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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · 3d

Last call for applications! Please send to any bioinformatics Masters students seeking an internship ❄️🧬 🦠

James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · Sep 15

📢 PLEASE RT!
❄️ M2 Masters Internship: Metagenomic analysis of microbial cold adaptation in the cryosphere
🧬 Compile & curate ice nucleation & cold-adaptation protein database
🖥️ Build HMM profiles
🦠 Analyze existing metagenomic data using HMMs

☀️ Marseille, France
Apply by 15 Oct

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Stable Isotope Ecology (CER, Kyoto Univ.) @stableisotopeecol.bsky.social · 5d

Nitrogen and phosphorus addition affected soil organic carbon storage and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi contributions #stableisotopes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Nitrogen and phosphorus addition affected soil organic carbon storage and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi contributions

Substantial quantities of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) released by human activities, enter terrestrial ecosystems, thereby affecting the carbon cyc…

www.sciencedirect.com

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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · 7d

‼️ PhD opportunity: Linking antimicrobial resistance, climate warming, and carbon use efficiency in Arctic soils
With @matehg.bsky.social @ UEA, also me & Marc Dumont.
Work at the intersection of antimicrobial resistance, Arctic soil microbiology, C cycling, & climate warming
🦠❄️🧬😷
Apply below 👇

Marcela Hernández @matehg.bsky.social · 9d

PhD opportunity to work in my lab at UEA, together with @drbradbrad.bsky.social and Marc Dumont “Linking AMR, global warming and CUE in deglaciated soils”

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Linking antimicrobial resistance, climate warming, and carbon use efficiency in Arctic soils (HERNANDEZ-GARCIA_UEA_ARIES26) at University of East Anglia on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Linking antimicrobial resistance, climate warming, and carbon use efficiency in Arctic soils (HERNANDEZ-GARCIA_UEA_ARIES26) at University of East Anglia, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 10d

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

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Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim

Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.

www.uni-hohenheim.de

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Marcela Hernández @matehg.bsky.social · 9d

PhD opportunity to work in my lab at UEA, together with @drbradbrad.bsky.social and Marc Dumont “Linking AMR, global warming and CUE in deglaciated soils”

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Linking antimicrobial resistance, climate warming, and carbon use efficiency in Arctic soils (HERNANDEZ-GARCIA_UEA_ARIES26) at University of East Anglia on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Linking antimicrobial resistance, climate warming, and carbon use efficiency in Arctic soils (HERNANDEZ-GARCIA_UEA_ARIES26) at University of East Anglia, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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BayCEER @bayceer.bsky.social · 10d

This #meta-analysis adds valuable insights into how micro- and #nanoplastics affect reproduction in #Daphnia. An important step toward understanding #ecosystem-level impacts of #plastic #pollution.

Great work!!
#Microplastics #Ecotoxicology #BayCEER

Microplastics Research Center @crc1357.bsky.social · 10d

📣New CRC 1357 Publication: Micro- and nanoplastic effects on the reproduction of Daphnia spp. - A meta-analysis.
by @analeticiav.bsky.social , Luca Liprandi, Christian Laforsch and @magdalenammair.bsky.social.

academic.oup.com/etc/advance-...

Micro- and nanoplastic effects on the reproduction of Daphnia spp. - A meta-analysis

Abstract. Several micro- and nanoplastic particle (MNP) traits, like polymer type, size, and shape, have been shown to influence MNP toxicity. However, the

academic.oup.com

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Rothamsted Research @rothamsted.bsky.social · 10d

Fungicide alternative: Would your crops benefit from a genetically engineered vaccine? geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/10/06/f...

Fungicide alternative: Would your crops benefit from a genetically engineered vaccine?

Disease control within crop production systems has been very much centred on the development of complex organic chemicals such as fungicides. But all of

geneticliteracyproject.org

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BayCEER @bayceer.bsky.social · 12d

Cup Plant: A Greener Bioenergy Choice

A BayCEER study shows Silphium perfoliatum outperforms maize, with more biomass, up to 99% less nitrate leaching, and strong drought resilience. 🌱

👉 Curious to learn more? www.uni-bayreuth.de/en/press-rel...

@khatababdalla.bsky.social @jpausch.bsky.social

Cup Plant Outperforms Silage Maize as a Sustainable Bioenergy Crop

The cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum) offers an ecologically advantageous alternative to silage maize for bioenergy production. This is the conclusion of a multi-year comparative study conducted by res...

www.uni-bayreuth.de

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Soil Biology Group - Wageningen UR @sbl-wur.bsky.social · 17d

🎉Last week first observation together with NIOO, on their beautiful green rooftop, for the Bodemdierendagen! It was great success & we manage to find the tiny ten🪱🐛🐜 ..but also the little eleven🦠✨! Take your observation, is your turn now! How many soil organisms will you find?
bodemdierendagen.nl/nl

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Jasim Iqbal @jasimkhan38.bsky.social · 17d

Wow, I see some amazing photography skilss there. Just curious to know which camera/phone was used for taking these shots?

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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · 24d

Please circulate among your bioinformatics students! 🧬🖥️❄️🦠

James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · Sep 15

📢 PLEASE RT!
❄️ M2 Masters Internship: Metagenomic analysis of microbial cold adaptation in the cryosphere
🧬 Compile & curate ice nucleation & cold-adaptation protein database
🖥️ Build HMM profiles
🦠 Analyze existing metagenomic data using HMMs

☀️ Marseille, France
Apply by 15 Oct

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Jasim Iqbal @jasimkhan38.bsky.social · 19d

A very exciting and one of the best workshops on Stable Isotopes came to an end at Universität Bayreuth.

Huge thanks to Prof Johanna and Dr Alexander as well as all other organizing team.

@jpausch.bsky.social @alexfrank.bsky.social @bayceer.bsky.social @unibayreuth.bsky.social

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Timo Conradi @timoconradi.bsky.social · 21d

Attribution of vegetation change to climate change: here we compared vegetation time series to simulations from a process model forced with observed and counterfactual (detrended) climate data. Trends in climate necessary for the model to emulate vegetation trends www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

Shifts in vegetation activity of terrestrial ecosystems attributable to climate trends - Nature Geoscience

An analysis fusing satellite data with a process-based model of plant growth attributes changes in vegetation activity across terrestrial ecosystems to climatic changes.

www.nature.com

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Jasim Iqbal @jasimkhan38.bsky.social · 24d

Amazing start of the week in 🇩🇪!

Bayreuth Stable Isotope Summer School (BaySISS).

@alexfrank.bsky.social @unibayreuth.bsky.social @bayceer.bsky.social

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Jasim Iqbal @jasimkhan38.bsky.social · 28d

Our paper is out:

Integrating crop residues or biochar with synthetic fertilizers reduced net global warming potential & enhanced key soil properties while maintaining high productivity.

Thanks to all co-authors.

Link: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

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Jasim Iqbal @jasimkhan38.bsky.social · Sep 15

Our paper is now online in @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social

We shows that: applying more than 130 kg/ha of N on winter wheat doesn’t boost yield or N use efficiency. Why overapply? Save costs, protect the environment.

#Agronomy #SoilScience

www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/14...

www.mdpi.com

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Jasim Iqbal @jasimkhan38.bsky.social · 28d

Our paper is out:

Integrating crop residues or biochar with synthetic fertilizers reduced net global warming potential & enhanced key soil properties while maintaining high productivity.

Thanks to all co-authors.

Link: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

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Ashish Malik @ashish-malik.bsky.social · Sep 16

📢 Funded PhD opportunities for UK candidates in beautiful Edinburgh. Get in touch if you're interested in a PhD on understanding the mechanisms of soil carbon cycling and the role of microbes. We work in different ecosystems: peatlands, forests and agricultural soils. Please repost/spread the word.

Poster showing the following text: PhD in microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling. Soil microbes shape the global carbon cycle in life and death. We study the effect of aboveground land management on belowground soil carbon cycling processes. We aim create a scalable understanding of microbial processes from single cells to populations to communities to ecosystems. Pictures with text: peatland restoration, sustainable agriculture and woodland regeneration.

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Jasim Iqbal @jasimkhan38.bsky.social · Sep 15

Our paper is now online in @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social

We shows that: applying more than 130 kg/ha of N on winter wheat doesn’t boost yield or N use efficiency. Why overapply? Save costs, protect the environment.

#Agronomy #SoilScience

www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/14...

www.mdpi.com

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Jasim Iqbal @jasimkhan38.bsky.social · Sep 11

Welcome to our CAS institute (Institute of Mountain Hazards & Environment, Chengdu) too.

Jasim Iqbal @jasimkhan38.bsky.social · Sep 6

Alhamdulillah! What a great weekend after ages.

1st PhD paper was accepted Yesterday in Plants journal.

2nd one just accepted now in Journal of Environmental Management.

And now fingers crossed for 3rd one, revised in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment.

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Jasim Iqbal @jasimkhan38.bsky.social · Aug 20

It’s nothing new though. I have friends whom US & Canada visa were rejected during 2016-18 period due to their facebook posts.

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Soil Biology Group - Wageningen UR @sbl-wur.bsky.social · Aug 18

📣We are hiring a PhD candidate to work on modeling soil processes in regenerative agriculture 🌱
If you have experience in process-based modeling and a background in agriculture, we invite you to apply.
Deadline, September 30, 2025.

More info here:

lnkd.in/eGFJktsN

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

lnkd.in

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Anna Burns @amburns.bsky.social · Aug 18

Excited to share our new manuscript about how ammonia oxidizing microbes respond to drought in rewetted fens, combining high-and low-throughput methods for both RNA and DNA. Looking forward to continuing this work in WETSCAPES2.0!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ammonia oxidizing archaea and bacteria respond dynamically to drought in rewetted fen peatlands

The impact of drought on ammonia oxidizing microbes (AOM) in peatlands remains unclear, despite their role in facilitating a rate-limiting step in nit…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Lindo Lab @lindolab.bsky.social · Aug 18

It's official - registration for the Global #Soil #Biodiversity Conference #GSB2026 is now open! globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/registration/ Don't forget to book your hotel through our website to ensure the best rates. @thegsbi.bsky.social

Registration - Global Soil Biodiversity Conference 2026

Registration Early-Bird Registrations Until December 15, 2025 at 23:59 PST Early-Bird Delegate$875.00 Early-Bird Student$525.00 Early-Bird Single Day$600.00 Regular Registrations Until February 16, 20...

globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org

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