Is anybody else slightly irritated by the use of "evolution" in the biological literature when they really mean development or a shift over time in something?
Nice to see the first experimental paper on our microbial biospheres out.
Our lab's first experimental microbial biospherics paper is out online!
Congrats to Shaoyi (姜少毅) for his first paper from his PhD and to Dr India Mansour (senior author) & all others.
The paper examines persistence in producer-decomposer microbial biospheres
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Farewell talk by Dr. Yongxing Cui today.
Very sad to see him leave, but glad we had the time to bask in his brilliance - I am sure there's great stuff coming from him in the future.
We will miss you!
Stay supported by @humboldt-foundation.de
Should we have a common model plant-soil ecosystem?
Especially ecotoxicology, I think, could profit a lot from that.
open.substack.com/pub/matthias...
Reading in journal club
@thoba.bsky.social et al. in Science
Include a mixture allocation factor to improve EU chemical risk management
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"Rapid evolution in necromass use under resource limitation reduces persistence in producer-decomposer microbial biospheres"
Shout-out to @mitjare.bsky.social !
Looking at system persistence/ failure was already the idea in our first concept paper 7 years ago:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
In my course 'Creativity in the scientific process', the students worked using Lego Serious Play again.
Always interesting how different the models are....
Zusammen mit Kolleginnen und Kollegen von UFZ, RWTH, Senckenberg und @mrillig.bsky.social u.a. haben wir für die Leopoldina einen Policy Brief zu den Plänen der EU Kommission im Bereich der Regulierung von Pflanzenschutzmitteln geschrieben.
www.leopoldina.org/newsroom/nac...
