Congratulations @jhenkhar.bsky.social: what a successful thesis defense. Very proud of the diversity and quality of your EarthShape work and how well you defended today @uni-goettingen.de. Great kiss for the #Gänseliesel - and very critical assessment of my skills putting your hat on 🙃. Enjoy all!

My colleague Christian Poll offers a PhD position in our group at University of Hohenheim, we would be glad if you share this opportunity with potential candidates. His project EcoFuture KAP4 is an interesting collaborative project with University of Tübingen. dbges.de/assets/Uploa...

Please join us at #ICOM2026 in Cairns, Australia, this summer. @anthomycota.bsky.social and me are organising a special session on mycorrhizae and biogeochemical cycles at the International Conference on Mycorrhiza (Session 23, icom2026.org). Abstract submission is open until February 28, 2026.

🏞️From a “stone-rich” farm to excellence research 🌱🌍 In an interview with the Südwest Presse, our group leader Michaela Dippold (@unituebingen.bsky.social) talks about her path into geoscience and her role in the #ExcellenceClusterTerra. 🐄🌍 📌Link to the article: epaper.swp.de/schwaebische...

NEW in @plantandsoil Localized #fertilizer co-applied with #biochar suspension increases #phosphorus uptake by #maize doi.org/10.1007/s111... Free: rdcu.be/e0ueW Lead by Irina Loginova #SoilOrganicCarbon #soil #agriculture #Roots #isotopes

#JobAlert: 15 #PhD positions (3.5 y) in the @terra-cluster.org: Deadline 26th Jan: Geoscientists, Biologists, Modellers: if you are curious about how Geo-Bio-Interactions shape eco- to EarthSystem trajectories: join #TERRA either at @unituebingen.bsky.social, @unihohenheim.bsky.social or @sgn.one

🚨 #JobAlert #EGU is currently seeking a full-time, permanent #IT Specialist, based in the Executive Office in Munich, Germany. 📆 Start date: IMMEDIATE. 👉 Learn more and Apply NOW: egu.eu/5OQO8J 📸: Shailendra Pratap on imaggeo.egu.eu

Keep in mind: only 10 days left! The @terra-cluster.org searches for a Science Dialogue Manager, interested in interlinking national and international #research and generating high-impact outcomes by exploiting synergies between research projects #PostDocs #JobAlert @unituebingen.bsky.social #GeoBio

📢 ONLY 24 HOURS LEFT 🫣to submit your abstract for #EGU26! 👇 Your next steps? ✔️Your Copernicus.org login details ✔️ An EGU membership (https://www.egu.eu/0ZFO4P/) ✔️ Your abstract🥳! Submit NOW: https://www.egu26.eu/ 📅 Deadline: 15 January 2026, 13.00CET 🎥: Alberto Caracciolo on #imaggeo

⏰ 2 days left! Abstract submission for EGU 2026 is still open 🌱 🌍 14 SSS sessions covering soil–climate interactions, land restoration, sustainability & more 🗓️ Deadline: 15 Jan 2026, 13:00 CET 👉 Submit here: www.egu26.eu/pg/SSS Hope to see you in Vienna! #EGU26 #SoilScience #SSS #SoilHealth

It’s EGU abstact time! Welcoming submissions in “Microbial metabolism and turnover in soil: new insights into C cycling and soil function”, with keynote @michaeladippold.bsky.social and convenors @katerinageorgiou.bsky.social and Sergey Blagodatsky. Deadline Thu 13:00 CET www.egu26.eu/session/56566

🎉 Welcome to 2026 🎉 Cheers to a new year of growth, both in soil and our BlueSky community 🌱 This year, we’re excited for more newsletters, soil facts, and events! 🔥 We’re also looking forward to meet you all at the EGU2026 in Vienna! Stay tuned for more! 🚀 #HappyNewYear #EGU2026 #SoilScience

📌Just two weeks left to submit your EGU-2026 abstract on Soil Health and join our session. 🌻Your contributions on various aspects of soil health with the central focus on biological soil health parameters 🪱🪳🦠are very welcome! ⏰️Deadline for submission is 15th January 2026

📢 ONLY 15 DAYS LEFT 🫣to submit your abstract for #EGU26! 👇 Your next steps? ✔️Your Copernicus.org login details ✔️ An EGU membership (https://www.egu.eu/0ZFO4P/) ✔️ Your abstract🥳! Submit NOW: https://www.egu26.eu/ 📅 Deadline: 15 January 2026, 13.00CET 🎥: Etienne Pauthenet on #imaggeo

Great Christmas opportunity if you search for a #PhD position in environmental sciences: #TERRA is searching for 15 doctoral students filling our first 5 Focus Unit (FUN) projects with life. Full post with all links here: uni-tuebingen.de/en/285483. MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR from #TeamTERRA

@terra-cluster.org is searching for a postdoc, who wants to take over communication amongst big global research initiatives, work on synthesis of #TERRA and other initiative's outcomes and contribute with that to key (inter-)national reports e.g. @ipcc.bsky.social, @ipbes.net, @leopoldina.org,...

#hiring again: We are looking for a Science-Dialog Manager (m/f/d; E 13 TV-L, 50%). You like to built networks? You are interested in large scale initiatives? You can communicate science? Become part of our #TeamTERRA! Find the full application also at www.terra-cluster.org -> career

📢 EGU26 abstract submission is still open! 🌱 Share your soil science research at EGU 2026! With 14 outstanding SSS sessions, you'll find the perfect fit for your work. 🗓️ Deadline: 15 January 2026, 13h CET 📍Location: Vienna, 3-8 May 2026 👉 www.egu26.eu/pg/SSS #SoilScience #EGU #EGUSSS #abstract

We're having this very fun science outreach project where we want to create awareness of the wonders of the world beneath our feet. The soil is alive!! You find us on our youtube channel at www.youtube.com/@Soilwatching #soilchip #microworld #biodiversity #microscopy #underground #hiddenworld

📢 #JobAlert: You are from East Africa and search for a #PhD position in crop production? Only 5 days to deadline - please apply! Amazing #maize field experiments @uni-goettingen.de & @JOOUST (Kenya) await you. Many #root & #rhizosphere traits to explore in the KAAD-project @unituebingen.bsky.social!

47th New Phytologist Symposium: Extreme Heat – extending the thermal limits of life 2–5 June 2026 University of Córdoba, Spain Travel grant and selected speaker application deadline: 2 February 2026 Poster abstract deadline: 2 March 2026 www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps #PlantScience

#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