The first cycling trip in 2022🚴‍♀️🏞✌️

My TEDx talk is online! Everything you ever wanted to know about plant-soil microbe interactions and how important they are for the global carbon cycle! ted.com/talks/francisk… via TED Talks

Lovely episode about how soils are affected by plant-microbe interactions, with, among others, Richard Bardgett and Matthias C. Rillig - very comforting listening! bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

Another opportunity to work with us! FULLY funded #PhD in our lab with Dr. Filipa Cox, Prof David Johnson, & Dr. Nadia Barsoum. Looking at the role that #fungi play in tree resilience to #globalchange! A great opp to help translate research to practical applications! #ecology #soil

Our article from our Soil Security Team Natural Environment Research Council project is out in Nature Communications. I am so lucky to have worked with such an amazing team! @JM_Lavallee Prof David Johnson Soil Ecology Lab UoM Prof. Franciska de Vries 🦠🍄🪱🌱🍂🌍 Mark Emmerson @Tancredi_Caruso Dr Matthew Magilton Jenny Rhymes Liz Baggs and Nil Alvarez-Segura🧵

How can we measure microbial activity in the soil? Read this new work about a novel soil decomposition sensor led by Madhur Atreya, with our own Richard Bargett & Shangshi Liu 上石: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad… #soil #SoilHealth #microbiology #Ecology

How can we better protect our soils & the #biodiversity within them? This new paper in Science Magazine discusses how policy should reflect the connectedness of soils & the impacts of human activities across borders #savesoil #soil #soilsci Diana Wall doi-org.manchester.idm.oclc.org/10.1126/scienc…

Our new NatureClimate is out! #Biofunlab IRNAS Sevilla UA Pablo de Olavide Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide nature.com/articles/s4155… Amazing work Matthias C. Rillig (currently sabbatical @OIST) w/van der Heijden Lab Miguel Berdugo Ferran Leho Tedersoo Edu Moreno Jiménez &+!

#PhDposition #1: plant-soil feedbacks & their contributions to plant stress tolerance in range-shifting plant species: findaphd.com/phds/project/p…

#PhDposition #2: how species' #geography predicts their responses to #globalchange & the effectiveness of conservation efforts: findaphd.com/phds/project/l…

What are the impacts of defoliation & fertilisation on grassland #plant traits? A new paper led by Yan Liu shows opposing effects on root traits & their regulation of #soil #ecosystem functioning! W/ Irene Cordero & Richard Bardgett besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Exciting #PhD opportunity 📢👀 uncovering climate change effects on nature's undertakers 💀🪲& what it means for microbes 🦠🔬& nutrient cycling. Based at University of St Andrews with Natalie Pilakouta Dr. Sheena Cotter Forest Research & our own @arthurbroadbent! iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships/u…

Very happy to be sharing our new paper now published in New Phytologist with Prof David Johnson Soil Ecology Lab UoM and Agnes Ardanuy nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

How does land management impact #microbial communities & their role in #ecosystem functions under #drought? Check out our findings in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s4146… Led by @JM_Lavallee, w/ Mathilde Chomel ManuDelgadoBaquerizo @Tancredi_Caruso Prof. Franciska de Vries 🦠🍄🪱🌱🍂🌍 Prof David Johnson & more! #soil

How does defoliation impact #belowground communities and their ability to improve #plant resilience to #drought? New paper led by Tianyang Xu reveals that defoliation can suppress beneficial mycorrhizal fungi-plant interactions under drought! Read it here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🎉 Exciting new paper from our long-term #Alpine 🏔 field site showing #climatechange disruption of seasonal N-cycling. Lots to unpick & just out in Global Change Biology: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… led by @arthurbroadbent w/ great collaborators Functional Ecology: UIBK Research Group UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology COMI | HMGU

“She always cared about other scientists, and was eager to learn about their research and their lives outside work. She has supported many people in their careers or during difficult times. Rarely do people touch as many lives as Diana did” ❤️ nature.com/articles/d4158…

Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events We’re out in Nature!! doi.org/ntzk Very exciting – it’s been a long haul by a great team, led by Prof. Franciska de Vries 🦠🍄🪱🌱🍂🌍 Earth Sciences at the University of Manchester The University of Manchester with excellent collaborators, also Soil Ecology Lab UoM Microbial Evolution Research Manchester (MERMan)

Climate impacts on European soils predicted by scientists Our paper’s out nature ! Read about it here: manchester.ac.uk/about/news/cli… Or the original here: doi.org/ntzk With Prof. Franciska de Vries 🦠🍄🪱🌱🍂🌍 and many others

Excited to share our recent paper in Nature Communications! Using a long-term grassland restoration experiment, we show that combining multiple targeted interventions can maximise the benefits of restoration. nature.com/articles/s4146…