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Soil health is associated with higher primary productivity🌲🎋📉 across Europe🇪🇺. Positive correlation between biodiversity indicators and productivity in copland, grassland and forest. Our article in #Nature: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Israel detonating thousands of bombs in Lebanon knowing that this will harm and kill children, civilians, medics and passersby going about their daily lives in markets and on the street is in fact an act of terrorism.

Tomohito Noda, Masaki Mizutani and other colleagues' interesting discovery of frequent asymmetric division observed among the Blattabacterium endosymbionts of cockroaches is now available online: doi.org/10.1128/aem.01…

One of my most challenging writing projects is finally out in Ecological Monographs "Global change experiments in mountain ecosystems: A systematic review" esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… A huge thanks to the Alpine Environment - Eurac Research crew who supported and contributed to this paper

R offers _thousands_ of packages. 🙈 I curated a list of the 47 best packages for #dataviz r-graph-gallery.com/best-dataviz-p… For each package: 🔎 In-depth description ⚡️ Main features with code 📖 Real-life examples from the gallery ➡️ Agree with my list? Which one is missing? 🤔

New paper out in collaboration with the lab of Team PME&BIM Caterpillar–parasitoid interactions: species-specific influences on host microbiome composition doi.org/10.1093/femsec… Thank you Gabriele for leading the project! 🦠🐛

Check out our latest preprint about insecticide resistance in 𝘔𝘺𝘻𝘶𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘦 collected from sweet pepper! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Beetles are masters at coopting microbial genes, enzymes & metabolites. In this Trends in Microbiology article, Marleny García Lozano & I review how microbes shaped one of the most successful animal radiations, thru horizontal gene transfer & symbiosis: cell.com/trends/microbi…

Camera trapping as a method for understanding insect predator–prey interactions: Gaetan Seimandi-Corda resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/af… [Photo from author Gaëtan Seimandi-Corda] #biocontrol #hunting #camera #sentinel #prey

We found a way to implant bacteria 🦠 in fungi 🍄and used it to induce artificial endosymbiosis. Read all about it in our newest research paper nature . nature.com/articles/s4158…

[#phimtraining] Ecology of microbial communities - Research School from 6 to 8 November 2024 with #MatthieuBarbier Plant Health Institute Montpellier Université de Montpellier @IntpNatura More details ➡️intp.science/content/microb…

This is a milestone!

📢📢📢RT: I am thrilled to share that our #research has been awarded funding by European Research Council (ERC) at INRAE 🎆 Anyone interested how #plants use volatiles to mediate #species interactions and protect themselves? Get in touch: we're seeking #postdocs and #PhD starting 2025

South of Gaza City: 2022 vs. last week Recent image via Planet

🔥New paper out in Science!!🔥 Science Magazine We found that a third of the seed dispersers and interactions face potential extinction, in Europe 🌿🌳🐦‍⬛🦆🌍 This was an incredibly challenging (and rewarding!) chapter of my PhD thesis! #seeddispersal science.org/doi/abs/10.112…

I'll be speaking virtually at the Microbiome Virtual International Forum on November 12. Register now to learn how the overlooked, selfish microbes and phages in the reproductive tract often exert more influence on host biology than their gut counterparts cassyni.com/s/mvif-33

The ethnic cleansing of Gaza is now official policy: No Palestinians will be allowed to live in N. Gaza theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…