📰 #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...

Come and join the discussion on temperature variability at X4.5 with Tom or his dye-tracer experiments in models with Laura at X4.3 could help interpret speleothem records at #EGU this morning! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/EGU26-... @pages-ipo.bsky.social @terra-cluster.org

Our last day of #EGU 2026 startend with brilliant breakfast, and now we enjoy an exciting day with our session on extremes across scales, and look forward to many more great scientific discussions meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio... @egu.eu @terra-cluster.org

Had amazingly great discussions. But, have to be very honest: I had the much easier job than @khatababdalla.bsky.social, who faced all the deep questions on how to integrate #resistance #resilience frameworks into integrative Geo-Bio Sciences. Was great representing #TERRA first time at #EGU2026 😊

TERRA was at #EGU26, organized by @egu.eu, in Vienna, Austria. While several of our members were present, our speaker @michaeladippold.bsky.social and postdoc @khatababdalla.bsky.social presented some aspects of #TERRA and our approach to the wider scientific audience.

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

This afternoon at #EGU, Elisa presenting past-to-future inferred climate variability, an outcome of the palmod project meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/EGU26-... @terra-cluster.org www.palmod.de

At the end of the day, Kira discussed how the past matters for the future, and why climate models should reproduce it faithfully! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/EGU26-... @terra-cluster.org

Day 3 of #EGU, and so many exciting conversations, even over lunch in the park 🤩. It is great to be discussing topics like Miocene cooling, bugs in climate models, soil pCO2, or biochar as carbon removal option. Where else would this be possible in one day? @terra-cluster.org @egu.eu

This morning at #EGU Armelle presented first results from our compilation of daily and weekly water isotope measurements from precipitation over Tübingen and the Swabian Alb 🤩. Find out more here: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/EGU26-... @terra-cluster.org @unituebingen.bsky.social

#EGU is on and Spacies are in Vienna happy to geek out on all things Earth sciences. First presentation by Desirée Lo Triglia on our Swabian Alb cave monitoring meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/EGU26-... @terra-cluster.org

Great to see the interest at Hendrik's poster on evaluating centennial climate variability in an atmosphere-ocean deep learning model. Join now in hall X5.88, or find it online meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/EGU26-... @terra-cluster.org @egu.eu

A lovely little detail at the #TERRA kick-off: tabletop rock gardens for meditative, zen-inspired coffee breaks 🪨🌱 Thanks a lot for the great opening event @terra-cluster.org

What fun to attend: The #TERRA FutureLab distributed its first biochar product from the #Kastanienhof. Bags were faster gone than the Visitors registered @unituebingen.bsky.social: what a success. This clearly shows that interest & demand for nature based solutions is out there: let's get started 💪

We were especially happy to welcome our two @dfg.de contact persons Dr. Muhadj Adnan and Dr. Meike Teschke here in @unituebingen.bsky.social. What a fruitful exchange 😀.

Very good that none of these pictures captures how nervous (but at the same time happy) I was. After all these years of preparation, shaking with tension waiting for the evaluation outcome, we are finally there: What a great day 🎉

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 💚

Something excellent is launching tomorrow. 🌍 #TERRA — our Cluster of Excellence at @unituebingen.bsky.social — officially kicks off its first chapter. Can you guess what we plan to do with these soil samples at our Kick-Off?

❄️The Arctic is thawing — and the plants moving in are making it worse. A research team within #TERRA🌍 studied the #Stordalen mire in #Sweden across a full growing season. As permafrost melts, grasses replace shrubs. They absorb CO₂ in summer — but drive far more methane by late season.

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 😀

🌍 Come work with us! We're hiring a #Postdoc at the intersection of #TERRA and @mackelab.bsky.social — using deep learning & LLMs to model fire dynamics in regional-to-global vegetation models 🔥🌲

So happy to finally start💪: @iraloginova.bsky.social is already in the middle of the pre-experiments to optimize N contents, the #Kastanienhof living lab is busy in producing high-quality #biochar, & our partners @unihohenheim.bsky.social are hiring the @eco-future.bsky.social PhD student - jepee 🙌

We're hiring! The Faculty of Science at the @unituebingen.bsky.social is seeking candidates for a W1 Tenure-Track Professorship of Mineralogy of Weathering — embedded in our Cluster of Excellence #TERRA🌍. 🗓️ Application deadline: 01 June 2026 👉 Full posting: uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Indeed, we are full of motivation: we look much forward to the collaboration with the #TERRA FutureLab - exploiting the perspectives of #biochar application beyond organic #agriculture. Thanks @mwk-bw.bsky.social for that great opportunity & @unituebingen.bsky.social for the living lab #Kastanienhof

🌱 Exciting news – @eco-future.bsky.social launched yesterday, April 1! Our #TERRA Future Lab is part of an effort to develope EcoFuture KAP4, a sustainable biochar-based fertilizer that closes local nutrient cycles for organic farming – funded by the @mwk-bw.bsky.social MWK Baden-Württemberg.🚜

Come and work with us! We have a PostDoc position at the intersection of ML and Biogeoscience within the TERRA excellence cluster @terra-cluster.org, w/ Senckenberg. Be part of a great ML and Geo community and use ML to investigate fire and its impact on global vegetation🔥 🌱🌳 www.mackelab.org/jobs/

🌍 📰 Our friend and #TERRAnaut Madelaine Böhme was featured in the Mediengruppe Allgäuer Zeitung. She talked about an excavation at the Hammerschmiede, an ancient antilope skull, its significance, and about our cluster #TERRA. 👀 Highly recommended to read!

Do you want to join #TERRA? You're in luck, because the @unituebingen.bsky.social is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) for EXPERIMENTAL BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH! The complete offer can be found under shorturl.at/0Aju0 We're looking forward to work with you!

Dream Job Alert! @unituebingen.bsky.social is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) for EXPERIMENTAL BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH! You work on soil fauna/fungi/food webs and their relations with environment, plants, ecosystem processes? Come and join the @terra-cluster.org and our institute! Please re-post!

🥳 The Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen has once again retained their status as a University of #Excellence under the Excellence Strategy of the German government. Congratulations! 🎉 These are amazing, downright Excellent (😉) news.

Die Universität Tübingen bleibt Exzellenzuniversität! 🎉 Dies hat eine Kommission aus Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern sowie Vertreterinnen und Vertretern von Bund und Ländern am Abend bekannt gegeben: 👉 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/…#ExStrar#Forschungn#UniTübingene#Exzellenzstrategieie

Our friend and #TERRA colleague Andreas Kappler and one of his PhD. students, Carolin Dreher, have published work on O2-producing Cyanobacteria and how they helped enriching the earths atmosphere with oxygen some 2,5 billion years ago. Amazing work!

🤝 25 experts from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan & Azerbaijan are at a workshop on IPBES assessments to strengthen the science-policy interface #ForNature. Thanks to the German Ministry of Environment, @bfn-de.bsky.social & Institute for Biodiversity Network for organizing!

How tiny bacteria made life on earth possible: New research by PhD candidate Carolin Dreher and #TERRAnaut Andreas Kappler reveals how Earth’s atmosphere became oxygen-rich some 2.5 billion years ago. uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...

Don't miss your chance to be at the Pan-Glass conference in #Stuttgart (July 6-9, 2026). #TERRA is going to have a Booth and fund prizes for the best Posters. You'll have to be quick and submit your Posters immediately. The Deadline is tomorrow, February, 28. www.gewexevents.org/meetings/gla...

Herzlichen Glückwunsch nach Potsdam! Und wir freuen uns über Bronze! Petra #Olschowski erreicht Platz 3 bei der Wahl zur Wissenschaftsministerin des Jahres. @regierungbw.bsky.social mwk-bw.de/m950

Business & biodiversity are intertwined. 🧪 From material dependencies to transition risks, the IPBES #BizBiodiversity Report shows how companies can transform their relationships w/ nature. Addressing impacts & dependencies is a responsibility & path to innovation, efficiency & long-term resilience.

🚜🌍 Accelerated rock weathering shows promise for long term CO₂ removal — but major uncertainties remain. #ClimateScience #CarbonRemoval #ERW With @thuenen.de and @ethz.ch @mschiedung.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social usys.ethz.ch/en/news-even...

New publication 🥳 I am very pleased to contribute with one of these dots, particularly as it is from an area overlooked for its many grassland habitats. #climate #biodiversity #grassland #carbon🌍🧪 @stockholm-uni.bsky.social rdcu.be/e0YLg

New Collaboration Opportunity with the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ): Funding for bi- to trilateral research projects within the Research Grants Programme (“Sachbeihilfe”). Proposals with the DFG as the Lead Agency can be submitted any time: www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

The latest edition of our Six Americas segmentation is out today! We find that the group of people Alarmed about climate change have grown more than any other audience since 2015. Read more:

Bayer Foundation Fellowships 2026: Funding Opportunities Now Open The Bayer Foundation Fellowships 2026 are now open. Master’s, PhD, medical students, and STEM teachers can apply for up to €10,000 in funding for international research projects, internships, and educational initiatives. Apply…

❌ Wer Natur zerstört, gefährdet die eigene wirtschaftliche Basis. Wer sie schützt, sichert Innovationsfähigkeit, Resilienz & Wettbewerbsfähigkeit 🤝. Wie das konkret aussehen kann, schildert Daniel Rieger, NABU-Fachbereichsleiter Transformation, im Gastbeitrag. ⬇️ www.focus.de/earth/wer-di...

Want to bring #geoscience #education to the next level⬆️? The EGU 2026 Education Fellowship offers €2500 for Early Career Scientists to develop innovative #teaching projects. 📆 Apply by 23 February 2026! 👉Learn more here: https://www.egu.eu/2D84CM 📸 Vladimir Shipilin on https://imaggeo.egu.eu

‼️ Mary Anning Conference applications open Mary Anning Conferences aim to promote novel and innovative research related to biogeochemical cycles in the Earth system and are named in honour of Mary Anning, an English palaeontologist and fossil collector. Submit by 15 May www.egu.eu/meetings/con...

Wissenschaftsfreiheit beschützen! Die Länder wollen gemeinsam die Widerstandskraft von #Wissenschaft und #Forschung stärken. Den Auftakt machte heute eine Veranstaltung in Mannheim. Mehr: mwk-bw.de/ym86 @regierungbw.bsky.social @amreibahr.bsky.social @hrkaktuell.bsky.social @ndeitelhoff.bsky.social

Are you attending the #EGU26 but facing financial barriers or special needs? No worries! The EGU #EDI Participation Support Scheme is here to help! 📆 Apply by 20 February 2026 to receive financial support! 👉 Learn more about the application requirements here: egu.eu/50E3NI

#Wetlands matter more than we think! They regulate the #climate, store significant amounts of #carbon and protect communities from floods. However, wetlands are disappearing faster than many other ecosystems. 👀 Read more here in our #GeoLog blog: egu.eu/9LMUTR