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Matthias C. Rillig
@mrillig.bsky.social
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Professor, ecology, FU Berlin, own views, book author
Global change, soil, fungi, environment, microplastic, biodiversity 🧪
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 1d
Newsletter for this week is out:

How many years into the future will people read our scientific output?
Is it 5 years, 10 years, or a hundred years? Should we care?

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How many years into the future will people read our scientific output?
Is it 5 years, 10 years, or a hundred years? Should we care?
matthiasrillig.substack.com

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 1d
It intends to describe that this is a global-scale study on soils (without necessarily implying that this was covering the full globe, since there aren't the data to do that).

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 1d
New paper just out in Science Advances, led by Humboldt fellow Yongxing Cui in the lab:

Productivity-driven decoupling of microbial carbon use efficiency and respiration across global soils

@fubcp.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @humboldt-foundation.de

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Productivity-driven decoupling of microbial carbon use efficiency and respiration across global soils
Resource-dependent microbial adaptability decouples microbial growth from respiration and limits soil carbon storage.
www.science.org

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 1d
Ich kenne die Regeln nicht wie das entschieden wird, denke aber für so etwas müsste sich das Buch vielleicht besser verkaufen?

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 1d
Link to the paper:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Global change factors differ in effect when acting alone and in a multi-factor background - Nature Communications
Urban soils are exposed to numerous human-driven stressors that can interact in unpredictable ways. This study concludes that the impact of adding one factor does not correspond to the impact of remov...
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Reposted by Francis Martin

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 1d
Press release of @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social for our recent paper in Nature Communications.

The Hidden Risk of Combined Stressors for Soils

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The Hidden Risk of Combined Stressors for Soils
New study by researchers at Freie Universität published in “Nature Communications” shows that independent environmental stressors such as heat, drought, and microplastics affect soils differently when...
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 1d
Nicht dass ich wüsste...

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 1d
I am not sure yet what language it will be and for what age group. There are a lot of different ideas....

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 1d
My hometown newspaper (Die Rheinpfalz) has a story about my new book "Mutter Erde". (D, €)

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Neues Buch über Erdboden: Wie ein Sohn Speyers gegen dessen „Imageproblem“ kämpft - Speyer
Biologie-Professor Matthias Rillig aus Speyer veröffentlicht gemeinsam mit Co-Autor Jörg Blech sein erstes Buch: „Mutter Erde“, eine Liebeserklärung ...
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 2d
The summary:

Big fan of trying out new things like this, and it was a very interesting read - kudos to the authors.

Didn't understand the math; and were in the end unsure of the heuristic value of having these clusters of the PTBT identified.
Discussed if this is possible to do for fungi...

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you! Yes, getting those first hires right is hard, but super critical...

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 2d
Pressemitteilung der @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social zu unserem Paper in Nature Communications:

Warum scheinbar harmlose Einflüsse Böden schädigen können

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Warum scheinbar harmlose Einflüsse Böden schädigen können
Neue Nature-Studie von Forschenden der Freien Universität Berlin zeigt: Erwärmung von Böden, Trockenheit und Umweltverschmutzung wirken im Zusammenspiel oft anders als einzeln
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 3d
We find that effect direction can flip for a factor depending on a multi-factor background.
This means that in restoration, priority should be given to mitigating factors with the strongest negative influence in multi-stressor contexts, rather than targeting the ones with the worst direct effect.

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 3d
New paper out in Nature Communications, jointly first-authored by lab members Rebecca Rongstock and Huiying Li!

Global change factors differ in effect when acting alone and in a multi-factor background

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 4d
Thanks! Glad you find the videos helpful! 😁

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 4d
Reading in journal club

Hoffert et al.
Constructing a “periodic table” of bacteria to map diversity in trait space

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Constructing a “periodic table” of bacteria to map diversity in trait space
Abstract. Despite an ever-expanding number of bacterial taxa being discovered, many of these taxa remain uncharacterized with unknown traits and environmen
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 8d
Here is the free share link: rdcu.be/eYabk
Client Challenge
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 8d
It's been great to work with you on this paper! Happy to see it out in print! 😁

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 8d
Our new Commentary is just out in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment:

Constraining the effect of global change on antifungal resistance

Written with current & former postdocs Wei, Guanghui and Changchao.

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 8d
Extending the concept of climate-change resilient landscapes:

Global change resilient landscapes
What do you think about this?
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Global change resilient landscapes
Going beyond climate change again....
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 9d
Cool!

Reposted by Matthias C. Rillig

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Noah Fierer @noahfierer.bsky.social · 10d
New paper up - inspired by the periodic table of the elements, we attempted to organize bacterial diversity in genome-inferred trait space academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
Constructing a “periodic table” of bacteria to map diversity in trait space
Abstract. Despite an ever-expanding number of bacterial taxa being discovered, many of these taxa remain uncharacterized with unknown traits and environmen
academic.oup.com