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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 15d

Job Alert! We're hiring a BIOINFORMATICIAN / NGS SPECIALIST to support our new Molecular Biodiversity Lab in the @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Like the idea to use your skills for understanding biodiversity? To work on diverse questions in a wonderful place? Apply!
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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 14d

Use your chance to join the #TERRA team @unituebingen.bsky.social: 7-year position waiting for sbd. to advance #bioinformatic analysis in the context of bio-geo-diversity relations. Tübingen itself is a convincing reason, but our amazing #cluster team even more. We look forward to your application!

Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 15d

Job Alert! We're hiring a BIOINFORMATICIAN / NGS SPECIALIST to support our new Molecular Biodiversity Lab in the @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Like the idea to use your skills for understanding biodiversity? To work on diverse questions in a wonderful place? Apply!
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Kyle Mason-Jones @kylemojo.bsky.social · 17d

Our Fast and Phageous team this morning at the start of the Tübingen #ErbeLauf

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Kyle Mason-Jones @kylemojo.bsky.social · 20d

Today wraps up our week at #DBG2025!

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Kyle Mason-Jones @kylemojo.bsky.social · 20d

Great! We look forward to your application!

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Kyle Mason-Jones @kylemojo.bsky.social · 22d

This is part of our second-phase project in the SoilSystems Priority Program, in which we will investigate microbial cooperation in soil: soilsystems.net/projects-par...

2-P9: EcoEnergetics II – SoilSystems (SPP 2322)

soilsystems.net

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Kyle Mason-Jones @kylemojo.bsky.social · 22d

We are hiring! On the search for an ambitious post-doc with hot skills in metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and bioinformatics to join our EcoEnergeticS project with
@michaeladippold.bsky.social

Find the ad here: uni-tuebingen.de/zh/266340

Opportunities

uni-tuebingen.de

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Kyle Mason-Jones @kylemojo.bsky.social · 22d

This is part of our second-phase project in the SoilSystems Priority Program, in which we will investigate microbial cooperation in soil: soilsystems.net/projects-par...

2-P9: EcoEnergetics II – SoilSystems (SPP 2322)

soilsystems.net

Kyle Mason-Jones @kylemojo.bsky.social · 24d

Awesome weekend in the Black Forest looking at soil profiles with the legendary Karl Stahr. Tomorrow: #DBG2025

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Kyle Mason-Jones @kylemojo.bsky.social · Aug 27

Late summer Tuesdays - perfect for hiking and bbq with colleagues our colleagues in @michaeladippold.bsky.social group

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Kyle Mason-Jones @kylemojo.bsky.social · Aug 25

Hiring for our new TERRA Cluster of Excellence @unituebingen.bsky.social has begun! Starting with the coordination office (see below for openings)

TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · Aug 12

We are happy to announce that hiring has begun for the Cluster Coordination Office @unituebingen.bsky.social! Would you like to join the team that supports research at the intersection of the geosphere and biosphere? Do you know someone who might be interested? Please share the post!

All positions could also be found on the university webpage: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/108817

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Meaghan Castledine @mcastd.bsky.social · Aug 5

Want to name a real virus? I have recently discovered 9 new phages which now need names! To enter, you simply need to donate to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust on my JustGiving page (£2 = 1 entry) and share your email with me on donation (see link info). Please share 💚 www.justgiving.com/page/meaghan-c-1

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Kyle Mason-Jones @kylemojo.bsky.social · Jul 22

Resulting in a ridiculously cute gift from my group members ☺️

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Kyle Mason-Jones @kylemojo.bsky.social · Jul 22

Got married!!!

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Johannes Hillje @jhillje.bsky.social · Jun 29

Dürre-Monitor des Helmholtz-Zentrums: „Das Frühjahr 2025 war im deutschlandweiten Vergleich im Boden bis 25 cm Tiefe stärker von Dürre betroffen als alle Jahre zurück bis 1950“

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Kyle Mason-Jones @kylemojo.bsky.social · Jun 28

That's surely an underestimate, though, since it leaves out national spending and non-climate environmental spending

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Kyle Mason-Jones @kylemojo.bsky.social · Jun 28

That would likely be quite some work to figure out, but you can get a quick flavour from the EU-level commitment to spend 30% of their budget on climate action (€86 Bn per year, 2021-2027), which would be 0.3% of GDP across the EU.

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Kyle Mason-Jones @kylemojo.bsky.social · Jun 28

Maybe we could spend 5% of GDP on saving our planet's life-support systems? Before it is too late?

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Universität Hohenheim @unihohenheim.bsky.social · May 22

Congratulations to TERRAs spokespersons Prof. Dr. Michaela Dippold, Prof. Dr. Kira Rehfeld und Prof. Dr. Olaf Cirpka (all Tuebingen) and our PIs Prof. Dr. Frank Schurr, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Schweiger und Prof. Dr. Thilo Streck.
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Kyle Mason-Jones @kylemojo.bsky.social · May 22

Uni Tübingen was today awarded 5 (!) full excellence clusters, including the TERRA cluster on Geo-Biosphere interactions!!! Amazingly exciting time to be working here, and in our Geoscience department in particular. @unituebingen.bsky.social @michaeladippold.bsky.social

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Klaus Schlaeppi @kschlaeppi.bsky.social · May 17

Are you interested in the ecology of deep soil forest fungi?

We are hiring a postdoc (3y).

More information here: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

Universität Basel: Postdoctoral researcher: Ecology of deep soil forest fungi

The research group 'Plant Microbe Interactions' at the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel (https://duw.unibas.ch/en/pmi/) is welcoming applications for a postdoctoral researcher...

jobs.unibas.ch

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Kyle Mason-Jones @kylemojo.bsky.social · May 17

Yes, that is sadly true. I guess there's somehow a distinction in my mind between anthropogenic environments like farmland, that I expect to be disturbed (though their extent is extreme) and parts of the Earth I still think of as "nature"

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Kyle Mason-Jones @kylemojo.bsky.social · May 11

Could you imagine the outcry if any terrestrial ecosystem was exploited in such a destructive manner?

spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · May 9

I will forever be haunted by this footage.

Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.

What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
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Kyle Mason-Jones @kylemojo.bsky.social · Apr 29

Starting my day at the great debate on publication practices at #EGU25, with a live audience survey showing many agreeing with impact factors as good indicators of scientific quality. Disappointing more than 10 years after DORA (panellist @sciencesigrid.bsky.social giving opening comments)

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Kyle Mason-Jones @kylemojo.bsky.social · Apr 27

Have coffee, and ready to #Train2EGU - Hope to see you there! Join us on Wednesday afternoon to hear the latest research on "Growth, death, and biogeochemical cycles" in #soil (SSS4.10), with @manzonilab.bsky.social opening the session

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