New scheme to increase your chances of joining us in Aberdeen (beautiful Scotland) with a fellowship! www.abdn.ac.uk/sbs/blog/ear...
I am interested in hosting people on soil microbial projects, either applied or fundamental. See our lab webpage for our science and email me if interested :-)
One Week left to apply for this exciting PhD via the QUARTILES DLA w/ @micecoevo.bsky.social , @timskvortsov.bsky.social & Julianne Megaw) on understanding drivers of virus ecology in the largest freshwater lake in the British Isles, Lough Neagh! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Very proud to be Colombian right now! 🇨🇴 I hope all neighboring countries follow suit soon! news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
The pre print of my PhD research is out! 📣 Check it out for some cool results on high-throuhput microbial isolation, #SynComs and #Tree #Microbiome 🌳🧫
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#PhDone 💯
Post-doc position on Biological Nitrification Inhibition in rice in Aberdeen (Scotland)! Join our nice team and environment! Deadline 23rd Sept! www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/rese...
New preprint from our team! Experimental evidence that ammonia-oxidizing archaea in sponges use branched chain amino acids as substrates - possibly also key for host interaction
#Nitrification
#MicroSky 🧪 #ArchaeaSky
@bglasl.bsky.social @kathikitzinger.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
MMEG registration is now live!
Resister now to Join us on the 15-16th December 2025 at the University of Birmingham.
appliedmicrobiology.org/ems-event-ca...
Sincere gratitude from #BarleyMicroBreed to #Rhizosphere6 for an inspiring conference👏. We received fantastic and truly inspiring feedback on our presentations - keynote by Mette Vestergård, talk by Menghui Dong and posters by Karl Körber and Andrea Visioni🙏🌾🌞.
@royalsociety.org URF reunion at the #rhizo6 in Edinburgh. Beautiful dinner in the National Museum of Scotland.
From left: Carmen Sánchez
Cañizares, @iandealidbury.bsky.social, Laura Lehtovirta-
Morley, Cecile Gubry-Rangin, yours truly and in the front Siul Ruiz. #rhizo6
📸 @jeffinerca.bsky.social
Plant exudates effectively inhibit soil nitrification and reduce nitrous oxide emissions says Ellen E Smith. #Rhizosphere6 #PlantScience #BNI #N2O 🧪
The @royalsociety.org URF crew on tour at #Rhizosphere6 in @edinburghup.bsky.social
In "The role of trade-offs between #niche breadth and fitness in
#microbial adaptation to fluctuating environments
» Prof. Cecile Gubry-Rangin says: "🦠 generalists have greater fitness following an env. change, except after an extreme change when specialists perform better" #Rhizosphere6 🧪
Just a few days left to apply to a PhD studentship in my group on soil-plant-microbe interaction to join a dynamic team on this subject: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Happy to discuss informally before application!
Potential PhD opportunity studying soil virus ecology in our group. Please get in touch if interested!
Resuscitation-promoting factor (Rpf) terminates dormancy among diverse soil bacteria
#mSystems by @jaytlennon.bsky.social et al
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Fully funded QUARTILES DLA PhD opportunity supervised by @micecoevo.bsky.social and @lancasterlt.bsky.social at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social
Apply now, deadline 30th April! UK/Home applicants only
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
New research by @hutton.ac.uk found #microplastics in soil samples increased by up to 1,450% just four years after sewage sludge was applied⚠️
Microplastics can impact #soil biota and pollute the wider environment due to their persistence🪱
Article ⬇️ www.hutton.ac.uk/new-study-fi...
📣 Come join us at the ACTIONr PhD summer school in Greece!
“Biological Nitrification Inhibition: Integrating Microbial Functions, Plant Traits, and Technological Innovations for Sustainable Nitrogen Cycling”
Free registration & lodging! 😁👇
Are you a student, scholar or professional interested in the wonderful world of the rhizosphere? If yes, we look forward to welcoming you in Edinburgh in June for www.rhizo6.org an exciting platform to exchange ideas to enhance plant and soil health. Still two weeks to go for abstract submission!
📢 Climate change -soil - microbes - adaptation - growth - dormancy - resilience - temperature!
PhD position still open! Join a dynamic team with @lancasterlt.bsky.social and Chris Allen in Aberdeen (Scotland)!
Fully funded PhD studentships in the University of Aberdeen in microbial adaptation: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
I'm sure worth reading and maybe there is progress in practical measurement of soil C changes but I still worry about so much effort devoted to this topic. Yes we should increase C for soil functioning (health). But may be easier to achieve GHG cuts by improving N management.
Still time to apply to this PhD studentship to join my group, to be co-supervised by @pdhallett.bsky.social, Jo Smith (UoA) and Fiona Fraser (SRUC) at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social and @srucnews.bsky.social
Deadline to apply 17th January!
I have just started as President of the British Society of Soil Science. This is a tremendous organisation with over 900 members, spanning from students to educators, technicians, scientists, professionals and basically anyone with an interest in soils. Read more- soils.org.uk/blog/welcome...
Santa Claus🎅 is early this year 🤩#justout paper led by @stuartsoil.bsky.social with @andreajilling.bsky.social @agent-sprout.bsky.social & others
"A microbial framework for nitrogen cycling solutions in agroecosystems" @cp-oneearth.bsky.social
Permanent link here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.on...
A screenshot of the pdf of my contribution to this Voices collection, with my photo on the left and the text on the right, entitled "Understanding the belowground half of ecosystems". The text reads: Soils are the belowground half of ecosystems, with the total biomass of roots and soil organisms and their diversity equaling or even surpassing that of the aboveground half. Just as it is impossible to identify one property that defines “a healthy ecosystem,” it is impossible to define one property that defines healthy soil. A healthy, well-functioning soil is a healthy belowground ecosystem, and this will be very different between a heathland or a cropland, a forest or a grassland. Most soil health indicators, monitoring initiatives, and laws focus on agricultural soils. It is relatively easy to define healthy agricultural soil—fertile soil that stably supports optimal plant growth and yield. But defining one soil health metric that works for agricultural soils ignores the fact that soils under different natural ecosystems, in different regions of the world, have vastly different properties and soil biodiversity, and that the processes that determine the functioning of those can be very different from those that we value in agricultural soils. The fact that we try to capture soil health in a simple metric to me signifies how far the field of belowground ecology is lagging behind that of aboveground ecology. To improve our understanding of the properties that constitute healthy belowground ecosystems we need to set up and expand national and global soil monitoring networks, such as SoilBON, that don’t just focus on agricultural soils. This will help us include crucial properties of the belowground part of ecosystems in frameworks for assessing ecosystem quality.
I really like these Voices articles in One Earth, and am honoured to be part of this great collection on 'Understanding soil health'.
In my opinion, a healthy soil is a healthy belowground half of an ecosystem.
www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
🔊Job offers!📢. We will have a few post-doc and PhD studentship positions to join our research team in Aberdeen. Please apply or disseminate the first one below on:
📢 Soil microbial growth and resilience to environmental change
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Excited to share our new study in @ismepublications.bsky.social showing that microbial niche breadth specialisation (being a generalist or a specialist) impacts ecological and evolutionary adaptation following environmental change doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Just arrived🎉! Better late than never😆
