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Dr. Jeroen H. T. Zethof
@jhtzethof.bsky.social
Postdoc at RPTU - Landau, studying the dynamic soil under changing conditions. Other interests besides Geosciences: History, Sailing & Travelling/Exploring
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PhD opportunity with me at University of Edinburgh linked with Forest Research, funded by E5 DTP.

On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network.

Pic: one of our Scottish sites.

e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
October 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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🚨 Job alert 🚨

Come work with us as a postdoc modelling the impacts of climate change on plant-soil interactions and C sequestration!

Apply here before the 3rd of December: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Check out this video of the project you will be working in: vimeo.com/1133112953?s...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Calling all #rootexudate enthusiasts!
Join our @egubg.bsky.social session (with Taryn Bauerle, @melaniebrunn.bsky.social, Maire Holz & Sami Ullah) at the @egu.eu 2026 General Assembly on exudate composition, function & persistence.
Submit by 15 Jan meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
November 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Had the pleasure of presenting our long-term data analysis on Norwegian soil under organic farming at the 1st EJP #C-arouNd project workshop @KNUST university, Kumasi, Ghana. Paper is just accepted and will be published soon
October 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Inigo Virto, Isabel de Soto, Rosa M Poch, and I will be convening a session at EGU 2026 entitled:

Soil Inorganic Carbon: The overlooked component of the carbon cycle.

Please pass on the advertisement to anyone that would be interested in the session and consider submitting an abstract!
October 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Had the great opportunity of sharing our work, as part of the C-arouNd consortium, on C (& N) dynamics at the German soil science meeting @soilsdbg.bsky.social in Tübingen.
September 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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We are seeking a new director for our institute:

Director (f/m/d) at the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences – Agrosphere (IBG-3) at Forschungszentrum Jülich @fz-juelich.de
with professorship (W3) in Terrestrial Systems Analysis
at the @unibonn.bsky.social University of Bonn

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August 27, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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📢 YPSS lunchtime program at #DBG2025!
🤝 Networking & discussions
🍽 Food & drinks provided
Grow your research network with us!
September 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Call for manuscripts - joint special Issue #Geoderma / #GeodermaRegional - "Tropical Soil Science: Bridging Knowledge Gaps in Biogeochemistry, Plant-Soil Interactions and Climate change Mitigation"
Geoderma: tinyurl.com/bdf2989c
Geoderma Regional: tinyurl.com/3yarxaan

photos: Sebastian Doetterl
August 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
It was great to be part of this project. Hereby the final piece on how a PGPR with defective biofilm formation still leads to increase in soil EPS contents (potentially due to cooperation with indigenous microbes)
Final piece of our DFG project published. Great collaboration between JKI and TU Dresden @agmicro-lab.bsky.social @jhtzethof.bsky.social
Under non-stressful plant conditions is the ability to form biofilm not essential for inoculant rhizocompetence. Result from our new published study 👇🏻
doi.org/10.1016/j.rh...
April 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Soil property maps for Europe at 100 m resolution released by ISRIC - World Soil Information in the framework of the EU HoliSoils project to inform forest management and policies.
holisoils.eu/soil-propert...
🧪🌍👇🌲🌳
#soilscience #soilhealth #soilmapping #forestsoil
Soil property maps for Europe at 100 m resolution will inform forest management and policies - HoliSoils
Forest soils provide important ecosystem services, such as biodiversity support, nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration, water regulation and erosion control.
holisoils.eu
March 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Freshly published: exciting work on the molecular composition of soil organic matter and associated energetic potentials as affected by manure application lead by
colleagues at #UFZLeipzig - big thank you! Never has it been so rewarding to sieve manure ;-)
Long-term effects of manure addition on soil organic matter molecular composition: Carbon transformation as a major driver of energetic potential
Long-term addition of farmyard manure supports the accumulation of microbial carbon (C) and soil organic matter (SOM), but the effects on energy stora…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Happy to share that my paper on creativity in research labs is out in the "Ten Simply Rules" article series.

Ten simple rules for fostering creativity in research labs

I hope you find it to be useful.

#AcademicSky

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Ten simple rules for fostering creativity in research labs
Research lab groups are hotspots for the education of the next generation of scientists, and making these units work as creatively as possible is essential for solving pressing issues in biology, the ...
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February 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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In this Perspective, we outline how #soil formation processes and complexity at the landscape scale can inform predictions of soil organic matter (SOM) cycling and soil #carbon sequestration.
Check out our new, invited paper on Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
January 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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I am a soil ecologist 🦠🧬🖤
But design is also one of my passions!

Here is my collection of crops and cover crops 🌱
s-ink.org/crops-and-co...

The collection is available under CC BY_NC_SA 4.0 licence via @s-ink.org
Crops and cover crops
A schematic collection of common crops and cover crops by Schroeder (2022).
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December 4, 2024 at 7:08 AM
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🚨 PhD Opportunity! 🌾
Join the DFG project MOFANE @TUBerlin
! Explore how crop residue management affect N₂O+N2 emissions using cutting-edge tools like 15N labeling & X-ray µCT imaging. 🌍
📍 Soil Science Berlin
🧪 GHG
🧩Soil Structure
Apply now: tinyurl.com/y6uek7dj
#PhD #SoilScience
Job Posting VI-641/24: Research Assistant - 0.65 working time - salary grade E 13 TV-L Berliner Hochschulen – Job Postings at Technische Universität Berlin
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November 15, 2024 at 12:52 PM
In my latest work we studied the legacy effect of 25 years reduced atmospheric sulphur deposition on Norway spruce tree nutrition.
Find out more in our open access paper, published in the Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil science:
doi.org/10.1002/jpln...
Legacy effect of 25 years reduced atmospheric sulphur deposition on spruce tree nutrition
Background Since the mid-1990s, sulphur (S) pollution was drastically reduced in Central Europe. Over time, this has led to a distinct reduction in S availability for Norway spruce (Picea abies Kars.....
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November 8, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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📣Registration open for the first edition of our #PhD immersive course on #carbon #farming on a dairy farm in France in September 2024 🐮! We seek to see, to witness, experience, and truly understand: what is carbon farming? ▶️ www.wur.nl/en/activity/...
April 3, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Happy to share our first paper on the legacy effect of past #sulphur pollution on #spruce forest. Here we focussed on the effects on #soil microbial biomass. Done during my postdoc time at @tudresden.bsky.social doi.org/10.3390/soil...
Effects of Past Sulfur Deposition on the Soil Microbial Biomass at Spruce Forest Sites
During the last decades, forest soils in Central Europe recovered from former sulfur and acid deposition. As external S input into forests has strongly decreased and legacy S pools in the soils are di...
doi.org
April 3, 2024 at 10:04 AM
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#SoilScientist Looking for a summer opportunity to meet up, explore #science #communication and enjoy a great excursion into the woods
Join our #SciComm workshop & excursion
On: Aug 22nd - 24th 2024
At: Thünen-Institute in Braunschweig
Link: thuenen.limequery.com/139176?lang=de
March 18, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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📣 YPSS #SciComm workshop & excursion
📆 Aug 22nd - 24th 2024
🗺️ Thünen-Institute in Braunschweig

Are you a #SoilScientist looking for some summer networking activity?
Join the #YoungProfessionalsSoilScience - a platform for exchange and skill development.

👇 links in thread
February 28, 2024 at 1:44 PM