Growing fungi decompose faster when they die, while starved fungi form more recalcitrant necromass. Why? C:N ratio and b-glucan branching determine decay rates! 🍄🟫
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Growing fungi decompose faster when they die, while starved fungi form more recalcitrant necromass. Why? C:N ratio and b-glucan branching determine decay rates! 🍄🟫
Spring in the Botanical Garden Vienna! Just got my #UrbanBEE hotel 🐝🐝🐝 #citizenscience
Me at Graz main train station, Graz castle mountain, coffee, team picture at Medical Uni, me on my young horse, my two horses, Austrian dish of fried dough
Week #9 2026: My prelim prep stress was disrupted by our great PhD Retreat in Graz! Also met my two cousins in Graz 🥰 coffee and great conversation with one cousin, followed by an amazing city tour by the other cousin! Weekend spent with horses. First pic of me sitting on my rookie horse 🐎😍
Why do we only study soil CNP? This study shows the importance of K for root-associated AM fungi. Great work by my PhD colleague Kian Jenab 👏 @cemess.bsky.social @ter-cemess.bsky.social @univie.ac.at Let me know your thoughts on the diversity of soil nutrients in the comments! 🌱🦠
Group Picture of all CoE PhD students attending the retreat at Graz Medical University
Great first day of our PhD Retreat in Graz with @microbesplanet.bsky.social and @seyens.bsky.social 🦠 Discussing effective visual communication 👀 and learning from our own mistakes on slides, figures and posters. My take-home is definitely to ask for more regular feedback from my peers!
Shadow of me and my suitcase on the train platform
hills with vineyards and fields outside Vienna
On my way to Graz for PhD workshops on Visual Communication for Scientists 🎨📊 with @seyens.bsky.social and on Unconscious Bias, organised by @microbesplanet.bsky.social Looking forward to some great time with my fellow PhD students 😃
Sunshine on lake, conifer packed in snow, trees in snow, horses in snow, me in front of snow hill, tomato seedlings, sandwiches for Fasching/carnival
Week#8 2026: soooo much snow!! 20cm in 12h ❄️❄️❄️ great professorship hearings @cemess.bsky.social - so diverse in style! continued prelim stress 😵💫 but gave a good presentation in our group - got lots of new ideas 📊Planted tomatoes are growing 😍 ride in the snow 🐎❄️ homemade sandwiches for Fasching 🎊
Me & dad on couch, me & mum toasting with champagne glasses, small pots with tomato seeds, coffee in the sun on the terrace, me and horses, back of horse Vali, Logo of LongNightofResearch
Week#7 2026: sunshine ☀️a lot of stress for my prelim preparations 😵💫 planning #LongNightofResearch2026 🧫 visiting dad 🥪 Watch Vienna Opera Ball with mum 🥂 first time to sit on 🐴Vali's back 😍 tomatoes planted 🍅
PhD Life: Staying at work until 21:30h to design a presentation 🎨 Give the presentation without practice half asleep the next morning on pure adrenaline 😳 Be very happy and relieved about good feedback and a fruitful discussion 😇
Oh and I forgot the best part (bc there is no picture) - but I FINALLY saw some of my PLFA data 📊😍 looking forward to publish this story!
Week#6 2026: Finally some plus degrees and we could start the garden year! 🌱 New fence construction. Digging over soil. Surprisingly found some parsnips and made a wonderful soup 🥣 best Pizza in town @viatoledoenopizzeria 🍕🍹 and of course some horse training 🐎
Today, for International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we’re celebrating the incredible women driving research and innovation in the @fwf-at.bsky.social CoE Microplanet!
@cornelia-cr.bsky.social
Scary... on track for the worst emissions scenario...
künstlerische Darstellung einer lila Erde
Verrückter Fakt des Tages: #vfdt
Es gibt gute Hinweise darauf, dass die Erde ursprünglich lila war. Chlorophyll, das heute die grüne Farbe der Pflanzen bestimmt, gab es damals noch nicht. Stattdessen arbeiteten frühe Mikroorganismen wohl mit Retinal-basierten Pigmenten - und die sind lila.
Wollt ihr euch nicht von Desinformation zum Klimawandel für dumm verkaufen lassen? Dann ist dieser Vortrag das richtige! Er zeigt den Stand der Wissenschaft, aber auch die häufigsten Tricks der Klimatäuscher. Holt euch einen Tee und schaut gerne mal rein!
youtu.be/fMcm1ku-NOw?...
Week #5 2026: still snow, ice, cold ❄️ but also rain, mud and dirty horses 🐴 onions started sprouting in the garden 😍 horse-smiles 🐴made my work-intensive week a lot better 🥰
Ein Hoffnungsschimmer für die Wissenschaft?🧪🔬🙏
Oh what a day! overslept; 🌧; found no one to ask a simple question 🤔; got new office mates without warning, so my ordered chaos was still spread on their desk while I was out for a meeting; and I spilled soda on the laptop & the quite box during the zoom meeting 💀 I hope tomorrow is better 🥹
Storyboarding. This topic was brought up in the Scientific Writing Course that I attend. Looking forward to trying this approach to boost my writing📝
Do you already have experience in storyboarding research? 🤓
blogs.lse.ac.uk/writingforre...
Week#4 2026: I finally found a Dr. who took my health seriously. Curious what the million tests will tell 🧪💉 So much wind this week that the Danube waves went upstream 😅 Greek Music 🇬🇷 Celebrating my dad 🎂
Week #3 2026 was all about chromatograms. Is this a peak? Is that a second peak on top of the other? Where to split two peaks? 🧐 My eyes are tired of the detailed screenwork Otherwise snow, ice, fog, horses ❄️🌫🐴
I am not surprised, bc I think people generally underestimate animals. Great that this is now scientifically proven for cows 👏 please follow-up with checking cultural transfer / learning by giving Veronika some cow-friends she could teach this specific tool-use to 🐄🧹
Snowed in field with foggy horizon in same whitish color
Morning snow & fog ❄️
Pics of chestnut mare, my other brown mare in gallop and snow, frozen lake, sunrise on lake, puzzle, limoncello, footprints in snow, the water bird on a car
Week#2 of 2026 was all about Valdoria - my new sweet chestnut mare 🐴🥰 Vienna finally got some snow and icy days ❄️ (normal winter is already very uncommon here). Good deed of the week: I saved a water bird from being stuck in the garage 🐦 (took me over an hour(!) but I got it out 😇)
Collage of my week between the years, showing me meeting a friend, me & my mum, many pics of my horses, a beautiful sunset on a walk, New Years chocolate, christmas rose, rum.
My week between the years 2025/2026. Nature, horses, family & friends. What a nice way to end the old and begin the new year 🥰 Trying to get as many of these moments as possible and enjoying them to the fullest will be my goal for 2026 ✨️
I wish you all a happy & healthy 2026! Let's work towards a more tolerant, supporting, peaceful and healthy community 🫂 and protect our planet 🌎 as there is only one for us to live on and it is beautiful 🏞🏜🌄
My PhD/job year could have been more productive - now a goal for 2026 🙃 For 2026 my wish is more health & more energy for sports 🏇🏊♀️🚴♀️, more books 📚 & time for art 🎨🪡🎸, quality time with family & friends 🫂, more time in nature 🏞🏝, travel 🌍, and maybe finding love 🩷
Happy New Year 2026! 🎆
Time to reflect 2025 🥰 - my year of many firsts: first trip alone 🇨🇦 & first camping 🏕, first wild 🐋🐻&lynx, first time in🇨🇭, first gardening 🌱 & food preserving 🥔🥕🥒🫛🥦, first classic concert visit 🎻. Great trips with mum 🏰🏞🦌 & friends. Quality time with 🐴🏇. New friends ☺️
Meine letzte Kolumne in diesem Jahr: Über Tradition und Wissenschaft und gemeinsames Feiern.
"Das haben wir immer schon so gemacht" ist kein Argument - und meistens ist es auch falsch. Was Traditionen wichtig macht, ist etwas ganz anderes. Frohe Weihnachten!
🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity for Female Scientists🚨
The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists
Interested? Get in touch via direct message
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