Soil Biology Group - Wageningen UR
@sbl-wur.bsky.social
Our aim is to advance and share knowledge, through research and education, on how soil life can improve the quality and functioning of soils in agroecosystems around the world.
The figure form the paper illustrates the main mechanisms through which live (panel A) and dead earthworms (panel B) influence carbon sequestration and stabilisation via mineral weathering. 💩 🦠
November 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
The figure form the paper illustrates the main mechanisms through which live (panel A) and dead earthworms (panel B) influence carbon sequestration and stabilisation via mineral weathering. 💩 🦠
📣Our own Gerlinde De Deyn at the World Economic Forum Annual Meetings of the Global Future Councils and Cybersecurity in Dubai!
Soil Health as spotlight also in this event!🎉✨
Soil Health as spotlight also in this event!🎉✨
October 16, 2025 at 8:14 AM
📣Our own Gerlinde De Deyn at the World Economic Forum Annual Meetings of the Global Future Councils and Cybersecurity in Dubai!
Soil Health as spotlight also in this event!🎉✨
Soil Health as spotlight also in this event!🎉✨
A couple of weeks ago our Gabriel Moinet & Alix Vidal led the Grounding Carbon Farming course in Normandie🐄 together with Ina Möller, Federico Andreotti & guests experts Claire Chenu & Roman Hüppi!
🌱 Lectures 🚜 Farm visits 🧪 Field sampling 🎲 Serious game sessions 🎤 Interviews
See you next year?
🌱 Lectures 🚜 Farm visits 🧪 Field sampling 🎲 Serious game sessions 🎤 Interviews
See you next year?
October 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
A couple of weeks ago our Gabriel Moinet & Alix Vidal led the Grounding Carbon Farming course in Normandie🐄 together with Ina Möller, Federico Andreotti & guests experts Claire Chenu & Roman Hüppi!
🌱 Lectures 🚜 Farm visits 🧪 Field sampling 🎲 Serious game sessions 🎤 Interviews
See you next year?
🌱 Lectures 🚜 Farm visits 🧪 Field sampling 🎲 Serious game sessions 🎤 Interviews
See you next year?
🎉Last week first observation together with NIOO, on their beautiful green rooftop, for the Bodemdierendagen! It was great success & we manage to find the tiny ten🪱🐛🐜 ..but also the little eleven🦠✨! Take your observation, is your turn now! How many soil organisms will you find?
bodemdierendagen.nl/nl
bodemdierendagen.nl/nl
September 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🎉Last week first observation together with NIOO, on their beautiful green rooftop, for the Bodemdierendagen! It was great success & we manage to find the tiny ten🪱🐛🐜 ..but also the little eleven🦠✨! Take your observation, is your turn now! How many soil organisms will you find?
bodemdierendagen.nl/nl
bodemdierendagen.nl/nl
📣ART&SOIL ALERT ⁉️ Studio Metaform & our PhD candidate Doina Mani will take you into the invisible world of nematodes and their ecological stories.
🎼 Join Singing Soil @ EnergieKas, The Hague, Sept 25, 2025, Free Admission via this link: lnkd.in/e7VKAUfR
Listening Session, Workshop, Co-creation
🎼 Join Singing Soil @ EnergieKas, The Hague, Sept 25, 2025, Free Admission via this link: lnkd.in/e7VKAUfR
Listening Session, Workshop, Co-creation
September 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
📣ART&SOIL ALERT ⁉️ Studio Metaform & our PhD candidate Doina Mani will take you into the invisible world of nematodes and their ecological stories.
🎼 Join Singing Soil @ EnergieKas, The Hague, Sept 25, 2025, Free Admission via this link: lnkd.in/e7VKAUfR
Listening Session, Workshop, Co-creation
🎼 Join Singing Soil @ EnergieKas, The Hague, Sept 25, 2025, Free Admission via this link: lnkd.in/e7VKAUfR
Listening Session, Workshop, Co-creation
✨A big thank you to all the participants and lecturers of the Soil Biology Lab skills course for assessing soil functions 🪱🦠🌱! A week full of exchanges, discussions, activities, learning and networking! Looking forward to the next edition!🎉
September 8, 2025 at 6:13 AM
✨A big thank you to all the participants and lecturers of the Soil Biology Lab skills course for assessing soil functions 🪱🦠🌱! A week full of exchanges, discussions, activities, learning and networking! Looking forward to the next edition!🎉
🎉And yet another edition of our Soil Biology Lab skills course for assessing soil functions started today🦠🪱🐜🐛🌱! Impressive diversity of participants with different backgrounds and expertise! Looking forward to the rest of the week! 🥼🔬☕🎉
September 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
🎉And yet another edition of our Soil Biology Lab skills course for assessing soil functions started today🦠🪱🐜🐛🌱! Impressive diversity of participants with different backgrounds and expertise! Looking forward to the rest of the week! 🥼🔬☕🎉
📣Last week new doctor Enno Sonntag, joint PhD with Thuenen Institute of Organic Farming, successfully defended his thesis:
“Earthworm Farming for Circular Food Systems: Upcycling Residual Biomass into Edible Protein and Organic Soil Amendments.” 🪱🪱
Congratulations Dr. Enno!🎉
“Earthworm Farming for Circular Food Systems: Upcycling Residual Biomass into Edible Protein and Organic Soil Amendments.” 🪱🪱
Congratulations Dr. Enno!🎉
July 4, 2025 at 6:16 AM
📣Last week new doctor Enno Sonntag, joint PhD with Thuenen Institute of Organic Farming, successfully defended his thesis:
“Earthworm Farming for Circular Food Systems: Upcycling Residual Biomass into Edible Protein and Organic Soil Amendments.” 🪱🪱
Congratulations Dr. Enno!🎉
“Earthworm Farming for Circular Food Systems: Upcycling Residual Biomass into Edible Protein and Organic Soil Amendments.” 🪱🪱
Congratulations Dr. Enno!🎉
Curious about the state of biodiversity in the Netherlands? 🌿
The latest report has all the insights ▶️ www.naturalis.nl/system/files... (in Dutch).
Our very own Thom Kuyper co-authored the section on fungi—who else but the 'mushroom man' himself? 🍄😊
The latest report has all the insights ▶️ www.naturalis.nl/system/files... (in Dutch).
Our very own Thom Kuyper co-authored the section on fungi—who else but the 'mushroom man' himself? 🍄😊
May 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Curious about the state of biodiversity in the Netherlands? 🌿
The latest report has all the insights ▶️ www.naturalis.nl/system/files... (in Dutch).
Our very own Thom Kuyper co-authored the section on fungi—who else but the 'mushroom man' himself? 🍄😊
The latest report has all the insights ▶️ www.naturalis.nl/system/files... (in Dutch).
Our very own Thom Kuyper co-authored the section on fungi—who else but the 'mushroom man' himself? 🍄😊
📣Our own Dr. Paolo di Lonardo I will give a talk during the webinar on 'Soil Health Indicators: from selection to sampling". Paolo will present some of the first results of Soil Health Benchmarks 🦠 🍄🟫 🪱 🕷️ ☘️ Don't miss it!
For registrations: soilcommunity.app/event-64
For registrations: soilcommunity.app/event-64
May 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
📣Our own Dr. Paolo di Lonardo I will give a talk during the webinar on 'Soil Health Indicators: from selection to sampling". Paolo will present some of the first results of Soil Health Benchmarks 🦠 🍄🟫 🪱 🕷️ ☘️ Don't miss it!
For registrations: soilcommunity.app/event-64
For registrations: soilcommunity.app/event-64
🎉✨Great 2025 edition of the Earthworm 🪱 charming championship. 17 teams participating including a kids' team and an international team💪! The soil was very dry, but we had a winnner: the PFAS team from the Luis Bolk found 10 earthworms🪱🪱✨ So many different strategies applied to charm the earthworms😀
May 9, 2025 at 6:10 AM
🎉✨Great 2025 edition of the Earthworm 🪱 charming championship. 17 teams participating including a kids' team and an international team💪! The soil was very dry, but we had a winnner: the PFAS team from the Luis Bolk found 10 earthworms🪱🪱✨ So many different strategies applied to charm the earthworms😀
📣We still have places available for the 2025 edition of the 'Lab Skills Course for Assessing Soil Functions'. 🪱🦠
A range of methods related to soil functions will be discussed and will provide practical training in a subset of measures. 🥼Link here: biosisplatform.eu/services/tra... 👈
A range of methods related to soil functions will be discussed and will provide practical training in a subset of measures. 🥼Link here: biosisplatform.eu/services/tra... 👈
May 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
📣We still have places available for the 2025 edition of the 'Lab Skills Course for Assessing Soil Functions'. 🪱🦠
A range of methods related to soil functions will be discussed and will provide practical training in a subset of measures. 🥼Link here: biosisplatform.eu/services/tra... 👈
A range of methods related to soil functions will be discussed and will provide practical training in a subset of measures. 🥼Link here: biosisplatform.eu/services/tra... 👈
An exciting day - we have teamed up again with the amazing Wim van Egmond to make one of his fantastic time lapse movies! What will it be about? Enchytraeids, fungi, collembola or perhaps even tardigrades?!?! Stay tuned!!! @soilclusterwur.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
An exciting day - we have teamed up again with the amazing Wim van Egmond to make one of his fantastic time lapse movies! What will it be about? Enchytraeids, fungi, collembola or perhaps even tardigrades?!?! Stay tuned!!! @soilclusterwur.bsky.social
🎉Last week great good-by party for our colleague Ron de Goede, which is retiring after many years working at the SBL group. Years full of great publications📃, education 🎓and outreach activities🚀, jokes and complains. We will miss you Ron, for the great ecologist and person you are!✨🪱
April 23, 2025 at 7:20 AM
🎉Last week great good-by party for our colleague Ron de Goede, which is retiring after many years working at the SBL group. Years full of great publications📃, education 🎓and outreach activities🚀, jokes and complains. We will miss you Ron, for the great ecologist and person you are!✨🪱
Not forgetting also the presentation Paolo did for the @shbenchmarks.bsky.social project, that he is coordinating. Good efforts in discussing and advancing Soil Health assessments!
April 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Not forgetting also the presentation Paolo did for the @shbenchmarks.bsky.social project, that he is coordinating. Good efforts in discussing and advancing Soil Health assessments!
🏆Last week our colleague Paolo di Lonardo was busy co-organizing and participating to the conference 'Soil health now - ai4soilhealth.eu/event/soil-h... organized by @ai4soilhealth.bsky.social. Paolo also led excursions to the SBL labs 🥼 and the famous earthworm hotel CALIWORMIA🪱🪱 thank you Paolo!
April 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
🏆Last week our colleague Paolo di Lonardo was busy co-organizing and participating to the conference 'Soil health now - ai4soilhealth.eu/event/soil-h... organized by @ai4soilhealth.bsky.social. Paolo also led excursions to the SBL labs 🥼 and the famous earthworm hotel CALIWORMIA🪱🪱 thank you Paolo!
✊📚📣Once again, speaking out against the Dutch government’s disastrous cuts to science and research 🚫. Some of our SBL team showed up to make noise and stand up for the future of knowledge!
www.fnv.nl/cao-sector/o...
www.fnv.nl/cao-sector/o...
April 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
✊📚📣Once again, speaking out against the Dutch government’s disastrous cuts to science and research 🚫. Some of our SBL team showed up to make noise and stand up for the future of knowledge!
www.fnv.nl/cao-sector/o...
www.fnv.nl/cao-sector/o...
🎉✨Such an honor: Also our own Prof. Gerlinde de Deyn participated in the London Somerset house SOIL exhibition by collaborating with the artist Wim van Egmond in the timelapses video project 'Soil in Action'🪱 ...more about the expo: www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/soil. So proud of this!
April 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
🎉✨Such an honor: Also our own Prof. Gerlinde de Deyn participated in the London Somerset house SOIL exhibition by collaborating with the artist Wim van Egmond in the timelapses video project 'Soil in Action'🪱 ...more about the expo: www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/soil. So proud of this!
✨Our colleague Ron de Goede showing nematodes to the visual artist Trijnie Goudriaan (www.trijniegoudriaan.nl). 🖌️Soil and art can inspire and strengthen each other 💪 finally reaching better society...what will be the next work together? stay tuned...📣✨
March 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
✨Our colleague Ron de Goede showing nematodes to the visual artist Trijnie Goudriaan (www.trijniegoudriaan.nl). 🖌️Soil and art can inspire and strengthen each other 💪 finally reaching better society...what will be the next work together? stay tuned...📣✨
📢 🪱 Earthworms enthusiasts 😁 : The official website for the 13th Symposium on Earthworm Ecology is now live! ✨ 🪱
📅 SAVE THE DATE: August 23-28, 2026 in Wageningen, the Netherlands
🔗 Check it out and stay tuned for updates!
event.wur.nl/isee13/home-2
📸Amazing pictures @frankashwood.bsky.social
📅 SAVE THE DATE: August 23-28, 2026 in Wageningen, the Netherlands
🔗 Check it out and stay tuned for updates!
event.wur.nl/isee13/home-2
📸Amazing pictures @frankashwood.bsky.social
March 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
📢 🪱 Earthworms enthusiasts 😁 : The official website for the 13th Symposium on Earthworm Ecology is now live! ✨ 🪱
📅 SAVE THE DATE: August 23-28, 2026 in Wageningen, the Netherlands
🔗 Check it out and stay tuned for updates!
event.wur.nl/isee13/home-2
📸Amazing pictures @frankashwood.bsky.social
📅 SAVE THE DATE: August 23-28, 2026 in Wageningen, the Netherlands
🔗 Check it out and stay tuned for updates!
event.wur.nl/isee13/home-2
📸Amazing pictures @frankashwood.bsky.social
📣 Registration open for our Grounding Carbon Farming course 🐮🌱
🍃 Join us in Normandy, France for an immersive and truly transdisciplinary experience on farm 👩🌾
✨A participant: "Looking from the bottom up—on the farm, with the farmers and their choices—was truly inspiring!"
www.wur.nl/en/activity/...
🍃 Join us in Normandy, France for an immersive and truly transdisciplinary experience on farm 👩🌾
✨A participant: "Looking from the bottom up—on the farm, with the farmers and their choices—was truly inspiring!"
www.wur.nl/en/activity/...
March 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
📣 Registration open for our Grounding Carbon Farming course 🐮🌱
🍃 Join us in Normandy, France for an immersive and truly transdisciplinary experience on farm 👩🌾
✨A participant: "Looking from the bottom up—on the farm, with the farmers and their choices—was truly inspiring!"
www.wur.nl/en/activity/...
🍃 Join us in Normandy, France for an immersive and truly transdisciplinary experience on farm 👩🌾
✨A participant: "Looking from the bottom up—on the farm, with the farmers and their choices—was truly inspiring!"
www.wur.nl/en/activity/...
🥼Our colleague Paolo di Lonardo showing theSoil Biology laboratories at Rietveld Academie students. The students were part of a course led by the artist Elena Kurthova on Material Transformation with the focus on ‘Soil' at the Architectural design department at the Rietveld Academie!📣
March 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
🥼Our colleague Paolo di Lonardo showing theSoil Biology laboratories at Rietveld Academie students. The students were part of a course led by the artist Elena Kurthova on Material Transformation with the focus on ‘Soil' at the Architectural design department at the Rietveld Academie!📣
Last week Frans fertilized our plots in the earthworm hotel: manure, compost, mineral fertilizer are going to feed our guests, we need to satisfy their needs🌿The hotel is used for research and outreach purposes. Find more informaton in the poster designed by PhD Tulllia Calogiuri @tulca.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Last week Frans fertilized our plots in the earthworm hotel: manure, compost, mineral fertilizer are going to feed our guests, we need to satisfy their needs🌿The hotel is used for research and outreach purposes. Find more informaton in the poster designed by PhD Tulllia Calogiuri @tulca.bsky.social
Our Prof. Rachel Creamer is contributing to the '𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝘆 𝗦𝗼𝗶𝗹: 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀'
📅 Thursday 13 March 2025
🕠 16.30 - 18.00h
📍 Speakers Corner, Impulse building, Wageningen Campus
More info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
✍ 𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘂𝗽 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: lnkd.in/ezc6AW8f
📅 Thursday 13 March 2025
🕠 16.30 - 18.00h
📍 Speakers Corner, Impulse building, Wageningen Campus
More info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
✍ 𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘂𝗽 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: lnkd.in/ezc6AW8f
March 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Our Prof. Rachel Creamer is contributing to the '𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝘆 𝗦𝗼𝗶𝗹: 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀'
📅 Thursday 13 March 2025
🕠 16.30 - 18.00h
📍 Speakers Corner, Impulse building, Wageningen Campus
More info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
✍ 𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘂𝗽 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: lnkd.in/ezc6AW8f
📅 Thursday 13 March 2025
🕠 16.30 - 18.00h
📍 Speakers Corner, Impulse building, Wageningen Campus
More info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
✍ 𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘂𝗽 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: lnkd.in/ezc6AW8f
✨Yesterday SBL team building in the beautiful Renkum....sharings laughs, achievements, food, and artistic skills with each other is very important for our group and makes us grow together! Thank you to the organizing team, looing forward to the next one!
March 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
✨Yesterday SBL team building in the beautiful Renkum....sharings laughs, achievements, food, and artistic skills with each other is very important for our group and makes us grow together! Thank you to the organizing team, looing forward to the next one!