Richard Nair
@richardnair.bsky.social
Plant ecophysiologist & biogeochemist | Asst Prof + RI-RS URF @ Trinity College Dublin (@psb-trinity.bsky.social) | Focus: functional ecology, C, water & nutrient cycles, roots, phenology & scaling tech | linktr.ee/richardnair 🌏🌿🫚🖥️
Interested in how plants work under global change and stress? We're running a EGU session again. We fiddle with the title every year but try and stay friendly. We welcome studies at lots of different scales and methods. Hopefully see you at #EGU26 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Interested in how plants work under global change and stress? We're running a EGU session again. We fiddle with the title every year but try and stay friendly. We welcome studies at lots of different scales and methods. Hopefully see you at #EGU26 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
My favourite aspect of our research is interdiscipinarity. Thinking about plant physiology, global change, machine learning, instrument building, then deep in irish winter mud as we install some more minirhizotron tubes with @ianpalk.bsky.social and @ryanbrennan.bsky.social Cool science coming up!
November 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
My favourite aspect of our research is interdiscipinarity. Thinking about plant physiology, global change, machine learning, instrument building, then deep in irish winter mud as we install some more minirhizotron tubes with @ianpalk.bsky.social and @ryanbrennan.bsky.social Cool science coming up!
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The deadline is fast approaching!
We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation
universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...
Deadline: November 14th.
We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation
universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...
Deadline: November 14th.
October 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The deadline is fast approaching!
We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation
universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...
Deadline: November 14th.
We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation
universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...
Deadline: November 14th.
I completely agree with this! It's so hard to understand the belowground and the world is big and variable so overall accuracy over a big sample may get us closer to useful truth. We need to be cautious we're actually making measurements to a reasonable standard but more precise =/= always better!
New on the Belowground blog: Perfection versus feasibility in belowground ecology plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/l...
Life Lessons in Root Identification
Commentary by S. Grady Welsh from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA. The photo above shows members of the Tumber-Dávila Lab learning to sieve roots and soil. Photo by Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dá…
plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I completely agree with this! It's so hard to understand the belowground and the world is big and variable so overall accuracy over a big sample may get us closer to useful truth. We need to be cautious we're actually making measurements to a reasonable standard but more precise =/= always better!
Phoebe (third from right) won a prize for her poster at @sebiology.bsky.social Plant.Ecophys. Summer School in Portugal last month! Thats the first prize @psb-trinity.bsky.social has ever won, on our first chance, from the first phd student! I'm very proud! 😀
October 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Phoebe (third from right) won a prize for her poster at @sebiology.bsky.social Plant.Ecophys. Summer School in Portugal last month! Thats the first prize @psb-trinity.bsky.social has ever won, on our first chance, from the first phd student! I'm very proud! 😀
My amazing research group @psb-trinity.bsky.social made their own bluesky account (@psb-trinity.bsky.social) as I'm not active enough!! Please give them a follow for info about things we're doing on #rootecology and #biogeochemistry here in Botany at @tcddublin.bsky.social 🌍🌿🌳
October 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
My amazing research group @psb-trinity.bsky.social made their own bluesky account (@psb-trinity.bsky.social) as I'm not active enough!! Please give them a follow for info about things we're doing on #rootecology and #biogeochemistry here in Botany at @tcddublin.bsky.social 🌍🌿🌳
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It seems unbelievable that some journals still keep digitized versions of journal articles from over a hundred years ago *paywalled*!
September 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
It seems unbelievable that some journals still keep digitized versions of journal articles from over a hundred years ago *paywalled*!
🌎 🤖 💻 ☘️🌳 Interested in the intersection between #ecosystem #ecology and tech development? We're still looking for a research assistant to help with our projects about how roots - the 'hidden half' of plants - work here at Trinity College Dublin. Find the job ad here: www.tcd.ie/botany/vacan...
Vacancies - Botany | Trinity College Dublin
www.tcd.ie
July 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
🌎 🤖 💻 ☘️🌳 Interested in the intersection between #ecosystem #ecology and tech development? We're still looking for a research assistant to help with our projects about how roots - the 'hidden half' of plants - work here at Trinity College Dublin. Find the job ad here: www.tcd.ie/botany/vacan...
Nice to be back in Edinburgh this week for #rhizosphere7. Now I'm full of interesting ideas, met lots of new and old #root and #soil friends, and even seen the inside of the building I graduated in (it was being renovated back then and full of scaffolding). Super worth it 🌱
June 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Nice to be back in Edinburgh this week for #rhizosphere7. Now I'm full of interesting ideas, met lots of new and old #root and #soil friends, and even seen the inside of the building I graduated in (it was being renovated back then and full of scaffolding). Super worth it 🌱
Last minute twist on these positions: they are available for EVERYONE, not just EU nationals 🎉 Closing date is tomorrow on some adverts (I won't be able to find and fix them) but we will consider late applications through to early next week (Monday 16th) #roots #rootecolology #biogeochemistry #phd
June 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Last minute twist on these positions: they are available for EVERYONE, not just EU nationals 🎉 Closing date is tomorrow on some adverts (I won't be able to find and fix them) but we will consider late applications through to early next week (Monday 16th) #roots #rootecolology #biogeochemistry #phd
A little less than a week left to apply for these positions! #roots #rootecolology #biogeochemistry #phd
⏰ I’m advertising not 1️⃣ but 3️⃣ positions!⏰, one RA and two #PhD s (fully funded 4 year EU/UK fees) as part of my team at @tcddublin.bsky.social looking at how roots work in natural ecosystems and influence greenhouse gas fluxes 🌏 🍃 🌲 💻
June 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
A little less than a week left to apply for these positions! #roots #rootecolology #biogeochemistry #phd
a bittersweet final day for the first substantial Plant-Soil group @tcddublin.bsky.social Botany alumnus. Nadja has gone west like the elves to start a masters in Canada. We're lessened without her. Its strange to be the boss here after being on the other side before!
May 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
a bittersweet final day for the first substantial Plant-Soil group @tcddublin.bsky.social Botany alumnus. Nadja has gone west like the elves to start a masters in Canada. We're lessened without her. Its strange to be the boss here after being on the other side before!
#roots #phdposition #rootecology #phd #computervision
how can we solve the unique challenges of super-high frequency field root imagery for climate change understanding? this phd will tackle this on a cross-domain project! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
how can we solve the unique challenges of super-high frequency field root imagery for climate change understanding? this phd will tackle this on a cross-domain project! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
May 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
#roots #phdposition #rootecology #phd #computervision
how can we solve the unique challenges of super-high frequency field root imagery for climate change understanding? this phd will tackle this on a cross-domain project! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
how can we solve the unique challenges of super-high frequency field root imagery for climate change understanding? this phd will tackle this on a cross-domain project! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#roots #phdposition #rootecology #phd
can we improve understanding of the 2nd biggest terrestrial C flux by running a root camera really fast and measuring the soil respiration on top of it? its a bit more complicated than that, but thats the big question in this PhD www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
can we improve understanding of the 2nd biggest terrestrial C flux by running a root camera really fast and measuring the soil respiration on top of it? its a bit more complicated than that, but thats the big question in this PhD www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
May 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
#roots #phdposition #rootecology #phd
can we improve understanding of the 2nd biggest terrestrial C flux by running a root camera really fast and measuring the soil respiration on top of it? its a bit more complicated than that, but thats the big question in this PhD www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
can we improve understanding of the 2nd biggest terrestrial C flux by running a root camera really fast and measuring the soil respiration on top of it? its a bit more complicated than that, but thats the big question in this PhD www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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⏰ I’m advertising not 1️⃣ but 3️⃣ positions!⏰, one RA and two #PhD s (fully funded 4 year EU/UK fees) as part of my team at @tcddublin.bsky.social looking at how roots work in natural ecosystems and influence greenhouse gas fluxes 🌏 🍃 🌲 💻
May 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
⏰ I’m advertising not 1️⃣ but 3️⃣ positions!⏰, one RA and two #PhD s (fully funded 4 year EU/UK fees) as part of my team at @tcddublin.bsky.social looking at how roots work in natural ecosystems and influence greenhouse gas fluxes 🌏 🍃 🌲 💻
⏰ I’m advertising not 1️⃣ but 3️⃣ positions!⏰, one RA and two #PhD s (fully funded 4 year EU/UK fees) as part of my team at @tcddublin.bsky.social looking at how roots work in natural ecosystems and influence greenhouse gas fluxes 🌏 🍃 🌲 💻
May 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
⏰ I’m advertising not 1️⃣ but 3️⃣ positions!⏰, one RA and two #PhD s (fully funded 4 year EU/UK fees) as part of my team at @tcddublin.bsky.social looking at how roots work in natural ecosystems and influence greenhouse gas fluxes 🌏 🍃 🌲 💻
check out our new review paper about how to put all the stuff below the leaves together to understand whole ecosystem phenology 🌿🌏🌳 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Below the leaves: Integrating above‐ and below‐ground phenology for earth‐system predictability
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
doi.org
April 29, 2025 at 7:14 AM
check out our new review paper about how to put all the stuff below the leaves together to understand whole ecosystem phenology 🌿🌏🌳 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
There's still time to submit #EGU25!
we're back again with our EGU session on vegetation responses to global change, in Vienna next year at #EGU25! We like submissions at different scales. Hope to see you there (with an abstract submitted 😜) meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
January 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
There's still time to submit #EGU25!
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Two important updates for our session: 1) wonderful "vegetation response examples" (Background images) updated by Camille Abadie and 2) wonderful keynote speaker in our session: Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social . Very looking forward 😃🎊🥂:
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
December 16, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Two important updates for our session: 1) wonderful "vegetation response examples" (Background images) updated by Camille Abadie and 2) wonderful keynote speaker in our session: Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social . Very looking forward 😃🎊🥂:
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
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I'm hiring! 2+2 year postdoc position on forecasting plant defence and resilience to pathogens.
Why are some plants better at defending themselves and can we model it? What role does the environment play? And how can we use all the data we have?
Deadline 13/01.
plantecomodelling.org/vacancies 🧪🌏🌾
Why are some plants better at defending themselves and can we model it? What role does the environment play? And how can we use all the data we have?
Deadline 13/01.
plantecomodelling.org/vacancies 🧪🌏🌾
Plant Ecology Modelling group - Vacancies
Openings
plantecomodelling.org
December 4, 2024 at 5:28 PM
I'm hiring! 2+2 year postdoc position on forecasting plant defence and resilience to pathogens.
Why are some plants better at defending themselves and can we model it? What role does the environment play? And how can we use all the data we have?
Deadline 13/01.
plantecomodelling.org/vacancies 🧪🌏🌾
Why are some plants better at defending themselves and can we model it? What role does the environment play? And how can we use all the data we have?
Deadline 13/01.
plantecomodelling.org/vacancies 🧪🌏🌾
we're back again with our EGU session on vegetation responses to global change, in Vienna next year at #EGU25! We like submissions at different scales. Hope to see you there (with an abstract submitted 😜) meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
December 3, 2024 at 4:01 PM
we're back again with our EGU session on vegetation responses to global change, in Vienna next year at #EGU25! We like submissions at different scales. Hope to see you there (with an abstract submitted 😜) meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
I made a Root Scientists Starter Pack go.bsky.app/46hHLm3! Let me know in the comments or DM if you'd like to be added #roots #rootscientists
November 16, 2024 at 6:38 PM
I made a Root Scientists Starter Pack go.bsky.app/46hHLm3! Let me know in the comments or DM if you'd like to be added #roots #rootscientists
Is there a root scientists list that I can't find? Should I make one?
November 15, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Is there a root scientists list that I can't find? Should I make one?
big milestone for the Plant-Soil Function group at Trinity today as Nadja baked our first ever research cake from the #RootCheck Research Ireland #NationalChallengeFund
#NextGenerationEU project (soil corable chocolate cake)
#NextGenerationEU project (soil corable chocolate cake)
October 18, 2024 at 11:28 AM
big milestone for the Plant-Soil Function group at Trinity today as Nadja baked our first ever research cake from the #RootCheck Research Ireland #NationalChallengeFund
#NextGenerationEU project (soil corable chocolate cake)
#NextGenerationEU project (soil corable chocolate cake)
📢📢full funded (EU-UK) PhD project with me at Trinity College Dublin doing cutting edge stuff with automated root measurements to understand ecosystem greenhouse gas fluxes 🌍🌿🌳💻: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #roots #phdposition #rootecology
September 16, 2024 at 4:12 PM
📢📢full funded (EU-UK) PhD project with me at Trinity College Dublin doing cutting edge stuff with automated root measurements to understand ecosystem greenhouse gas fluxes 🌍🌿🌳💻: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #roots #phdposition #rootecology