Lipid Hydrogen Stable Isotope Probing Reveals Archaeal Lipid Turnover in Hot Spring Sediments Harris, Kopf, Amenabar et al. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.… #stableisotopes

Article: The influence of atmospheric dryness on vegetation has strengthened globally over the past four decades, while the influence of soil moisture has weakened nature.com/articles/s41561-0…

Our newly published Sci. Adv. paper science.org/doi/10.1126/scia… shows that peatland carbon loss increased with warming at a rate of 62.6 g C m−2 year−1°C−1. eCO2 reduced the loss rate to 17.3 g C m−2 year−1°C−1, mainly due to climate-driven shifts in plant community structure.

INVITED PERSPECTIVE Future Litter Decomposition Research Should Prioritize the Litter to Soil Flux 🔗 buff.ly/bHe5Ytk

RESEARCH ARTICLE Old Soil Organic Matter Has a Low Carbon:Nitrogen Ratio—A Global Meta‐Analysis About 14C and Soil Stoichiometry 🔗 buff.ly/KRTRu2V

Article: Increase in global warming potential of atmospheric black carbon since 1750. nature.com/articles/s41561-0… @huizhong_shen

💥NEW in @SoilBiolBiochem 💥 Effects of N and P limitations on microbial growth in #soils doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.20… 50-day Free: authors.elsevier.com/c/1nxtt… #CarbonUseEfficiency #microbialbiomass #Phosphorus #nitrogen #stoichiometry #isotopes

RESEARCH ARTICLE Tipping Points in Bacterial Richness Amplify Extracellular Enzyme Activities in Northern Peatlands 🔗 buff.ly/b0CtdWL

Are you an MSc/PhD student or postdoc looking to take your microbial ecology research abroad? Apply to the ISME Scholar Mobility Fund, which supports international research, training and collaboration, by 21 October 2026. 🌍🦠 isme-microbes.org/public/pro…

RESEARCH ARTICLE Abundance of Fe/Al Oxides Governs Soil Organic Carbon Stability in Wetlands Under Drying Conditions 🔗 buff.ly/SVmVVIK

New in Geoderma: "Comparison of equivalent soil mass methods for soil organic carbon stock calculations" by Katherine A. Dynarski, Divya Kandanool, Ekundayo Adeleke, Kristen S. Veum, Tiffany L. Carter & Skye Wills. buff.ly/7EXRuA1 @Mizzou @UTKnoxville @USDA_NRCS

New in Geoderma: "porositAI: An open-source, interactive tool for rapid and reproducible quantification of pore space in soil thin sections" by Cedric J Hagen, Axel Cerón González, Lilit Pogosyan [...] Michael D SanClements. @NEON_sci @CUBoulder @VUBrussel @KU_Leuven

The drone video over the @umich Biological Station is breathtaking!

📰Published📰Measuring complete #elemental composition, including #micronutrients and trace elements, outperforms models based only on carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in explaining #photosynthetic #traits🍃 buff.ly/zMkaW96

REVIEW The Fragile Sink: Reconceptualizing Soil Carbon Stabilization and Its Vulnerability Under Global Change 🔗 buff.ly/eRvTyoo

✍️ Our latest blog post explores what excellence in peer review looks like. 🌿 We take you through a manuscript’s journey through the peer review process and share some tips on how to write an effective review. 👉 Read more here: buff.ly/lDCGzVN

NEW Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy to Estimate Ratios of Soil Organic Carbon to Clay Prout et al. doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70353 @wileyearthspace @SUMjournal @Soil_Science #Soil #Research

Join us for our SciMom Chats webinar to discuss the challenges of returning to work after a caregiving break & explore strategies and resources to help rebuild your STEMM career. 📅 29th Sept ⏰ 10AM ET | 4PM CET 👉 Learn more & register for free here: ow.ly/bj9c50ZNQkR

🔥 Excited to share that #paper2agent is published in @Nature today! Papers have long been the primary format for communicating scientific knowledge, but they remain static. Putting that knowledge to work requires connecting findings to data, navigating supplementary materials, and adapting methods to new questions - effort repeated by each new reader. We introduce Paper2Agent, a multi-agent framework that automatically turns research papers into virtual authors. Paper2Agent turns a paper’s manuscript, code, data, and supplements into an MCP server that any AI agent can access, with automated testing and iterative refinement in an agentic loop. The paper then becomes a virtual author you can talk to: trace claims to evidence, analyze your own data, and collaborate with other papers’ virtual authors Agentifying a paper turns it from something people read into something people and AI agents can discover and build on - providing the context needed to interpret its findings and reuse its methods reliably. We tested how reliably these agents put papers to use. Across multiple benchmarks, agents created by Paper2Agent outperformed baselines such as Claude Code working directly with papers' PDFs and code repositories. Once papers become virtual authors, they can collaborate - much like human researchers do. In one case study, agents built from AlphaGenome and two large-scale genetic perturbation studies worked together to propose a new computational approach for integrating evidence across different perturbation datasets. By connecting predictions from one paper with experimental data from others, they helped pinpoint a likely causal gene for psoriasis. We hope Paper2Agent makes scientific knowledge easier to access, reuse, and build on - a first step toward a future where millions of paper agents proactively collaborate with human researchers and one another to advance discovery. 🤖Talk to the virtual author for Paper2Agent itself: paper2agent.ai 📎Paper: nature.com/articles/s41586-0… 💻Code: github.com/jmiao24/Paper2Age… VERY grateful to work with this incredible team: @james_y_zou, @jkpritch, Yaohui, and Joe!

What stories do we tell about fire and how do those narratives shape the way people understand risk, resilience, and fire management? Join the Wildfire Resilience Funders for Communicating Wildfire: Wildfire Narratives on Sept. 17, 1–2 p.m. PT. Register: nrfirescience.org/event/comm…