🌿 Day 1 of #iDivConference2025 at @unihalle.bsky.social brought blue skies, warm connections and a keynote by @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social on modelling biodiversity under climate change. 📍Tomorrow's keynote by Meredith C. Schuman is on genetic and functional diversity. More to come! ☀️

⚖️↔️Resource inequality limits transfer of nutrients from soils to plants in experimental grassland vist.ly/3y5kj #EcosystemFunctioning #Ecotron #GiniCoefficient #Grassland #NutrientDynamics #ResourceInequality

👇Out in @oikosjournal.bsky.social New research from our Ecotron facility by @elisabethboenisch.bsky.social, @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social et al 🌱

🌈 Celebrating diversity at #iDiv! This week —and every week— iDiv affirms that diversity in all its forms strengthens science, community, and collaboration. 🧬

Hereingeschaut und mitgemacht, morgen ist Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft in Leipzig! 🎉 Ob Vortrag, Mitmachprogramm oder Kunstausstellung: Für jeden Geschmack ist was dabei! Tipp: Nachwuchsforscherinnen und -forscher dürfen bereits ab 16 Uhr ihren Abschluss zum "Rewilding-Ranger" machen. #LNdWLeipzig

Die Forschungsgruppe Experimentelle Interaktionsökologie (@eisenhauerlab.bsky.social) am @idiv-research.bsky.social gehört zu den zehn Gewinnerteams des Preises Bestes Forschungsumfeld 2024. 🎉🥳 Mehr dazu hier: www.idiv.de/de/idiv-fors... @jungeakademie.bsky.social @volkswagenstiftung.de

What is needed to implement Soil Biodiversity Awareness in Germany? Willi Xylander and Frank Glante investigate in the latest issue of @soilorganismsj.bsky.social Please repost! 🪱🌱🍄 doi.org/10.25674/458

Nominiert für die 10 besten Forschungsumfelder 2024 ist die Arbeitsgruppe „Experimentelle #Interaktionsökologie“ (eisenhauerlab.bsky.social) am German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (@idiv-research.bsky.social). 🌱 Mehr zum Team: 👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/projekte/...

Art is a way of life & tool to communicate about science, soils & soil organisms 🪱🐜🍄🌱 The new SO column celebrates this! 🎉 Svenja Meyer @fminifera.bsky.social is inspired by & spreads the love of soil organisms though her art. Read more here: soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO... 📢 Please repost!

Geat to see you all and hear how you have already used this amazing resource to teach kids around the world about the ecosystem we stand on. Thanks to @elisabethboenisch.bsky.social and Romy Zeiss @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social for the meeting lead! kids.frontiersin.org/collections/...

Last week, more than 20 supporters of @soilbiocomm.bsky.social met via zoom to discuss how to further advertise & distribute our #Soil #Biodiversity articles for #kids, now translated to 27 languages, available here: idiv-biodiversity.de/en/young-min... @idiv-research.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Fellow Ecologists, The #gfoe2025 @gfoesoc.bsky.social call for papers has just been published. Please submit your abstracts for exciting talks and engaging posters to present in Würzburg in September! gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca... @uni-wuerzburg.de @globalchangeeco.bsky.social

We’ve just wrapped up another Translating Soil Biodiversity Co-working Day, adding 11 new translations in 6 languages! You can now explore "Earthworms of the World" in Nepali and Chinese, along with more exciting article translations. Take a look here: idiv-biodiversity.de/en/young-min...

Dear #nematode community, Does anyone currently have nematodes in culture and would be willing to share or sell some? We are planning different experiments and are also happy to collaborate and share more details.

Interested in #forest restoration and #carbon sequestration? 🚨 In our new study in @globalchangebio.bsky.social we show that 🌳 Tree diversity 🌲 increases carbon stocks and fluxes in a tropical forest experiment. #TreeDivNet, @uni-freiburg.de onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Gratulation: Das Projekt „Translating Soil Biodiversity“ vermittelt Kindern und Jugendlichen die Bedeutung der Biodiversität – in 26 Sprachen. Jetzt wurde es gleich zwei Mal ausgezeichnet. @maltejochum.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social #Biodiversität ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/ei...

A huge thank you to the organizers, the prize committee, and the other members of the Translating Soil Biodiversity team - Amelie Hauer, Vrinda Dabas, Evangelia Chronopoulou, Ioannis Constantinou, and Helen Phillips - and to all supporters of the project! Thank you for your dedication!

We had an incredible award ceremony in Munich, hosted and organized by Volkshochschule München and the Grüter Stiftung, in collaboration with Naturkundemuseum Bayern/Biotopia. So glad Amelie from our team could join the celebration as well! 😊

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Exciting news! We've won the Werner und Inge Grüter Preis für Wissenschaftsvermittlung, recognizing outstanding science communication. We’re incredibly honored and proud!!! 🎉🥳 Winners: @maltejochum.bsky.social @remybeugnon.bsky.social @elisabethboenisch.bsky.social & Romy Zeiss Photo (C)LaRocca

Exciting news! 🎉 We’re now part of the Bluesky community! Follow us for updates, insights, and news about our Translating Soil Biodiversity project. Stay tuned!

Congratulations to our team Translating Soil Biodiversity for winning the University of Leipzig's Transfer Prize! 🏆🎓 Their work brings soil biodiversity research to young minds by creating and translating engaging articles for Frontiers for Young Minds—a platform where kids review science! 🌱🦠

A super productive co-working session today - we uploaded 9 new translations! 🎉✨ 5 in Arabic, 1 in Marathi, 1 in Nepali, 1 in Greek, and 1 in Spanish.