Plant miRNAs influence soil bacterial growth and amino acid uptake, restructuring community composition -in #ISMEComms academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Bad news for large natural carbon sinks: "Our findings suggest the potential for a similar response to climate change by woody aboveground biomass in moist tropical forests globally, which could culminate in a long-term switch from carbon sinks to carbon sources." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pretty amazing experience - even as Franconian having visited many breweries, I learnt a lot today (maybe also, because many brewers avoid sharing the details 😅). Now, the countdown towards the start of the @terra-cluster.org @unituebingen.bsky.social is on (counted by microbes): 🍻🥨🍺

Protect academia in Sudan with global action | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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#NewResearch Precipitation legacy effects on soil microbiota facilitate adaptive drought responses in plants #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Next #job hire: Our own PhD position within #MultiStress to be funded as KAAD scholarship @unituebingen.bsky.social is out: You're East African scholar interested in #maize #root & #rhizosphere traits +their response to #biotic & #abiotic stress? Ready to perform work in #Germany & #Kenya? APPLY NOW

Fine root biomass depends on plant functional differences, not just more species Sai Peng, Yakun Zhang, and Han Y. H. Chen nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Summary also available in Chinese. #PlantScience

Our work on mapping the dynamics of phospholipids during lateral root formation is now published in @jxbotany.bsky.social We show that PI(4,5)P₂ plays a key role: targeted reduction in pericycle promotes LR development. → academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

A long road to the Cover of Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Great news: the #MultiStress team passed the review process - so we now search PhD candidates for #KAAD scholarships for our project on co-occuring biotic & abiotic stress in #maize. First, our central project @uni-goettingen.de @agrarunigoe.bsky.social needs sbd. highly interested in #metabolomics

Die @ethz.ch -Professorin @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social hat als erste Schweizerin den renommierten Deutschen #Umweltpreis der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) erhalten. Ein Porträt von SRF nano (ab ca. Minute 16.40): www.srf.ch/play/tv/nano...

Happy to announce that Sara Loftus successfully defended her PhD thesis @uni-goettingen.de. Starting from Day-1 of the #MoreCropPerDrop project, she performed excellent work in advancing our understanding of key #sorghum #belowground #root and #rhizosphere traits under #stress. Very proud today 🍾.

#JobAlert: Only 3 days left! @terra-cluster.org is hiring our #DIVERSITORIUM manager: If you like the challenge to set up a globally unique geodiversity experiment & love field working managing plots with technical installations - here you are: the @unihohenheim.bsky.social awaits your application!

What surprises me when it comes to the vaccine - perhaps because research is ongoing - is that more noise isn't made about this... med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

To preserve #biodiversity on a global scale, conservationists must more routinely use #PredictiveModels to assess which strategies succeed. Read the PNAS opinion: https://ow.ly/tkcj50XhElh#biodiversity#PredictiveModels#ConservationBiology #GBF #ConventionOnBiologicalDiversity

Keen to come from China to Tübingen for a PhD? The 2026 CSC-Tübingen PhD scholarship call is open, including an opportunity to join our team to investigate soil phage ecology in synthetic communities uni-tuebingen.de/de/114003

JOB ALERT! We are looking for a LAB MANAGER (7-year position!) to help us build the MOLECULAR BIODIVERSITY lab in our @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Are you a NGS wet lab expert, and you like the idea of supporting research on natural biodiversity, then apply! Please re-post!

⁉️ Gibt's im Boden eigentlich Red Flags für die Dates von #Mikroorganismen? 🤓 Ob der #Bodentyp oder die Pflanzenart ausschlaggebender ist für die Wohlfühlatmosphäre der Mikros, das erklärt euch Kathrin in der aktuellen Folge! #Soilcast #Bodenkunde

Sped-up #evolution may help #bacteria take hold in #gut #microbiome ... | #microbes | #gastrointestinal | #brain | #immunesystem | By @cnsiatucla.bsky.social via @sciencex.bsky.social

Would like to add a personal thanks: Incredibly great input - so many new aspects & alternative ideas to think about #geodiversity ⛰️🌧️ Whatever we #TERRAnauts will be able to realize out of that: this event brought essential contributions to the #Diversitorium. Wish everybody a safe travel back 🚄✈️

JOB ALERT - LAST CALL: You like the keywords you see below? Your heart beats for bioinformatics? Keep in mind, that it's only 5 days till deadline: Join the #GBI group @unituebingen.bsky.social & apply for our Postdoc position to join the SoilSystems project EcoEnergetics: uni-tuebingen.de/de/222828

JOB ALERT: Become our #TERRA #DIVERSITORIUM manager @unihohenheim.bsky.social. If you have extraordinary coordination skills & feel dedicated to bring the first large-scale #geodiversity manipulation experiment to a global success: Please apply & become a #TERRAnaut, see uni-tuebingen.de/en/285483!

Metabolic interplay drives population cycles in a cross-feeding microbial community www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @uslter.bsky.social Please repost!

Kick-off meeting of our African Union Soil Observatory (#AUSO) project today in Nairobi, Kenya. @ec.europa.eu @cirad.bsky.social @saegroupethz.bsky.social Here is the website of the project: auso.faraafrica.org

Global constraint principle for microbial growth laws www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs

#Grassland are key, biodiverse & not well understood. Study on Kenyan #savannah grasses in P&S reveals key #root & #rhizosphere traits for restoration. Great collaboration led by Moses Ngugi with B. Mweu & R. Munene in Kevin Mganga's field trial at South Eastern Kenya University tinyurl.com/29czkasa

Congrats Debjyoti @nullsimpleton.bsky.social from @ufz.de: great outcome of #RootWayS project. Interrelating amplicon sequencing, qPCR & proteomics from field samples of #root channels: what a challenge leading to this wonderful outcome @globalchangebio.bsky.social. Link: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Job Alert! We're hiring a BIOINFORMATICIAN / NGS SPECIALIST to support our new Molecular Biodiversity Lab in the @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Like the idea to use your skills for understanding biodiversity? To work on diverse questions in a wonderful place? Apply! Please repost!

Use your chance to join the #TERRA team @unituebingen.bsky.social: 7-year position waiting for sbd. to advance #bioinformatic analysis in the context of bio-geo-diversity relations. Tübingen itself is a convincing reason, but our amazing #cluster team even more. We look forward to your application!

Microbiome sequencing has come so far in 2 decades. In my PhD— I used TRFLP…. am now doing long read sequencing of entire soil metagenomes! This review was great fun- thanks Gitta Szabó @emileyeloe-fadrosh.bsky.social Tanja Woyke of @jgi.doe.gov www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📌Just published in Rhizosphere journal: Temperature sensitivity🌡️ and spatial distribution of β-glucosidase activity in microbial #hotspots: The impact of root hairs🪴 led Xuecheng Zhang Free 50 days' link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpfh8jaVh... doi.org/10.1016/j.rh... #SoilZymography #ClimateChange

Used the opportunity of #DBG2025 for the first in-person meeting with @diegomiga.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social. From an excellent presentation in the #GBI group up to evenings with (nearly) uruguayan barbacues: all centered around Diego inspiring us for the secrets of his managed grasslands!

Weil sie vor 80 Jahren Antifa waren: Trump lässt Tausende US-Veteranen verhaften www.der-postillon.com/2025/09/trum...

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃 www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

Searching satellite-identified GPS-coordinates, thereby sinking into a boggy swamp, maneuvering cars through erosion gullies & denied access back to main road by an impassable steel gate (however we managed to get behind that). So many memories linked to this space-for-time transect: happy its out 😃

NEW in Earth's Future Active #Restoration of Degraded #Grasslands Accelerated #Subsoil #Carbon Accumulation and Turnover doi.org/10.1029/2025... #SoilOrganicMatter #SoilOrganicCarbon #sequestration #carbonsequestration #soil #grasslands #Roots #soilhealth #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

The @unituebingen.bsky.social orga team of the #DBG2025, Thomas, Yvonne, @peterkuehn37.bsky.social, Callum, Harald & myself, say Bye to all participants: We enjoyed hosting you and hope the meeting was memorable. Looking forward to seeing many at the 100-year-event of the @soilsdbg.bsky.social again

Proud to share our paper: Drought intensity shapes soil legacy effects on grassland plant and soil microbial communities and their responses to future drought, out now in @globalchangebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... (1/n)

GREAT: My special congrats go to Christian Ahl: that's so much deserved for his enormous effort to support @soilsdbg.bsky.social, no matter how difficult times became @uni-goettingen.de. Was so happy he received this honor at my new home @unituebingen.bsky.social 🥂🍾 Thanks Christian for your support

On time with the end of our #DFG funded project on the impact of #biochar in #soils, we could present our major outcomes: @iraloginova.bsky.social gave an excellent talk on root-biochar interactions and Prashanth Prasanna closed #DBG2025 with the impact of #mucilage on biochar stability: congrats 👋

At #DBG2025, our #SPP2322 & #Storage projects target #bioenergetics in #soils: @lingling1000.bsky.social assessed C & energy use efficiencies, @nbilyera.bsky.social the metabolic costs of enzyme production, & Yang Ding the interrelation of grassland C & N input on microbial storage: Excellent Job👋

...and even more about #RootWayS project at the #DBG2025: Yijie Shi (Ada) & Henrik Füllgrabe presented on #microzymography and the subsoil labeling methods (or #Soils dating #CoverCrops ). Congrats to the two for wrapping up the outcomes of the first phase so nicely in their excellent presentations

Very interesting discussions about soils again this evening during the second poster session. The winners of the Best Award Poster #DBG2025 in five other commissions received books on soils in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. 🎉Congratulations to the winners!

Monday was our #GBI Poster-Party-Day at #DBG2025: 2 times #RootWayS (BMBF) project with Jiangyuzhuo Wang's #subsoil labeling and Yihan Pu's mesh tubes show #intercropping benefit. Yuxuan Zhang of #BNI-2030 (@bmleh.de) added #nitrification inhibition & Ningkang Sun #AMF driven P mobilization on top 👏

Proud of my "root-&-rhizosphere" team at #DBG2025 on Tuesday: Nipuna Withanage reported from #RootWayS (#BMFTR), Moses Ngugi from the #TERRA pre-project on functions of biodiverse Kenyan grasslands & Rozy Munene + Manisha Koirala from the #MoreCropPerDrop project in sub-Saharan Africa. Great Job 👍

This is part of our second-phase project in the SoilSystems Priority Program, in which we will investigate microbial cooperation in soil: soilsystems.net/projects-par...

We are hiring! On the search for an ambitious post-doc with hot skills in metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and bioinformatics to join our EcoEnergeticS project with @michaeladippold.bsky.social Find the ad here: uni-tuebingen.de/zh/266340