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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 20h

📢 Looking for something to do this weekend? Come with your friends and family to Gaia/Lumen (WUR) at the Weekend of Science! ✨ 🪱 🪴 🧬 🐜 Plants, soils, genes, animals, earthworms, macroplastics, tardigrades, art...these are some of the themes at our Hotspot Wageningen! Check out: lnkd.in/evxMG9r2

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

📢 𝗦𝗢𝗜𝗟𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗨 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗲! How far do soil pollutants really travel? 🌍 how microplastics, pesticides, PFAS, heavy metals and nutrients move from soil to air, water, groundwater and plants? 👉 Discover the highlights and the full article on the website: urls.fr/P6Q0kA

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SOILPROM featured in the Autumn 2026 issue of EU Research | Soilprom

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Soil Biology Group - Wageningen UR @sbl-wur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

📢 Today the Bodemdierendagen officially start! 🪱 🪴 take part in the 12th edition of this exciting citizen science project on soil organisms! bodemdierendagen.nl/nl

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BODEMDIERENDAGEN

Ga jij ook op bodemdierensafari? Elk jaar zoeken duizenden mensen in het hele land naar bodemdieren!Dichtbij huis is er een vergeten jungle vol dieren. Kleine dieren, maar onmisbaar voor een gezonde b...

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Soil Biology Group - Wageningen UR @sbl-wur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

📣The registration and abstract submission for the fourth annual symposium of the National Centre for Soil Ecology is open! nioo.knaw.nl/nl/form/symp... Join us for a stimulating symposium on the 4th of December. The symposium will be held at the HAS green academy!🪱🌱🦠🐛

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

💻 On 24 September 2026, the SoilTribes Community of Practice comes together online for its 8th Meet-Up: “Reduce Soil Pollution and Enhance Restoration.” 24 September 2026 | 16:00–17:30 CET | Online Be part of the conversation: ow.ly/7YQy50ZQtXX

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SoilTribes 8th Meet-Up: Exploring Soil Pollution and Restoration - Soiltribes

SoilTribes 8th Meet-Up: Exploring Soil Pollution and Restoration On 24 September 2026, from 16:00 to 17:30 CET, SoilTribes will host its 8th Community of Practice Meet-Up, bringing members together ...

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

👍 Many were waiting for it: 🌱The Wageningen Soil Conference will take place from Monday 23 - 27 August 2027 at WUR!🎉🪱✨ Registration, abstract submission, and full programme details will follow soon. For now, save the date and visit the website to explore the themes. 👉 lnkd.in/eaDx-qm5

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Soil Biology Group - Wageningen UR @sbl-wur.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

📃New publication led by Anna Maria Visscher: "Can Organic Amendments Override Environmental Filtering of Soil Microbiomes? Evidence From 20 Years Old Agricultural Field Trials in Contrasting Tropical Sites" Want to know more? here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Can Organic Amendments Override Environmental Filtering of Soil Microbiomes? Evidence From 20 Years Old Agricultural Field Trials in Contrasting Tropical Sites

Across four long-term Kenyan maize trials, site was the dominant driver of microbial community composition and N-cycling gene abundance. Among organic amendments, farmyard manure most strongly enrich...

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Once these plastics fragment into the ground, they’re practically impossible to remove” said Dr Esperanza Huerta Lwanga, a research associate in our SLM group. Check the full article on the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Microplastics in soil pose global threat by acting like ‘Trojan horse’ to deliver toxins

Exclusive: Plastic surfaces form hotspots for interaction between plastics, microbes and agrochemicals

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

📃✨New paper led by Abel Veloso and Vera Silva from the Soil Physics and Land Management group that investigate the effects of cover crops 🌱on the attenuation of pesticide contamination and other ecosystem services. 🔗 Read the paper, don't miss it: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

👉 🌟 Join us for the Science Weekend (Weekend van de Wetenschap) on 3–4 October 2026 and take part in a variety of activities including soils, earthworms and more!!! Check here for the activities: weekendvandewetenschap.nl/hotspots/hot... And here for more information: www.wur.nl/nl/activitei...

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Hotspot Wageningen - Weekend van de Wetenschap

Kom op 3 en 4 oktober naar Wageningen Campus! Tijdens het Weekend van de Wetenschap openen verschillende organisaties op Wageningen Campus hun deuren. Ontdek hoe zij werken aan belangrijke vraagstukke...

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

⁉️ 🌟 📃 Curious about the the last 20 papers from the Soil Science Cluster WUR published in the last half year? 📃 Below you can find a word clous summarizing their titles! and if you find something interesting, maybe have a closer look at our work!

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🪱The 13th International Symposium on Earthworm Ecology is going great! 140 scientists from 34 countries are enjoying a variety of talks, posters, workshops, excursions and an amazing dinner with the great band Legiana Collective in the Arnhem Zoo! Stay tuned for more updates!

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

📃New publication led by PhD student Dennis Knuth from the SLM group: 👍"Beneath the surface: non-target effects of multiple pesticides on the soil microbiome in organic and conventional agricultural European fields". Enjoy the read: 🔗 lnkd.in/ep2u_dBn

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🪱 After yesterday's icebreaker, today the 13th International Symposium on Earthworm Ecology officially started! 👉 A day on 'Soil functioning and Biogeography' with presentations, posters, pitches, workshops, and an Earthworm charming event won by the conference participants! More lnkd.in/eYuA2AhH

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Participate in the remaining episodes of Soilspective: Beneath the surface from SOILTRIBE! Submit your interest as a host, guest, or both by Friday, 28-08-2026, at 17:00 CEST. Expression of Interest form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Recording availability poll: app.rallly.co/invite/RsQ7G...

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

We are launching a call to find an artist who works, or has always wanted to work, with soil biodiversity 🪱 🦠 🍄 to co-create a project in collaboration with researchers from WUR and the support of Platform DIS (platformdis.nl) Please share👍 Questions? contact me @ giulia.bongiorno@wur.nl

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Soil Biology Group - Wageningen UR @sbl-wur.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

🚀 New review “Integrating soil imaging with spatial omics to uncover root–soil interactions” now published in Plant Communications lnkd.in/ebG3bbJu. 🌱 Contribution by our own Alix Vidal and brilliantly led by Tino Colombi, together with Hannah Cooper and Rahul A Bhosale. 📖 Enjoy the read 😊

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Soil Biology Group - Wageningen UR @sbl-wur.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

📢Paper out with our own Thom Kuyper🌳European forests show declining nutrient health, and emerging evidence suggests shifting ectomycorrhizal fungi dynamics may be a key, overlooked driver of how forests respond to global environmental change.🌳 academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

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Impacts of ectomycorrhizal forest change on nutrient cycling, forest resilience, and ecosystem services

Abstract. At a time when we count on northern hemisphere forests to mitigate global atmospheric change, European forests are showing deteriorating abovegro

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Soil Biology Group - Wageningen UR @sbl-wur.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

🎉🪱✨🌱New WILDCARD biodiversity initiative granted to Dr. Giulia Bongiorno and team: Exploring new ways of connecting people with soil biodiversity. Not just through science, but through experiences! ✨Stay tuned ! For more info: wageningenur4.sharepoint.com/:u:/r/sites/...

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

📣New publication out! 🎉 🪱🌍 Soil models are missing something: the animals digging through it. In "The inclusion of burrowing animals in soil hydro-physical equations and models: A review" PhD student Marta Loreggian from SLM/SGL and coauthors analyse this gap! 📄 Full paper: lnkd.in/eZbBywVr

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

📢 JOB ALERT in the project ‘Hidden Stories from the Bog’ focusing on cultural history of Dutch raised bog landscapes. Collaborate with nature managers, local residents & other stakeholders to create an inventory of the history of raised bog landscapes! www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/j... (Dutch required)

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Junior researcher landscape history – Verborgen verhalen uit het Veen

As a junior researcher, you will work on the research project Verborgen verhalen uit het Veen (‘Hidden Stories from the Bog’), which focuses on the cultural history of Dutch raised bog landscapes.

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Soil Biology Group - Wageningen UR @sbl-wur.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

New publication led by Dr. Anna Visscher: "Early soil health responses to crop diversification and manure application vary across tropical agroecological zones" Highlights: Focus is Kenya, where 4 long-term experiments were recently redesigned into diversified systems! 📄 article lnkd.in/exwxmwsv

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

🎉 Cathelijne, Associate Professor in the SLM group at WUR, was recognised for her outstanding work in integrated fire management and her dedication to translating scientific knowledge on wildfires into practical solutions for society.🔥🔥 Congratulations Cathelijne! lnkd.in/edhF4VVQ

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

📣SOM has been puzzling scientists for 2 centuries. While still don't fully understand how and how long carbon cycles in soil, we're certainly getting closer. Don't miss the next Soil Science Cluster WUR seminar with Prof. Ingrid Kögel-Knabner (TU Munich) & Dr. Katharina Meurer (SLU Uppsala) !🌱🌱

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

✨ Last week, soil researchers @ WUR came together to connect and discuss soil topics at the 2nd edition of Soils@WUR! 🌱 🌟 With all the positive responses we received we believe it was a very successful day that may contribute to new collaboration 👏 🌱 👉 Let's keep connecting and exchanging!

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

🌿 Research from SGL shows that many streams in North Brabant did not flow through sandy stream valleys, but through peatlands. This changes our view of historical landscape&offers new starting points for stream restoration!🌊 Read more: www.wur.nl/nl/nieuws/br... & njgjournal.nl/index.php/nj...

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Brabantse beken stroomden vroeger vooral door veen

Onderzoekers van Wageningen University & Research ontdekten dat veel beekdalen oorspronkelijk venig en moerassig waren, waardoor beken nauwelijks meanderden. De inzichten kunnen grote gevolgen hebben ...

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

⏳ Only a bit more than two weeks left to register for our earthworm conference ISEE13🪱🪱🪱🪱 in Wageningen (23–28 August)! lnkd.in/eJ4PZ33N 🪱 Join our global community of earthworm researchers 🤝 Reconnect with colleagues and meet new collaborators ⭐ Hear from our invited speakers and many others 🤩

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

📣SSC seminar by Prof. Diego Abalos (Aarhus): “Monitoring needs to improve N2O budgets at field to continental scales” ⏲️June 8, 10:45-11:30📍WUR, Orion 3015 He will be opponent for Omotola Obasoro PhD @ 15.30: “Multispecies swards and multiple soil functions: evidence from agricultural grasslands”.

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

📣Publication alert! Led by Julian Helfenstein (SGL) 📃In short: agricultural management helps explain patterns in SOC across EU, especially in arable&tree crops. Some practices are associated with SOC losses, while others with SOC stocks gains.🗺️ Full text : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Continental‐Scale Evidence of Farm Management Impacts on Soil Carbon

Using standardized European farm surveys (n = 248,362 farms) to predict farm management at every soil monitoring location (n = 8834) allowed quantifying impacts of agricultural practices on SOC stock...

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

🪱Another successful Expeditie NEXT! with many interactions between soil, kids, soil organisms, scientists, students! The bodemdierendagen was well represented by NIOO and the soil cluster.....🪱🐛🐛🐜

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

⁉️ Want to protect soils & grow soil curiosity? Fill out our questionnaire! With your insights the CURIOSOIL Project develops educational materials&activities to enthuse next generations for soils🪱 🪴 📃 The questionnaire is open and takes ~15 min: lnkd.in/er3ySQDF 🔎 Check out: curiosoil.eu

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Soil Biology Group - Wageningen UR @sbl-wur.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

📣Delighted to be sharing this new paper by Roelof Zwaan & other SBL colleagues. In this paper they evaluated different approaches for calculating single indices of soil health and show that the final numbers are often in disagreement for the same site! Here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Soil Health Indices in Disagreement: A Systematic Review and Comparison of Soil Health Assessment Methods

Soil health is commonly understood as the ability of soils to provide multiple ecosystem services such as primary production, climate mitigation, and …

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Soil Biology Group - Wageningen UR @sbl-wur.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

📢Our latest paper, with contributions from Thom Kuyper and Mirjam Pulleman, uncovers how political drivers and persistent social‑ecological lock‑ins shape the future of forest transitions in Latin America 🌳. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Understanding forest transitions and lock-ins in Latin American agro-forest frontiers: aligning theory to practice for accelerating restoration

The agro-forest frontier is the dynamic border between agricultural and forested lands. Drawing on results from an interdisciplinary research programm…

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Alix Vidal 🪱 @alixvidal.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

📢 Thrilled to share that our new paper is out! 🔗 lnkd.in/eiYnv6R7 🪱 Exploring earthworms + phosphorus using the ¹⁸O‑phosphate method 👏 Kudos to Chiara Pistocchi & Andreas Burr for leading the work. 🏆 Special congratulations to Andreas Burr, whose MSc contribution earned him a Best Thesis award.

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

🎉Great event on Geoscience education at EGU 2026 “Growing Curiosity – Geoscience Education for Children” A lot of interest and soil animals were of course represented with the Bodemdierendagen and CURIOSOILS! Thank you for AGES for the organization, looking forward to collaborate next year!🪱🐛🎓

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

📣Interested in soil education and outreach? Join us at the LOESS High-Level Symposium💫 Soil Science Cluster efforts in outreach will be presented and more stakeholders will share their views! livestream available here: www.youtube.com/live/qFDj90e... Programme: loess-project.eu/loess-final-...

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High-Level Symposium LOESS

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

📣Soil scientist Slava Vasenev from SGL, leads an urban soils case study in Amsterdam for the BENCHMARK EU project! Slava and his team have been sampling soils from 20 different sites across the city understanding how human activities affect soil health 🏙️🪱 👉 Watch the full video: lnkd.in/ewfEZrBN

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

📣Vacancy for a PhD position in the EUROSION project at the SLM group. The position is facilitated by the Cyprus Institute and focuses on wind erosion monitoring. 🌬️🌱📈 Application deadline May 1, 2026. For requirements and other details please check lnkd.in/dYtqVged

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

🎉Join our short course at EGU26. We will offer a unique opportunity for participants to come together and exchange tools, insights, and experiences related to geoscience education for children.📖🥼 📍EGU26, Vienna ⏲️6. May 2026, 14:00-15:45 CET, Room -2.82 Session link: lnkd.in/dmsZsqRX

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Join the upcoming activity 'Mission Soil Exchange – Sharing Progress and Shaping Collaboration'! 🌱 📆 Tuesday April 28th from 15:00 to 17:00 CEST (door open at 14:45) 📍 Wageningen Campus (Gaia Building, room Gaia 1) 🌐 Online participation via Teams (link: lnkd.in/ebVB-zcr)

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

📣⁉️News from the Earthworm hotel 'Hotel CALIWORMIA' New season is starting in the hotel: fertilization and grass mowing will start soon, and our field trips to the hotel started already! We just had colleagues from WUR learning center learning about earthworms last week, everyone was so excited!🪱🪱

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Soil Biology Group - Wageningen UR @sbl-wur.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Happy to have Jan Willem van Groenigen as our new chair! @jwvangroenigen.bsky.social

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

⁉️The Soil Science cluster learning about GenAI with Tijmen Kersten from WUR’s Teaching and Learning Center..... very interesting and insightful session about GenAI, diversity of GenAI tools, problems and rules at WUR and discussions on how to improving our use! We need to stay up to date!

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

📣Last chance today for the Early bird registration of the International Symposium on Earthworm Ecology: event.wur.nl/isee13/home-2 🪱🪱 Ensure your early bird spot!

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

🌬️ 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝? 👉 Check out this video, produced in the context of the project SOILPROM and coordinated by Mahrooz Rezaei from the Soil Physics and Land Management group! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhkk... and find more information on the project here: soilprom.eu

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SOILPROM project - Use case presentation - Valthermond

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

🏆 Cathelijne Stoof, Associate Professor at the SLM group received the NWO Stairway to Impact Award! This award recognises researchers who go beyond academia & translate their work into solutions for real-world challenges! Congratulations Cathelijne! well-deserved recognition of impactful science 👏

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Soil Biology Group - Wageningen UR @sbl-wur.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

🎉Congratulations to our doctor Gidena Reda, graduated yesterday with the thesis: "Utilising diagnostic features to define the safe operating space for nutrient management in smallholder farming systems"🌱 contributing to smallholder farming systems in Ethiopia!🌍 research.wur.nl/en/publicati...

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

📣How can drones improve understanding&monitoring of soil erosion in agricultural systems? 👉 lnkd.in/e276JcMq Nice contribution showing how UAV-based approaches can capture spatial patterns of erosion in Mediterranean orchards, highlighting the key role of slope&management in driving soil loss 🌱

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Soil Science Cluster WUR @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

📢 New Publication from Soil Chemistry Group in American Chemical Society journal ES&T Water. A great collaborative work by Frank van Raffe and Nick Quist focusing on Geochemical Process that exert control over insitu contaminant solubility in Landfills. Have a look here: lnkd.in/e_Rew44b

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