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Soil Organisms Journal @soilorganismsj.bsky.social · Apr 30

Art is a way of life & tool to communicate about science, soils & soil organisms 🪱🐜🍄🌱 The new SO column celebrates this! 🎉

Svenja Meyer @fminifera.bsky.social is inspired by & spreads the love of soil organisms though her art. Read more here:
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Soil Organisms Journal @soilorganismsj.bsky.social · Apr 30

Are #collembola #bioluminescent? They sure are!! 🤩
Can you capture this with a smart phone? You can! 😍

Atsuko Ohira & Taizo Nakamori show us in their latest paper in Soil Organisms. Check it out below!

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Soil Organisms Journal @soilorganismsj.bsky.social · Jun 23

📢 Another ✨ONLINE FIRST✨ article today in Soil Organisms!

Hayden Bock & colleagues examine the effects of urbanization on the trophic niches of some common soil-dwelling taxa. Please repost!! 🕷️🕷️🕷️
#mites #collembola #soilbiodiversity
@cornellcals.bsky.social

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Soil Organisms Journal @soilorganismsj.bsky.social · Jun 16

📢 Welcome to the beginning of Soil Organisms ✨ONLINE FIRST✨!

Articles made available online before tri-yearly issues! 🪱🐜

TODAY! Karin Hohberg tells us about the status of soil biodiversity in Germany!

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Soil Organisms Journal @soilorganismsj.bsky.social · Apr 17

🌱🪱🐌 How DOES the biodiversity crisis manifest in Germany and what are its effects? Christian Wirth of @idiv-research.bsky.social & @unileipzig.bsky.social & colleagues focus on this in their latest article. CHECK IT OUT! Please repost.

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German biodiversity assessment goes below ground: Editorial – This paper is part of the special collection ‘Faktencheck Artenvielfalt’ | Soil Organisms

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Soil Organisms Journal @soilorganismsj.bsky.social · Apr 18

📢 The APRIL 2025 issue of Soil Organisms is OUT! New articles. New types of articles. Soil biodiversity and science communication. CHECK IT OUT NOW! ⬇️

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Soil Organisms

SOIL ORGANISMS is an English-language, international journal that includes original papers and review articles covering all aspects of organismic soil biology. Open Access. Double blind peer reviewed.

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AntonCollembola @antoncollembola.bsky.social · Jan 30

We are hiring a PhD student / 75% postdoc to explore recent trends of #soil #biodiversity in Germany. The job is in a collaborative project TrenDiv across multiple institutions with the working place at our department of Soil Zoology in Görlitz.
www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...

Jobs for Scientists | Senckenberg Society for Nature Research

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The Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative @thegsbi.bsky.social · Jan 7

The GSBI is looking for a new home 🏠 by April 2026. We encourage individuals, institutions, and organizations to submit a bid to host the GSBI by March 1st 2025!

See the full call 👇

www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/apply-to-hos...

Apply to host the GSBI — Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative

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Soil Organisms Journal @soilorganismsj.bsky.social · Dec 23

Thank you to all our hard-working reviewers, staff, and authors who have made 2024 a wonderful year at Soil Organisms ✨🪱

We look forward to seeing you all in 2025!! ✨⏳✨

@eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @antoncollembola.bsky.social @sgn.one

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AntonCollembola @antoncollembola.bsky.social · Dec 22

Soil fauna #traits and #soil organic matter transformation concept paper is out in @funecology.bsky.social. Fully collaborative work, out just before Christmas! Happy holidays to everyone! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Linking effect traits of soil fauna to processes of organic matter transformation

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Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social · Dec 21

This, this, 100 times this.

My job consists of battling to keep some time free for thinking - the entire system seems to be designed to stop me doing so.

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Rosa Ritunnano @rritunnano.bsky.social · Dec 20

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

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AntonCollembola @antoncollembola.bsky.social · Dec 17

I’m thrilled to share that my ERC Consolidator grant proposal “CARBONWEB” was funded 😱 ! I the next five years you will hear more about global #soil fauna #macroecology, #foodwebs and carbon cycling 🚴🏽. The project is liked to our global soil biodiversity monitoring initiative, Soil BON

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Malte Jochum @maltejochum.bsky.social · Dec 12

Hey #BES2024 - if you are into
Soils or SciComm or BOTH, we have a free resource for you!

We have 33 English articles about all kinds of topics re. Soil Biodiversity:
kids.frontiersin.org/collections/...

AND we have 174 translated articles to 26 languages:
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Soil biodiversity

This Collection is the work of more than 50 scientists and Young Reviewers from all around the globe. Our role as editors, together with the authors, was to share our love of soil biodiversity with yo...

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Soil Organisms Journal @soilorganismsj.bsky.social · Dec 3

Diana Wall was a leader in #soilecology & #soilbiodiversity across the globe. She mentored many scientists & policy-makers around the world. Read about & SO's new column in honor of Diana #TheWallReview. PLZ repost!
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Soil Organisms Journal @soilorganismsj.bsky.social · Dec 3

The latest issue of Soil Organisms is out! Read it here:
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Soil Organisms Journal @soilorganismsj.bsky.social · Dec 5

Happy #WorldSoilDay2024! Soil is the home to more than 59% of the biodiversity on Earth and home to the greatest organisms – Soil Organisms! 🐌🪱🦠

#soilbiodiversity #soilecology #soilorganisms #Soil

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AntonCollembola @antoncollembola.bsky.social · Dec 5

What is a „functional trait“ in soil invertebrate ecology? A big mess revealed in scientific literature and researcher heads🥸. Check our paper where we tried to clean this mess 🧹🧹🧹

Soil Organisms Journal @soilorganismsj.bsky.social · Dec 5

So, what is the definition of “functional traits”? @SophieJoimel & team have a suggestion! 🪱🦟🐌
@antoncollembola.bsky.social
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Trait concepts, categories, and databases in soil invertebrate ecology – ordering the mess | Soil Organisms

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Thomas Shahan @tshahan.bsky.social · Nov 24

Lepidocyrtus fimicolus found beneath/in damp rotting wood in my garden 🤩🌈

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Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social · Nov 5

I’ve been gaining some new followers recently, so it’s time for a reintroduction!

I’m a scientist & macrophotographer, fascinated by all the amazing creatures that live in the soil. I use my photos for SciComm to spread love for soil biodiversity, and I’m writing a book on the subject too! 🧪

A photograph of a blue, soft-bodied springtail invertebrate, with long organe spines covering its back. The sprintail is crawling on the surface of a decaying log, and facing the camera.

A screenshot of a press release article on The Bookseller website, describing the sale to Hodder Press and Random House of the rights to a book on soil biodiversity by Frank Ashwood.

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Soil Organisms Journal @soilorganismsj.bsky.social · Dec 1

Welcome to the official Soil Organisms journal Bluesky account! So happy to be here. 🪱🌱🍄
📢 Check out the latest issue of Soil Organisms published TODAY!!!
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Soil Organisms

SOIL ORGANISMS is an English-language, international journal that includes original papers and review articles covering all aspects of organismic soil biology. Open Access. Double blind peer reviewed.

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The Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative @thegsbi.bsky.social · Nov 14

📣GSBI Speaks is back this December. Join us in the second of the series to learn about the role of biological soil crusts (biocrusts) in soil 🎉

Dec. 12, 2024, 7:00 MST, 9:00 EST, 14:00 GMT, 15:00 CET

Register 👇

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Malte Jochum @maltejochum.bsky.social · Nov 27

Brand-new translated Soil Biodiversity articles for kids!🐜 🐞 🌏 🕸️ 🌲

Arabic: + 1️⃣
French: + 1️⃣
German: + 1️⃣
Serbian: + 1️⃣

We now have 1️⃣ 7️⃣ 4️⃣ translations to 2️⃣ 6️⃣ languages!

Check them out here:
idiv-biodiversity.de/en/young-min...

And the English originals here:
kids.frontiersin.org/collections/...

Languages

Hotspot in Biodiversity Science

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AntonCollembola @antoncollembola.bsky.social · Dec 1

Who eats whom in soil and why we care? www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/blog-beneath...

What, where and how do soil animals eat? And why do we need to know? — Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative

We all know the early bird catches the worm, but what does the worm catch? What animals that live in soil eat down there is hard to observe but important to know. Over the past two decades or so, ecol...

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