mrillig

mrillig, 17 days ago to Mycology

New substack post on the intrinsic/ inherent shape of a fungus.

Yep, I made that up, but I think it's pretty interesting. Read for yourself....

#fungi #fungus #mycology #mycelium

https://open.substack.com/pub/matthiasrillig/p/is-there-something-like-an-inherent?r=1yu2t7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

mrillig, 18 days ago to random

Happy International Biodiversity Day!

Most people (and evidently, AI) think that biodiversity is all above ground, where we can see it. Think again....most biodiversity is in the soil, and overwhelmingly microbial.

Pic: a set of soil saprobic fungi; we've worked on them for 10 yr

#biodiversity #BiodiversityDay

mrillig, 22 days ago to Creativity

Is there an optimal 'scientific distance' for collaboration, and if so, how do you find it?

#creativity #science #research #collaboration

https://matthiasrillig.substack.com/p/is-there-an-optimal-scientific-distance?r=1yu2t7

mrillig, 2 months ago to conservative

Our lab will soon welcome its seventh (!!) Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow; not ever, but concurrently in the lab at the same time.

Amazing! Thanks so much, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation -- one of the best things in German science.

This influx of talent is a game-changer.

If you have a great cv, please feel free to contact me.

We're interested in soil ecology, biodiversity, global change, fungi, mycorrhiza. Lately also impacts of generative AI.

#biodiversity #soil #ecology #postoc #genAI

mrillig, 2 months ago to conservative

New paper out:

Clarifying the definition of common mycorrhizal networks

(open access)

#mycorrhiza #fungi #soil #ecology
https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14545

mrillig, 3 months ago to conservative

Great overview of mycorrhiza in a Tansley Review in New Phytologist by Francis Martin and Marcel van der Heijden

The mycorrhizal symbiosis: research frontiers in genomics, ecology, and agricultural application

#mycorrhiza #soilhealth #ecology

https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19541

mrillig, 4 months ago to environment

In this week's newsletter I write about the concept of the plastisphere.

In a recent paper we clarified the definition of this term as applicable to soil, and in the post I ask what questions arise from this new view of the plastisphere.

#plastic #plasticpollution #environment #pollution

https://matthiasrillig.substack.com/p/the-plastisphere-in-soil

mrillig, 4 months ago to random

Paper just out online:

Microplastic fibres affect soil fungal communities depending on drought conditions with consequences for ecosystem functions

#microplastics #plasticpollution #soil #SoilBiodiversity #soilhealth

https://ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1462-2920.16549

mrillig, 5 months ago to environment

What's more important in terms of doing research on environmental problems?

• Finding/ discovering an issue
• Studying the issue
• Finding solutions and testing them

#environment #research

mrillig, 5 months ago to academia

Difficult time saying no?
This new video may be for you....

How to decline in a polite, professional and definitive way.

#phdlife #Academia #academic #postdoc #phd

https://youtu.be/X-0PWlT2tL8

mrillig, 6 months ago to Creativity

Really like this quote from Andrea Gibson's recent post (source given in pic).

I think in science we are all too often stuck within a thought assembly line. That can also be productive, but it is important to look for something very different.

What is the best way to do this?

#creativity #science

mrillig, 6 months ago to Mycology

My newsletter for this week: fungal mycelium in three dimensions

#fungi #fugus #mycology
https://matthiasrillig.substack.com/p/a-fungal-mycelium-in-three-dimensions

mrillig, 6 months ago to random

Happy World Soil Day!

Our lab works on effects of global change on soil; we always explore new factors and their potential consequences for soil processes and soil biodiversity

#WorldSoilDay #worldsoilday2023 #soil #soilhealth #biodiversity

mrillig, 6 months ago to science

If general chain bookshops are any indication of what people are interested in, it doesn't look good for the natural sciences, including ecology.

What do you think?

#science #books #ecology

https://open.substack.com/pub/matthiasrillig/p/books-and-bookshops-and-the-natural?r=1yu2t7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

mrillig, 6 months ago to science

If bookshops are any indication of what people are interested in.....they are not interested in natural science.

In every bookshop I've recently visited, the natural sciences section is always in the back and very tiny.

What does that mean?

#science #scicomm #books

mrillig, 6 months ago to art

What is your favorite soil-related art or artist? (of any kind)

Please share in the comments...and boost

#soil #art #artist #SoilBiodiversity

mrillig, 7 months ago to environment

Reading in journal club:

Buerge et al. (2011)

Saccharin and Other Artificial Sweeteners in Soils: Estimated Inputs from Agriculture and Households, Degradation, and Leaching to Groundwater

#pollution #environment

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es1031272

mrillig, 7 months ago to ChatGPT

ICYMI

Using ChatGPT as a creativity tool (the newsletter describes how I do it)

Have you tried this?

#chatgpt #llms #creativity #science #research

https://open.substack.com/pub/matthiasrillig/p/using-chatgpt-as-a-creativity-tool?r=1yu2t7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web