Major grant rejected. Meh. Feel free to send cat pics.
On the positive side, some good news on manuscripts.

Reading in (online) journal club:
Global hotspots for soil nature conservation

Carlos A. Guerra ManuDelgadoBaquerizo nature #SoilHealth #soil
nature.com/articles/s4158…

Looking forward to contributing to this art/ science workshop in Basel this coming week.

experimentalecology.art

Paper accepted:

'Ten Simple Rules for how you can help make your lab a better place as a graduate student or postdoc'

#AcademicChatter #phdchat #phdlife
Will share open-access link once available.

There are now 17 videos in the playlist

'Manuscripts: publishing, writing, revising, reviewing, journals'

(out of over 160 videos total...)

Hope you find them useful! :) what other topics would you like to see covered?

youtube.com/playlist?list=… via YouTube

New paper in Journal for Sustainable Agriculture & Environment- Distance to semi‐natural habitats matters for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in wheat roots and wheat performance in a temperate agricultural landscape by Walzl, Masahiro Ryo Matthias C. Rillig et al
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sa…

Biodiversity: Concepts, Patters, Trends & Perspectives

Sandra Diaz and Malhi in Annual Reviews
#biodiversity
annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.11…

Do you want to gain more information from correlations than just an r^2 or rho value? Try #qad ! #rstats IDA Lab Salzburg Biology Uni Marburg Philipps-Universität
doi.org/10.1111/2041-2…

Unsere Beprobung in der Nähe der Berliner Mauer hat gezeigt: Material vom Graffiti-Sprayen trägt Mikroplastik in den Boden ein.
Tagesspiegel Wissen&Forschen Berliner Morgenpost

If you could have one question in your field of science answered, what would it be?

And why is it, if there is life on other planets, does it have fungi? 🤣

Graffiti contributes to #microplastic in soil.

Our new study near the #Berlin Wall shows some of the highest concentrations of microplastics ever measured.
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
Yaqi Xu Walter Waldman Tagesspiegel Wissen&Forschen Berliner Morgenpost

New youtube video out:

You don't need a scientific breakthrough for your PhD (a common misconception)

Academic YouTubers Academic Chatter™ #PhD #phdlife #phdadvice
youtu.be/y-L-Y9sTArY

Ich freue mich darauf die Journalistinnen und Journalisten bei uns im Labor willkommen zu heißen (oder online). Es gibt auch einen Besuch bei unserem Berlin Global Change Feld-Experiment!

Paper online!
Yaqi Xu Yaqi XU w/ Walter Waldman

New separation protocol reveals spray painting as a neglected source of microplastics in soils

#microplastics #soil #plasticpollution
link.springer.com/article/10.100…