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If you have 5 min I recommend that you check your biases at recording vegetation cover. I found it super surprising how biased I was at the lower covers, always over estimating the covers. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
On Wednesday I will be giving a talk (in Spanish) about our findings on how #Phytophthora rewires the avocado microbiome and metabolome.
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Reading in journal club:
Defining and protecting old-growth soils
@frantecol.bsky.social writing in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social
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Didn't know about that cool tool!
Warming Stripes for United Kingdom, 1884-2025.
Mood:
I really like the section about newly defended theses because we get a glimpse of their work, which often times don't fall into what we are working on. It is also lovely to see photos of the study sites in different parts of the world π
the guy is a plant
I will be there! :D
Random fact of the day. I did not know that two members of the band Sportfreunde Stiller are TUM alumni. Turns out that Florian Weber and Peter Brugger met at TUM 30 years ago studying Sports Science 2001.
This is my favorite song and video. Good weather & a trip to Italy, what more can one ask ;)
π’ The new @iavs5.bsky.social Bulletin is out!
Inside: a tribute to Prof. Ioannis Tsiripidis, highlights of newly defended PhD theses, insights from the IAVS historical archive, and a thought-provoking piece on the accuracy of vegetation cover estimates to help investigate observer bias.