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Happy Earth Day!
Our lab works to find out how human-made threats affect our soils and what we can do about it.
#Earthday #earthday2026
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Last week's Art-Science Meetup at our lab at FU Berlin in collaboration with
Art Laboratory Berlin was a success!!
About 30 people, scientists and artists, listened to talks and then jointly discussed the topic of experimental co-design in mixed groups of scientists and artists.
Pics by Art Labo
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The harvest of a large greenhouse experiment is ongoing for several days this week, with lots of people helping.
#greenhouse #experiment #ecology #soil #science #plants
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We have a new doctor!
Congratulations to Rebecca Rongstock who recently successfully defended her PhD on multi-factor ecological science.
@fubcp
#PhD #doctor #ecology
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Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Happy Earth Day! Our lab works to find out how human-made threat · 6 likes + reposts
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Recent: 0 text · 12 image · 0 video.
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🔥 Top post
Happy Earth Day!
Our lab works to find out how human-made threats affect our soils and what we can do about it.
#Earthday #earthday2026
We have a new doctor!
Congratulations to Rebecca Rongstock who recently successfully defended her PhD on multi-factor ecological science.
@fubcp
#PhD #doctor #ecology
Question for all my soil science friends out there:
Where in the soil profile is the oldest soil?
#soil #soilprofile
Newsletter for this week talks about our recent experimental results using microbial biospheres and the topic of ecosystem persistence
Microbial biospherics
https://open.substack.com/pub/matthiasrillig/p/microbial-biospheres-as-experimenta…
The harvest of a large greenhouse experiment is ongoing for several days this week, with lots of people helping.
#greenhouse #experiment #ecology #soil #science #plants
Two large experiments are being harvested in the lab, starting today. One (pictured) is about the effects of jointly acting environmental factors on soils, the other one is a greenhouse experiment studying restoration.
Quite a massive effo…
Unsere bodenökologische Forschung ist in der aktuellen Ausgabe der Bild der Wissenschaft - siehe 'Von der Petrischale bus zum Acker'.
#boden #oekologie #bodenoekologie #umwelt #soil
Last week's Art-Science Meetup at our lab at FU Berlin in collaboration with
Art Laboratory Berlin was a success!!
About 30 people, scientists and artists, listened to talks and then jointly discussed the topic of experimental co-design…
Lab leadership and control: how much control are you willing to relinquish when leading a lab group?
What is your answer?
https://open.substack.com/pub/matthiasrillig/p/lab-leadership-and-control?r=1yu2t7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&u…
If you could build a synthetic plant-soil ecosystem from scratch for use on another planet (ignore if this makes sense or not), would it have mycorrhiza?
Explain why or why not... 😀
#ecology #syntheticbiology #soil #mycorrhiza
Looking forward to giving a plenary lecture at the VAAM 2026 conference in Berlin (my talk is on Sunday)
It's on my favorite topic....
#globalchange #microbiology #microbiome #soil
Operationalizing soil persistence; this week's substack. Curious about what you think, please let me know...currently writing on this.
https://matthiasrillig.substack.com/p/operationalizing-soil-persistence?r=1yu2t7
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🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 3 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.7× per week.
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Credibility score
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Fake-follower risk
High
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- Est. 73% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
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- Established account (3+ years old).
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About
Professor (Ecology). Our lab at Freie Universität Berlin is interested in soil, global change, biodiversity, and fungi.
I'm also active on youtube, making videos on life in academia.
#PhdChat #PhdLife #PostdocLife #academia #SciComm
#ecology #soil #biodiversity #fungi #ClimateChange #GlobalChange #mycorrhiza #microplastics #EnvironmentalScience #pollution #SoilEcology #plants
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