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🎵New article by Theo Edelman published in the February edition of the Dutch magazine bodem on the outreach event 'SOIL, live' where SBL staff worked together with the sound artist Remco de Kluizenaar. Enoy the read!

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Yesterday after 12 years working with us, our lab technician Henk Martens 'left' for a lab manager position at the Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation laboratory at WUR. We wish you all the best for your new adventure and thank you for all the great time with us! we will miss you!

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A few weeks ago PhD students from the ReGeNL project gathered in Nijmegen to transform the Dutch agricultural sector into a regenerative, sustainable and future-proof sector! Various PhDs of the project work in the SBL group. Check: www.linkedin.com/company/rege... & regenerativefarming.nl/home-nl/

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📣Don't forget this week appointment withthe Soil cluster! Talk from Hans Lambers (Uni of West Australia) on 'Dirt-poor soils, pesky parasites and friendly fungi shape plant diversity in south-western Australia' Wednesday 26th February 15:30-16:30 Gaia 1 See you there!

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More information on the new edition of the 'Transformative soil science' course will come soon....in the meanwhile enjoy the read on the past edition by Dienke Stomph and Kate Foster. Also SBL was active in the organization of this truly transformative experience....

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Nice article on 'Transformative soil science' course hold in November 2024 by WIMEK and led by PhD Wietse Wiersma (SOC), was published on 'The jester', written by Dienke Stomph (cultural geography) & Kate Foster (environmental artist). There will be another edition of the course, info will follow!

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Very interesting presentation this week from our guest Katherine Shek from the University of New Hampshire (USA) on 'Microbial community structure and function in soils under various land use and climate contexts'. Katherine closely works with our colleague Luciana Chavez Rodriguez.

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We continue to build the Plant Microbiome Starter Pack. Please let us know if you or others are missing! go.bsky.app/QG4wCyf

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📣Freshly published by Jordy van' Hull, PhD in our group and Wageningen Environmental Research. Congratulations Jordy for this first paper 🥳! How can we reduce nitrogen losses from renovated grasslands 💧☁️🌱? Check it out 😉. 🔽 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Colleagues Luciana Chavez Rodriguez&Paolo di Lonardo spent 3 days at EcoEnvAI (Ljubljana, SI) to discuss Soil Health Benchmarks @shbenchmarks.bsky.social: 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 SH, 𝐂𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬&𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐬⁣⁣, 𝐃𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭&𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐍𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬⁣⁣, 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬&𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧⁣⁣!!

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Our colleague Paolo di Lonardo will speak at the 4th Annual Meeting of the International Network on Soil Biodiversity (NETSOB) of the Global Soil Partnership as BENCHMARKS Project Manager. Join online 26th Feb. 13.30 to hear about BENCHMARKS & discuss soil biodiversity! Register: lnkd.in/eZsJvDRc

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📣New paper out in SBB co-authored by our own Gerlinde De Deyn, and many others. Nice collaboration led by @au.dk, Denmark and School of Ecology in China. A metanalysis proposing a new root-trait framework to design plant mixtures for SOC in agroecosystems 🌱. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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PhD student Robin Guilmot presented his proposal on unravelling the mechanisms that link carbon use efficiency of microbial communities 🦠 & soil organic matter formation in temperate grasslands🌱. His PhD is a collaboration between our group, @unileiden.bsky.social&@niooknaw.bsky.social. Stay tuned!

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📣New paper out: Our own Ron de Goede co-authored this paper led by Nick van Eekeren (Louis Bolk Instituut). Nice collaboration about soil biota 🪱🍄 / grasslands and their management🌱. Disturbances affect abundance and diversity of soil biota. ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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📣Announcement: registrations are open for the 'Lab Skills Course for Assessing Soil Functions' organized by the Soil Biology! The course will take place between the 1st and the 5th September 2025 in Wageningen🦠🧪🥼. For more information and registration see here: biosisplatform.eu/services/tra...

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Are you a post- doc interested in soil health and other dimensions of regenerative agriculture? We are looking to appoint a post-doc for a 4.5 yr position leading a monitoring programme in a large project on regenerative agriculture (ReGeNL). Read more here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

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🐌If you missed the Bodemdierendagen Citizen Science Café last December you can now have a look at the recording of the event: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC9g... And for more information check out the Bodemdierendagen website: bodemdierendagen.nl/nl/debodempa...

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📣Our Luciana Chavez Rodriguez @lucianachr.bsky.social is convening a session (09a) at the Goldschmidt Conference (Prague 6-11 July 2025) : "Microbial ecology and elemental cycling in terrestrial and aquatic systems: integrating biogeochemistry, geomicrobiology and modeling" 🦠🦠 Open for applications!

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Another edition of the PE&RC PhD Soil Ecology course started! this time with the theme “From global patterns to mechanisms that matter”. The course is organized by our own Gerlinde De Deyn, Wim van der Putten @niooknaw.bsky.social and Franciska de Vries (UvA).

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The 2nd edition of the MSc course Research Methods for Soil Biology, designed to prepare students to do a thesis with our group, is already in its third week🦠🍄! Students are supermotivated and the teaching team as well!Soil sampling and lab was already started last week🌱🧪🥼....soon data analysis!

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📣New publication led by Makrina Diakaki @femsmicro.bsky.social. About spinach seed microbiome 🦠🌱! "this study highlights the ubiquity of yeasts in spinach seed microbiota and their potential beneficial roles for seed health." academic.oup.com/femsec/advan...

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📣SBL Course announcement: soon registration will open for the next edition of our course 'Soil Biology Lab Skills Course for Assessing Soil Functions' that will take place on 1st - 5th September 2025 at Wageningen University. More information & registration check: biosisplatform.eu/services/tra...

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Did you know that the PhD Luuk Scholten from our group conducts research into how solar farms affect the soil quality? Recently, the solar farm Droevendaal studied by Luuk has been supplying power directly to the campus 7 days a week! For more information: www.wur.nl/en/news-wur/...

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📣Paper out about plant and fungi 🌱🍄co-authored by our own Thom Kuyper 🤩! "root economics space and plant species richness jointly determine the effects of plants on soil fungal communities and their potential role in plant fitness and ecosystem functioning" 🔽 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Just before the holidays, SOILGUARD consortium came together hosted by the amazing IUCN team in Málaga. Discussions about next steps inspired us to strengthen our mission to safeguard soil biodiversity🐜 @sbl-wur.bsky.social group is involved since the beginning! soilguard-h2020.eu/about-the-pr...

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Congratulations to our own @tulca.bsky.social, who showed (with @mhagens.bsky.social, @jwvangroenigen.bsky.social, @alixvidal.bsky.social and many others) that earthworms can contribute to silicate weathering both while alive and after they died! As always, great graphics by Tullia herself!

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Dominique Arrouays was a central person in our community and contributed in many ways to our journal. As a prolific author; a trusted reviewer; a respected editorial board member; and as a personal friend to many in our team. [1/2] www.forevermissed.com/dominique-ar...

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"Groundwater level effects on greenhouse gas emissions from undisturbed peat cores" by our own @erneblondeau.bsky.social, Gerard Velthof, @jwvangroenigen.bsky.social; MSc students Anneke Stam & Monne Weghorst; & colleagues from Wageningen Env. Research. doi.org/10.1016/j.ge... @geoderma.bsky.social

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So proud that our course 'Biological Interactions in Soil' made it to the top 5 Advanced Courses at Wageningen University! Great teamwork, with a special thanks going to the coordinator Gerlinde de Deyn, co-teacher Gabriel Moinet and lab-support Tamas Salanki, Willeke van Tintelen, Henk Martens

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"Concepts and Practices for Managing Soil Health", in "Sustainable Soil Systems in Global South", SpringerNature, 2024. By our own Chindi Kapembwa and Gerlinde De Deyn, as well as Victor Shitumbanuma, Jones Yengwe, and Sijmen Schoustra. Send us a DM for a copy. doi.org/10.1007/978-...

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PhD candidate Jurrian van Waaij giving a talk at Driestar College at Gouda on the nitrogen cycle and the nitrogen crisis within Dutch agriculture🐄🌱. The students came on their own with solutions, like manure digestion💩! Reaching young public with our science is highly needed to make a real change👍

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"Drivers for agroecological transition: An analysis of 40 years of experience in Minas Gerais, Brazil" by Fernanda Monteiro, Alexandria Wilson, our own Thom Kuyper, Irene Cardoso and others. Unfortunately not OpenAccess, please send us a DM if you want a copy. doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

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"How to monitor the ‘success’ of agricultural sustainability: A perspective", by Loekie Schreefel, our own @rachelcreamer.bsky.social, Hannah van Zanten, Imke de Boer, @rogierschulte.bsky.social and others. doi.org/10.1016/j.gf... #OpenAccess.

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Running4ClimateEducation: Our colleague Gabriel Moinet and a friend will run 24 hours to raise money for two talented students to join an immersive PhD course on Climate Mitigation and Adaptation on Farms. For Gabriels' story, updates & the opportunity to contribute, see fundrazr.com/02TG1b?ref=a...

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New paper: "Land use intensity differently affects soil microbial functional communities in arable fields" by Chenguang Gao, @ehannula.bsky.social, @frantecol.bsky.social, our own Gabriel Moinet and Michiel in 't Zandt, and others. doi.org/10.1016/j.ap... #OpenAccess

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Earthworms inconveniently get into estivation or just toughen it out when conditions are suboptimal. Are earthworms just present or actually active? This new method by MSc student student Péter Garamszegi can help! With @alixvidal.bsky.social, @mhagens.bsky.social & @soc-wur.bsky.social.

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Hello BlueSky! Another refugee from Twitter / X here. We look forward to sharing news from our group, announcing publications and discussing our results with the scientific community here.

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