soil ecologist, Asst Prof @TAMU, mom, pilot, & the good twin. orcid.org/0000-0003-1753… (she/her/hers) Living on Sana and Tonkawa Land
Joined December 2014
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21 Apr 2020
When you’re the kindergartener of a #soilscientist and have to illustrate your favorite state symbol, you pick the state #soil, Houston Black clay (Fine, smectitic, thermic Udic Haplusterts) #Vertisol (w. some artistic license in # of rocks) #SoilsAreBeautiful #Slickensides
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17 Sep 2025
Virtual MSE seminar next week, "Healthy Soils: Our Hope for a Warming World", presented by Dr. Kristen DeAngelis, PhD
Sept 24, 2025 12:00 EDT, followed a virtual coffee hour!
Registration is free, held on zoom:
sueishaqlab.org/2025/09/17/m…
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A. Peyton Smith retweeted
17 Sep 2025
📣GSBI Speaks is back in ONE WEEK! Join us to learn how AI is being used to measure soil biodiversity 🤖💡🦠
September 24, 2025, 6 MDT, 8 EDT, 13 BST, 14 CEST
Register here:
zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
Learn more here:
globalsoilbiodiversity.org/w…
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A. Peyton Smith retweeted
23 Jul 2025
Can microbes and organic matter unlock soil fertility in Martian regolith — even in orbit?
#SpaceAgriculture #BarleyInOrbit #JaguarSpace #ConstellationOfChange #TexasAM #MartianRegolith #ISSExperiment #SustainableExploration
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10 Dec 2024
My department is hiring a fungal biologist! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01990 #jobs #AcademicTwitter #fungi #mushrooms
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A. Peyton Smith retweeted
10 Dec 2024
Job alert! We are hiring a field-based research scientist for our soil research farm in Colorado. #SoilHealth
Join our amazing team of soil scientists!
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Syn…
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1 Mar 2024
Soil DNA data from 885 samples across 🇪🇺 are freely available on @EU_ScienceHub soil data centre🧬🤎
Bacteria and fungi (16S & ITS)🦠🍄esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/conte…
Eukaryotes (18S)🪱esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/conte…
Interested in collaborating? Get in touch🙂
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1 Mar 2024
I have an immediate postdoc opening on soil carbon cycling in ag systems.
Click the link below for more details. Before applying, please make sure your expertise aligns well with the position requirements. Unmatching applications will not be considered.
ut.taleo.net/careersection/u…
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22 Feb 2024
So sorry to hear of Dr. Berlyn’s passing. I hope his soul is resting in peace surrounded by boreal trees 🌲
environment.yale.edu/news/ar…
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7 Feb 2024
A (slightly late) thread on our new paper in @GlobalChangeBio onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… Recent increases in #methane at 22 boreal and temperate #wetlands.
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31 Jan 2024
Congratulations @NithyaRajan, for having been named the Director of Greenhouse Gas Emissions @txresearch! tinyurl.com/kn33v98z
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31 Jan 2024
Extended due date - Feb5! Please RT. Apply for our #CostaRica #ecology REU (May27-Aug2) #UndergradResearch @NSF @TAMU @aglifesciences @500womensci @WomenInSoilEco tx.ag/CRREU24App
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17 Jan 2024
10 amazing scientists in STEM who happen to be women LIST! And it’s 12 because I just got excited and I’m not good at rules @brookebosborne @PhillipsMichala @LydzaBaz @Fingdinger @coleoptara @DianaWallSoil @sashajwright @frantecol @KHayhoe @aaberhe @AntoninkaAnita @BalaChaudhary
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3 Jan 2024
Announcing #WARR 2024!
Join an extraordinary group of women leading the way in #River research on #droughts #floods #wildfires #GHG #water #quality more
Download a pdf flyer #WARR website: cee.psu.edu/events/women-adv…
Register once for all talks in 2024: psu.zoom.us/meeting/register…
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A. Peyton Smith retweeted
8 Jan 2024
Do you geek out about active bacteria? Secretly love the technical thrill of translating cutting-edge techniques to a new system?
We have a NEW postdoc post in Soil Microbiome Activity, open immediately
shorturl.at/fyBCY
@CNRSecologie @EMG_Lyon @ESAMicrobe @ecomicrolyon
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A. Peyton Smith retweeted
28 Dec 2023
We are looking for graduate students and postdocs who could benefit from intense exposure to all-things-microbial at the 2024 Microbial Diversity Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA.
Consider applying / reposting.
Apps due soon.
mbl.edu/education/advanced-r…
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I made a very very simple soil profile plotter.
You can check it at: sites.google.com/view/soilpr…
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A. Peyton Smith retweeted
22 Dec 2023
We have a new postdoctoral position @ORNLBio_Env open on the SPRUCE project (mnspruce.ornl.gov). Retweet and help me spread the word far and wide or apply to join our team here! jobs.ornl.gov/job-invite/122…
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20 Dec 2023
Our Costa Rica #REU #ecology #soil #hydrology #undergradresearch program is accepting applications. Please RT! Our website is down, so please access the application site here:
tamu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/…
@NSF @TAMU @tamuglobal @WomenInSoilEco
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