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Michael ヘビ Steinwandter
@msteinwandter.bsky.social
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🪱 (high) alpine soil ecologist/zoologist at @euracalpenv.bsky.social & #AlpSoil_Lab
💚 environmentalist: www.1khopes.org & www.climateaction.bz
🏔️ hiking guide & mountaineer & adventurer in Alpine mountains (eg #Dolomites)
https://linktr.ee/msteinwandter
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bes-soilecogroup.bsky.social
Postcards from the Field 📬📧🌿

Can you beat this?😲 Send us your best fieldwork photo for a chance to feature in this month's newsletter.

Featured: Arthur Broadbent shoveling snow for a snow manipulation experiment near Vent in the Austrian Alps (photo credit: Michael Bahn) doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
February 6, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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tshahan.bsky.social
...a few more to illustrate the morphological diversity of staphyliniform beetles 🤩

🐜ant-like stone beetle, Scydmaenus, under log, Oklahoma
🫓flipped Eurylister carolinus, a flattened hister beetle, OK
✨sleek scaphidiine "Shining Fungus Beetle", OK
🤏TINY Ptinella sp feather-winged beetle, OK
January 19, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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mrdjournal.bsky.social
A new article by Jean Miczka and colleagues analyzes how mountain huts in the western European Alps are being adapted to climate change, what the challenges are, and how adaptation could be improved. Recommendations include ensuring long-term coordination. Find out more: doi.org/10.1659/mrd....
Saleinaz Mountain Hut in the Swiss Alps is perched high above a steep slope, facing the cliffs and glaciers of Mont Dolent. The hut is small and built of stone, with a metal roof and two wooden extensions attached. Next to it is a small terrace with two tables and a few chairs. Photo by Jean Miczka.
January 13, 2026 at 10:03 AM
msteinwandter.bsky.social
So, as sympathy for the US (government!) and its big tech and #broligarchs decreases (again and again)...

... let us #MEGA (make Europe great again) and use European tools! Break free from US-tech. ;) 🇪🇺

1️⃣ euroalternative.co
2️⃣ www.goeuropean.org
Discover European Alternatives to Big Tech Companies – EuroAlternative
Keep your data in Europe, support local innovation, and simplify business operations. Our directory connects you with European digital service providers.
euroalternative.co
January 9, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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ingwarpero.bsky.social
Morgen erscheint meine erste Doku. CYCLING CITIES. Es geht um die schönsten Fahrradstädte Europas, um die Gegenwart, aber auch um die Vergangenheit und wie Städte wie Amsterdam & Utrecht so geworden sind, wie sie heute aussehen. Ich freu mich sehr, wenn ihr den Film anschaut. Ab Morgen auf Youtube😊
December 12, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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soilorganismsj.bsky.social
📢 Call for Collaborators!

Interested in Isopods? Check out this call in Soil Organisms by Konstantin Gongalsky and colleagues @msteinwandter.bsky.social @soilscholar.bsky.social

soil-organisms.org/SO/article/v...
OniscidBase: A call for contributions to a global database to advance terrestrial isopod research | Soil Organisms
soil-organisms.org
December 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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eliaguariento.bsky.social
Want to work on biodiversity in the Alps? ⛰️

We are offering several internship positions for the upcoming spring and summer in collaboration with the Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol 🕷️🦋🦇🐜🌼🦗🪱

biodiversity.eurac.edu/interns-want...
Interns wanted! - Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol
biodiversity.eurac.edu
December 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
msteinwandter.bsky.social
Congratulations to our former #MSCA fellow and microbial ecologist Magdalena Nagler for being one of three winners of the Junior Research Award South Tyrol. 🦠🏅🏞️

Looking forward for new collaborations and insights in #eDNA of soils.

scholar.google.at/citations?us...
Still of microbial ecologist Magdalena Nagler in her winning video for the Junior Research Award South Tyrol. Microbial ecologist Magdalena Naglee presenting her research on soil respiration and eDNA. Microbial ecologist Magdalena Nagler (left) and her former supervisor Julia Seeber (right) and former peer Michael Steinwandter (centre).
December 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Just a girl and her bundle of baby clones she's wearing like an ass turban 🥹
My population of Schizomida (parthenogenic tailless whipscorpions) are so happy in their box of dirt. As always, tending a box of dirt is such a good decision and I recommend it.
Small light brown arachnid with thin legs and red spiky palps; her cylindrical abdomen is held vertical and just the tip is peeking out from a dozen or so ghostly white babies wrapped around it, facing downward
February 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
msteinwandter.bsky.social
Very happy to be part of and to see this review on #Oniscidea (woodlice, terrestrial #Isopoda) published in @soilorganismsj.bsky.social .

Many thanks to Konstantin Gongalsky & Pallieter De Smedt for leading this! 🎊

Read/download the review: doi.org/10.25674/466
Have data? SHARE THEM!

#OniscidBase
Screenshot of the title and authors of the new review and data call paper on Oniscidae (terrestrial isopods, woodlice) and the new network called 'OniscidBase'. Overview of 16 photos of terrestrial isopods (woodlice, Oniscidea) taken from the review on the new network 'OniscidBase'.
December 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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wslresearch.bsky.social
#PostDoc Alert! PhD in #Biology or #EnvironmentalSciences? Strong background in #ForestEcology, DNA-based biodiversity assessments, #Bioinformatics, and experimental planning? Our #ForestEntomology Group offers a 2-year #PostDoc position 🌳🧬💻: apply.refline.ch/273855/1798/... #ScienceJobs #eDNA
Job offer: PostDoc in “Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in European forests in the face of global changes” 80-100% (f/m/d) The aim of the projects is to investigate the impact of global changes on temperate forests toward designing management plans that allows ecosystem resilience and high levels of biodiversity. Within these projects, you will develop standard and more efficient ecological monitoring methodologies to understand how different aspects of biodiversity and/or associated ecosystem processes, in particular deadwood decomposition, in forests are altered by global change factors such as climate change, disturbances, and management-induced structural changes at different spatial and temporal scales. Through this research, you will gain a better mechanistic understanding of these relationships as a basis for predicting future changes related to management decisions and climate change. To measure biodiversity, you will use cutting-edge DNA-based methods, such as e-DNA metabarcoding of fungi, from soil and dead wood, and detecting arthropods and mammals from vegetation surfaces. Data on biodiversity and forest functions will be analyzed in an interdisciplinary manner. Depending on your skills and expertise, you can focus on more technical aspects of biodiversity quantification using eDNA, fundamental ecological research questions on modelling ecosystem processes or the more applied design of management practices. You are expected to publish your findings in high-impact journals and present them at international conferences. You hold a PhD degree in Biology or Environmental Sciences or in a related field and have a strong background forest ecology, in DNA-based biodiversity assessments (e-DNA metabarcoding), bioinformatics and multivariate statistical analyses, and/or experimental planning. Furthermore, we expect very good knowledge in R programming, a good command of English, as well as strong skills in scientific paper writing.
November 28, 2025 at 7:38 AM
msteinwandter.bsky.social
Jungforscher:innen, aufgepasst!
Der #Nationalpark #HoheTauern vergibt mehrere Forschungsstipendien. Also wer gerne im Gebirge forscht und/oder dort unterwegs sein will, sollte sich das ansehen.

--> hohetauern.at/de/forschung...

#NPHT #MountainScience #YoungResearcher #Scholarship
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
msteinwandter.bsky.social
Give it a try :)
the-scienceos.bsky.social scienceOS @the-scienceos.bsky.social · Nov 20
"As active user of ScienceOS, I am consistently impressed by the quality and accuracy of the results. The RAG system prevents misinformation and ensures reliable and precise sources. I consider it the optimal solution for the scientific field." - Sören Stöckel, Research Associate & Project Manager
November 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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melvinopolka.bsky.social
It feels like Christmas has come early. After the @monitant.bsky.social team has been working busily in forests across the continent, samples from all over Europe are now arriving. Time to unwrap some data about red wood ants. 🐜🎁
November 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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jorainer.bsky.social
📣 join in my team 🤗!

👇
- #rstats software development
- contribute to @bioconductor.bsky.social and @galaxyproject.bsky.social
- large-scale #MassSpectrometry #metabolomics and #proteomics data analysis
- hiking ⛰️

📍 Bolzano, 🇮🇹
⏲️ 3 year position

🔗 full description: bit.ly/4pyXi3V

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Researcher in Software Development for Large-Scale Mass Spectrometry Data Analysis (MetaRbolomics4Galaxy)
Eurac Research · Bozen/Bolzano
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November 17, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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alixvidal.bsky.social
•📢 🪱 🎉Abstract submissions are now OPEN for the upcoming 13th International Symposium on Earthworm Ecology (ISEE13) — hosted in Wageningen, from August 23–28, 2026!
➡️https://event.wur.nl/isee13/author

•🔗🪱🌍 Discover the speaker lineup and our initial program: ➡️ event.wur.nl/isee13/new-p...
September 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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krystofchytry.bsky.social
Thanks @jlembrechts.bsky.social for this blog post about our new Oikos paper! Love your blog. :-)
jlembrechts.bsky.social Jonas Lembrechts @jlembrechts.bsky.social · Nov 11
How to not be swamped by your microclimate data?

The rise of microclimate data may have opened Pandora’s box. Gone are the days of simple bioclimatic variables — now heads spin trying to summarize these timeseries.

A much-needed paper by @krystofchytry.bsky.social:

🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/11/11/h...
How to not be swamped by your microclimate data
Microclimate data are finally finding their way more routineously into ecological models – and rightly so. Hooray for that! The growing availability of in-situ measurements is helping us brid…
the3dlab.org
November 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
msteinwandter.bsky.social
Very helpful preprint from on "Standardised protocols for soil fauna extraction and a call for cross-lab implementation" 🪱🕷️🐞

doi.org/10.22541/au....

#SoilFauna #SoilBiodiversity #SoilLabs #Soil
November 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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vincentfelde.bsky.social
Today, I had a lot of fun at my daugther's elementary school, where I talked about the importance of healthy soils and the beauty of soil organisms (which is easy if one has the fantastic photos of @frankashwood.bsky.social). Next generation of soil scientists is secured I hope 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
msteinwandter.bsky.social
"Happy" to see that Europe's commitment is visible in this graph. However, overall, we might lose the race...
November 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
msteinwandter.bsky.social
Identifying soil insect larvae is tricky sometimes. The next time I get a comment by a reviewer asking "Why only to family level?" I send him/her this photo. 😋

Left a Hydrophilidae larva (#Coleoptera), without legs...
Right a Scatopsidae larva (#Diptera)...

#entomology #SoilBiodiversity #insects
November 2, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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annekempel.bsky.social
Great PhD position available at University of Stirling, with some field work also in the Swiss Alps 🏔️ If you are interested in soil biodiversity and functioning have a look 👇
irene-cordero.bsky.social Irene Cordero @irene-cordero.bsky.social · Oct 22
Amazing PhD opportunity at the University of Stirling! Don't miss this chance. Amazing supervisors (Arthur Broadbent and @jasubke.bsky.social ) and a strong collaboration team including Lindsay Newbold, @annekempel.bsky.social and myself :)
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
October 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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guypeer.bsky.social
Open Letter by scientists to the Council:
"Climate Neutrality Is Europe’s Greatest Economic Opportunity”.
Ahead of the European Council meeting on 23.10.2025,
2,178 scientists urge EU Heads of States & Governments to take ambitious decisions for the 2040 targets.
zenodo.org/records/1739...
October 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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frankashwood.bsky.social
Pleased to be part of this important letter led by @cmarin.bsky.social @thegsbi.bsky.social, calling for greater global action to protect soil biodiversity! A timely publication also because today is #WorldEarthwormDay 🌍🪱
plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social Plants, People, Planet @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social · Oct 20
.@cmarin.bsky.social and 127 co-authors present a global call to strengthen national #SoilBiodiversity action, in an #OpenLetter to policymakers at 27th meeting of the @unbiodiversity.bsky.social SBSTTA taking place in Panamá City this week.

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#SBSTTA27
A quote from the article. Text reads: "The decline of soil biodiversity has visible and growing consequences. The science is clear, the frameworks exist, and the need for action is urgent."
October 21, 2025 at 7:26 AM