The conflict in the Middle East is leading to spiking prices in parts of Asia and Africa. Keeping humanitarian supply chains moving is a literal lifeline for millions of people already on the brink of hunger. https://ow.ly/nW5h50YMCz9

www.dbges.de/assets/Is-so... Join our online Webinar this upcoming Friday and discuss with us the role of soil minerals in organic matter dynamics of temperate regions!

I truely enjoyed the hospitality at the University of Urgench and Tashkent in Uzbekistan and the scientific exchange with Colleges from Central Asia and Europe on invitation of the DFG and Central Asia partners. It was an intensive and inspiring experience!

Are chemical diversity and biodiversity linked on a world-wide scale? We are happy to assit @thomasdussarrat from Uni Bielefeld, who coordinates this international research endeavour. We are happy to welcome him as our guest in the Lab of Physical Geography @ruhr-uni-bochum.de

bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/FSHN4J... we are beginning to understand it! Great Job by Alexander Konrad working with isothermal titration calorimetry

Trapped, transformed, released- das trifft nicht nur auf organischen Bodenkohlenstoff zu, sondern auch dem frisch promovierten Alexander Konrad! Congrats Alex! Have been happy to be part of this journey!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... watch out for 05/2025 of the Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science which I was very happy to guest edit with wonderful Karin Eusterhues/ Jena and Balwant Singh/Sydney. The Editorial is already online...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... In our freshly published paper we could to our surprise show carboxyl-bound minera-associated organic matter is not that stable. Lot's of thanks to Alexander Konrad an co-authors for this exciting study!

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

🌍 Heute ist #Welternährungstag – doch wie steht es eigentlich um das UN-Nachhaltigkeitsziel „Kein Hunger“? 🌽 Lesen Sie hier, wie wir zur gesunden und sicheren Ernährung weltweit beitragen und den Weg zu #ZeroHunger verfolgen➡️ www.giz.de/de/newsroom/...  @bmz.de

Just wrapped up our DIVERSITORIUM advisory meeting – thanks to our guests: Scott Collins, @clausbeier.bsky.social, @panemma.bsky.social, Bernhard Schmid, @inesmulder.bsky.social, Kai-Uwe Totsche, @holgerpagel.bsky.social, Hans-Peter Piepho & Christian Poll THANKS for all your great suggestions!

Now, terra-cluster.org is online 😀. Keep in mind: only 2 weeks left till application deadline: Job details at tinyurl.com/5bbk4m29: you can apply for two 50% positions, if matching profiles. We look forward to your docs. Repost appreciated: #AcademicJobs #ScienceJobs #JobAlert #FacultyJobs #Hiring

Great to have @vincentfelde.bsky.social as host and travel guide, inspiring students of geography of @ruhr-uni-bochum.de with his enthousiasm for soils and expert knowledge, here showing us an impressive profile of a luvisol of the Salzbödetal-big thanks to Vincent! We enjoyed the day very much!

A new soil ecology walk video is out. How much biodiversity is there in soils? youtu.be/iBz_-5bR8B4?...

LANUK NRW: Stellenangebot share.google/qauTjx4npPwa...

Happy after hosting an inspiring session on the role of minerals and their weathering in carbon sequestration and ecosystem services. Thanks to my amazing co-chairs Katharina Lenhardt, Balwant Singh and our keynote speaker Aaron Thompson

Enjoying the exchange on the International Clay Conference in Dublin, here meeting with the board of the German Clay Group. The study of minerals and oxides is an important and fascinating field of work for soil scientists!

Felix Schmidt, Norman Wagner, Ines Mulder, Katja Emmerich, Thierry Bore, Jan Bumberger: Broadband Dielectric Analysis of Clays: Impact of Cation, Exchange Capacity, Water Content, and Porosity https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20271 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20271 https://arxiv.org/html/2506.20271

Free the soil! ( at Invalidenpark Berlin)

Enjoyed todays talk and discussions with by visiting scientist Natasha Picone from Argentinia, who demonstrated impressively the need and options to further develop cities in order to adapt to climate change

youtube.com/shorts/EFvwS... Schauen Sie hinein in unser Physisch-Geographisches Labor!

youtube.com/shorts/T7qkt... Darum Geographie in Bochum: Bodenkunde!

Watch out - hot and greasy! Our freshly printed article on the (desinfectants and surfactants) quaternary alkylammonium compounds, which demonstrates once more their persistence to degradation in soils. To reduce our footprint, try to read labels and avoid them! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

youtube.com/live/IOVXNTU... Today 19h CET live chat with the moviemakers of common ground and kiss the ground and streaming lauch oft the"Common Ground" documentary on prime. Let's join the global "Watch Party" :-)

Very happy to host fellows of the Alexander von #humbodlt-foundation during their networking meeting at #RUB. It was a pleasure to learn about their exciting work and share ideas. Here we are in the greenhouses visiting the impressive collection of arabidopsis halleri of Ute Krämer's group.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Freshly published: exciting work on the molecular composition of soil organic matter and associated energetic potentials as affected by manure application lead by colleagues at #UFZLeipzig - big thank you! Never has it been so rewarding to sieve manure ;-)

Dieser Beitrag ist schon etwas älter, wurde jüngst aber mal wieder gesendet und die zitierte Forschungsgruppe macht ebenfalls noch weiter - bleibt also aktuell und wir sind dabei www.deutschlandfunk.de/abwasser-sei...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Our exciting study on the role of minerals and sorption thermodynamics in microbial substrate use is out - enjoy the "radioactive" piece of work - it was great working together with Diana Hofmann from Forschungszentrum Jülich and I thank all contributors!

Loving it! - Glücklicherweise hatten wir heute mit studentischer Exkursion das angestrebte Ziel gefunden. Es war nicht der Silbersee, aber da gehts bei nächster Gelegenheit dann hin.

Thanks to Vincent Felde and colleagues for the warm welcome at the institute of Earth System Sciences Seminar in Hannover! I really enjoyed having been back and to see some familiar faces- thanks for the opportunity to share some of our findings and the intensive discussion