📰 #TERRA made the news! The Schwäbische Tagblatt covered our TERRA Cluster of Excellence kick-off. Great to see public interest around what we're building: 7 years of research into terrestrial geo-biosphere interactions, starting now. 🌍 👉 www.swp.de/lokales/tueb...

Fantastic talk from Eva Oburger on how to sample root exudes and rhizosphere soil from the same sample. Great methodological improvements to know more about life in the rhizosphere 😊

Wonderful talk at session SSS 4.7 ogöf @egu-sss.bsky.social on the role of AMF in the intercropping systems from @unituebingen.bsky.social !!!!

Very curious about the outcome of our search for a common language in Geo- and Biosciences. The TERRA-challenge, task 1)

🔥We are starting our SSS4.2 session on emerging approaches in microbial interactions with the keynote talk of @edithhammer.bsky.social Edit Hammer. Such a great opportunity to listen about soil chips and touch them live🥰 @egu-sss.bsky.social

📢 We cordially invite Soil Science community to join our session on #SoilHealth under #GlobalChange and #HumanActivities tomorrow at #EGU2026 in Vienna! 💚 We are very happy to announce Diana Vieira as an invited speaker of our session! 🌍 @egu-sss.bsky.social

Soils and carbon: TERRA's Michaela Dippold discussing microbial life and death in soils at #EGU today meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/EGU26-... @michaeladippold.bsky.social @terra-cluster.org

🌏 At the EGU today? Dot not miss our SSS division meeting at 12.30 in Room K2. This is a great opportunity to learn more about our division and the members! ✨ 🥂 We will also have an ECS networking reception tonight at 6pm on the rooftop Foyer+Foyer C #EGU #EGUSSS #soilscience #networking #ECS

Great Keynote talk from @michaeladippold.bsky.social who told us about the diversity of substrates and costs of enzymatic production by microorganisms. Questions from audience lasted long 🥳 It was really a 🔥 topic !

It was my great pleasure to present my view on opportunities and challenges to study hidden and existing microbial life in hotspots at #EGU-2026 @egu-sss.bsky.social

Second keynote in session at #EGU2026 by @nbilyera.bsky.social from @unituebingen.bsky.social: Learning that #AI is very uneducated related to #soil hotspots and that high microbial dynamic in hotspot poses serious challenges on our follow-up studies. Great examples!

It’s time to collect your #EGU26 badge 🙌 ! ✅ Get your QR code from Copernicus for a valid on-site registration. 👉 Get it here: egu.eu/9820DV ❓ For any further help, please reach out to: [email protected] 📸 Andrew Chiverton on imaggeo.egu.eu

With EGU approaching, I look very much forward to it. Cu all in Vienna 🙂

Day two of our amazing #TERRA 🌎 Kick-Off, meeting old and new friends and colleagues for a second day in a row.

Some impressions from our first day of the #TERRA Kick-Off. It was an amazing day. And day two is coming up.

Our #TERRA 🌎 Kick-Off is today and we're so giddy. The past couple of days and weeks have been a bit stressful but now we're finally there! We'll keep you posted! It's going to be #Excellent 💚

A position, I can only warmly recommend: it opens the door to the various opportunities at the excellent @unituebingen.bsky.social. Join #TeamTERRA - and contribute to a new generation of hybrid #models improving our capacity to project the impacts of global change. Apply NOW 😀

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.