Matthias C. Rillig

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How can we most effectively work with researchers from other fields in terms of identifying where the interesting questions at the interface are? Any thoughts? Any resources you know about? open.substack.com/pub/matthiasri…

Looking forward to giving a plenary lecture at the VAAM 2026 conference in Berlin (my talk is on Sunday) It's on my favorite topic....

Final version published in Nature Reviews Earth and Environment: Constraining the effect of global change on antifungal resistance with @Changchao_Li, Wei Fu and Guanghui Xu. nature.com/articles/s4301…

Reading in journal club: Mycelial biomass growth stage at death determines fungal necromass decay dynamics sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@Martin_A_Nunez Absolutely, in small classes this works fine. The challenge is the big ones....

@mrillig if you have enough TAs, for sure But for a classic large lecture it may not work... but you can ask about "thought experiments" perhaps... I never tried that. I teach small classes (<30) and it is really nice to see them coming with ideas. I am always surprised. love it.

How can we include the creative side of research in basic courses in ecology/ environmental sciences? How have you done it? open.substack.com/pub/matthiasri…

@ATinyGreenCell I also think so!

@mrillig Thanks for even asking this question. Important in any natural science coursework, tbh.

@Martin_A_Nunez Nice. Will this work in a class with 300 students as well?

@mrillig by letting them ask questions about nature, and to try to answer them with observations or experiments. They can be really creative if you let them think:)

A new perspective paper is out: Tingting Zhao et al. Beyond Microplastics: How Tire Wear Particles Influence Plant Performance pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Study quantifies micro- and nanoplastics in the urban air in Leipzig, Germany nature.com/articles/s4324…

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New paper out in The Innovation Zhang et al. (collaboration with @YGZHURCEES ) Potential plastic biodegradation in lakes worldwide cell.com/the-innovation…

Reading in journal club Why, when, and how microbes can benefit ecological restorations: current approaches and future directions nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… @NewPhyt

Operationalizing soil persistence; this week's post. Curious about what you think, please let me know...currently writing on this topic. matthiasrillig.substack.com/p/operationali…

@SoilOlive thanks!

@mrillig Well-done Matthias ! Congrats

Looks like I need to celebrate: just crossed the 100 K citations on google scholar 🤩🍸

@danielblac_squ thanks!

@mrillig Congratulations 👏

@BalaChaudhary @dartmouth Nice!!

And the OSCARR goes to…me! The Open Science Commitment Award for Reproducable Research (OSCARR), that is! Thank you @dartmouth Libraries for this cool recognition of our research. (Now cue the music to get me off stage 🤣)

@rianmantasasp thanks

@mrillig congrats

@Dirisu_chris thank you

@mrillig Wow! This is hoooooge!!!!! Congratulations 🎉🎈🍾

@JunShan_China @cesarmarin203 thanks!

@mrillig @cesarmarin203 Congratulations 🎉