Eco-evolutionary insights into microbial litter decomposition
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#Commentary by Shao and Sulman highlighting the recent work by Chakrawal et al.
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OPINION
Microbial evolution—An under-appreciated driver of soil carbon cycling

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New paper out where we ask what bacteria are capable of flagellar motility and what factors select for motility in soil bacterial communities academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-…

📢 Announcing our latest SPECIAL ISSUE!

Mycorrhizal research now: from the micro- to the macro-scale

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🍄 The #mycorrhizal symbiosis: research frontiers
🍄 Microbe-dependent and independent nutrient acquisition
🍄 The #hyphosphere core #microbiome

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY

We are pleased to invite applications for two 2024 Patience Cowie Fellowships.

🗓️ The application deadline is May 9, 2024.

Click the link below to learn more about the roles:
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#UniversityofEdinburgh #fellowship #phdstudent

Take advantage of the early bird deadline and join us in Cape Town. We’ve put together a fantastic program and this will be THE best ISME meeting! If you don’t register, you’ll be posting #fomo in August :-)

Unbelievable stupidity all round, well done everyone - the worst people in Scotland are delighted

The Bute House agreement is over, but rent controls can not be allowed to go with it. Rent controls are a hugely needed policy to address Scotland's housing crisis.

If the SNP wants the backing of tenants they will keep their commitment to renters and the policies that we need.

Greens response to end of Bute House Agreement.

'The most reactionary and backwards-looking forces within the First Minister’s party have forced him to do the opposite of what he himself had said was in Scotland’s best interests.'

Check our new work about soil inorganic carbon Science Magazine led by Yuanyuan Huang! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

First ever revealed giant global SIC storage to 2m 👉 ~2300 billion tons

Past overlooked huge impact 👉 Annually ~1 billion tons SIC lost to inland water

Nature now charges $12,290 US to publish a single article open access. Shall we list some things that cost less than that? I'll go first: a 2017 BMW 330i sedan, a 7-day cruise for a family of four, six Louis Vuitton purses. 🤪

‼️NEW PAPER: Is agroecology being co-opted? Short answer: YES (1/5)

#Biogeochemical hotspots ( #fertile #islands ) paper out in Nature Plants. Dryland plant islands are critically important for sustaining functional soils; larger islands better; no grazing effects UNSW Science ManuDelgadoBaquerizo Fernando T. Maestre Jingyi_arideco

🚨🚨 My NC State Crop & Soil Sciences Department NC State University is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Soil Microbial Ecology! Deadline for application: June 28, 2024.
Apply here: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/200116
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Our AMI LAM-Early Career Scientist symposium will take place in Bristol on May 15th and the deadline to submit your abstract is next Monday April 15th. Looking forward to seeing many of you there! Applied Microbiology International AMI_LAMJournal

Excited to share our new meta-analysis in New Phytologist 🥳. Spoiler: presence of mycorrhizal fungi was associated with a 6.7% increase in decomposition . Thanks Dr. Kathleen Treseder for your support!
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Ever since Brexit I’ve wanted to write this book. Very excited that this time next week it will finally be published! We need better stories about who we are than the exceptionalism & imperial nostalgia of the Right. This is hopefully a start url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/eegdCGv3jf18…

🚨 BREAKING: Our research reveals England could produce 13 TIMES MORE renewable energy, using less than 3% of land!

We could power 83 MILLION homes with clean energy, and end our reliance on fossil fuels...

Congratulations to Jane Reid, who has been awarded EUR2.5million by the European Research Council (ERC) to lead a team in predicting how seabird populations on the east coast of Scotland will respond to increasingly extreme seasonal weather conditions bit.ly/3PUnRkz #ERCAdG

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First-of-its-kind global analysis

Size, distribution, and vulnerability of the global soil inorganic carbon.

Outstanding work by Yuanyuan Huang ++

Just published:
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