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An honour serving as Early Career Scientist rep for the @egubg.bsky.social these past 2 years alongside Sílvia Poblador🌱 Now passing the torch to Elisa Bruni and Rebecca Varney! Huge thanks to the amazing BG-ECS community, @anabastos.bsky.social and @lisawingate.bsky.social 💚

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Huge thanks to the co-conveners and 16 speakers for a fantastic #EGU26 session on "Functional diversity in motion" from EEO theory to omics, soils to oceans. Already looking forward to next year! 🌍

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Huge congrats to @thomascortier.bsky.social, postdoc in my #GAMEchange group, who delivered a fantastic poster at #EGU26 on uncovering the adaptive mechanisms behind the respiration response of soil microbes to warming at the Harvard Forest using mathematical models. Great work Thomas!

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Elsa Abs @elsa-abs.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Super proud of Elisa Richard, PhD student in my group, who brilliantly presented her first PhD poster at #EGU26 identifying ecological strategies of soil bacteria at the global scale using metagenomics. Bravo Elisa!

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Come to @egubg.bsky.social division meeting now in Room 2.23!

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Elsa Abs @elsa-abs.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Glad to have the ERC seal of approval 😎

Elsa Abs @elsa-abs.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Thanks :) Any free time to have coffee at EGU?

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Elsa Abs @elsa-abs.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Tomorrow 08:30am (Room 1.85/86). Don’t miss it!

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Elsa Abs @elsa-abs.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

📌 Mark your calendar! #EGU26 BG1.11 “Functional diversity in motion” 🗓 Oral: Mon 8:30–12:00 (1.85/86) | Poster: Mon 16:15–18:00 (X1) Eco-evo dynamics of functional diversity across systems shaping biogeochemistry. 🎤 Jaideep Joshi, Tina Santl-Temkiv, Boris Sauterey

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Elsa Abs @elsa-abs.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The @erc.europa.eu-funded #GAMEchange project website is now live 🤩 gamechange.lsce.ipsl.fr/en/ Discover our research, team (@thomascortier.bsky.social, Elisa Richard, Mathilde Bourreau) & opportunities (EN/FR). Thanks to Marianne Tricot for the web design & Killian Renard for bringing to life!

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Elsa Abs @elsa-abs.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

New paper out in @natecoevo.nature.com showing that growth rate is as a stronger predictor of SOC than CUE. Congrats Xianjin He for leading this work!

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Rebecca Varney @rebeccamayvarney.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Excited to convene the upcoming EGU webinar on "Mental Health in Academia: Obstacles, Advocacy and Inclusion" on 9 February at 16:00 CET. Open to all. 👉 Register here: www.egu.eu/webinars/694... @egu.eu @egubg.bsky.social @anabastos.bsky.social @elsa-abs.bsky.social

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Elsa Abs @elsa-abs.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Last few hours to submit an abstract to our session on eco-evolutionary drivers of biogeochemistry #EGU26 ⏰ Abstract deadline: January 15 at 13:00 CET 🔗 Session link: lnkd.in/eHV6jDrh Co-conveners: @manzonilab.bsky.social , @bopplaurent.bsky.social, Colin Prentice, Elisa Bruni

Elsa Abs @elsa-abs.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

If you work on how diversity and/or adaptation shape ecosystem functioning—in soils, vegetation, or aquatic systems—consider our session 😃 #EGU26 ⏰ Deadline: Jan 15 🔗 Session link: lnkd.in/eHV6jDrh Co-conveners: @manzonilab.bsky.social, @bopplaurent.bsky.social, Colin Prentice, Elisa Bruni

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Elsa Abs @elsa-abs.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Happy New Year! 🎉 Just a quick reminder about our EGU26 session on eco-evolutionary drivers of biogeochemistry — we’d love to see your abstracts! ⏰ Deadline: Jan 15 Co-organizers: Elisa Bruni, @manzonilab.bsky.social, @bopplaurent.bsky.social, Colin Prentice

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Elsa Abs @elsa-abs.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

📣 EGU26 – Call for abstracts Session: Functional diversity in motion: Eco-evolutionary drivers of biogeochemical processes across terrestrial & aquatic systems. 🎤 Solicited speakers: Jaideep Joshi & Boris Sauterey 🗓 Deadline: 15 Jan 2026 🔗 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

How do scientific ideas evolve and which paradigms in Earth system science deserve a fresh look? We welcome submissions to address these questions in our #EGU26 session “Re-examining Seminal Ideas in Earth System Science” www.egu26.eu/session/57516

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Session ITS5.2/BG10.2

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Elsa Abs @elsa-abs.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Excited to convene an EGU webinar on "Fostering Diversity, Equality and Inclusion in Academia" on 10 Dec at 16:30 CET. Davide Faranda will share insights on building a more inclusive and equitable research culture across the geosciences. Open to all. 👉 Register: www.egu.eu/webinars/

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Elsa Abs @elsa-abs.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

🎉 I'm thrilled to share that I've started a permanent research position as Chargée de Recherche (CR) at the CNRS! @cnrs-insu.bsky.social I'm super thankful to all my amazing colleagues and friends who gave feedback and encouragement during the application process 💚

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Elsa Abs @elsa-abs.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Congratulations Kyle!!! (love the soil mates 🤣🥰)

Elsa Abs @elsa-abs.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Thank you for sharing Brian!

Elsa Abs @elsa-abs.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Wondering where to submit your abstract for #AGU25 @agu.org? Check out our session co-organized with @kristenobacter.bsky.social (UMass), Ulas Karaoz and Nicola Falco (Berkeley Lab). In-person invited speakers: @andreasrichter.bsky.social (U of Vienna) & Amilcare Porporato (Princeton) 🤩

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Elsa Abs @elsa-abs.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I'd love that! I'm based in Paris. Would that work for you?

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Elsa Abs @elsa-abs.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Working on microscale microbial functions and/or scaling up? Submit to our Elementa special feature! 🔗 lnkd.in/gChyjaiM 📝 Rolling publication 📅 Final deadline: Sept 20, 2025 🌍 Contributions welcome from soil, ocean & human systems.

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🙏 co-authors: @scott-saleska.bsky.social , Steve Allison, Philippe Ciais, @chopinyang.bsky.social , Mike Weintraub and Régis Ferrière.

6. Conclusion Microbial eco-evolution could destabilize soil carbon. Models that ignore it risk underestimating climate-carbon feedbacks. We hope this work opens the door to more theory-driven, evolution-aware Earth system models. (7/7)

5. Global heterogeneity of the eco-evolutionary effect We wondered if we could replace eco-evolution with a constant correction. Answer: no. Its effect is uneven—negligible in warm regions, but up to 2× more soil C loss in cold ones. Why? Optimal enzyme allocation responds nonlinearly. (6/7)

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4. Implication for global soil C projections We thought that microbial adaptation would buffer warming-induced soil C loss. But because it amplifies enzyme production (as shown above), we found that adaptation aggravates the loss—by x1.8 globally. (5/7)

3. Experimental validation We reviewed 13 warming studies: ✅ 9 matched our predictions (6 eco-evolution, 3 physio) ❌ 3 didn’t show increased enzyme production (though evidence was weaker). Overall, warming tends to increase microbial investment in resource acquisition. (4/7)

2. Evolutionary result We found that in hostile environments (e.g. high mortality, slow uptake), selection favors direct investment in biomass over the riskier strategy of enzyme production. Since warming mainly increases uptake rate, we predicted it would favor stronger enzyme producers. (3/7)

1. The eco-evolutionary model We added a trade-off to a classic microbe-soil C model and used adaptive dynamics to evolve enzyme allocation. To prevent freeloaders from taking over, we included implicit spatial structure. Bonus: enzyme production emerges—it’s no longer a free parameter. (2/7)