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Severe malnutrition among under-5s in Gaza City has tripled in two weeks, charity says MSF says number of people needing care for malnutrition has quadrupled since May and blames Israeli ‘policy of starvation’ * Middle East crisis – live updates The medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has said that rates of severe malnutrition among children under five at its Gaza City clinic have tripled in the last two weeks as starvation in the Israeli-besieged strip worsens. The global aid community has sounded the alarm as Gaza descends deeper into mass starvation, with daily deaths from starvation reported as Israel allows only a trickle of aid into the territory. Continue reading...

Severe malnutrition among under-5s in Gaza City has tripled in two weeks, charity says

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Soil Phosphorus Dynamics are an Overlooked but Dominant Control on Mineral‐Associated Organic Matter We argue that soil phosphorus (P) plays a critical and underrated role in mineral associated organic matter (MAOM) persistence and soil organic matter cycling, as P forms strong mineral bonds, influe...

Great work from Hannah Lieberman arguing soil P is as or more important than N in determining MAOM accumulation and its sensitivity to global change. dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

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New paper from the lab- A Large Fraction of Soil Microbial Taxa Is Sensitive to Experimental Warming.
In @globalchangebio.bsky.social ‪

led by Tadeo Saez and Pankaj tried with contribution from @manudelbaq.bsky.social @ftmaestre.bsky.social & others
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

NCCR Microbiomes Fellowships - NCCR Since 2023, the NCCR Microbiomes invites applications for short-term research fellowships. These fellowships will support undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs from outside of the NCCR who ...

MSc and PhD students abroad: If you are interested in #microbiomes in #soils (or other systems) and keen on research in #Switzerland, consider applying for these #fellowships with us other other groups of the #NCCR Microbiomes nccr-microbiomes.ch/education/nc.... Interested? DM or Email.

Properties of modified BC and its effects on soil EC, pH and CEC. Modified BC can potentially improve or reduce soil indices, as indicated by green and red characters in the image. The soil index is represented in the inner layer of the image, with the cause of soil property changes caused by BC in the middle layer and BC property changes in the outermost layer.

***NOW ONE OF OUR MOST READ ARTICLES***
Biochar modification methods and mechanisms for salt-affected #soil and saline-alkali soil improvement: A review
Lin, Yu, Zhang, Lu, Xu & Peng
#soilscience
doi.org/10.1111/sum....

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📣Our own Dr. Paolo di Lonardo I will give a talk during the webinar on 'Soil Health Indicators: from selection to sampling". Paolo will present some of the first results of Soil Health Benchmarks 🦠 🍄‍🟫 🪱 🕷️ ☘️ Don't miss it!

For registrations: soilcommunity.app/event-64

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ECM colonised root cross section. Photo credit Tess McBride

For Australian Domestic students interested in pursuing a PhD in molecular mycorrhizal studies, please consider applying for a scholarship-funded position in my lab (tinyurl.com/jxcdhp3p) - our lab is a diverse group studying plant-microbe interactions from genes to landscapes

Sharing the light, impact of solar parks on plant productivity, soil microbes and soil organic matter Solar parks enable renewable energy production at a large scale, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, the effects of this change in land use on vegetation and soil health are still lar...

📣Publication: Sharing the light, impact of solar parks on plant productivity, soil microbes and soil organic matter🦠🌱🌞 led by our own Luuk Scholten and with great co-authors Ron de Goede, Anna Edlinger, Bas Van Aken, Gerlinde De Deyn!🎉
Have a nice read nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Horizon Europe work programmes What the work programmes cover in Horizon Europe and where to view them.

research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/funding/fund...

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Less intensive management works best for agricultural soil, study finds The less intensively you manage the soil, the better the soil can function; for example, not plowing as often or using more grass-clover mixtures as cover crops. These are the conclusions of a researc...

"Inverting the soil during plowing is a very big disruption to soil life."

When we think about #SoilHealth rather than one-off outputs, management principles look very different
phys.org/news/2025-04...

📢 Great postdoc (3 years) opportunity in our group @cirad.bsky.social in the FairCarboN #ALAMOD project to coordinate a modeling excercice @agmip.bsky.social on #soilorganicmatter and nitrogen dynamics in tropical cropping systems.
Deadline: 08/05/25

recrutement.cirad.fr/job/job-rese...

Applications are invited for the “LEGUMINOSE Summer School on Crop Productivity & Soil Quality under Cereal-Legume Intercropping” organized within our Horizon Europe
LEGUMINOSE Project.
Dates: June 23-27, 2025
Location: GCUF, Pakistan
Deadline: May 11, 2025
Seats: 25
@pathanshamina.bsky.social

Designing Microbial Interventions to Study Behavioural Effects in Wild Birds (DAVIDSON_U25DTPR) | Doctoral Training Partnership This project is open to Home Fee Status applicants only. The gut microbiome influences how animals behave and interact with their environment via the microbiome–gut–brain axis (MGBA).

PhD opportunity with us at UEA (home fee students only)

@biouea.bsky.social

biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/des...

Response of soil biota to agricultural management practices: A systematic quantitative meta-data-analysis and method selection framework Soil organisms are vital to soil health, however, their inclusion in monitoring frameworks remains limited. Yet, it is well-known that agricultural ma…

📣🎉We are thrilled to share a new paper looking at the impact of different farming practices on a huge range of soil biota🪱🦠. This works come from the Soil Health Benchmarks Horizon Europe. Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Frontiers | Unraveling microbial shifts and plant growth responses in Chrysanthemum ‘Merlino’ due to artificial root exudates in horticultural substrates

Can we use artificial root exudates to manipulate the microbiome in growing media and make the cultivation of Chrysanthemum more sustainable ? Check out our latest findings, led by Dr. Steffi Pot www.frontiersin.org/journals/hor...

@Soil Scientist & Soil Lovers: Early bird deadline of the #DBG2025 @unituebingen.bsky.social is approaching: 4th May. Check our exciting programm about #HealthySoilsClimateProtection at www.dbg2025.de/en/programme... + many offered excursions www.dbg2025.de/en/excursion... by @soilsdbg.bsky.social

Guidelines for improved quantification and reporting of carbon stocks and additional carbon storage in agroforestry systems - Agroforestry Systems The number of scientific publications related to biomass carbon or soil organic carbon under various land management practices has globally and dramatically increased during the last two decades, the ...

Carbon #sequestration in #agroforestry 🌳 🌽 🥑 🐄 is a hot topic.
Here we provide #openaccess guidelines to improve the quantification & reporting of carbon stocks in #soils & #biomass & additional #carbon storage in agroforestry systems, and to maximize manuscript acceptance.
doi.org/10.1007/s104...

There's still time to register for this FREE webinar....
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A Global Relationship Between Genome Size and Encoded Carbon Metabolic Strategies of Soil Bacteria We combined a global-scale meta-analysis of 2650 genomes, information on whole-genome sequencing, and a continental-scale metagenomic field study. We found that genome size was tightly associated wit...

📢 New paper in Ecology Letters on assigning Y-yield and A-acquisition strategies of our YAS framework using genomics data; genome size came out as a significant factor.

Led by Xingjie Wu, Jingjing Peng and Shuo Jiao.

doi.org/10.1111/ele....

The soil microbial methylome: A tool to explore the role of epigenetic memory in driving soil abiotic legacy effects Epigenetics is a phenomenon whereby a stable hereditable change in gene expression can occur without changing the DNA sequence. DNA methylation (the a…

In this paper, Alexey Larionov and I and ask the question:
What is the role played by microbial epigenetics in soil legacy effects?
We also explain how it could be answered using long-read sequencing with @pacbio.bsky.social or @nanoporetech.com methods. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Posting on behalf of my colleague Sylvie Quideau. She is offering a funded Ph.D. position in Soil Science- Forest Soil Carbon. See ad below for details. Please share. Thx!