Kimber Moreland, Ph.D.

Join our EGU session on soil to bedrock systems. We are bringing together research on deep biogeochemistry, hydrology, geophysics, carbon cycling, and whole-profile soil processes. Submit your work and help advance whole soil science. #EGU2026 #soils #biogeoscience #earthscience

@wildflowerstarr Purity of Crystalline waters, aftercare 9: fear, all ones dealing with interdimensional energies, finding your feet, at the tree of time, door of the gods, and living the new frequencies. Aftercare 9 and the living the new frequencies impacted me the most.

Tracks I’ve revisited during the silent immersion- dragon rider, dragon quest, dragon force, and interdimensional exit. What about you?

Bless these boys

@OracleGirlTeam Thank you so much for this opportunity. I can imagine creating this platform and structure at first will be a great challenge. For me I would like some structure. Some ideas could be five minute intro silence together and then some topics (pre vetted) and brought up to explore

Our first OG Community live chat session has just ended. We’d love to hear your thoughts! How can we make the next event even better? (Don’t forget, we meet again at midnight UTC.)

@CalleyBonya15 This does such an epic job capturing identities beings broken up.

While listening to “Getting past father issues” it’s called “Identity disappearing” 🐲❤️🌹

@robinmonotti This sucks. I am so sorry :(

Pray for the family farm here today. Orchard Organic Farm: The worst day has come. We had security guards positioned on both entrances to the farm overnight. Yesterday, at least a dozen people in hazmat suits and huge helmets were setting up the cull equipment and Jerry spent hours with the government vet counting every chicken with no signs of disease (those are the ones we get compensation for). I find this slightly ludicrous as we keep meticulous records which clearly show the number of birds in each house with any losses  recorded. The chickens also get counted again as they are culled. Over 4,000 hens show absolutely no signs of disease whatsoever and are positioned well away from the infected house. All birds will still be culled. There is no quarantine option. We cannot restock for 12 months by which time we will have lost all our customers. There is an option to go through a secondary cleaning and disinfection process but this is extraordinarily expensive and out of our reach. Despite trying very hard, it is nigh on impossible to get affordable insurance for avian flu. The cost of insurance would have made our business completely unviable. No-one wants to insure organic laying hens due to the freedom they are afforded and therefore the greater risk of being in contact with wild birds. We have to shoulder the cost of incinerating £7,000 of eggs which can't be sold and disposing of £5,000 of chicken feed which has to remain in the farm. Tomorrow we will wake up with empty fields and all our 'girls' will be gone. The government has no interest whatsoever in what happens to us now, other than making sure we follow their post cull rules for the year ahead. We have no idea what the future holds for us now. After the most gruelling and haunting week of our lives at Orchard Organic Farm we will be taking some time to decide on the best way forward and Jerry will be looking for a job. Thank-you to everyone for the wonderful messages of support. We have felt very loved and we are more grateful than you can ever imagine. Emma

@samdknowlton Do you have good sources for the reduction of water use? Is this in specific crops?

Silicon is the 2nd most abundant mineral in Earth’s crust, yet it's widely underutilized in agriculture and crop nutrition. Silicon supplementation can reduce pesticide reliance by 30–50% even replacing them is some cases while improving crop yields and vigor. Here's how:

@armankhon Why did you quit? Are you feeling better?

I quit my $330k engineering job at TikTok. Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban. Ask Me Anything.

There are fungi at Chernobyl that EAT radiation and nuclear fallout – and that’s only the start of this wild story 🍄☢️ Buckle up for a wild thread about radioactive boars, fungal space suits, radiation-detecting fungi, black frogs and a good dose of hope! 🧵

Here’s my research tip: If you’re in a senior role, support PhD students and early career academics as much as possible. Include them on publications. Invite them to be part of grants. Pay them to deliver guest lectures. We can all take steps to make academia more supportive and kind. #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

The power of cuddling💕

Please apply! Contact me if interested in doing internship on soils/biogeochemistry/disturbances @ORNLBio_Env #soils

@agronomommy @FromPhDtoLife Thank you so much for your response. Would you recommend working with someone for soils?

@agronomommy @FromPhDtoLife What was the AAAS fellowship like? I was thinking of applying

Tell us about your non-linear, non-obvious career paths, PhDs. And go!

@ThePhDPlace You are far more than your PhD. Your identity is not your degree

What piece of advice would you give to yourself on day one of your PhD?

@wayneriekhof Magnetic sensing? Structural integrity?

Again and again, like 95% of biological structures adopt a right handed helical structure. But…why?

@drewhabney Is this like your ground hog day in Georgia?

@RLybrand629 @ucdavis @ucdavisCAES @UCDavisResearch @MarsCuriosity @IbisCycles That’s wonderful news! You put in so much time and effort. May you cherish this moment and take some time to celebrate you

I officially earned tenure @ucdavis!!!! Many thanks to my spouse, parents, family, friends, students, colleagues, letter writers, & mentors for the endless support! Special thanks to Curiosity (#MTB bike named after the Mars rover) for the rides & reminders to #RideMoreWorkLess.

Deep #soil sampling needed! Sampling only topsoil ignores 20 % of agricultural management effects on SOC stocks. Mineral #Nitrogen fertilisation had the greatest effect on subsoil organic #carbon stocks. None of the agri measures had effects below 50 cm. #ab0015" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

As a professor, pursue the careers of your PhD students and postdocs instead of pursuing your own. I know it may sound strange and even provocative. But in fact it is how it’s supposed to be. Unfortunately, a personal gain is the biggest motivation for many professors. More publications, more awards, more invited talks… Why? In addition to personal recognition, it can result in more funding and higher salaries (especially in the U.S.). Many PIs say that their personal growth also helps their students get a better visibility. Plus, more funding brings in more students, which is (kind of) “great” for those students. Others will say that their “tenure requirements are too demanding” and if they stop focusing on personal gain, they will be denied tenure. In either case, I want you to think about the following: 1. When we focus on personal achievements, we lose track of the wellbeing and personal preferences of team members. Although it often feels like we still track it, in fact we become far less efficient at it. Students' progress and personal development are impeded. Their career opportunities become less diverse or even missed. 2. Concentrating too much funding in one big lab is NOT a good idea because it leads to PhD students receiving far less mentorship and research advising (than in smaller labs). 3. Tenure requirements often look intimidating to young professors. However, in reality, very few professors are denied tenure. Why? First, because any university invest big resources into TT professors and don’t want get rid of them without a big reason. Second, because departments often exaggerate the tenure challenges to ensure their young hires are “hard-working faculties”. Many PIs think I am too idealistic and propose unrealistic ideas. And a lot of people will never agree with this post. Even myself, I can easily come up with bitter criticism over it. However, idealism is among the biggest driving forces. It can drive you through challenging times and help improve. In either case, I want you to think about the following: 1. When we focus on personal achievements, we lose track of the wellbeing and personal preferences of team members. Although it often feels like we still track it, in fact we become far less efficient at it. Students' progress and personal development are impeded. Their career opportunities become less diverse or even missed. 2. Concentrating too much funding in one big lab is NOT a good idea because it leads to PhD students receiving far less mentorship and research advising (than in smaller labs). 3. Tenure requirements often look intimidating to young professors. However, in reality, very few professors are denied tenure. Why? First, because any university invest big resources into TT professors and don’t want get rid of them without a big reason. Second, because departments often exaggerate the tenure challenges to ensure their young hires are “hard-working faculties”. My message is: If we all pursue the careers of your students/postdocs in the first place, this shift in priorities will make academia a much better world to live in. I see an increasing number of faculties trying to genuinely care for their team members, in all countries and academic environments. It is all possible. Just do it. Make science better. Oh, and don’t forget:  Growth of your team members = Growth of yourself. #AcademicTwitter #research #phdlife