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Miloš Bielčik

@milosbielcik.bsky.social

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Bridging microbial ecology and biogeochemistry. Focus on global change ecology, greenhouse gasses, wetlands. Mechanisms, causal inference & modelling. I actually love to write 💙 Postdoc at Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Berlin

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Miloš Bielčik @milosbielcik.bsky.social · Aug 8

New thing out: Ecological theory, more user-friendly for modular/clonal organisms, bridging fungal ecology and coexistence theory. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Aligning spatial ecological theory with the study of clonal organisms: the case of fungal coexistence

Established ecological theory has focused on unitary organisms, and thus its concepts have matured into a form that often hinders rather than facilitates the ecological study of modular organisms. He....

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Stu Bearhop @stubearhop.bsky.social · 10d

Only a few days to go… please share!!!

Stu Bearhop @stubearhop.bsky.social · 20d

Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

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Tom Hitch @tcahitch.bsky.social · 14d

The main work from my time in Aachen is now out 🎉 if you have wanted to make a SynCom that captures the functional-landscape of microbiota, MiMiC2 makes that possible based on metagenomic data! 1/7 doi.org/10.1093/isme...

Function-Based Selection of Synthetic Communities Enables Mechanistic Microbiome Studies

Abstract. Understanding the complex interactions between microbes and their environment requires robust model systems such as synthetic communities (SynCom

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 17d

Petroff et al study the magnetotactic properties of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria from Little Sippewissett salt marsh.

eLife @elife.bsky.social · 18d

Magnetotactic bacteria swim along geomagnetic field lines to navigate sediments. Using microfluidics and simulations, this study shows their motility is optimised, revealing how evolution fine-tunes life for challenging environments.

Magnetotactic bacteria optimally navigate natural pore networks

Diverse magnetotactic bacteria are adapted to the local geomagnetic field and grain size to maximize their swimming speed through the pore space.

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 23d

Pore-Scale Mass Transfer Heterogeneity Shapes Nutrient Accessibility and Functional Assembly in Porous Microbial Ecosystems academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs

Pore-Scale Mass Transfer Heterogeneity Shapes Nutrient Accessibility and Functional Assembly in Porous Microbial Ecosystems

Abstract. Porous ecosystems represent ubiquitous microbial habitats across natural settings including soil, gut tract, and food matrices, where microscale

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Miloš Bielčik @milosbielcik.bsky.social · 26d

Happy to announce my first collaboration on microbial methane cycling, led by PhD student Nils Volles.

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Methane sink function of grassland soil microbiomes - negative effects of intensive management persist three years after land-use extensification

Grassland soils are important methane (CH4) sinks through CH4 oxidation by methanotrophs, but intensive management with high nitrogen inputs and grazi…

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 26d

#Newresearch

This Bayesian statistical method uses timeseries microbiome data to infer interaction modules and is tested using a faecal transplant experiment in mice.

#MicroSky

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

Learning ecosystem-scale dynamics from microbiome data with MDSINE2 - Nature Microbiology

This Bayesian statistical method uses timeseries microbiome data to infer interaction modules and is tested using a faecal transplant experiment in mice.

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Miloš Bielčik @milosbielcik.bsky.social · Sep 6

This topic never grows old, does it? 😅

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Widespread analytical pitfalls in empirical coexistence studies and a checklist for improving their statistical robustness

Modern coexistence theory (MCT) offers a conceptually straightforward approach for connecting empirical observations with an elegant theoretical framework, gaining popularity rapidly over the past...

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · Sep 1

I started this #Mycologists Starter Pack, aiming to get all professional fungal researchers on BlueSky in one place. DM if you want to be added.

go.bsky.app/UMrVSsp

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Miloš Bielčik @milosbielcik.bsky.social · Sep 4

I will join this, congratulations to Volker Grimm! Absolutely well deserved!

Christian Hof @christianhof.bsky.social · Sep 3

Congratulations to Volker Grimm on receiving the @gfoesoc.bsky.social Honorary Medal for his outstanding contributions to ecology! So well deserved! #gfoe2025

Miloš Bielčik @milosbielcik.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hello, thanks for doing this and could you please add me?

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · Sep 4

I realize the world is burning, but here is the abstract of a talk I will give multiple times in different formats this month. With the feedback, I hope to write up something substantial on the theme in the remainder of the year.

Statistical algorithms have advanced rapidly in the last
decades, but most researchers are still only taught how to do t-tests
and worry about normality of residuals. At the heart of the
reproducibility crisis lies scientific workflow, the often
unprincipled and undocumented ways that scientific theories are
related to statistical procedures and their results. I want to center
scientific workflow in debates about open science and outline a
research program for taking scientific workflow seriously.

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Ecotoxicology lab RC One Health Ruhr @ecotox.bsky.social · Aug 12

Check out this new article on null model selection for multiple stressor research. Fantastic work by Iris Pimentel from @leeselab.bsky.social within the @crc-resist.bsky.social.
Freely available at: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

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Konstantinos Tsilimekis @ktsilimekis.bsky.social · Aug 31

"Eine Kette aus renaturierten Flussauen, Mooren und Wäldern soll die EU-Ostgrenze vor einer russischen Invasion schützen, schlagen Wissenschaftler vor."

Ziemlich bedrückend, sich von dem Thema her der Wiedervernässung von #Mooren zu nähern...

Lesenswerter Artikel.

Europas grüne Verteidigung: Moore als Schutz gegen Invasionen?

Wissenschaftler fordern eine Kette aus renaturierten Feuchtgebieten entlang der EU-Ostgrenzen. Das Konzept verbindet Klimaschutz mit militärischer Sicherheit.

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Jan Willem van Groenigen @jwvangroenigen.bsky.social · Aug 26

Very interesting! It’s not often that interests of defense, climate mitigation and nature restoration align.

Caroline de Gruyter @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social · Aug 26

Flooding: it stops enemy tanks and is good for nature
www.politico.eu/article/russ...

From Kyiv to the Suwałki Gap, bogs return as Europe’s defensive shield

Restoring the EU’s drained bogs would stop both Russian tanks and planet-warming pollution.

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Aug 17

Higher-order microbial interactions revealed by comparative metabolic modeling of synthetic communities with varying species composition

#ISMEComms

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Higher-order microbial interactions revealed by comparative metabolic modeling of synthetic communities with varying species composition

Abstract. Understanding how microbial interactions scale with community complexity is key for microbiome engineering and ecological theory. This study inve

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Miloš Bielčik @milosbielcik.bsky.social · Aug 16

"Extremely productive meeting", "great progress", "precious efforts". And then also, more details available once Europeans manage to decode and translate into the real world that delusional chaos US administration debriefed them. United we stand! 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 🇪🇺
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

No deal, and no answers, after brief Trump-Putin talks on Ukraine in Alaska

US president claims ‘great progress’ with Russian leader but ends press conference abruptly without taking questions

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Ambio - A Journal of Environment and Society @ambio-journal.bsky.social · Aug 13

New publication:
The epistemological implications of species extinction: An overview

Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The epistemological implications of species extinction: An overview - Ambio

The epistemological implications of species extinction remain widely underexplored. This theoretical paper addresses this gap by examining the linkages between extinction and epistemology across three...

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · Aug 8

Cool study on aerotolerant methanogens! Options they might protect themselves from O2 include biofilm formation in response to O2 exposure and antioxidants (F420-H2-oxidases, rubredoxins, thioredoxins, and peroxiredoxins). This opens up a vareity of new possible habitats for methanogens.

Amelia Rotaru @ameliarotaru.bsky.social · Aug 7

Check this nice first first-author paper by Ning Hall—now out in Nature Geoscience! Our team had a blast supporting Ning on the isolation workflow, and a few of the standout Methanococcoides strains even trace back to our Danish waters. 🌊
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Coastal methane emissions driven by aerotolerant methanogens using seaweed and seagrass metabolites - Nature Geoscience

Experiments suggest aerotolerant archaea produce methane in the surface layers of coastal sandy sediments and that this activity is driven by seaweed and seagrass metabolites.

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · Aug 7

#Perspective

In this perspective, the authors propose research priorities necessary to facilitate the application of these ecological principles to improve microbiome functionality.

#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 🦠

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

Applying ecological principles to microbiome engineering - Nature Microbiology

This Perspective discusses the application of ecological principles of macro-ecosystems to microbiome engineering. The authors propose research priorities necessary to facilitate the application of th...

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Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union | Global Dialogue @boelleu.bsky.social · Jul 29

🟢 We are looking for journalists reporting on #climate #disinformation
📝 Apply if you have research ideas on the threat of climate denialism, the relation between big tech & climate obstruction or similar 👇 eu.boell.org/en/climate-d...
⏳ Deadline: 9 Sept 2025, 23:59 CEST
@zorasiebert.bsky.social

Climate disinformation media fellowship 2025 | Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Brussels office - European Union

For the third time, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union | Global Dialogue, in partnership with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Washington, DC, is looking for a select number of journalists reporting o...

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Mathias Hoffmann (#MonksHillLab; #AgroFlux®; #IchBinHanna) @monkshilllab.bsky.social · Jul 26

Progress regarding @zalf.bsky.social ECO's new low-cost DIY CO2, ET and CH4 autochambers (video and Prototype by our PHD Milan Kretzschmar)!

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Miloš Bielčik @milosbielcik.bsky.social · Jul 21

I am probably not the only one who reads this title with feelings mixed between great news and dark irony (as this should probably not make news to begin with). Well, great that a giant study managed to find that one field 😁
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Giant study finds a research field that’s mostly reproducible

Researchers assessed more than 1,000 results from fruit-fly immunity research published between 1959 and 2011. The majority of findings look verifiable.

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Miloš Bielčik @milosbielcik.bsky.social · Jul 21

Many thanks @elsaelsam.bsky.social for letting us invade your home, and thanks to your partner for all that great home made pizza!

Joana Bergmann @joanabergmann.bsky.social · Jul 21

We did a #SustainableGrasslandSystems group internal mini conference last week. It was super interesting and fun and I am just deeply grateful to work with such amazing people!
among others are @elsaelsam.bsky.social @azmisheriff.bsky.social @milosbielcik.bsky.social

group picture of the sustainable grassland systems group at Zalf

Miloš Bielčik @milosbielcik.bsky.social · Jul 18

...and gives wine, right? :)

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Alvaro Sanchez @asanchezlab.bsky.social · Jul 16

How may theoretical ecology & evolutionary theory push microbiology forward?
At Environmental Microbiology, I am commissioning a series of Perspectives exploring that question. Excited to share them in the 🧵 below
The series is open, so do get in touch if you'd like to propose a new contribution!

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