Our excursion „Ecology of alpine environments“ has come to an end. With a fantastic group of students & teachers we got fascinating insights into elevational #biodiversity gradients, mountain specialist species and the highly alpine landscapes around Germany’s highest mountain - the Zugspitze.

Effective conservation requires knowledge. Our recent paper led by Hendrik Mohr highlights knowledge gaps in our understanding of global change drivers on above/belowground organisms. These closely related and interacting systems require simultaneous study to untangle anthropogenic impacts 🦋🦗🕷️🪱

Malte Jochum@maltejochum.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our new preprint @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social summarizes research on simultaneous responses of above- & belowground organisms to global change across the 🌐. Congrats to #HendrikMohr on leading it and @esme-ashe.bsky.social! ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... @globalchangeeco.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

On our Evolutionary Ecology course today, we had the pleasure of meeting Pinu, a dog trained to sniff out scarce fritillary (Euphydryas maturna) caterpillars to improve their monitoring! 🐛🦋 Great job Pinu and his dedicated owner Ádám Kőrösi!

Germany is currently experiencing a pretty brutal heatwave 🥵🔥 bad for me, but the butterflies so far are loving it! Very high numbers of Essex skipper (Thymelicus lineola) and marbled white (Melanargia galathea) on campus at the moment! 🦋🦋🦋

"Erreichung der Emissionsminderungsziele erfordert Nachbesserungen am Klimaschutzprogramm 2026" zu dem Ergebnis kommt der #Expertenrat in seiner Stellungnahme zum heute beschlossenen Entwurf des Klimaschutzprogramms 2026. Die Stellungnahme ist hier verfügbar: expertenrat-klima.de Die Kernpunkte:🧵

Thank you all for making this such a fantastic event!!

The 6th Data Crunch Cup Würzburg is coming up! For 7 days, starting March 23, 2026 at 8 am, you can solve exciting challenges in biology, computer science, and data science to win prizes! Register now at DCCW.de! #bioinformatics #cctb #datascience #universitätwürzburg #fibio

Today's the Hubland Nord Bio Day! The biology research groups at the Hubland Nord campus are coming together to present their research projects and exchange ideas!

It was such a fantastic event today getting to know my wonderful colleagues operating in Hubland Nord @uni-wuerzburg.de and beyond! Our group tecoevo.github.io was presented superbly by @axelarango.bsky.social

CCTB@cctb-wue.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Today's the Hubland Nord Bio Day! The biology research groups at the Hubland Nord campus are coming together to present their research projects and exchange ideas!

Greater trophic diversity of soil animal communities under agricultural land use and tropical climate. Just out in @natecoevo.nature.com led by Zheng Zhou and @antoncollembola.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐

Greater trophic diversity of soil animal communities under agricultural land use and tropical climate - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Soil fauna is an important but often neglected component of terrestrial food webs. Here the authors use a large dataset of stable isotope observations to analyse how soil animal trophic diversity vari...

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Today we set up two insect monitoring stations in the glorious sunshine as part of a Masters thesis project. We will be comparing this with traditional monitoring to improve our understanding of the role of AI to supplement and enhance insect monitoring 🐝🪰🦋💚 @globalchangeeco.bsky.social

Thrilled to share our new paper with the brilliant @srishtipatil.bsky.social & @sabinenoebel.bsky.social ! 🎉 Can mate copying maintain phenotypic diversity with multiple male options to choose from? find out @ doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @dkfz.bsky.social @unihalle.bsky.social @cctb-wue.bsky.social

Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg@uni-wuerzburg.de · 6mo ago

How do animals choose a mate? Sometimes they follow their own taste, sometimes they copy others’ choices. This has an impact on the entire group, as a study from @cctb-wue.bsky.social & @gokhalecs.bsky.social shows. 📷 Chamika/Adobe Stock go.uniwue.de/gokhale-pnas

Wie verändert sich die #Biodiversität bei #Insekten in #Bayern – und warum? Forschende @globalchangeeco.bsky.social nutzen jetzt die Datenbank #KarlaNatur des Bayerischen Landesamtes für Umwelt @lfu.bayern.de um Zukunftstrends zu modellieren. ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/ei...

Schätze müssen gehoben werden, so auch die Datenschätze zur #Biodiversität. Wir freuen uns über die Fortsetzung der Kooperation mit dem @lfu.bayern.de zur Nutzung der bayerischen Insektendaten, um zu neuen Erkenntnissen in Wissenschaft & Naturschutz beizutragen www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/ei...

Insekten: Ein Datenschatz für Wissenschaft und Naturschutz

Wie verändert sich die Biodiversität unter Bayerns Insekten – und warum? Forschende der Uni Würzburg nutzen nun die Datenbank Karla.Natur des Bayerischen Landesamtes für Umwelt, um Zukunftstrends zu m...

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Some weeks ago I submitted my first own research proposal. And now it got accepted! 😍 This means, @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social will go underground and start investigating the evolution of cave arthropods. So excited for this new chapter! 🦇 🪲🕷️ @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @merge-master.bsky.social

Want to know more about how forest structural heterogeneity influences biodiversity? Check out the recent publication about hoverflies by our PhD student @claudiki.bsky.social 🪰🌸 @betafor.bsky.social

Claudiki@claudiki.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Happy to share that our paper is out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social 😄 Experimentally increasing structural heterogeneity in forest landscapes (deadwood + canopy gaps) boosts taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of hoverflies 🪰🌳 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check out the new paper of our PhD student @johannaasch.bsky.social in @jappliedecology.bsky.social! Showing that dung beetles do not profit from conservation targeted management aiming at increasing structural heterogeneity in production forests 🪲🌳 @betafor.bsky.social

Johanna Asch@johannaasch.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New paper out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social! We investigated how forest structural heterogeneity and climate influence temperate dung beetles in production forests. 🪲

"We're here in 2026, & we're not making any progress. We continue to increase emissions." Prof. Johan Rockström, @pik-potsdam.bsky.social on the disconnect between climate goals & the reality of our rising global emissions. Stagnation is a risk we can't afford to stay within planetary boundaries. 🚨

Many thanks to everyone who joined on Friday and made it such a memorable afternoon—we greatly appreciate the warm welcome in Würzburg! @cctb-wue.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social #WueBiT

Chaitanya Gokhale@gokhalecs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Amazing inaugural lecture double feature today by Kathi Zarnack @zarnack-group.bsky.social and Sabine Fischer! @cctb-wue.bsky.social. Here’s to formalising a core bioinformatics, computational and theoretical biology competence @uni-wuerzburg.de

🔍 We’re hiring! Our chair is looking for a motivated Researcher to join our team! 🌳 The aim of the project is to analyse insect communities and their responses to different forest structural conditions. 🪲🦋 We’re looking forward to your application. 🌲📩 www.greenjobs.de/stellenanzei...

Stelle im wissenschaftlichen Dienst - Bereich: Waldökologie - in Teilzeit / researcher [...]

Am Lehrstuhl für Naturschutzbiologie und Waldökologie der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg ist frühestens zum 01.04.2026 eine Stelle imWissenschaftlichen Dienstin Teilzeit (65%) befristet für 3...

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Amazing inaugural lecture double feature today by Kathi Zarnack @zarnack-group.bsky.social and Sabine Fischer! @cctb-wue.bsky.social. Here’s to formalising a core bioinformatics, computational and theoretical biology competence @uni-wuerzburg.de

Thanks for a wonderful inaugural lecture event by Kathi Zarnack @zarnack-group.bsky.social & Sabine Fischer @cctb-wue.bsky.social. Packed lecture hall indicates the interest in bioinformatics & computational biology. Very happy to have you as colleagues @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social

We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in community ecology to work in the Arthropods Core Project of the Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social Reposting is much appreciated for widest reach! Thanks. More information here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

The first LUNCHBOX MODELS Event is happening next Wednesday 28th January at 12PM!! Find out more about the Event: www.yomos.org/lunchbox-mod... @yomoseco.bsky.social

Young Modellers in Ecology @yomoseco.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our first🍱 Lunchbox Models 🍱 seminar of 2026 takes place next Wednesday (Jan 28), at 12 PM CET with guest speaker Elisa Thébault from Sorbonne Université, iEES Paris! Find our full schedule and zoom link here: www. yomos.org/lunchbox-models-seminar-series See you at lunch! 🦊

Vielfalt im Dorf, Ödnis auf der Wiese? Bayerische Wiesen sind laut einer neuen Studie der Universität Würzburg die eintönigsten Insekten-Habitate. #Artenvielfalt #Biodiversität 📷 Johannes Uhler ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/pr...

Very happy to have @jgrubalcaba.bsky.social as a guest at our lab to talk about ongoing & new collaborations. Thanks for a fantastic talk in the @uni-wuerzburg.de Biocenter colloquium about his work that integrates biophysical modelling with macroecology to better understand diversity variation.

TIBS 2026 conference was a great opportunity to keep disseminating the @peeer.bsky.social initiative and to present the field's New, Diamond 💎 Open Access journal @biogeographyjfab.bsky.social Grateful to Michael N. Dawson for the leadership and trust to co-lead this new endeavour #TIBS2026

I was delighted to receive a best poster award at the closing ceremony yesterday! Had a great time at #TIBS2026 and look forward to seeing all the wonderful biogeographers again in the future 🌍🌎🌏 @biogeography.bsky.social

Global Change Ecology group @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social@globalchangeeco.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Congratulations to our @esme-ashe.bsky.social for winning one of the @biogeography.bsky.social poster award at #TIBS2026. Well deserved! 🎉