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Soilcast - Der tiefgründige Podcast! @soilcast.bsky.social · 6d

⁉️ Gibt's im Boden eigentlich Red Flags für die Dates von #Mikroorganismen?

🤓 Ob der #Bodentyp oder die Pflanzenart ausschlaggebender ist für die Wohlfühlatmosphäre der Mikros, das erklärt euch Kathrin in der aktuellen Folge!

#Soilcast #Bodenkunde

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Microbes.Info @microbesinfo.bsky.social · 1d

Sped-up evolution may help bacteria take hold in gut microbiome

Everywhere you go, you carry a population of microbes in your gastrointestinal tract that outnumber the human cells making up your body.

phys.org

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 3d

Would like to add a personal thanks: Incredibly great input - so many new aspects & alternative ideas to think about #geodiversity ⛰️🌧️
Whatever we #TERRAnauts will be able to realize out of that: this event brought essential contributions to the #Diversitorium.
Wish everybody a safe travel back 🚄✈️

TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 3d

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!

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 4d

JOB ALERT - LAST CALL: You like the keywords you see below? Your heart beats for bioinformatics? Keep in mind, that it's only 5 days till deadline: Join the #GBI group @unituebingen.bsky.social & apply for our Postdoc position to join the SoilSystems project EcoEnergetics: uni-tuebingen.de/de/222828

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 4d

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!

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 6d

Metabolic interplay drives population cycles in a cross-feeding microbial community www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Metabolic interplay drives population cycles in a cross-feeding microbial community - Nature Communications

Here the authors leverage a crossfeeding, engineered microbial community to demonstrate that strain abundance cycles are robust across environmental conditions. They pair this with a nonlinear dynamic model to elucidate population cycles.

www.nature.com

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 7d

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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Rémi Cardinael @remicardinael.bsky.social · 7d

Kick-off meeting of our African Union Soil Observatory (#AUSO) project today in Nairobi, Kenya. @ec.europa.eu @cirad.bsky.social @saegroupethz.bsky.social

Here is the website of the project:
auso.faraafrica.org

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 7d

Global constraint principle for microbial growth laws www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs

Global constraint principle for microbial growth laws | PNAS

Understanding complex living systems requires identifying universal phenomenological laws that are independent of species and molecular-biological ...

www.pnas.org

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 11d

#Grassland are key, biodiverse & not well understood. Study on Kenyan #savannah grasses in P&S reveals key #root & #rhizosphere traits for restoration. Great collaboration led by Moses Ngugi with B. Mweu & R. Munene in Kevin Mganga's field trial at South Eastern Kenya University tinyurl.com/29czkasa

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 18d

Congrats Debjyoti @nullsimpleton.bsky.social from @ufz.de: great outcome of #RootWayS project.
Interrelating amplicon sequencing, qPCR & proteomics from field samples of #root channels: what a challenge leading to this wonderful outcome @globalchangebio.bsky.social.
Link: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Cover Crop Root Channels Promote Bacterial Adaptation to Drought in the Maize Rhizosphere

In this study, we examine the structural and functional changes in the bacterial communities in the rhizosphere of a summer cash crop (maize) that reuses root channels from winter cover crops to impr...

dx.doi.org

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 20d

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!
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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 19d

Use your chance to join the #TERRA team @unituebingen.bsky.social: 7-year position waiting for sbd. to advance #bioinformatic analysis in the context of bio-geo-diversity relations. Tübingen itself is a convincing reason, but our amazing #cluster team even more. We look forward to your application!

Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 20d

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!
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Dr. Jennifer Pett-Ridge @jeffinerca.bsky.social · 21d

Microbiome sequencing has come so far in 2 decades. In my PhD— I used TRFLP…. am now doing long read sequencing of entire soil metagenomes! This review was great fun- thanks Gitta Szabó @emileyeloe-fadrosh.bsky.social Tanja Woyke of @jgi.doe.gov

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A genomic view of Earth’s biomes - Nature Reviews Genetics

Genome-wide approaches have uncovered the vast microbial and viral diversity across ecosystems. This Review explores advances in metagenomics, single-cell sequencing and functional profiling to elucid...

www.nature.com

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Nataliya Bilyera @nbilyera.bsky.social · 21d

📌Just published in Rhizosphere journal: Temperature sensitivity🌡️ and spatial distribution of β-glucosidase activity in microbial #hotspots: The impact of root hairs🪴
led Xuecheng Zhang

Free 50 days' link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpfh8jaVh...
doi.org/10.1016/j.rh...

#SoilZymography #ClimateChange

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 22d

Used the opportunity of #DBG2025 for the first in-person meeting with @diegomiga.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social. From an excellent presentation in the #GBI group up to evenings with (nearly) uruguayan barbacues: all centered around Diego inspiring us for the secrets of his managed grasslands!

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Der Postillon 📯 @der-postillon.com · 25d

Weil sie vor 80 Jahren Antifa waren: Trump lässt Tausende US-Veteranen verhaften www.der-postillon.com/2025/09/trum...

Weil sie vor 80 Jahren Antifa waren: Trump lässt Tausende US-Veteranen verhaften

Washington, D.C. (dpo) - Jetzt wird reiner Tisch gemacht: Nach der Ankündigung, dass "Antifa" als Terrororganisation eingestuft werden soll, hat Präsi

www.der-postillon.com

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · 24d

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

Ecological synthesis including forest ecosystems, grassland, land use, climate change, time series, stability, ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, species interaction networks

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 23d

Searching satellite-identified GPS-coordinates, thereby sinking into a boggy swamp, maneuvering cars through erosion gullies & denied access back to main road by an impassable steel gate (however we managed to get behind that). So many memories linked to this space-for-time transect: happy its out 😃

Yakov Kuzyakov @ykuzyakov.bsky.social · 24d

NEW in #CATENA
Post-fire recovery of ecosystems: Interplay between #fire severity, #soil #nutrients & #vegetation

doi.org/10.1016/j.ca...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

by @jhenkhar_m @pod_surdinku @MichaelaDippold @PanchoMatusBa ...

#landuse #Phosphorus #nitrogen #forest #isotopes

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Yakov Kuzyakov @ykuzyakov.bsky.social · 25d

NEW in Earth's Future
Active #Restoration of Degraded #Grasslands Accelerated #Subsoil #Carbon Accumulation and Turnover
doi.org/10.1029/2025...

#SoilOrganicMatter #SoilOrganicCarbon #sequestration #carbonsequestration #soil #grasslands #Roots #soilhealth #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 24d

The @unituebingen.bsky.social orga team of the #DBG2025, Thomas, Yvonne, @peterkuehn37.bsky.social, Callum, Harald & myself, say Bye to all participants: We enjoyed hosting you and hope the meeting was memorable. Looking forward to seeing many at the 100-year-event of the @soilsdbg.bsky.social again

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Natalie Oram @nataliejoram.bsky.social · 24d

Proud to share our paper: Drought intensity shapes soil legacy effects on grassland plant and soil microbial communities and their responses to future drought, out now in @globalchangebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... (1/n)

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 25d

GREAT: My special congrats go to Christian Ahl: that's so much deserved for his enormous effort to support @soilsdbg.bsky.social, no matter how difficult times became @uni-goettingen.de. Was so happy he received this honor at my new home @unituebingen.bsky.social 🥂🍾 Thanks Christian for your support

soilsDBG @soilsdbg.bsky.social · 25d

📢#DBG news
At the #DBG members' meeting on Tuesday afternoon, the SoilMates and Colluvium teams received the Soil Contest Award 🏆 as they shared the first place.
Christian Ahl and Heiner Flessa were awarded honorary #DBG membership. 📜
🎉Congratulations to the award recipients!

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 25d

On time with the end of our #DFG funded project on the impact of #biochar in #soils, we could present our major outcomes: @iraloginova.bsky.social gave an excellent talk on root-biochar interactions and Prashanth Prasanna closed #DBG2025 with the impact of #mucilage on biochar stability: congrats 👋

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 26d

At #DBG2025, our #SPP2322 & #Storage projects target #bioenergetics in #soils: @lingling1000.bsky.social assessed C & energy use efficiencies, @nbilyera.bsky.social the metabolic costs of enzyme production, & Yang Ding the interrelation of grassland C & N input on microbial storage: Excellent Job👋

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