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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 1d

📢 #postdoc position with Kim Novick and @richphillipslab.bsky.social (Indiana University) on #forest #carbon uptake and storage indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30636. Great team & topic - apply!

Postdoctoral Research Scholar - Forest Carbon

We are seeking a highly-motivated postdoctoral fellow to conduct research focused on reducing bias and uncertainty in the measurement and monitoring of forest carbon uptake from local to global scales...

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Ashish Malik @ashish-malik.bsky.social · 22d

📢 Funded PhD opportunities for UK candidates in beautiful Edinburgh. Get in touch if you're interested in a PhD on understanding the mechanisms of soil carbon cycling and the role of microbes. We work in different ecosystems: peatlands, forests and agricultural soils. Please repost/spread the word.

Poster showing the following text: PhD in microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling. Soil microbes shape the global carbon cycle in life and death. We study the effect of aboveground land management on belowground soil carbon cycling processes. We aim create a scalable understanding of microbial processes from single cells to populations to communities to ecosystems. Pictures with text: peatland restoration, sustainable agriculture and woodland regeneration.

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Kathrin Rousk @kathrinrousk.bsky.social · Jul 7

Interested in deciphering how #moss and #cyanobacteria interact with each other? Want to come to #Copenhagen? Join us for a postdoc! candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... @voltcenter.bsky.social

1.5-Year postdoctoral position on Molecular Biology of Moss-Cyanobacteria Associations

A 1.5-year postdoc position in Biochemistry and Molecular Plant Biology with a focus on moss-cyanobacteria associations is available at the Department of Biolog

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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 7d

📢Postdoctoral scholarship (2 years) within arctic climate change research with Judith Sarneel @umeauniversitet.bsky.social. The project is part of a 10-year long vegetation fertilization and litter decomposition experiment. www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Postdoctoral scholarship (2 years) within arctic climate change research

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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

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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · 29d

This autumn, don't miss the #HoliSoils webinar series 🌱

This six-part series will explore cutting-edge approaches to #SoilHealth, monitoring, #biodiversity, peatlands & microbial processes, with expert presentations and space for discussion!

Find out more & register ➡️ holisoils.eu/holisoils-la...

HoliSoils launches webinar series in autumn - HoliSoils

HoliSoils is hosting an autumn webinar series addressing soils and climate. Sessions will highlight new approaches to monitoring, biodiversity, peatlands and microbial processes, with opportunities fo...

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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 28d

📢 postdoc position with Federico Maggi @sydney.edu.au on global soil carbon modelling: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Global Environment Modelling of Soil Organic and Inorganic Carbon

Full time, fixed term up to 3 years, located in the School of Civil Engineering Be part of the Discovery Project “Soil carbonates, the missing link in the soil carbon budget” Base Salary $109,263 - $1...

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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · 29d

2 Postdoc vacancies: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere
@erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA
📢 PLEASE RT

Experimental:
🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, omics, biogeochem

Modelling:
🖥️ Bioenergetics, thermodynamics, ecological, biogeochem

☀️ Marseille, France
‼️ Apply by 30 Sept

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AGU Advances @aguadvances.bsky.social · Aug 20

"American science has no need to be "Restored" to a "Gold Standard:" American science has already set the "Gold Standard" for scientific research and publishing for over 80 years."

Read the full Editorial by the #AGUPubs Editors-in-Chief: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

#GoldStandardScience

The Executive Order “Restoring Gold Standard Science” is Dangerous for America

This EO is an unconstitutional attempt to censor and punish U.S. scientists for publishing science that doesn't fit a political agenda This misleading and false misrepresentation of U.S. scientif...

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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · Aug 26

🌲🌱💚 Can nitrogen fertilisation help fight #ClimateChange?

A new #HoliSoils study led by @luke.fi explores how nitrogen fertilisation of #ForestSoils can enhance #soil organic carbon pools, offering a promising strategy for climate change #mitigation!

Find out more ⬇️
holisoils.eu/nitrogen-fer...

Nitrogen fertilisation boosts soil carbon storage in Scots pine forests - HoliSoils

Forests play a vital role in global carbon storage, with most of this carbon held belowground. New HoliSoils research by the Natural Research Institute

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Luciana Chavez Rodriguez @lucianachr.bsky.social · Aug 16

We are hiring a PhD candidate to work on modeling soil processes in regenerative agriculture 🌱.
If you have experience in process-based modeling and a background in agriculture, we invite you to apply.
Deadline, September 30, 2025.

More info here:

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

PhD on Modeling soil processes/functions at the field scale in regenerative agriculture

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Albert Brangarí @albertbrangari.bsky.social · Aug 21

📢 #PhDpositions🔥🚨! #PhD in microbial resource limitation and element cycling in soils. Lund University – University of Amsterdam @lunduniversity.bsky.social

Details and apply (deadline 15/09) here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Erik Schwarz @erikschwarz.bsky.social · Aug 19

Join @manzonilab.bsky.social, Elisa Bruni, and me to discuss "Challenges in modelling microbial interactions in SOC decomposition".
Very excited to participate in this webinar series!

HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · Aug 19

📅 Mark your calendars for the first session of the #HoliSoils webinar series:

📣 On 17 September discuss microbial communities and soil carbon modeling with @manzonilab.bsky.social, Elisa Bruni, and Erik Schwarz!

Discover more ⬇️
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HoliSoils Webinar Series - Challenges in modelling microbial interaction in SOC decomposition - HoliSoils

Join us on 17 September 2025 (14:00–15:30 CEST) for the first session of the HoliSoils webinar series, organised in collaboration with the IUFRO Task Force T58.

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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · Jun 26

Elisa found that respiration rates scale as the product of organic carbon and microbial biomass, with minimal effects of microbial diversity. This is a cool result, supporting the use of nonlinear kinetics to interpret data at small scales (lab incubation). Great @holisoils.bsky.social team effort!

Aleksi Lehtonen @aleksileh.bsky.social · Jun 26

If you are interested about soil microbes and their role on decomposition, please check this recent paper by Elisa Bruni and others @holisoils.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @luke.fi
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · Jun 22

📢 #postdoc on #soil organic matter dynamics with Marie Spohn at SLU Uppsala ( #ERC project www.slu.se/en/research/... )
Apply here: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Jobs and vacancies | slu.se

Would you like to join us in creating the conditions for a sustainable, thriving and better world? Welcome with your application!

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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · Jun 6

📢 #PhD Tropical forest resilience and potential constraints on nature climate solutions, joint supervision by Daniel Goll @lsce-ipsl.bsky.social and Isabel Martinez-Cano @csic.es : www.lsce.ipsl.fr/en/cycles-tr...

Joint PhD position: Tropical forest resilience and potential constraints on nature climate solutions - LSCE

Job description PhD project The Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE) and the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) are looking for a candidate for a PhD thesis on fire disturbance...

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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · May 16

Two associate professor positions in my department (Physical Geography) @stockholm-uni.bsky.social:
- geohazards in the broadest sense (including climate-related hazards): su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
- physical geography (broad topic, expected teaching in Swedish): su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · May 12

⚒️ Article: Microbial physiology conserves phosphorus by reducing phosphorus contributions in membrane lipids and increasing intracellular carbon storage during long-term ecosystem development

@charlesrwarren.bsky.social @manzonilab.bsky.social

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

Microbial physiology conserves phosphorus across long-term ecosystem development - Nature Geoscience

Microbial physiology conserves phosphorus by reducing phosphorus contributions in membrane lipids and increasing intracellular carbon storage during long-term ecosystem development, according to measu...

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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · May 3

Thanks @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social for fantastic organization!

LEMONTREE @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social · Apr 24

🚨 New blog! 🌱🌍
What happens when 18 scientists gather in a medieval hall to rethink Land Surface Models using Eco-Evolutionary Optimality?
Find out 👉 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/si...
#EEO #LandSurfaceModels #LEMONTREE

Simpler, Smarter, Stronger: Workshop on Incorporating EEO into Land Surface Models - Lemontree

The LEMONTREE team and invited guests recently met at Dartington Hall to explore how Eco-Evolutionary Optimality theory can simplify and strengthen Land Surface Models.

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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · May 3

Is there a TrainBackFromEGU tag? Just got back to Stockholm from Vienna by 🚂. I loved the trip, with short visits to Würzburg and Hamburg along the way.

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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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · Apr 12

📢 postdoc at SLU Uppsala (Giulia Vico lab) "Modelling plant-environment interactions in agrivoltaics" (deadline May 6th). How are soil-plant-atmosphere interactions affected by solar panels? www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Jobs and vacancies at SLU. | slu.se

Jobs and vacancies at SLU. Read more about each job by clicking the job title. Please, follow the instructions closely when applying.

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Karolina Jörgensen @kmjorgensen.bsky.social · Apr 7

Should we move beyond categorical traits in ectomycorrhizal fungal ecology? Fifth and final publication from my PhD is just out in @newphyt.bsky.social:
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A trait spectrum linking nitrogen acquisition and carbon use of ectomycorrhizal fungi

Trait spectra have been used in various branches of ecology to explain and predict patterns of species distributions. Several categorical and continuous traits have been proposed as relevant for ecto...

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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · Mar 24

Key message on management of drained forested peatlands from the @holisoils.bsky.social‬ policy brief below: "Avoiding clearcutting and applying continuous cover forestry on peatlands allows timber production with a higher water level [...], which can reduce GHG emissions"

HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · Mar 18

Have a look to this fresh #HoliSoils' policy brief published by the project coordinator @luke.fi!

Learn more about how we can address critical #ForestSoil challenges in Europe through enhanced #ForestManagement and monitoring 🔎🌱🌲
➡️ jukuri.luke.fi/handle/10024...

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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · Mar 20

Looking for plant tissue #nitrogen data in temperate and boreal forests? bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/... Thanks Martin Thurner for leading this effort!

Nitrogen concentrations in boreal and temperate tree tissues vary with tree age/size, growth rate, and climate

Abstract. Photosynthesis, growth, and plant maintenance respiration are closely related to tree tissue nitrogen (N) concentrations. While earlier studies of the variation in tissue N concentrations an...

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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · Mar 6

📢Permanent Research Position at Trier University, Soil Science Department, deadline: April 30. Topic: properties and
functions of the pedosphere in an increasingly polluted environment soilsystems.net/wp-content/u...

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