Michaela A. Dippold
@michaeladippold.bsky.social
Geo-Biosphere Interactions (Prof @uni_tue: biogeochemist, microbial/soil ecologist): curious about biota driving element cycles and geo-bio-systems' trajectories - from single cell metabolism to global scale
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Does functional community structure mitigate the impacts of climatic anomalies on productivity in grasslands? In our next seminar, @danielahoss.bsky.social leverages 25 years of global grassland data from the sPlot database to examine this question.
Join us!
biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/de...
Join us!
biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/de...
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Does functional community structure mitigate the impacts of climatic anomalies on productivity in grasslands? In our next seminar, @danielahoss.bsky.social leverages 25 years of global grassland data from the sPlot database to examine this question.
Join us!
biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/de...
Join us!
biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/de...
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Precipitation legacy effects on soil microbiota facilitate adaptive drought responses in plants
Precipitation legacy effects on soil microbiota facilitate adaptive drought responses in plants - Nature Microbiology
Metagenomes from prairie soils in Kansas, USA, show how historical exposure to water stress impacts soil microorganisms and subsequently drought responses in plants.
www.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Precipitation legacy effects on soil microbiota facilitate adaptive drought responses in plants
Reposted by Michaela A. Dippold
New in Geoderma: "Soil carbon–phosphorus stoichiometry regulates microbe-mediated phosphorus turnover fluxes in a calcareous soil" by Yi Peng & Gu Feng. doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
New in Geoderma: "Soil carbon–phosphorus stoichiometry regulates microbe-mediated phosphorus turnover fluxes in a calcareous soil" by Yi Peng & Gu Feng. doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
Reposted by Michaela A. Dippold
Plant miRNAs influence soil bacterial growth and amino acid uptake, restructuring community composition
-in #ISMEComms
academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
-in #ISMEComms
academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
Plant miRNAs influence soil bacterial growth and amino acid uptake, restructuring community composition
Abstract. Plants and microbes use many strategies to acquire soil amino acids. Recent findings suggest that genes related to amino acid metabolism and tran
academic.oup.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Plant miRNAs influence soil bacterial growth and amino acid uptake, restructuring community composition
-in #ISMEComms
academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
-in #ISMEComms
academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
Reposted by Michaela A. Dippold
Bad news for large natural carbon sinks: "Our findings suggest the potential for a similar response to climate change by woody aboveground biomass in moist tropical forests globally, which could culminate in a long-term switch from carbon sinks to carbon sources."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source - Nature
A transition from carbon sink to source for the aboveground woody biomass of moist tropical Australian forests has occurred, driven by increasingly extreme climate anomalies.
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Bad news for large natural carbon sinks: "Our findings suggest the potential for a similar response to climate change by woody aboveground biomass in moist tropical forests globally, which could culminate in a long-term switch from carbon sinks to carbon sources."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pretty amazing experience - even as Franconian having visited many breweries, I learnt a lot today (maybe also, because many brewers avoid sharing the details 😅).
Now, the countdown towards the start of the @terra-cluster.org @unituebingen.bsky.social is on (counted by microbes): 🍻🥨🍺
Now, the countdown towards the start of the @terra-cluster.org @unituebingen.bsky.social is on (counted by microbes): 🍻🥨🍺
Event of the Day: Brewing the TERRA Kick-off Beer with, at & by Ronny Schöneberg:
A dark stout - perfect for the cold season - and just ready when #TERRA will come to life in January.
Very much looking forward to tasting this product of TERRA's first "microbial incubation at intermediate scale" 🍻🍺
A dark stout - perfect for the cold season - and just ready when #TERRA will come to life in January.
Very much looking forward to tasting this product of TERRA's first "microbial incubation at intermediate scale" 🍻🍺
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Pretty amazing experience - even as Franconian having visited many breweries, I learnt a lot today (maybe also, because many brewers avoid sharing the details 😅).
Now, the countdown towards the start of the @terra-cluster.org @unituebingen.bsky.social is on (counted by microbes): 🍻🥨🍺
Now, the countdown towards the start of the @terra-cluster.org @unituebingen.bsky.social is on (counted by microbes): 🍻🥨🍺
Reposted by Michaela A. Dippold
Protect academia in Sudan with global action | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Protect academia in Sudan with global action
Sudan’s civil war, which erupted in April 2023, has devastated the country’s universities. More than 10 million Sudanese people have been displaced, including tens of thousands of university staff and...
www.science.org
September 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Protect academia in Sudan with global action | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Michaela A. Dippold
Reposted by Michaela A. Dippold
#NewResearch
Precipitation legacy effects on soil microbiota facilitate adaptive drought responses in plants
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Precipitation legacy effects on soil microbiota facilitate adaptive drought responses in plants
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Precipitation legacy effects on soil microbiota facilitate adaptive drought responses in plants - Nature Microbiology
Metagenomes from prairie soils in Kansas, USA, show how historical exposure to water stress impacts soil microorganisms and subsequently drought responses in plants.
www.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
#NewResearch
Precipitation legacy effects on soil microbiota facilitate adaptive drought responses in plants
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Precipitation legacy effects on soil microbiota facilitate adaptive drought responses in plants
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Next #job hire: Our own PhD position within #MultiStress to be funded as KAAD scholarship @unituebingen.bsky.social is out: You're East African scholar interested in #maize #root & #rhizosphere traits +their response to #biotic & #abiotic stress? Ready to perform work in #Germany & #Kenya? APPLY NOW
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Next #job hire: Our own PhD position within #MultiStress to be funded as KAAD scholarship @unituebingen.bsky.social is out: You're East African scholar interested in #maize #root & #rhizosphere traits +their response to #biotic & #abiotic stress? Ready to perform work in #Germany & #Kenya? APPLY NOW
Reposted by Michaela A. Dippold
Reposted by Michaela A. Dippold
Fine root biomass depends on plant functional differences, not just more species
Sai Peng, Yakun Zhang, and Han Y. H. Chen
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Summary also available in Chinese.
#PlantScience
Sai Peng, Yakun Zhang, and Han Y. H. Chen
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Summary also available in Chinese.
#PlantScience
November 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Fine root biomass depends on plant functional differences, not just more species
Sai Peng, Yakun Zhang, and Han Y. H. Chen
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Summary also available in Chinese.
#PlantScience
Sai Peng, Yakun Zhang, and Han Y. H. Chen
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Summary also available in Chinese.
#PlantScience
Reposted by Michaela A. Dippold
Our work on mapping the dynamics of phospholipids during lateral root formation is now published in @jxbotany.bsky.social We show that PI(4,5)P₂ plays a key role: targeted reduction in pericycle promotes LR development.
→ academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
→ academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
November 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Our work on mapping the dynamics of phospholipids during lateral root formation is now published in @jxbotany.bsky.social We show that PI(4,5)P₂ plays a key role: targeted reduction in pericycle promotes LR development.
→ academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
→ academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
Reposted by Michaela A. Dippold
A long road to the Cover of Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization
Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...
www.science.org
October 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
A long road to the Cover of Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Great news: the #MultiStress team passed the review process - so we now search PhD candidates for #KAAD scholarships for our project on co-occuring biotic & abiotic stress in #maize. First, our central project @uni-goettingen.de @agrarunigoe.bsky.social needs sbd. highly interested in #metabolomics
November 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Great news: the #MultiStress team passed the review process - so we now search PhD candidates for #KAAD scholarships for our project on co-occuring biotic & abiotic stress in #maize. First, our central project @uni-goettingen.de @agrarunigoe.bsky.social needs sbd. highly interested in #metabolomics
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Die @ethz.ch -Professorin @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social
hat als erste Schweizerin den renommierten Deutschen #Umweltpreis der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) erhalten.
Ein Porträt von SRF nano (ab ca. Minute 16.40): www.srf.ch/play/tv/nano...
hat als erste Schweizerin den renommierten Deutschen #Umweltpreis der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) erhalten.
Ein Porträt von SRF nano (ab ca. Minute 16.40): www.srf.ch/play/tv/nano...
Schweizer Klimaforscherin erhält Deutschen Umweltpreis - nano - Play SRF
Die ETH-Forscherin Sonia Seneviratne wird für ihre bahnbrechende Forschung zur Bodenfeuchte und deren Einfluss auf Klimaextreme ausgezeichnet.
EU-Klimaziele 2040
Der Konflikt zwischen Industrie und Kl...
www.srf.ch
October 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Die @ethz.ch -Professorin @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social
hat als erste Schweizerin den renommierten Deutschen #Umweltpreis der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) erhalten.
Ein Porträt von SRF nano (ab ca. Minute 16.40): www.srf.ch/play/tv/nano...
hat als erste Schweizerin den renommierten Deutschen #Umweltpreis der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) erhalten.
Ein Porträt von SRF nano (ab ca. Minute 16.40): www.srf.ch/play/tv/nano...
Happy to announce that Sara Loftus successfully defended her PhD thesis @uni-goettingen.de. Starting from Day-1 of the #MoreCropPerDrop project, she performed excellent work in advancing our understanding of key #sorghum #belowground #root and #rhizosphere traits under #stress.
Very proud today 🍾.
Very proud today 🍾.
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Happy to announce that Sara Loftus successfully defended her PhD thesis @uni-goettingen.de. Starting from Day-1 of the #MoreCropPerDrop project, she performed excellent work in advancing our understanding of key #sorghum #belowground #root and #rhizosphere traits under #stress.
Very proud today 🍾.
Very proud today 🍾.
#JobAlert: Only 3 days left!
@terra-cluster.org is hiring our #DIVERSITORIUM manager: If you like the challenge to set up a globally unique geodiversity experiment & love field working managing plots with technical installations - here you are:
the @unihohenheim.bsky.social awaits your application!
@terra-cluster.org is hiring our #DIVERSITORIUM manager: If you like the challenge to set up a globally unique geodiversity experiment & love field working managing plots with technical installations - here you are:
the @unihohenheim.bsky.social awaits your application!
JOB ALERT: Become our #TERRA #DIVERSITORIUM manager @unihohenheim.bsky.social. If you have extraordinary coordination skills & feel dedicated to bring the first large-scale #geodiversity manipulation experiment to a global success: Please apply & become a #TERRAnaut, see uni-tuebingen.de/en/285483!
October 31, 2025 at 12:51 AM
#JobAlert: Only 3 days left!
@terra-cluster.org is hiring our #DIVERSITORIUM manager: If you like the challenge to set up a globally unique geodiversity experiment & love field working managing plots with technical installations - here you are:
the @unihohenheim.bsky.social awaits your application!
@terra-cluster.org is hiring our #DIVERSITORIUM manager: If you like the challenge to set up a globally unique geodiversity experiment & love field working managing plots with technical installations - here you are:
the @unihohenheim.bsky.social awaits your application!
Reposted by Michaela A. Dippold
What surprises me when it comes to the vaccine - perhaps because research is ongoing - is that more noise isn't made about this...
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
Study strengthens link between shingles vaccine and lower dementia risk
A new analysis of a vaccination program in Wales found that the shingles vaccine appeared to lower new dementia diagnoses by 20% — more than any other known intervention.
med.stanford.edu
October 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
What surprises me when it comes to the vaccine - perhaps because research is ongoing - is that more noise isn't made about this...
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
Reposted by Michaela A. Dippold
To preserve #biodiversity on a global scale, conservationists must more routinely use #PredictiveModels to assess which strategies succeed. Read the PNAS opinion: https://ow.ly/tkcj50XhElh
#ConservationBiology #GBF #ConventionOnBiologicalDiversity
#ConservationBiology #GBF #ConventionOnBiologicalDiversity
October 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
To preserve #biodiversity on a global scale, conservationists must more routinely use #PredictiveModels to assess which strategies succeed. Read the PNAS opinion: https://ow.ly/tkcj50XhElh
#ConservationBiology #GBF #ConventionOnBiologicalDiversity
#ConservationBiology #GBF #ConventionOnBiologicalDiversity
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Keen to come from China to Tübingen for a PhD? The 2026 CSC-Tübingen PhD scholarship call is open, including an opportunity to join our team to investigate soil phage ecology in synthetic communities uni-tuebingen.de/de/114003
China Scholarship Council Program
uni-tuebingen.de
October 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Keen to come from China to Tübingen for a PhD? The 2026 CSC-Tübingen PhD scholarship call is open, including an opportunity to join our team to investigate soil phage ecology in synthetic communities uni-tuebingen.de/de/114003
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JOB ALERT! We are looking for a LAB MANAGER (7-year position!) to help us build the MOLECULAR BIODIVERSITY lab in our @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Are you a NGS wet lab expert, and you like the idea of supporting research on natural biodiversity, then apply!
Please re-post!
Please re-post!
October 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
JOB ALERT! We are looking for a LAB MANAGER (7-year position!) to help us build the MOLECULAR BIODIVERSITY lab in our @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Are you a NGS wet lab expert, and you like the idea of supporting research on natural biodiversity, then apply!
Please re-post!
Please re-post!
Reposted by Michaela A. Dippold
⁉️ Gibt's im Boden eigentlich Red Flags für die Dates von #Mikroorganismen?
🤓 Ob der #Bodentyp oder die Pflanzenart ausschlaggebender ist für die Wohlfühlatmosphäre der Mikros, das erklärt euch Kathrin in der aktuellen Folge!
#Soilcast #Bodenkunde
🤓 Ob der #Bodentyp oder die Pflanzenart ausschlaggebender ist für die Wohlfühlatmosphäre der Mikros, das erklärt euch Kathrin in der aktuellen Folge!
#Soilcast #Bodenkunde
October 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
⁉️ Gibt's im Boden eigentlich Red Flags für die Dates von #Mikroorganismen?
🤓 Ob der #Bodentyp oder die Pflanzenart ausschlaggebender ist für die Wohlfühlatmosphäre der Mikros, das erklärt euch Kathrin in der aktuellen Folge!
#Soilcast #Bodenkunde
🤓 Ob der #Bodentyp oder die Pflanzenart ausschlaggebender ist für die Wohlfühlatmosphäre der Mikros, das erklärt euch Kathrin in der aktuellen Folge!
#Soilcast #Bodenkunde
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Sped-up #evolution may help #bacteria take hold in #gut #microbiome ...
| #microbes | #gastrointestinal | #brain | #immunesystem | By @cnsiatucla.bsky.social via @sciencex.bsky.social
| #microbes | #gastrointestinal | #brain | #immunesystem | By @cnsiatucla.bsky.social via @sciencex.bsky.social
Sped-up evolution may help bacteria take hold in gut microbiome
Everywhere you go, you carry a population of microbes in your gastrointestinal tract that outnumber the human cells making up your body.
phys.org
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Sped-up #evolution may help #bacteria take hold in #gut #microbiome ...
| #microbes | #gastrointestinal | #brain | #immunesystem | By @cnsiatucla.bsky.social via @sciencex.bsky.social
| #microbes | #gastrointestinal | #brain | #immunesystem | By @cnsiatucla.bsky.social via @sciencex.bsky.social
Would like to add a personal thanks: Incredibly great input - so many new aspects & alternative ideas to think about #geodiversity ⛰️🌧️
Whatever we #TERRAnauts will be able to realize out of that: this event brought essential contributions to the #Diversitorium.
Wish everybody a safe travel back 🚄✈️
Whatever we #TERRAnauts will be able to realize out of that: this event brought essential contributions to the #Diversitorium.
Wish everybody a safe travel back 🚄✈️
Just wrapped up our DIVERSITORIUM advisory meeting – thanks to our guests: Scott Collins, @clausbeier.bsky.social, @panemma.bsky.social, Bernhard Schmid, @inesmulder.bsky.social, Kai-Uwe Totsche, @holgerpagel.bsky.social, Hans-Peter Piepho & Christian Poll THANKS for all your great suggestions!
October 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Would like to add a personal thanks: Incredibly great input - so many new aspects & alternative ideas to think about #geodiversity ⛰️🌧️
Whatever we #TERRAnauts will be able to realize out of that: this event brought essential contributions to the #Diversitorium.
Wish everybody a safe travel back 🚄✈️
Whatever we #TERRAnauts will be able to realize out of that: this event brought essential contributions to the #Diversitorium.
Wish everybody a safe travel back 🚄✈️