Congratulations, Kyle! All the happiness to you both!

Soils rock, obviously. And microbes too!

Professorship opening @ter-cemess.bsky.social. Fantastic team and world-class research environment!
Join us at @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at

Working on microscale microbial functions and/or scaling up?

Submit to our Elementa special feature!

🔗 lnkd.in/gChyjaiM
📝 Rolling publication
📅 Final deadline: Sept 20, 2025
🌍 Contributions welcome from soil, ocean & human systems.

Looking for Master's thesis projects?

Join us in Vienna to study :

- bacterial ecology
- fungal-bacterial interactions
- microbial modeling

📣 Our special feature highlighting cutting-edge microbial eco-evolutionary research is now live and open for submissions! online.ucpress.edu/elementa/pag.... Submission deadline: September 20, 2025 (but accepted papers will be published on a rolling basis starting immediately).

TER - We had our annual Science Retreat yesterday. Great science, discussions, and fun!
#TerrestrialEcosystemResearch
@cemess.bsky.social

Congratulations to @kseniaguseva.bsky.social for becoming Senior Scientist at @ter-cemess.bsky.social, @cemess.bsky.social,
@univie.ac.at
Wonderful to have you on board!

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High time for #EGU25 submissions. Consider contributing to our interdisciplinary session on the spatial heterogeneity of soils influencing biogeochemical matter cycles and C dynamics.

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@edithhammer.bsky.social, @mud-maik.bsky.social, S.König, N.Meyer

#EGU25 abstract submission deadline is approaching (Jan 15)--so many great sessions to choose! See 3 re-posts below, and for modelers: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... chaired by @moritzmohrlok.bsky.social, @albertbrangari.bsky.social, @kseniaguseva.bsky.social, Hassan Karjoun

Less than 24 hours left to submit an abstract to #EGU25! Please consider our session on microbial models in SSS4.8 if you are #modelling #microbes to explain what's going on in #soil :)
Featuring a keynote talk by @manzonilab.bsky.social!

@kseniaguseva.bsky.social
@albertbrangari.bsky.social

If you loved (or missed!) our AGU24 session, don’t miss our
#EGU25 session, "Advancing Soil Carbon Predictions"! 🥁 Invited speaker: Elena Shevliakova (Princeton), a leader in integrating microbes into land surface models. Submit abstracts by Jan 15 🗓️: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

If you have the feeling that @bsky.app is different, maybe you are right.

The current migration is breaking the typical rich-get-richer effect wrt other platforms #scaling

Data:

Twitter: 10.9M users
BlueSky (Mar 2024): 4.1M users, 🙏 @andreajpg.bsky.social
Mastodon: 3.8M users, 🙏 @tiago.skewed.de

1st anniversary of our #FWF Cluster of Excellence "Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health"! Inspiring meeting with groundbreaking ideas, especially from our diverse group of international early career researchers. Exciting research is on the horizon - stay tuned for more updates!

Just a clarification: I meant extracellular degradation of polysaccharides, not specifically of eps. Sorry about that.

Special thanks to all the co-autors: Christina Kaiser @christinakaiser.bsky.social, Moritz Mohrlok @moritzmohrlok.bsky.social, Lauren Alteio, Shaul Polak and Hannes Schmidt !

We reveal how substrate concentration and complexity shape microbial growth and interactions.
We also find data to support our model: we performed a systematic literature search, which shows that generalists (producing both enzymes) dominate among chitin-degrading microbes. 5/6

Finally, we explored whether microbes can divide labor in the production of these two enzymes within consortia.
Our analysis paints a fascinating picture: interactions between endo- and exo-enzyme producers can flip from positive to negative depending on substrate levels! 4/6

We have found that producers:

1. Of exo-enzymes thrive when many polymer chains are around.

2. Of endo-enzymes unexpectedly excel only when fewer chains are present.

3. Of both enzymes together expand their niche and may benefit from enzyme synergy. 3/6

We mainly focus on two enzyme types:

1. “Exo”-enzymes snip small units from the ends of polymer chains.

2. “Endo”-enzymes break polymers at random, creating varied-sized fragments.

Using a theoretical model, we simulated polymer degradation and microbial growth. 2/6

Excited to share our latest paper in PLOSCompBiol @plos.bsky.social !

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Our study dives into the comparison of possible extracellular polysaccharide degradation strategies and their impact on microbial growth and community dynamics. 1/6
#Microbialecology