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Marcus Schiedung
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Biogeochemist and soil scientist working as PostDoc at Thünen Institute, Germany. Focus on soil-plant and climate interactions, soil spectroscopy and organic matter quality. Web: www.marcusschiedung.science
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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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📢 New pub: Defining #soil science: Balancing fundamental research and societal needs, in Soil Science Society of America Journal doi.org/10.1002/saj2...
@teamrat.bsky.social & I argue, soil science, though crucial for solving environmental challanges, should not be defined solely by its applications
April 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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@Soil Scientist & Soil Lovers: Early bird deadline of the #DBG2025 @unituebingen.bsky.social is approaching: 4th May. Check our exciting programm about #HealthySoilsClimateProtection at www.dbg2025.de/en/programme... + many offered excursions www.dbg2025.de/en/excursion... by @soilsdbg.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Are you at #EGU25 next week?

Join our soil sessions and meet us there 😊

I will also present our first German Agricultural Soil Inventory results.

See you soon and I am looking forward to all the discussions.
April 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Attending #EGU @egu.eu & care about mental health & diversity in academia? Join our Union Symposium Monday, 16:15–18:00 in Room E1. Co-organized with @polarocean.bsky.social @geocarolina.bsky.social Sabine Hörnig and Anita Di Chiara. Read more on @lucialayr.bsky.social blog post @egubg.bsky.social
Highlighted event: Opening up about Mental Health across Career Stages in the Geosciences
EGU 2025 is almost upon us! While a highlight of the year for many scientists, a big conference like this can also come with feelings of stress or anxiety for many. (If that’s you – you are not alone!...
blogs.egu.eu
April 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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I am looking forward #EGU25!

Join us on "Soil Carbon and Global Change" - Tue meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

Discuss respiration rate pitfalls X4.191 - Wed meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...

Meet the editors! - Thu meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
April 24, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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About two years ago I made a series of three videos about toxic workplaces in academia.

Consider the possibility that you might end up in such a place as real, plan accordingly, and do your research to avoid getting into such a situation.

Hope this helps someone...

youtu.be/VUXz9EJMAbo
Toxic labs: what are they and why you should avoid them. #phdlife #academia #mentalhealth
YouTube video by Life in academia
youtu.be
April 16, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Finally, managed to get my bsky account online: looking forward to sharing exiting news - from cool publications and projects of our #GeoBioInt group @unituebingen.bsky.social up to the upcoming #DBG2025 of the @soilsdbg.bsky.social, taking place @unituebingen.bsky.social in Sept 25. Stay tuned!
April 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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DWD-Fakten zur aktuellen #Trockenheit in #Deutschland: Noch nie seit Beginn der Auswertung 1931 war es in Deutschland im Zeitraum von Anfang Februar bis Mitte April so trocken wie 2025. Mehr Details auch zu #Europa in der heutigen Pressemitteilung unter www.dwd.de/presse
April 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Congratulations to Xavier Dupla, Ph.D. candidate in our institute, for successfully defending his thesis and coming up with the sentence "Soil fertility is like love: everyone knows what it means but no one can define what it is"
April 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Yesterday was future day and it was great fun to show our work at @thuenen-som.bsky.social to the future generation of scientists.

We explored soil respiration before we went to a soil pit for soil characterisation. Finally, we counted our most important soil engineers, earthworms. 🪱🪱🪱
April 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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NEW – Global soil moisture in ‘irreversible’ decline due to climate change, study says | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org

Read here: buff.ly/rFU8bL3
March 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I joined with @sebdoetterl.bsky.social the AfroGrow kick-off meeting in Nairobi.

Exciting work on sustainable agroforestry in Africa to come. I am looking forward to being partially part of this after starting this adventure during my time at @eth-soilres.bsky.social

afrogrow-project.eu
March 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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✨Meet the Soil Resources group! ⛏️✨
We study soil biogeochemical cycling in remote regions, the effects of enhanced rock weathering on soil health and impacts of management on soil functioning and crop production.
#SoilResourcesETH #ETHZurich #EnvironmentalSciences #SoilScience #Biogeochemistry
February 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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It's #DarwinDay. He was a father of #soilscience #pedology, by combining his knowledge of #geology and #biology, he published “The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms.” In this book you can see one of the first #soilhorizon designation A,B,C.
February 12, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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We are still looking for a #peatland researcher with experise at the interface of #GHG exchange, vegetation & remote sensing:
👉 literatur.thuenen.de/stellenmarkt...

Collaboration with @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social and the Thünen Earth Observation Group (www.thuenen.de/en/thuenen-i...)
February 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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We're recruiting a 10 month PDRA in spatial (GIS) modelling of soil carbon and water quality at the UK scale: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Environmental Modelling:Whiteknights Reading UK
jobs.reading.ac.uk
February 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Job Available: Knowledge Transfer Associate in soil carbon analysis and accounting at Uni Edinburgh and Plan Vivo

To build a tool that combines model estimates and field data, provides outputs, and quantifies uncertainty in the voluntary carbon market.

elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Knowledge Transfer Associate in soil carbon analysis and accounting
We are seeking a highly talented, independent and motivated candidate for a 21-month fixed term position. You will work as part of a team to build a simple but effective tool that combines model estim...
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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📢workshop “Molecular modeling in soil science – achievements and perspectives”
Registration (by 07/18/25): members.cecam.org/workshops/pa...
Website: www.cecam.org/workshop-det...
CECAM-Members
members.cecam.org
January 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Highlights of recent paper:
1. Compost (here) and manure benefit soils. How many times do we need to show this?
2. Soil health matters, but is not a major yield factor. Organic farming often shows better soil health but lower yields, -21% here. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002...
January 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Wir trauern um unseren Präsidenten Prof. Dr. Folkhard Isermeyer.
Der langjährige Präsident des Thünen-Instituts verstarb am 14. Januar 2025. Wir sind sehr traurig. Unser Mitgefühl gilt seiner Familie.

Hier finden Sie unseren Nachruf sowie ein digitales Kondolenzbuch.
thuenen.de/Nachruf-Isermeyer
January 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Soil spectroscopy is a powerful tool for accurately estimating a set of soil properties, like organic carbon and particle size distribution. It is also cheaper, faster, and more scalable than conventional analysis methods, which can be a game changer for soil MRV.
Open Soil Spectral Library (OSSL): Building reproducible soil calibration models through open development and community engagement
Soil spectroscopy is a widely used method for estimating soil properties that are important to environmental and agricultural monitoring. However, a bottleneck to its more widespread adoption is the n...
journals.plos.org
January 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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In dieser Woche spricht Katrin mit Franz Bender von Agroscope über das Potenzial von Citizen Science und darüber, was uns vergrabene Unterhosen über den Boden verraten können.

#CitizenScience #Interview #Bodenleben #Forschung #Wisskomm
January 12, 2025 at 9:15 AM