π§΅ Paper Alert! π¨
We are happy to share a new study published in Aquatic Botany, "Macrophyte-associated methane oxidation as a key process diminishing methane emissions from agricultural drainage ditches." π«§πΏ
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π§΅ Paper Alert! π¨
We are happy to share a new study published in Aquatic Botany, "Macrophyte-associated methane oxidation as a key process diminishing methane emissions from agricultural drainage ditches." π«§πΏ
Macrophyte-associated methane oxidation as a key process diminishing #methane emissions from agricultural drainage ditches @ribesresearch.bsky.social @anneliesv.bsky.social et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
03.02.2026 15:24 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Biogeochemical processes in #Baltic Sea sediments as a recorder of environmental change over the Holocene #deoxygenation #vivianite #methane @ribesresearch.bsky.social @carolineslomp.bsky.social et alhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025322726000150
03.02.2026 15:22 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0π§΅ Today is World Wetlands Day, celebrating the importance of wetlands and their impact on people and the planet! π
Two weeks ago, RTV Drenthe interviewed one of our PhD candidates, Quint van Giersbergen, in a drained peatland in Gasteren, Drenthe.
π§΅ Yesterday Ana Paula Dalbem Barbosa successfully defended her doctoral thesis, a cotutelle between Radboud University and UNEMAT (Brazil), titled "Nutrient fluxes in aquaculture systems." πππΏ
29.01.2026 16:46 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Via H2Owaternetwerk kun je alvast wat lezen over dit onderwerp: www.h2owaternetwerk.nl/h2o-media/we...
En, als je niet live kunt kijken dan is de aflevering later ook terug te kijken via @npostart.bsky.social ! 2/2
Kijktip! Deze week in Focus (NTR) leer je alles over methaanuitstoot. Het krachtige broeikasgas methaan komt vrij bij olie- en gaswinning, uit veeteelt en vuilnisbelten, maar ook uit moerassen, rivieren en meren. Sarian Kosten (Radboud Universiteit) legt uit hoe dat zit. 1/2 npo.nl/start/serie/...
26.01.2026 12:03 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Gisteren presenteerden we in het Trippenhuis van de @knaw-nl.bsky.social de vernieuwde Bionieuws: een maandmagazine Γ©n een nieuwe website.
Na meer dan een halve eeuw als tweewekelijkse krant zetten we een volgende stap β met oog voor journalistiek, samenhang en verdieping.
A nice news feature follow up on Niels van Helmond's paper
at omroep Zeeland in Dutch: Onder water gaat het mis: waarom het Veerse Meer zuurstof blijft verliezen
www.omroepzeeland.nl/nieuws/18137...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
@ribesresearch.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu synergy #MARIX
Nooit te jong om te leren: wat doet een ecoloog. Met in de hoofdrol onze collega Robin Lexmond π¦
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This position is still open. The Weisberg lab is recruiting a postdoc or Ph.D. student to study horizontal gene transfer in plant-associated microbial communities. Please see the job ad for more information and feel free to contact me if you have any questions!
14.01.2026 23:57 β π 24 π 33 π¬ 0 π 0Our new research project MicroSafe focuses on the impact of climate change on microbial growth (such as Legionella) in wet cooling towers. Due to climate change and higher temperatures, the risk of pathogen spread may increase. Read more: www.ru.nl/en/research/... #microbiology #legionella π§ͺπ¦
14.01.2026 13:53 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0An early Christmas present from our team for all of the tomato π
& recombination fans:
Chromosome-scale Solanum pennellii and Solanum cheesmaniae genome assemblies reveal structural variants, repeat content and recombination barriers of the tomato clade
biorxiv.org/content/10.648β¦
Stress affects many systems in our body and biologists Marcel Schaaf and Erin Faught at @ribesresearch.bsky.social are figuring out how that works. A recent study by them showed how stress changes behavior by using two different receptors.
www.ru.nl/en/research/...
#biology #imunesystem #zebrafish
Kustgebieden kunnen methaanuitstoot niet meer bijbenen:
www.beste-id.nl/nieuws/kustg...
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11.12.2025 15:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0On Monday 15 dec 1630h @Anna J. Wallenius will defend her PhD thesis "Muddy Affairs, Microbial #methane cycling in coastal ecosystems" please find the @ribesresearch.bsky.social coverage at www.ru.nl/en/research/...
11.12.2025 08:52 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0We congratulate Cornelia Welte with her @erc.europa.eu #Consolidator grant π₯³ for "electroANME": a project which will uncover how anaerobic methanotrophic (ANME) archaea oxidize methane, interact with bacteria, and use diverse metabolic pathways. Read more: www.ru.nl/en/research/...
10.12.2025 13:03 β π 11 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Apply this week! #vacancy #Postdoc position: Modelling Impacts of Agricultural Land Management Systems on Biodiversity. π§βπΎπ¦ You will contribute to new knowledge and tools to refine how impacts on biodiversity are captured in life cycle assessment for agricultural products. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
04.12.2025 11:09 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Bijna 5 december, tijd voor een nieuw gedicht, vol feiten waar we over hebben bericht.
04.12.2025 08:50 β π 10 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0Researchers have produced a detailed, high-resolution map of #peatlands in the EU, showing that these areas emit twice as much #greenhousegases than previously thought. With @quintvg.bsky.social Christian Fritz @ecology-radboud.bsky.social www.ru.nl/en/research/...
03.12.2025 15:42 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0π¨ Paper Alert!
π’We are excited to announce the publication of a new study in Nature Communications, βIdentifying hotspot of peatland emissions in the EU+β, in which researchers from our department in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Greifswald, the Greifswald Moor (1/11)
Congrats @annajwallenius.bsky.social & her PhD thesis 15-12-25 1630h "Muddy affairs: Microbial #methane cycling in anoxic coastal sediments" Thanks to #NESSC @erc.europa.eu synergy #MARIX & @ribesresearch.bsky.social collabs. Good luck at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @carolineslomp.bsky.social
17.11.2025 16:32 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0π’ Save the date: ERC annual conference will take place on 28 January 2026! Its theme will be βOne Healthβ.
Discover the programme and register now π t.co/SBat1iYccr
#OneHealth
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New paper alert! π¨
RU researchers Lucia Cabrera Lamanna, Ilenia Marquina LuΓ©vano, Eric Visser, and Sarian Kosten, along with co-authors Dick van Oevelen and Andreas Lorke published a study in Limnology and Oceanography Letters.
Read here: aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Save the date May 28 and 29, 2026, and please share widely. thx! Goodbye symposium and lecture: Microbial #Methane and #Nitrogen Cycling Under the Loupe: A tribute to shared curiosity and collaboratively hunting for βimpossibleβ spookmicrobes
06.11.2025 11:05 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0This work, lead by @felixpleiva.bsky.social, is finally published in a @funecology.bsky.social issue. Have a look.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Great work by our @chaidiradlan.bsky.social, Steef Hanssen, Carlijn Hendriks, and Birka Wicke! And colleagues from the @leefomgeving.bsky.social π
30.10.2025 15:46 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Emissions Footprints of Agriculture Around the World 1970β2020: Decreasing Land Conversion, Regional Exceptions and Increasing Management Intensity
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Onderzoek van onze afdeling in de spotlight! πΎ
De βfuture dikesβ combineren waterveiligheid met biodiversiteit - een duurzaam ontwerp voor de toekomst.
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