We are launching a call to find an artist who works, or has always wanted to work, with soil biodiversity 🪱 🦠 🍄 to co-create a project in collaboration with researchers from WUR and the support of Platform DIS (platformdis.nl) Please share👍 Questions? contact me @ giulia.bongiorno@wur.nl

🚀 New review “Integrating soil imaging with spatial omics to uncover root–soil interactions” now published in Plant Communications lnkd.in/ebG3bbJu. 🌱 Contribution by our own Alix Vidal and brilliantly led by Tino Colombi, together with Hannah Cooper and Rahul A Bhosale. 📖 Enjoy the read 😊

📢Paper out with our own Thom Kuyper🌳European forests show declining nutrient health, and emerging evidence suggests shifting ectomycorrhizal fungi dynamics may be a key, overlooked driver of how forests respond to global environmental change.🌳 academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Impacts of ectomycorrhizal forest change on nutrient cycling, forest resilience, and ecosystem services

Abstract. At a time when we count on northern hemisphere forests to mitigate global atmospheric change, European forests are showing deteriorating abovegro

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🎉🪱✨🌱New WILDCARD biodiversity initiative granted to Dr. Giulia Bongiorno and team: Exploring new ways of connecting people with soil biodiversity. Not just through science, but through experiences! ✨Stay tuned ! For more info: wageningenur4.sharepoint.com/:u:/r/sites/...

📣New publication out! 🎉 🪱🌍 Soil models are missing something: the animals digging through it. In "The inclusion of burrowing animals in soil hydro-physical equations and models: A review" PhD student Marta Loreggian from SLM/SGL and coauthors analyse this gap! 📄 Full paper: lnkd.in/eZbBywVr

📢 JOB ALERT in the project ‘Hidden Stories from the Bog’ focusing on cultural history of Dutch raised bog landscapes. Collaborate with nature managers, local residents & other stakeholders to create an inventory of the history of raised bog landscapes! www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/j... (Dutch required)

Junior researcher landscape history – Verborgen verhalen uit het Veen

As a junior researcher, you will work on the research project Verborgen verhalen uit het Veen (‘Hidden Stories from the Bog’), which focuses on the cultural history of Dutch raised bog landscapes.

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New publication led by Dr. Anna Visscher: "Early soil health responses to crop diversification and manure application vary across tropical agroecological zones" Highlights: Focus is Kenya, where 4 long-term experiments were recently redesigned into diversified systems! 📄 article lnkd.in/exwxmwsv

🎉 Cathelijne, Associate Professor in the SLM group at WUR, was recognised for her outstanding work in integrated fire management and her dedication to translating scientific knowledge on wildfires into practical solutions for society.🔥🔥 Congratulations Cathelijne! lnkd.in/edhF4VVQ

📣SOM has been puzzling scientists for 2 centuries. While still don't fully understand how and how long carbon cycles in soil, we're certainly getting closer. Don't miss the next Soil Science Cluster WUR seminar with Prof. Ingrid Kögel-Knabner (TU Munich) & Dr. Katharina Meurer (SLU Uppsala) !🌱🌱

✨ Last week, soil researchers @ WUR came together to connect and discuss soil topics at the 2nd edition of Soils@WUR! 🌱 🌟 With all the positive responses we received we believe it was a very successful day that may contribute to new collaboration 👏 🌱 👉 Let's keep connecting and exchanging!

🌿 Research from SGL shows that many streams in North Brabant did not flow through sandy stream valleys, but through peatlands. This changes our view of historical landscape&offers new starting points for stream restoration!🌊 Read more: www.wur.nl/nl/nieuws/br... & njgjournal.nl/index.php/nj...

Brabantse beken stroomden vroeger vooral door veen

Onderzoekers van Wageningen University & Research ontdekten dat veel beekdalen oorspronkelijk venig en moerassig waren, waardoor beken nauwelijks meanderden. De inzichten kunnen grote gevolgen hebben ...

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⏳ Only a bit more than two weeks left to register for our earthworm conference ISEE13🪱🪱🪱🪱 in Wageningen (23–28 August)! lnkd.in/eJ4PZ33N 🪱 Join our global community of earthworm researchers 🤝 Reconnect with colleagues and meet new collaborators ⭐ Hear from our invited speakers and many others 🤩

📣SSC seminar by Prof. Diego Abalos (Aarhus): “Monitoring needs to improve N2O budgets at field to continental scales” ⏲️June 8, 10:45-11:30📍WUR, Orion 3015 He will be opponent for Omotola Obasoro PhD @ 15.30: “Multispecies swards and multiple soil functions: evidence from agricultural grasslands”.

📣Publication alert! Led by Julian Helfenstein (SGL) 📃In short: agricultural management helps explain patterns in SOC across EU, especially in arable&tree crops. Some practices are associated with SOC losses, while others with SOC stocks gains.🗺️ Full text : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Continental‐Scale Evidence of Farm Management Impacts on Soil Carbon

Using standardized European farm surveys (n = 248,362 farms) to predict farm management at every soil monitoring location (n = 8834) allowed quantifying impacts of agricultural practices on SOC stock...

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🪱Another successful Expeditie NEXT! with many interactions between soil, kids, soil organisms, scientists, students! The bodemdierendagen was well represented by NIOO and the soil cluster.....🪱🐛🐛🐜

⁉️ Want to protect soils & grow soil curiosity? Fill out our questionnaire! With your insights the CURIOSOIL Project develops educational materials&activities to enthuse next generations for soils🪱 🪴 📃 The questionnaire is open and takes ~15 min: lnkd.in/er3ySQDF 🔎 Check out: curiosoil.eu

📣Delighted to be sharing this new paper by Roelof Zwaan & other SBL colleagues. In this paper they evaluated different approaches for calculating single indices of soil health and show that the final numbers are often in disagreement for the same site! Here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Soil Health Indices in Disagreement: A Systematic Review and Comparison of Soil Health Assessment Methods

Soil health is commonly understood as the ability of soils to provide multiple ecosystem services such as primary production, climate mitigation, and …

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📢Our latest paper, with contributions from Thom Kuyper and Mirjam Pulleman, uncovers how political drivers and persistent social‑ecological lock‑ins shape the future of forest transitions in Latin America 🌳. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Understanding forest transitions and lock-ins in Latin American agro-forest frontiers: aligning theory to practice for accelerating restoration

The agro-forest frontier is the dynamic border between agricultural and forested lands. Drawing on results from an interdisciplinary research programm…

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📢 Thrilled to share that our new paper is out! 🔗 lnkd.in/eiYnv6R7 🪱 Exploring earthworms + phosphorus using the ¹⁸O‑phosphate method 👏 Kudos to Chiara Pistocchi & Andreas Burr for leading the work. 🏆 Special congratulations to Andreas Burr, whose MSc contribution earned him a Best Thesis award.

🎉Great event on Geoscience education at EGU 2026 “Growing Curiosity – Geoscience Education for Children” A lot of interest and soil animals were of course represented with the Bodemdierendagen and CURIOSOILS! Thank you for AGES for the organization, looking forward to collaborate next year!🪱🐛🎓

📣Interested in soil education and outreach? Join us at the LOESS High-Level Symposium💫 Soil Science Cluster efforts in outreach will be presented and more stakeholders will share their views! livestream available here: www.youtube.com/live/qFDj90e... Programme: loess-project.eu/loess-final-...

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📣Soil scientist Slava Vasenev from SGL, leads an urban soils case study in Amsterdam for the BENCHMARK EU project! Slava and his team have been sampling soils from 20 different sites across the city understanding how human activities affect soil health 🏙️🪱 👉 Watch the full video: lnkd.in/ewfEZrBN

📣Vacancy for a PhD position in the EUROSION project at the SLM group. The position is facilitated by the Cyprus Institute and focuses on wind erosion monitoring. 🌬️🌱📈 Application deadline May 1, 2026. For requirements and other details please check lnkd.in/dYtqVged

🎉Join our short course at EGU26. We will offer a unique opportunity for participants to come together and exchange tools, insights, and experiences related to geoscience education for children.📖🥼 📍EGU26, Vienna ⏲️6. May 2026, 14:00-15:45 CET, Room -2.82 Session link: lnkd.in/dmsZsqRX

Join the upcoming activity 'Mission Soil Exchange – Sharing Progress and Shaping Collaboration'! 🌱 📆 Tuesday April 28th from 15:00 to 17:00 CEST (door open at 14:45) 📍 Wageningen Campus (Gaia Building, room Gaia 1) 🌐 Online participation via Teams (link: lnkd.in/ebVB-zcr)

📣⁉️News from the Earthworm hotel 'Hotel CALIWORMIA' New season is starting in the hotel: fertilization and grass mowing will start soon, and our field trips to the hotel started already! We just had colleagues from WUR learning center learning about earthworms last week, everyone was so excited!🪱🪱

Happy to have Jan Willem van Groenigen as our new chair! @jwvangroenigen.bsky.social

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I'm very excited to have been appointed head of the Soil Biology Group (@sbl-wur.bsky.social) at Wageningen University! Looking forward to lead this excellent, inclusive and diverse group, which is as ambitious in research as it is in teaching! @soilclusterwur.bsky.social www.wur.nl/en/news/jan-...

⁉️The Soil Science cluster learning about GenAI with Tijmen Kersten from WUR’s Teaching and Learning Center..... very interesting and insightful session about GenAI, diversity of GenAI tools, problems and rules at WUR and discussions on how to improving our use! We need to stay up to date!

📣Last chance today for the Early bird registration of the International Symposium on Earthworm Ecology: event.wur.nl/isee13/home-2 🪱🪱 Ensure your early bird spot!

🌬️ 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝? 👉 Check out this video, produced in the context of the project SOILPROM and coordinated by Mahrooz Rezaei from the Soil Physics and Land Management group! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhkk... and find more information on the project here: soilprom.eu

SOILPROM project - Use case presentation - Valthermond

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