Steven de Goede

Soil scientist previously named in citation scandal appointed to editor role at Elsevier journal Artemi Cerdà A soil scientist who resigned from several journals in 2017 after being linked to manipulated citations has been appointed to the editorial board of a journal copublished by Elsevier a…

A soil scientist who resigned from several journals in 2017 after being linked to manipulated citations has been appointed to the editorial board of a journal copublished by Elsevier and China Science Publishing & Media.

HoliSoils Webinar Series - Challenges in modelling microbial interaction in SOC decomposition - HoliSoils Join us on 17 September 2025 (14:00–15:30 CEST) for the first session of the HoliSoils webinar series, organised in collaboration with the IUFRO Task Force T58.

🦠🌱 Join us for the first #HoliSoils webinar: Challenges in Modelling Microbial Interaction in SOC Decomposition. #SoilHealth

📅 17 Sept, 14:00–15:30 CEST

Explore cutting-edge insights from leading experts on soil C models & microbial dynamics. Free & open to all! 👉 holisoils.eu/holisoils-we...

A review written by PhD candidate (when he was still a Msc student...) @stevendegoede.bsky.social on fungal induced soil aggregation mechanisms and its effects on soil C stocks. Publishing this was a long process, but hope this is helpful for all (especially early careers)!
doi.org/10.1093/isme...

Vacancy for two senior researchers for our Terrestrial Ecology department working on biodiversity restoration or responses of communities and ecosystem functions to global change.
Find the vacancy on the @niooknaw.bsky.social website:

nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

Conventional and organic farms with more intensive management have lower soil functionality Organic farming is often considered to be more sustainable than conventional farming. However, both farming systems comprise highly variable management practices. In this study, we show that in organi...

New publication: #Conventional and #organic #farms with more intensive management have lower soil functionality, by @ciskaveen.bsky.social @kylemojo.bsky.social and others. #soilfunctionality #arableland #bacteria #organiccarbon #agriculture
doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Plenty of people still heading out to #EGU25 at 8:30 on the last day, but the crowd certainly is getting sleepier.

Soon one of my favourite sessions will start on mycorrhizal fungi in forest ecosystems 🌲🍄🌳

After that, it will be time for a little holiday 😄🥳

So, this is coming out soon... 👀😱

My first first-author paper 😄

Will share more when it will be properly published! 🍄

One of the most interesting #EGU25 sessions is starting very soon in room -2.20: Growth, death, and biogeochemical cycles: decoding the complexity of #soil biological communities and their functions. 🍄🦠🌱

Please join and stay, room not packed yet, but wouldn't be surprised if it would happen 😬

Early start at #EGU25 ,waking up with a talk about microbial dormancy in the Soil Carbon and Global Change session.

My @niooknaw.bsky.social colleague Guusje Koorneef is presenting at 10:50 in room 0.51 Please go listen to her after your latest shot of coffee, just after the break!

Presentation title: Combined effects of drought and forest thinning on soil microbial community composition and functioning

Lovely day here in Vienna, as spring is properly starting now.

Hope to see you at my talk later today at 16:40 in session SSS4.5 #EGU25!

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Find our own Alix Vidal and many others SBL and Soil Science cluster at the EGU this week! Enjoy 🚀

View out of the window from the train, mixed forests and some houses.

On my way to Vienna for #EGU25 with the @niooknaw.bsky.social crew! 🚄

Crawling out of a social media pause, I'll have good things to share soon 😄

Please join for my talk tomorrow in session SSS4.5 at 16:40 about #forest management, drought and #soil microbes! 🌲🍄🌞

A picture of a blue spine fungus (Hydnellum caeruleum) growing in a sandy pine forest. A branch of lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) is sticking out from the fruiting body.

We recommend to refrain from fertilizing pine-dominated stands on low-productive soils or in regions with cold climates and spruce-dominated stands on low- and high-productive soils. In our dataset, this means that 17% of the fertilized pine-dominated stands should not have been fertilized. (5/5)

Mycorrhizal Fungi and the White Album Effect Brian S. Steidinger This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Mycorrhizal strains can both compete and collaborate to benefit plant hosts. T…

📰Published📰 Mycorrhizal Fungi and the White Album Effect

https://buff.ly/4gL1SaT

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Sophie Planchenault presenting in the NIOO colloquium room, standing next to the big screen that shows the title page of her presentation "Microbial carbon-use efficiency: towards a better understanding of soil organic matter".

Last week during our @niooknaw.bsky.social Terrestrial #Ecology dep. meeting, Sophie Planchenault (Leiden University) gave a very nice overview of her PhD project "Microbial carbon-use efficiency: towards a better understanding of #soil organic matter". Looking forward to the results! 🦠🌱🧑‍🔬

New job, new platform! ✨ A month ago I started as a postdoc at Uni Potsdam, part of CRC1644 "Phenotypic plasticity in plants". It was a warm welcome in the BioDiv group of Prof Anja Lindstäter

I am beyond happy to continue my interdisciplinary research (and to live in such a beautiful new place!)

Running4ClimateEducation Please join us in sponsoring two talented students to attend a one-week immersive course on climate mitigation and adaptation on farms.

Running4ClimateEducation: Our colleague Gabriel Moinet and a friend will run 24 hours to raise money for two talented students to join an immersive PhD course on Climate Mitigation and Adaptation on Farms. For Gabriels' story, updates & the opportunity to contribute, see fundrazr.com/02TG1b?ref=a...

Why Fungi Could Get Higher Conservation Status And Why It Matters The UK and Chile are proposing at the UN’s biodiversity conference COP16 in Colombia that fungi receive the same status to animals and plants. This could help foster and funding research.

Our first Bluesky post contains some good news for #fungi! After a long history of being unprotected, COP16 marked a huge advancement in the conservation of fungi. 🍄🥳

Thanks to work led by our partners at Fungi Foundation, The Fungal Conservation Pledge was introduced at #COP16. bit.ly/3Vl9GHL

Sinterklaas had just arrived at NIOO-KNAW with their Pieten, three in total. The Piet on the left is holding the staff of Sinterklaas, the one in the middle is holding the microphone, the one on the right is holding a sack with sweets and presents. Sinterklaas had just opened the big book with poems and information about and wishes from everyone...

Ciska Veen sitting next to Sinterklaas and about to listen to the poem that has been written for her.

Celebrating #Sinterklaas today @niooknaw.bsky.social with some appreciation poems, presents and of course lots of sweets! #pepernoten Our soon-to-be Head of Department @ciskaveen.bsky.social also received love and support, which she needs as she has big shoes to fill. 👟🥕🎁

go.bsky.app/ACjNUuz

Let me know if you want to join 🦠🌍🤗

Oh nice! This sounds exactly like the kind of research I want to do/am doing 😄 Count me in!💃

De resultaten van de Bodemdierendagen 2024 vertellen ons hoe het met de levende bodem in ons land gaat. Dit jaar deden 2873 burgerwetenschappers mee op 668 locaties en zagen bijna 30.000 bodemdieren.Dat is gemiddeld 45 dieren per tuin. De miljoenpoot werd opvallend vaak gezien, maar de naaktslak werd minder geteld dan we hadden verwacht deze natte zomer. De meeste kansen heb je in een park, groene tuin, voedselbos of tiny forest. De bodemdierendagen bestaan nu 10 jaar en er deden in het totaal al meer dan 12.000 burgerwetenschappers mee. Zij vonden meer dan 134.000 bodemdieren waarvan 25.000 pissenbedden.

Nee, de naaktslak is niet de grote winnaar geworden van de 10e editie van de Bodemdierendagen in 2024. In plaats daarvan is de regenworm met 94% het vaakst geziene bodemdier van 2024: het vaakst van alle ‘deelnemers’ en ook meer dan ooit voor de regenwormen.

A blonde, light-skinned woman with short-hair in a turquoise sweater.

Diana Wall was a leader in #soilecology & #soilbiodiversity across the globe. She mentored many scientists & policy-makers around the world. Read about & SO's new column in honor of Diana #TheWallReview. PLZ repost!
soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO...

Felipe and his two paranymphs in front of the big screen in the auditorium in Wageningen. His thesis is titled 'Biodiversity in circular food systems'.

What an insane day for this great guy! Felipe Cozim Melges got married & became a doctor on the same day 🥳 Very lively & interesting discussion with the opponents, and a really nice body of work in his thesis entitled 'Biodiversity in circular food systems'. Many congrats! #biodiversity #agriculture

PhD opportunity!! Here's the link www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Finally time for a proper intro: I'm Steven 🇳🇱, love to cook (plant-based), run outside and do yoga, observe (and hike in) the natural world, especially mushrooms 🍄 I like music, photography, stories in many forms 📺📽️📚🎭 and adopting plants 🪴

Also, I love studying soils, organic matter and fungi 🌳🍄‍🟫🌦️

Looks like people+geese you can hire, not really a traditional thing. So, just have to happen to be at an event, like a street theatre festival, they also attend.

www.ganzenfanfare.nl