Postcards from the Field 📬📧🌿 Can you beat this?😲 Send us your best fieldwork photo for a chance to feature in this month's newsletter. Featured: Arthur Broadbent shoveling snow for a snow manipulation experiment near Vent in the Austrian Alps (photo credit: Michael Bahn) doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

...a few more to illustrate the morphological diversity of staphyliniform beetles 🤩 🐜ant-like stone beetle, Scydmaenus, under log, Oklahoma 🫓flipped Eurylister carolinus, a flattened hister beetle, OK ✨sleek scaphidiine "Shining Fungus Beetle", OK 🤏TINY Ptinella sp feather-winged beetle, OK

A new article by Jean Miczka and colleagues analyzes how mountain huts in the western European Alps are being adapted to climate change, what the challenges are, and how adaptation could be improved. Recommendations include ensuring long-term coordination. Find out more: doi.org/10.1659/mrd....

So, as sympathy for the US (government!) and its big tech and #broligarchs decreases (again and again)... ... let us #MEGA (make Europe great again) and use European tools! Break free from US-tech. ;) 🇪🇺 1️⃣ euroalternative.co 2️⃣ www.goeuropean.org

Morgen erscheint meine erste Doku. CYCLING CITIES. Es geht um die schönsten Fahrradstädte Europas, um die Gegenwart, aber auch um die Vergangenheit und wie Städte wie Amsterdam & Utrecht so geworden sind, wie sie heute aussehen. Ich freu mich sehr, wenn ihr den Film anschaut. Ab Morgen auf Youtube😊

📢 Call for Collaborators! Interested in Isopods? Check out this call in Soil Organisms by Konstantin Gongalsky and colleagues @msteinwandter.bsky.social @soilscholar.bsky.social soil-organisms.org/SO/article/v...

Want to work on biodiversity in the Alps? ⛰️ We are offering several internship positions for the upcoming spring and summer in collaboration with the Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol 🕷️🦋🦇🐜🌼🦗🪱 biodiversity.eurac.edu/interns-want...

Congratulations to our former #MSCA fellow and microbial ecologist Magdalena Nagler for being one of three winners of the Junior Research Award South Tyrol. 🦠🏅🏞️ Looking forward for new collaborations and insights in #eDNA of soils. scholar.google.at/citations?us...

Just a girl and her bundle of baby clones she's wearing like an ass turban 🥹 My population of Schizomida (parthenogenic tailless whipscorpions) are so happy in their box of dirt. As always, tending a box of dirt is such a good decision and I recommend it.

Very happy to be part of and to see this review on #Oniscidea (woodlice, terrestrial #Isopoda) published in @soilorganismsj.bsky.social . Many thanks to Konstantin Gongalsky & Pallieter De Smedt for leading this! 🎊 Read/download the review: doi.org/10.25674/466 Have data? SHARE THEM! #OniscidBase

#PostDoc Alert! PhD in #Biology or #EnvironmentalSciences? Strong background in #ForestEcology, DNA-based biodiversity assessments, #Bioinformatics, and experimental planning? Our #ForestEntomology Group offers a 2-year #PostDoc position 🌳🧬💻: apply.refline.ch/273855/1798/... #ScienceJobs #eDNA

Jungforscher:innen, aufgepasst! Der #Nationalpark #HoheTauern vergibt mehrere Forschungsstipendien. Also wer gerne im Gebirge forscht und/oder dort unterwegs sein will, sollte sich das ansehen. --> hohetauern.at/de/forschung... #NPHT #MountainScience #YoungResearcher #Scholarship

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It feels like Christmas has come early. After the @monitant.bsky.social team has been working busily in forests across the continent, samples from all over Europe are now arriving. Time to unwrap some data about red wood ants. 🐜🎁

📣 join in my team 🤗! 👇 - #rstats software development - contribute to @bioconductor.bsky.social and @galaxyproject.bsky.social - large-scale #MassSpectrometry #metabolomics and #proteomics data analysis - hiking ⛰️ 📍 Bolzano, 🇮🇹 ⏲️ 3 year position 🔗 full description: bit.ly/4pyXi3V please share

•📢 🪱 🎉Abstract submissions are now OPEN for the upcoming 13th International Symposium on Earthworm Ecology (ISEE13) — hosted in Wageningen, from August 23–28, 2026! ➡️https://event.wur.nl/isee13/author •🔗🪱🌍 Discover the speaker lineup and our initial program: ➡️ event.wur.nl/isee13/new-p...

Thanks @jlembrechts.bsky.social for this blog post about our new Oikos paper! Love your blog. :-)

Very helpful preprint from on "Standardised protocols for soil fauna extraction and a call for cross-lab implementation" 🪱🕷️🐞 doi.org/10.22541/au.... #SoilFauna #SoilBiodiversity #SoilLabs #Soil

Today, I had a lot of fun at my daugther's elementary school, where I talked about the importance of healthy soils and the beauty of soil organisms (which is easy if one has the fantastic photos of @frankashwood.bsky.social). Next generation of soil scientists is secured I hope 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬

"Happy" to see that Europe's commitment is visible in this graph. However, overall, we might lose the race...

Identifying soil insect larvae is tricky sometimes. The next time I get a comment by a reviewer asking "Why only to family level?" I send him/her this photo. 😋 Left a Hydrophilidae larva (#Coleoptera), without legs... Right a Scatopsidae larva (#Diptera)... #entomology #SoilBiodiversity #insects

Great PhD position available at University of Stirling, with some field work also in the Swiss Alps 🏔️ If you are interested in soil biodiversity and functioning have a look 👇

Open Letter by scientists to the Council: "Climate Neutrality Is Europe’s Greatest Economic Opportunity”. Ahead of the European Council meeting on 23.10.2025, 2,178 scientists urge EU Heads of States & Governments to take ambitious decisions for the 2040 targets. zenodo.org/records/1739...

Pleased to be part of this important letter led by @cmarin.bsky.social @thegsbi.bsky.social, calling for greater global action to protect soil biodiversity! A timely publication also because today is #WorldEarthwormDay 🌍🪱

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

Für Leute wie mich und @bmgn.rs , die gerne noch bei Mastodon sind (bzw. mitlesen wollen), gibt es jetzt eine coole App, wo beide Feeds zusammenkommen: #FLARE (auch Twixxer ist dabei, aber ja, das lassen wir mal beiseite...) flareapp.moe #Mastodon #Fediverse

These autumn colours are amazing! I live where others go on holiday. 😎 #autumn #autumncolours #cablecar #Ritten #Renon #SouthTyrol #Südtirol #AltoAdige #mountains #Dolomites

Ever wondered about "The real height at which a hill becomes a mountain?" @andrewvandam.bsky.social from @washingtonpost.com gives an answer in a good read www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

📣 New PhD student position opening in my lab! Soils are full of microbes, but how many are active? Surprisingly, we still lack reliable methods to answer this. If you are interested in microbial dormancy and are fascinated by the Alps and glacier forefields, contact me. 🏔️ 🦠 💤 🧬 🎓

Exciting MonitAnt meeting at the Natural History Museum, Brussels. Great discussions on fieldwork and ant ID, plus a rare glimpse of the museum after hours! 🐜🦖

Der Bestand des Westeuropäischen Igels sinkt aufgrund von Lebensraumverlust, Pestiziden und Straßenverkehr. In Südtirol wird ein Rückgang der Igelpopulation vermutet. Naturschutzverbände fordern ein Verbot von Mährobotern nachts, um Igel zu schützen.

New paper on ancient DNA and lipids from Icelandic lakes. This one threw some unexpected results and now has me thinking a lot about lake oxygen’s role in organic matter preservation, the climate proxies derived from them, and past methane cycling. #Paleosky www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Great new video featuring Colm Flynn, a Tillage farmer from Kildare, talking about the #SoilHealth journey on his farm #Soilhealthweek #groundtruth youtu.be/2Hk-Uqf291k?...

The Global EV Alliance has launched this survey to help understand #electrivehicle drivers needs to help create meaningful legislation

Well done to @nadinepraeg.bsky.social for presenting and promoting our review of #MountainSoilBiodiversity at the #IMC2025. 👏🙏 In collaboration with @gmba-ipo.bsky.social, we compiled a wealth of information on our knowledge of alpine soil biota. 🪴🦠🪱 Openly accessible here: doi.org/10.1111/brv....

Next in the #MountainSoilBiodiversity poster session at the #IMC2025 is Theresa Rzehak showing us the variety of #soil #microbiota in different mountain habitats and elevations.

And as conclusion of our #MountainSoilBiodiversity poster session at the #IMC2025 is a presentation from @mizeh.bsky.social assessing the #CarbonStocks in the high #mountains of #Switzerland. A lot of hiking!

Our #MountainSoilBiodiversity session at the #IMC2025 is not yet finished: here our #PosterSession contributions: first Annabel Lindley showing us how #microbiota, #plants, and #invertebrates differ (or not) in natural, extensively, and intensively managed land.

Already the last talk in our #MountainSoilBiodiversity session at the #IMC2025: Johanna Mayerhofer on #soil #microbiota and their assosciations with plants in the course of the large #Biodiversity #Monitoring of #Switzerland. Thanks to everyone attending, all speaker, and to @jseeber.bsky.social!

Now on stage in our #MountainSoilBiodiversity session at the #IMC2025 is Martha Apple on root morphology and #microbiota as symbionts in different #alpine habitats in wilderness areas the #RockyMountains of Montana.

Next in our #MountainSoilBiodiversity session at the #IMC2025 is co-convener @nadinepraeg.bsky.social showing us the soil meta-communities (i.e. the sum of all #microbiota) in mountain and alpine soils in the #LTER area #Matsch in #SouthTyrol.

Already Talk 7 in our #MountainSoilBiodiversity session at the #IMC2025 by Francisco Pugnaire on #microbiome communities associated with understory #soil in the mountains of #Andalusia (Spain).

Next is Lucía Laorden-Camacho from @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social in our #MountainSoilBiodiversity session at the #IMC2025 talking about #ShrubEncroachment and how #Fungi are affected by these changes.

We stick to #alpine soils ( #snowbeds) and #microorganisms in our #MountainSoilBiodiversity session at the #IMC2025 with Colin La Noir de Carlan (with #AlpFor) simulating different snow melt changes.

Now in our #MountainSoilBiodiversity session at #IMC2025 a presentation of Nora Khelidj again about #GlacierRetreat and how microorganisms ( #fungi and #bacteria) attached on plant roots change along with the new emerging ecosystem stages.

Next in our #MountainSoilBiodiversity at the #IMC2025 is Sophie Szedlaczek talking about #Mortierella #fungi in alpine #glacier forefields and how their species communities are similar (or different) to each other.

The @imc2025.bsky.social started for us and our #MountainSoilBiodiversity session. 🪱🦠🕷️ Priyanka Kashyap showing us the diversity and functional groups of #nematodes in Indian high mountains doing some #OpenTopChamber experiments.

📣GSBI Speaks is back again in September! Join us to learn how AI is being used to measure soil biodiversity 🤖💡🦠 September 24, 2025, 6 MDT, 8 EDT, 13 BST, 14 CEST Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi... Learn more here: www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/webinar-24-ai

🧪 Science on Bluesky A new study of 2.6m posts finds research gets far more likes, reposts, and thoughtful replies on @bsky.app than on X. Scholars call it a 'purer' space for discussion. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #SciComm #BlueSky #AcademicSky