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Dauerstellen statt Dauerwettbewerb: Exzellenzmittel umwandeln! Ein Kommentar zu Jan-Martin Wiardas Vorschlag eines Zwei-Säulen-Programms zur nachhaltigen Nutzung der Gelder, die derzeit in die Exzellenzstrategie fließen.

#ExStra ist massiv in der Kritik. Aber wie könnte man die Mittel sinnvoller einsetzen? In seinem Blog hat @jmwiarda.bsky.social letzte Woche ein vielversprechendes 2-Säulen-Programm vorgeschlagen. 1 Säule: Programm Dauerstellen & Karrieren. Politik täte gut daran, das umzusetzen! #IchBinHanna Mehr:

Mutter Erde - Hardcover Bestellen Sie Mutter Erde als Hardcover jetzt günstig im ULLSTEIN Online-Shop! ✓ Sichere Zahlung ✓ Gratis-Versand ab 9,00 Euro ✓ Vorbestellen möglich

Ich hoffe, dass es hilft Menschen für die wunderbare Welt des Bodens zu begeistern. Aber auch für die Wissenschaft, die hinter diesen Erkenntnissen steht.

Hier der Link zum Buch:
www.ullstein.de/werke/mutter...

NEW PAPER 🚨 Curious how plant root exudation and soil texture might interact to form dynamic anoxic microsites in the #rhizosphere, and what they might mean for the fate of soil #carbon, nutrient or contaminent in #soils? Check out @soiltycoon.bsky.social's new paper in SBB: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

Effective, efficient, and fair peer reviewing 2023 Effective, efficient, and fair peer reviewing Ben Bond-Lamberty Based on a presentation at the AGU Early Career Scientist Workshop, 2019 1

Scientists are expected to do peer reviewing but no one tells you HOW. After talking with several folks about this today at #AGU24 , it seems a good time to link to this presentation I made several years ago -- feel free to use/share! docs.google.com/presentation...

Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation - Nature Genomic and biochemical analyses of prokaryotic sulfur metabolism identify diverse microorganisms with the capacity to oxidize sulfide using iron(iii).

📢 New paper in @nature.com

Microbes rock 🎸🤘 with sulfide and iron minerals

I am very excited to share our recent study, which describes a previously unknown microbial energy metabolism ⚡⚡⚡🦠🧫⚡⚡⚡

🆕 Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation - MISO

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

Physics‐Based Indicators for the Onset of an AMOC Collapse Under Climate Change Multiple AMOC collapses are simulated in the CESM under transient climate change scenarios A physics-based indicator derived from surface buoyancy fluxes is proposed for the onset of an AMOC coll...

Diese Woche ist noch eine zweite Studie erschienen, die mit anderer Methodik auch zu dem Schluss kommt, dass die #AMOC schon Mitte des Jahrhunderts ihren Kipppunkt überschreiten dürfte: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Diese Gefahr in der Politik zu ignorieren wäre unverantwortlich.

Redox conduction facilitates direct interspecies electron transport in anaerobic methanotrophic consortia Methane-consuming microbial partners use redox conductors to pass electrons.

Redox conduction facilitates direct interspecies electron transport in anaerobic methanotrophic consortia www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

After an interesting and very exciting journey with my friends, we showed that this little guy (Microbacterium deferred A1-JK) not only produces electricity but also does it while breathing oxygen and uses a cross-Gram (Gram- &Gram+ genes combined) hybrid mechanism to do this ⚡🦠.

Microbial community regulation of extracellular enzyme production can mediate patterns of particulate and mineral-associated organic matter accumulation in undersaturated soils https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.25.666799v1

Experimental chamber at the Spruce-Peatland Responses Under Changing Environments project.

Last year of counting cones at SPRUCE and we had the perfect weather!

@jalene-lamontagne.bsky.social
@riley-adams.bsky.social

Biologist searching for plants in a meadow

A photo of an orchid in a meadow

It's biodiversity day in our National Park. Today we're on the island Wangerooge.
Let's see how many different species we can find in a day 🦆🦭🦋🐌🐞🌷🌾🌿

PICRUSt2-SC: an update to the reference database used for functional prediction within PICRUSt2

PICRUSt2-SC: an update to the reference database used for functional prediction within PICRUSt2. 🦠🧫
academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

Karte Deutschlands zeigt extreme Dürre im Oberboden bis 25 cm Tiefe vom 16. Mai 2025, mit weiten Teilen in dunkelrot bis schwarz (Dürre mit 20- bis 50-jährlicher Häufigkeit). Darüber steht der Text: „Rekord-Dürre in Deutschland: Wir brauchen schnell besseren Schutz unserer Äcker“. Quelle: Dürremonitor | Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung.

Eine tiefgreifende Dürre bahnt sich an. Laut dem Deutschen Wetterdienst waren:

🔴 Der Februar zu trocken
🔴 Der März zu trocken
🔴 Der April zu trocken
🔴 Der Mai droht ähnliches

Die Daten sollten uns schnellstmöglich aufrütteln. Dabei sollte uns die Entwicklung nicht überraschen. Ein 🧵

Updated Climate Visuals

(1) Warming stripes for atmosphere and ocean
(2) Climate indicators (adding land humidity for 2024)
(3) UK climate indicators (adding some 2024 data)

ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

Al Gore’s Real-Time Climate Data Just Went Live—Here’s Why It Matters How Real-Time Climate Data from Climate TRACE is transforming emissions tracking—bringing transparency, speed, and accountability to global climate action.

Climate TRACE shows you where and when greenhouse gas emissions are occurring.

Neither Victims Nor Executioners: Albert Camus on the Antidote to Violence “If he who bases his hopes on human nature is a fool, he who gives up in the face of circumstances is a coward.”

To save what can be saved, just to make the future possible: that is the great motivating force, and the reason for passion and sacrifice - Albert Camus www.themarginalian.org/2018/03/05/a...

Great visualizations!

The entire planet is warming, except for the higher levels of the atmosphere.

That's because the greenhouse gases we have added to the lower atmosphere (troposphere) absorb outgoing heat radiation (infrared) and radiate in back to Earth.

#DATAVIZ

Global Warming and Political Intimidation Global warming is the number one environmental issue of our time, yet some prominent politicians have refused to accept scientific evidence of human responsi...

Everyone! Climate scientist @rsb007.bsky.social is here and you should follow. Among other things, Ray was a co-author on @michaelemann.bsky.social's "hockey stick" paper. He also wrote a book about a previous occasion where the GOP tried to criminalize climate scientists. It'll be worse this time.

Behind every great woman in science, there’s another great woman in science To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, six award-winning female scientists highlight women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others.

Six award-winning female scientists told Nature about the women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others. #WomenInStem 🧪

IPCC AR6 Sea Level Projection Tool Visualize and download global and local sea level projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report.

You want to know about this NASA Sea Level Projection Tool, which allows you to visualize and download the sea level projection data from the IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6).

"Scissor Graph" showing men overtaking women in proportional representation in sciences after doctorate

Happy International Women's Day! Despite the efforts, while much more women enter scientific fields, due to numerous factors, few manage to remain in the field or secure senior positions. Support your coworkers, call out harmful systemic behaviour. 😘

This Pioneering Black Zoologist's Insights Were a Century Ahead of Their Time Charles Henry Turner conducted trailblazing research on the cognitive traits of bees, spiders and more

Dr. Charles Henry Turner was from Ohio; he earned a BSc and MSc from the University of Cincinnati. He was the first African American to earn a PhD in #entomology, which was at the University of Chicago in 1907.

#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory
#BlackHistoryMonth

www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming.
1/11

This is figure 2 from “A year above 1.5 °C signals that Earth is most probably within the 20-year period that will reach the Paris Agreement limit.” It shows strong warming trends place the first 1.5 °C year within the 1.5 °C 20-year period.

Two papers in Nature Climate Change suggest that exceeding 1.5 °C in 2024 may indicate that we have entered a multi-decadal period of 1.5 °C average global warming.
https://go.nature.com/4hR9GYO
https://go.nature.com/3WVdJM1
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Drivers of methane-cycling archaeal abundances, community structure, and catabolic pathways in continental margin sediments www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic... #jcampubs

We signed international data sharing agreements. Numerical weather prediction requires global data. We won't know what's coming unless upstream neighbors share their weather measurement data community.wmo.int/en/activity-...

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

Article on the mass eXit of German universities from plattform X in protest against anti-democratic discourse pushed by Elon Musks algorithms.

This is a turning point.

We Europeans have the power to push X into irrelevance across our continent. Freeze or delete your accounts now.

Media, it’s time to stop citing X.

Dozens of universities are leading the way. Let’s limit Elon Musk’s influence in 🇪🇺.

#eXit #SciXit #Democracy

Shows the user interface for RhizoVision Explorer with multiple panes including options and color-coded roots in the middle based on their diameter. Include the RVE shield logo and the website rhizovision.com

Do you want to study roots? We released RhizoVision Explorer 3 years ago and now have 12,500+ downloads. RVE is free, open-source software for analyzing root images. The website covers common reproducible imaging approaches. Feel free to ask any questions! Version 2 coming!

www.rhizovision.com