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Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Every shortcoming of renewables, whether real or made-up, gets attributed to the technology by name. Every shortcoming that is very specific to fossil fuels is called an "energy" problem, without that attribution. Dear leaders, dear media, all we ask for is a little bit of analytical clarity.

Synthetic Soils for Ecological and Synthetic Biology Applications #FEMSMicrobiolRev @femsjournals.bsky.social from Ilenne Del Valle Kessra academic.oup.com/femsre/advan...

I love how they explicitly state 'ISME Host Microbe will publish articles on: ...Microbiome studies that aim to obtain causal evidence of observed phenomena'. 💚 —>💙

🚜 Perspektiven für die #Landwirtschaft von morgen: Am 17. März 2026 eröffnen wir im Futurium Berlin das Innovationszentrum für Agrarsystemtransformation (IAT). Table.Briefings ist unser Medienpartner. ✒️ Zum Testabo der Briefings Agrifood.Table & Climate.Table: table.media/aktion/z...#Landwirtschaft

“we are trapping 21st-century minds inside 19th-century academic hierarchies.” This essay gets a lot right about problems with German science. I would add that the hierarchies and precarious contracts lead also to systemic abuse and scientific misconduct. open.substack.com/pub/realimag...

"...may not reflect biological simplicity, but fundamental limits of statistical detection." ❤️❤️❤️

🗓️Next Tuesday our seminar speaker is Jonathan Levine (Princeton) speaking on: ⭐Rapid evolution and species coexistence: from theory to empirical evidence in an orchard fly system⭐ Times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... (NB Europe time shift⏰🌍) Open Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/ See you there!

This! 👇

Someone finally said it! :)

I've created this Starter Pack to help those with an interest in all things #soil find inspiring people, organisations, and platforms that regularly post content on #SoilScience, #SoilManagement, and #SoilGovernance. 🌱🧑🏻‍🌾🌾 Let me know if you wish to be added. go.bsky.app/HADDT8P

Extremely important article! "Losses are not just the result of hazards, but of weakened system capacity. Static risk estimates systematically underestimate future impacts when they ignore how damage today shapes capacity tomorrow." #resilience nationalpreparednesscommission.uk/publications...

I think this paper will be a game-changer for studying microbiome function. Matthew Schmitt and I found that a simple neural network, when trained on paired sequencing and functional data, can infer functional group structure directly from data. Pls read our preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Correspondence ✍️ "Demonstrations of reproducibility are not reproducibility" www.nature.com/articles/s41... Gómez-Llano & De Lisle argue that many recent measures adopted to address replicability and reproducibility in science may actually undermine these efforts. Free to read: rdcu.be/e6A99

If you are interested in wetlands, than this is a place for you.

And a nice accessible write up of the paper scienmag.com/from-correla...

NEW PAPER🚨Ecological Feedbacks in the Earth System🌍We present an urgent call to the scientific community for the rapid development of understanding of ecological feedbacks and integrated ecosystem—Earth system research 🌐🧪 @imperiallifesci.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Shout out to Joli Jensen for writing this engaging book about academic writing. Lots of insights that everybody knows already but which we all need to keep relearning, in the hope of more days and weeks where our knowing & doing are better squared #academicsky press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Why methane surged in the atmosphere during the early 2020s www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #jcampubs

I was never too interested in fashion. Then I followed derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social‬ ;)

Dear colleagues, we are searching for candidates to fill a Full W3 Professorship for Plant #Ecology at the University of Regensburg, Germany. For details, see www.nature.com/naturecareer... 🌐 🌎 #AcademicJobs

This is an amazing tool to teach and learn about causal inference.

🚨 Hiring Alert! 🚨My lab at Institut Pasteur is recruiting several Postdocs! We have exciting open projects in: 🦠 Synthetic Biology and🛡️ Bacterial Immunity. Come do great science with us in the middle of Paris! 🇫🇷🥐 research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

Good words „Science describes accurately from outside; poetry describes accurately from inside. Both celebrate what they describe. We need the languages of both to save us from stockpiling endless “information” that fails to inform our ignorance or our irresponsibility.“ Ursula K. Le Guin

Environmental drivers can shift in effect direction when acting in concert with other factors open.substack.com/pub/matthias...

Erklärt mir bitte noch einmal, warum X in der EU noch immer nicht verboten ist. Und warum viele PolitikerInnen dort noch immer aktiv sind. Ich habe da Verständnisprobleme.

i wish i could still buy things at the prices i used to complain about

🌍 The EU is entering a decisive phase in implementing the #NRR. The 4 EU-funded projects @merlin-project.bsky.social #SpongeScapes #spongeworks & WaterLANDS will come together in Brussels on 🗓️10 March to explore what comes next for restoration policy & practice: project-merlin.eu/brussels2026...

Yes, no inherent good in labouring! Yet, there is (at lest) practical good in labouring that leads to intellectual growth. For instance, scientists that automate their writing tasks save time. They are also setting themselves for failure in communication that is not written (e.g., job interviews).

"they give you coffee for free" You can contemplate your career choices while sipping on a nice latte.

Beyond climate resilient landscapes...

New online! Constraining the effect of global change on antifungal resistance

Millimetre‐Scale Stratification of Microbial Communities in Hydrothermal Sediments enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs

Wrote this ages ago, still relevant www.scientificamerican.com/blog/hot-pla...

This is exactly the way to go! You want the public to support meaningful science? Forget normative talks, translate it down to the inflation points. Well done @natplants.nature.com

I cannot evangelize enough for @zotero.org for citation management. It's a game changer. If you're a student, and you're writing a paper right now, and you're NOT using Zotero, I ask you...why? Why are you making things harder than they need to be?

Today Agnes Moreh talked about co-invasions by two (multiple) species. Among other topics, she also mentioned interactions, with each invading species tackled as a single stressor. Using the usual suspect models of additive/synergistic impact on native ecological community.

Those were the times, when I had a single paper to write :) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

breaking: reviewer that doesn't share your approach thinks your article manuscript is not ready for publication

Your periodic reminder: I keep a list of useful resources for scientific writers - book, blogs, software, etc - here:

New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm

A paper in Nature addresses long-standing issues in the global carbon budget estimates and shows that the magnitude of the natural land sink is substantially smaller than previously estimated. go.nature.com/3XH9ymF 🧪

Let me use this as an opportunity to talk about Jordi et al's very cool paper, now out in PNAS 🧪: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... You can read our news and views here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

📣Today!📣 Our next seminar speaker is Gonzalo Robledo (Universidad de Chile), presenting: ⭐Sensitivity analysis for time varying ecological networks⭐ As ever free and open for all! Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/ Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... See you there!

Each generation seems to rediscover the riddle of organismal agency: are organisms agents that pursue intrinsic goals—and how could we know? Our 📕 gathers historians, philosophers & scientists to explore this debate—now available in paperback!👇 www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o... #philsky #HPS #evobio

Also interesting: "ERC’s grants have not been adjusted for inflation since the council was set up in 2007" On the flip side, with dropping success rate the true academic currency, the "prestige", is growing higher and higher 😅

PhD opportunity with me at University of Edinburgh linked with Forest Research, funded by E5 DTP. On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network. Pic: one of our Scottish sites. e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...

This week on the Nature Careers Podcast: How having too rigid a plan could result in exciting opportunities passing you by. go.nature.com/3WHgwYs

PhD opportunity in my lab!
We’re looking for a proactive student to join our project on how CO dehydrogenase is regulated in response to atmospheric mercury. Investigating genetic markers and mechanisms of CO dehydrogenase regulation in response to atmospheric mercury FindAPhD.com