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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Rainout shelter field study in #Kenya: Torturing #Sorghum to grow on horrible, nutrient-poor & compacted #soil under drought: it survives by selectively recruiting #mycorrhiza & adapting #rhizosphere strategies. What an expert under multiple stress! Congrats to Rozy Munene! tinyurl.com/44nkuujn

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

In parallel to #root harvest: non-destructive #mucilage sampling: @withanage.bsky.social of @unituebingen.bsky.social targets #BNF of #maize mucilage, supportee by Akila Chandima in his Bachelor thesis. Crossing fingers that the amount of mucilage will be sufficient for mol-bio and trait analysis 💪

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Our SP1 - belowground team of @unituebingen.bsky.social is busy performing root washing: @stevensenanabulya.bsky.social - PhD student funded by @daadworldwide.bsky.social planned all steps, guided by Osman M. & supported by Pupudu R. (M.Sc.). Thanks to all helpers (Rozy, Henrik, Prashanth & Paula)!

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

First greenhouse screening of the #MultiStress @dfg.de RU to select the six Kenyan genotypes. Thanks Issaka Abdulai for organizing such huge experiment @uni-goettingen.de & Irsa Eyza for joining the above-ground team. First harvest is nearly completed & we look forward to our first exciting results!

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Better late than never: Let me also congratulate Maria Ansari from @uni-hamburg.de for the really great achievement on your study combining #Biochar application and #EnhancedWeathering: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S.... Hope, you had fund in our labs @unituebingen.bsky.social - great work 👏.

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

And our last #GBI @unituebingen.bsky.social contribution to #EGU2026: Zak (Zakaria Ziche) presented amazing isotope-based approaches to differentiate functional traits of top- vs. subsoil #AMF communities. Innovative experiments - confirmed by the interested crowd even at this very last EGU-slot 👏

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Oui, and now even the huge transplantation effort has started: Great to see the tussocks changing their climatic zone 🙌.

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Today at #EGU2026: Yihan Pu from @unituebingen.bsky.social presented on #RootWayS project about a pot. 4th pathway of #facilitation in living mulch/ #intercropping systems: the #AMF -mediated crop-crop nutrient exchange. Clear, that we've not yet exploited our potential for #sustainable #agriculture

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Great having Duntao Shu from NW Agriculture & Forest University in China currently visiting our lab @unituebingen.bsky.social. Great talk at #EGU2026 on how organic fertilizer enhance #soil health + plant performance enriching the core #microbiome. Great time including pre-talk-Tafelspitz-Dinner!

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Our student Paula finally arrived in the field in East Kenya - @SEKU and @Kenyatta University. Great start of our tussock #grassland transplantion study - a cooperation of @terra-cluster.org of @unituebingen.bsky.social with our #Kenya partners. Best wishes from #EGU2026 in Vienna to the savannah 😀

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Second keynote in session at #EGU2026 by @nbilyera.bsky.social from @unituebingen.bsky.social: Learning that #AI is very uneducated related to #soil hotspots and that high microbial dynamic in hotspot poses serious challenges on our follow-up studies. Great examples!

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Congratulations @jhenkhar.bsky.social: what a successful thesis defense. Very proud of the diversity and quality of your EarthShape work and how well you defended today @uni-goettingen.de. Great kiss for the #Gänseliesel - and very critical assessment of my skills putting your hat on 🙃. Enjoy all!

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

CONGRATS: GöTageblatt selected @jhenkhar.bsky.social's great study of @uni-goettingen.de (@ykuzyakov.bsky.social), @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social (A. Gorbushina), Univ. de la Frontera (F. Matus) & @unituebingen.bsky.social on #fire impact on #soils & post-fire #nutrient recovery tinyurl.com/w9k7zv62

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Happy to finally announce that our @dfg.de Research Unit #MultiStress was finally approved for funding. So happy, to be part of this amazing team led by R. Rötter @uni-goettingen.de: Core field sites at @agrarunigoe.bsky.social & @JOOUST (Kenya) to unravel joint biotic & abiotic stresses on #maize🍾

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Finally the #GBI Christmas Party 2025 with 1) international buffet (this year with specialties from 10 nations) 2) Feuerzangenbowle (with only tiny-little table burning) & 3) UNO Flip (version battle-UNO 😅); With that the GBI-team @unituebingen.bsky.social wishes Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

#GBI group of @unituebingen.bsky.social visited #Esslingen medival christmas market (2nd time - seems like a tradition shapes). Enjoyed mead, hemp bread döner or knight's skewer, but also traditional craftsmanship, artists and musicians. Despite crazily crowded, it can really be recommended 🎄

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Congratulations @Elvira Sari Dewi: you prepared an excellent presentation for your #PhD defense, and Reimund Rötter, Tim Beissinger & me enjoyed our scientific exchange during your defense. One of the rare global #Sorghum #MultiStress studies targeting #salinity stress: well deserved achievement!

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

My personal highlights: "Wir können Alles außer Ozean" great description for our amazing GeoEnviro-Department @unituebingen.bsky.social - THE place-to-be for geo-ecology & environmental science if the marine system is not your focus. And: dinner à la "Night at the Museum" Congrats to UT #Geoecology!

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

and now after subproject 1 the next #JobAlert: SP2 of #MultiStress @uni-goettingen.de will offer a KAAD-funded #PhDopportunity for an East African scholar interested in ecophysiological stress responses in #maize detected by multi-spectral imaging Take your chance an apply #AcademicJobs #scholarship

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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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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Please forward and share, specifically across East Africa (Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia), where we specifically search for candidates #PhDPositions, #PhDOpportunity, #AcademicJobs, #Scholarship, #EastAfrica, #AfricaResearch, #CallForApplications, #HigherEducation, #ResearchOpportunity, #GraduateResearch

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Great news: the #MultiStress team passed the review process - so we now search PhD candidates for #KAAD scholarships for our project on co-occuring biotic & abiotic stress in #maize. First, our central project @uni-goettingen.de @agrarunigoe.bsky.social needs sbd. highly interested in #metabolomics

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy to announce that Sara Loftus successfully defended her PhD thesis @uni-goettingen.de. Starting from Day-1 of the #MoreCropPerDrop project, she performed excellent work in advancing our understanding of key #sorghum #belowground #root and #rhizosphere traits under #stress. Very proud today 🍾.

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

JOB ALERT - LAST CALL: You like the keywords you see below? Your heart beats for bioinformatics? Keep in mind, that it's only 5 days till deadline: Join the #GBI group @unituebingen.bsky.social & apply for our Postdoc position to join the SoilSystems project EcoEnergetics: uni-tuebingen.de/de/222828

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

#Grassland are key, biodiverse & not well understood. Study on Kenyan #savannah grasses in P&S reveals key #root & #rhizosphere traits for restoration. Great collaboration led by Moses Ngugi with B. Mweu & R. Munene in Kevin Mganga's field trial at South Eastern Kenya University tinyurl.com/29czkasa

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Used the opportunity of #DBG2025 for the first in-person meeting with @diegomiga.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social. From an excellent presentation in the #GBI group up to evenings with (nearly) uruguayan barbacues: all centered around Diego inspiring us for the secrets of his managed grasslands!

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

The @unituebingen.bsky.social orga team of the #DBG2025, Thomas, Yvonne, @peterkuehn37.bsky.social, Callum, Harald & myself, say Bye to all participants: We enjoyed hosting you and hope the meeting was memorable. Looking forward to seeing many at the 100-year-event of the @soilsdbg.bsky.social again

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

On time with the end of our #DFG funded project on the impact of #biochar in #soils, we could present our major outcomes: @iraloginova.bsky.social gave an excellent talk on root-biochar interactions and Prashanth Prasanna closed #DBG2025 with the impact of #mucilage on biochar stability: congrats 👋

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

At #DBG2025, our #SPP2322 & #Storage projects target #bioenergetics in #soils: @lingling1000.bsky.social assessed C & energy use efficiencies, @nbilyera.bsky.social the metabolic costs of enzyme production, & Yang Ding the interrelation of grassland C & N input on microbial storage: Excellent Job👋

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

...and even more about #RootWayS project at the #DBG2025: Yijie Shi (Ada) & Henrik Füllgrabe presented on #microzymography and the subsoil labeling methods (or #Soils dating #CoverCrops ). Congrats to the two for wrapping up the outcomes of the first phase so nicely in their excellent presentations

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Monday was our #GBI Poster-Party-Day at #DBG2025: 2 times #RootWayS (BMBF) project with Jiangyuzhuo Wang's #subsoil labeling and Yihan Pu's mesh tubes show #intercropping benefit. Yuxuan Zhang of #BNI-2030 (@bmleh.de) added #nitrification inhibition & Ningkang Sun #AMF driven P mobilization on top 👏

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Proud of my "root-&-rhizosphere" team at #DBG2025 on Tuesday: Nipuna Withanage reported from #RootWayS (#BMFTR), Moses Ngugi from the #TERRA pre-project on functions of biodiverse Kenyan grasslands & Rozy Munene + Manisha Koirala from the #MoreCropPerDrop project in sub-Saharan Africa. Great Job 👍

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Dear all (members of the @soilsdbg.bsky.social, of @unituebingen.bsky.social & citizens of #Tübingen): Happy to announce that our academic celebration event of the #DBG2025 is open for public - offering 2 invited scientific presentations (engl.) & awarding ceremonies (ger). Feel warmly invited!

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Interested in the Dark Side? Check our new publication in #SBB on dark Fenton reaction: Fenton-type oxidation adds a nonmicrobial flux to total soil CO2 emissions: tinyurl.com/4fsenunr Was fun continuing work with our long-term Chilean collaborator Carolina Merino, ykuzyakov.bsky.social & others!

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Late-summer GBI group trip jointly with the @kylemojo.bsky.social SMI team: 1) hiking to viewpoint over the Neckartal, 2) passing Stuttgart formation sandstone quarry, 3) walking along marvellous "Märchensee" hosting endangeoured frog species, & 4) finishing with a great barbacue: a local highlight!

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

#biomarker studies sometimes remind of solving a crime: different molecular indicators & proxies brought in context tell the story: long climatic/elevation gradients like at Mt. #Kilimanjaro are predestinated: check tinyurl.com/5n86rczz in #Catena journal of J. Becker, @ykuzyakov.bsky.social, et al.

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Your #DBG2025 Icebreaker Service Team of the Geo-Biosphere Interactions Group #GBI of @unituebingen.bsky.social is seriously practicing all required services (having fun doing so). We will be best prepared to welcome all @soilsdbg.bsky.social members at the GUZ on 14th of Sept. Looking forward 🥗🌭🥨🍻🥂

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

We’re proud that Aleksandra, the 1st apprentice of the @unituebingen.bsky.social's apprenticeship program (tinyurl.com/3jvcw9pm), has successfully completed her final state examination & had her first working day in our group. She’s best qualified to operate our new #isotope ratio mass spectrometer

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I love microbes but not all #soil processes are microbial - not even biotic. Check out the addition to our ferrous wheel story (prev.: tinyurl.com/26j2whpk) published in J. Environ. Man. tinyurl.com/ympthbv3. Pretty clear: volcanic soils are different & abiotic #nitrogen fixation is central for them

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Impressive invited talk at #rhizosphere6 of @mutezahmed.bsky.social: visualization of the #rhizosphere interface has progressed soo rapidely, so that we can indeed now observe #drought reponses of the soil-plant system on such a small scale. Congrats: looking forward to first outcomes of your new CT

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Oh, in case you want to see another horrible soil (lowest fertility but in this case ferralic with low pH) visit Rozi Munene from @unituebingen.bsky.social at poster 282 at #rhizosphere6 and see, how #rhizosphere traits explain #drought resistance of #Sorghum growing under these miserable conditions

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Besides orals on marginal tropical #soils, you also find us - Yihan Pu (Nr 248) & Zakaria Ziche (Nr 156) - in the poster hall: they demonstrate, how to exploit #subsoils, their #AMF & facilitation for future agriculture in mid Europ. Ongoing projects open for discussion: step by at #rhizosphere 6 😀

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Have to admit: for #DBG2025 @unituebingen.bsky.social we cannot offer similar location than #rhizosphere6 in Edinburgh 😅 We give our best to fill the impressive halls here with some impressive outcomes: Thanks Sara for unraveling the role of #root hairs in mobilizing #phosphorus from alkaline #soils

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Jointly with @sgn.one and @unihohenheim.bsky.social the TERRA-team looks forward to explore geo-biosphere interactions accross space and time, establish our #Diversitorium and identify diversity-stability interrelationships between the #geosphere and the #biosphere in a changing world. Stay tuned!

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Happy to announce that #TERRA was selected as a #ClusterOfExcellence by @dfg.de. K. Rehfeld (@past2futureclimate.bsky.social‬), O. Cirpka & myself express greatest thanks to @unituebingen.bsky.social‬, our mock-reviewers & the entire TERRA-team for the relentless support. Let's start the endevour!

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Compensation for #EGU25: GeoBioInt @unituebingen.bsky.social group event: crossing streams, cave exploration (@milanvarsadiya.bsky.social new study objects), convincing passing-by hikers for group photos & final barbacue with elaborated stick-production-chain: amazing weather joined free of charge

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Microbial dilution: revealing the functional value of microbial #diversity by experimental approaches. Phosphatase activity in P-rich #soils decreases more by microbial dilution than in P-poor ones --> higher #phosphatase diversity in #recycling #ecosystem tinyurl.com/32ezdjmt by @dfg.de #SPP1685

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Michaela A. Dippold @michaeladippold.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

@Soil Scientist & Soil Lovers: Early bird deadline of the #DBG2025 @unituebingen.bsky.social is approaching: 4th May. Check our exciting programm about #HealthySoilsClimateProtection at www.dbg2025.de/en/programme... + many offered excursions www.dbg2025.de/en/excursion... by @soilsdbg.bsky.social

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