Stress affects many systems in our body and biologists Marcel Schaaf and Erin Faught at @ribesresearch.bsky.social are figuring out how that works. A recent study by them showed how stress changes behavior by using two different receptors. www.ru.nl/en/research/... #biology #imunesystem #zebrafish

Kustgebieden kunnen methaanuitstoot niet meer bijbenen: www.beste-id.nl/nieuws/kustg... @ribesresearch.bsky.social

On Monday 15 dec 1630h @Anna J. Wallenius will defend her PhD thesis "Muddy Affairs, Microbial #methane cycling in coastal ecosystems" please find the @ribesresearch.bsky.social coverage at www.ru.nl/en/research/...

We congratulate Cornelia Welte with her @erc.europa.eu #Consolidator grant 🥳 for "electroANME": a project which will uncover how anaerobic methanotrophic (ANME) archaea oxidize methane, interact with bacteria, and use diverse metabolic pathways. Read more: www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Apply this week! #vacancy #Postdoc position: Modelling Impacts of Agricultural Land Management Systems on Biodiversity. 🧑‍🌾🦗 You will contribute to new knowledge and tools to refine how impacts on biodiversity are captured in life cycle assessment for agricultural products. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Bijna 5 december, tijd voor een nieuw gedicht, vol feiten waar we over hebben bericht.

Researchers have produced a detailed, high-resolution map of #peatlands in the EU, showing that these areas emit twice as much #greenhousegases than previously thought. With @quintvg.bsky.social Christian Fritz @ecology-radboud.bsky.social www.ru.nl/en/research/...

🚨 Paper Alert! 📢We are excited to announce the publication of a new study in Nature Communications, “Identifying hotspot of peatland emissions in the EU+”, in which researchers from our department in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Greifswald, the Greifswald Moor (1/11)

Congrats @annajwallenius.bsky.social & her PhD thesis 15-12-25 1630h "Muddy affairs: Microbial #methane cycling in anoxic coastal sediments" Thanks to #NESSC @erc.europa.eu synergy #MARIX & @ribesresearch.bsky.social collabs. Good luck at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @carolineslomp.bsky.social

📢 Save the date: ERC annual conference will take place on 28 January 2026! Its theme will be ‘One Health’. Discover the programme and register now 👉 t.co/SBat1iYccr #OneHealth @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu @ecdc.europa.eu @efsa.europa.eu

New paper alert! 🚨 RU researchers Lucia Cabrera Lamanna, Ilenia Marquina Luévano, Eric Visser, and Sarian Kosten, along with co-authors Dick van Oevelen and Andreas Lorke published a study in Limnology and Oceanography Letters. Read here: aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Save the date May 28 and 29, 2026, and please share widely. thx! Goodbye symposium and lecture: Microbial #Methane and #Nitrogen Cycling Under the Loupe: A tribute to shared curiosity and collaboratively hunting for “impossible” spookmicrobes

This work, lead by @felixpleiva.bsky.social, is finally published in a @funecology.bsky.social issue. Have a look. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Emissions Footprints of Agriculture Around the World 1970–2020: Decreasing Land Conversion, Regional Exceptions and Increasing Management Intensity 🔗 buff.ly/ugy56na @ribesresearch.bsky.social

Onderzoek van onze afdeling in de spotlight! 🌾 De “future dikes” combineren waterveiligheid met biodiversiteit - een duurzaam ontwerp voor de toekomst. Lees meer: 👉 www.intonijmegen.com/blijf-op-de-...

Wonderful news 🎂 : @charlieunderwood.bsky.social of our institute has been awarded an #NWO #Vidi grant to continue his work on "Eternal hybrids: stabilizing hybrid vigour by engineering synthetic crop species". Read more: www.ru.nl/en/research/... #hybridbreeding #biology #sustainability

Mooi filmpje van de analyse van een aantal gasmonsters op de #gaschromatograaf bij #B-WARE en @ribesresearch.bsky.social Ik wil middels een experiment weten of in bepaalde plant- en veenbodems methaan-oxiderende bacteriën aanwezig zijn: die kunnen het broeikasgas #methaan ‘opeten’. Zie alt-tekst

Omdat het kabinet het niet aandurft, namen wetenschappers @caringdoctors.bsky.social het initiatief voor een #klimaatpersconferentie. We hebben een regering nodig die burgers beschermt en correct informeert. Over bedreigingen maar ook over oplossingen. www.naturetoday.com/intl/nl/natu...

Dit plan reduceert de CO₂-uitstoot, remt de bodemdaling, voorkomt rotte funderingen en brengt en passant ook nog de wulp terug. Maar niemand heeft het erover: het hervernatten van veenweidegebied. Daarom in onze serie Goed plan: maak Nederlands veen weer nat.

Heide kwaliteit gaat blijvend achteruit, in gebieden met een hoge #stikstof harder dan in gebieden met minder hoge stikstofdruk. Aldus Joost Vogels bij de verdediging van zijn proefschrift @ribesresearch.bsky.social

2nd day of enjoyable field work in 🇩🇰. We measured #nitrous oxide fluxes in the Hove Å stream & Roskilde Fjord. Many thanks to the @ribesresearch.bsky.social colleague @anneliesv.bsky.social et al for equipment. Supported by @erc.europa.eu synergy project #MARIX @carolineslomp.bsky.social

Congratulations 🎉 🎉 Long-Term Euxinia Restricts Microbial Methane Removal in Eutrophic Coastal Basins by @jessicavenetz.bsky.social et al #microbiokogy & Ecology @ribesresearch.bsky.social supported by @erc.europa.eu synergy project #MARIX pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Spectroscopic insights into the mechanism of #anammox #hydrazine synthase by Versantvoort et al # microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Zaterdag 4 en zondag 5 oktober vindt het Weekend van de Wetenschap plaats in Nederland. Ook de Radboud Universiteit biedt verschillende activiteiten aan voor deelnemers van alle leeftijden! 🧑‍🔬 Hieronder een paar activiteiten uitgelicht die samen door of met ons instituut worden georganiseerd: 1/4

As of 1 September, Sebastian Lücker has been appointed Professor of Applied and Environmental #Microbiology in our institute. He explores the potential applications of novel #nitrifiers in protecting our clean water supply - a pressing concern of our time. Read more: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

Job alert: 2 PhD positions in Thermal Ecology, Ecophysiology, or Invasion Biology Application deadline = 17 October 2025 Read more! ⤵️ #jobalert #academicjobs #phdjob #researchjobs #phdposition www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

🌍 Nieuw IPBES-rapport: biodiversiteitscrisis vraagt fundamentele systeemverandering. Verlies van biodiversiteit is geen losstaand probleem van stikstof of verdroging, maar het gevolg van dieperliggende oorzaken. 🔎Lees: www.naturetoday.com/intl/nl/natu... #biodiversiteit #natuur #klimaat

Vandaag in de hofstad: een mooie dag over #transformativechange. Wat grofweg neerkomt op: alles moet overal anders. www.naturetoday.com/intl/nl/natu...

Great new trait of #Methanoperedens archaea: Carbon monoxide metabolism in freshwater anaerobic #methanotrophic archaea #aom #anme Egas @cuwelte.bsky.social et al #microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New publication alert: plant research by Jian Xu and others was published online this week in Cell: "Time-resolved reprogramming of single somatic cells into totipotent states during plant regeneration". Read more (open access) doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #plantbiology #newresearch

It's Postdoc Appreciation Week! 🌟 #PAWNL #PAW_NL. RIBES would like to show some extra appreciation to the three postdoctoral researchers currently leading the RIBES Postdoc Platform: B. Conall Holohan, Sofia Baliña, and Wouter Mes. Thank you for making RIBES a better place for postdocs! 🙏

🌍💧💨 Small ditches, large impact! Published my first PhD chapter in Ecosystems. Ditches in drained peatlands emit far more GHG than their small surface area might suggest. Accounting for them is crucial for accurate national inventories. Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our university magazine @voxweb.bsky.social made a video report of ongoing greenhouse gas experiments in a pond on Radboud University's campus! 🌿🫧🍂 www.voxweb.nl/nieuws/waaro... @ecology-radboud.bsky.social [text is in Dutch, video in English with subtitles] #biology #ghg #waterplants

Microbiologists Martijn Wissink and @cuwelte.bsky.social, among others, are helping us understand how microorganisms regulate the methane balance. 🦠 🫧 The scientists have demonstrated how a methane-converting enzyme (MCR) works in detail. www.ru.nl/en/research/... #science #microbiology #enzymes

As of September 1st 2025, Wilco Verberk has been appointed Professor of Functional Ecology at Radboud University. Verberk’s research explores how animals cope with changes in temperature and oxygen to explain why species live where they do. Read more: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

Today (August 27, 2025) is the inaugural United Nations World Lake Day. Lakes, reservoirs, and ponds are essential in ensuring global water security, flood mitigation, biodiversity, and other services. Find here a recent news story featuring department researchers: www.tubantia.nl/video/produc...

There have been some busy bees 🍯in the department! Judith van der Knaap and colleagues published a paper in Ecosystems about the contribution of drainage ditches to greenhouse gas emissions in drained peatlands here in the Netherlands. Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Congratulations to ‪@annajwallenius.bsky.social‬ on submitting her PhD thesis on microbial #methane cycling in anoxic coastal sediments. A great milestone. Some cheerful photos to mark the occasion. Well done, Anna! #MARIX @erc.europa.eu #microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social #NESSC

With @ribesresearch.bsky.social contributions from Judith van der Knaap @judithvdknaap.bsky.social , Quinten Struik, and Sarian Kosten :-) @nature.com @ecology-radboud.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Congratulations to Nicky Dotsios. Her PhD thesis "Microbial #nitrogen cycling across coastal ecosystems" has been approved 😎 with ao seasonal dynamics of #nitrification in lake #Grevelingen @ribesresearch.bsky.social Supported by @erc.europa.eu synergy project #MARIX www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A large census conducted on 157 dikes along rivers in the Netherlands revealed that more and rarer bee species live on dikes than previously thought. According to ecologist Constant Swinkels, many more dikes can be made bee-friendly. #bees #science #ecology #dikes www.ru.nl/en/research/...

3.5-year #Postdoc position on avian microbiomes and reproduction @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @niooknaw.bsky.social on a fully-funded ERC project focused on understanding the significance of reproductive microbiomes for host biology and fitness. Reach out for more info! nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

Kortzichtigheid maakt meer kapot dan je lief is, door @heleendeconinck.bsky.social van TU Eindhoven/Radboud @ribesresearch.bsky.social esb.nu/industrie-ko... We verspillen belastinggeld. We houden bedrijven in de lucht die geen plek hebben in een CO2-neutraal Nederland. We smoren...

Veengebieden, de Waddenzee, rivierdelta's: Nederland heeft allerlei wetlands. Wereldwijd zijn er veel wetlands verdwenen, maar ze zouden moeten terugkomen omdat ze bijvoorbeeld veel CO₂ opslaan, aldus Bjorn Robroek @unpeatable.bsky.social: www.nporadio1.nl/nieuws/binne... #wetlands #draslanden

In a recent study, researchers were able to use a ‘PARTHENOGENESIS’ (PpPAR) gene to trigger clonal reproduction in rice plants. @charlieunderwood.bsky.social (RIBES) and Kejian Wang and his team made a breakthrough on the function of this gene. Read more: www.ru.nl/en/research/...

C3 Compound Metabolism in the Thermoacidophilic Methanotroph Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum SolV by Changqing Liu, Arjan Pol, et al #microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

One might expect that climate mitigation measures would help to counteract oxygen decline in the oceans. Yet a new study reveals that many proposed marine carbon dioxide removal methods could in fact intensify oxygen loss. 😕 🌊 Read more: www.ru.nl/en/research/... with @carolineslomp.bsky.social

Today is the RIBES away day! We get together with our academic staff to discuss updates and developments in our institute, meet our newest colleagues, and in the afternoon we will dive into science communication with @arnoldvanvliet.bsky.social. Repost if you are attending ☀️

Together with my new colleague Roven Rommel Fuentes @ribesresearch.bsky.social we are currently looking to hire a PhD student or postdoc in the area of computational genetics and machine learning.

Hoe #tomaten hun stuifmeel koel houden in de hitte? Door een flink potje te zweten www.trouw.nl/wetenschap/h... Met Ivo Rieu @ribesresearch.bsky.social