Yunyan Temple Pagoda, sometimes called “the Leaning Tower of China”, was completed about two centuries earlier than the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
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Yunyan Temple Pagoda, sometimes called “the Leaning Tower of China”, was completed about two centuries earlier than the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
"The most uncomfortable part for me is that I no longer think that scientific research will resolve the crises that we face."
"I keep doing research not because I think it will save us, but because it would be a form of surrender to stop seeking understanding."
Friendly reminder: With the Chinese New Year holiday is coming, it would be much appreciated if editors could kindly avoid sending review invitations to researchers in China over the coming week.
40 portraits of women and girls working at the IAM Department as researchers, teachers, PhD students, Postdoc fellows, students, engineers, technicians and administrative staff.
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We are proud to have so many brilliant female scientists in our #IAM department! 👩🔬🎓🍄🦠🧫🔬🌳🌲📊
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Fig. 1 Anthropogenic disturbance alters the diversity, composition, and abundance of microbes as well as the edaphic properties of the soil.
✨ Paper spotlight ✨
(🧵 1/6) Why, when, and how microbes can benefit ecological restorations: Current approaches and future directions
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11th February, International Day of Women and Girls in Science: drawing attention to the fact that women are still underrepresented in many scientific disciplines. Watch this space for an upcoming Trends in Plant Science series on women in plant science
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📜 On this #DarwinDay, explore our Darwin Reviews 📜
📇 Darwin Reviews are our most prestigious review series, featuring carefully selected topics from leading plant scientists 📇
🌳 In 2025, we celebrated 75 years of JXB with a special Darwin collection: academic.oup.com/jxb...
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The name of this café is quite interesting.😉
🟢Visual Omics Series 14🟢 Do the same fungal species behave similarly across distant locations regardless of environment? We examined through multi-omics analysis. Colour theme inspired by Claude Monet's Water Lilies. @jgi.doe.gov @oistedu.bsky.social 🔗https://shorturl.at/fp5j9
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All flavours of applied ecologists are welcome to apply!
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Here, our guest editors research at the cutting edge of the AI–ecology interface, focusing on work that advances the state of both fields beyond proof-of-concept to true interdisciplinary insight.
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One year ago I led an effort to standardize microbial imaging at work, procuring a colony doc it imager. We've demonstrated high reliability measures of microbial responses to minerals and to other species.
Now, I've created an open-source robotic workcell to do the same. More soon!
This study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles in environmental processes, in order to advance microbiome utility across the bioeconomy. @ucmerced.bsky.social
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https://jgi.doe.gov/user-science/science-stories/secrets-needles-what-microbes-do-conifer-leaves
Fig. 1 Schematic representation of the major features of mycorrhiza-like endophytes (MLEs).
#TansleyInsight: Endophytes with #mycorrhizal potentials: biological and ecological implications
Yuan et al.
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Our preprint on Agaricales comparative genomics is out! 🍄 122 genomes reveal how grassland fungi evolved diverse strategies: Ectomycorrhizal species lost plant-degrading enzymes while saprotrophs expanded them. 👉https://shorturl.at/shWPp @fmartin54.bsky.social #Fungi #Genomics #SoilEcology
Climate variability shapes the mutualistic interaction between truffle-like ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi and a mycophagous mammal nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
“The promotion of diverse land use types might offer a practical pathway to maximize the effectiveness of soil biodiversity conservation within an intensively managed agricultural matrix.” - Journal of Applied Ecology
Beneficial microbes in agriculture: curse or blessing? #plantscience
Our new paper is out in @nature.com
"Pesticide residues alter taxonomic and functional biodiversity in soils"
Largest in field assessmnt of pesticide effects on soil life🧬🇪🇺🦠🍄
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I'm delighted to inform you that our paper "Ecological genomics of saprotrophy to biotrophy transitions in the genus Clitopilus" was published in IMA Fungus. A long standing collaboration with Zhilin Yuan at RISF, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Hangzhou:
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The Agricultural Ecology Special Interest Group are excited to invite you to their new monthly online Agro-Ecology Connect coffee mornings, which aim to spark ideas, connections and curiosity within the agro-ecology field.
The first session will run on 31 January, aimed at early-career researchers.
Unique species interactions determine the decomposition activity of fungal communities - Kaschper - Functional Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"By considering the relationships between soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning we can connect small-scale interactions among plants, microorganisms and animals to ecosystem services and planetary sustainability."
Soil biodiversity effects on ecosystems www.nature.com/articles/s44...
A rare gift in science is the ability to conjur a question so that its potential answer is brought into focus.
As it is in art.
“There’s this Chekhov quote that I’m kind of living by lately. He says a work of art doesn’t have to solve a problem — it just has to formulate it correctly”
-G Saunders
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Mushrooms (basidiocarps) of Russula xerampelina from Estonia. Photographer: CR Noffsinger.
Global Russula sequence analysis refines biogeographic patterns and host associations
Noffsinger et al. @chance-est.bsky.social
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