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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 5d

When it comes to climate change, our diets matter — and matter a lot.

Not to mention for biodiversity, water, and especially our own health.

The updated EAT-Lancet report makes this abundantly clear.

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A recipe for avoiding 15 million deaths a year and climate disaster is fixing food, scientists say

Scientists are presenting new evidence that the worst effects of climate change can’t be avoided without a major transformation of food systems.

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Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNIL @keiluweitlab.bsky.social · 29d

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...

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Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNIL @keiluweitlab.bsky.social · Jul 7

Time for new group 📷!

Really lucky to work with such a great group of people. Go Team!

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Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNIL @keiluweitlab.bsky.social · Jul 7

We're super excited about my @unil.bsky.social colleague @pbenettin.bsky.social 's new Ecotrons! Fully climate controlled soil lysimeters! So many possibilities for manipulations and experiments!

Paolo Benettin @pbenettin.bsky.social · May 28

The new Ecotron system manufactured by UGT and funded by the UNIL Faculty of Geoscience and the Environment @fgse-unil.bsky.social is operational! It's a rather big machine with a very big potential for ecohydrological experimentation.

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Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNIL @keiluweitlab.bsky.social · Jul 1

Tobias Bölscher, Zoe G. Cardon, Mariela Garcia Arredondo, Stéphanie Grand, Gabriella Griffen, Rachel Hestrin, Josephine Imboden, Floriane Jamoteau, Emily M. Lacroix, Sherlynette Pérez Castro, Per Persson, William J. Riley & Marco Keiluweit

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Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNIL @keiluweitlab.bsky.social · Jul 1

True and comprehensive team effort with many important contributions and different perspectives

Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNIL @keiluweitlab.bsky.social · Jul 1

PAPER 🚨 Organic matter associated with reactive #soil minerals (aka #MAOM) is often assumed to be the most persistence terrestrial #carbon pool. Here we introduce a new mechanistic framework for the vulnerability of this vast #carbon reservoir to disruption in the #rhizosphere. rdcu.be/euik0

Vulnerability of mineral-organic associations in the rhizosphere

Nature Communications - Organic matter associated with reactive soil minerals is assumed to be the most persistent terrestrial carbon pool. This work introduces a novel mechanistic framework for...

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CEREGE @cerege.bsky.social · May 27

Two junior professor chair positions are currently open at CEREGE, with a third position coming soon ! 🔬🌍

To learn more and apply, please visit our careers page: www.cerege.fr/en/le-cerege...

#PaleoEnvironment #GlobalChanges #SocioEcosystems

Careers - CEREGE

CEREGE recruits junior and senior researchers for permanent positions, offering them a framework conducive to the development of their research projects.

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Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe @aaberhe.com · May 16

This is a good start.
While in government, I was dismayed by how the value of scicomm was devalued at multiple levels.
The hard truth: This is not just about better PR, without effective scicomm, we lose public support for critical investments that benefit EVERYONE.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...

9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything

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Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe @aaberhe.com · May 9

New pub in @aguadvances.bsky.social: "A Soil Scientist Goes to Washington: Navigating the Path to National #ScienceLeadership" #STEM
Sharing my journey as DOE Office of Science Director, the challenges faced, and why inclusive excellence in STEM matters now more than ever.
Read: tinyurl.com/ms2nhr4f

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Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNIL @keiluweitlab.bsky.social · May 22

And Postdocs are eligible, too!

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Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNIL @keiluweitlab.bsky.social · May 22

MSc and PhD students abroad: If you are interested in #microbiomes in #soils (or other systems) and keen on research in #Switzerland, consider applying for these #fellowships with us other other groups of the #NCCR Microbiomes nccr-microbiomes.ch/education/nc.... Interested? DM or Email.

NCCR Microbiomes Fellowships - NCCR

Since 2023, the NCCR Microbiomes invites applications for short-term research fellowships. These fellowships will support undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs from outside of the NCCR who ...

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Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNIL @keiluweitlab.bsky.social · May 20

Excited to christen our own boat „Flight“ during annual meeting of CMarsh, our @Simonsfoundation.org project to study C cycling in marsh soil (Zoe Cardon, MBL, Jennifer Bowen, Northeastern, Inke Forbrich, U of Toledo, Anne Giblin, MBL, Charles Harvey MIT, and Amanda Spivak, U of Georgia)

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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · Apr 17

Applications now open for UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evo Bio (1–6 Sept 2025, Lausanne)!
Aimed at PhD students interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology questions like sexual selection, social & life-history evolution. Scholarships available.
Pls share! www.shorturl.at/znk5g

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Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNIL @keiluweitlab.bsky.social · Apr 30

Still ongoing

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Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNIL @keiluweitlab.bsky.social · Apr 30

Interested in spatially resolving microbial necromass formation and recycling? Check out Bouke Bentvelsen‘s poster at #EGU2025 today.

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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · Apr 29

It's timely that I re-post a tweet from July, 2022 (if you know why, you know), which I made soon after I left my first postdoc. Many empathized with me then and still do today.

*the original tweet is gone b/c I quit Twitter, but it has been archived elsewhere:

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Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNIL @keiluweitlab.bsky.social · Apr 29

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Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNIL @keiluweitlab.bsky.social · Apr 29

Today at #EGU2025: Samuel Steiner on controls of nitrogen use efficiency in agroecosystems

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Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNIL @keiluweitlab.bsky.social · Apr 28

Happening now

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Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNIL @keiluweitlab.bsky.social · Apr 28

Come find us #EGU2025 this morning, featuring @soiltycoon.bsky.social on anoxic microsites and Junna Frei on MAOM destabilization in the rhizosphere.

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Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNIL @keiluweitlab.bsky.social · Apr 25

Required reading for all soil scientists and those that would like to become one.

Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe @aaberhe.com · Apr 25

📢 New pub: Defining #soil science: Balancing fundamental research and societal needs, in Soil Science Society of America Journal doi.org/10.1002/saj2...
@teamrat.bsky.social & I argue, soil science, though crucial for solving environmental challanges, should not be defined solely by its applications

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · Apr 9

Phd in spatial planning and sustainable land use at Uni Lausanne!

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emsaurios @emsaurios.bsky.social · Mar 21

Sexual harassment allegations linked to drop in citations
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sexual harassment allegations linked to drop in citations

But numbers remain steady for researchers who commit scientific misconduct.

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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · Mar 18

Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper!

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

Academic mentees thrive in big groups, but survive in small groups - Nature Human Behaviour

Using longitudinal genealogical data on mentor–mentee relations and their publications, the authors find that mentees trained in larger groups tend to exhibit superior academic performance compared wi...

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