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Professor, ecology, FU Berlin, own views Global change, soil, fungi, mycorrhiza, environment, microplastic, biodiversity 🧪 https://www.youtube.com/@mrillig https://www.youtube.com/@lifeinthesoil rilliglab.org https://matthiasrillig.substack.com
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Set-up and ready for Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften #lndw25 Come find us at the Pflaphy in Königin-Luise Straße and chat about soil ecology, global change & other topics!

Paper just accepted: Expanding the root economics space with root nitrogen reallocation Resulting from a collaboration with Hebei University. Will share details once available

Pretty ingenious campaign of my university to leave out the 'e' to protest against the catastrophic plans of the Berlin Senate to cut the university budget.

Glad to have been part of the team that wrote this paper!

New paper from lab - Vulnerability of soil food webs to chemical pollution and climate change in @natecoevo.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Led by Young Liu with c @YurongLiu120082 with contributions from @manudelbaq.bsky.social @mrillig.bsky.social Yongguan Zhu and others

Very sad, but my sabbatical at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology is coming to an end.... matthiasrillig.substack.com/p/my-sabbati...

Happy to have contributed to this article, resulting from a great collaboration with Yu-Rong, Manu, Yong-Guan and many others.

Very glad to see this nice paper by Anika out; systematic mapping is such a useful tool to get an overview of an entire field.

This is very cool. Maybe we need that also internationally, not just in the US....

The final version of this viewpoint paper is now out in @funecology.bsky.social Clarifying the definition of common mycorrhizal networks besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Follow-up papers: see thread

Many interesting articles in this issue of Science...

Perspective in Science by @annaliisalaine.bsky.social and Sara Leino Plant microbiomes feel the heat: Rising temperatures change the structure and function of plant microbial communities www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ecological risks of biodegradable plastics | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What glomalin isn't. This substack post is based on a recent paper in New Phytologist by the group of Jean-Michel Ané @newphyt.bsky.social @jeanmichelane.bsky.social michelane.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/matthias...

Interested in joining our lab in Berlin as a postdoc? Please consider the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. Deadline is 10 September, but if you're interested, please reach out soon, since our university offers training. marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

Airborne microplastics in leaves and food safety risks #plantscience

Final version published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social Kong et al. Ecosystems have multiple interacting processes that buffer against co-occurring stressors www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Paper just accepted: A double-edged sword of biodegradable microplastics on the soil microbial carbon pump Will share details once available

Airborne microplastics in leaves and food safety risks Happy to have contributed to this Spotlight article in @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social highlighting a recent paper in Nature on this topic. Thanks to Christoph-Martin for the collaboration. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Saprotrophy-to-symbiosis continuum in fungi I enjoyed writing this piece with Tan Hao for the Current Biology special issue on Fungi www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Six actions for ecologists in times of planetary crisis: www.nature.com/articles/s41... ✅Explicitly recognize and address the #biodiversity crisis ✅Explore positive futures ✅Defend academic freedom ✅Go political ✅Inspire society ✅Address the colonial legacy of ecology Free to read: rdcu.be/eqjlk

New paper, resulting from a collaboration with @manudelbaq.bsky.social and Yu-Rong Liu: The impact of multiple stressors permeates also into deeper soils, and this study, focused on soils from China also finds a clear multi-functionality pattern. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Sunset at Nabee Beach, Onna Village, Okinawa. My last two weeks here, and I already miss this place

Don't usually have breakfast, but I like breakfast Japanese style...

It was a pleasure to visit with the Holobiont team at RIKEN Tsukuba, very much enjoyed my time there!

Paper accepted: National inventory of plastic mulch residues in Chinese croplands from 1993 to 2050 Will share details once available

Paper out: Toxicological effects of microplastic fibers from different disposable face masks on Caenorhabditis elegans w/ former postdoc Shin Woong, and two former guest professors, Walter and Tae-Young www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It's a good birthday when you learn that one of your former PhD students and current postdocs received an offer for a full professorship, 3 papers were accepted, you had some excellent sushi, visited 3 beaches and one world heritage site. Good night! 😅🍄🍾

Paper just accepted: Vulnerability of soil food webs to chemical pollution and climate change Will share details after embargo period.

Reading in (online) journal club: Legume-specific recruitment of rhizobia by hyphae of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Paper just accepted: Toxicological effects of microplastic fibers from different disposable face masks on Caenorhabditis elegans. With one former postdoc and two former visiting professors in the lab, collaboration with Korea. Will share details once available.

Paper just out in @natcomms.nature.com by @alvarordr.bsky.social Soil microbial responses to multiple global change factors as assessed by metagenomics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ecological and evolutionary consequences of changing seasonality | Science @jdtonkin.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A little experiment with recording a conversation on my YouTube channel: Conversation with Prof Naotsugu Tsuchiya: what is the ideal university? Thanks for recording the video, Nao! youtu.be/VOUAhcW3A5I?...

Reminding us of a positive example of successful international cooperation. Do look up: how science and international cooperation closed the ozone hole www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Not really my area, but what a fascinating find this is: less sunlight is reaching deeper ocean waters over the past 20 years. The ocean is darkening... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New morning routine has replaced coffee over two months ago, since coming to Okinawa.

Beautiful and inspiring article about this amazing scientist.

Looking forward to my visit to the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Holobiont and Resilience Research Team (host: Dr. Yasunori Ichihashi). Next week (June 6) I will give a talk in Tsukuba. www.riken.jp/en/research/...