Written 6 years ago (during corona): Ten Simple Rules for increased lab resilience. What would you add? journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

This week’s newsletter is about making ourselves more resilient as researchers in a time of multiple crises. What would you add to the list? open.substack.com/pub/matthias...

Should we pay more attention to non-climate extreme events in global change biology? open.substack.com/pub/matthias...

When will we realize in Germany that we need to plan for cooling as well as for heating? It's not possible to operate institutions (like universities) like this. It's a question of ensuring performance and resilience.

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New paper out, first authored by visiting PhD student Naying Li: Microplastic pollution enhances methane emissions from remote mountainous lakes via plastisphere-mediated microbial processes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We have a new doctor! Congratulations to Rebecca Rongstock who recently successfully defended her PhD on multi-factor ecological science. @fubcp.bsky.social

Europe’s record heatwave: does the continent have a new climate? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

EU Omnibus proposal increases pesticide risks | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Are there "points of vulnerability" in ecosystems when they are exposed to multiple factors of global change? open.substack.com/pub/matthias...

Do ecosystems make decisions?

Bodenpilze als unterschätzte Klimahelfer: Sie stabilisieren Ökosysteme, fördern Erträge und speichern Kohlenstoff. Das zeigt eine neue Studie von Prof. Dr. @mrillig.bsky.social erschienen in Nature Reviews Microbiology. 🍄 ♾️ www.fu-berlin.de/presse/infor...

New paper online: Stress combination in biology, ecology, and medicine: embracing complexity to resolve our central challenges w/ Ron Mittler & Sara Zandalinas in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pressemitteilung der FU Berlin zum neuen Paper in Nature Reviews Microbiology Warum Bodenpilze für Klima, Ernährung und Gesundheit wichtig sind @fubcp.bsky.social @natrevmicro.nature.com www.fu-berlin.de/presse/infor...

Question for all my soil science friends out there: Where in the soil profile is the oldest soil?

Reading in journal club: Defining and protecting old-growth soils @frantecol.bsky.social writing in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Newsletter for this week talks about our recent experimental results using microbial biospheres and the topic of ecosystem persistence Microbial biospherics open.substack.com/pub/matthias...

Is anybody else slightly irritated by the use of "evolution" in the biological literature when they really mean development or a shift over time in something?

Should we have a common model plant-soil ecosystem? Especially ecotoxicology, I think, could profit a lot from that. open.substack.com/pub/matthias...

Nice to see the first experimental paper on our microbial biospheres out.

In my course 'Creativity in the scientific process', the students worked using Lego Serious Play again. Always interesting how different the models are....

Reading in journal club @thoba.bsky.social et al. in Science Include a mixture allocation factor to improve EU chemical risk management www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Farewell talk by Dr. Yongxing Cui today. Very sad to see him leave, but glad we had the time to bask in his brilliance - I am sure there's great stuff coming from him in the future. We will miss you! Stay supported by @humboldt-foundation.de

Our lab's first experimental microbial biospherics paper is out online! Congrats to Shaoyi (姜少毅) for his first paper from his PhD and to Dr India Mansour (senior author) & all others. The paper examines persistence in producer-decomposer microbial biospheres www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Zusammen mit Kolleginnen und Kollegen von UFZ, RWTH, Senckenberg und @mrillig.bsky.social u.a. haben wir für die Leopoldina einen Policy Brief zu den Plänen der EU Kommission im Bereich der Regulierung von Pflanzenschutzmitteln geschrieben. www.leopoldina.org/newsroom/nac...

Paper accepted: Degradable versus inert microplastics: effects on soil organic carbon persistence via microbial drivers in an agroecosystem Will share details once available

Paper just accepted: Arbuscular mycorrhiza provides post-anthesis benefits to maximize wheat grain yield and nitrogen concentration Will share details once available

Für Medienvertreter*innen: Diese Forschenden der #FUBerlin stehen honorarfrei für Interviews zu den Themen zu politisch-historischer Bildung, Verfasstheit, Auftrag und Haltung von Universitäten zur Verfügung: fu-berlin.de/presse/exper... (1/2)

Some thoughts from a recent workshop: is there any connection between the late arrival of plants in terrestrial ecosystems and the high diversity of plant-fungal interactions? matthiasrillig.substack.com/p/diversity-...

At day 2 of the New Phytologist workshop in Angers, several cool talks on symbiotic regulation between land plants and different fungi. Impressive that mucoromycotina fine root endophyte seems to be different from AMF, according to Sebastian Schornack. @dromius.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social

Great presentation by Francis Martin on the saprotrophic-symbiotic continuum in fungi. At the @newphyt.bsky.social workshop in Angers @fmartin54.bsky.social

Session this morning at the @newphyt.bsky.social workshop in Angers started with a broad overview of fossil evidence of early land plants by Paul Kenrick.

Next, Corentin Loron explains how FTIR and machine learning can be used to study molecular composition in the fossil record Prototaxites as the example. Might not be a fungus.🥺 New Phytologist workshop in Angers. @newphyt.bsky.social

Christine Strullu-Derrien introducing some findings of our recently accepted paper on early soils and plants, at the New Phytologist workshop in Angers. @chistinesd.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social

Swag at the New Phytologist workshop in Angers, France. Looking forward to the next two days.

Excited to share my review in Nature Reviews Microbiology on soil fungal ecology. Fungal diversity, ecology and functions in soil ecosystems Hope people will find it useful! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paper by former Humboldt Fellow in our lab, Kai Yue, just out in Nature: Contrasting thermophilization among forests, grasslands and alpine summits @humboldt-foundation.de www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just reading: Comment in Nature The uncritical adoption of AI in science is alarming — we urgently need guard rails www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Just some crazy idea: Can there be a community ecology of agentic AI? What do you think? open.substack.com/pub/matthias...

Paper accepted: Fungal diversity, ecology and functions in soil ecosystems Will share link once available

Paper just accepted: Land use intensification results in abrupt transitions between extensively and intensively managed grasslands Will share link once available

Paper just accepted: An overlooked micro(nano)plastic climate feedback in frozen regions Will share link once available

Paper just accepted: Stress combination in biology, ecology and medicine: Embracing complexity to resolve our central challenges Will share link once available

The harvest of a large greenhouse experiment is ongoing for several days this week, with lots of people helping.

How do you work with your passion in the research process? I sometimes tend to get carried away....

Two massive experiments are being harvested, starting today. This one is for @soilolive.bsky.social

Reading in journal club Köninger et al. Pesticide residues alter taxonomic and functional biodiversity in soils www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How to dose passion for your research. A personal take on the passion/ critical evaluation cycle in the timeline of a research problem. matthiasrillig.substack.com/p/how-to-dos...

What's predation like in the microbial world? Greg Velicer @usyseth.bsky.social and I take you on a tour in our new review! @ethz.ch @cnrs.fr

Reading in lab meeting: Aging and the narrowing of scientific innovation | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...