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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 · 2d
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 · 3d
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 · 8d
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 · 10d
Evangelou et al. in Nature
Atmospheric microplastic emissions from land and ocean

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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 · 10d
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 · 10d
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 · 10d
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 · 10d
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 · 10d
Wer weiß was Archivböden sind....?

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 11d
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 · 11d
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 · 11d
We also found exponential dynamics in a re-analysis of long-term soils data from the UK.

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 12d
Eine sehr interessante Diskussion in der SKAE zur Diversifizierung von Anbausystemen von Nutzpflanzen; das Positionspaper ist gerade erschienen.
dfg.de Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 12d
#GrüneWoche: Die DFG-Senatskommission zur Transformation von Agrar-/Ernährungssystemen SKAE fordert in einem Positionspapier langfristige Forschung und neue politische Rahmenbedingungen für diversifizierte Anbausysteme von #Nutzpflanzen – und benennt 6 konkrete Handlungsfelder: sohub.io/ijh9
Für eine krisenfeste Landwirtschaft: DFG-Senatskommission fordert stärkere Unterstützung für vielfältige Anbausysteme von Nutzpflanzen
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 12d
#GrüneWoche: Die DFG-Senatskommission zur Transformation von Agrar-/Ernährungssystemen SKAE fordert in einem Positionspapier langfristige Forschung und neue politische Rahmenbedingungen für diversifizierte Anbausysteme von #Nutzpflanzen – und benennt 6 konkrete Handlungsfelder: sohub.io/ijh9
Für eine krisenfeste Landwirtschaft: DFG-Senatskommission fordert stärkere Unterstützung für vielfältige Anbausysteme von Nutzpflanzen
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 13d
Or, asked another way: what can we do to increase the likelihood that researchers in 50 or 100 years will still be interested in reading our work?
mrillig.bsky.social Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 16d
Newsletter for this week is out:

How many years into the future will people read our scientific output?
Is it 5 years, 10 years, or a hundred years? Should we care?

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How many years into the future will people read our scientific output?
Is it 5 years, 10 years, or a hundred years? Should we care?
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