Barries to big team science includes misaligned professional incentives, lack of Global South inclusion, and lack of funding. Yet big grassroots efforts exist, it’s unclear what makes these succeed. Coles et al 2022 https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00150-2 #TeamScience #HowToScience #SciLit

I suspect that these successful groups were able to build community around a shared mission. Yes funding, rewards, and diversity makes this hard. And solving these would not be sufficient to create successful collaborations.

Reanalysis of linear relationship between soil water content and hetertrophic respiration still holds 25 years later. The orginal highly cited paper shows that you can new quite anticipate how your work will be used in the future and data-regret from not acrhiving your studies (published or not) can be strong. Cook and Orchard 2007 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2007.12.012 #HowToScience #SoilCarbonCycling #LandCarbonModel

What do we should we prioritize to do better #synthesis #research in #ecology & #environmentalScience? => DEIJ, Human & Natural Systems, Actionable & use-inspired science, scale, generality, complexity & resilience, and predictability. To do this we need to expand participation, #data, and knowledge.

Halpern etal 2023 https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.4342 (NCEAS workshop output)

#ScienceLiterature #HowToScience

[[Personal note: I like the focus here on participation, governance, and co-creation!]]

The story of a virtual conference during #COVID, told as a fairytale: Fisher etal 2020 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JG006148 #ScientificLiterature #HowToScience