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| CAPIM website | https://capim.unimelb.edu.au/ |
| My papers are here | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Pv190jQAAAAJ&hl=en |
l collected all icon libraries resources and tools for making great #GraphicalAbstract - feel free to read/comment/share and stay tuned for part 2.
https://helenajamborwrites.netlify.app/posts/graphicalabstract_1/
#ScienceVisualizations #scicomm #AcademicFedi #dataviz #SciViz #ScienceFigures
Really excited to see our review paper published on the benefits and risks of using a wide range of industrial wastes as soil amendments. It was a collaborative effort over a number of years. So it’s great to see it available to everyone via open access.
De Silva, S., Carson, P., Indrapala, D.V., Warwick, B and Reichman, S.M. Land application of industrial wastes: impacts on soil quality, biota, and human health. Environ Sci Pollut Res (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-26893-7
Globally, waste disposal options such as landfill, incineration, and discharge to water, are not preferred long-term solutions due to their social, environmental, political, and economic implications. However, there is potential for increasing the sustainability of industrial processes by considering land application of industrial wastes. Applying waste to land can have beneficial outcomes including reducing waste sent to landfill and providing alternative nutrient sources for agriculture and other primary production. However, there are also potential hazards, including environmental contamination. This article reviewed the literature on industrial waste applications to soils and assessed the associated hazards and benefits. The review investigated wastes in relation to soil characteristics, dynamics between soils and waste constituents, and possible impacts on plants, animals, and humans. The current body of literature demonstrates the potential for the application of industrial waste into agricultural soils. The main challenge for applying industrial wastes to land is the presence of contaminants in some wastes and managing these to enhance positive effects and reduce negative outcomes to within acceptable limits. Examination of the literature also revealed several gaps in the research and opportunities for further investigation: specifically, a lack of long-term experiments and mass balance assessments, variable waste composition, and negative public opinion.
The #ARCreview recommendations have been published⤵️
✅No vetos
✅Board approves grants, appoints CEO
✅Review assessment criteria & ROPE
✅Direct consultation with researchers
✅Streamlined app process – 2-step?
✅Indigenous Fellowship
✅Scrap ERA/EI
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ARC_Tracker/status/1648961188422905856
The death of open access mega-journals?
An article covering the problems for some open access journals, including a staggeringly high amount of citations to other articles in the same journal at some MDPI journals. Detected by #AI. So they have been delisted from citation metrics.
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-death-access-mega-journals.html
#academia #publishing #science #researchethics #research #mdpi #openaccess
I was just leaving High Park yesterday when I stopped on a whim to flip one last rock, and found this adorable little poduromorph springtail underneath! It took a tumble as it crawled around the rock, but it got back on its feet.
Possibly _Neanura_? #iNaturalist observation: https://www.inaturalist.ca/observations/152306113 
Final version published of our review:
Ding et al. w/ Eva Leifheit from our lab, and Yong-Guan Zhu
Tire wear particles: an emerging threat to soil health
#PlasticPollution #environment #SoilHealth #pollution #soil #microplastic
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10643389.2022.2047581
3M will stop making #PFAS (aka #ForeverChemicals) and discontinue their use by the end of 2025 due to regulatory pressure and potential lawsuits that could cost the company $30 billion. These chemicals are used in firefighting foams and waterproof and stain-proof textiles but are potentially harmful to humans and animals.
Public Service Warning
Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when Musk pulled the employee purge.
It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.
We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.
Abstract. Acute environmental stressors such as short-term exposure to pollutants can have lasting effects on organisms, potentially impacting future generation
Since everyone else is doing one, here's my #Introduction! I'm a soil ecologist (researching invertebrates such as earthworms and springtails) and a macrophotographer.
You'll often find me out with my camera flipping rocks and logs, and taking photos of all the amazing life in the soil, and then sharing those photos online to spread the love for the hidden world beneath our feet!
#Macrophotography #SoilEcology #SoilFauna #Earthworm #Springtail #Pauropod #SoilBiodiversity
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