Bruce A. Snyder

Soil ecology, earthworms, millipedes, teaching, community science. Asso Prof Georgia College. He/him. Opinions mine. Society's a platypus.

[Elinor Karlsson (elinork.bsky.social) @eenork]

Humans can be... well... a little self-absorbed... our DNA is the MOST SEQUENCED DNA EVER!

SO. MUCH. DATA.

But are we sooooo special?!? #Zoonomia 1/n

[Robin Rohwer @RobinRohwer]

Mom asked, "I wonder when cherries bloom in Japan?" So I found 1200 years of data online and made her a plot.

[たまや Tamaya @Hyleomillipede]

沖縄島のアマビコヤスデ類

[Bruce A. Snyder @1000pede]

@wareslab See, I don't understand why they can't manage that here

[Bruce A. Snyder @1000pede]

@wareslab Your purchasing system isn't down for two months at the end of the fiscal year, is it?

[ARCHIVED - NASA Climate @NASAClimate]

Did you know @NASA satellites can measure how much water is in the soil? This animation shows how much moisture is available to plant roots. Note the contrast between the eastern and western U.S. Both droughts and floods can occur at the same time but in different places.

[Konza Prairie LTER @KonzaLTER]

The Konza Prairie Nature Trail is CLOSED today, March 6th - for burning.

[Bruce A. Snyder @1000pede]

Georgia College is hiring an Asst Prof in Computational Biology:

https://t.co/IvqeAeTbAR

[Bruce A. Snyder @1000pede]

@KuhnboBio @Hannah_R_Snyder My soil ecology students have a semester-long writing project, a children's book. Checkpoints throughout the semester: topic, references, outline, storyboard. All steps along the way to the finished product, but the structure of deadlines spreads out the work

[Hannah R. Snyder @Hannah_R_Snyder]

I've been seeing some posts from well-intentioned faculty about eliminating all deadlines in their classes. I study #ExecutiveFunction, #stress and #mentalhealth in college #students, and I'm here to tell you this will hurt the students you are trying to help. . . 1/buckle up

[Bruce A. Snyder @1000pede]

@ForTheSpiders @lepidopteraman @arachnonaut Microvials are so hard to find, especially short glass ones

[Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources @waDNR]

We also have issues with speakers.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.

[Kyle 🌱 @KylePlantEmoji]

"the secret scientists don't want you to know!!" Dude have you ever met a single scientist? My scientist friends are desperate for me to know about the changing mating habits of Brown marmorated stink bugs. They're screaming at the top of their lungs to tell you EVERYTHING.

[GlobalSoil BiodiversityInitiative @theGSBI]

There’s treasure everywhere…

Soil is alive 🦠🍄🐜🪱

[Zootaxa updates @Zootaxa]

Integrative redescription of the enigmatic monotypic alpine pill millipede genus Simplomeris Verhoeff, 1936 (#Glomerida, Glomeridae, Haploglomerinae).
https://t.co/LuMPq6aOxL
#Taxonomy

[Soil Science Society of America @SSSA_soils]

Plant litter in blue #carbon ecosystems doesn’t decompose as fast as its terrestrial counterparts. Without oxygen, the #soil microorganisms responsible for the breakdown of organic matter are not able to work as efficiently: https://t.co/ea01cdeNJe

📸: Lori Gorczynski

[Gil Wizen @wizentrop]

Let's talk about velvet worms for a second. Not only these voracious predators remained largely unchanged for about 500 million years, they are also some of the most cartoonish terrestrial invertebrates. I can almost hear this Austroperipatus crying "but I don't wanna grow up"

[Bruce A. Snyder @1000pede]

@FrankAshwood @FxJoly @britishmigroup @GanaultPierre