Michaela A. Dippold

📰Published📰Teamwork underground: How different mycorrhizal fungi help trees find the nutrients they need🌳 buff.ly/SSK3HSF 🧪🌍️

This is a critical moment to take stock of the KMBGF implementation, respond to the evidence, and strengthen the conditions for biodiversity action through 2030.

Today the Global State of Biodiversity Action Report is being launched by @unbiodiversity.bsky.social at #COP17Armenia.

Dear Abhi, my wholehearted congratulations: what a well-deserved achievement. Crossing fingers, this will support your future career and you'll remain inspired by the @terra-cluster.org research on geo-biosphere interactions!

📢 #JobOffer for #PostDoc in #Robotics & #AI: If your skills in the field of machine learning shall contribute to #biodiverse, #resilient & #sustainable #agroecosystems: Apply now: forms.gle/dTVadJpjLBek... @unituebingen.bsky.social; @uni-freiburg.de; @terra-cluster.org; @ml4science.bsky.social

Amazing 2nd field application at #Weiherhof near Haigerloch, again with amazing weather: Drone images showclear differentiation of the individual fertilizer applications. Now, we are ultra-curious if that picture will be mirrored, once doing a drone flight above the growing wheat field. STAY TUNED!

New paper out! 🌱 Low soil phosphorus conditioning enhances mutualism in Rhizophagus irregularis, regardless of nuclear organization, even when P conditions shift. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Visiting our @terra-cluster.org #FynFUN PhDs during their work at the Fynbos Biome was fascinating: What successfull progress in sampling! Great strategic move by Frank Schurr (@unihohenheim.bsky.social) & @bossdorf.bsky.social (@unituebingen.bsky.social ) to locate GeoGENE next to a local brewery🍻

🌱🧬Plant defense chemicals serve more than defense. Non-defense functions arise via pleiotropy, shared regulation or correlated selection, shaping genetic constraints Understanding their evolution requires linking multifunctionality to genetics & selection nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Angesichts des Stolperstein-Verbots in der sächsischen Stadt Heidenau ruft Bundesumweltminister Carsten Schneider dazu auf, sich entschieden für das Gedenken an die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus im öffentlichen Raum einzusetzen.

Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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

Wow - now I'm a bit jelaous that I did not volunteer to represent the @terra-cluster.org at this amazing meeting (but, as it seems, also amazing location). Happy to hear that you had insightful discussions and came back to @unituebingen.bsky.social with lots of new inspirations and collaborations 👏

Noch einmal - und wieder mit harten Fakten unterlegt: Wir brauchen Ihr Gas nicht, Frau Reiche! Orientieren Sie sich endlich an den Fakten der Wissenschaft - und nicht den finanziellen Interessen Ihrer früheren(?) Auftraggeber!

Oh yes - with amazing weather, a great team and a lot of fun distributing 11.3 baskets of #EcoFuture_KAP4 homogenously on the 6x6 m plots :-) Two sites more to go 💪

Happy #WorldMicroorganismDay! The word ‘microbe’ literally means 'small life.' Yet, there are species of microbes that are not microscopic and others that are not alive. So, what even counts as a microbe? asm.org/articles/202...

SCIENCE HAS REPLACED RELIGION BECAUSE SCIENCE TELLS THE TRUTH !

Saturation mutagenesis of the FCY1 promoter in budding yeast shows that adaptation to 5-fluorocytosine is not accessible through single cis-regulatory mutations, despite large mutational effects on protein abundance 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The next time a climate change denier comes at you with that excuse:

📢 #JobAlert: TERRA seeks a Group Leader for #biogeochemical modelling. Interested in C, N, P or any other #element #cycle ? You want to built up your first own research group within the insipiring @terra-cluster.org @unituebingen.bsky.social? Please apply (QR-code) - more info here: lnkd.in/e8MTaYVm

Deutschland gibt Rekordsummen für Verteidigung aus – 108,2 Mrd. Euro im regulären Etat, plus Sondervermögen. Doch das System bleibt dysfunktional: „Wenn man die Strukturen nicht ändert, kommt nichts Besseres heraus.“ 🧵 web.de/magazine/pol...

A short time ago, our speaker @michaeladippold.bsky.social presented TERRA, who we are, what we do, snd what we stand for, at the Geosymposium at the GUZ (@unituebingen.bsky.social).

🌳How close are tropical forests to their photosynthetic limit? Our new paper highlights the vulnerability of these ecosystems to further warming and the importance of accurately representing canopy temperature. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @wslresearch.bsky.social

Verfassungsschutz sagt, die AfD ist gesichert rechtsextrem. Rechte: Das ist eine staatliche Stelle, der darf man nicht trauen! Unabhängiges GFF-Gutachten sagt, die AfD ist verfassungswidrig. Rechte: Das ist eine private Stelle, der darf man nicht trauen! Fast so, als wäre das nur Propaganda.

Katie Phang discussing LIVE NOW on MeidasTouch: www.youtube.com/live/FzJIVP5...

Das ist drei Monate her. taz.de/Hitzeschutz-...

Unsere Kinder und Enkel werden uns bitter verfluchen. Die #Erderhitzung lässt sich auch durch Nullemissionen nicht zurückdrehen, nur die weitere Erhitzung stoppen. Denn CO2 bleibt Jahrtausende in der Luft. Kipppunkte kommen näher. Es wird kein Zurück geben.

So proud today. @melnagel.bsky.social came by #GUZ today to celebrate her leaving @past2futureclimate.bsky.social and @unituebingen.bsky.social since she took up her professorship in political science! Way to go! Looking forward to working with you at the climates waters policy nexus!

And it was amazingly great - I really enjoyed the spirit of the meeting - seeing science to be brought into realization is always one of the most amazing elements of researcher's life. I'm extremely curious how this super well-thought through syntropic agroforest system will develope over the years

Sivu Situngu shows that bacterial and fungal richness increases with frequent burning in a semi arid savanna. #SSNM. Lovely data and analyses.

From #growth potential to #drought survival: a trait- and time-based framework for plant #water economics across #vascular species nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience #PlantStress @newphyt.bsky.social @sciplant.bsky.social @silvapereiralab.bsky.social @plecevo.bsky.social

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Investigating GERMs: how #genotype, #environment, and rhizosphere #microbiome interactions underlie #heat response in #maize and #sorghum nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience #SciComm @newphyt.bsky.social @wileylifesci.bsky.social @plant-sci.bsky.social @psumbiome.bsky.social

Die AfD in Berlin plant quasi Bürgerwehren, um in der Öffentlichkeit marginalisierte Menschen und Andersdenkende zu schikanieren. Wie lange darf sich eine NSdAP-Kopie noch am Busen der Demokratie laben, um diese abzuschaffen? Wann endlich landen solch umstürzlerischen Menschenfeinde im Gefängnis?

Gene editing to enhance photosynthesis in crop plants offers a strategy to boost plant carbon capture and mitigate climate change. A Review in Nature Reviews Bioengineering explores the challenges in engineering photosynthesis for carbon sequestration. 🔒

Invasion legacy reshapes resident microbiome multifunctionality through the Matthew effect - Xing - 2026 - Journal of Applied Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Wie der Herr…

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 💪

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)!

Interesting results and inspires us to think why the fungi has more resistance to drought than bacteria

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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