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The Ecological Mind: ecology, research, creativity

Matthias C. Rillig

Ideas and thoughts about ecology, soil, biodiversity, environment, global change. One of the goals to generate opportunities for creativity and collaboration. So if you find a post interesting, let me know and contribute!

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AI agency as a new force in global environmental change

Artificial agency and global change: how can they be linked (Pic: M. Rillig)

I have written several times on this newsletter on how AI could influence the way we do science or how the environment could be affected, but earlier this summer...

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Fostering creative output from lab meetings

How can lab meetings foster new ideas? (Pic: M. Rillig)

I am very interested in how to make labs more creative in general, and I have written about this before here on substack, and also, based on that substack post, in a peer-reviewed pap...

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Soil persistence

When does a soil activity become a burden for soil persistene (or does it ever?) (Pic: M. Rillig).

Recently, we published a paper on the concept of soil persistence (it’s open access so feel free to check it out). I had been thinking about...

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How many different versions of soils were there at the beginning of terrestrial ecosystems?

Maybe there was a huge diversity of early soils, before land plants (Pic: M. Rillig; this is a color pencil and oil pastel drawing I made: I imagined the x axis to be time)

In the writing of two recent papers, one appearing soon in Current...

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Doing research in soil ecology with the simplest means possible

Is there value to thinking about doing low-cost research in soil ecology? (Pic: M. Rillig)

I remember a talk given at the Leopoldina meeting in Halle (Germany) by Lars Chittka on bees; I was so impressed by how much interesting science cou...

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  • Matthias C. Rillig

    Professor of ecology at Freie Universität Berlin. Works on and writes about soil ecology, biodiversity, global environmental change, and fungi. New ideas, creativity in ecological research. Book author. Highly cited researcher.

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