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Two really important papers for anyone interested in causal inference in ecology came out recently in Ecology Letters. 1st up (by @lauradee.bsky.social & @katherinesiegel.bsky.social) is this over-view paper. Really useful for both experts and beginners. https://buff.ly/4gZgTWa

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Science is necessary, but clearly not sufficient, for conveying the climate crisis https://go.nature.com/3D5vAcc

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Please distribute, tenure track position at ZALF (Müncheberg/Berlin). #microbial_biogeochemistry #microbial_ecology

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Print this out and put it on your pinboard! Most compact and at the same time clear and intuitive figure on possible associations between predictors and outcome (or variables). (source: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/..., by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci and @achatton.bsky.social)

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"Peace for land" isn't peace—it's surrender. As discussions of a #Ukraine-Russia settlement increase, Kyiv requires true security guarantees. Read why European support must transition to "security for peace" now in @dumoulinme.bsky.social & @camillegrand.bsky.social 's analysis👇

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If you don’t know yet, you might appreciate that Blue Sky has a function that filters out all posts containing words you specify. Here is my short list: 'Trump,' 'Elon,' 'Musk,' 'Congress.' It’s good to stay informed, but that can be achieved with fewer distractions.

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Still on the topic of statistics, I continue to recommend this paper to get started on data exploration (detect outliers, heterogeneity of variance, collinearity, ...). Simple, easy to read... (maybe outdated?) doi.org/10.1111/j.20...

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I wish the discussion going on here would move to a non-private/ distributed place like the #Fediverse. Bluesky could take a similar path as Twitter any time, or just be shut down by a certain government. It takes some time to get used to Mastodon, because it’s non-algorithmic - but it’s worth it.

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A sharp title :)

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Important piece on the role of Ockham's razor in the modern world of scientific modeling in @pnas.org. Conclusion: Complex models can be quite useful, and parsimony and complexity can complement each other in helping us to gain new insights! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Farming on marginal land in the UK often makes little sense in terms of productivity, economics or the environment Such land could be used efficiently for nature recovery But we do need a just transition for those farming that land now

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Have you used #network_analyses in the past to analyse your #ecology data? Have you wondered how many of those correlations actually represent interactions between #microorganisms? Here I present a paper how we leveraged #protistsonsky to evaluate the validity of the method. A thread:

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Vegetation Types Shift Physiological and Phenological Controls on #CarbonSink Strength in a Coastal Zone 📄

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Hey BlueSky! I made a starter pack for folks working on mycorrhizal symbioses. LMK who else to include! go.bsky.app/285P8Tn

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📣GSBI Speaks is back this February! Join us to learn about remote sensing and sensing to measure soil biodiversity 📸🎥🐛🐜🦠🪱 Feb. 21, 2025, 9:00 MST, 11:00 EST, 16:00 GMT, 17:00 CET Register 👇 https://buff.ly/4h4Vuf4

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Yes, the trade-off between mechanistic resolution and realism is inevitable. The next question for me would be: Is ecology as a whole well-balanced along this trade-off? My feeling is that we may need a little less realism and more mechanistic resolution, but perhaps I am biased.

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New Progress article 👇 Rafiq et al. discuss potential applications of artificial intelligence models that generate new data, and how they can be used to advance ecology research rdcu.be/d7UO6

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Interesting new paper on inference with observational data in ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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MicGeo. We startet on Blusky. We will discuss #methane #nitrousoxide #microbialecology #soils #methanogens #methanotrophs

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Genetic and species rearrangements in microbial consortia impact biodegradation potential in #ISMEJournal academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

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Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

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New online! Microbial interactions lead to ecosystem function

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Very happy to share a new paper, just out in New Phytologist: Concurrent common fungal networks formed by different guilds of fungi Open access 🧪 @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Microbial diversity and interactions: Synergistic effects and potential applications of Pseudomonas and Bacillus consortia -in Microbiological Research www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... panel A with reference to [83], while no numerical references in paper, so I assume Sun et al 2022 ISME J

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Nobel laureates call on EU to relax rules on genetic modification Open letter says lawmakers must ‘reject fearmongering’ and allow scientists to develop crops that can withstand ‘climate emergency’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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"But encouraging it can be a challenge for parents." Parents? All grandmothers should read this 😀

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OUT NOW Twenty years of bacterial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lake @archaeal.bsky.social @quendi.bsky.social @robinrohwer.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Using the longest metagenome time series ever collected from a natural system, research led by UT postdoc Robin Rohwer finds Wisconsin lake bacteria in a kind of endless evolutionary loop that they can’t seem to shake. @robinrohwer.bsky.social @archaeal.bsky.social cns.utexas.edu/news/researc...

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NEW Drivers and Annual Totals of #MethaneEmissions From Dutch #Peatlands 📄 https://buff.ly/4gMH9Dt #greenhousegas #landusechange #eddycovariance

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Beautiful!

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NEW RESEARCH Soil pH Determines Nitrogen Effects on Methane Emissions From #RicePaddies 📄 https://buff.ly/3ZCZRXi

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If you loved (or missed!) our AGU24 session, don’t miss our #EGU25 session, "Advancing Soil Carbon Predictions"! 🥁 Invited speaker: Elena Shevliakova (Princeton), a leader in integrating microbes into land surface models. Submit abstracts by Jan 15 🗓️: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

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A new #StarterPack with scientist specialized in microbial bioinformatics - #MicroBioInf. Please comment if you would like to be added: go.bsky.app/5h7VaGm Looking forward to the discussions!

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We are hiring a postdoc in my lab @colorado.edu to work on this NSF CAREER proposal (tinyurl.com/cak8dkza) to quantify how and when global change (drought, warming) alters the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning. Job here: colorado.avature.net/searchhub/Jo... 1/2

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Foundations and future directions for causal inference in ecological research, forthcoming w/ @katherinesiegel.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/4mm57zzd. We wrote it based on our experience teaching causal inference to ecologists w/ some stuff we wish other papers had reviewed to share w/ the students 1/n

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In community ecology terms, "mirror life" may perform worse in nutrient competition and possibly in interference competition, but would have a huge advantage in apparent (predation-driven )competition. That is indeed concerning, given the role of bacteriophages in controlling bacterial populations.

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Writing is thinking. It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.

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Machine learning and microbiome datasets inevitably love each other 🦠❤️🌐 While I personally might not be overly sceptical about this relationship, it is the right time for caution. We need to pay more attention to studying the underlying mechanisms.

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Hi 👋 new BlueSky followers! Introducing our lab group @colorado.edu. We aim to understand and design solutions to the grand challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change. Our research combines global change ecology, community ecology, ecosystem sci, economics & conservation science to: 1/n

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Pinning the EcoEvo job board so I’ll no longer have a reason to revisit the blue bird website. 🚨📌 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Are you interested in soils, microbes and biogeochemistry? Join us at #EGU25 for session SSS4.5 ‚Soil microbial responses to climate change‘. With @loutsi.bsky.social @albertocanarini.bsky.social and Albert Brangarí we are thrilled to have @ashish-malik.bsky.social as solicited keynote speaker!

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Tried to put together a Microbial Evolution starter pack, but there were so many great people I didn't want to leave out it turned into 3 starter packs Comment or DM me if you were missed or would like to be added! A thread (1/3) go.bsky.app/6pkuYhi

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