🪱🐜 🐛 🪳 🐌 Join our SOIL FAUNA session at EGU2026! Excited to team up with Dmytro Monoshyn, Marion Mittmannsgruber & Gerrit Angst. Looking forward to catching up, or getting to know you and your work! 🪱🐜 🐛 🪳 🐌

Three days of fieldwork for ReGeNL with a fantastic team: Lyanne, Anne, Yana & Felix!
Fieldwork is a rare treat these days, definitely worth celebrating 😛
Lots of curious animals 🐄🐖🐓🐕 and plenty of earthworm pits 🪱😅.
Loved sampling such diverse farms!

📢 Our book chapter "Macrofauna as indicators of soil health: earthworms & enchytraeids" is out with Burleigh Dodds! 🪱
🔗 www.bdspublishing.com/open-access/
📩 DM me for full chapter. Print edition coming end of year!
Thanks to a great team @jwvangroenigen.bsky.social @tulca.bsky.social and more 🙌!

😊🙏 Just back from a week in Normandy for our Grounding Carbon Farming course 🐄

Lectures, farm visits, Calvados tasting 😄, fieldwork, games, interviews & great food, in a stunning landscape 🤩

With Gabriel Moinet, Ina Moller, Federico Andreotti, Claire Chenu, Roman Huppi
Emma Verweij for the pics 📸

•📢 🪱 🎉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...

🎓 Very proud of Enno Sonntag ✨🥳 for successfully defending his PhD last week about Earthworm Farming 🪱 for Circular Food Systems 🔁. A truly original and multidisciplinary topic.

📄 Curious about his work?
lnkd.in/eGPMPN-Q
lnkd.in/e5Vknkif
📸 Luc Vietanh Soto
Well done, Enno! 🥳

#Train2EGU from Wageningen 🇳🇱 to Vienna 🇦🇹 @egu.eu. Let's see if I am lucky with connections 😬🙏🏻

👋 Heading to #EGU25 tomorrow! Excited to catch up with many of you. Will be talking about earthworms🪱, roots, AMF and how they shape soil phosphorus and carbon cycling🌱!

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
Soil, rhizosheath formation, and maize 🌱🌽.
Congrats to Franziska 🥳 for a fantastic piece of her PhD work! Rewarding to see results from this challenging field experiment with rainout shelters 😅
Check it out
➡️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📣Curious about quantifying earthworm activity 🪱 easily and effectively? Hint: use sugar 😛! Check out our latest paper, led by the brilliant Peter Garamszegi, co-supervised by @jwvangroenigen.bsky.social, @mhagens.bsky.social and Tullia Calogiuri #OpenAccess!
▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It was great to step out of our offices and scientific bubble to engage in discussions with these incredibly inspiring artists 🎇 ! Naturally, the conversation revolved around one of my favorite topics: EARTHWORMS 🪱😍. Can’t wait for the next session. Thanks Emilie, Nina and Nienke 🙏!

📣A few spots left for our #PhD course on Resource Use Efficiency #agriculture with PEandRC/WUR 🐮💧🌽. Nitrogen and water across scale: plant/soil/field/farm with Katrin Descheemaeker, Florian Wichern, Gerlinde De Deyn, Francisco Pinto, Franca Bongers etc. ▶️https://www.pe-rc.nl/resource-use-efficiency

📣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/...

Big congratulations to the PhD candidate Andreas Wild 🤩
for leading this great work on root and rhizosphere traits -Implications for soil resource acquisition and drought adaptation. Published in Plant, Cell & Environment. Happy to be part of this adventure ! doi.org/10.1111/ele....

📣Happy that our review on soil structure formation in the rhizosphere, led by @cwmsoils.bsky.social, is out
in the Soil Biology and Biochemistry Journal! This has been a long journey, but we made it 😆! doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

📣CONGRATS Franziska Steiner for her FIRST first author paper in New Phytologist! Extremely Proud Supervisor 🤩. 🌽🌿💧 Rhizosheath drought responsiveness is variety‐specific and a key component of belowground plant adaptation - Steiner - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library

📣Another nice ROOT story led by Pedro Teixeira in Geoderma Journal 🥳🌿💧🌟! Happy to be part of this adventure together with, among others, @cwmsoils.bsky.social @edithhammer.bsky.social ➡️Open access🔓https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016706124000405?via%3Dihub

First post on BSky 👋
📣Happy to see the website of SOM2024 available 😀!
Deadline for abstract submission December 19, 2023
▶️https://www-eur.cvent.com/c/abstracts/4ea075bc-f6c1-4b2e-a6d5-d44965632121