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

Happy to share a new paper with novel insights into the impacts of precip variability in a semiarid #rangeland ecosystem. Unfortunately, with unconstitutional layoffs at #USDA #ARS, we have been forced to transition this longterm experimental facility into dormancy. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

Only a few days to go… please share!!!

The main work from my time in Aachen is now out 🎉 if you have wanted to make a SynCom that captures the functional-landscape of microbiota, MiMiC2 makes that possible based on metagenomic data! 1/7 doi.org/10.1093/isme...

Petroff et al study the magnetotactic properties of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria from Little Sippewissett salt marsh.

Pore-Scale Mass Transfer Heterogeneity Shapes Nutrient Accessibility and Functional Assembly in Porous Microbial Ecosystems academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs

Happy to announce my first collaboration on microbial methane cycling, led by PhD student Nils Volles. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#Newresearch This Bayesian statistical method uses timeseries microbiome data to infer interaction modules and is tested using a faecal transplant experiment in mice. #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This topic never grows old, does it? 😅 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I started this #Mycologists Starter Pack, aiming to get all professional fungal researchers on BlueSky in one place. DM if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/UMrVSsp

I will join this, congratulations to Volker Grimm! Absolutely well deserved!

I realize the world is burning, but here is the abstract of a talk I will give multiple times in different formats this month. With the feedback, I hope to write up something substantial on the theme in the remainder of the year.

Check out this new article on null model selection for multiple stressor research. Fantastic work by Iris Pimentel from @leeselab.bsky.social within the @crc-resist.bsky.social. Freely available at: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

"Eine Kette aus renaturierten Flussauen, Mooren und Wäldern soll die EU-Ostgrenze vor einer russischen Invasion schützen, schlagen Wissenschaftler vor." Ziemlich bedrückend, sich von dem Thema her der Wiedervernässung von #Mooren zu nähern... Lesenswerter Artikel.

Very interesting! It’s not often that interests of defense, climate mitigation and nature restoration align.

Higher-order microbial interactions revealed by comparative metabolic modeling of synthetic communities with varying species composition #ISMEComms academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

"Extremely productive meeting", "great progress", "precious efforts". And then also, more details available once Europeans manage to decode and translate into the real world that delusional chaos US administration debriefed them. United we stand! 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New publication: The epistemological implications of species extinction: An overview Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Cool study on aerotolerant methanogens! Options they might protect themselves from O2 include biofilm formation in response to O2 exposure and antioxidants (F420-H2-oxidases, rubredoxins, thioredoxins, and peroxiredoxins). This opens up a vareity of new possible habitats for methanogens.

#Perspective In this perspective, the authors propose research priorities necessary to facilitate the application of these ecological principles to improve microbiome functionality. #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🟢 We are looking for journalists reporting on #climate #disinformation 📝 Apply if you have research ideas on the threat of climate denialism, the relation between big tech & climate obstruction or similar 👇 eu.boell.org/en/climate-d... ⏳ Deadline: 9 Sept 2025, 23:59 CEST @zorasiebert.bsky.social

Progress regarding @zalf.bsky.social ECO's new low-cost DIY CO2, ET and CH4 autochambers (video and Prototype by our PHD Milan Kretzschmar)!

I am probably not the only one who reads this title with feelings mixed between great news and dark irony (as this should probably not make news to begin with). Well, great that a giant study managed to find that one field 😁 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Many thanks @elsaelsam.bsky.social for letting us invade your home, and thanks to your partner for all that great home made pizza!

How may theoretical ecology & evolutionary theory push microbiology forward? At Environmental Microbiology, I am commissioning a series of Perspectives exploring that question. Excited to share them in the 🧵 below The series is open, so do get in touch if you'd like to propose a new contribution!