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Matthias C. Rillig
@mrillig.bsky.social
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Professor, ecology, FU Berlin, own views, book author
Global change, soil, fungi, environment, microplastic, biodiversity 🧪
https://www.youtube.com/@mrillig
https://www.youtube.com/@lifeinthesoil
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 1h
Looking forward to this meeting and the presentation!
nordicoikos.bsky.social Nordic Society Oikos @nordicoikos.bsky.social · 3h
Our 3rd keynote at #NSO2026 #gfoe2026 is Matthias Rillig, Professor of Plant Ecology at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He is a leading soil ecologist working at the interface of belowground biodiversity and global change.
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Nordic Society Oikos @nordicoikos.bsky.social · 3h
Our 3rd keynote at #NSO2026 #gfoe2026 is Matthias Rillig, Professor of Plant Ecology at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He is a leading soil ecologist working at the interface of belowground biodiversity and global change.
vist.ly/4p26h @gfoesoc.bsky.social @mrillig.bsky.social

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 8h
Reading in journal club

Shelton et al.
Fungal ecology in the age of 'omics

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Fungal ecology in the age of 'omics
The advancement of technology in recent decades has given us an unprecedented ability to observe the natural world. With modern sequencing and bioinformatics technologies, we can obtain more informat...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 21h
Mein Radiointerview mit ndr zum Bodenschutz und dem Buch "Mutter Erde"

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Gott und die Welt mit Matthias Rillig
"Wenn wir den Boden wertschätzen sind wir bereit, ihn mehr zu schützen", sagt Matthias Rillig, Biologe im Gespräch mit Klaus Böllert.
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 3d
I just call it a friend. Despite of distance and frequency of contact. Based on how it works when we actually are at the same place, which may only be once a year, and based on how I feel when they leave (sad).

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 4d
Academic friendships are super important for creativity in science.

What's been your experience?

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Academic friendships and creativity
Friends are important for creative ideas in science
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 9d
New paper out:

Li, Rongstock et al.
Number and dissimilarity of soil amendments influence soil properties and plant communities in a greenhouse experiment

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Number and dissimilarity of soil amendments influence soil properties and plant communities in a greenhouse experiment
Soil health is fundamental in supporting plant diversity and productivity. In turn, a species-rich plant community enhances soil functions and is cruc…
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 11d
Evangelou et al. in Nature
Atmospheric microplastic emissions from land and ocean

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Atmospheric microplastic emissions from land and ocean - Nature
A global atmospheric microplastics dataset is compiled, and comparison with size-aligned microplastic models in the literature indicate that fewer microplastic particles are emitted into the atmospher...
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 11d
Environmental drivers can shift in effect direction when acting in concert with other factors

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Environmental drivers can shift in effect direction when acting in concert with other factors
Results from a recent paper from our group in Nature Communications
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 11d
Oh no!
I've always liked the idea that Prototaxites was a fungus.... 😅
But it looks like it wasn't.
transitionalform.bsky.social Laura Cooper @transitionalform.bsky.social · 11d
1 / 23 Prototaxites is known from some very large fossils, including columns over 8m tall. These fossils date from the end of the Silurian to the Late Devonian (425–365 million years ago). This makes Prototaxites the largest organism on the Earth’s surface before the appearance of tall trees.
Palaeoart of a giant Prototaxites by Mary Parrish, from Hueber (2001).

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Laura Cooper @transitionalform.bsky.social · 11d
1 / 23 Prototaxites is known from some very large fossils, including columns over 8m tall. These fossils date from the end of the Silurian to the Late Devonian (425–365 million years ago). This makes Prototaxites the largest organism on the Earth’s surface before the appearance of tall trees.
Palaeoart of a giant Prototaxites by Mary Parrish, from Hueber (2001).

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 12d
Wer weiß was Archivböden sind....?

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 12d
Gestern mit rbb radio 3 über das Buch "Mutter Erde" gesprochen, sowie über den Boden des Jahres - den Archivboden.

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Jörg Blech & Matthias Rillig: "Mutter Erde"
Ein Gespräch mit dem Bodenökologen Matthias Rillig von der Freien Universität Berlin
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 13d
New paper out in Global Change Biology

Cheng et al.
Stressor Combinations Shift Soil Microbial Communities From Rare to Unknown Taxa and Alter Genomic Strategies

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Stressor Combinations Shift Soil Microbial Communities From Rare to Unknown Taxa and Alter Genomic Strategies
Effects of environmental stressor factor number on soil common, rare, and unknown taxa. High-stressor numbers reduce the abundance and diversity of rare taxa but increase unknown taxa and had no effe...
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 13d
We also found exponential dynamics in a re-analysis of long-term soils data from the UK.