If you are in need of soil microbial data relating to PLFAs or enzyme activities, check out our latest paper that provides an open-access global database of data form around the world. Thanks very much to the long list of collaborators who made this happen! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to have contributed as part of the Data Reuse Consortium behind this new @natmicrobiol.nature.com article 'A roadmap for equitable reuse of public microbiome data' www.nature.com/articles/s41... If you work with microbiome, metagenomic, or ‘omics data more broadly, check out the paper.

Are you researching the conservation, ecology or taxonomy of soil & litter invertebrates? Submit your paper to this Special Issue of NZ Journal of Zoology, edited by me, @carlosbarreto.bsky.social & @barnesecodiv.bsky.social! More info: www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjz-so... #SoilBiodiversity 🧪

Have you noticed how dry springs and summers are becoming more frequent? Do you wonder about the consequences they might have for natural ecosystems? Then have a look at our new paper in @global changebio.bsky.social !

Proud to share our paper: Drought intensity shapes soil legacy effects on grassland plant and soil microbial communities and their responses to future drought, out now in @globalchangebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... (1/n)

Long‐Term Drought Persistently Shifts Plant and Soil Microbial Communities but Has Limited Impact on CO2 Fluxes Under Subsequent Drought buff.ly/oax2DpO @marigliesch.bsky.social @frantecol.bsky.social

Well done to @nadinepraeg.bsky.social for presenting and promoting our review of #MountainSoilBiodiversity at the #IMC2025. 👏🙏 In collaboration with @gmba-ipo.bsky.social, we compiled a wealth of information on our knowledge of alpine soil biota. 🪴🦠🪱 Openly accessible here: doi.org/10.1111/brv....

Using a unique long-term field experiment, we show that chronic (20 years!) drought reduces ecosystem CO2 uptake and persistently shifts soil fungal and bacterial communities, but that shifts in plant communities determine ecosystem CO2 fluxes. 🧵 www.uva.nl/en/shared-co...

📢 Date for the diary #SoilHealthWeek is coming soon to Ireland with events all over the country! Bígí linn 🤗 #GroundTruth #SoilHealth

We're seeking a new Senior Editor! ⏰ Are you... 👉intrigued by the interface between ecology & biological resource management? 👉a clear communicator who enjoys working as part of a team? 👉committed to maintaining high editorial standards? More info 👇 bit.ly/4lPzaIx

Did you know that @jappliedecology.bsky.social authors can now publish a Plain Language Summary alongside their final article? Plain Language Summaries help to make the latest ecological research more accessible to the wider public.

Happy to see this paper published! We used a mesocosm platform to study how soil water limitation intensity alters the cycling of nitrogen at the tree-soil interface rdcu.be/eCB3L

📣GSBI Speaks is back again in September! 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/regi... Learn more here: www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/webinar-24-ai

🔥🔥🔥 Why are wildfires more severe in private industrial forests? Our new paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social has the answers: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧵 Thread below

We're seeking a new Senior Editor! ⏰ Are you... 👉intrigued by the interface between ecology & biological resource management? 🌎 👉a clear communicator who enjoys working as part of a team? 💬 👉committed to maintaining high editorial standards? 🧪 More info 👇 bit.ly/4lPzaIx

When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:

If you do #qPCR on soils you might be interested in this paper led by @aoifeduff.bsky.social @femsmicro.org which shows the effect of mastermix, sample type, platform and gene target on the inhibition, precision and accuracy of quantification academic.oup.com/femsec/artic...

There’s Fungus Among Us. But Where Exactly? To find out where the Amazon of the underground actually is, read about our research in this new article by @emilyanthes.bsky.social for @nytimes.com and explore our Underground Atlas. Article: buff.ly/qNdVAxa Underground Atlas: buff.ly/mqkz5XL

CeMESS is hiring! Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research. 🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...

Are you an early career researcher (ECR) with exciting soil biodiversity work to share? This is your global stage! Submit your abstract for #GSB2026. Check the box for ECR and you might be profiled at the conference! globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/abstract/

I'm currently writing a book chapter about deep soil life, and I'm fully entranced by the diversity and adaptability of soil microfauna. If you've got any amazing facts, which you think MUST be included - about things like bdelloids, nematodes, tardigrades etc., drop them in the comments below! 🧪

Like all arthropods, springtails need to shed their exoskeletons to grow - a process called 'ecdysis'. I recently got very lucky to find a giant springtail that had just moulted! I don't know if anyone's ever photographed this before! #SoilBiodiversity #Macrophotography #Invertebrate 🧪📸

The #groundtruth team are at the crops open day in Teagasc - come down to the #Soil village and talk to us about #SoilHealth #SoilBiology #SoilCompaction #CoverCrops @vistamilk.bsky.social @teagasc.bsky.social

Excited to see our paper now published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social ! 🎉 doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Wondering whether to use amplicon or shotgun sequencing for characterising the soil microbial community - check out our new paper journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #SoilMicrobiome main findings : 1) consistent detection of major phyla; 2) similar microbial community differentiation patterns;

‪3 months to apply for a #MarieCurieFellowships! Fantastic oppotunity to lead your own research project #PhDs from all over the world can apply marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...

We often measure AM fungal colonisation assuming it tells us something about function. But… what does it tell us? A short Letter where I ask what root colonisation really means for plant growth, P uptake, and defence. #Mycorrhiza #fungi #plantmicrobiome nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you are interested in the PLFA method and his interpretation, plese have a look at our recent perspective lead by a fantastic researcher, Stefan Gorka, and in collaboration with my dear colleagues @christinakaiser.bsky.social and Hannes Schmidt www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🦠Research reveals that nitrogen deposition decouples grassland plant community from soil bacterial & fungal communities, posing great challenges for an accurate evaluation of ecosystem functions under future global change scenarios 🧪🌍

Ever wondered how plant interactions with soil pathogens and mutualists may regulate both species co-existence and diversity-productivity relationships? It is complicated 📈📉 but we tried to put different threads together:

Exciting postdoc opportunity with Milda Pucetaite and us in the Soilchip group: Become the spectroscopy expert in our multimodal fungal recognition project within our interdisciplinary VR research environment:) lu.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Please delight yourselves in the magic of belowground research! wur.yuja.com/V/Video?v=89... Amazing video produced by the team of @moniqueweemstra.bsky.social from Wageningen University

NOW ONLINE at Biological Reviews! Global review on "Biodiversity in mountain soils above the treeline" by @nadinepraeg.bsky.social, me, and many great #SoilBiodiversity researcher. Free read and download at doi.org/10.1111/brv.... Here, a short thread 🧵 (1/4) #UIBK #EuracResearch #UniGraz #GMBA

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

🚨⚠️ Are you looking for a #postdoc? Are you interested in evolutionary #ecology and plant-soil interactions? If yes, consider applying to this fantastic postdoc opportunity in Marina Semchenko's lab at the University of Tartu. Such a great project! #ERC #PlantSoilAdapt 🌍🧪

Do you want to be part of our team this season, maintaining and sampling field experiments in which we test the effect of extreme weather on grassland C storage? We have a 6-month technician position available - apply here before May 23rd! Please RT or forward! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Interesting use of #qSIP to detect microbial partners incorporating labeled substrates, enhancing understanding of fungal-bacterial interactions in soil. @jeffinerca.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... #soilmicrobiology

Strong words from Ursula von der Leyen today: “Science belongs to humanity. We must protect it, prioritize it, and give it the freedom it needs to flourish.” At the launch of the EU’s “Choose Science - Choose Europe” initiative, she announced four key actions. 🧵1/3

Out now by Liu et al in Nature Communications: 'Multiple targeted grassland restoration interventions enhance ecosystem service multifunctionality' www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wat betekent de toename van droge periodes voor bodems? Onder andere dat ecosystemen minder CO2 opnemen en vasthouden. Mooi stuk in Folia met @nataliejoram.bsky.social over ons droogteonderzoek. www.folia.nl/wetenschap/1...

Just to be clear on 👇: 🪸 are essential part of our life support systems. Loss of biodiversity regarded as top 5 threat to our 🌍 in coming years - not by 🐟huggers but NATO, OECD, World Economic Forum...

New Paper [email protected] Thanks to the great team! @giannamars.bsky.social @scott-saleska.bsky.social @elbrodie.bsky.social @emerge-bii.bsky.social and many others! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨PhD position in Functional Plant Diversity and Community Assembly available in Prof. Vicky Temperton's group (@7toucans.bsky.social) at the Leuphana University Lueneburg (Germany). Deadline: May 4, 2025 🧪🌍 www.leuphana.de/en/universit...

📣We're currently recruiting a soil biology postdoc interested in nutrient cycling in grassland systems at Teagasc Johnstown Castle, Wexford, Ireland with @aaronfoxirl.bsky.social #TeagascJC Further details and link to apply topjobs-teagasc.thehirelab.com/LiveJobs/Job... closing date 13/02/2025

We are hiring! We have a 1-year postdoc position available in our department on soil carbon and fauna: nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies.... Please spread the word!

Really nice to see the second paper of PhD student Fangbin Hou out in SBB!!! She did a massive experiment and found that across 17 grassland species, root exudates from plants that experienced drought trigger more microbial respiration. (1) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

⚠️ 2 postdoctoral positions at #Umeå University Postdoc (3 years) on microbial community structure and genomics on island ecosystems www.umu.se/en/work-with... Postdoc position (3 years) on aboveground-belowground linkages and carbon dynamics on island ecosystems www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Wow, so nice to see this work out, led by Chris Sweeney! he shows, in a massive experiment, that plant traits and phylogenetic relatedness are poor predictors of plant–soil feedbacks. In @journalofecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I've posted a new video on YouTube that gives a brief overview of the new conditional_values() function in my gratia #RStats 📦 I plan to do more of these videos over the next few weeks & months. Make sure you're subscribed if you want to be notified as they get posted. youtu.be/iKG0aHWpTAo

Learned so much about non-linear models this week- thanks @gsimpson.bsky.social! Highly recommend for everyonewho is into gams :-)