Sha Zhang (张厦)

A wetland scientist

[Sha Zhang (张厦) @Biogeochemx]

Elevated soil temperatures during a heatwave year do not necessarily increase metal(loid) mobilization or accumulation across two harvests of semi-perennial rice evidence from mesocosm experiments https://t.co/Wqf7pB208u

[Sha Zhang (张厦) @Biogeochemx]

Elevated soil temperatures during a heatwave year do not necessarily increase metal(loid) mobilization or accumulation across two harvests of semi-perennial rice evidence from mesocosm experiments https://t.co/Wqf7pB208u

[Sha Zhang (张厦) @Biogeochemx]

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[New Community @NEWCommunityNEW]

Energy, environment, society, all connected like threads of one web.
This new article explains why genuine sustainability requires affordable energy, informed debate, and a candid assessment of climate challenges.
Read the full article:
https://t.co/OzzHurBe7Q

[The Innovation: a Cell Press partner journal @The_InnovationJ]

New in The Innovation Energy! Greenhouse-integrated solar photovoltaics for sustainable future energy landscapes.
This study assesses the theoretical global electricity output from photovoltaics systems integrated into greenhouse structures and investigates their potential role in facilitating decarbonization.
@Innov_Energy
https://t.co/k1jZgzyBZd
#energy #solarenergy #sustainable

[Sha Zhang (张厦) @Biogeochemx]

Manipulating natural heatwaves in AmbControl chambers bridging controlled and field conditions for warming studies in plant–soil systems https://t.co/THOuYzLgz2

[New Community @NEWCommunityNEW]

💧WATER FIRST: Why managing water beats drought-tolerant crops in the fight against climate change.
New research shows even the toughest genetically engineered crops can’t survive extreme droughts without WATER.
✅Irrigation
✅Rainwater harvesting
https://t.co/97zrNDDxef

[steve hsu @hsu_steve]

C.N. Yang has passed, age 103.

Yang was awarded the Nobel prize at 35, for parity violation (shared with T.D. Lee). But his greatest contribution was probably Yang-Mills theory, now referred to as gauge theory. When I was a student the former designation was as common as the latter.

Freeman Dyson called Yang "the pre-eminent stylist of 20th-century physics".

"Dr. Yang's sense of mathematical beauty turns his least important calculations into miniature works of art, and turns his deeper speculations into masterpieces."

Dyson believed only Albert Einstein and Paul Dirac exceeded Yang as stylists in physics.

[Tsinghua University @Tsinghua_Uni]

Prof. Chen Ning Yang, a world-renowned physicist, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor at Tsinghua University, and Honorary Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Tsinghua University, passed away in Beijing due to illness at the age of 103. His life stands as a timeless chapter in human history—one that shines not only for China but for the global community of thinkers and innovators. His legacy will live on forever.

[Sha Zhang (张厦) @Biogeochemx]

Our new paper out!
👉 A step toward dynamic, in-situ bioavailability assessment for precision agriculture and environmental risk evaluation.

#SoilScience #Rhizosphere #Bioavailability #Microdialysis #PlantUptake

https://t.co/dHPbBnwVTw

[Sha Zhang (张厦) @Biogeochemx]

“Microbial iron mining” turns soils into self-purifying biogeochemical reactors.
🔗 https://t.co/FqYTI2BQdW
#SoilScience #Microbiology #Biogeochemistry #NatureBasedSolutions #PollutionRemediation #Sustainability

[Sha Zhang (张厦) @Biogeochemx]

Water first why effective water management outweighs genetic drought tolerance in agricultural adaptation https://t.co/v2hFa6Y696

[Sha Zhang (张厦) @Biogeochemx]

If only these specks of light are observed, can one realize they are part of a whole?

[Sha Zhang (张厦) @Biogeochemx]

Snapshots of rural China: Tibetan herders with horses, hands-on rice threshing in central China, Hubei’s layered terraced fields, and adorable oxen in mountain villages—a journey through traditional life and landscapes.

[Sha Zhang (张厦) @Biogeochemx]

🧵 Thallium (Tl) is most mobile during redox fluctuations—not in fully oxic or anoxic conditions. Cycling environments (wetlands, soils) release Tl as Tl⁺, which mimics K⁺ and enters food chains. https://t.co/TAoLVF6V9G

[David Perell @david_perell]

Kobe Bryant spent 15 years writing every day because he wanted to become the next Walt Disney.

Now, Jimmy Soni is telling that story.

The first part of our conversation is Kobe’s secret obsession with writing. Then we got into why Michael Lewis once wrote under a pen name, why the publishing industry is broken, and why Jimmy loves writing with AI.

Highlights:

1. The world is a conspiracy designed to prevent you from writing.

2. Jimmy sees himself in a battle against that world to find four hours per day to do focused writing.

3. “I’m researching” is often an excuse not to write. People spend decades researching books they never write, and it’s a writers' job to come up with ways to get research done without falling down a black hole.

4. Using AI to write is like using a very sharp knife to cook. The tool might make it easier, but you still have to cook the meal.

5. If you can’t out-write the AI, what are you doing writing in the first-place?

6. Find a Model Book to serve as the "plaster cast" for the book you’re writing and study it obsessively. Jimmy wanted his book, “The Founders” to be like “The Everything Store” by Brad Stone, and read it more than 20 times to understand what made it so good.

7. People think that being a professional writer means going to a lot of cocktail parties. Nope... the reality is that the craft of writing involves showing up to work every day, putting away the distractions, and focusing for many, many hours. You go to bed early, you wake up early, you get your work done. Do it every day for months in a row and you’ll have a book.

8. A problem with traditional publishing is that the entire system is predicated on your book being a hit within the first two weeks. If it’s not, publishers largely give up and move onto something else.

9. What looks like a talent gap is often just a focus gap. Amateur writers severely underestimate just how much time and effort goes into great books.

10. A/B test the cover art for your book. It’s so easy, so cheap, and the saying is true: People judge a book by its cover.

11. Before Michael Lewis was “Michael Lewis,” he wrote under the pen name of Diana Bleecker because he was writing about Wall Street while working on Wall Street, and didn’t want people to know who he was.

12. Michael Lewis was an art history major at Princeton, and once recounted that a lot of Renaissance-era paintings look quite similar. But if you want to see the idiosyncrasies, look at the toenails. That’s where the artists would lose their steam or put in the most individuality, so they’re some of the most distinctive parts of the art. Many fields have an equivalent — a place where you can find hidden answers, if only you know where to look.

13. Ambition is fuel that can burn relatively clean for a little while, only to become dirty later on. Jimmy says: “For the true greats, the sustained motivation needs to come from something deeper. It needs to come from love. That’s the only sustaining force there is.”

14. Kobe built his own publishing company because he didn’t feel like the big publishing houses could deliver the level of quality he demanded.

15. Kobe once spent two weeks redesigning the barcode on one of his books because he wanted it to blend more fluidly with the back cover design (no traditional publisher would do something like this).

I've shared the full conversation with Jimmy Soni below. The first ~25 minutes are about Kobe Bryant. The rest is about a hodgepodge of other topics.

If you'd rather watch the full thing on YouTube or listen on Apple / Spotify, check out the links in the reply tweets.

[Agronomy, Crop, and Soil Science Societies @ASA_CSSA_SSSA]

New research from Ohio State University reveals that despite a 52% increase in corn yields over 45 years, optimal nitrogen rates haven't changed. Learn more about this incredible growth: https://t.co/xAo4XLRtmG
#CornResearch #NitrogenEfficiency #AgricultureInnovation

[The Innovation Geoscience @Innov_Geosci]

Floating iron biofilms as hidden barriers to methane emissions in wetlands. #TIC2025 #research #Geosciences

[Dr. Anne A Madden @AnneAMadden]

Iron oxidizing bacteria in puddles. Often mistaken for oil pollution, the tell-tale mark is how the shine acts like broken glass when disturbed. Now you don’t have to be sad if you think your estuary is polluted. It *might* just be normal, healthy bacteria doing its thing.

[Dr. Anne A Madden @AnneAMadden]

How to tell a bacteria made iron film on water from oil pollution? If you poke the film it will 'crack' if bacterial. #scicomm #urbanecology

[Sha Zhang (张厦) @Biogeochemx]

@AnneAMadden