Last days to join the winter school at The University of Bologna on Plant-soil microbe functionality under climate change (February 2026). I will present with @andreasrichter.bsky.social , Francesca Cotrufo and many others. Please join ( PhD students and early career) site.unibo.it/acws-2026/en

📢 Extra, extra: our collaborative study on trace gas oxidizers in a warmer soil is out as a preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Big thanks to @thanh0109.bsky.social @bobpmleung.bsky.social @wutkowska.bsky.social @andreasrichter.bsky.social @mathildebio.bsky.social @greening.bsky.social ...

Crazy that THREE of our researchers at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research are Highly Cited Researchers 2025! And a total of 8 of Austria’s 54 are part of our Centre, CeMESS @cemess.bsky.social. @loutsi.bsky.social, @andreasrichter.bsky.social ter.univie.ac.at/news-talks/n...

Eleven researchers of #univie are among the world's most cited scientists in 2025! 🌍📚 Their work spans microbiology, environmental and life sciences, psychology and computer science, tackling global challenges from climate change to health. 👉 www.univie.ac.at/en/news/pres... #HighlyCitedResearchers

CeMESS rocks!!

Congratulations to Cornelia Rottensteiner @cornelia-cr.bsky.social for receiving the Austrian Microbiome Research Award 2025 for the best Master’s Thesis. Very well done! @microbesplanet.bsky.social @ter-cemess.bsky.social, @cemess.bsky.social

Meilenstein: Die Universität Wien ist erstmals unter den Top 100 im World University Ranking von @timeshighered.bsky.social - auf Platz 95! 🥳 Das stärkt Sichtbarkeit & internationale Vernetzung exzellenter Forschender und Studierender weltweit. #univie #THERanking 👉 www.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/pr...

University of Vienna is among the Top 100 in the World University Ranking by @timeshighered.bsky.social for the first time, at rank 95! 🥳 This strengthens visibility & international connections for outstanding researchers and students worldwide. #univie #THERanking 👉 www.univie.ac.at/en/news/deta...

Free online course “Environmental Emergencies: Navigating Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, and Environmental Pollution” starts Oct 1. Interdisciplinary course on triple crisis: climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental pollution. imoox.at/course/envem, www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Wp...

@andreasrichter.bsky.social, Anne Peter, @cornelia-cr.bsky.social und Dennis Metze sammelten Bodenproben in Kanada, Maria Teixeira Pinto berichte von @gerhardherndl.bsky.socials Schiffsexpedition NEREIDES über den Atlantik. #Science #Research #ScienceCommunication

Ever wondered what soil research looks like in Canada’s North? 🌱 Researchers from @ter-cemess.bsky.social share their fieldwork experiences in an article for @univie.ac.at's magazine #Rudolphina. Curious? Find out more: 🔗 rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/climate-r...

See what researchers at TER are doing when they are in the field! rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/climate-r... @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at @cornelia-cr.bsky.social, Anne Peter, Dennis Metze, @andreasrichter.bsky.social

📢 🦠 A new methanotroph from Czech peat! Through an effort led by PhD student in my group Justus Nweze we isolated and describe a new CH4-muncher. Potential for a flexible (annaerobic) metabolisms and cool pH adaptations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microbesky #microbiomesky

Fantastic news: Megan Sørensen has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for her project TRANSITIONS! In her upcoming research at #CeMESS she will explore how endosymbiosis evolves, from protist partnership to organelle. Read more: 🔗 cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-... #ERCStG @erc.europa.eu

New @fwf-at.bsky.social CoE Microplanet Publication @nature.com! A study from the lab of CoE Researcher Alexander Loy @loyteam.bsky.social @cemess.bsky.social @univie.ac.at uncovers bacteria that “breathe” rocks using toxic sulfide in oxygen-free environments. Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 New paper in @nature.com Microbes rock 🎸🤘 with sulfide and iron minerals I am very excited to share our recent study, which describes a previously unknown microbial energy metabolism ⚡⚡⚡🦠🧫⚡⚡⚡ 🆕 Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation - MISO www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exciting new research! Matthias Horn & Lukas Helmlinger from #CeMESS uncover how chlamydiae thrive in social amoebae by skipping their extracellular stage. Read their groundbreaking study in Current Biology (@currentbiology.bsky.social): 🔗 cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...

Wondering where to submit your abstract for #AGU25 @agu.org? Check out our session co-organized with @kristenobacter.bsky.social (UMass), Ulas Karaoz and Nicola Falco (Berkeley Lab). In-person invited speakers: @andreasrichter.bsky.social (U of Vienna) & Amilcare Porporato (Princeton) 🤩

CeMESS is hiring! Join us at the Division of Environmental Geosciences (@edge-vienna.bsky.social) as Full Professor of ENVIRONMENTAL BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF METALS. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research. 🔗 Learn more and apply: tinyurl.com/47bev45k

We’re thrilled to announce that Megan Sørensen has been awarded an FWF-ASTRA for her upcoming research at #CeMESS on microbial partnerships and evolution! Read more about the grant and project 🔗 cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...

Soils rock, obviously. And microbes too! Professorship opening @ter-cemess.bsky.social. Fantastic team and world-class research environment! Join us at @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at

10/ A joined effort of @creaf.cat @ter-cemess.bsky.social with @jpreixach.bsky.social @andreasrichter.bsky.social and other excellent researchers 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #Science #Soils #Ecosystems #Nitrogen #Carbon

Exciting news #2! CoE Key Researcher Dagmar Woebken (@cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at) receives an ERC Advanced Grant to explore how desert microbes thrive on non-rainwater (dew, water vapor). #Microsky #ERCAdG @erc.europa.eu @fwf-at.bsky.social

#CeMESS professor David Berry (@davidberry1.bsky.social) is featured in the latest @profil.at EXTRA issue, offering insights into microbiome research and its relevance to our health. 🔗 Learn more about his current research: dome.univie.ac.at/berry/

#univie richtet neues Center for Advanced Studies ein. 🆕 Sprecher des Leitungsgremiums ist der Molekularbiologe @michiwagner4.bsky.social. Das Center spielt eine wichtige strategische Rolle, um internationale Reputation und Sichtbarkeit weiter zu stärken und globale Kooperationen auszubauen.

The University of Vienna established a new Center for Advanced Studies! #CeMESS molecular biologist @michiwagner4.bsky.social will serve as the speaker of the leadership committee. 🔗 More info: medienportal.univie.ac.at/en/media/rec...

Für die Forschung sind die Zeiten vielerorts schwieriger geworden. In #Wien wurden die Bedingungen stetig besser. Ich bin überzeugt, dass dieser Trend anhält, die Unterstützung dafür stark bleibt und werde meinen Teil dazu beitragen. Ich lebe und forsche gerne in Wien! #IchForscheGernInWien

We’re standing up for science ! 🤝 On March 7 at 1 pm, the #MarchforScience will start in front of the University of Vienna - an initiative of scientists raising their voices worldwide for free science. The University of Vienna shares this important cause.‼️🏛️ #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall

How does variation in ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity affect tree growth? What are the knowledge gaps to more fully answering this question? See my review out today in Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...

Congratulations @jillianmpetersen.bsky.social. Great to have you at @cemess.bsky.social as a wonderful and inspiring colleague! dome.univie.ac.at/news-events/...

Happy to announce our new paper: Soil microbes prefer organic acids over sugars in simulated root exudation (doi.org/10.1016/j.so...). 1/6

Thank you very much, Mathilde! Looking forward to another great #ForHot meeting.

In 2025, we continue to advocate for policy based on scientific evidence. This 2020 Editorial, “We need leaders that believe in scientific evidence”, resonates today as loudly as ever: plos.io/34lyl59. PLOS Biology also continues to push for DEI and a diverse scientific community: plos.io/3rzxczU 🧪

TER - We had our annual Science Retreat yesterday. Great science, discussions, and fun! #TerrestrialEcosystemResearch @cemess.bsky.social

Congratulations to @kseniaguseva.bsky.social for becoming Senior Scientist at @ter-cemess.bsky.social, @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at Wonderful to have you on board! ter.univie.ac.at/news-talks/n...

New @fwf-at.bsky.social CoE Microplanet Paper in @naturecomms.bsky.social: Study by @andreasrichter.bsky.social lab @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at shows that fungi remain fully active and can even invest in storage compound synthesis under severe drought. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Physiology, the functioning of a cell at a given time and in a given set of physiochemical conditions, is an emergent property that cannot be reliably predicted from genomic data or metabolic reconstructions alone. #testthy(metagenomic)hypotheses

Great talk and visit of @chmoei.bsky.social, the co-director of our @fwf-at.bsky.social Cluster of Excellence "Microbiomes drive Planetary Health" (@microbesplanet.bsky.social), at our Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (@cemess.bsky.social) @univie.ac.at. 🧪 #MicroSky

This was a very fun study to work on!

we perform a global meta-analysis of 13,209 global change factors in experimental observations across the world’s land ecosystems to quantify plant (biomass and diversity) and soil biota (biomass, diversity, and abundances) responses to GCFs in different biomes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Out in @naturecomms.bsky.social with @loutsi.bsky.social @andreasrichter.bsky.social and many others. rdcu.be/d1Tyg This is really amazing if you are into drought and soil microbes. The method developed here will be part of my ERC_project, #postdoc deadline December 5th. More details below ⏬️

2/2 For this study, we developed a new method, #2H-vapor-PLFA-SIP, which labels soil with 2H-labelled water vapor, allowing to study the activity/growth of microbial communities without altering the soil moisture. Thanks to all involved! #TER @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at vie.ac.at

Excited to share our new study in @naturecomms.bsky.social showing that soil fungi, unlike bacteria, remain fully active under severe drought conditions, and also invest in synthesis of storage compounds. Led by the amazing @loutsi.bsky.social and Alberto Canarini. Thread 1/2 rdcu.be/d1Tyg

Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs. I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scientists: Please join on an open letter to EU policymakers calling them to reinstate the Green Deal. Link to the letter here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Link to sign can be found therein. Please spread the word among scientists, to obtain enough signatories asap. Thanks!

CeMESS on the global map! Congrats to @andreasrichter.bsky.social, @michiwagner4.bsky.social & Wolfgang Wanek for ranking among the top 1% most cited scientists in 2024! Their work on climate change, microbiomes & ecosystems is shaping science’s future. tinyurl.com/3727w28n #HighlyCited #Clarivate

Gratulation an alle! Wunderbar zu sehen, dass drei Forscher unseres Zentrums für Mikrobiologie und Umweltsystemwissenschaft (CeMESS) an der @univie.ac.at auf der Liste sind. #CeMESSrocks

Great to see 3 scientists from our Centre for Microbiology & Environmental Systems Science (CeMESS) @univie.ac.at and the @fwf-at.bsky.social Cluster of Excellence "Microbiomes drive Planetary Health" @microbesplanet.bsky.social as Highly Cited Researchers 2024 🧪 clarivate.com/highly-cited...

Für die Wissenschaftsseiten von @derstandardat.bsky.social sprach ich u.a. mit @andreasrichter.bsky.social darüber, was es bedeutet, dass das ewige Eis in den Polarregionen immer mehr von sattem Grün verdrängt wird: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

🌍 Just published in 14+ journals! AMI & global leaders call for microbial solutions to tackle climate change. Let’s harness nature’s power to capture carbon & restore ecosystems—time to act! 🧬🌱 #ClimateAction #MicrobialSolutions #COP29Baku academic.oup.com/sumbio/artic...