Happy that many talented young reseachers contributed to our session on clay minerlas in soils at the Mid-European Clay Conferenece at ETH Zürich.
Ines Mulder
@inesmulder.bsky.social
Soils matter! - Prof of Soil Sciences and Soil Resources at Ruhr University Bochum
This year’s Ig Nobels include a biomechanics prize for creating a precise definition of kissing and a soil-science award for investigating what happens if you bury and then dig up 1,000 pairs of underwear. go.nature.com/4zUQyTB
Buried underpants and a new definition of kissing win 2026 Ig Nobel prizes
The awards highlight weird, funny and improbable research that also makes you think.
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www.b-ite.com/recruitingma... Soil science enthousiat with some experience in HPLC -MS? Come join our Team in Bochum!
Environmental research with liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry with a focus on Soil Science
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Hooray, I proudly announce the publications of our study on omnipresent QAACs showing both highest concentrations as well as highest relativ QAC tolerant bacteria in human waste streams. Lets again ready some more labels of the products we use!
Quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs), QAC resistance genes, and QAC tolerant bacteria in livestock and human waste streams
Quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs) are high production volume biocidal compounds increasingly scrutinized for their potential to spread antimicrobia…
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The conflict in the Middle East is leading to spiking prices in parts of Asia and Africa. Keeping humanitarian supply chains moving is a literal lifeline for millions of people already on the brink of hunger. https://ow.ly/nW5h50YMCz9
www.dbges.de/assets/Is-so... Join our online Webinar this upcoming Friday and discuss with us the role of soil minerals in organic matter dynamics of temperate regions!
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I truely enjoyed the hospitality at the University of Urgench and Tashkent in Uzbekistan and the scientific exchange with Colleges from Central Asia and Europe on invitation of the DFG and Central Asia partners. It was an intensive and inspiring experience!
Are chemical diversity and biodiversity linked on a world-wide scale? We are happy to assit @thomasdussarrat from Uni Bielefeld, who coordinates this international research endeavour. We are happy to welcome him as our guest in the Lab of Physical Geography @ruhr-uni-bochum.de
bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/FSHN4J... we are beginning to understand it! Great Job by Alexander Konrad working with isothermal titration calorimetry
Thermodynamics of Organic Acid Sorption to Goethite
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Trapped, transformed, released- das trifft nicht nur auf organischen Bodenkohlenstoff zu, sondern auch dem frisch promovierten Alexander Konrad! Congrats Alex! Have been happy to be part of this journey!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... watch out for 05/2025 of the Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science which I was very happy to guest edit with wonderful Karin Eusterhues/ Jena and Balwant Singh/Sydney. The Editorial is already online...
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... In our freshly published paper we could to our surprise show carboxyl-bound minera-associated organic matter is not that stable. Lot's of thanks to Alexander Konrad an co-authors for this exciting study!
Rapid mineralization of mineral-bound carboxyl-carbon of salicylic acid and phenylalanine
Ligand-bound carboxylic acids are considered a stabilized fraction of mineral-adsorbed carbon in soil. Carboxyl-14C labeled phenylalanine or salicylic…
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Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!
🌍 Heute ist #Welternährungstag – doch wie steht es eigentlich um das UN-Nachhaltigkeitsziel „Kein Hunger“? 🌽 Lesen Sie hier, wie wir zur gesunden und sicheren Ernährung weltweit beitragen und den Weg zu #ZeroHunger verfolgen➡️ www.giz.de/de/newsroom/... @bmz.de
Den Hunger weltweit bekämpfen
Nur im globalen Schulterschluss: Wie internationale Zusammenarbeit dazu beitragen kann, weltweit Ernährung zu sichern.
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Just wrapped up our DIVERSITORIUM advisory meeting – thanks to our guests: Scott Collins, @clausbeier.bsky.social, @panemma.bsky.social, Bernhard Schmid, @inesmulder.bsky.social, Kai-Uwe Totsche, @holgerpagel.bsky.social, Hans-Peter Piepho & Christian Poll THANKS for all your great suggestions!
Now, terra-cluster.org is online 😀. Keep in mind: only 2 weeks left till application deadline: Job details at tinyurl.com/5bbk4m29: you can apply for two 50% positions, if matching profiles. We look forward to your docs. Repost appreciated: #AcademicJobs #ScienceJobs #JobAlert #FacultyJobs #Hiring
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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions@terra-cluster.org · last yr.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!
Great to have @vincentfelde.bsky.social as host and travel guide, inspiring students of geography of @ruhr-uni-bochum.de with his enthousiasm for soils and expert knowledge, here showing us an impressive profile of a luvisol of the Salzbödetal-big thanks to Vincent! We enjoyed the day very much!
A new soil ecology walk video is out. How much biodiversity is there in soils? youtu.be/iBz_-5bR8B4?...
Soil ecology walk 12: How much biodiversity is in soils? Much more than you think...
YouTube video by Life in the Soil
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Happy after hosting an inspiring session on the role of minerals and their weathering in carbon sequestration and ecosystem services. Thanks to my amazing co-chairs Katharina Lenhardt, Balwant Singh and our keynote speaker Aaron Thompson
Enjoying the exchange on the International Clay Conference in Dublin, here meeting with the board of the German Clay Group. The study of minerals and oxides is an important and fascinating field of work for soil scientists!
Felix Schmidt, Norman Wagner, Ines Mulder, Katja Emmerich, Thierry Bore, Jan Bumberger: Broadband Dielectric Analysis of Clays: Impact of Cation, Exchange Capacity, Water Content, and Porosity https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20271 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20271 https://arxiv.org/html/2506.20271
Enjoyed todays talk and discussions with by visiting scientist Natasha Picone from Argentinia, who demonstrated impressively the need and options to further develop cities in order to adapt to climate change
youtube.com/shorts/EFvwS... Schauen Sie hinein in unser Physisch-Geographisches Labor!
Darum Geographie in Bochum! (Physisch-Geographisches Labor)
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Watch out - hot and greasy! Our freshly printed article on the (desinfectants and surfactants) quaternary alkylammonium compounds, which demonstrates once more their persistence to degradation in soils. To reduce our footprint, try to read labels and avoid them! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Legacy pollution of floodplain soils with quaternary ammonium compounds - Insights into vertical distribution, historical trends and suspected microplastic carriers
Quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs) are antimicrobials and cationic surfactants used since the early 20th century but increasingly under scrutiny bec…
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youtube.com/live/IOVXNTU... Today 19h CET live chat with the moviemakers of common ground and kiss the ground and streaming lauch oft the"Common Ground" documentary on prime. Let's join the global "Watch Party" :-)
Earth Day Q&A
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Very happy to host fellows of the Alexander von #humbodlt-foundation during their networking meeting at #RUB. It was a pleasure to learn about their exciting work and share ideas. Here we are in the greenhouses visiting the impressive collection of arabidopsis halleri of Ute Krämer's group.
