Measuring a 'healthy microbiome' is hard We just published a new approach that does this for human- and ecosystem-health, based on the 'compound processing potential' of microbiomes See Craig Liddicoat for an explainer 🧵 Read the paper sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

What’s a ‘h𝐞a𝐥t𝐡y m𝐢c𝐫o𝐛i𝐨m𝐞’? 🦠 Our paper describes a new way to assess the genetic capacity of gut & soil metagenomes (=DNA of entire communities) to process compounds linked to human health & disease 🩺 Led by Craig Liddicoat 🙌 Open access: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The Science of Forest Bathing! 🌳🧬🦠🧠 Join me in September at the Nature Festival in Adelaide. Booking info coming soon. jakemrobinson.com/events

🚨New paper alert! '𝗙𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼–𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀.' 🦠🌱🦠🐇🦠🦊🦠 authors.elsevier.com/a/1jMW5cZ3X04wd Ever considered how invisible food webs exist within individuals? 🧵1/5

Huge congrats to Riley Hodgson for publishing his first PhD chapter on how aridity strengthens the core rhizosphere microbiome of kangaroo grass Thank you to all the funders and supporters of his work Read the open access paper here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited to share research from my first PhD chapter! “Increasing aridity strengthens core bacterial rhizosphere associations in the pan-palaeotropical C4 grass, Themeda triandra” 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.apso… Special thanks to my amazing coauthors and funding partners.

Yesterday saw the release of an exciting paper on cultural stewardship, led by Erana Walker. We explore how #Māori enact #kaitikaitanga in urban places, and engage in restoration, mixing quantitative and qualitative methods besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pa…

The Flinders University’ Most Wicked Problem Study will find out what matter most to Australians!! An extremely important national endeavour to identify the Nation’s most pressing challenges! Flinders University Newsroom Universities Australia Innovative Research Universities (IRU) Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia #7News #research Jason Clare MP 7NEWS Adelaide

There's great potential to improve ecosystem restoration by better harnessing soil microbes. For details on how and why, download our open access review: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Amazing lead Shawn Peddle, and thank you co-authors!

Happy to see my #PhD review chapter out today in Biological Reviews! We cover how soil microbes can facilitate #restoration success and highlight research priorities to improve their integration into practice. Check it out!

Join the Flinders University-SARDI collaboration as a PhD candidate to improve the climate resilience of crops. You will study plant-soil-microbe interactions in the field and lab. Stipend: $40k p.a. tax free for 3.5 years (Aus. & NZ citizens only). flinders.edu.au/scholarships/s…

🚨Publication day has finally arrived! Thrilled to announce the release of my new book, #Treewilding!🌳 It’s all about how to restore global forests and our connection with them. Please spread the word! 🙏 1/

Is #biology more than just #physics? Life must assess *benefits* & *drawbacks* to inform goal-directedness & behaviour But this intrinsic cognitive & subjective influence is overlooked as we try to explain everything via the lens of #physics Preprint: osf.io/preprints/osf/…

The #Science of Forest Bathing🌳🦠🧠🧬 Book your tickets here: events.humanitix.com/the-science-of…

position alert! come do your PhD on predicting microbiome-immune system interactions with me: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Po…

Monitoring soil fauna with #ecoacoustics! Our new review in Proc B: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Thanks to co-authors Amy Annells, Timothy R. Cavagnaro, Craig Liddicoat, Heidi Rogers, Alex Taylor & Martin Breed

Treewilding by Jake Robinson shows us that forests are much more than just trees. Besides several interesting questions, I particularly enjoyed his foray into why jays🐦could be saving the oaknuts🌰that they love to eat🌳 Find out more in my review of Treewilding for nature