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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Always wondered what the Gaia hypothesis is about but never really had time to look into that? Check out this article @tellusjournal.bsky.social ⤵️
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
📢 new #PhD position @luke.fi (apply by 09/23): few soil carbon models have foundations as solid and elegant as the Q model, and as underused; this #PhD puts that theoretical capital to work on EU-scale forest data with data-intensive Bayesian assimilation valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/rese...
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Research Scientist, Doctoral Researcher, soil carbon modeling - Natural Resources Institute Finland
Open job: Research Scientist, Doctoral Researcher, soil carbon modeling, Natural Resources Institute Finland - Find all jobs in Valtiolle.fi
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The article posted below is just one of a collection revisiting seminal papers published in @tellusjournal.bsky.social and highlighting new research advances in Earth Sciences. Full collection: tellusjournal.org/collections/...
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Tellus 75th Jubilee Special Collection: Celebrating Legacy and Shaping the Future of Earth System Science | Tellus
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Tellus @tellusjournal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
New article in Tellus: tellusjournal.org/articles/10....
New article in Tellus Journal
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
📢#PhD position on soil microbial resilience and resistance to drought @rousklab.bsky.social @lunduniversity.bsky.social. Apply by September 18 here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Doctoral student in Biology with a specialisation in Microbial Ecology
Description of the workplace You will work within the Microbial Biogeochemistry in Lund (MBLU) environment, hosted at the department of Biology, at Lund University ( Microbial Biogeochemistry in Lund
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
📢 #postdoc on terrestrial #carbon cycle under global change. Topic: interactions of ecological, biogeochemical, and physical processes that drive C cycle responses to global change Where: Department of Soil & Environment, SLU 🇸🇪 Apply by: September 10 www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
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Postdoc on terrestrial carbon cycle under global change | slu.se
SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
After a fantastic time at the Department of Physical Geography @stockholm-uni.bsky.social next year I'll move to the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Dept. Soil & Environment). This change opens up an opportunity to hire a postdoc--see next post!
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Marleen Pallandt @mpalla.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
(1/4) So proud of this group effort from the @manzonilab.bsky.social! @danielaguasconi.bsky.social and I co-led a book chapter on "Soil moisture controls on soil carbon and nutrient dynamics" The book is out now and completely open access 🤩: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
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Routledge Handbook of Terrestrial Ecohydrology
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of terrestrial ecohydrology, a rapidly evolving discipline focusing on the interactions of biota and water. Understanding these interactions is especial...
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Erik Schwarz @erikschwarz.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
New paper out in Soil Biology and Biochemistry! “Eco-evolutionary controls of microbial extracellular enzyme production in soils” doi.org/10.1016/j.so... Work on this paper began 5 years ago when I first started my PhD and it has taken many turns since then. Very happy to see it out eventually! 😊
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Redirecting
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
📢 Multiple #postdocs @lsce-ipsl.bsky.social on modeling #permafrost and #peatland greenhouse gas emissions and abrupt changes (deadline: July 10) Positions are funded by @erc.europa.eu project: Northern Peatlands in the face of climate warming and abrupt changes (CLIMPEAT)
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The moisture optimum of microbial respiration is higher in intact than in sieved soils often used for model calibration. As a consequence, our models can under- (over-)estimate respiration in wet (dry) climates--see Elsa Coucheney's paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
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Redirecting
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Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Is the temperature-dependence of soil respiration Q10 similar during soil drying and rewetting? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Redirecting
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
... and speaking of @tellusjournal.bsky.social , I am happy our first article in Tellus was just published: tellusjournal.org/articles/10.... Here we use stoichiometric models to show that litter decomposers can compensate nutrient imbalances by recycling nitrogen--no need to lower CUE
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More Efficient Nitrogen Recycling or Less Efficient Carbon Use to Decompose Nitrogen-Poor Residues? | Tellus
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Tellus @tellusjournal.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Our Editorial Board gathered at #EGU26! Proof that behind every careful review, thoughtful decision, and late-night manuscript discussion, there are actual smiling humans (yes, really 😄). We are for scientists, by scientists — and occasionally with coffee, laughter, and a group photo to prove it.
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
If your #EGU26 schedule is not full yet, have a look at these presentations from our group: - Eco-evolutionary models meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/EGU26-... by @erikschwarz.bsky.social - C-N stoichiometry meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/EGU26-... by @majasiegenthaler.bsky.social
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Abstract EGU26-3995
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Tellus @tellusjournal.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
A new era for Tellus! 🌍 The re-launched journal presents the first scientific publications — spanning atmospheric processes, ocean change, and emerging climate research. Read more below.
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Tellus relaunches with first publications spanning atmospheric processes, ocean change, and climate research - Stockholms universitet
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Best way to start your #EGU26 week? Monday 8:30 ➡️ BG1.11 “Functional diversity in motion” chaired by @elsa-abs.bsky.social, @bopplaurent.bsky.social @lisawingate.bsky.social, @manzonilab.bsky.social
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Since last year, Ilona Riipinen and I @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @bolincentre.bsky.social have been working with an amazing team of senior editors to re-launch the journal Tellus @tellusjournal.bsky.social. We are making it our dream journal to publish fundamental science on any of the 🌍 spheres.
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Daniela Guasconi @danielaguasconi.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Happy to see that our paper on the role of microbial community composition on decomposition rates in forest soils is finally out! Written with @mpalla.bsky.social, @tijanamartin.bsky.social and @manzonilab.bsky.social for @holisoils.bsky.social 💛 available here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Integrating microbial community composition with abiotic drivers enhances prediction of soil respiration in managed Scots pine forests
Carbon (C) turnover in forest soils is jointly controlled by abiotic factors, such as temperature, soil moisture, and soil properties, as well as micr…
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
📢 3 #postdoc and 1 #PhD positions with Gustaf Hugelius @stockholm-uni.bsky.social (Department of Physical Geography) on permafrost and peatland mapping, funded via two new exciting collaborative projects, offering a chance to work with great international teams. See links below:
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
📢postdoc (18 months renewable) on modeling carbon dynamics in the soil-plant system, with a focus on grasslands emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Job offer - Evaluation of the capacity of soil plant models to simulate carbon stock variations in permanent and temporary grasselands (M/F)
CNRS on the web
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Happy to post the news that @erikschwarz.bsky.social has successfully defended his PhD thesis “Microbial ecology in soil carbon models". Opponent: Sergey Blagodatsky; evaluators: Nadja Ray, Katharina Meurer, Jan Bengtsson. Congratulations Dr. Schwarz! 🎉🎊 (photo by Abigail Robinson)
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Crop rotations have been around for 1000s of years--great for sustainability and climate adaptation, but can they deliver all the food we need? In short, yes! and even more calories, proteins and fats than cereal monocultures: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Functionally rich crop rotations increase calorie and macronutrient outputs across Europe - Nature Food
While the benefits of crop diversity are known, doubts remain as to whether replacing cereals in rotations reduces nutrient production. A comparison of 16 long-term field experiments across Europe sho...
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Ana Bastos @anabastos.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The @egubg.bsky.social Early Career Scientists team invited me to share my thoughts about #AcademicMentalHealth and what to do about the ongoing crisis. Some folks wonder: I am an Earth System scientist, why do I keep talking about mental health? @egu.eu m.youtube.com/watch?v=KYea...
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EGU WEBINARS: Mental Health in Academia: Obstacles, Advocacy and Inclusion
YouTube video by European Geosciences Union
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Katie Rocci, PhD @katie-rocci.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
One month left to submit a comment to NSF about their threat to dismantle NCAR. AGU has a great tool, below. This was easy to do and you can help flood the NSF inbox with messages about how important is it to keep NCAR together! agu.quorum.us/campaign/154...
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Share your comments on NCAR with NSF
Tell NSF the future that you want for NCAR by 13 March
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Soil microbes grow, respire, die. Because their biomass eventually becomes necromass, and necromass can be stabilized in soil, growth rate emerges as a powerful predictor of soil carbon: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Microbial growth rate is a stronger predictor of soil organic carbon than carbon use efficiency - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Microbial carbon use efficiency is a strong predictor of soil organic carbon stocks. Here the authors reveal that the microbial growth rate is a more reliable and informative predictor, and that model...
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
If your research questions long-standing paradigms in Earth Science, there are a few days left to submit an abstract to our #EGU26 session www.egu26.eu/session/57516 (conveners: Ilona Riipinen, Claire Ansberque, @elsa-abs.bsky.social, @manzonilab.bsky.social)
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Session ITS5.2/BG10.2
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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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Erik Schwarz @erikschwarz.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
A great (pre-)christmas gift: our synthesis paper in Ecology Letters just got published! 😊 Thanks, @elsa-abs.bsky.social, @arjunchakrawal.bsky.social, @lucianachr.bsky.social, Pierre Quévreux, and @manzonilab.bsky.social for the great collaboration!! Open access article: doi.org/10.1111/ele.70278
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Eco‐Evolutionary Optimality in Soil Organic Matter Models
Optimization approaches based on fundamental eco-evolutionary principles (EEO approaches) can increase the realism and generality of microbial-explicit soil organic matter (SOM) models—yet, these app....
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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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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
📢Assistant Prof in "Modeling in Environmental Systems" at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geo- Engineering, University of Minnesota: cse.umn.edu/cege/news/we...
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We are Hiring! Faculty position available in Modeling in Environmental Systems
The Department of Civil, Environmental and Geo- Engineering at the University of Minnesota is seeking applications for a faculty position in the broad area of Modeling in Environmental Systems. The po...
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Efficiencies are sometimes tricky to interpret. Here we show how the observed increase in efficiency of water use (iWUE) by trees does not necessarily translate into higher tree growth--drier air or drier soil limit growth despite high iWUE. Thanks Quan Zhang for leading this project!
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I'm happy & proud to announce that @li-xiankun.bsky.social has successfully defended his PhD thesis last Friday--congratulations Dr. Li! 🎉🎊 Thanks to @albertocanarini.bsky.social (opponent), @edithhammer.bsky.social, @paulkardol.bsky.social, Katharina Keiblinger (examiners) for your feedback!
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Better late than never... I only now re-post this paper by Daniela Guasconi @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @bolincentre.bsky.social on microbial communities in a Swedish grassland: summer drought has mild effects, one compost addition can have long-lasting (but small) consequences
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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🌱 How does long-term nitrogen fertilisation affect #forest productivity and #soil carbon? Join the next session of the #HoliSoils Webinar Series to explore the impacts of sustained nutrient input on boreal forest ecosystems! 📅 5 December 2025 | 14:00–15:00 CET ➡️ holisoils.eu/holisoils-we...
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HoliSoils Webinar Series - Long-term nitrogen fertilisation enhances tree growth and soil carbon retention in boreal forests - HoliSoils
Don’t miss the HoliSoils webinar on 5 December (14:00–15:00 CET) on long-term nitrogen fertilisation, forest productivity, and soil carbon retention in boreal ecosystems.
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
📢3-year research associate "Dynamic carbon cycle modelling" @uni-hamburg.de part of project Rapid Permafrost Thaw Carbon Trajectories (PeTCaT) www.cen.uni-hamburg.de/en/about-cen.... Position details: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
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When permafrost thaws rapidly
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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Fake studies produced with AI risk damaging the credibility of research while academia must regain control over scientific publishing. Read about the Stockholm Declaration supported by @scienceacademyswe.bsky.social & prominent persons at Sthlm Univ like Ilona Riipinen. www.su.se/english/news...
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Researchers fight against fake science  - Stockholm University
Researchers fight against fake science  Fake studies produced with the help of AI risk damaging the credibility of research while academia must regain control over scientific publishing. This is accor...
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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Next #job hire: Our own PhD position within #MultiStress to be funded as KAAD scholarship @unituebingen.bsky.social is out: You're East African scholar interested in #maize #root & #rhizosphere traits +their response to #biotic & #abiotic stress? Ready to perform work in #Germany & #Kenya? APPLY NOW
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
📢#postdoc on “Soil Microbiome” within DFG Priority Program SPP 2322 soilsystems.net. More info: stellenticket.tu-berlin.de/en/job-offer...
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SoilSystems (SPP 2322) – Systems ecology of soils – energy discharge modulated by microbiome and boundary conditions
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
📢 #PhD position on modelling and evaluating the sustainability of bioeconomy scenarios (Reims 🇫🇷) www.slamb.fr/actualites/o...
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Offre de thèse modélisation et évaluation de scénarios de bioéconomie durables - SLAM-B
Nouvelle offre de thèse dans le projet SLAM-B pour modéliser et évaluer des scénarios durables de la bioéconomie.
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Bolin Centre for Climate Research @bolincentre.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
How do scientific ideas evolve, and which long-standing paradigms in Earth system science deserve a fresh look? Contribute to our #EGU26 session “Re-examining Seminal Ideas in Earth System Science.” Learn more and submit your abstract below by 15 Jan 2026. 🌍
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Re-examining seminal ideas in Earth System Science – Join our session at EGU 2026 - Bolin Centre for Climate Research
Re-examining seminal ideas in Earth System Science – Join our session at EGU 2026 - Bolin Centre for Climate Research
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Fertilization increases tree biomass and SOC, but also changes the response of microbial respiration/SOC to soil moisture and temperature. The change in the temperature response might depend on altered litter quality, but why would the moisture response change too?
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Guy Pe'er @guypeer.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Open Letter by scientists to the Council: "Climate Neutrality Is Europe’s Greatest Economic Opportunity”. Ahead of the European Council meeting on 23.10.2025, 2,178 scientists urge EU Heads of States & Governments to take ambitious decisions for the 2040 targets. zenodo.org/records/1739...
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Ashish Malik @ashish-malik.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
PhD opportunity with me at University of Edinburgh linked with Forest Research, funded by E5 DTP. On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network. Pic: one of our Scottish sites. e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
An upland landscape in Scotland with trees and open areas.
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SAOCousins @saocousins.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
#Postdoc in #landscape ecology with me How does plant species traits influence communities responce to environmental change? An unique re-survey data set from the UK will be used to explore & test hypotheses about dispersal and persistence 🧪🌍 Apply 30th of November su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Landscape Ecology
Department of Physical Geography is one of the major departments within the Faculty of Science. The department has approximately 100 employees and educates approximately 1 000 students annually. Our r
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
📢 #postdoc position with Kim Novick and @richphillipslab.bsky.social (Indiana University) on #forest #carbon uptake and storage indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30636. Great team & topic - apply!
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Postdoctoral Research Scholar - Forest Carbon
We are seeking a highly-motivated postdoctoral fellow to conduct research focused on reducing bias and uncertainty in the measurement and monitoring of forest carbon uptake from local to global scales...
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Ashish Malik @ashish-malik.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
📢 Funded PhD opportunities for UK candidates in beautiful Edinburgh. Get in touch if you're interested in a PhD on understanding the mechanisms of soil carbon cycling and the role of microbes. We work in different ecosystems: peatlands, forests and agricultural soils. Please repost/spread the word.
Poster showing the following text: PhD in microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling. Soil microbes shape the global carbon cycle in life and death. We study the effect of aboveground land management on belowground soil carbon cycling processes. We aim create a scalable understanding of microbial processes from single cells to populations to communities to ecosystems. Pictures with text: peatland restoration, sustainable agriculture and woodland regeneration.
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Kathrin Rousk @kathrinrousk.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Interested in deciphering how #moss and #cyanobacteria interact with each other? Want to come to #Copenhagen? Join us for a postdoc! candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... @voltcenter.bsky.social
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1.5-Year postdoctoral position on Molecular Biology of Moss-Cyanobacteria Associations
A 1.5-year postdoc position in Biochemistry and Molecular Plant Biology with a focus on moss-cyanobacteria associations is available at the Department of Biolog
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
📢Postdoctoral scholarship (2 years) within arctic climate change research with Judith Sarneel @umeauniversitet.bsky.social. The project is part of a 10-year long vegetation fertilization and litter decomposition experiment. www.umu.se/en/work-with...
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Postdoctoral scholarship (2 years) within arctic climate change research
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