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

Beitrag zu unserem Europa-Rekord, ein Fund einer Zwergspitzmaus (Sorex minutus) auf knapp 3300m. VIDEO: on.orf.at/video/142889... PAPER: doi.org/10.4404/hyst... with @chiarapaniccia.bsky.social and @euracalpenv.bsky.social #shrews #Alps #SouthTyrol #SmallMammals

We can’t see them, but they’re almost everywhere: in the sea, in our food, in the air we breathe. We’re talking about microplastics. They can absorb toxic substances and make their way into the food chain What is the European Union doing about it? Watch on #EuropeansStories

Wenn der Ottomotor heute erfunden werden würde

What is living in (and on) alpine soils at 3100m in the European #Alps? "Not too much"? Check out this sample. A lot of critters (abundance) and also some larger larvae (Tipulidae) and some flying insects (biomass). Very excited to sort out these #GLORIA samples from #SouthTyrol. #AlpSoil_Lab

Danke euch, Maschinen!!! 🫶😅 #KI #AI #Terminator #Apocalypse #Apokalypse

Fundstück auf dem Handy 🤣

There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.

Hey #soil #taxonomists! Have you described a species in the last 5 years? Tell us about in our Free + Open Submission event Name Drop! New species unveiled faster than you can say Linnaeus www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/gsb4 #soilbiodiversity @thegsbi.bsky.social

Accidentally found something nice while #snorkeling in an #Mediterranean river 😎 #iNauralist identification will follow. #fish #adventure #diving

🌱 Gemeinsam für mehr #Biodiversität! Welche Maßnahmen fördern die Artenvielfalt in Deutschland wirklich? Wir suchen Ideen & Erfahrungen – mach mit bei unserer Umfrage zur #ZukunftswerkstattBiodiversität! 👉 tinyurl.com/5n8879sb 📷 © Leibniz Biodiversität @leibnizbiodiv.bsky.social

✨ONLINE FIRST✨🍄🐜🌱 📢 Cyrille D. Haese and colleagues examine #collembola fauna from Iranian #biodiversity hotspots! @thomastully.bsky.social Check it out here! ⬇️ www.soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO...

Yesterday we had earthworm cocoons, today I bring you springtail spermatophores! Springtails, like many soil invertebrates, reproduce by a male leaving these structures (sperm-rich fluid on a stalk), which the female will sniff out and collect to fertilise her eggs. Romantic! #SoilBiodiversity 🧪

#goodnews Das 1. Buchungsportal für individuelle #Bahnreisen in #Europa geht online www.traivelling.com Ob von #Wien nach Kopenhagen, von Berlin nach Barcelona oder ganz woanders hin, das Buchen von Bahnreisen in Europa wird nun einfacher. #ZugstattFlug www.derstandard.at/story/300000... 1/2

Ich habe zufällig mal in #3sat reingeschaut und sofort @weisleitner.bsky.social bei der Beprobung von #Mikroplastik in #Kanada und #Grönland gesehen 😲 Sehr sehr spannend ✌️ 📺 lnkd.in/gDJGNeUw 🐳🛥️🐻‍❄️

📢The Global Soil Biodiversity Conference 2026 abstract submission deadline is coming up quickly 🐛🐜🕷️🦠🪱 Abstracts are due July 15th 23:59 PDT ‼️ Submit an abstract 👇 globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/abstract/ @gsb2026.bsky.social

Hey, as I do love soil animals and critters, I did support an artist who draws very nice pictures of the vast variety of #SoilBiodiversity (mainly #SoilFauna). Stickers for the kids 🤩 If you love #soil too, support @fminifera.bsky.social at smartwork.bigcartel.com #SoilIsLife #SoilIsAlive

Like all arthropods, springtails need to shed their exoskeletons to grow - a process called 'ecdysis'. I recently got very lucky to find a giant springtail that had just moulted! I don't know if anyone's ever photographed this before! #SoilBiodiversity #Macrophotography #Invertebrate 🧪📸

📢✨ONLINE FIRST!✨ How do anthropogenic drivers influence @soilbiodiversity change? Find out here! @bartoszbartk.com @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @mrillig.bsky.social @christianristok.bsky.social @doreenbabin.bsky.social Jörg Römbke, Frank Galante, Christina Lachman soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO...

Unser Review über "Biodiversität in Bergböden oberhalb der Baumgrenze" im Newsroom der @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social 🤓 www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/ (Original: doi.org/10.1111/brv....) mit @nadinepraeg.bsky.social , @jseeber.bsky.social , @fundivecol.bsky.social ‬, @gmba-ipo.bsky.social , and many more

Scary garden finding today: The dead body of a slow worm (Anguis veronensis) was still "beating"... It was infested by small millipedes (Blaniulus guttulatus) and maggots 😅 Well, this is the circle of life, recycle and get recycled ♻️ www.inaturalist.org/observations... #Diplopoda #Reptilia

We’re thrilled to share that @mattande.bsky.social has won the prestigious Stefan M. Gergely Prize! 🏆 Awarded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) for outstanding research on biodiversity and ecosystems. Big congrats, Matteo! 👏🌿 📸 ÖAW / D. Hinterramskogler

Start of #SoilBON sampling in our alpine grassland sites ⛰️ @soilbon.bsky.social, @euracalpenv.bsky.social, @msteinwandter.bsky.social

Today marks the second anniversary of the horrific crime committed by Russian terrorists – the blowing up of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant. Aftermath:

Should Ecology be more proactive & vocal on one of the key issues of our times? What systemic & institutional changes are needed for the ecological community to be at the forefront of the response? If these are questions that speak to you, this new paper may be of interest lnkd.in/eXfXG4xM

Some of us from the @euracalpenv.bsky.social contributed to a small conference paper on how #iNaturalist data add value to survey biodiversity in #LTER sites, in this case @lter-italy.bsky.social sites. Please find it here: aca.pensoft.net/article/1517... #Italy #CitizenScience #LTSER #LTERitaly

US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱 Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated". #climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience

Job alert! Open Research position in our group on "Tree line ecology in mountain regions" at @slfdavos.bsky.social Apply and become my colleague 😊 apply.refline.ch/273855/1731/...

How to #SupportUkraine right now? This is a question I asked myself often... For example, you could support the @kyivindependent.com and buy stuff from their store, which is supporting independent journalism. I really love my new hoodie! It is so fluffy. Take care, hang in there, be safe 💛💙

🏔 species redistribution We found limited evidence, so far, for #mountaintop #extinction, lowland #biotic #attrition & #range-shifts gaps despite climate-driven upslope range shifts 🌡📈 Biotic homogenization on its way along mountain slopes 🗻🏔⛰️ 🧪🌐🌍🏔🌳🌲🦋🦎🐦🦔 @science.org shorturl.at/Fdrlo

The 2025 Cooper Award @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social has been awarded to the authors of “Harmonizing taxon names in biodiversity data: A review of tools, databases and best practices”. Congratulations to Matthias Grenié, @smartenwinter.bsky.social & all co-authors! 🥂🎉 www.idiv.de/cooper-award...

NOW ONLINE at Biological Reviews! Global review on "Biodiversity in mountain soils above the treeline" by @nadinepraeg.bsky.social, me, and many great #SoilBiodiversity researcher. Free read and download at doi.org/10.1111/brv.... Here, a short thread 🧵 (1/4) #UIBK #EuracResearch #UniGraz #GMBA