Event of the Day: Brewing the TERRA Kick-off Beer with, at & by Ronny Schöneberg: A dark stout - perfect for the cold season - and just ready when #TERRA will come to life in January. Very much looking forward to tasting this product of TERRA's first "microbial incubation at intermediate scale" 🍻🍺

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

Das #Wissenschaftsbarometer – jedes Jahr ein wichtiger Seismograph, wie die deutsche Bevölkerung zu Wissenschaft und Forschung steht. Ein Blick hinein lohnt sich für alle, die sich im Wissenschaftssystem und vor allem in der #Wisskomm engagieren. 👍💡👇

💰 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

Congratulations to #IPCC Bureau Member, @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social on the German Environmental Award from German Federal Environmental Foundation - the first Swiss national to win the prestigious €500K Award. A powerful recognition of her global impact in land-climate science. 🌍👏 #ETHZurich

Lima 🇵🇪 IPBES Executive Secretary, Luthando Dziba attended #IPCC 63rd Plenary Session and met IPCC#IPCCSecretary, Abdalah Mokssit, as well as Deputy Executive Secretary, Ermira Fida. Biodiversity loss and climate change are inseparable threats to humanity that must be addressed together.

#IPCC agrees on the scientific content of the remaining methodology report in the seventh assessment cycle and 2026 workplan for the three key climate reports in Lima, 🇵🇪 Peru. 🔗 www.ipcc.ch/2025/10/31/p... 📸 ENB - IISD - Anastasia Rodopoulou

Die @ethz.ch -Professorin @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social hat als erste Schweizerin den renommierten Deutschen #Umweltpreis der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) erhalten. Ein Porträt von SRF nano (ab ca. Minute 16.40): www.srf.ch/play/tv/nano...

A study by I. R. Onley, P. Cassey, & M. A. McGeoch shows that biodiversity data sharing platforms are key to managing biological invasions. Closing the "knowing-doing" gap can create better conservation outcomes. 🌍 Read the full article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-025-03058-1

💰 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

90 participants at the Groundwater Symposium Tübingen OAC60 @unituebingen.bsky.social have celebrated our speaker Olaf Cirpka on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The #TERRA Team is wholehearted congratulating 🍾 (& wishes Olaf a lot of future fun guiding our @terra-cluster.org to a success).

#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.

Just wrapped up our DIVERSITORIUM advisory meeting – thanks to our guests: Scott Collins, @clausbeier.bsky.social, @panemma.bsky.social, Bernhard Schmid, @inesmulder.bsky.social, Kai-Uwe Totsche, @holgerpagel.bsky.social, Hans-Peter Piepho & Christian Poll THANKS for all your great suggestions!

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!

The Cluster of Excellence @greenrobust.de is hiring: - Computer Scientist/Research data manager: shorturl.at/xSvvO - Data steward: shorturl.at/l6NCv - Scientific coordinator 'Plant Perturbation Atlas': shorturl.at/vBU6x Deadline: Friday, 7 November 2025 RT are welcome #plantjobs #plantscijobs

Really cooool: our first #TERRA science event - the FUN workhop: With lots of fun we just work out our FUNs (Focus Units) for collabortive PhD projects at the interface of Geo- and Biosciences in Gäufelden. Stay tuned which FUNs will be positively reviewed & will soon start the #PhD hiring process!

JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @uslter.bsky.social Please repost!

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 😀.

Christoph Schneider hat heute sein Amt als Rektor der #UniHohenheim angetreten. Der Klimageograph & frühere Vizepräsident für Forschung der @humboldtuni.bsky.social will „die Uni Hohenheim im Team voranbringen – in Forschung, Lehre & Transfer.“ 👉 Video t1p.de/t0amo 👉 mehr t1p.de/tgz5y

🌍☁️ 2024 was the hottest year on record! Climate and biodiversity are deeply connected. Protecting nature can help to mitigate climate change. 🌱 📷 @wmo-global.bsky.social

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!

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 👍

We will also be on board: feel welcome to join the acadmic ceremony and get some first insights on TERRA's research vision and the role of #soils in the #Earth system 😀

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!

Another successful mapping course in the Italian Apennines with @terra-cluster.org PIs Norton, Glotzbach & Drews from @unituebingen.bsky.social ! An amazing experience with motivated students combining geological mapping and geophysics.

To all #DBG2025 participants: We'll again offer our famous "Soil Profile Cake Contest (SPCC): All conference participants are warmly invited to bake a soil profile cake. Cakes will briefly be presented by their bakers in a “profile description, evaluated by a jury for pedology & tast, and awarded.

Now, terra-cluster.org is online 😀. Keep in mind: only 2 weeks left till application deadline: Job details at tinyurl.com/5bbk4m29: you can apply for two 50% positions, if matching profiles. We look forward to your docs. Repost appreciated: #AcademicJobs #ScienceJobs #JobAlert #FacultyJobs #Hiring

Bringing research fields together on a TERRA field trip to the fossil-rich site 'Hammerschmiede' (udo.pforzen.de) in Bavaria/Pforzen. M. Böhme from @unituebingen.bsky.social and SHEP @sgn.one and her team guided us through the excavation site with fossils from an extraordinary biodiversity.

We are happy to announce that hiring has begun for the Cluster Coordination Office @unituebingen.bsky.social! Would you like to join the team that supports research at the intersection of the geosphere and biosphere? Do you know someone who might be interested? Please share the post!

The call for #session #proposals for the #EGU26 General Assembly is now open! Submit short course ideas and/or proposals for Union Symposia and Great Debates by 16 September 2025. 👉 Submit your proposals here: egu.eu/60GYS7

The #Diversitorium task force @aschweiger.bsky.social, @bossdorf.bsky.social, @michaeladippold.bsky.social, K.Tielboerger & Y.Oelmann visited Ihinger Hof field site @unihohenheim.bsky.social for the first time! SO EXCITED to launch our key #TERRA experiment on #geodiversity manipulation: stay tuned!

Common-midpoint radar polarimetry by @oraschewski.bsky.social in Geophysical Research Letters. This can be a promising method to observationally constrain the anisotropic ice rheology in the field

Check out this exciting new paper on global soil biodiversity observation networks 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity explores the pattern of alien plant invasions and their effects on ecosystems across the Greater Tropics, as well as potential avenues for ecosystem recovery and resilience. go.nature.com/44RQKof 🧪

Meng et al. develop a theoretical approach and show that empirical diversity–stability relationships in grasslands are best explained by species-specific dynamics rather than by interspecific interactions www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

That's us in the picture! 🖼️ Read about diversity-stability relationships in biodiversity experiments such as ours in @natecoevo.nature.com

The TERRA-team is also very much looking forward to welcoming Germany's geoecology community here @unituebingen.bsky.social. Please register under www.vgoed.de, come to the marvellous Tübingen and enjoy science, networking and lots of interaction. Looking forward to meeting you at the GUZ 😃!

Empfehlung - eineinhalb Stunden, die sich lohnen Fakten - Folgen - Lösungen Harald Lesch über Klimakrise und Energiewende Warum wir handeln müssen 2.6.2025

Before we kick things off #TERRA wants to give a huge thanks to its TERRA heroes & heroine. Thank you for all the amazing & often invisible contributions and behind-the-scenes work! Let’s roll up our sleeves and dive in: excited for 7 thrilling years ahead! Thanks @dfg.de @unituebingen.bsky.social

New professor at #GoetheUni! Prof. Dr. Deborah Leigh heads the Department of Genomic Biomonitoring at @sgn.one. Her topics: genetic diversity, #biodiversity, and #macrogenetics in the Anthropocene. Get to know her now: youtu.be/ahJWZH_WU1w. 🎬 #NewAppointment

On our blog: Science is moving fast. How do we keep up? #ScholarInbox, developed by the Autonomous Vision Group led by @andreasgeiger.bsky.social, helps researchers stay ahead - by making the discovery of #openaccess papers smarter and more personal: www.machinelearningforscience.de/en/scholar-i...

We're excited to launch the official #TERRA BlueSky account! Follow us for the latest #research highlights on Geo-Biosphere Interactions from @unituebingen.bsky.social, @unihohenheim.bsky.social & @sgn.one 📢 Stay tuned for key updates, insights, & upcoming job openings! #GlobalChange #EarthSystem

Happy to announce that #TERRA was selected as a #ClusterOfExcellence by @dfg.de. K. Rehfeld (@past2futureclimate.bsky.social‬), O. Cirpka & myself express greatest thanks to @unituebingen.bsky.social‬, our mock-reviewers & the entire TERRA-team for the relentless support. Let's start the endevour!