🎉Last week first observation together with NIOO, on their beautiful green rooftop, for the Bodemdierendagen! It was great success & we manage to find the tiny ten🪱🐛🐜 ..but also the little eleven🦠✨! Take your observation, is your turn now! How many soil organisms will you find? bodemdierendagen.nl/nl

Please circulate among your bioinformatics students! 🧬🖥️❄️🦠

A very exciting and one of the best workshops on Stable Isotopes came to an end at Universität Bayreuth. Huge thanks to Prof Johanna and Dr Alexander as well as all other organizing team. @jpausch.bsky.social @alexfrank.bsky.social @bayceer.bsky.social @unibayreuth.bsky.social

Attribution of vegetation change to climate change: here we compared vegetation time series to simulations from a process model forced with observed and counterfactual (detrended) climate data. Trends in climate necessary for the model to emulate vegetation trends www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

Amazing start of the week in 🇩🇪! Bayreuth Stable Isotope Summer School (BaySISS). @alexfrank.bsky.social @unibayreuth.bsky.social @bayceer.bsky.social

Our paper is out: Integrating crop residues or biochar with synthetic fertilizers reduced net global warming potential & enhanced key soil properties while maintaining high productivity. Thanks to all co-authors. Link: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

Our paper is now online in @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social We shows that: applying more than 130 kg/ha of N on winter wheat doesn’t boost yield or N use efficiency. Why overapply? Save costs, protect the environment. #Agronomy #SoilScience www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/14...

Our paper is out: Integrating crop residues or biochar with synthetic fertilizers reduced net global warming potential & enhanced key soil properties while maintaining high productivity. Thanks to all co-authors. Link: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

📢 Funded PhD opportunities for UK candidates in beautiful Edinburgh. Get in touch if you're interested in a PhD on understanding the mechanisms of soil carbon cycling and the role of microbes. We work in different ecosystems: peatlands, forests and agricultural soils. Please repost/spread the word.

Our paper is now online in @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social We shows that: applying more than 130 kg/ha of N on winter wheat doesn’t boost yield or N use efficiency. Why overapply? Save costs, protect the environment. #Agronomy #SoilScience www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/14...

Alhamdulillah! What a great weekend after ages. 1st PhD paper was accepted Yesterday in Plants journal. 2nd one just accepted now in Journal of Environmental Management. And now fingers crossed for 3rd one, revised in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 🥳

📣We are hiring a PhD candidate to work on modeling soil processes in regenerative agriculture 🌱 If you have experience in process-based modeling and a background in agriculture, we invite you to apply. Deadline, September 30, 2025. More info here: lnkd.in/eGFJktsN

Excited to share our new manuscript about how ammonia oxidizing microbes respond to drought in rewetted fens, combining high-and low-throughput methods for both RNA and DNA. Looking forward to continuing this work in WETSCAPES2.0! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It's official - registration for the Global #Soil #Biodiversity Conference #GSB2026 is now open! globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/registration/ Don't forget to book your hotel through our website to ensure the best rates. @thegsbi.bsky.social

📣Paper alert! "Drivers of the geographical distribution of nematode-based indices across Europe" led by the PhD student Doina Mani working between SBL and SGL. Have a nice read: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Severe malnutrition among under-5s in Gaza City has tripled in two weeks, charity says

Great work from Hannah Lieberman arguing soil P is as or more important than N in determining MAOM accumulation and its sensitivity to global change. dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

New paper from the lab- A Large Fraction of Soil Microbial Taxa Is Sensitive to Experimental Warming. In @globalchangebio.bsky.social ‪ led by Tadeo Saez and Pankaj tried with contribution from @manudelbaq.bsky.social @ftmaestre.bsky.social & others onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

MSc and PhD students abroad: If you are interested in #microbiomes in #soils (or other systems) and keen on research in #Switzerland, consider applying for these #fellowships with us other other groups of the #NCCR Microbiomes nccr-microbiomes.ch/education/nc.... Interested? DM or Email.

***NOW ONE OF OUR MOST READ ARTICLES*** Biochar modification methods and mechanisms for salt-affected #soil and saline-alkali soil improvement: A review Lin, Yu, Zhang, Lu, Xu & Peng #soilscience doi.org/10.1111/sum....

📣Our own Dr. Paolo di Lonardo I will give a talk during the webinar on 'Soil Health Indicators: from selection to sampling". Paolo will present some of the first results of Soil Health Benchmarks 🦠 🍄‍🟫 🪱 🕷️ ☘️ Don't miss it! For registrations: soilcommunity.app/event-64

For Australian Domestic students interested in pursuing a PhD in molecular mycorrhizal studies, please consider applying for a scholarship-funded position in my lab (tinyurl.com/jxcdhp3p) - our lab is a diverse group studying plant-microbe interactions from genes to landscapes

📣Publication: Sharing the light, impact of solar parks on plant productivity, soil microbes and soil organic matter🦠🌱🌞 led by our own Luuk Scholten and with great co-authors Ron de Goede, Anna Edlinger, Bas Van Aken, Gerlinde De Deyn!🎉 Have a nice read nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

"Inverting the soil during plowing is a very big disruption to soil life." When we think about #SoilHealth rather than one-off outputs, management principles look very different phys.org/news/2025-04...

📢 Great postdoc (3 years) opportunity in our group @cirad.bsky.social in the FairCarboN #ALAMOD project to coordinate a modeling excercice @agmip.bsky.social on #soilorganicmatter and nitrogen dynamics in tropical cropping systems. Deadline: 08/05/25 recrutement.cirad.fr/job/job-rese...

Applications are invited for the “LEGUMINOSE Summer School on Crop Productivity & Soil Quality under Cereal-Legume Intercropping” organized within our Horizon Europe LEGUMINOSE Project. Dates: June 23-27, 2025 Location: GCUF, Pakistan Deadline: May 11, 2025 Seats: 25 @pathanshamina.bsky.social

PhD opportunity with us at UEA (home fee students only) @biouea.bsky.social biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/des...

📣🎉We are thrilled to share a new paper looking at the impact of different farming practices on a huge range of soil biota🪱🦠. This works come from the Soil Health Benchmarks Horizon Europe. Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Can we use artificial root exudates to manipulate the microbiome in growing media and make the cultivation of Chrysanthemum more sustainable ? Check out our latest findings, led by Dr. Steffi Pot www.frontiersin.org/journals/hor...

@Soil Scientist & Soil Lovers: Early bird deadline of the #DBG2025 @unituebingen.bsky.social is approaching: 4th May. Check our exciting programm about #HealthySoilsClimateProtection at www.dbg2025.de/en/programme... + many offered excursions www.dbg2025.de/en/excursion... by @soilsdbg.bsky.social

Carbon #sequestration in #agroforestry 🌳 🌽 🥑 🐄 is a hot topic. Here we provide #openaccess guidelines to improve the quantification & reporting of carbon stocks in #soils & #biomass & additional #carbon storage in agroforestry systems, and to maximize manuscript acceptance. doi.org/10.1007/s104...

There's still time to register for this FREE webinar.... register.gotowebinar.com/register/232...

📢 New paper in Ecology Letters on assigning Y-yield and A-acquisition strategies of our YAS framework using genomics data; genome size came out as a significant factor. Led by Xingjie Wu, Jingjing Peng and Shuo Jiao. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

In this paper, Alexey Larionov and I and ask the question: What is the role played by microbial epigenetics in soil legacy effects? We also explain how it could be answered using long-read sequencing with @pacbio.bsky.social or @nanoporetech.com methods. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Posting on behalf of my colleague Sylvie Quideau. She is offering a funded Ph.D. position in Soil Science- Forest Soil Carbon. See ad below for details. Please share. Thx!

This is a BIG ONE! By manipulating the bioelectric fields, Prof. Michael Levin has shown how eyes and other organs can grow in unconventional locations, and perhaps most importantly: how cancer cells can be ‘told’ to stop growing. www.essentiafoundation.org/they-told-ca...

I'm delighted to be a co-supervisor on three PhD studentships that are currently open for applications as part of the BBSRC FoodBioSystems DTP research.reading.ac.uk/foodbiosyste...

New paper in Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment- Linking Surface and Subsurface: The Biogeochemical Basis of Cave Microbial Ecosystem Services by @seanbaby.bsky.social et al onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

According to new original research by Koptikke et al (2024) 'soil is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and climate change'. 🌎👇 #soilscience #climatechange #sustainability #soilmanagement doi.org/10.5194/soil...

I am offering a PhD opportunity at University of Edinburgh as part of the E5 DTP. CASE partner: Forest Research On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Application deadline: 6th Jan. Please share with your network. e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...

New research published today shows that metal ions like Cd and Hg can sorb to the tiny microplastic fibres that are shed when we put synthetic textiles into a washing machine. These fibres may be a vector for metals to terrestrial ecosystems when sewge is applied to land pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...