Ferry from Victoria to Vancouver

A bit sad to leave beautiful Vancouver Island after #GSB2026. Thank you @lindolab.bsky.social and @carlosbarreto.bsky.social for an amazing conference!

(PDF) BEN-EAF: Bridging traditional and modern eDNA approaches in alpine soil fauna diversity research PDF | As alpine soil fauna research is concentrated on the European Alps and Central Asia but lacking elsewhere (Praeg & Steinwandter et al. 2025), more... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

YEAH! 🎉
Today #BEN-EAF kicks off as collaboration of Eurac Research, South Tyrol (@euracalpenv.bsky.social) and the James Hutton Institute (@hutton.ac.uk), Scotland.

We will identify alpine #SoilFauna in the Highlands using traditional and modern #eDNA methods.

Stay tuned!
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Greater trophic diversity of soil animal communities under agricultural land use and tropical climate - Nature Ecology & Evolution Soil fauna is an important but often neglected component of terrestrial food webs. Here the authors use a large dataset of stable isotope observations to analyse how soil animal trophic diversity vari...

Here the authors use a large dataset of stable isotope observations to analyse how soil animal trophic diversity varies across climates and land-use types and identify potential biotic mechanisms 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Call for Moderators - 4th Global Soil Biodiversity Conference (#GSB2026) As we finalize the scientific programme for #GSB2026, we invite volunteers to serve as moderators (chairs) for regular oral sessions. Moderators play a critical role in ensuring sessions run smoothly...

🚨As we finalize the scientific programme for #GSB2026, we invite volunteers to serve as moderators (chairs) for regular oral sessions.

Moderators play a critical role in ensuring sessions run smoothly, professionally, and on time.

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Greater trophic diversity of soil animal communities under agricultural land use and tropical climate - Nature Ecology & Evolution Soil fauna is an important but often neglected component of terrestrial food webs. Here the authors use a large dataset of stable isotope observations to analyse how soil animal trophic diversity vari...

Greater trophic diversity of soil animal communities under agricultural land use and tropical climate. Just out in @natecoevo.nature.com led by Zheng Zhou and @antoncollembola.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Screenshot of the article by Eurac Magazine about the vast universe of soil biodiversity beneath our feet.

Our in-house press team at Eurac Magazine published an article about the soil biology research of @jseeber.bsky.social and myself where we focus on alpine environments.

Check it out: www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...
(available in German, Italian, and English)

#SoilBiodiversity #SoilScience #SoilFauna

📢 An ✨ONLINE FIRST✨ Call for Collaborators!

Xin Sun & colleagues seek collaborators in #eDNA of #urban #soil

Check out the call HERE ⬇️

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ICYMI: New online! Soil biodiversity effects on ecosystems

How did research on soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning progress over the past decade? Read our new paper in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com, led by Nico Eisenhauer @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social and Marie Sünnemann @msoil.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

In our latest paper, just published in @natcomms.nature.com we show that soil conditions, landscape structure & land-use change shape global soil pathogenic fungal diversity. Landscape complexity and crops increase diversity, while grass and tree cover reduce it www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Three #postdoc positions available in my lab @unibz.bsky.social focusing on #genomics of #eriosoma #aphids #psyllids and #phytoplasma please repost

Great paper, happy to see this out and to have contributed!

Interns wanted! - Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol

Want to work on biodiversity in the Alps? ⛰️

We are offering several internship positions for the upcoming spring and summer in collaboration with the Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol 🕷️🦋🦇🐜🌼🦗🪱

biodiversity.eurac.edu/interns-want...

📢 Call for Collaborators!

Interested in Isopods? Check out this call in Soil Organisms by Konstantin Gongalsky and colleagues @msteinwandter.bsky.social @soilscholar.bsky.social

soil-organisms.org/SO/article/v...

congrats, Martin!

Happy World Soil Day! 🌍🪱 A handful of soil holds more organisms than Earth has people. These invertebrates keep ecosystems functioning and our planet alive. Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol (BMS) is financed by Province of Bolzano & Land Südtirol. www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...

Stellen für Akademisches Personal | Allgemeine und angewandte Entomologie (Prof. Schuler Hannes) Kompetenzzentrum für Pflanzengesundheit: Vergleichendes Bewertungsverfahren für 1 Stelle/n als „Tecnologo“ erster Ebene mit befristetem Arbeitsvertrag (A)

We are looking for a postdoc to establish our Cell imaging laboratory for investigating plant stress factors. The postdoc will develop and optimize #CLSM technologies including fluorescence lifetime measurements and life imaging @unibz with @simonjunterholzner.bsky.social
Please repost

Paris: Bettwanzen im Kino - oe3.ORF.at <ul><li>Zwei Jahre nach der Aufregung um Bettwanzen in Frankreich schrecken die Parasiten in Paris erneut die Menschen auf</li><li>Das altehrwürdige französische Filminstitut schließt seine Kinosäle w...

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Das Foto ist ja schön, aber Bettwanze ist das keine 🤦🏼‍♀️

Explore how soil food webs withstand droughts and heatwaves, and what this means for tree regeneration in Swedish forests! 🌲🪱🌳🍄Become a PhD student in the WIFORCE Research School and work with us at SLU-Uppsala @mycopat.bsky.social #climate #forest #microbes #nematodes

www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

How are Pacific NW mountain birds responding to climate change?

I got up at 4:00 am for a month to find out.

but first the backstory, or "how I spent seven years telling everyone this project wasn't possible"

new paper here:
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Congrats, Frank, enjoy ☺️

🪱🐜 🐛 🪳 🐌 Join our SOIL FAUNA session at EGU2026! Excited to team up with Dmytro Monoshyn, Marion Mittmannsgruber & Gerrit Angst. Looking forward to catching up, or getting to know you and your work! 🪱🐜 🐛 🪳 🐌

🌍 What a great week at #IMC2025 in Innsbruck! 🏔️

Proud to showcase our institute among outstanding #mountain scientists 🧠 with talks, posters, and sessions featuring several of our projects🎤📊

@imc2025.bsky.social @jseeber.bsky.social @msteinwandter.bsky.social

Well done to @nadinepraeg.bsky.social for presenting and promoting our review of #MountainSoilBiodiversity at the #IMC2025. 👏🙏
In collaboration with @gmba-ipo.bsky.social, we compiled a wealth of information on our knowledge of alpine soil biota. 🪴🦠🪱

Openly accessible here: doi.org/10.1111/brv....

#IMC25 - FS 3.139: Mountain soil biodiversity

Are you at #IMC25? Then come and join our session, we have great talks about mountain #soil #biodiversity ! imc2025.info/imc25/sessio...

Klimakrise: Es ist alles gesagt. Oder? Was kleine süße Hündchen mit der Regenbogenflagge und Taylor Swift zu tun haben? Nichts. Dies ist ein plumper Versuch, Interesse an einem weiteren Artikel über die Klimaerwärmung zu wecken. Wie sonst....

Das Interesse am Klimathema geht zurück. Wie kann ich jetzt als Wissenschaftler kommunizieren?
Alternativen, Kritik etc. welcome...
(Danke an @martinangler.com für die Redaktion)

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Südtirols Artenvielfalt unter Druck Südtirol beheimatet eine außergewöhnlich vielfältige Tier- und Pflanzenwelt. Doch Klimawandel, intensive Landwirtschaft und Siedlungsdruck gefährden diesen Reichtum zunehmend. Der Ergebnisbericht über...

Der erste Biodiversitätsreport für Südtirol ist da!
www.eurac.edu/de/magazine/...

Did you know that Soil BON has a ✨YouTube channel✨? 🤩

We do! Check out the channel for instructional videos of sampling protocols and COMING SOON... behind the scenes at Soil BON with our talented staff! @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/@SoilBONGlobal

What is living in (and on) alpine soils at 3100m in the European #Alps?

"Not too much"? Check out this sample.
A lot of critters (abundance) and also some larger larvae (Tipulidae) and some flying insects (biomass).

Very excited to sort out these #GLORIA samples from #SouthTyrol.

#AlpSoil_Lab

Julia Seeber and Michael Steinwandter found a way to protect their wood decompostion sticks for the Soil BON project from curious bovines by using poultry wire boxes. Brilliant! ✨🌱🐄✨

@jseeber.bsky.social @msteinwandter.bsky.social