🎭 Antropocennosti na divadelních prknech! Kniha autorského kolektivu CTS inspirovala imerzivní představení Mezi vrstvami souboru Body Voice Band. V historických prostorách Galerie 13 v Plzni ožijí antropocennosti z knihy – například jídelní hůlky, tužka nebo Xanax. 🔗 www.divadlo.cz/clanky/insce...

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Please pass along - my department @uofa-eeb.bsky.social is hiring! Assistant Professor in quantitative population and community ecology - come join us in wonderful #Tucson ! #AcademicJobs 🧪🌾🌐 arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Excited to share our study of the latitudinal diversity gradient and how it may be modified by humans. Working with millions of bird observations across ~500 cities, we found that cities significantly flattened the diversity gradient for native birds in winter. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Cities alter the latitudinal diversity gradient of birds in North America - Nature Cities

Urbanization considerably modifies the latitudinal diversity gradient of birds in North America, with native species exhibiting a flatter gradient in cities compared to surrounding areas, particularly...

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Post-doctoral fellow in global forest dynamics! TreeChange combines life history traits from field observations with demographic modelling to understand the future of forests and the carbon sink. Based at Lund in Sweden you will work with researchers across the world lu.varbi.com/what:job/job...

📝 My paper on generalized additive models (GAMs) in animal science is out! Learn nonlinear relationships from data, estimate growth rates and compare treatments, with cows, pigs and quail + reproducible #RStats code. Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.an... #mgcv #AnimalScience #Statistics 🧪

🎧 Proč nás spontánní příroda stále znepokojuje? Naše kolegyně Eliška Fulínová mluví v podcastu Podhoubí na Radiu Wave o antropocénu, proměnách krajiny i o tom, jak se mění naše vnímání přírody. 🌿 🔗 wave.rozhlas.cz/tam-bylo-moc...

Tam bylo moc smrti, tohle je zase moc bujícího života. Proč nás spontánní příroda stále znepokojuje?

Co s námi udělá les sežraný kůrovcem? A proč nás ta mladá smrčina, která ho nahradila, také znepokojuje? Filosofka Eliška Fulínová a ilustrátorka Magdalena Gurská se v živé epizodě Podhoubí z Mezináro...

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Congratulations to @saileesakhalkar.bsky.social @robtrop.bsky.social and their team! 🌐

Nature Ecology & Evolution@natecoevo.nature.com · 4w ago

Here the authors use a global standardized dataset of plant–pollinator interactions to explore geographic patterns of specialization and their dependence on climate variables and taxonomic and functional identity 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please pass along: I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab. We study physical ecology, macroecology, and biodiversity — spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested 🧪🌐🌾

Anthropocene Rewilding: Remaking Nature the Way **Some** People Want... 🪺🤨 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/c...

Does This Bird’s Return to Britain Restore History or Rewrite It? (Gift Article)

Conservationists set up a colony of white storks in southern England, touching off a debate over whether they truly belong there.

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‘Resilience’ has become a concept that is waved around like a magic wand in talking about responses to climate change Focussing on resilience can be unhelpful if it keeps the system in a failing state (undesirable resilience) We need to link resilience to system change rather than system inertia

🌲 New paper with researchers from @cts.cuni.cz challenges the traditional view of European larch nativity, combining paleoecological and genetic evidence to reconstruct its Holocene history. @smyckaj.bsky.social

Jan Smyčka@smyckaj.bsky.social · last mo.

Larch is traditionally considered non-native in most of lowland Europe. We challenged this narrative by using paleoecological and genetic evidence to show that the species was present in the landscape through the Holocene, but the extant populations are indeed mostly imported doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

The deadline is approaching! An opportunity for a postdoctoral researcher to work in a transdisciplinary environment.👇

Center for Theoretical Study@cts.cuni.cz · 5mo ago

📢 Postdoctoral position at the Center for Theoretical Study (CTS), Charles University For researchers interested in any field developed at CTS and in transdisciplinary dialogue across the sciences and humanities. 📍 Prague | 🗓️ Start: January 2027 | ⏳ Apply by: 30 September 2026 ⬇️ More information

What a great idea:) 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Susanne Fritz, who is great, is advertising a macroevolution/macroecology/biogeography postdoc at iDiv in Leipzig: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/c...

Congratulations on this important discovery!

Center for Theoretical Study@cts.cuni.cz · 2mo ago

🏺 An important archaeological discovery by our colleague @janturek.bsky.social & his team! Excavations near Chleby revealed an almost circular Neolithic causewayed enclosure, 230 m in diameter, with 12 gates, dating to around 4200 BC (Jordanów Culture).

🏺 An important archaeological discovery by our colleague @janturek.bsky.social & his team! Excavations near Chleby revealed an almost circular Neolithic causewayed enclosure, 230 m in diameter, with 12 gates, dating to around 4200 BC (Jordanów Culture).

Jan Turek@janturek.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The excavation of the Neolithic causewayed enclosure and an Iron Age house at Chleby is nearly completed. Students are cheering their achievement! Well done guys🤎👍🤎

Opinion piece: #AI will likely reorganize #science. Will #research remain a human enterprise? In PNAS Front Matter: https://ow.ly/fBac50Zv3ju #SciencePublishing #ScienceFunding #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMs #MachineLearning #ScienceEnterprise #CreativeDestruction #evolution

E4 award winner: Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization vist.ly/5c7kv #ECR #MonetaryPrize

🧠 Why is eating an enemy more taboo than killing one? New in PNAS: our colleague @turecek.bsky.social presents a mathematical model showing why cannibalism remained rare despite occasional benefits: repeated cannibalism amplifies pathogen transmission. 🔗 doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2605120123

🌐Local bird species richness is regulated—not by diversity-dependent extinctions, but by diversity-dependent colonization as communities approach equilibrium.

Center for Theoretical Study@cts.cuni.cz · 4mo ago

🐦 Is local species richness regulated, and if so, how? In a new paper in 🌍 GEB, our colleagues David Storch and @elbohdalkova.bsky.social show that diversity-dependent colonization regulates local richness, while extinction rates shape differences among communities. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/geb....

🐦 Is local species richness regulated, and if so, how? In a new paper in 🌍 GEB, our colleagues David Storch and @elbohdalkova.bsky.social show that diversity-dependent colonization regulates local richness, while extinction rates shape differences among communities. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Diversity Regulation in Local Communities: Colonization and Extinction Dynamics in North American Birds

Aim Species richness of local communities may be regulated via negative diversity dependence of colonization or positive diversity dependence of extinction rate. We explore whether and how bird comm...

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Today's @theguardian.com long read philosophically scrutinises academic concepts of 'ecosystem function' and 'ecosystem services'. Recommended reading!

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4mo ago

Can ecosystems ‘malfunction’?

Can biodiversity equilibria be tested? David Storch & @graceridder.bsky.social argue that they can and that tests support the Equilibrium Theory of Biodiversity Dynamics as a parsimonious explanation of global diversity patterns. Read their response in TREE: 🔗 authors.elsevier.com/a/1nFXkcZ3X7...

New in TREE: David Storch & @graceridder.bsky.social respond to a comment on their paper, arguing that the Equilibrium Theory of Biodiversity Dynamics is testable and supported by current evidence as a parsimonious explanation of global diversity patterns. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2026.05.011

Are you looking for a PhD on the intersection between evolutionary and ecological theory? Join us @univie. Fully funded PhD position in fundamental eco-evolutionary theory, open to international students. Apply by 13.7.2026: ecoevo.owlstown.net/search Reposting appreciated. #evolbio #evoeco #ecology

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Where is the evidence for biodiversity equilibria? Follow the debate in the following publications. Our original paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... The response: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... Our reply: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Sad to hear of the passing of Robert Ricklefs - a giant of Ecology who simultaneously pushed forward big ideas at multiple biological levels yet took time for detailed natural history .. McGill does a nice job summarizing his impressive contributions 🌐🧪 dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/r...

Robert Ricklefs – in memoriam

Robert Ricklefs, a giant of ecology, passed away on Sunday. It is hard to overstate the extensive impact Bob had on the field. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the US,…

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Bob Ricklefs RIP. One of the giants of ecology. His textbooks were the gateway to the field for many students. His papers were invariably thoughtful, well-argued and provocative, even those I disagreed with. 🌏🧪🌐

Since January, I have gotten 8 desk rejections. Is this a new normal and a response to a deluge of AI-enabled papers journals are now receiving and/or dwindling availability of reviewers, or is our science not seen as novel enough (the latter I don't want to believe is true 😆)?

A sad task, well done—Brian McGill pens a tribute to Bob Ricklefs. One measure of Ricklefs’ influence: Ecology students from the 70s on were trained on “Ricklefs”: an imposing tome weaving graphs and equations together with fine, dense prose. Thanks Bob. dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/r...