Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNIL
We are curious how interactions among organic matter, microbes, and minerals in soil drive and respond to climate change |
PI: Marco Keiluweit |
This account shares updates and news from the team |
University of Lausanne 🇨🇭|
wp.unil.ch/bgc
- New paper! 🎉 Check out how soil organic N dynamics within MAOM are mediated by management and geochemistry. Team effort led by Rachel Hestrin and Gabriella Griffin + major contributions from @andreajilling.bsky.social and @stuartsoil.bsky.social + many others. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Job Alert 🚨 : Two-year Postdoc in Redox Biogeochemistry of Coastal Soils available. Focus on oxygen, metal and carbon cycling in the rhizosphere. shorturl.at/NybzX Start date: April 1st 2026, or upon mutual agreement. Salary: ~82 000 CHF/yr Deadline: Jan 5
- Reposted by Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNIL👏Félicitations à Antoine Guisan et Marco Keiluweit, deux professeurs de la Faculté des géosciences et de l'environnement de l'UNIL, pour leur présence dans la liste Clarivate des chercheurs les plus cités au monde. 🌎 www.unil.ch/news/1763621... @unil.bsky.social
- Very surprised (and pleased 😊) to be listed as 2025 Highly Cited Researcher for the first time! Great occasion to thank all the amazing mentors, collaborators and team members that I have been lucky enough to work with over the years! #HighlyCited2025 @fgse-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social
- Reposted by Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNILWhen it comes to climate change, our diets matter — and matter a lot. Not to mention for biodiversity, water, and especially our own health. The updated EAT-Lancet report makes this abundantly clear. apnews.com/article/plan...
- NEW PAPER 🚨 Curious how plant root exudation and soil texture might interact to form dynamic anoxic microsites in the #rhizosphere, and what they might mean for the fate of soil #carbon, nutrient or contaminent in #soils? Check out @soiltycoon.bsky.social's new paper in SBB: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
- Time for new group 📷! Really lucky to work with such a great group of people. Go Team!
- We're super excited about my @unil.bsky.social colleague @pbenettin.bsky.social 's new Ecotrons! Fully climate controlled soil lysimeters! So many possibilities for manipulations and experiments!
- The new Ecotron system manufactured by UGT and funded by the UNIL Faculty of Geoscience and the Environment @fgse-unil.bsky.social is operational! It's a rather big machine with a very big potential for ecohydrological experimentation.
- PAPER 🚨 Organic matter associated with reactive #soil minerals (aka #MAOM) is often assumed to be the most persistence terrestrial #carbon pool. Here we introduce a new mechanistic framework for the vulnerability of this vast #carbon reservoir to disruption in the #rhizosphere. rdcu.be/euik0
- Tobias Bölscher, Zoe G. Cardon, Mariela Garcia Arredondo, Stéphanie Grand, Gabriella Griffen, Rachel Hestrin, Josephine Imboden, Floriane Jamoteau, Emily M. Lacroix, Sherlynette Pérez Castro, Per Persson, William J. Riley & Marco Keiluweit
- Reposted by Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNILTwo junior professor chair positions are currently open at CEREGE, with a third position coming soon ! 🔬🌍 To learn more and apply, please visit our careers page: www.cerege.fr/en/le-cerege... #PaleoEnvironment #GlobalChanges #SocioEcosystems
- Reposted by Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNILThis is a good start. While in government, I was dismayed by how the value of scicomm was devalued at multiple levels. The hard truth: This is not just about better PR, without effective scicomm, we lose public support for critical investments that benefit EVERYONE. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
- Reposted by Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNILNew pub in @aguadvances.bsky.social: "A Soil Scientist Goes to Washington: Navigating the Path to National #ScienceLeadership" #STEM Sharing my journey as DOE Office of Science Director, the challenges faced, and why inclusive excellence in STEM matters now more than ever. Read: tinyurl.com/ms2nhr4f
- MSc and PhD students abroad: If you are interested in #microbiomes in #soils (or other systems) and keen on research in #Switzerland, consider applying for these #fellowships with us other other groups of the #NCCR Microbiomes nccr-microbiomes.ch/education/nc.... Interested? DM or Email.
- And Postdocs are eligible, too!
- Excited to christen our own boat „Flight“ during annual meeting of CMarsh, our @Simonsfoundation.org project to study C cycling in marsh soil (Zoe Cardon, MBL, Jennifer Bowen, Northeastern, Inke Forbrich, U of Toledo, Anne Giblin, MBL, Charles Harvey MIT, and Amanda Spivak, U of Georgia)
- Reposted by Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNILApplications now open for UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evo Bio (1–6 Sept 2025, Lausanne)! Aimed at PhD students interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology questions like sexual selection, social & life-history evolution. Scholarships available. Pls share! www.shorturl.at/znk5g
- Still ongoing
- Interested in spatially resolving microbial necromass formation and recycling? Check out Bouke Bentvelsen‘s poster at #EGU2025 today.
- Interested in spatially resolving microbial necromass formation and recycling? Check out Bouke Bentvelsen‘s poster at #EGU2025 today.
- Reposted by Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNILIt's timely that I re-post a tweet from July, 2022 (if you know why, you know), which I made soon after I left my first postdoc. Many empathized with me then and still do today. *the original tweet is gone b/c I quit Twitter, but it has been archived elsewhere: www.instagram.com/p/CgCRxO5OIG...
- Today at #EGU2025: Samuel Steiner on controls of nitrogen use efficiency in agroecosystems
- Come find us #EGU2025 this morning, featuring @soiltycoon.bsky.social on anoxic microsites and Junna Frei on MAOM destabilization in the rhizosphere.
- Happening now
- Required reading for all soil scientists and those that would like to become one.
- 📢 New pub: Defining #soil science: Balancing fundamental research and societal needs, in Soil Science Society of America Journal doi.org/10.1002/saj2... @teamrat.bsky.social & I argue, soil science, though crucial for solving environmental challanges, should not be defined solely by its applications
- Reposted by Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNILPhd in spatial planning and sustainable land use at Uni Lausanne! career5.successfactors.eu/career?_s.cr...
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Sexual harassment allegations linked to drop in citations www.nature.com/articles/d41... - Reposted by Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNILLower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Soil Biogeochemistry @ UNILThree years ago, I wrote this rapid ramble of a blog, "The kids are not ok", following my experience of a failed climate lecture. It remains the most read piece I have ever written. I just looked at it again: I can see why. It's ... just honest. jksteinberger.medium.com/the-kids-are...
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