Looking forward to speaking at the EGU Soil System Science Campfire: Soils under change on March 25. I’ll present “Living dry: microbial physiology under drought”, sharing insights from climate manipulation experiment on how soil microbes reorganize under drought. Join us online: lnkd.in/dw8UisRn

Our perspective on ERW -Uncertainties of enhanced rock weathering for climate-change mitigation- was featured in the New Scientist Here is the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Spreading crushed silicate rocks like basalt on fields could remove up to 1.1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year while increasing crop yields. Read more: www.newscientist.com/articl...

And with a nice write-up by @ethz.ch news: usys.ethz.ch/en/news-even...

Is enhanced rock weathering ready as a climate mitigation strategy? Our latest work explores key uncertainties — from feedstock availability and the land–ocean continuum to plant–soil interactions and socioeconomic impacts. Now published in our perspective paper: ➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s430...

🚨 Paper alert! 🚨 Happy to see this review out in @natureportfolio.nature.com Reviews Earth & Environ! We go through looming uncertainties related to wide-scale application of ERW. It will be a rocky path! @mschiedung.bsky.social @profbobhilton.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social

🚜🌍 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...

#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

Job Alert 🚨 : Two-year Postdoc in Redox Biogeochemistry of Coastal Soils available. Focus on oxygen, metal and carbon cycling in the rhizosphere. shorturl.at/NybzX Start date: April 1st 2026, or upon mutual agreement. Salary: ~82 000 CHF/yr Deadline: Jan 5

🔥 EGU SSS + GMPV Campfire Session recap Yesterday we held “Mineralogy meets Soil Science: Remediation, Weathering Processes, and Interaction”, co-organised with EGU GMPV. Around 50 participants joined the session! Thanks to everyone who attended! #EGUSSS #EGU #SoilScience #Mineralogy

🔥Registration for our upcoming GMPV/SSS Campfire is now open! Join us by signing up here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #campfire #EGU #mineralogy #soilscience

🌱🔥 EGU GMPV/SSS Campfire coming up! Join us on 17 Dec at 11:00 CET for “Mineralogy Meets Soil Science” Great speakers, big topics: arsenate removal, mineral carbonation, enhanced rock weathering, and carbon persistence. See you by the (virtual) campfire! 🔥 #campfire #EGU #mineralogy #Soilscience

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