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Global constraint principle for microbial growth laws
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Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre.

Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

USU researcher Tejinder Singh, talks about how scientists are developing a website to assist #farmers in calculating the amendments to add to their #soil. The SATURO helps them to figure out one of the variables needed for their calculations.

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📣📣📣2 years Postdoc position available !
Modelling of soil organic matter dynamics with STICS model !
Job info :
👉 jobs.inrae.fr/en/ot-27470

Part of the large ALAMOD project : www.pepr-faircarbon.fr/projets/proj...

#soilcarbon #soil #model #Postdoc

Event: the International Conference on “Soil & Water Resources Management for Combating #Desertification in Drylands under Climate Change” (SWDCC2026) will be held in Djerba Island, Tunisia, 15-18 May 2026.

Submit your abstracts & register here: swdcc-conferences.com

Hello fellow soil scientists! I'm looking for protocols for extracting MAOM and POM from soils! Anyone willing to share their methods? Please message me!

This process up?

Fellow soil scientist, im getting ready to do a large amount of extractions for MAOM and POM. When separating and collecting the fractions in our protocol, we rinse with 2L of DI water and collect 400 mL of the MAOM fraction to oven dry but it takes several days. Does anyone have a way of speeding

STEPS To It Announcing a new program, called STEPS, to simulate the dynamics of evolving microbial populations.

Excited to share new #program, STEPS, which can simulate #dynamics of the E. coli Long-Term Evolution Experiment (#LTEE) or other microbes in serial transfer regime.

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STEPS developed by @devinmlake.bsky.social, Zachary Matson, Minako Izutsu, and me.

GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities Abstract. Fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) is a powerful tool for visualising the spatial organisation of microbial communities. However, traditio

Very excited to share the first paper out of my Postdoc @CMR:

GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities.
@sjmcilroy.bsky.social @jamesvolmer.bsky.social @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social

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Scientists Discovered This Amazing Practical Use For Leftover Coffee Grounds We could be producing concrete that's 30 percent stronger by processing and adding charred coffee grounds to the mix, researchers in Australia found.

pyrolyzing breaks down the organic molecules, resulting in a porous, carbon-rich charcoal called biochar, that can form bonds with and thereby incorporate itself into the cement matrix.

Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies - Nature Microbiology In this Consensus Statement, the authors outline strategies for processing, analysing and interpreting low-biomass microbiome samples, and provide recommendations to minimize contaminants.

New Consensus Statement in Nature Microbiology!
Working with low-biomass microbiome samples? From deep subsurface rocks to human lungs, contamination is a major challenge. We offer field-to-data analysis guidelines to help keep your results clean.
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Phosphorus fertilization of grasses with dairy processing waste materials and contributions of soil microorganisms towards phosphorus uptake Dairy processing waste (DPW) is one of the largest agro-industrial residues globally and has the potential of reducing the dependency on mineral phosp…

📣♻️ Turning dairy processing waste into phosphorus fertilizer? Absolutely — with a little help from soil microbes! 🌱
Dive into the final chapter of Angel Velasco-Sánchez’s PhD thesis @geoderma.bsky.social, also with Gabriel Moinet and @jwvangroenigen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A general temperature dependence for biological nitrogen fixation across systems and levels of organization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.17.660177v1

New paper out in Global Change Biology 🤩

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We built the first soil carbon model that includes microbial eco-evolution using game theory — and found that adaptation could nearly double global soil carbon loss by 2100. Here is how👇(1/7)

Unfolding the Potential of Soil Microbial Community Diversity for Accumulation of Necromass Carbon at Large Scale

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Microbes That Keep Ecosystems in Balance Can Fall Apart Easily, New Study Finds Microbial teamwork behind denitrification can collapse in polluted environments, threatening ecosystem balance and resilience.

New @isbscience.org research shows how microbial teamwork behind denitrification can collapse in polluted environments, threatening ecosystem balance and resilience. isbscience.org/news/environ...

Antagonism as a foraging strategy in microbial communities In natural habitats, nutrient availability limits bacterial growth. We discovered that bacteria can overcome this limitation by acquiring nutrients by lysing neighboring cells through contact-dependen...

Thrilled to share our new paper in @science.org describing our discovery that bacteria can switch from competitors to bonafide predators when resources run dry—arming nanoscale “spears” (T6SS) to stab & consume neighbours.

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#MicroSKy #Microbiology

Global importance of nitrogen fixation across inland and coastal waters Biological nitrogen fixation is a key driver of global primary production and climate. Decades of effort have repeatedly updated nitrogen fixation estimates for terrestrial and open ocean systems, yet...

Today our huge N2-fixation in inland and coastal environments effort was published in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... I am so glad to have been part of this journey! #nitrogenfixtion

such a wonderful book. I love the way every author positions themselves and the way that many reflect on doing work outside of their communities even if it is with other Indigenous communities because we aren't interchangeable.

It’s bad because of all the collateral damage (us) but also good because we have so little to enjoy in American politics

Yep.

A montage. In the background is a view of liverwort. In front are seedlings, with their roots visible in the earth beneath them.

📝 What were root genes doing before they started building roots? 🧵
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Even plants that don’t have roots have genes to make them, so what is it that these genes are up to?

#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)

Missed flight this morning, delayed flight this afternoon and may miss connecting flight. Is this a sign I should stay home?

Trump fired over 1,000 National Park staff in February, and most still haven’t been reinstated. The $45 million he’s wasting on a military parade for his birthday could have paid their salaries for over a year.

Farmer behavior toward herbicide‐free agriculture and conservation tillage Balancing conflicting policy goals is a key challenge in the transition to sustainable agricultural systems. An important example is herbicide use reduction potentially conflicting with conservation ...

‘Farmer behavior toward herbicide‐free agriculture and conservation tillage’

New paper in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, led by Viviana Garcia, with Yanbing Wang and Niklas Möhring

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Brushing your teeth significantly and dramatically changes the oral microbiome

Global patterns of nutrient limitation in soil microorganisms | PNAS The availability of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) is essential for soil microbial activity and growth, yet global patterns of N and P limitation ...

New paper out in @pnas.org by lab member Yongxing Cui et al. w/ @drlimnology.bsky.social, @manudelbaq.bsky.social & many others 🍾🧪

Global patterns of nutrient limitation in soil microorganisms

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