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Art is a way of life & tool to communicate about science, soils & soil organisms 🪱🐜🍄🌱 The new SO column celebrates this! 🎉

Svenja Meyer @fminifera.bsky.social is inspired by & spreads the love of soil organisms though her art. Read more here:
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Are #collembola #bioluminescent? They sure are!! 🤩
Can you capture this with a smart phone? You can! 😍

Atsuko Ohira & Taizo Nakamori show us in their latest paper in Soil Organisms. Check it out below!

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📢 Another ✨ONLINE FIRST✨ article today in Soil Organisms!

Hayden Bock & colleagues examine the effects of urbanization on the trophic niches of some common soil-dwelling taxa. Please repost!! 🕷️🕷️🕷️
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📢 Welcome to the beginning of Soil Organisms ✨ONLINE FIRST✨!

Articles made available online before tri-yearly issues! 🪱🐜

TODAY! Karin Hohberg tells us about the status of soil biodiversity in Germany!

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🌱🪱🐌 How DOES the biodiversity crisis manifest in Germany and what are its effects? Christian Wirth of @idiv-research.bsky.social & @unileipzig.bsky.social & colleagues focus on this in their latest article. CHECK IT OUT! Please repost.

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📢 The APRIL 2025 issue of Soil Organisms is OUT! New articles. New types of articles. Soil biodiversity and science communication. CHECK IT OUT NOW! ⬇️

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We are hiring a PhD student / 75% postdoc to explore recent trends of #soil #biodiversity in Germany. The job is in a collaborative project TrenDiv across multiple institutions with the working place at our department of Soil Zoology in Görlitz.
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Apply to host the GSBI — Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative

The GSBI is looking for a new home 🏠 by April 2026. We encourage individuals, institutions, and organizations to submit a bid to host the GSBI by March 1st 2025!

See the full call 👇

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Thank you to all our hard-working reviewers, staff, and authors who have made 2024 a wonderful year at Soil Organisms ✨🪱

We look forward to seeing you all in 2025!! ✨⏳✨

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Soil fauna #traits and #soil organic matter transformation concept paper is out in @funecology.bsky.social. Fully collaborative work, out just before Christmas! Happy holidays to everyone! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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My job consists of battling to keep some time free for thinking - the entire system seems to be designed to stop me doing so.

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I’m thrilled to share that my ERC Consolidator grant proposal “CARBONWEB” was funded 😱 ! I the next five years you will hear more about global #soil fauna #macroecology, #foodwebs and carbon cycling 🚴🏽. The project is liked to our global soil biodiversity monitoring initiative, Soil BON

Soil biodiversity This Collection is the work of more than 50 scientists and Young Reviewers from all around the globe. Our role as editors, together with the authors, was to share our love of soil biodiversity with yo...

Hey #BES2024 - if you are into
Soils or SciComm or BOTH, we have a free resource for you!

We have 33 English articles about all kinds of topics re. Soil Biodiversity:
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AND we have 174 translated articles to 26 languages:
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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!
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The latest issue of Soil Organisms is out! Read it here:
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Happy #WorldSoilDay2024! Soil is the home to more than 59% of the biodiversity on Earth and home to the greatest organisms – Soil Organisms! 🐌🪱🦠

#soilbiodiversity #soilecology #soilorganisms #Soil

What is a „functional trait“ in soil invertebrate ecology? A big mess revealed in scientific literature and researcher heads🥸. Check our paper where we tried to clean this mess 🧹🧹🧹

Lepidocyrtus fimicolus found beneath/in damp rotting wood in my garden 🤩🌈

A photograph of a blue, soft-bodied springtail invertebrate, with long organe spines covering its back. The sprintail is crawling on the surface of a decaying log, and facing the camera.

A screenshot of a press release article on The Bookseller website, describing the sale to Hodder Press and Random House of the rights to a book on soil biodiversity by Frank Ashwood.

I’ve been gaining some new followers recently, so it’s time for a reintroduction!

I’m a scientist & macrophotographer, fascinated by all the amazing creatures that live in the soil. I use my photos for SciComm to spread love for soil biodiversity, and I’m writing a book on the subject too! 🧪

Welcome to the official Soil Organisms journal Bluesky account! So happy to be here. 🪱🌱🍄
📢 Check out the latest issue of Soil Organisms published TODAY!!!
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📣GSBI Speaks is back this December. Join us in the second of the series to learn about the role of biological soil crusts (biocrusts) in soil 🎉

Dec. 12, 2024, 7:00 MST, 9:00 EST, 14:00 GMT, 15:00 CET

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Brand-new translated Soil Biodiversity articles for kids!🐜 🐞 🌏 🕸️ 🌲

Arabic: + 1️⃣
French: + 1️⃣
German: + 1️⃣
Serbian: + 1️⃣

We now have 1️⃣ 7️⃣ 4️⃣ translations to 2️⃣ 6️⃣ languages!

Check them out here:
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And the English originals here:
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What, where and how do soil animals eat? And why do we need to know? — Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative We all know the early bird catches the worm, but what does the worm catch? What animals that live in soil eat down there is hard to observe but important to know. Over the past two decades or so, ecol...

Who eats whom in soil and why we care? www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/blog-beneath...