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and note that the rooibos also has a new EAN 5 063270 101612. This is the exact equivalent of EAN 87 11327 5143 48 that is not sold anymore.

Sad news: Lipton is not producing the indonesian sencha anymore. If you want a measure of mass loss using a standardised material, we would recommend Japanese sencha (EAN 5063 2701 01797), but please do *NOT* calculate k and S with this tea.

@JuliaSoilsister using mass loss is still an option, and we still are thinking of a way to continue using the model of k an S, but that may need more testing.

@TeaBagIndex Goodness! I still have several boxes in my pantry from when I used to do this with students. But I felt the switch to cellulose bags made this index less reliable already. Any alternative in development?

Rooibos has a new EAN *5 063270 101612*. This is the exact equivalent of EAN 87 11327 5143 48 that is not sold anymore. The production location has moved which may mean a broader distribution across europe.

@Amit_Kumar_PhD @joana_bergmann @CarolynGorres @ykuzyakov And besides, yes, if you find more widely available alternatives, please let us know. We couldn't find any when asked the crowd of 50 globally spread researchers in our ring test comparing woven, non woven and plant based bags.

@joana_bergmann @CarolynGorres @ykuzyakov @TeaBagIndex ?? I believe that having a more commonly available material (that is well characterized) should be the way forward. It’s really hard to get the recommended teas from @TeaBagIndex. However, it’ll complicate the ongoing initiatives with Lipton tea.

@Amit_Kumar_PhD @joana_bergmann @CarolynGorres @ykuzyakov Hi! We will continue to collect data from Japanese sencha. Most likely we will not use it to calculate k and S, but work with mass loss instead. Tea bags still provide an alternative if you are looking for standardised material.

@TeaBagIndex @joana_bergmann @CarolynGorres @ykuzyakov Yeah. Then How can one contribute with their data to the TBI database? Finding alternative easy-to-access material for such initiatives is key. I gave up on this idea of TBI after not being able to get the right type of tea. :/

Our paper is out! Read all about global decomposition patterns! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

AI created a picture of a tea bag researcher. It even won a price at the photo-competition on AI-generated images at the KBC-days of Umeå University :) (DALL.E)

Lind et al., 2022 gave us an interesting perspective on our method so we wrote a reply. Hope it inspires you too. dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1…

The program of the TBI symposium is now online! Register now (or latest monday) on teatime4science.org/symposium

In the keynote, François-Xavier will discuss how the relative importance of decomposition drivers depends on the choice of decomposing material, and explore the role of soil animals on decomposition beyond their contribution to litter mass loss in litterbags. Register to join!

A few more days to register for our symposium at teatime4science.org/Symposium/. Looking forward to the keynote of François-Xavier Joly @FxJoly entitled: 'Elucidating the drivers and mechanisms of plant litter decomposition'

Take tea break and register for the online TBI symposium 27th of March, 8:30CET! teatime4science.org/Symposium/

It will be an online event :)

SAVE THE DATE: A new TBI symposium on the way: 27 March 8:30 CET. Including a keynote by François-Xavier Joly, Flash-talks about your decomp-studies, and a panel discussion on the don'ts of TBI. Registration opens soon.

Any fungi people know what this yellow growth is? We buried some tea bags (@TeaBagIndex) to measure decomposition in an Indonesian peat swamp forest, after 3 months - this is what we pulled out! #fungi #peat #gambut #jamur

@EJPSOIL T2.4.6: We encourage all soil citizen science project coordinators to fill in the questionnaire by 15.10.22: askallo.com/s/EJP-Soil We aim to synthesise citizen science approaches used in agricultural soils in EU, led by AGES and INRAE.

For those of you that have teabag data published on ZENODO, we have created a TBIcommunity there. You can link your (existing) dataset to the tea bag index, or upload new ones zenodo.org/deposit/new?c=… and increase visiblity

@Mangle_Blanco @UmeaUniversity @FCENUdeA Great to hear, just in time!

#TBI #Ringtest Tea bags finally crossed the Atlantic Ocean. A long trip from Sweden @UmeaUniversity to Colombia @FCENUdeA. A few extra days dealing with customs clearance. Now ready to schedule fieldwork in the Caribbean tropical dry forest biome. To be matched with #BolTéX