Proud to present this book with Hilary Birks & @informed-enviro.bsky.social focused on the use & importantly identification of aquatic plant seeds & fruits. 10 yrs of work! Major uses in palaeoecology, archaeobotany, seed bank & diet studies @bsbibotany.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Seeds and Fruits of Aquatic Plants of Northern Europe - A Handbook

This book offers essential insights for identifying aquatic plant remains, enhancing research in palaeoecology and freshwater biology.

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🌱How do we study #seeds hidden in the #soil? This poster introduces the main methods to explore the #seedbank, from #germination #experiments to seed extraction, and shows what each approach can tell us. Download ▶️ 1url.cz/bedfN #GoBelowground #ExFuMo @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social

Exciting find from our vegetation survey last week! We recorded a new locality for Carex dioica at the "Rašeliniště u myslivny" peatland in Slavkovský les (western Czechia). In the Czech Republic, it’s a critically endangered (C1b) & declining taxon.🌾📸 #PlantScience #Fieldwork

🌿 Field Notes Friday 🌿 What have you spotted in the field this week? Share your plant photos, unusual species finds, or memorable fieldwork moments. We’d love to see what botanists are observing around the world. 📷 Reply with your photos! #Botany #PlantEcology #Fieldwork

This essay captures what AI for science debates often fail to recognize: That in many academic fields, people creation is the main goal. That the supervision IS the science. That the real threat is "a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing" ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

How has the landscape of Central Europe changed over the last 15,000 years? A new article in Global Ecology and Conservation, published by our colleagues: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Identification of past wetland habitats, their commonness and analogism using macrofossil indicators derived from large vegetation databases

Previous research on ecosystem and climate dynamics using fossil data has mainly focused on tracking shifts at the species or biome levels or relied e…

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"Conservationists are trained to notice what most people do not see: a reef that has lost its vibrancy and color, a forest that no longer holds the same birds, a river that carries less life each season.." www.butlernature.com/2026/03/22/t... poignant artcle by @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social

The cost of caring for a dying world

Earlier this month, Jeremy Hance’s “‘An epidemic of suffering’: Why are conservationists breaking down?” and the follow-up commentary “Emotional and psychological stresses beleaguer conservation profe...

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It looks like we from 🇨🇿 belongs to the Global South too 🤔 Grant agencies did not increase the budget for APC here, so OA is basically cutting our research money.

...the process of describing species can hardly be automated and we are not training enough taxonomists who can do the job. 7/7 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

Vanishing experts, vanishing species: The taxonomy crisis

Plant taxonomy is the foundation of biodiversity science, but a global skills crisis threatens its future. Training a new generation of taxonomists is urgent and new research maps where help is most n...

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🧑‍💻 R Fundamentals for Data Science · 26–29 Jan 2026 (online). Info & reg: datasharpacademy.com/workshop-rfu... Prefer a gentler pace? Monthly R newsletter “Sharp Under Pressure”: datasharpacademy.com/newsletter?u...

R Fundamentals for Data Science – DataSharp Academy

Join Our Online Workshop On R Fundamentals for Data Science Learn to code clearly and confidently in R using AI to support your ideas and vision. Learn

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Transforming overgrown farm #ponds by scrub & mud removal. Before restoration this Norfolk pond was anoxic from bed to surface, had an impoverished plant & invertebrate community & lacked breeding amphibians. All of these things were reversed BIG TIME after restoration! @arc-trust.bsky.social

The launch of a new European Plant Macrofossil Database (EuPlaMaDa) on the #Neotoma platform, as one of the key outputs of the COST Action #PalaeOpen, promises a significant step forward for palaeoecological research in Europe🥳 We welcome new volunteers to help with plant macrofossil data upload🤝

Exciting 24-month Postdoc opportunity for a peatland palaeoecologist, working with Dr Jenna Sutherland at Leeds Beckett U. on the NERC-funded InSPIRE project. Investigating initiation of new peatlands in deglaciating parts of Alaska, including fieldwork vacancies.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/ce0984li_web...

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Come work with me in Brno in a new project on how Scots pine & forestry changed societies and environments in the 18th-19th centuries! 🌲🌳 👇Fully funded postdoc position 👇 www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies... Application deadline: 13.11.2025 Please distribute widely! #envhist #histecol

📖 Book release! Hinterland. Archeologie severočeských pískovcových krajin. Co-edited by Petr Pokorný, contributions from Jindra Prach and Jan Hošek (CTS). An illustrated journey (100+ images) through 20,000 years of sandstone landscapes, from the Ice Age to today. 🔗 www.kosmas.cz/knihy/559021...

‘It’s resurrection’: 1,000-year-old seeds could grow ancient plants in England’s ice-age ghost ponds So excited to be quoted in this article about our resurrected #ghostponds with members of our fantastic team @carlsayer.bsky.social, @hburningham.bsky.social, @timholtwilson.bsky.social

‘It’s resurrection’: 1,000-year-old seeds could grow ancient plants in England’s ice-age ghost ponds

An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’

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📢 Postdoc opening at the @cts.cuni.cz Open to researchers interested in any field developed at CTS, with a strong interest in transdisciplinary dialogue between the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities 📄 Details: cuni.cz/UKEN-1304-ve... 🗓️ Start: Jan 2026| Apply by: Sept 30, 2025

I have a fully funded PhD position open for start in Jan or May 2026. Field work in peatlands of the Northwest Territories, with lab work to understand potential downstream mobilization of carbon, nutrients, mercury after thaw or wildfire. Reach out for more information, and please send on!

Most of our department joined ice-breaker of PalaeOpen 2025 meeting at the Botanical Garden of Charles University in Prague, including members of the organizing team and our new colleague Vojtěch Abraham (bottom right in the photo). A great evening with the international paleoscience community!

Looking for a postdoc position in quantitative palaeoecology with focus on vegetation? Come to work in my interdisciplinary project in Prague (full-time for 2 years).