AntonCollembola
LightNews LightNews
banner
antoncollembola.bsky.social
AntonCollembola
@antoncollembola.bsky.social
270 followers 42 following 5 posts
Soil animal diversity. Who eats whom in soil and what does this mean. #SoilBON. @soilorganismsj.bsky.social journal. #GlobalCollembola
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
antoncollembola.bsky.social
AntonCollembola @antoncollembola.bsky.social · Dec 1
Who eats whom in soil and why we care? www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/blog-beneath...
What, where and how do soil animals eat? And why do we need to know? — Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative
We all know the early bird catches the worm, but what does the worm catch? What animals that live in soil eat down there is hard to observe but important to know. Over the past two decades or so, ecol...
www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org
Reposted by AntonCollembola
soilorganismsj.bsky.social
Do you love soil organisms? I mean LUV them?? ♥️

Your love will complete with that of photographers Andy Murray @mesofauna.bsky.social & Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social

They sat with @mitemonica.bsky.social to talk why & how they do what they do in the current issue!

doi.org/10.25674/504
April 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Reposted by AntonCollembola
soilorganismsj.bsky.social
Check out the new issue of Soil Organisms HOT off the presses!

soil-organisms.org/SO
Soil Organisms
SOIL ORGANISMS is an English-language, international journal that includes original papers and review articles covering all aspects of organismic soil biology. Open Access. Double blind peer reviewed.
soil-organisms.org
April 1, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Reposted by AntonCollembola
mitemonica.bsky.social
Man, I don't know what to say. It's getting tougher to move global collaborations and initiatives forward.

Anton Potapov @antoncollembola.bsky.social, Nico Eisenhauer, & I address this & some thoughts about moving forward in this issue of Soil Organisms @soilorganismsj.bsky.social
soilorganismsj.bsky.social Soil Organisms Journal @soilorganismsj.bsky.social · Apr 2
Global scientific colllaboration is suffering.

HOW DO WE MOVE FORWARD?

Please read the editorial in this month's issue of SO and share with colleagues plz!

soil-organisms.org/SO/article/v...
View of Global scientific collaboration under strain — implications for soil biodiversity research and conservation
soil-organisms.org
April 2, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Reposted by AntonCollembola
maltejochum.bsky.social
Greater trophic diversity of soil animal communities under agricultural land use and tropical climate. Just out in @natecoevo.nature.com led by Zheng Zhou and @antoncollembola.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌐
Greater trophic diversity of soil animal communities under agricultural land use and tropical climate - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Soil fauna is an important but often neglected component of terrestrial food webs. Here the authors use a large dataset of stable isotope observations to analyse how soil animal trophic diversity vari...
www.nature.com
March 16, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Reposted by AntonCollembola
soilorganismsj.bsky.social
📢 An ✨ONLINE FIRST✨ Call for Collaborators!

Xin Sun & colleagues seek collaborators in #eDNA of #urban #soil

Check out the call HERE ⬇️

soil-organisms.org/SO/article/v...
March 3, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Reposted by AntonCollembola
soilorganismsj.bsky.social
📢 ONLINE FIRST! #Collembola lovers 🚨ALERT!!🚨

What makes photographs of soil organisms appealing to the viewer?

Camila Leandro & colleagues @ l'Université Montpellier - Paul Valéry evaluate viewers' perspectives in this issue of Soil Organisms!

CHECK IT OUT & PLZ REPOST! 👇

doi.org/10.25674/477
February 26, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Reposted by AntonCollembola
soilorganismsj.bsky.social
Art is a way of life & tool to communicate about science, soils & soil organisms 🪱🐜🍄🌱 The new SO column celebrates this! 🎉

Svenja Meyer @fminifera.bsky.social is inspired by & spreads the love of soil organisms though her art. Read more here:
soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO...

📢 Please repost!
A red haired woman in a blue outdoor jacket with green and rust colored trees behind her.
April 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Reposted by AntonCollembola
soilorganismsj.bsky.social
Are #collembola #bioluminescent? They sure are!! 🤩
Can you capture this with a smart phone? You can! 😍

Atsuko Ohira & Taizo Nakamori show us in their latest paper in Soil Organisms. Check it out below!

soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO...

📢 Please repost 💚
April 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Reposted by AntonCollembola
soilorganismsj.bsky.social
📢 Another ✨ONLINE FIRST✨ article today in Soil Organisms!

Hayden Bock & colleagues examine the effects of urbanization on the trophic niches of some common soil-dwelling taxa. Please repost!! 🕷️🕷️🕷️
#mites #collembola #soilbiodiversity
@cornellcals.bsky.social

soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO...
June 23, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Reposted by AntonCollembola
soilorganismsj.bsky.social
📢 Welcome to the beginning of Soil Organisms ✨ONLINE FIRST✨!

Articles made available online before tri-yearly issues! 🪱🐜

TODAY! Karin Hohberg tells us about the status of soil biodiversity in Germany!

soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO...

@christianristok.bsky.social
@eisenhauerlab.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Reposted by AntonCollembola
soilorganismsj.bsky.social
🌱🪱🐌 How DOES the biodiversity crisis manifest in Germany and what are its effects? Christian Wirth of @idiv-research.bsky.social & @unileipzig.bsky.social & colleagues focus on this in their latest article. CHECK IT OUT! Please repost.

soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO...
German biodiversity assessment goes below ground: Editorial – This paper is part of the special collection ‘Faktencheck Artenvielfalt’ | Soil Organisms
soil-organisms.org
April 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Reposted by AntonCollembola
soilorganismsj.bsky.social
📢 The APRIL 2025 issue of Soil Organisms is OUT! New articles. New types of articles. Soil biodiversity and science communication. CHECK IT OUT NOW! ⬇️

soil-organisms.org
Soil Organisms
SOIL ORGANISMS is an English-language, international journal that includes original papers and review articles covering all aspects of organismic soil biology. Open Access. Double blind peer reviewed.
soil-organisms.org
April 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
antoncollembola.bsky.social
We are hiring a PhD student / 75% postdoc to explore recent trends of #soil #biodiversity in Germany. The job is in a collaborative project TrenDiv across multiple institutions with the working place at our department of Soil Zoology in Görlitz.
www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...
Jobs for Scientists | Senckenberg Society for Nature Research
www.senckenberg.de
January 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Reposted by AntonCollembola
thegsbi.bsky.social
The GSBI is looking for a new home 🏠 by April 2026. We encourage individuals, institutions, and organizations to submit a bid to host the GSBI by March 1st 2025!

See the full call 👇

www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/apply-to-hos...
Apply to host the GSBI — Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative
www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org
January 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Reposted by AntonCollembola
soilorganismsj.bsky.social
Thank you to all our hard-working reviewers, staff, and authors who have made 2024 a wonderful year at Soil Organisms ✨🪱

We look forward to seeing you all in 2025!! ✨⏳✨

@eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @antoncollembola.bsky.social @sgn.one
December 23, 2024 at 4:36 AM
antoncollembola.bsky.social
Soil fauna #traits and #soil organic matter transformation concept paper is out in @funecology.bsky.social. Fully collaborative work, out just before Christmas! Happy holidays to everyone! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Linking effect traits of soil fauna to processes of organic matter transformation
You have to enable JavaScript in your browser's settings in order to use the eReader.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 22, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Reposted by AntonCollembola
frantecol.bsky.social
This, this, 100 times this.

My job consists of battling to keep some time free for thinking - the entire system seems to be designed to stop me doing so.

bsky.app/profile/rrit...
rritunnano.bsky.social Rosa Ritunnano @rritunnano.bsky.social · Dec 20
Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.
December 21, 2024 at 12:58 PM
antoncollembola.bsky.social
I’m thrilled to share that my ERC Consolidator grant proposal “CARBONWEB” was funded 😱 ! I the next five years you will hear more about global #soil fauna #macroecology, #foodwebs and carbon cycling 🚴🏽. The project is liked to our global soil biodiversity monitoring initiative, Soil BON
December 17, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Reposted by AntonCollembola
maltejochum.bsky.social
Hey #BES2024 - if you are into
Soils or SciComm or BOTH, we have a free resource for you!

We have 33 English articles about all kinds of topics re. Soil Biodiversity:
kids.frontiersin.org/collections/...

AND we have 174 translated articles to 26 languages:
idiv-biodiversity.de/en/young-min...
Soil biodiversity
This Collection is the work of more than 50 scientists and Young Reviewers from all around the globe. Our role as editors, together with the authors, was to share our love of soil biodiversity with yo...
kids.frontiersin.org
December 12, 2024 at 7:16 AM
Reposted by AntonCollembola
soilorganismsj.bsky.social
Diana Wall was a leader in #soilecology & #soilbiodiversity across the globe. She mentored many scientists & policy-makers around the world. Read about & SO's new column in honor of Diana #TheWallReview. PLZ repost!
soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO...
A blonde, light-skinned woman with short-hair in a turquoise sweater.
December 3, 2024 at 6:51 AM
Reposted by AntonCollembola
soilorganismsj.bsky.social
The latest issue of Soil Organisms is out! Read it here:
soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO...
December 3, 2024 at 10:08 AM
Reposted by AntonCollembola
soilorganismsj.bsky.social
Happy #WorldSoilDay2024! Soil is the home to more than 59% of the biodiversity on Earth and home to the greatest organisms – Soil Organisms! 🐌🪱🦠

#soilbiodiversity #soilecology #soilorganisms #Soil
December 5, 2024 at 1:45 PM
antoncollembola.bsky.social
What is a „functional trait“ in soil invertebrate ecology? A big mess revealed in scientific literature and researcher heads🥸. Check our paper where we tried to clean this mess 🧹🧹🧹
December 5, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Reposted by AntonCollembola
tshahan.bsky.social
Lepidocyrtus fimicolus found beneath/in damp rotting wood in my garden 🤩🌈
November 24, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Reposted by AntonCollembola
frankashwood.bsky.social
I’ve been gaining some new followers recently, so it’s time for a reintroduction!

I’m a scientist & macrophotographer, fascinated by all the amazing creatures that live in the soil. I use my photos for SciComm to spread love for soil biodiversity, and I’m writing a book on the subject too! 🧪
A photograph of a blue, soft-bodied springtail invertebrate, with long organe spines covering its back. The sprintail is crawling on the surface of a decaying log, and facing the camera. A screenshot of a press release article on The Bookseller website, describing the sale to Hodder Press and Random House of the rights to a book on soil biodiversity by Frank Ashwood.
November 5, 2024 at 8:29 AM