TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions

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!

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!

Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.

The Cluster of Excellence @greenrobust.de is hiring:

- Computer Scientist/Research data manager: shorturl.at/xSvvO
- Data steward: shorturl.at/l6NCv
- Scientific coordinator 'Plant Perturbation Atlas': shorturl.at/vBU6x

Deadline: Friday, 7 November 2025

RT are welcome

#plantjobs #plantscijobs

Really cooool: our first #TERRA science event - the FUN workhop: With lots of fun we just work out our FUNs (Focus Units) for collabortive PhD projects at the interface of Geo- and Biosciences in Gäufelden. Stay tuned which FUNs will be positively reviewed & will soon start the #PhD hiring process!

Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.

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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To all potential future #TERRAnauts: keep in mind that our next cluster-call for positions has less than 2 weeks till deadline: We search for dedicaded writer, geoscientific lab rats & researchers, who's heart beats for bioinformatics. Apply, and @unituebingen.bsky.social may become your new home 😀.

Christoph Schneider hat heute sein Amt als Rektor der #UniHohenheim angetreten. Der Klimageograph & frühere Vizepräsident für Forschung der @humboldtuni.bsky.social will „die Uni Hohenheim im Team voranbringen – in Forschung, Lehre & Transfer.“
👉 Video t1p.de/t0amo
👉 mehr t1p.de/tgz5y

A composite image for World Meteorological Day 2025 with the theme "Closing the Early Warning Gap Together." The image features multiple photos arranged in a grid layout showing various aspects of weather monitoring and disaster response: Top: WMO logo and 75th anniversary emblem, alongside images of flood rescue operations showing people in life vests assisting others. Center: Features text "Closing the Early Warning Gap Together" on an orange background. Bottom section includes: A tsunami warning sign on a beach A meteorologist analyzing weather maps and satellite data A child walking on drought-affected cracked earth A satellite view of Earth from space Text indicates "World Meteorological Day" and the date "23 March 2025" on a light blue background. The layout emphasizes the connection between early warning systems, meteorological monitoring, and disaster response, showing both technological capabilities and human impacts of weather events.

🌍☁️ 2024 was the hottest year on record!

Climate and biodiversity are deeply connected. Protecting nature can help to mitigate climate change. 🌱

📷 @wmo-global.bsky.social

Find our new job opportunities at www.terra-cluster.org! We're building up our #TERRA team for the next years!
You are a Bioinformatician, or a Geoscientific Laboratory Researcher? You are looking for a Postdoctoral Project with Interdisciplinary Synthesis and Publication Coordination? Join!

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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What a crazy week: While Ronja Ratzbor introduced TERRA at the @unituebingen.bsky.social PostDoc days, Olaf Cirpka went to the #Geo4Göttingen @uni-goettingen.de, and Kira Rehfeld & @michaeladippold.bsky.social introduced TERRA to the @soilsdbg.bsky.social at the #DBG2025. Tasks perfectly shared 👍

We will also be on board:
feel welcome to join the acadmic ceremony and get some first insights on TERRA's research vision and the role of #soils in the #Earth system 😀

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

Another successful mapping course in the Italian Apennines with @terra-cluster.org PIs Norton, Glotzbach & Drews from @unituebingen.bsky.social ! An amazing experience with motivated students combining geological mapping and geophysics.

To all #DBG2025 participants: We'll again offer our famous "Soil Profile Cake Contest (SPCC):
All conference participants are warmly invited to bake a soil profile cake. Cakes will briefly be presented by their bakers in a “profile description, evaluated by a jury for pedology & tast, and awarded.

Now, terra-cluster.org is online 😀. Keep in mind: only 2 weeks left till application deadline: Job details at tinyurl.com/5bbk4m29: you can apply for two 50% positions, if matching profiles. We look forward to your docs. Repost appreciated: #AcademicJobs #ScienceJobs #JobAlert #FacultyJobs #Hiring

M. Böhme explaining the excavation site.

A view into the clay pit with the excavation site.

Steep face of the clay pit with different layers visible.

Bringing research fields together on a TERRA field trip to the fossil-rich site 'Hammerschmiede' (udo.pforzen.de) in Bavaria/Pforzen. M. Böhme from @unituebingen.bsky.social and SHEP @sgn.one and her team guided us through the excavation site with fossils from an extraordinary biodiversity.

All positions could also be found on the university webpage: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/108817

All positions could also be found on the university webpage: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/108817

All positions could also be found on the university webpage: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/108817

We are happy to announce that hiring has begun for the Cluster Coordination Office @unituebingen.bsky.social! Would you like to join the team that supports research at the intersection of the geosphere and biosphere? Do you know someone who might be interested? Please share the post!

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The call for #session #proposals for the #EGU26 General Assembly is now open!
Submit short course ideas and/or proposals for Union Symposia and Great Debates by 16 September 2025.

👉 Submit your proposals here: egu.eu/60GYS7

The #Diversitorium task force @aschweiger.bsky.social, @bossdorf.bsky.social, @michaeladippold.bsky.social, K.Tielboerger & Y.Oelmann visited Ihinger Hof field site @unihohenheim.bsky.social for the first time!
SO EXCITED to launch our key #TERRA experiment on #geodiversity manipulation: stay tuned!

Common-midpoint radar polarimetry by @oraschewski.bsky.social in Geophysical Research Letters. This can be a promising method to observationally constrain the anisotropic ice rheology in the field

Combining science and policy for a unified global soil biodiversity observatory - Nature Ecology & Evolution The effective conservation of soil biodiversity and ecosystem services in the face of global-change threats requires improvements in national monitoring. We outline the Global Soil Biodiversity Observ...

Check out this exciting new paper on global soil biodiversity observation networks 👇

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

This is figure 1, which shows the Greater Tropics and presence of alien plants.

A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity explores the pattern of alien plant invasions and their effects on ecosystems across the Greater Tropics, as well as potential avenues for ecosystem recovery and resilience. go.nature.com/44RQKof 🧪

Stabilizing effects of biodiversity arise from species-specific dynamics rather than interspecific interactions in grasslands - Nature Ecology & Evolution The role of interspecific interactions in biodiversity–ecosystem stability relationships is unclear. Here the authors develop a theoretical approach and show that empirical diversity–stability relatio...

Meng et al. develop a theoretical approach and show that empirical diversity–stability relationships in grasslands are best explained by species-specific dynamics rather than by interspecific interactions www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

That's us in the picture! 🖼️
Read about diversity-stability relationships in biodiversity experiments such as ours in @natecoevo.nature.com

The TERRA-team is also very much looking forward to welcoming Germany's geoecology community here @unituebingen.bsky.social. Please register under www.vgoed.de, come to the marvellous Tübingen and enjoy science, networking and lots of interaction. Looking forward to meeting you at the GUZ 😃!

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Before we kick things off #TERRA wants to give a huge thanks to its TERRA heroes & heroine. Thank you for all the amazing & often invisible contributions and behind-the-scenes work! Let’s roll up our sleeves and dive in: excited for 7 thrilling years ahead! Thanks @dfg.de @unituebingen.bsky.social

New professor at #GoetheUni! Prof. Dr. Deborah Leigh heads the Department of Genomic Biomonitoring at @sgn.one. Her topics: genetic diversity, #biodiversity, and #macrogenetics in the Anthropocene. Get to know her now: youtu.be/ahJWZH_WU1w. 🎬 #NewAppointment

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On our blog: Science is moving fast. How do we keep up? #ScholarInbox, developed by the Autonomous Vision Group led by @andreasgeiger.bsky.social, helps researchers stay ahead - by making the discovery of #openaccess papers smarter and more personal: www.machinelearningforscience.de/en/scholar-i...