Ruud Rijkers
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Arctic | Soils | Microbes Postdoc @ ACES, Stockholm University
http://ruud.rijkers.nl
pinned post!
Time flies! After 3 fun postdoc years at
@stockholm-uni.bsky.social
, I am looking for a new scientist position.. Hire me! PI's, it's hard to find a good postdoc? If you need a talented microbial ecologist, get in touch with me! ๐ท: me & permafrost
#ecology
#microbiology
#opentowork
2 months ago
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Jacintha Ellers
about 1 month ago
*New paper alert* So proud of this paper led by MSc student Jasmin Merkel! It shows the long-term detrimental effects of high sugar diet and the lack of evolutionary adaptation to it. This is in insects but humans probably don't fare much better...
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Multigenerational exposure to high-fat and high-sugar diets exacerbates reproductive distress in an insect model
Abstract. In several insect models, high-fat diets and high-sugar diets have detrimental effects, but it is largely unknown if multigenerational exposure c
https://academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jeb/voaf131/8320523?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false
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Robert G. Bjรถrk
2 months ago
๐ฑโ๏ธ New paper in
#Biogeosciences
: Mycorrhizal fungi & plant dominance strongly shape N cycling in Oroarctic soilsโchallenging assumptions about slow N turnover in shrub-dominated tundra. ๐https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/6841/2025/bg-22-6841-2025.html
#Arctic
#Mycorrhiza
#Nitrogen
#ClimateChange
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The role of mycorrhizal type and plant dominance in regulating nitrogen cycling in Oroarctic soils
Abstract. Mycorrhizal fungi enhance plant access to nitrogen (N) in nutrient-poor environments like the Arctic tundra by depolymerizing N-rich organic compounds into forms available to plants and micr...
https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/6841/2025/bg-22-6841-2025.html
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Time flies! After 3 fun postdoc years at
@stockholm-uni.bsky.social
, I am looking for a new scientist position.. Hire me! PI's, it's hard to find a good postdoc? If you need a talented microbial ecologist, get in touch with me! ๐ท: me & permafrost
#ecology
#microbiology
#opentowork
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Join us at
#EGU26
in Vienna for our session SSS4.2 on microbial physiology, co-organized with
@jpausch.bsky.social
and
@aguilart.bsky.social
, featuring
@edithhammer.bsky.social
as Invited Speaker -
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
Deadline for abstract submissions is 15th of January.
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FEMS Journals
3 months ago
Latest at
#FEMSMicrobiolLett
: ๐ฑ Compost boosts fungal abundance in grassland soils, even under drought.๐ง Microbial communities show resilience to reduced precipitation.๐ Site variation matters more than treatment! ๐
buff.ly/lG7AK0y
#SoilMicrobiology
#ClimateResilience
#MicrobialEcology
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ManzoniLab
4 months ago
๐ขPostdoctoral scholarship (2 years) within arctic climate change research with Judith Sarneel
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social
. The project is part of a 10-year long vegetation fertilization and litter decomposition experiment.
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
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Postdoctoral scholarship (2 years) within arctic climate change research
https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/postdoctoral-scholarships/postdoctoral-scholarship-2-years-within-arctic-climate-change-research_862467/
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Laura Louise Turner
4 months ago
Finally feeling recovered after the field and lab crash! Our field sites cover different vegetation types in the tundra, and we have been sampling to see whatโs going on below the ground. Weโve been in the lab processing some samples since we got back; Iโm excited to get on with the analysis nowโฆ
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Maria Faticov
4 months ago
New preprint!
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๐คFingers crossed ๐ค Receiving a grant rejection letter on the day of my
#MSCA
submission brings good luck, right?
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Benjamin Guinet
5 months ago
๐งต Exciting news from our lab
#CpgSthlm
! ๐ฅณ Thousands of years ago, mammoths roamed, and so did their fascinating microbial companions. Our latest study, published in ๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ, brings them to light ๐ฆฃ๐ฆ ๐งฌ Read the full paper here ๐
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
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Important publication from Rica et al; ๐ Rates and composition of root exudates for dominant Arctic plants! Study "๐ด๐ถ๐จ๐จ๐ฆ๐ด๐ตs ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ญ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐บ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ญ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ค๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ณ๐จ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฃ๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฃ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ด"
@bolincentre.bsky.social
@stockholm-uni.bsky.social
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Coline Deveautour
6 months ago
Is it just an impression or amazing research and discoveries are poping up everywhere about mycorrhizal fungi? A thread of research that I want to catch up on (and maybe you do too):
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Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN)
6 months ago
Who lives underground? Find out now in our new paper published in
@nature.com
. Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas. Read here:
buff.ly/WmDqAP3
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Since the start of 2025, most of the review requests I get have a two-week deadline. The pushy request and the "kind invitation to resubmit" follow a race to minimal record time for the editor's decision. But.. Who truly cares about these skewed publishing statistics when submitting a manuscript?
6 months ago
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James Bradley
6 months ago
What does a warmer Arctic winter look like? ๐ฅต๐ก๏ธ๐ฆ We went to Svalbard to study the frozen winter but encountered 4.7ยฐC & rain ๐ง๏ธ Shocked, unsettled & forced to rethink our entire plan, we document in
@natcomms.nature.com
what we saw & what it means for a rapidly changing Arctic ๐งต๐
tinyurl.com/r85d3bpf
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Svalbard winter warming is reaching melting point - Nature Communications
The Arctic winters are changing fast. In February 2025, Svalbard endured rain, thawing tundra, and pooling meltwater. The Comment by Bradley and coauthors describes how winter warming is reshapin...
https://tinyurl.com/r85d3bpf
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6 months ago
Happy to share this big piece on saprobic fungal traits and soil carbon cycling. Great collaboration in the SPP SoilSystems
@dfg.de
, with Damien Finn, Sรถren Thiele-Bruhn, Denise Vonhoegen,
@mrillig.bsky.social
and many others contributing to the study.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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What are all these soil fungi doing? Complex carbon use ability as a predictive trait for fungal community functions
Fungal communities in soil play important roles in decomposition processes and soil organic carbon cycling. These communities are tremendously diverse, making it challenging to assign relevant functio...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.11.664336v1
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Mathilde Borg Dahl
7 months ago
A great day at
#esm2025
coming to an end here on Helsinki, with the last event of todays programme being a reception at the beautiful city hall ๐ฅ So wonderful to reconnect with colleagues I haven't seen in a long time ๐
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Off to
#ESM2025
, see you in Helsinki!
7 months ago
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Malte Posselt
10 months ago
Our new article on Antimicrobial Resistance across the Baltic Sea was published in Microbiome:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Environmental drivers of the resistome across the Baltic Sea - Microbiome
Background Antimicrobial resistance is a major global health concern, with the environment playing a key role in its emergence and spread. Understanding the relationships between environmental factors...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-025-02086-x?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20250407&utm_content=10.1186%2Fs40168-025-02086-x
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Ashish Malik
9 months ago
New pre-print led by
@lucianachr.bsky.social
examines a v. large dataset of bacterial genomes for Y-A-S trait trade offs. Some interesting results with genome size coming out as a master trait. One for models of soil biogeochemistry?
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
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Y-A+S is the new Y-A-S: Updating microbial life history tradeoffs with comparative genomics
Trait-based theory, coupled with mechanistic trait-based models, can be used to explore how changes in environmental conditions affect microbial community assembly and the impact on soil biogeochemist...
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6486618/v1
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Pretty excited about ESM next month, who else is going? ๐
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9 months ago
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Tina Kaiser
11 months ago
Happy to announce our new paper: Soil microbes prefer organic acids over sugars in simulated root exudation (
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
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Redirecting
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2025.109738
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#EGU25
next week?๐ How do encroaching shrubs and trees affect
#plant
-
#soil
interactions in the low Canadian
#Arctic
? I talk about this Monday 28 Apr at 17:50 in Room E2 during the 'Soil and Environmental Change' session (BG.49)
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...
9 months ago
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Find Larissa at
#EGU25
for the latest research on plant-soil interactions &
#GHGemmisions
from the Canadian
#Arctic
!
#globalecology
#carboncycle
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9 months ago
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Julia Kemppinen
9 months ago
I am recruiting a doctoral researcher to conduct research on tundra plants and microclimates ๐ฑ๐ก๏ธ๐งโ๏ธ Call ends April 25!
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Doctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Change
Doctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Change
https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Doctoral-Researcher%2C-Biodiversity-Change/817987102/
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Sarah Schwieger
about 1 year ago
1/ In our recent meta-analysis, we explored how warming affects plant litter decomposition across the globe published in Ecology Letters: ๐
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Context matters!
#ClimateChange
#EcosystemScience
#Shrubification
#Roots๐ฑ
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Environmental Conditions Modulate Warming Effects on Plant Litter Decomposition Globally
Empirical studies show substantial variability in plant litter decomposition responses to warming, leaving the overall impact of climate change on decomposition uncertain. Our meta-analysis of 109 ex...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.70026
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Rike Stelkens
10 months ago
Two more weeks to apply for a PhD position in our yeast genomics and evolution lab at Stockholm University! Please share widely. ๐งช๐งฌ๐ณ๐
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SeppeKuehnLab
10 months ago
Another preprint! Microbiomes are often structured in guilds, or groups of taxa that use similar resources - wastewater, fermentation, human gut. How do these guilds respond to environmental fluctuations? Can we learn these guilds from time series in the wild?
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angela oliverio
10 months ago
We are hiring a postdoctoral scholar to join us in the sometime in the next ~6 months.
oliveriolab.org
with a focus on microbial eukaryotes in extreme environments. Please email w/CV if you'd like to chat. Official ad soon.
#MicroSky
#MicrobiomeSky
#ProtistsOnSky
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New Phytologist
10 months ago
On the cover of our
#LatestIssue
:
#Lichens
and
#mosses
, characteristic vegetation of climatically harsh environments, thriving side by side on Lรฉonie Island,
#Antarctica
. Image courtesy of Inger K. de Jonge. ๐ See de Jonge et al.:
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
#PlantScience
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รkos T Kovรกcs
10 months ago
Calls for papers from FEMS Microbiology Ecology: Thematic Issue on Ecology of Soil Microorganisms Editors:
@pbaldrian.bsky.social
@jennihultman.bsky.social
Petr Kohout Minna Mรคnnistรถ
@tainapennanen.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/femsec/pages...
Submission deadline: 28 November 2025
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Calls for papers from FEMS Microbiology Ecology
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, publishing leading research in the microbial ecology community, publishes a variety of thematic issues covering a diverse range of to
https://academic.oup.com/femsec/pages/call_for_papers/?itm_campaign=8697vnbap-8697vndv7-Tl-Gb-Fc-Cb-Ai&itm_source=hum&itm_medium=referral&itm_content=live+engagement&itm_term=Journals+Time+Bound+Call+for+Papers+8697vndv7#Thematic%20Issue%20on%20Ecology%20of%20Soil%20Microorganisms
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Last week
@dwnewstoday.bsky.social
&
@spiegel.de
released a report about the misconduct at Max Planck institutes across Germany The lack of accountability by MPI is depressing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nE...
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How Germany's elite research institution fails young scientists | DW Documentary
YouTube video by DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nEd600iM0
10 months ago
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Dr. Bala Chaudhary
12 months ago
Hey BlueSky! I made a starter pack for folks working on mycorrhizal symbioses. LMK who else to include!
go.bsky.app/285P8Tn
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky
10 months ago
Just a woman scientist saying that no matter what I am allowed to say about climate change to funders/govt, the bogs will have their say.
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Very cool paper on protists selective bacterial feeding based on the smell of soil!
#bvoc
#soilecology
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Preprint - Nematodes Vector Bacteriophages in Compost and Soil
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
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Nematodes Vector Bacteriophages in Compost and Soil
Bacteriophages (phages) infect bacteria to reproduce and are often lethal to their host. To maintain the infection cycle, soil phages must travel from one suitable host to the next. However, traversin...
https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.02.605737
11 months ago
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Mathilde Borg Dahl
11 months ago
Hi, I am searching for the best protocol for isolating/extracting viable protist from soil. Any specific recommendations or tips to share will be greatly appreciated ๐
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Rike Stelkens
11 months ago
We have a 4-year fully funded PhD position available! Research topics include but are not limited to 1) Parallel evolution of climate adaptation in Europe and South America 2) The genetic architecture of temperature adaptation 3) The evolution of pathogenicity
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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PhD student in Evolutionary Genomics with Yeast
The Department of Zoology of Stockholm University includes ca. 80 employees, including researchers, PhD students, and administrative staff. Research and education at the department occurs in an intern
https://su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:798314/
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SoilMicroBio
11 months ago
If you are an Ecologist and would like to join Global Ecology Starter Pack
go.bsky.app/MkLHiKU
DM
@global-ecology.bsky.social
to join.
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Justin Stewart
11 months ago
I left USA for my PhD. Happy to chat with anyone curious about navigating the process to Holland.
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Evelina Tutucci
11 months ago
It's out! Beautiful work led by Loreto Oyarte Gรกlvez &
@cbisot.bsky.social
! Do you want to learn more about how Mycorrhizal fungi extraordinary networks form and function? Read the open-access publication! Link below ๐
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So much cool research on microbial predation is coming out lately! For example; Effects of experimentally elevated virus abundance on soil carbon cycling across varying ecosystem types
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Effects of experimentally elevated virus abundance on soil carbon cycling across varying ecosystem types
Viruses are abundant and diverse members of soil communities, but their influences on soil biogeochemical cycling are poorly understood. To assess theโฆ
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038071724002451
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Noah Fierer
11 months ago
New paper out that (we hope) will be useful to anyone with an interest in Antarctic soil microbial communities:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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A comprehensive survey of soil microbial diversity across the Antarctic continent - Polar Biology
Antarctic soils are unique from those found nearly anywhere else on Earth yet can still harbor a broad diversity of microorganisms able to tolerate the challenging conditions typical of the continent....
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00300-025-03372-y
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Ecology of Soil Microorganisms
11 months ago
Time to submit those abstracts! Abstract deadline is in less than 2 weeks on Feb 24th, more information
www.luke.fi/esm2025
! Also news from FEMS: we are pleased to inform a thematic issue for โEcology of Soil Microorganismsโ in FEMS Microbiology Ecology
academic.oup.com/femsec/pages...
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Calls for papers from FEMS Microbiology Ecology
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, publishing leading research in the microbial ecology community, publishes a variety of thematic issues covering a diverse range of to
https://academic.oup.com/femsec/pages/call_for_papers?login=false#Thematic%20Issue%20on%20Ecology%20of%20Soil%20Microorganisms
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Timo Mendez
12 months ago
The first description of mycorrhizae was published in 1885, where A.B. Frank first coined the term. His study, commissioned by the Kingdom of Prussia, explored the potential for truffle cultivation. Despite it's age, it's insightful to anyone interested in the subject. Read it โฌ๏ธ
tinyurl.com/ABFrank
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Mathilde Borg Dahl
12 months ago
It's time for a first post on this (for me) new platform, and what's better than some beautiful fieldwork photos. So here is a flashback to one of the most spectacular fieldwork campaigns I ever carried out - sampling soil cores from our fieldsites (called
#ForHot
) in Iceland in Feb'2022. PART ONE.
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Maria Faticov
12 months ago
Happy that microbes had a dedicated session at the Swedish Oikos Meeting 2025! It was a lot of fun chairing the session and hearing so many interesting microbial and soil processes talks
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