#TERRAnauts on a field trip to Schröcken (Vorarlberg, Austria) to investigate a site for a collaborative TERRA project on greenhouse gas emissions from Alpine #peatlands. This is one of 6 consortia preparing so-called Focus UNits (FUN) for TERRA's first round of internal projects to start next April

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" 🍻🍺

90 participants at the Groundwater Symposium Tübingen OAC60 @unituebingen.bsky.social have celebrated our speaker Olaf Cirpka on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

The #TERRA Team is wholehearted congratulating 🍾 (& wishes Olaf a lot of future fun guiding our @terra-cluster.org to a success).

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!

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!

Really cooool: our first #TERRA science event - the FUN workhop: With lots of fun we just work out our FUNs (Focus Units) for collabortive PhD projects at the interface of Geo- and Biosciences in Gäufelden. Stay tuned which FUNs will be positively reviewed & will soon start the #PhD hiring process!

To all potential future #TERRAnauts: keep in mind that our next cluster-call for positions has less than 2 weeks till deadline: We search for dedicaded writer, geoscientific lab rats & researchers, who's heart beats for bioinformatics. Apply, and @unituebingen.bsky.social may become your new home 😀.

What a crazy week: While Ronja Ratzbor introduced TERRA at the @unituebingen.bsky.social PostDoc days, Olaf Cirpka went to the #Geo4Göttingen @uni-goettingen.de, and Kira Rehfeld & @michaeladippold.bsky.social introduced TERRA to the @soilsdbg.bsky.social at the #DBG2025. Tasks perfectly shared 👍

Bringing research fields together on a TERRA field trip to the fossil-rich site 'Hammerschmiede' (udo.pforzen.de) in Bavaria/Pforzen. M. Böhme from @unituebingen.bsky.social and SHEP @sgn.one and her team guided us through the excavation site with fossils from an extraordinary biodiversity.

We are happy to announce that hiring has begun for the Cluster Coordination Office @unituebingen.bsky.social! Would you like to join the team that supports research at the intersection of the geosphere and biosphere? Do you know someone who might be interested? Please share the post!

The #Diversitorium task force @aschweiger.bsky.social, @bossdorf.bsky.social, @michaeladippold.bsky.social, K.Tielboerger & Y.Oelmann visited Ihinger Hof field site @unihohenheim.bsky.social for the first time!
SO EXCITED to launch our key #TERRA experiment on #geodiversity manipulation: stay tuned!

Before we kick things off #TERRA wants to give a huge thanks to its TERRA heroes & heroine. Thank you for all the amazing & often invisible contributions and behind-the-scenes work! Let’s roll up our sleeves and dive in: excited for 7 thrilling years ahead! Thanks @dfg.de @unituebingen.bsky.social

We're excited to launch the official #TERRA BlueSky account!
Follow us for the latest #research highlights on Geo-Biosphere Interactions from @unituebingen.bsky.social, @unihohenheim.bsky.social & @sgn.one
📢 Stay tuned for key updates, insights, & upcoming job openings!
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