Come join us at the next Alfred Russel Wallace webinar "Diversity in island plant functional strategies" by Kasey Barton and the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social Everyone is welcome, please register (free) here: forms.gle/546VrpYBbccb...

Tired of digitizing biodiversity data by hand? Consider using large language models to, for example, extract plant functional traits from unstructured texts: See bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... led by @viktordo.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de, @exeter.ac.uk, @ribesresearch.bsky.social

Using large language models to extract plant functional traits from unstructured text

Premise Functional plant ecology seeks to understand how functional traits govern species distributions, community assembly, and ecosystem functions. While global trait datasets have advanced the fi...

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Don't forget to register for this interesting webinar happening tomorrow!

Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱@amandataylor.bsky.social · last yr.

Come join us at the next Alfred Russel Wallace series by the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social with Sandra Nogué @sandranogue.bsky.social. Everyone is welcome, please register (free) here: forms.gle/mtgKDQqC9ad2...

Come join us at the next Alfred Russel Wallace series by the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social with Sandra Nogué @sandranogue.bsky.social. Everyone is welcome, please register (free) here: forms.gle/mtgKDQqC9ad2...

Postdoc call in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling (up to 6 ya) at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We focus on modelling terrestrial plant communities, island biogeography, range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/CL1ny

We are hiring 2 PhD candidates working on resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes. Daily supervision by myself, @dominic-martin.bsky.social @iris-hordijk.bsky.social @lucianachr.bsky.social and Merel Hofmeijer. Details & application here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

PhD position - Resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes

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Excited for the first webinar of 2025's Alfred Russel Wallace series by the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social. Our first presenter is Luís Valente @evoisland.bsky.social. Everyone is welcome, please register here: forms.gle/mFtLXHCWXQkD... and see image for details.

Author-pays model: Check out our recent post at peeer.net/news/ to better understand the growing inequities in global science associated with high Article Processing Charges in Open Access publications. #BetterPublishing #APC #OA

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Author-pays model and growing inequities in global science (Dec’24) Scientific publishing, in a form similar to what we know today, has existed for hundreds of years. However, in recent times…

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Phylogenetic turnover of seed plants 🌱 at a global 🌐 and across phylogenetic scales: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Environmental filtering, not dispersal history, explains global patterns of phylogenetic turnover in seed plants at deep evolutionary timescales - Nature Ecology & Evolution

This modelling study integrates comprehensive regional plant inventories, environmental conditions and palaeogeographical reconstructions to assess the relative roles of environmental filtering and di...

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Signed!!

Guy Pe'er@guypeer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Scientists: Please join on an open letter to EU policymakers calling them to reinstate the Green Deal. Link to the letter here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Link to sign can be found therein. Please spread the word among scientists, to obtain enough signatories asap. Thanks!

The Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social is looking for two tenure-track assistant professors (APTT): APTT Mathematical or Computational Ecology 👩‍💻 APTT #Conservation #Biology 👨🏾‍🔬 More info: tinyurl.com/IEEjobs Application deadline: 1 March 2025

Stockholm University is hiring three assistant professors in the broad field of Biodiversity. Positions would be SciLifeLab fellows with a generous starting package. #AssistProf #SciLifeLab #Biodiversity #AcademicJobs #Evolution #Genomics #StockholmUniversity su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Assistant Professor in Biodiversity (up to three positions)

at the Department for Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, the Department of Environmental Science, the Department of Geological Sciences, the Department of Physical Geography or the Department of

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I will be presenting Perspectives from Early Career Researchers at the #Evol2024 symposium on “Evolving the Publishing Ecosystem” at 4:15 pm in room 516D. Hope to see some of you there! #BetterPublishing @peeer.bsky.social

Join us after lunch at the #Evol2024 symposium on “Evolving the Publishing Ecosystem” 2:30 pm in room 516D. #BetterPublishing peeer.net/events/

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3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology link 26 June 2024: NAVIGATING SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING (GLOBAL EDITION)Workshop description: Current changes in scientific publishing are among the most radical...

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Hope to see everyone tomorrow at our symposium @peer.Baku.social @systbiol.bsky.social @ssbbulletin.bsky.social

Annual spending on APCs went from $910 million (2019) to $2.5 billion (2023) alongside "the strain on scientific publishing." Most of those fees went to for-profit groups. Publish with non-profit societies, save billions, fund science. arxiv.org/pdf/2407.16551 #OpenAccess #SciPub #AcademicChatter

Plant peeps at #Evol2024, be sure to swing by the Chicago Press exhibit to say hi to @ijpsjournal.bsky.social managing editor @journalwrangler.bsky.social.

We have an open PhD position at the Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation group (Wageningen University, Netherlands) in "Climate resilience and conservation of species interactions in a changing world" - please distribute widely and send to possible candidates :) www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

Really excited to be hosting the pre-conference Early Career Workshop on Navigating the Publishing System at #Evolution2024 #Evol2024 - a timely topic, and one that disproportionately affects ECRs. Hope to see some of you there! @peeer.bsky.social www.evolutionmeetings.org/workshops-an...

Come work with us in the Netherlands! Assistant Professor in vegetation-environment interactions (Tenure Track) within the Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation group, Wageningen University. Please share! www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/... #ecology #plant #vegetation #ecosystem #professor

To all Island Ecology folks: two months left to send abstracts to the Special Issue on Island plant communities in Journal of Vegetation Science Please help spreading the word. JVS is owned by a society reinvesting all revenue back into the community #BetterPublishing #ecology #island #conservation

Call for Abstracts: “Island plant communities: natural experiments at the intersection of biogeography, conservation and global change ecology”, Special Issue in the Journal of Vegetation Science - ve...

Guest Editors: Description of the Special Issue Islands have always attracted scientists because of a combination of features that make

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A year ago we published our first Ecolclip 🎉 Thanks to all who subscribed and watched 👍 Your support makes Ecolclips possible :) Here the link to the first clip with Rob Kooyman about the Australian rainforests www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Tt...

Part I: Australian Rainforests – Origin and Conservation with Dr. Robert Kooyman | EcolClips

EcolClips by Dr. Julian Schrader (Interviewer; Lecturer at Macquarie University) and Dr. Cornelia Sattler (Video production). In EcolClips we document and e...

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This is brilliant: @WeliMenaCo sings and dances his PhD on behavioural ecology of eastern grey kangaroos, and wins global prize!! 👍🙌 www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

‘Joyful madness’: ANU scientist wins global prize for ‘dancing his PhD’ about kangaroos

Four-minute video features drag queens, twerking, ballerinas, a classical Indian dancer and a bunch of friends from Canberra

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Congrats on the nice talk Lirong Cai at the #IBS2024 meeting in Prague. It was nice catching up!

Poster about GIFT, the accompanying R-package and some recent studies using both at #IBS2024 in Prague. Find the paper on GIFT 3.0 and the accompanying R-package for downloading regional plant checklists, traits and environmental information for 3400 regions worldwide 🌍 here: doi.org/10.1111/2041...

still my favorite diversity indicator

Been having an absolutely wild and fun time learning more about #Ledebouria in South Africa this week! 3 more days to go!

Comprehensive phylogenomic time tree of #bryophytes reveals deep relationships & uncovers gene incongruences in the last 500 million years of diversification New #AJB research by Julia Bechteler et al! bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #mosses #liverworts #hornwarts

Full day symposium with speakers from the Nordic countries to celebrate the 100 year jubilee of 🇸🇪 phytogeographical society. "Past, present, and future plant ecology and geography in the Nordic region" You can join via Zoom Everyone speaks English 🧪🌍🌱⚒️

Bob Muscarella@bobmuscarella.bsky.social · 3y ago

The Swedish Phytogeographical Society turns 100 years old! Full day symposium this Thursday, 9 Nov. Link below for detailed schedule and registration to join the Zoom webinar. Welcome! sites.google.com/view/svsplan... (@saocousins.bsky.social is one of the special guest speakers!)

New paper in PLOS Biol with @graciellehigino.bsky.social et al.: "Postdoctoral scientists are mentors, and it is time to recognize their work". We argue that ensuring that post-docs receive proper credit for ALL their labour would benefit all academia.