Had the great opportunity of sharing our work, as part of the C-arouNd consortium, on C (& N) dynamics at the German soil science meeting @soilsdbg.bsky.social in Tübingen.

Excited to see this paper out! We used NEON data to explore the relationship between fine root and soil carbon stocks. With @sr-weino.bsky.social @katerinageorgiou.bsky.social @aaberhe.com @josephtumber.bsky.social @mingzhenlu.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1038/s432...

📢 New pub: Defining #soil science: Balancing fundamental research and societal needs, in Soil Science Society of America Journal doi.org/10.1002/saj2... @teamrat.bsky.social & I argue, soil science, though crucial for solving environmental challanges, should not be defined solely by its applications

@Soil Scientist & Soil Lovers: Early bird deadline of the #DBG2025 @unituebingen.bsky.social is approaching: 4th May. Check our exciting programm about #HealthySoilsClimateProtection at www.dbg2025.de/en/programme... + many offered excursions www.dbg2025.de/en/excursion... by @soilsdbg.bsky.social

Are you at #EGU25 next week? Join our soil sessions and meet us there 😊 I will also present our first German Agricultural Soil Inventory results. See you soon and I am looking forward to all the discussions.

Attending #EGU @egu.eu & care about mental health & diversity in academia? Join our Union Symposium Monday, 16:15–18:00 in Room E1. Co-organized with @polarocean.bsky.social @geocarolina.bsky.social Sabine Hörnig and Anita Di Chiara. Read more on @lucialayr.bsky.social blog post @egubg.bsky.social

I am looking forward #EGU25! Join us on "Soil Carbon and Global Change" - Tue meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... Discuss respiration rate pitfalls X4.191 - Wed meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-... Meet the editors! - Thu meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

About two years ago I made a series of three videos about toxic workplaces in academia. Consider the possibility that you might end up in such a place as real, plan accordingly, and do your research to avoid getting into such a situation. Hope this helps someone... youtu.be/VUXz9EJMAbo

Finally, managed to get my bsky account online: looking forward to sharing exiting news - from cool publications and projects of our #GeoBioInt group @unituebingen.bsky.social up to the upcoming #DBG2025 of the @soilsdbg.bsky.social, taking place @unituebingen.bsky.social in Sept 25. Stay tuned!

DWD-Fakten zur aktuellen #Trockenheit in #Deutschland: Noch nie seit Beginn der Auswertung 1931 war es in Deutschland im Zeitraum von Anfang Februar bis Mitte April so trocken wie 2025. Mehr Details auch zu #Europa in der heutigen Pressemitteilung unter www.dwd.de/presse

Congratulations to Xavier Dupla, Ph.D. candidate in our institute, for successfully defending his thesis and coming up with the sentence "Soil fertility is like love: everyone knows what it means but no one can define what it is"

Yesterday was future day and it was great fun to show our work at @thuenen-som.bsky.social to the future generation of scientists. We explored soil respiration before we went to a soil pit for soil characterisation. Finally, we counted our most important soil engineers, earthworms. 🪱🪱🪱

NEW – Global soil moisture in ‘irreversible’ decline due to climate change, study says | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/rFU8bL3

I joined with @sebdoetterl.bsky.social the AfroGrow kick-off meeting in Nairobi. Exciting work on sustainable agroforestry in Africa to come. I am looking forward to being partially part of this after starting this adventure during my time at @eth-soilres.bsky.social afrogrow-project.eu

✨Meet the Soil Resources group! ⛏️✨ We study soil biogeochemical cycling in remote regions, the effects of enhanced rock weathering on soil health and impacts of management on soil functioning and crop production. #SoilResourcesETH #ETHZurich #EnvironmentalSciences #SoilScience #Biogeochemistry

It's #DarwinDay. He was a father of #soilscience #pedology, by combining his knowledge of #geology and #biology, he published “The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms.” In this book you can see one of the first #soilhorizon designation A,B,C.

We are still looking for a #peatland researcher with experise at the interface of #GHG exchange, vegetation & remote sensing: 👉 literatur.thuenen.de/stellenmarkt... Collaboration with @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social and the Thünen Earth Observation Group (www.thuenen.de/en/thuenen-i...)

We're recruiting a 10 month PDRA in spatial (GIS) modelling of soil carbon and water quality at the UK scale: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Job Available: Knowledge Transfer Associate in soil carbon analysis and accounting at Uni Edinburgh and Plan Vivo To build a tool that combines model estimates and field data, provides outputs, and quantifies uncertainty in the voluntary carbon market. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

📢workshop “Molecular modeling in soil science – achievements and perspectives” Registration (by 07/18/25): members.cecam.org/workshops/pa... Website: www.cecam.org/workshop-det...

New Perspective: Tree planting is no climate solution at northern high latitudes - led by Jeppe Aagaard Kristensen @jeep4x4.bsky.social of @aarhusuni.bsky.social #soilcarbonstorage #climatecrisis #Arctic #naturebasedsolutions #herbivory #Permafrost www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Highlights of recent paper: 1. Compost (here) and manure benefit soils. How many times do we need to show this? 2. Soil health matters, but is not a major yield factor. Organic farming often shows better soil health but lower yields, -21% here. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002...

Wir trauern um unseren Präsidenten Prof. Dr. Folkhard Isermeyer. Der langjährige Präsident des Thünen-Instituts verstarb am 14. Januar 2025. Wir sind sehr traurig. Unser Mitgefühl gilt seiner Familie. Hier finden Sie unseren Nachruf sowie ein digitales Kondolenzbuch. thuenen.de/Nachruf-Isermeyer

Soil spectroscopy is a powerful tool for accurately estimating a set of soil properties, like organic carbon and particle size distribution. It is also cheaper, faster, and more scalable than conventional analysis methods, which can be a game changer for soil MRV.

In dieser Woche spricht Katrin mit Franz Bender von Agroscope über das Potenzial von Citizen Science und darüber, was uns vergrabene Unterhosen über den Boden verraten können. #CitizenScience #Interview #Bodenleben #Forschung #Wisskomm

The EGU 25 abstract deadline is 15th January. Please consider submitting to our session on soil carbon. We would love to have your contribution!!! @mschiedung.bsky.social @schweizer.bsky.social meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

In this Perspective, we outline how #soil formation processes and complexity at the landscape scale can inform predictions of soil organic matter (SOM) cycling and soil #carbon sequestration. Check out our new, invited paper on Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

"Biogeosciences Leaders of Tomorrow: @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social Special Collection on Emerging Scientists" - spotlighting research from emerging biogeoscientists acknowledged by their peers as future leaders in their field. Nominations are open! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

From the department of in-case-you-missed-it, 2024 edition: "Reconciling carbon quality with availability predicts temperature sensitivity of global soil carbon mineralization" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New in Geoderma: "Separating fast from slow cycling soil organic carbon – A multi-method comparison on land use change sites" by Marcus Schiedung, Pierre Barré & Christopher Peoplau. https://buff.ly/4hbMi8r

Calling all soil scientists! 🌱🌍 We invite your abstracts for our #EGU25 session: SSS5.7 - Interactions between soil carbon, mineral surfaces, and metal species across scales. 📅 Submission deadline: 15 January 2025 👉 Join us for an interesting session: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

Separating fast from slow cycling soil organic carbon -A multi-method comparison on land use change sites. We compared fractionation, thermal (Rock Eval) and spectroscopy to separate organic carbon pools. 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge... 🧪 #soilscience

I'm running the London Marathon in memory of my nephew Angus, who we tragically lost to pre-eclampsia. I'm raising funds for Action on Pre-Eclampsia who support healthcare profs, families, and mums navigating similar experiences. Please consider donating to this cause via the link below. Thanks!

Die #Rendzina: Boden des Jahres 2025 Steinig, humusreich, nur wenige Dezimeter tief. Da trifft der Pflug schnell auf Gestein. Darum kommt ihr Name vom polnischen Rzedzic, Rauschen. Unsere Teams der #Bodenzustandserhebungen kartieren die deutschen Böden: 🌳 thuenen.de/BZE-Wald 🌱 thuenen.de/BZE_Landw

Happy world soil day! Soil of the year in Germany is the Renzina (Leptosol). Rendzina is a shallow soil and common on carbonate-rich rocks. The name is Polish and describes the sound of a plough hitting the solid rock. Here is my favourite photo I took in the alps.

Die Rendzina ist #BodenDesJahres 2025! Wer mehr über diesen Bodentyp erfahren will besucht unsere Webseite www.boden-des-jahres.ch/de Wir wünschen einen frohen #WorldSoilDay

🪱🎙️ Ihr seid hier beim #Soilcast gelandet, dem ersten und einzigen #Bodenkunde #Podcast im deutschsprachigen Raum! 🎧 Den Soilcast könnt ihr auf allen gängigen Podcastplattformen hören! 🤓 Wir möchten unseren Podcast in diesem Thread kurz vorstellen. 1/6

It was great to be back in a hutch doing synchrotron-based STXM analyses at the Softimax line in Max IV, Sweden for the C deficit project! Thanks to the excellent beam line staff and wonderful collaborative team @schweizer.bsky.social @mschiedung.bsky.social #soil #soilscience

Why spend day & night inside the lab in beautiful Sweden? Because synchrotron-powered STXM hopefully helps us to unravel how these agricultural soils store organic carbon. Awesome experiment at SoftiMAX in MAXIV and fantastic teamwork @mschiedung.bsky.social& @mikerowley64.bsky.social! #soilscience

An intense week at the MAX IV in Sweden, but we produced a lot of data to understand carbon dynamics in soils across Germany using the agricultural soil inventory @thuenenaktuell.bsky.social Great work with @schweizer.bsky.social, @mike-c-rowley.bsky.social & Luis Hurtarte. Stay tuned! 🧪

Human excreta can be a sustainable fertilizer for food production, but context matters. A review of suitability, environmental impact and societal acceptance. doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

And here is a soil science starter pack: go.bsky.app/HADDT8P

The essence of the Arctic - ice. But this frozen beauty is disappearing at unprecedented rate. The entire polar ecosystem including wildlife, people, and our whole planet is fundamentally transformed by the #climatecrisis #arctic #antarctica #icebergs #kalaallitnunaat #greenland #climatechange

Are you joining #EGU25 and you work on pyrogenic and fire-derived carbon? Join our session BG3.31 Pyrogenic organic matter in soils, its properties, dynamics and biogeochemical effects. meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

Submit your abstract for EGU 2025 until 15. January and join our session on: Interactions between soil carbon, mineral surfaces, and metal species across scales: mechanisms and implications (SSS5.7). 🧪 #soil #EGU25

🚨 PhD Opportunity! 🌾 Join the DFG project MOFANE @TUBerlin ! Explore how crop residue management affect N₂O+N2 emissions using cutting-edge tools like 15N labeling & X-ray µCT imaging. 🌍 📍 Soil Science Berlin 🧪 GHG 🧩Soil Structure Apply now: tinyurl.com/y6uek7dj #PhD #SoilScience

Deeper roots lead to better #water and #nutrient supply 🌱 We can enable plants to reach water from the #subsoil and at the same time contribute to #climate protection 🌍 How? Check out our new “Thünen erklärt” video to learn more @Thuenen_aktuell www.thuenen.de/en/newsroom/...

What soil invertebrates lack in size, they make up for in attitude and style! There's some pretty stunning colours on this Eupodid mite and Poduromorph springtail, so I've stripped the background colour to let them fully pop! 🧪 #SoilBiodiversity #Macrophotography #SoilEcology

Which carbon is the oldest in permafrost soils? …. It is pyrogenic carbon and the leftover from wildfires 🔥🌲   Read more in our newest publication: 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s432... 🧪 #soilscience #permafrost #wildfire #pyrogeniccarbon