Greetings from (parts of) the BECC board! We are on a two-day-retreat in Höör to work intensely with our future research strategy. Grateful for all the input we've had from our members, Scientific Advisory Board and Stakeholder Reference Group!

Fresh off the press: Nanoscale Characterization of Fungal-Induced CaCO3 Precipitation: Implications for Self-Healing Concrete Very proud of J.r. Marius Tuyishime, HANBANG ZOU, and thanks for all the help Martin Obst, Karina Thanell, Dimitri Floudas, mm! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Tumbling between denial, rubbles and hope - Lund botanical garden's interactive exhibition of the Broken Greenhouses touched me deeply. Based on the UN's climate scenarios for 2100, created by MBigert and LBergström, involving amongst others my dear BECC colleague matsbjörkman. Really worth a visit!

Exciting postdoc opportunity with Milda Pucetaite and us in the Soilchip group: Become the spectroscopy expert in our multimodal fungal recognition project within our interdisciplinary VR research environment:) lu.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Lund's Sustainability Week was a lot of Soil this year! Soil microscopy at the botanical Garden and Skylle, nanoplastics, and the documentary "Planet Soil" at a pretty full KinoLund with panel discussion afterwards. Thanks a lot all wonderful people who made this all happen!:) @BECC @Soilchipgroup

Did you know you can get a free registration for EGU26? If you are already registered for the #EGU25, you can participate in the EGU photo competition 2025! How? Submit up to three photos related to Earth, planetary, or space sciences by 31 March. 👉 Submit your entry now : egu.eu/9VTNXM

Hur kan svampar bryta ner plaster? Biologiforskare @edithhammer.bsky.social medverkar i programmmet från Vetenskapsradion.

To bridge this gap, we have developed the concept of the "unit of community interactions", which brings fungal ecology and modern coexistence theory closer together. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... with @aguilart.bsky.social @edithhammer.bsky.social @mrillig.bsky.social

Listening tip (In Swedish): Varför vill svampar bryta ner människoskapade material av plast? Det och mycket annat får du svar på i detta avsnitt av Vetenskapsradion där @edithhammer.bsky.social, lektor i biologi och koordinator för BECC, dyker upp cirka 15.40 minuter in i programmet:

Inspiring (and shocking) seminar on forestry and environmental protection conflicts in Sweden and Columbia with @lisarostlund.bsky.social, fariborz Zelli and Torsten Krause. @beccsweden.bsky.social

High time for #EGU25 submissions. Consider contributing to our interdisciplinary session on the spatial heterogeneity of soils influencing biogeochemical matter cycles and C dynamics. meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... @edithhammer.bsky.social, @mud-maik.bsky.social, S.König, N.Meyer

🌍 Dive into the Micro and Nano World at EGU2025! 💧 Thinking about joining EGU2025 with your microfluidic chip study related to ecosystem science or geosciences? Than you are welcome to submit an abstract to our EGU 2025 session: 🔗 lnkd.in/dhh3M_eR Make the invisible visible!

Wann entsteht in Solarparks ein Mehrwert für die Biodiversität? Welche Einflüsse haben die Modulkonstruktionen auf die Entwicklung wertvoller Lebensräume für Pflanzen und Tiere? Auf diese Fragen gibt es bisher kaum evidenzbasierte Antworten. (1/6)

Today is World Soil Day! It pays attention to the importance of healthy soil & the sustainable management of the resource. Meet Professor Katarina Hedlund & researcher Albert Brangarí, as they discuss how we can manage soils in agriculture to mitigate climate change: www.becc.lu.se/outreach-and...

Fresh off the press 🤩👇

Just Accepted in SBB: Visualization of soil aggregate structures provides insights into their formation mechanisms induced by litter inputs- Pucetaite et al. 😎we’ll share the link as soon as it gets online :)

Thanks for sharing @tcamenzind.bsky.social ! And thanks as well to @milosbielcik.bsky.social and Tilo Henning @zalf.bsky.social in #Paulinenaue!

Happy #worldsoilday !! Have you ever looked INTO soil ? If no, join us at Soilwatching: Windows to the #soil let us peek at all its inhabitants. If you know the channel already - stay tuned, there will soon be two new episodes:) www.youtube.com/@Soilwatching

Mycology Nordic in a mycophilic Stockholm 🍄❤️ - what a meeting! Mushrooms, genes, yeasts and their products, and mycology karaoke 🎤🥳🍄 thanks a lot Hanna Johansson for initiating this terrific meeting, and Håvard Kauserud and colleagues to continue in two years :)

We made sure Lund was well represented both scientifically and in the great fungal karaoke challenge🎤🎶🍄✨ #ijustwantitodecay @aylamonges.bsky.social @edithhammer.bsky.social

Do you like soil, microbes and beautiful cities? Join us at #EGU25 in Vienna for our session SSS4.1 "Microbial physiology shapes soil biogeochemical processes across scales". Organized with @edithhammer.bsky.social and @kaleklett.bsky.social. Happy to welcome François Maillard as invited speaker

The spatial heterogeneity of soils influences biogeochemical matter cycles and C dynamics. 4 days to submit and apply for support Looking forward to a diverse #EGU25 🛰️🔬🍃🦠💦🪱⛰️🤹‍♀️🤎 👇 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... ☝️ @edithhammer.bsky.social, @mud-maik.bsky.social, S.König, N.Meyer

I am offering a PhD opportunity at University of Edinburgh as part of the E5 DTP. CASE partner: Forest Research On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Application deadline: 6th Jan. Please share with your network. e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...

Just one week until the support deadline for #EGU25! We're convening "Microbial growth, death, and turnover: experiments and models to decode soil complexity" with Sergey Blagodatsky, @katerinageorgiou.bsky.social & invited speaker Stefano Manzoni. meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

Non-native English speakers need 50% more time to write a paper When they do, they face a 2.5 times higher chance of being rejected because of language journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

MicroPublications for small experiments or negative resultat- @aylamonges.bsky.social - what we just talked about? Need to check this out in detail :)

Do you study how microbial growth and death drive soil organic matter cycling? Submit your work to our #EGU25 session SSS4.10/BG6.7: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... 👉 Travel support: Dec 1st 👉 Abstracts due: Jan 15th

Are you interested in how microbial physiology shapes biogeochemical processes? Join us in Vienna this spring in our session at EGU25 🍄🍄‍🟫🦠🧫🔬🍂🍁🌱🌍 @edithhammer.bsky.social @tcamenzind.bsky.social Featuring @franfungi.bsky.social meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

📣Another nice ROOT story led by Pedro Teixeira in Geoderma Journal 🥳🌿💧🌟! Happy to be part of this adventure together with, among others, @cwmsoils.bsky.social @edithhammer.bsky.social ➡️Open access🔓https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016706124000405?via%3Dihub

🗓️Remember to mark your calenders for One Health Microbiome Symposium, taking place May 30-31st! This year's symposium will feature @edithhammer.bsky.social from Lund University, giving an illuminating talk on #soil #microbes. 🦠🍄🪴 Link to register: www.eventbrite.com/e/one-health...

youtu.be/H-EE-FX_X_A?... For #worldsoilday we launch our very first episode of Soilwatching 😍 - and soon more to come:) We use #soilchips to peek at all the small critters that live below our feet. Welcome to their world :) #worldsoilday2023

Mycorrhizal fungi foraging in micromazes, moving cytoplasm, emptying parts of the mycelium - and producing the weirdest spore shapes I’ve ever seen <3 sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @kaleklett.bsky.social

STXM team at #softimax @MAXIVLaboratory So exciting to get our first spectra on a new project 🤩

We had to open the #STXM chamber and make chirurgical adjustments - Marius removed a block, losened the zone plate and moved it by hand 😱 but it worked! Fantastic team!! 💪✊😎

Come work with us🤩! Postdoc in microbial ecology – investigating soil biodiversity in different farm types in Sweden molecularly and morphologically via #soilchips – embedded in an interdisciplinary network at @BECC_sweden @LundUniversity lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Come work with us🤩! Postdoc in microbial ecology – investigating soil biodiversity in different farm types in Sweden molecularly and morphologically via #soilchips – embedded in an interdisciplinary network at @BECC_sweden @LundUniversity lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Happy #ukfungusday !! 🍄☺️

What a beautiful blue sky here! Looking forward to explore:)

The short light pulse lasers Anne LHuillier and colleagues developed are so unbelievable - an attosecond is a quadrillionth of a second. The universe is a quadrillion seconds old. #nobelprize2023 #nobelprizephysics #lunduniversity news.abplive.com/science/nobe...

So so proud of Anne L'Huillier!! Two colleagues were just in the lab at NanoLund when the prize was announced, and got right into the press conference:) She developed attosecond laser pulses to study amongst others moving electrons in parts of photosynthesis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ALD...