#hiring again! We are looking for the Technical Assistant to make our field experiment of the #Diversitorium running. Located at #IhingerHof at the @unihohenheim.bsky.social you can take the chance to join #TeamTERRA!

📢Call for abstracts! #EGU-2026 3-8 May 2026, Vienna, Austria 🌍Join our session on #SoilHealth under #GlobalChange and #HumanActivities’ (SSS4.4). ⏰Submit your abstract by 15/01/2026 💶Need a financial support? → Apply by 1/12/2025 www.egu26.eu/authors/fina... @egu-sss.bsky.social @egu.eu

Join us at #EGU26 in Vienna for our session SSS4.2 on microbial physiology, co-organized with @jpausch.bsky.social and @aguilart.bsky.social, featuring @edithhammer.bsky.social as Invited Speaker - meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio... Deadline for abstract submissions is 15th of January.

and now after subproject 1 the next #JobAlert: SP2 of #MultiStress @uni-goettingen.de will offer a KAAD-funded #PhDopportunity for an East African scholar interested in ecophysiological stress responses in #maize detected by multi-spectral imaging Take your chance an apply #AcademicJobs #scholarship

Next #job hire: Our own PhD position within #MultiStress to be funded as KAAD scholarship @unituebingen.bsky.social is out: You're East African scholar interested in #maize #root & #rhizosphere traits +their response to #biotic & #abiotic stress? Ready to perform work in #Germany & #Kenya? APPLY NOW

New in Geoderma: "Spatially-resolved characterisation of phosphate fertiliser reaction zones for sustainable soil management" by Brigid A McKenna, Enzo Lombi, Timothy I McLaren, Casey L Doolette [...] Peter M Kopittke. doi.org/10.1016/j.ge... @UQ_News @uni_copenhagen UniversitySA

Happy to announce that Sara Loftus successfully defended her PhD thesis @uni-goettingen.de. Starting from Day-1 of the #MoreCropPerDrop project, she performed excellent work in advancing our understanding of key #sorghum #belowground #root and #rhizosphere traits under #stress. Very proud today 🍾.

Great news: the #MultiStress team passed the review process - so we now search PhD candidates for #KAAD scholarships for our project on co-occuring biotic & abiotic stress in #maize. First, our central project @uni-goettingen.de @agrarunigoe.bsky.social needs sbd. highly interested in #metabolomics

💰 Do you need #financial #support to attend #EGU26? #EGU is here to ease your participation! Submit your abstract by 1 December 2025 and get support through one of our three participation support schemes for #EGU26! 👉 Learn more here: egu.eu/5AKEKI 📸: Jerome Mayaud on imaggeo.egu.eu

LETTER TO THE EDITOR 📬 The Problem Is Not How We Calculate Enzyme Stoichiometry Threshold—It Is That We Calculate It 🔗

Keen to come from China to Tübingen for a PhD? The 2026 CSC-Tübingen PhD scholarship call is open, including an opportunity to join our team to investigate soil phage ecology in synthetic communities uni-tuebingen.de/de/114003

#TERRA is hiring again: we want to clomplete our team for the Molecular Biodiversity Laboratory #MBL and look forward to experts in high-throughput handling of NGS sample preparation. Our team @unituebingen.bsky.social is looking forward to your application.

Professorship in plant genetics. The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See: www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...

JOB ALERT - LAST CALL: You like the keywords you see below? Your heart beats for bioinformatics? Keep in mind, that it's only 5 days till deadline: Join the #GBI group @unituebingen.bsky.social & apply for our Postdoc position to join the SoilSystems project EcoEnergetics: uni-tuebingen.de/de/222828

JOB ALERT: Become our #TERRA #DIVERSITORIUM manager @unihohenheim.bsky.social. If you have extraordinary coordination skills & feel dedicated to bring the first large-scale #geodiversity manipulation experiment to a global success: Please apply & become a #TERRAnaut, see uni-tuebingen.de/en/285483!

To all potential future #TERRAnauts: keep in mind that our next cluster-call for positions has less than 2 weeks till deadline: We search for dedicaded writer, geoscientific lab rats & researchers, who's heart beats for bioinformatics. Apply, and @unituebingen.bsky.social may become your new home 😀.

😊 Great collaboration of #GBI @unituebingen.bsky.social with Anna Gillini from Uni of Molise (Italy) who combined #SoilZymography 📷 and #Sequencing 🦠 to show the effect of urbanization 🏭 on the interactions between microorganisms 🦠 and roots of oak trees 🌳. Full text at doi.org/10.1080/1742...

#Grassland are key, biodiverse & not well understood. Study on Kenyan #savannah grasses in P&S reveals key #root & #rhizosphere traits for restoration. Great collaboration led by Moses Ngugi with B. Mweu & R. Munene in Kevin Mganga's field trial at South Eastern Kenya University tinyurl.com/29czkasa

Congrats Debjyoti @nullsimpleton.bsky.social from @ufz.de: great outcome of #RootWayS project. Interrelating amplicon sequencing, qPCR & proteomics from field samples of #root channels: what a challenge leading to this wonderful outcome @globalchangebio.bsky.social. Link: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Find our new job opportunities at www.terra-cluster.org! We're building up our #TERRA team for the next years! You are a Bioinformatician, or a Geoscientific Laboratory Researcher? You are looking for a Postdoctoral Project with Interdisciplinary Synthesis and Publication Coordination? Join!

Job Alert! We're hiring a BIOINFORMATICIAN / NGS SPECIALIST to support our new Molecular Biodiversity Lab in the @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Like the idea to use your skills for understanding biodiversity? To work on diverse questions in a wonderful place? Apply! Please repost!

📌Just published in Rhizosphere journal: Temperature sensitivity🌡️ and spatial distribution of β-glucosidase activity in microbial #hotspots: The impact of root hairs🪴 led Xuecheng Zhang Free 50 days' link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpfh8jaVh... doi.org/10.1016/j.rh... #SoilZymography #ClimateChange

Used the opportunity of #DBG2025 for the first in-person meeting with @diegomiga.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social. From an excellent presentation in the #GBI group up to evenings with (nearly) uruguayan barbacues: all centered around Diego inspiring us for the secrets of his managed grasslands!

What a crazy week: While Ronja Ratzbor introduced TERRA at the @unituebingen.bsky.social PostDoc days, Olaf Cirpka went to the #Geo4Göttingen @uni-goettingen.de, and Kira Rehfeld & @michaeladippold.bsky.social introduced TERRA to the @soilsdbg.bsky.social at the #DBG2025. Tasks perfectly shared 👍

On time with the end of our #DFG funded project on the impact of #biochar in #soils, we could present our major outcomes: @iraloginova.bsky.social gave an excellent talk on root-biochar interactions and Prashanth Prasanna closed #DBG2025 with the impact of #mucilage on biochar stability: congrats 👋

📢 #DBG2025 wrapped up with inspiring soil excursions around Tübingen 🌱The golden “Bohrstock” passed from @michaeladippold.bsky.social & @peterkuehn37.bsky.social to Georg Guggenberger to Uni Hannover — see you all at #DBG2027 and later at #DBG2029 in Bayreuth hosted by Eva Lehndorf and a team! 💚

The @unituebingen.bsky.social orga team of the #DBG2025, Thomas, Yvonne, @peterkuehn37.bsky.social, Callum, Harald & myself, say Bye to all participants: We enjoyed hosting you and hope the meeting was memorable. Looking forward to seeing many at the 100-year-event of the @soilsdbg.bsky.social again

At #DBG2025, our #SPP2322 & #Storage projects target #bioenergetics in #soils: @lingling1000.bsky.social assessed C & energy use efficiencies, @nbilyera.bsky.social the metabolic costs of enzyme production, & Yang Ding the interrelation of grassland C & N input on microbial storage: Excellent Job👋

...and even more about #RootWayS project at the #DBG2025: Yijie Shi (Ada) & Henrik Füllgrabe presented on #microzymography and the subsoil labeling methods (or #Soils dating #CoverCrops ). Congrats to the two for wrapping up the outcomes of the first phase so nicely in their excellent presentations

Proud of my "root-&-rhizosphere" team at #DBG2025 on Tuesday: Nipuna Withanage reported from #RootWayS (#BMFTR), Moses Ngugi from the #TERRA pre-project on functions of biodiverse Kenyan grasslands & Rozy Munene + Manisha Koirala from the #MoreCropPerDrop project in sub-Saharan Africa. Great Job 👍

Monday was our #GBI Poster-Party-Day at #DBG2025: 2 times #RootWayS (BMBF) project with Jiangyuzhuo Wang's #subsoil labeling and Yihan Pu's mesh tubes show #intercropping benefit. Yuxuan Zhang of #BNI-2030 (@bmleh.de) added #nitrification inhibition & Ningkang Sun #AMF driven P mobilization on top 👏

📢#DBG news Not only science, but art as well. On Wednesday evening, a cultural highlight took place at #DBG2025 when artist Elke Lehmann opened her exhibition, "#lumbriwurm," showcasing the earthworm as an artistic motif.

Very interesting discussions about soils again this evening during the second poster session. The winners of the Best Award Poster #DBG2025 in five other commissions received books on soils in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. 🎉Congratulations to the winners!

After a very productive second day of scientific talks and a festive event, the #DBG2025 attendees gathered at the NECKAWA restaurant on the Neckar river to continue their scientific discussions and celebrate the #DBG Medals and Awards🏆, and ... to experience the traditional Tübingen ‘Stocherkahn’.

We are hiring! On the search for an ambitious post-doc with hot skills in metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and bioinformatics to join our EcoEnergeticS project with @michaeladippold.bsky.social Find the ad here: uni-tuebingen.de/zh/266340

📢#DBG2025 news! Georg Guggenberger (2025) and Kai Uwe Totsche (2024) were awarded the Emil-Ramann Medal by the #DBG for their outstanding achievements in soil science. 🎉Congratulations to the awardees and may they continue to explore more in amazing soil science research!

📢#DBG2025 news! The Scheffer Award by #DFG was presented to two young scientists, Katrin Schieldung and Katharina R. Lenhardt, in recognition of their exceptional work in soil science and their outstanding doctoral theses 2023 and 2024. 🎉Congratulations, and best wishes in your #soil research!

The festive event of #DBG2025 with exciting welcome speeches from the conference president, Thomas Scholten; vice rector UniTü Samuel Wagner; president of the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining of BW, Birgit Kimmig; Tübingen's mayor, Boris Palmer; and #DBG president, Daniela Sauer.

Christian Ahl gave a great talk this morning on the biography of Fritz Scheffer, who contributed to the #DBG in its early years. 🔊Stay tuned to find out who will receive a Scheffer Award this afternoon! #GesundeBödenKlimaschutz #HealthySoilsClimateProtection #DBG2025

📜Very intensive and friendly #DBG discussions about the scientific findings during the first poster session today. 🔖Jury had a hard time selecting the best posters from so many great contributions. 🏆The winners of the Best Poster Award #DBG2025 received Atlas of soils. Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

📢The start of the #DBG2025 oral sessions this morning and the first coffee break to discuss the latest research findings! Many people interested in soils have already joined the sessions 👍 📜Posters are available for viewing at any time and will be presented today evening and on Wednesday.

What a tasty start. Was amazed by the help of so many making this event possible. Greatest thanks to the amazing team getting the icebreaker build up in awful rain - but then (on time for the party) getting all started so smoothly. Onethousand thanks to all my group members.

Love of soil goes through the stomach, too! Welcome food, drinks and second #DBG2025 Soil Profile Cake Contest at the Icebreaker party at GUZ @unituebingen.bsky.social #GesundeBödenKlimaschutz #HealthySoilsClimateProtection #DBG2025

📢 #DBG2025 have officially started today with the first 2-days excursion! Soil scientists departed from @unituebingen.bsky.social for the Black Forest National Park to discover soils and explore how to preserve cultivated pastures under climate change disruptions. #HealthySoils #ClimateProtection

Dear all (members of the @soilsdbg.bsky.social, of @unituebingen.bsky.social & citizens of #Tübingen): Happy to announce that our academic celebration event of the #DBG2025 is open for public - offering 2 invited scientific presentations (engl.) & awarding ceremonies (ger). Feel warmly invited!

HERE WE ARE!!! For Tübingen #DBG2025, we offer - for the first time - a dedicated conference app, accessible directly via QR code. Enjoy rapid updates, navigation through our exciting sessions & orchestrate your own programme. We look forward to welcoming you at the @unituebingen.bsky.social.

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

📢 YPSS lunchtime program at #DBG2025! 🤝 Networking & discussions 🍽 Food & drinks provided Grow your research network with us!

NEW in Communications Earth & Environment Forest conversion in subtropical ecosystems reduces soil microbial phosphorus potential doi.org/10.1038/s432... Free: rdcu.be/eEHCo #Roots #enzymes #landuse #Fertilisers #Tropics #Phosphorus #rhizosphere

Dear #DBG2025 participants, ready to explore the latest downloads? Grab the programme booklet as PDF at tinyurl.com/nhdu5jn3. Check out our exciting programme: onsite registration possible! Download your DBG 2025 Excursion Guide at tinyurl.com/4389v37h (printed copy on site). Few last spots left 🙂