Was a pleasure to join this year's #BayCEER Workshop to talk about burying beetles, social immunity & parental care and how all this might influence offspring immunity and their early development.
Watch out for a publication on this sooner than later 👀
13.10.2025 18:41 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Die BayPilz @unibayreuth.bsky.social @bayceer.bsky.social im #ÖBG ist erfolgreich gestartet! 🤩 Heute und morgen gibt es jede Menge #Pilze zu bestaunen, die von Geschichte, Bibliothek, Vorträgen, Workshops und Kinderprogramm begleitet werden.
11.10.2025 09:05 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Wonderful workshop today @unibayreuth.bsky.social with great discussions at my poster on #veganic #agroecology as a way to ensure #soil fertility and #plant nutrition in stockless and vegan #organic #farming. Thanks for organizing, @bayceer.bsky.social! 🤩
09.10.2025 18:25 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
#KlimaschutzHEUTE - Fakten, Fortschritte und Fragen 10 Jahre nach dem Pariser Klimaabkommen
Das @bayceer.bsky.social wird am Samstag 11.10. den Programmpunkt
"Klimafakten mit dem KLIMA-BULLSHIT-BINGO"
beisteuern. Dafür waren sogar die "Bullshit-Experten" aus X mal hilfreich. 😉
➡️
08.10.2025 11:27 — 👍 34 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
This #meta-analysis adds valuable insights into how micro- and #nanoplastics affect reproduction in #Daphnia. An important step toward understanding #ecosystem-level impacts of #plastic #pollution.
Great work!!
#Microplastics #Ecotoxicology #BayCEER
06.10.2025 08:27 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Die Notwendigkeit und Dringlichkeit von #Klimaschutz ist wissenschaftlicher Konsens.
Am Samstag 11.10. veranstaltet die @unibayreuth.bsky.social zusammen mit zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteuren einen Wissenschafts- und Aktionstag: #KlimaschutzHeute
10paris.uni-bayreuth.de
02.10.2025 07:35 — 👍 50 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 0
Infographic with turquoise and mint green background featuring two circular food images. The top circle shows fresh vegetables and produce including cabbage, corn, lettuce, and various colorful vegetables. The bottom circle displays prepared healthy meals in bowls with various colorful dishes and utensils.
The main title reads "SUSTAINABLE DIETS & REDUCED FOOD WASTE" in bold black text. Above, there's explanatory text from the IPBES Nexus Assessment stating that sustainable healthy diets and reducing food waste decrease greenhouse gas emissions while benefiting other nexus elements and reducing human deaths.
Simple line drawings of vegetables and plants decorate the background. The IPBES logo appears in the bottom right corner. The design uses a calming color palette of greens and blues with organic, flowing shapes in the background.
Did you know that transforming food systems could bring multiple benefits in terms of biodiversity, water, human health, climate change and reduced exposure to pollutants?
— @ipbes.net #NexusAssessment
On #FLWDay, explore how reducing #FoodWaste and #FoodLoss delivers these benefits and more!
29.09.2025 06:22 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Important insights on a rapidly evolving challenge 👏
29.09.2025 07:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Vertical distribution and post-depositional translocation of microplastics in a Rhine floodplain soil - Microplastics and Nanoplastics
Microplastics (MPs) are ubiquitous in the environment, but their vertical movement in undisturbed soils is poorly understood. This study investigates MP distribution and transport in one 110 cm soil profile from a Rhine River floodplain, Germany. Nine soil samples were analyzed for MP content, grain size distribution, bulk density, porosity, and organic carbon content. MPs (10 $$\upmu$$ μ m to 5 mm) were characterized by size, shape, and polymer type using ATR-FTIR and $$\upmu$$ μ FTIR. Biological activity was assessed through earthworm species identification and abundance, and sediment deposition was dated using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL). To our knowledge, this is one of the first studies to integrate detailed field observations with dating results to draw conclusions about the vertical displacement of microplastics. MPs were detected at all depths, with 81.3%–96.6% being 10–150 $$\upmu$$ μ m in size, predominantly fragments and spheres. Concentrations peaked at 790,497 particles $$kg^{-1}$$ k g - 1 dry soil between 38 and 45 cm, where root- and earthworm-formed macropores facilitated transport. Below this depth, reduced porosity limited movement, favoring smaller MPs. OSL dating indicated sedimentation before the 1950s/60s below 20 cm, suggesting vertical transport of MPs. Therefore, we would advise to be careful using small MPs as stratigraphic markers for the Anthropocene. Although analysing just one soil profile, this study highlights the role of biological activity and soil structure in MP translocation and emphasizes the need to account for small MPs in floodplain studies to avoid underestimating their environmental presence. Graphical Abstract
📢 New research article in Microplastics & Nanoplastics
@springer.springernature.com by our former master student
@paulineseidel.bsky.social: Vertical distribution & post-depositional translocation of microplastics in a Rhine floodplain soil
📖👉 microplastics.springeropen.com/articles/10....
25.09.2025 09:31 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
It was fun presenting a poster on #veganic #agroecology & chairing a session on #OrganicMatter in agricultural #soils at the #DBG2025 conference this week in Tübingen. Looking forward to the excursion tomorrow, before our #BaySISS summer school on #StableIsotopes starts @bayceer.bsky.social.
18.09.2025 16:27 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The @femsmicro.org SSPD 2025 is going strong! 💪
An amazing crowd of postdocs and mentors from all over the globe has gathered for highly inspiring and illuminating discussions of microbiology and career development on the shores of the beautiful Lake of Ohrid - City of Light. 🦠🌞🇲🇰
t1p.de/v7sxs
08.09.2025 12:18 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
Bayreuther Pilztage
Universität Bayreuth
🍄 Die 2. Bayreuther Pilztage stehen vor der Tür!
Am 11. & 12. Oktober im Ökologisch-Botanischer Garten.
Pilze entdecken bei Ausstellungen, Führungen & Workshops 🧺
📍 Eintritt frei – Anmeldung bis 6.10. bei VHS Bayreuth
👉 www.obg.uni-bayreuth.de/de/veranstal...
👉 www.vhs-bayreuth.de/index.php?id...
11.09.2025 09:55 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A person stands in a boat on a lake, raising their arm while holding aquatic plants, with mountains and cloudy skies in the background. The image includes colorful sketches of birds, fish, and trees overlaid on the photo. Large white text in the center reads: “LET’S REVIVE OUR LAKES. Join #GenerationRestoration.” At the bottom left is the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021–2030 logo.
Lakes are essential to life. They hold most of the world’s freshwater, but are degrading faster than any other ecosystem.
On today’s first-ever #WorldLakeDay, check the #GenerationRestoration Lakes Portal & learn how you can help bring lakes back to life: www.decadeonrestoration.org/take-action-...
27.08.2025 05:04 — 👍 26 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
Definitely worth a read!
25.08.2025 12:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🌲✨ New study with researchers from BayCEER challenges forestry assumptions: Native trees in Argentina grow just as fast as exotic pines, but without the downsides. 🌿
Published in: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
25.08.2025 12:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Eine Person im Laborkittel zieht ein Messgerät aus einem stillen Gewässer.
👩🔬 Wieviel #Mikroplastik gibt es im #Ammersee?
In einer Pilotstudie haben wir 2022 die Mikroplastikbelastung des Ammersees und insbesondere der darin lebenden Fische untersucht.
Ein Einblick findet sich unter:
👉 https://link2.bayern/ahe7
20.08.2025 07:00 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🪲 New from BayCEER: Siblings matter!
Research shows burying beetle offspring thrive with siblings, even without parents. A surprising twist in how family life evolves!
🔗 Published in www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#Evolution #Beetles
@unibayreuth.bsky.social @steigerlab.bsky.social
06.08.2025 12:40 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
🌱💧 Kicking off UBT's 50-year journey of “Searching for Traces”, with the one and only BayCEER watering can!
This iconic symbol of ecological research kicks off a series honoring 50 years of UBT’s people and milestones.
www.uni-bayreuth.de/50years/sear...
@unibayreuth.bsky.social
31.07.2025 11:35 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New paper out on social immunity and burying beetles! Congrats to @leo-theo.bsky.social and @max-evolbio.bsky.social!
30.07.2025 09:23 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
BayCEER: Dates & News: Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry with Drones
Fernerkundung und Photogrammetrie mit Drohnen
🚁 Coming up at BayCEER!
Join us for a hands-on short course “ #Remote #Sensing and #Photogrammetry with Drones”.
🗓️ Tue, July 29
🕘 09:00–17:00 | 📍 S25 GEO
Bring your curiosity & basic #R knowledge!
More info: www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/bayceer/en/a...
#Geoscience
@holzheustefan.bsky.social
23.07.2025 09:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🎉 Congrats to BayCEER researchers!
At #UNIKAT 2025, the University of #Bayreuth awarded €30,000 in #research prizes!
🏆 Prof. Pausch & Dr. Martínez-Pérez awarded for groundbreaking research in #ecology & #hydrology. 🌿💧
@jpausch.bsky.social
ℹ️ www.uni-bayreuth.de/en/press-rel...
#fungi #innovative
21.07.2025 09:43 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
This Thursday at BayCEER #Colloquium:
Prof. Dr. Sean Bay (La Trobe University) explores how #soil #bacteria in caves use trace #gases like #hydrogen and methane, key to global #carbon_cycles and #climate regulation.
🗓️ 17.07 | 12:30
📍 H6, Geo
Info: www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/bayceer/de/a...
15.07.2025 06:13 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
🌿🏃♂️🌐 Where do outdoor sports, #nature conservation & #digitalization meet?
Join us on July 16 at VAUDE in Tettnang to explore this exciting intersection!
🎫 Free – Limited spots!
ℹ️ Program: www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/DigitalRanger/
#SportEcology #OutdoorFuture
@unibayreuth.bsky.social
10.07.2025 11:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Postdoctoral researcher in Statistical Ecology | (model-based) Ordination, mixed-models and some ecology #GLLVM | https://github.com/BertvanderVeen
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#Ecosystem Science and Impacts of #Climate Change; #Forest #Ecology; #Biodiversity.
| Ecosystem Ecology group at @wslresearch.bsky.social |
| Professor at @usyseth.bsky.social |
| Head of the @SwissForestLab.bsky.social |
Social Evolution & Ecology | Insects, Microbes & Parental Care | Independent Group Leader [ERC Staring Grant Fellow] at Uni Bayreuth (DE)
Geo-biosphere interactions, Universität Tübingen
Postdoc
An International Open Access Journal on Fungal Biology
Professor passionate about student success & team science #firstgen #Brassica enthusiast walking Dogs of the Plant World
#Agriculture #Food #HigherEd #EduSky #Agsky #SciComm & more
#Soil #Crop #Science ; opinions mine
Aktuelles aus Forschung und Lehre in Nordhessen. Heute für morgen.
News from research and teaching in the heart of Germany. Today for tomorrow.
https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/impressum
Geo-Biosphere Interactions (Prof @uni_tue: biogeochemist, microbial/soil ecologist): curious about biota driving element cycles and geo-bio-systems' trajectories - from single cell metabolism to global scale
Relaying microbiology news, articles and comments relevant to aspects on bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microbes / microorganisms. Microbes are 💪
Geographer and geoecologist excited to work interdisciplinary on plant-soil interactions across scales | soil organic matter | climate change | roots
Studieren und forschen in Stuttgart an der schönsten Campus-Uni in Baden-Württemberg! Impressum/Datenschutz: https://www.uni-hohenheim.de/impressum
Research project @ University of Hohenheim and Philipps University of Marburg - Researching the transformation of agricultural and food systems with a focus on biodiversity, combining economics, ecology, and policy perspectives.
Bioclimatology lab at the University of Göttingen/Germany led by Alexander Knohl. We research the interaction between land ecosystems and the atmosphere in a changing environment.
European Geosciences Union is the leading organisation supporting Earth, planetary & space science researchers in Europe. #EGU26 3-8 May 2026. Online Mon-Fri 10-5 CET.
Journal of Integrative Plant Biology publishes reports, commentaries, review articles, new resources, new technologies, and full-length research articles.
