Miloš Bielčik
@milosbielcik.bsky.social
Bridging microbial ecology and biogeochemistry. Focus on global change ecology, greenhouse gasses, wetlands. I actually love to write 💙 Postdoc at Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), WetNetBB, Berlin - Brandenburg
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Aligning spatial ecological theory with the study of clonal organisms: the case of fungal coexistence
Established ecological theory has focused on unitary organisms, and thus its concepts have matured into a form that often hinders rather than facilitates the ecological study of modular organisms. He....
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New thing out: Ecological theory, more user-friendly for modular/clonal organisms, bridging fungal ecology and coexistence theory. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm
November 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm
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A paper in Nature addresses long-standing issues in the global carbon budget estimates and shows that the magnitude of the natural land sink is substantially smaller than previously estimated. go.nature.com/3XH9ymF 🧪
November 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A paper in Nature addresses long-standing issues in the global carbon budget estimates and shows that the magnitude of the natural land sink is substantially smaller than previously estimated. go.nature.com/3XH9ymF 🧪
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Let me use this as an opportunity to talk about Jordi et al's very cool paper, now out in PNAS 🧪:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
You can read our news and views here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
You can read our news and views here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Let me use this as an opportunity to talk about Jordi et al's very cool paper, now out in PNAS 🧪:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
You can read our news and views here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
You can read our news and views here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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📣Today!📣
Our next seminar speaker is Gonzalo Robledo (Universidad de Chile), presenting:
⭐Sensitivity analysis for time varying ecological networks⭐
As ever free and open for all!
Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
See you there!
Our next seminar speaker is Gonzalo Robledo (Universidad de Chile), presenting:
⭐Sensitivity analysis for time varying ecological networks⭐
As ever free and open for all!
Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
See you there!
November 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
📣Today!📣
Our next seminar speaker is Gonzalo Robledo (Universidad de Chile), presenting:
⭐Sensitivity analysis for time varying ecological networks⭐
As ever free and open for all!
Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
See you there!
Our next seminar speaker is Gonzalo Robledo (Universidad de Chile), presenting:
⭐Sensitivity analysis for time varying ecological networks⭐
As ever free and open for all!
Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
See you there!
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Each generation seems to rediscover the riddle of organismal agency: are organisms agents that pursue intrinsic goals—and how could we know? Our 📕 gathers historians, philosophers & scientists to explore this debate—now available in paperback!👇 www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o... #philsky #HPS #evobio
October 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Each generation seems to rediscover the riddle of organismal agency: are organisms agents that pursue intrinsic goals—and how could we know? Our 📕 gathers historians, philosophers & scientists to explore this debate—now available in paperback!👇 www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o... #philsky #HPS #evobio
Also interesting: "ERC’s grants have not been adjusted for inflation since the council was set up in 2007"
On the flip side, with dropping success rate the true academic currency, the "prestige", is growing higher and higher 😅
On the flip side, with dropping success rate the true academic currency, the "prestige", is growing higher and higher 😅
Yes it is....
Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data
Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.
www.nature.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Also interesting: "ERC’s grants have not been adjusted for inflation since the council was set up in 2007"
On the flip side, with dropping success rate the true academic currency, the "prestige", is growing higher and higher 😅
On the flip side, with dropping success rate the true academic currency, the "prestige", is growing higher and higher 😅
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PhD opportunity with me at University of Edinburgh linked with Forest Research, funded by E5 DTP.
On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network.
Pic: one of our Scottish sites.
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network.
Pic: one of our Scottish sites.
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
October 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
PhD opportunity with me at University of Edinburgh linked with Forest Research, funded by E5 DTP.
On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network.
Pic: one of our Scottish sites.
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network.
Pic: one of our Scottish sites.
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
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This week on the Nature Careers Podcast: How having too rigid a plan could result in exciting opportunities passing you by.
go.nature.com/3WHgwYs
go.nature.com/3WHgwYs
The problem with career planning in science
Having too rigid a plan could result in exciting opportunities passing you by, warns Ottoline Leyser.
go.nature.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This week on the Nature Careers Podcast: How having too rigid a plan could result in exciting opportunities passing you by.
go.nature.com/3WHgwYs
go.nature.com/3WHgwYs
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PhD opportunity in my lab!
We’re looking for a proactive student to join our project on how CO dehydrogenase is regulated in response to atmospheric mercury.
Investigating genetic markers and mechanisms of CO dehydrogenase regulation in response to atmospheric mercury FindAPhD.com
Investigating genetic markers and mechanisms of CO dehydrogenase regulation in response to atmospheric mercury FindAPhD.com
PhD Programmes, Research Projects & Studentships in the UK & Europe
FindAPhD is a comprehensive guide to PhD studentships and postgraduate research degrees
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October 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
PhD opportunity in my lab!
We’re looking for a proactive student to join our project on how CO dehydrogenase is regulated in response to atmospheric mercury.
Investigating genetic markers and mechanisms of CO dehydrogenase regulation in response to atmospheric mercury FindAPhD.com
Investigating genetic markers and mechanisms of CO dehydrogenase regulation in response to atmospheric mercury FindAPhD.com
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Happy to share a new paper with novel insights into the impacts of precip variability in a semiarid #rangeland ecosystem. Unfortunately, with unconstitutional layoffs at #USDA #ARS, we have been forced to transition this longterm experimental facility into dormancy. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Differential phenological responses of plant functional types to the temporal repackaging of precipitation in a semiarid grassland - Plant and Soil
Aims Large portions of the western United States have witnessed extended dry intervals between rainfall events due to an intensified hydrological cycle triggered by global warming. Semiarid ecosystems...
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March 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Happy to share a new paper with novel insights into the impacts of precip variability in a semiarid #rangeland ecosystem. Unfortunately, with unconstitutional layoffs at #USDA #ARS, we have been forced to transition this longterm experimental facility into dormancy. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky
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Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage
A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…
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October 12, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky
retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...
retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...
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Only a few days to go… please share!!!
Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
September 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Only a few days to go… please share!!!
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The main work from my time in Aachen is now out 🎉 if you have wanted to make a SynCom that captures the functional-landscape of microbiota, MiMiC2 makes that possible based on metagenomic data! 1/7 doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Function-Based Selection of Synthetic Communities Enables Mechanistic Microbiome Studies
Abstract. Understanding the complex interactions between microbes and their environment requires robust model systems such as synthetic communities (SynCom
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September 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The main work from my time in Aachen is now out 🎉 if you have wanted to make a SynCom that captures the functional-landscape of microbiota, MiMiC2 makes that possible based on metagenomic data! 1/7 doi.org/10.1093/isme...
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Petroff et al study the magnetotactic properties of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria from Little Sippewissett salt marsh.
Magnetotactic bacteria swim along geomagnetic field lines to navigate sediments. Using microfluidics and simulations, this study shows their motility is optimised, revealing how evolution fine-tunes life for challenging environments.
Magnetotactic bacteria optimally navigate natural pore networks
Diverse magnetotactic bacteria are adapted to the local geomagnetic field and grain size to maximize their swimming speed through the pore space.
buff.ly
September 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Petroff et al study the magnetotactic properties of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria from Little Sippewissett salt marsh.
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Pore-Scale Mass Transfer Heterogeneity Shapes Nutrient Accessibility and Functional Assembly in Porous Microbial Ecosystems academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs
Pore-Scale Mass Transfer Heterogeneity Shapes Nutrient Accessibility and Functional Assembly in Porous Microbial Ecosystems
Abstract. Porous ecosystems represent ubiquitous microbial habitats across natural settings including soil, gut tract, and food matrices, where microscale
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September 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Pore-Scale Mass Transfer Heterogeneity Shapes Nutrient Accessibility and Functional Assembly in Porous Microbial Ecosystems academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs
Happy to announce my first collaboration on microbial methane cycling, led by PhD student Nils Volles.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Methane sink function of grassland soil microbiomes - negative effects of intensive management persist three years after land-use extensification
Grassland soils are important methane (CH4) sinks through CH4 oxidation by methanotrophs, but intensive management with high nitrogen inputs and grazi…
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September 13, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Happy to announce my first collaboration on microbial methane cycling, led by PhD student Nils Volles.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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#Newresearch
This Bayesian statistical method uses timeseries microbiome data to infer interaction modules and is tested using a faecal transplant experiment in mice.
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This Bayesian statistical method uses timeseries microbiome data to infer interaction modules and is tested using a faecal transplant experiment in mice.
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Learning ecosystem-scale dynamics from microbiome data with MDSINE2 - Nature Microbiology
This Bayesian statistical method uses timeseries microbiome data to infer interaction modules and is tested using a faecal transplant experiment in mice.
www.nature.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
#Newresearch
This Bayesian statistical method uses timeseries microbiome data to infer interaction modules and is tested using a faecal transplant experiment in mice.
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This Bayesian statistical method uses timeseries microbiome data to infer interaction modules and is tested using a faecal transplant experiment in mice.
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I started this #Mycologists Starter Pack, aiming to get all professional fungal researchers on BlueSky in one place. DM if you want to be added.
go.bsky.app/UMrVSsp
go.bsky.app/UMrVSsp
September 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I started this #Mycologists Starter Pack, aiming to get all professional fungal researchers on BlueSky in one place. DM if you want to be added.
go.bsky.app/UMrVSsp
go.bsky.app/UMrVSsp
I will join this, congratulations to Volker Grimm! Absolutely well deserved!
Congratulations to Volker Grimm on receiving the @gfoesoc.bsky.social Honorary Medal for his outstanding contributions to ecology! So well deserved! #gfoe2025
September 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I will join this, congratulations to Volker Grimm! Absolutely well deserved!
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I realize the world is burning, but here is the abstract of a talk I will give multiple times in different formats this month. With the feedback, I hope to write up something substantial on the theme in the remainder of the year.
September 4, 2025 at 7:06 AM
I realize the world is burning, but here is the abstract of a talk I will give multiple times in different formats this month. With the feedback, I hope to write up something substantial on the theme in the remainder of the year.
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Check out this new article on null model selection for multiple stressor research. Fantastic work by Iris Pimentel from @leeselab.bsky.social within the @crc-resist.bsky.social.
Freely available at: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Freely available at: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
August 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Check out this new article on null model selection for multiple stressor research. Fantastic work by Iris Pimentel from @leeselab.bsky.social within the @crc-resist.bsky.social.
Freely available at: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Freely available at: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
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"Eine Kette aus renaturierten Flussauen, Mooren und Wäldern soll die EU-Ostgrenze vor einer russischen Invasion schützen, schlagen Wissenschaftler vor."
Ziemlich bedrückend, sich von dem Thema her der Wiedervernässung von #Mooren zu nähern...
Lesenswerter Artikel.
Ziemlich bedrückend, sich von dem Thema her der Wiedervernässung von #Mooren zu nähern...
Lesenswerter Artikel.
Europas grüne Verteidigung: Moore als Schutz gegen Invasionen?
Wissenschaftler fordern eine Kette aus renaturierten Feuchtgebieten entlang der EU-Ostgrenzen. Das Konzept verbindet Klimaschutz mit militärischer Sicherheit.
www.riffreporter.de
August 31, 2025 at 5:32 AM
"Eine Kette aus renaturierten Flussauen, Mooren und Wäldern soll die EU-Ostgrenze vor einer russischen Invasion schützen, schlagen Wissenschaftler vor."
Ziemlich bedrückend, sich von dem Thema her der Wiedervernässung von #Mooren zu nähern...
Lesenswerter Artikel.
Ziemlich bedrückend, sich von dem Thema her der Wiedervernässung von #Mooren zu nähern...
Lesenswerter Artikel.
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Very interesting! It’s not often that interests of defense, climate mitigation and nature restoration align.
Flooding: it stops enemy tanks and is good for nature
www.politico.eu/article/russ...
www.politico.eu/article/russ...
From Kyiv to the Suwałki Gap, bogs return as Europe’s defensive shield
Restoring the EU’s drained bogs would stop both Russian tanks and planet-warming pollution.
www.politico.eu
August 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Very interesting! It’s not often that interests of defense, climate mitigation and nature restoration align.
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Higher-order microbial interactions revealed by comparative metabolic modeling of synthetic communities with varying species composition
#ISMEComms
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#ISMEComms
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Higher-order microbial interactions revealed by comparative metabolic modeling of synthetic communities with varying species composition
Abstract. Understanding how microbial interactions scale with community complexity is key for microbiome engineering and ecological theory. This study inve
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August 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Higher-order microbial interactions revealed by comparative metabolic modeling of synthetic communities with varying species composition
#ISMEComms
academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
#ISMEComms
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