A speedier way to study microbes, HT-SIP, has been successfully applied to study the hyphosphere, the area immediately surrounding fungi’s long filaments, or hyphae. [Image: Screencap from video abstract for Nuccio EE et al. “HT-SIP: a semi-automated stable isotope probing pipeline identifies cross-kingdom interactions in the hyphosphere of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.” Microbiome. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-022-01391-z]