Matthias C. Rillig
@mrillig
Professor (Ecology) ML MAE, FU Berlin | soil | fungi | biodiversity | mycorrhiza | global change | microplastic | AI effects | YouTube: Life in Academia
Super excited that my YouTube channel 'Life in academia' just hit 10 K subscribers!!!! Thanks for watching and for hitting that subscribe button y'all! 🥳 #AcademicChatter #phdchat youtube.com/c/mrillig
We have a new doctor! Congratulations Huiying for defending her PhD - excellent job, very proud!
Reading in journal club Van Nuland et al. Global hotspots of mycorrhizal fungal richness are poorly protected @SPUN @Mike_VanNuland @KiersToby & many others nature.com/articles/s4158…
What do you think? How can we make progress in the environmental sciences (or other fields) by generally improving theory? Will this work in a way similar to mathematics?
This week’s newsletter is about ways of making progress in science, inspired from a metaphor in mathematics, ‘the rising sea’. Curious to hear what you think, please share! :) open.substack.com/pub/matthiasri…
Paper out in Environmental Pollution: Riedo et al. Abrupt versus gradual application of pesticides: effects on soil bacterial and fungal communities sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
ICYMI Alternative careers for postdocs and PhD students: overcoming academia as the default choice I think it's important to change the culture, taking into account that there are many interesting careers out there. youtube.com/watch?v=vlVwnT…
A new soil ecology walk video is out: How much biodiversity is there in soils? youtu.be/iBz_-5bR8B4?si…
Paper accepted: Research landscape of experiments on global change effects on mycorrhizae Will share details of open-access paper once available.
Paper accepted: Abrupt versus gradual application of pesticides: effects on soil bacterial and fungal communities Will share details of open-access paper once available
Reading in journal club: @Bea_m_Bock et al. in @CommsBio Evidence for common fungal networks among plants formed by a Dark Septate Endophyte in Sorghum bicolor nature.com/articles/s4200…
Great paper, resulting from a collaboration of 4 doctoral researchers in our group!
Increasing the number of anthropogenic stressors reduces the effects of plant diversity. A study by Yanjie Zhu, et al. in our #LatestIssue represents a first attempt to address the effect of plant diversity under multi-stressor combinations. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… @mrillig
Some thoughts on how to cope in this time of multiple crises. Please share your thoughts if you additional points! open.substack.com/pub/matthiasri…
Paper just accepted: Mycorrhizal allies: synergizing forest carbon and multifunctional restoration Wills share details once available
Paper just online: Ristok et al. Towards a comprehensive assessment of soil biodiversity in Germany: status quo, challenges, and policy implications soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO/a…
Paper just accepted: Meta-analysis of effects of common mycorrhizal networks formed by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on plant and fungal parameters Will share full details to open-access paper once available
Paper just accepted: Deep Mutual Learning: incentives and trust through practitioner engagement for integrating artificial intelligence into sustainability science Will share details when available
Consciousness Radio Interview at OIST: Part5 /5 On the procedure of writing grants, papers, etc. youtu.be/eyTN4ioE-yQ?fe… @YouTube This is the last part of my interview with @mrillig!
Reading in journal club: Systemic territoriality in academia: The Gollum effect’s impact on scientific research and careers @OneEarth_CP sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Well, that blew my mind. Are we writing for entities other than humans in the future?
I'm constantly irritated that I don't have time to read the torrent of cool papers coming faster and faster from amazing people in relevant fields. Other scientists have the same issue and have no time to read most of my lengthy conceptual papers either. So whom are we writing…