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ICYMI Need a review article on soil fungal ecology; with a focus on global change impacts? Fungal diversity, ecology and functions in soil ecosystems | @natrevmicro.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper just out in iMeta: Tu et al. Exposure to micro- and nano-plastics: From human internal burden to systems-level health-risk interpretation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Exposure to micro‐ and nano‐plastics: From human internal burden to systems‐level health‐risk interpretation

Micro- and nano-plastics (MNPs) can enter the human body through inhalation, ingestion, contact with consumer products, and iatrogenic routes. The clinical relevance of MNP exposure should be interpr...

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Paper just accepted: Beyond nutrient concentration: A call for uptake in mycorrhizal research under drought Will share details once available

Reading in journal club Roots navigate around decay regions by sensing local pH gradients www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Roots navigate around decay regions by sensing local pH gradients

Plant tropisms enable roots to navigate complex soils by responding to directional environmental cues. Biological decay, although central to nutrient cycling, also creates microbially active and poten...

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Establishing causality in experiments: how deep is deep enough? Are there opportunity costs of pursuing certain chains of causality to extreme detail? What do you think? open.substack.com/pub/matthias...

Establishing causality in experiments: how deep is deep enough?

Is there a trend towards exaggerated mechanistic resolution?

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Paper just accepted: A call for studying the impact of multiple stressors on biological systems Will share details once available

Paper just accepted: Operationalizing soil persistence in soil and ecosystem ecology Will share details once available

Reading in journal club Isbell et al. Predicting temporal stability and resilience from resistance and recovery www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Predicting temporal stability and resilience from resistance and recovery - Nature

New predictions for how temporal stability and resilience depend on their resistance and recovery components are explored.

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Are mycorrhizal fungi (especially AM fungi) fairly unique in terms of being important for both ecosystem processes and soil persistence? Or is this personal bias? What do you think? open.substack.com/pub/matthias...

Mycorrhizal fungi: important for soil functioning and soil persistence?

Maybe there aren't many other organism groups that are important for both?

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Interested in coming to Berlin on a Humboldt Fellowship? Please consider the new modalities: There are 3 calls for applications annually, each opening 8 months before the respective selection meeting. The new call opens on 15 July 2026, closing once 800 applications are in.

Paper just accepted: Impacts of pollution on the soil microbiome Will share details once available

Anybody putting together a consortium on "HORIZON-MISS-2026-05-SOIL-02: Antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic biosynthesis in soils: developing key understanding and counteractive strategies using a One-Health approach" I would be interested..... 😀

Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 4w ago

Reading in journal club Yang et al. @ Nature Nanotechnology Diverse origins and chemical complexity of nanoplastics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Diverse origins and chemical complexity of nanoplastics - Nature Nanotechnology

This Perspective traces the chemical complexity arising from the material properties of nanoplastics and outlines more nuanced analytical characterization approaches to comprehensively probe their env...

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Paper just accepted: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi orchestrate belowground microbiomes in plant holobionts Will share details once available

Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 4w ago

Paper just accepted: Spatial dynamics of filamentous soil fungi in response to a heterogeneously distributed chemical stressor Will share details of open-access paper once available

Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 4w ago

Eine sehr interessante und wichtige (und auch ernüchternde) Lektüre Positionspapier zur Stärkung der Freiheit und Resilienz der Wissenschaften: Orientierungen und Empfehlungen Schade, dass es das nicht auch auf Englisch gibt. Ist das geplant, liebe @dfg.de ? zenodo.org/records/2121...

Positionspapier zur Stärkung der Freiheit und Resilienz der Wissenschaften: Orientierungen und Empfehlungen

Wissenschaftsfreiheit ist eine Errungenschaft freier, demokratischer Gesellschaften, die aktiv verteidigt werden muss. Dieses Positionspapier einer Arbeitsgruppe des Senats der Deutschen Forschungsgem...

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Published in final form: Diversity of Pharmaceuticals Enhances Antibiotic Resistance in the Invertebrate Gut via Biofilm-Mediated Mechanisms doi.org/10.1002/advs...

Diversity of Pharmaceuticals Enhances Antibiotic Resistance in the Invertebrate Gut via Biofilm‐Mediated Mechanisms

Pharmaceutical diversity acts as an independent driver of antibiotic resistance in soil invertebrates. While bulk soil remains unaffected, the collembolan gut microbiome exhibits significant resistan....

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Written 6 years ago (during corona): Ten Simple Rules for increased lab resilience. What would you add? journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Ten simple rules for increased lab resilience

When running a lab we do not think about calamities, since they are rare events for which we cannot plan while we are busy with the day-to-day management and intellectual challenges of a research lab....

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This week’s newsletter is about making ourselves more resilient as researchers in a time of multiple crises. What would you add to the list? open.substack.com/pub/matthias...

How are we making ourselves more resilient (as researchers)?

And what would you add to the list?

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