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Account age
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Jul 20latest
4
Avg engagement / post
1–5
Typical post (engagement)
0.3%
Engagement vs followers
72/100
Consistent reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 1 and 5 likes + reposts (median 4) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: I am wondering how many totally different versions of soil there · 8 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
4.6 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
3.7×
Follows 351 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
I am wondering how many totally different versions of soil there were right at the beginning of terrestrial ecosystems, well before the arrival of land plants.
(The picture shows a pencil and oil pastel drawing I made)
#soil #soils #biodiversity #ecosystem
My new paper is just online (open access)
Artificial Agency as a New Force in Global Environmental Change
Curious to hear what people think!
https://pubs.acs.org/esthag/article/doi/10.1021/acs.est.6c09177/5249666/Artificial-Agency-as-a-New…
How many different versions of soils were there at the beginning of terrestrial ecosystems?
https://matthiasrillig.substack.com/p/how-many-different-versions-of-soils?r=1yu2t7
#soil #ecosystems #soilBiodiversity
Very pleased to see this online at New Phytologist
Operationalizing soil persistence in soil and ecosystem ecology
w/ Laurent Philippot & Johannes Lehmann
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.71492
#soil #environment #glob…
Reading in journal club
Khan et al. in
The unseen architects: Unraveling soil faunal necromass contribution to soil carbon sequestration
w/ lab alumnus Carlos Aguilar
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038071726001628
#s…
Paper just out:
Wang et al.
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi orchestrate belowground microbiomes in plant holobionts
https://www.cell.com/trends/plant-science/abstract/S1360-1385(26)00218-9
With Marcel van der Heijden, Nancy Johnson; senior a…
Doing research in soil ecology with the simplest means possible.
Some thoughts on high-powered, resource-intensive research vs. frugal research.
And yes, I think we need both. :)
What are your thoughts?
https://open.substack.com/pub/matthi…
New paper just out in iMeta:
Tu et al.
Exposure to micro- and nano-plastics: From human internal burden to systems-level health-risk interpretation
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/imt2.70156
#microplastic #health
Reading in journal club
Roots navigate around decay regions by sensing local pH gradients
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw6568
#roots #soil #ecology
Establishing causality in experiments: how deep is deep enough?
Are there opportunity costs of pursuing certain chains of causality to extreme detail?
What do you think?
https://open.substack.com/pub/matthiasrillig/p/establishing-causality…
Reading in journal club
Isbell et al.
Predicting temporal stability and resilience from resistance and recovery
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10498-4
#stability #ecosystems #resilience
Are mycorrhizal fungi (especially AM fungi) fairly unique in terms of being important for both ecosystem processes and soil persistence?
Or is this personal bias? What do you think?
https://open.substack.com/pub/matthiasrillig/p/mycorrhiza…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
mastodon.online
A large general-interest Mastodon server. On the fediverse the server a creator picks hints at their community — this one spans all topics.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 4 views per post.
📤Posts about 4.6× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated43/100
Fair
Credibility score
73%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 73% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.3% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Professor (Ecology). Our lab at Freie Universität Berlin is interested in soil, global change, biodiversity, and fungi.
I'm also active on youtube, making videos on life in academia.
#PhdChat #PhdLife #PostdocLife #academia #SciComm
#ecology #soil #biodiversity #fungi #ClimateChange #GlobalChange #mycorrhiza #microplastics #EnvironmentalScience #pollution #SoilEcology #plants
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