
, the supposed "armpit of California," and a beautiful place that I am proud to call Home.
#BringBackTheKern
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@agronomistag
@Luehea
Generally, I would be incredibly careful to solely rely on AMF root colonization as the sole predictor of AMF benefits to plant hosts. There are a number of other AMF traits to consider. E.g. hyphal length in
@DrTreseder
paper: 6/
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@agronomistag
Next, greater/lower root colonization does not always equal greater/lower AMF benefits. Improvement in P uptake via AMF does not always track w/ greater root colonization. Take a look at
@Luehea
paper: 3/
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@Luehea
AMF are functionally diverse. We are flawed to think that root colonization will always predict AMF benefits or AMF diversity should always track with root colonization. Please take a look at Chagnon et al. 2013 in Trends in Plant Sci and other AMF functional diversity lit. 4/
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As we gather around food today, let’s remember that it was (most likely) Indigenous hands who picked your food. Many displaced Indigenous peoples are forced out of their lands due to climate change (south of the border) only to get their labor exploited in the name of agriculture
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🙌 "If I can't understand a paper, I often leave convinced that the author doesn't really understand it either"
@paigestanley_ag
Also read Josh Schimel's book, Writing Science, while you're at it!
Complicated language, verbosity, and inaccessibility in scientific articles is rampant and ridiculous.
If I can't understand a paper, I often leave convinced that the author doesn't really understand it either
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What's a compassionate way to handle the following situation: Two students who are partners living together w/ a newborn baby submitted the exact same homework?
We are going through difficult times but cheating is never a great alternative.
#AcademicTwitter
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There’s so few us here
@UCBerkeley
@NatureAtCal
@ESPM_Berkeley
. But we are here! Ey! So happy to be surrounded by such brilliant scientists. 👏
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🥹 I love the journey we’ve been on
@TreeDrought
✨
A BIG happy birthday to my best friend
@soilsandbees
! Thank you for imbuing the world with creativity, kindness & joy. I’ve loved growing alongside you since 2013 MEChA Nationals in San Diego to 2023 ESA in Montreal. And the best is yet to come 💫
I’m so proud of you, friend.
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I wouldn't be as happy in
@ESPM_Berkeley
if these awesome scientists,
@kenleecalhoun
and
@ScrapNaturalist
, weren't there to show up and be dope AF.
On top of being an awesome scientist, Christine's been such a great role model for me since coming to grad school and I'm sure for many, many others as well! Thanks
@ScrapNaturalist
: )
#BlackAFinSTEM
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Soil is also art. Just see
@vaughan_soil
beautiful soil-based pigments: (10/n)
To help spread soils information and joy - I'm giving away a watercolor palette over on Instagram. Check it out if you're interested.
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Soils are beautiful and complicated. What are some of your favorite things about how society influences or is influenced by soil?
#WorldSoilDay
(12/12)
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@JorgeRH2O
is the absolute best. That's the tweet.
But, no really, there's nothing like the feeling of support and love. Thank you, Jorge for helping me out today - and with a short notice!
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@agronomistag
@Luehea
@DrTreseder
To your question “where does the increased [AMF] diversity come from?”, I would recommend you take a look at
@BalaChaudhary
recent paper “Trait‐based aerial dispersal of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi” . 7/
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Please consider using to generate a transcription of your recorded talk for
@ESA_org
#ESA2020
. Upload as handout. It’s quick and easy and allows everyone to engage with your talk! 🙂
#disabilityinclusion
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Check out this fun video about AMF inoculants and drought from our lab via the amazing
@yvonnesocolar
!
How do
#AMF
fungal inoculants impact soil microbial communities, drought resiliency, & 🍅 yields? It depends! Our research shows that when plants are💧 stressed, AMF inoculation helps, but can ⬇️ yield in non-drought conditions
@CDFAnews
@yvonnesocolar
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Just needed to retweet again. Please consider donating. Black Earth Farms came through for me hella at the beginning of COVID-19. Their work is so admirable. 💕
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@agronomistag
Our study also did not test for AMF diversity or root colonization “benefits” to the plant host in the agronomic sense (e.g. fruit production, P uptake, etc.). So stating that there are no benefits from increased diversity in our study is incorrect and misleading. 2/
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It's been such a treat to work on this project with
@DebrayReena
and the
@bkoskella
group plus, of course, my labmate
@yvonnesocolar
in the
@bowleslab
. Hooray for collaborations!!
New preprint! 🍄🌱🦠
If you like plant microbiomes, soil ecology, aboveground-belowground interactions, or agroecosystems, keep reading!
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This is such a cool study!! 🤯
@claire_willing
explores the response of bacterial communities, in redwood roots and soils, to changes in water availability–– across a *natural water-availability gradient*!!! 🌲 💦💦 💧 💧 🌲
Check out our work on redwood associated bacteria and how these communities shift in response to water-availability! With Grady Pierroz,
@DevinColemanDer
, and Todd Dawson🌲
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Thanks
@clairekremen
for leading with strength and fostering a community committed to transforming agriculture! 👏
@soilsandbees
@WoRCSLab
Thank you Aidee & current & former lab-members & colleagues that have been such an important part of this work. This award is for all of us, bringing to world attention critical need to transform agriculture through agroecology to support biodiverse $ socially-just food systems
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Our paper shows how farmers who have increased crop diversity bolster AMF diversity and richness despite the legacy of monocultures in CA’s San Joaquin Valley. Thanks,
@jhshea11
and
@NatureAtCal
for the write-up!
🥬🥦🌶🥕🍆🥒🍓
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