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Manuscript submission day! "Lines in the landscape: the underappreciated importance of ditches as diverse ecosystems" An epic effort from 49 authors. Looking forward to seeing this interdisciplinary paper in the wild.

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I've thought about fish and biogeochemistry a lot. I have never thought about tadpoles and biogeochemistry before. This is neat. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Great to see peatlands featuring here.

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If anyone from former #PeatTwitter or in the peatlands feed runs a TOC-L and autosampler, and has had issues with this specific overflow/drain outlet backing up for no apparent reason, please let me know and if there was a cause for it

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Well, this is a cool new (old!) paper for the BlueSky peat community: "Chemical Studies of Some Irish Bogs: A Newly Discovered Manuscript by Hugo Sjörs and Eville Gorham" mires-and-peat.scholasticahq.com/article/1296...

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More Fenland ditch GHG sampling today with @tksilver.bsky.social for the Defra-funded Lowland Peat Project 3. Lots of mud today, and sadly no "nice" ditches; just bleak & dismal.

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A long day in the East Anglian Fens with @tksilver.bsky.social taking samples of ditch greenhouse gases for the Defra-funded Lowland Peat Project 3.

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The Japanese Garden, Tatton Park

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Ready for an afternoon WFH running samples through the Microportable GHG Analyser

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There's a postdoc in peatland biogeochemistry advertised on our project by Dolly Kothawala and Gustaf Granath at Uppsala University. I can highly recommend Uppsala as a place to live and work. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

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Against my better judgement I submitted a scholarship manuscript to an MDPI journal. 3 rounds of review, 6 reviewers + eventually "accept after minor revisions". After the revisions I got a one line rejection from the editor. Baffling and opaque. Guess I learned my lesson...

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Feeling very spring-like in the morning sunshine at Mere Sands Wood today

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This morning I was back at SLU Uppsala for project meetings, talking agricultural streams (or are they ditches?) and greenhouse gases. Then, an escape for a wander along the shores of Ekoln to one of my favourite viewpoints.

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Our workshop finished at lunch, so I managed a few hours walking the forests round Uppsala. It currently feels more like November here.

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At Krusenberg Herrgård for two days of workshops about our project wetland project PUDDLE-JUMP. Here's Martyn Futter, PI, giving an overview. Water storage, biodiversity, GHGs, eutrophication, citizen science, public perceptions, and policy all discussed.

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Hello Stockholm! Back in Sweden for a few days of project meetings. Looking forward to catching up with colleagues and talking wetlands, waterbodies and biogeochemistry.

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What are the greenhouse gas emissions savings associated with paludiculture? As part of a DEFRA fellowship I had a go at trying to answer this question and create an emission factor for Paludiculture in the England! Thanks to all who contributed👇 www.paludiculture.org.uk/post/what-ar...

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Fantastic Friday news! Our new paper led by @tksilver.bsky.social accepted in Global Change Biology: "The importance of ditches and canals in global inland water CO2 and N2O budgets" An all-star cast of authors including @jackiewebb.bsky.social and many others not (yet) on Blue Sky.

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I don't really get why some papers have "[project team]" in the author list. If they contributed, why not actually list individual names? Do people think their paper is somehow diminished by adding more authors?

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Back to North Wales with PhD student Laura to take methane samples from the chambers we left overnight on our bog pools.

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On the Migneint blanket bog in North Wales today, fieldworking with my PhD student Laura Baugh, and joined by Rachel Harvey of Eryri National Park. A cold and windy day for some pool GHG work. Let's hope the chambers survive the night.

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Phew, big grant proposal submitted. Taken loads of effort this one - finessing the science + jumping through internal peer review. Loads of hard work done by my co-Is too. I will be ecstatic if this gets funded, but for now I'm celebrating simply getting it out of the door.

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Getting my weekend fix of ponds and ditches at @nationaltrust.bsky.social Dunham Massey

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Enjoyed a fantastic whisk(e)y tasting at Hopscotch Liverpool last night

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For those of us studying northern wetlands, we often spend most of our time there in the summer. But they are just as beautiful in wintertime! Share your winter wetland photos and let us know something about where the photo was taken!

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New paper alert! Here we examine the geomorphic effects on carbon dynamics in a saltmarsh system, showing clear differences between eroding and prograding regions. Excellent first first-author paper by Dr. lea Stolpmann. doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

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I have a two year postdoc position in freshwater biodiversity and extreme evens open in my lab. Please share and apply! www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

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Currently trying to get a single-author paper published. Now at 6 (!) reviewers. Several have objected to the use of "I". Style shouldn't be dictated by reviewers; it should be author's discretion if journal guidelines permit. But can we drop this obsession with avoiding "I"?

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Excited to finally announce our new project, funded by Water4All Partnership and led by @hydrokoch.bsky.social. Looking forward to new collaborations and lots of peaty research.

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My tiny garden pond, now in full winter mode.

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Shockingly organised this year - submitted my EGU abstract a whole week before the deadline.

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Christmas day publication (a first for me!) on how industrial smelters' impact hydrophysical peat properties and the implications for wildfires, restoration, and drought! A great collab with @peatofmind.bsky.social , @gregverkaik.bsky.social , and others! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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One year since I bought a house. It's taken a while but I finally have carpet and a desk in the spare room. Still lots to sort out (including an adjustable standing desk) but at last I can work and enjoy the view across the fields.

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Signs of spring at @nationaltrust.bsky.social Speke Hall and Rufford Old Hall this weekend.

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Invited to review a paper on 27th Dec. Invite revoked at 6am on 3rd Jan. Funnily enough I've been on a Christmas break, not looking at my email. I get these are automated, but does no one think it might be an idea to add in some extra time to the system this time of year?

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A New Year's Eve roaming the bleak moors of the Western Pennines. Strong winds and, eventually, torrential rain, but rewarding to be out regardless.

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New paper with SLU colleagues in which we estimate national CH4 emissions from Swedish reservoirs, ditches and constructed ponds. Spoiler: the ditches win. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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