Final version published in Nature Reviews Earth and Environment:

Constraining the effect of global change on antifungal resistance

#antifungal #pesticides #environment #soil

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-025-00756-w

Reading in journal club:

Mycelial biomass growth stage at death determines fungal necromass decay dynamics

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038071725003736

#fungi #fungus #soil #decomposition #necromass

How can we include the creative side of research in basic courses in ecology/ environmental sciences?

How have you done it?

https://open.substack.com/pub/matthiasrillig/p/including-the-creative-side-of-research?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

#teaching #environment #creativity

A new perspective paper is out:

Tingting Zhao et al.

Beyond Microplastics: How Tire Wear Particles Influence Plant Performance

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.5c16398

#microplastics #pollution #environment

Study quantifies micro- and nanoplastics in the urban air in Leipzig, Germany

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02980-0

#pollution #plastic #microplastics

Es ist bald Frühling.

Darf ich unser Buch “Mutter Erde” für alle Gärtner empfehlen? Da kann man viel über die wunderbare Welt des Bodens lernen, und auch über aktuelle Forschung erfahren, auch aus dem Alltag unseres Labors.

Erschienen Ende 2025 im Ullstein Verlag, erhältlich als eBook oder in Hardcover.

Bitte teilen! Danke!

https://www.ullstein.de/werke/mutter-erde/hardcover/9783550202957

#Boden #Ökologie #Bodenökologie #Klimawandel #Pollution

New paper out in The Innovation

Zhang et al. (collaboration with Yong-Guan Zhu)

Potential plastic biodegradation in lakes worldwide

https://www.cell.com/the-innovation/fulltext/S2666-6758(26)00085-8

#microplastics #plasticpollution

Reading in journal club

Why, when, and how microbes can benefit ecological restorations: current approaches and future directions

https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70995

#restoration #ecosystemRestoration #soil #soilhealth #microbiome

Operationalizing soil persistence; this week's substack. Curious about what you think, please let me know...currently writing on this.

https://matthiasrillig.substack.com/p/operationalizing-soil-persistence?r=1yu2t7

A new greenhouse experiment themed around soil restoration is up and running.

This experiment explores a novel experimental design and is headed by Rebecca Rongstock and Huiying Li.

#experiment #soilhealth #greenhouse #plants #soil #restoration

New paper out:

Huang et al. w/ Deyi Hou

Earthworm Casting Drives Soil Microplastic Upward Transport and the Formation of Biogenic Polymer Aggregates

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.6c00640

New paper out in Nature Geoscience

He et al. Impacts of microplastics on terrestrial soil carbon dynamics

w/ Yuyi Yang & others

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-026-01935-0

Reading in journal club:

"I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too"

#academic #academia #publishing

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04061-w

Reading in journal club

Shelton et al.
Fungal ecology in the age of 'omics

#fungi #fungus #soil
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70900

Mein Radiointerview mit ndr zum Bodenschutz und dem Buch "Mutter Erde"

#boden #umwelt #buch

https://www.ndr.de/kirche/podcast/gott-und-die-welt-mit-matthias-rillig,audio-349262.html

Academic friendships are so important for creativity in science.

What's been your experience?

#academic #academia #friendship #creativity

https://open.substack.com/pub/matthiasrillig/p/academic-friendships-and-creativity?r=1yu2t7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

New paper out:

Li, Rongstock et al.

Number and dissimilarity of soil amendments influence soil properties and plant communities in a greenhouse experiment

#soil #environment #restoration
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016706126000315

Evangelou et al. in Nature

Atmospheric #microplastics emissions from land and ocean

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09998-6

Environmental drivers can shift in effect direction when acting in concert with other factors

#environment #globalchange #soil

https://open.substack.com/pub/matthiasrillig/p/environmental-drivers-can-shift-in?r=1yu2t7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Gestern mit rbb radio 3 über das Buch "Mutter Erde" gesprochen, sowie über den Boden des Jahres - den Archivboden.

#boden #soil #buch
https://www.radiodrei.de/programm/schema/sendungen/radio3_am_nachmittag/archiv/20260120_1600/radio3_aktuell_1810.html