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BES Macro@besmacro.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Are you into macroecology and/or macroevolution? Want to make our field a better place? Please consider joining the BES Macro SIG Committee! We're currently recruiting for a vice chair and ordinary member(s). More info and how to apply (deadline Jan 20th!): mcusercontent.com/a9537304d9bd...

Meet the #BES2025 SIGs on floor -1! We’ll be heading to our social at Frankenstein later too! Come say hi to some of our committee: @inesismartins.bsky.social @bethanyjallen.bsky.social @lauraloubio.bsky.social

Day one of #BES2025 has been great so far! Looking forward to meeting some new people at the meet the SIGs session and the @besmacro.bsky.social and @bes-conservation.bsky.social joint social later on today!

Will we be seeing you during the @britishecologicalsociety.org annual conference? 👀 Come down to the Frankenstein & Bier Keller pub in Edinburgh on 16 Dec 2025 for a social with @besmacro.bsky.social 🍺 There will be snacks, friends, and (loosely!) ecology-themed quiz rounds ✨ See you there!

Are you attending #BES2025 this week & looking for some tips to help get your research published? 🤔🧪 Come along to one of our two sessions with @nordicoikos.bsky.social & @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social where we'll be discussing each step of the academic publishing journey! 📑🌏

We have 1 open PhD and 1 postdoctoral researcher position to work with terrestrial carbon cycling in abrupt #permafrost thaw features in the Arctic. More information here: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan... @cenunihh.bsky.social

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Wrapping up day 1 of the Bolin Days 2025 with a conference dinner in Koppartälten, where we enjoyed some food & drinks with live entertainment from the amazing Stämbröderna! And then we of course ended the night with a ceilidh. 🤩 Thanks everyone, and see you tomorrow!

A beautiful day out on the famous Mer Bleue bog

Extended deadline! Submissions welcomed until 1st December to the npj biodiversity collection: Impacts of Global Change on Polar Terrestrial Biodiversity 🐻‍❄️🐧 Edited by: @annebeejay.bsky.social, Daly Noll Vergara, Luis Pertierra and me www.nature.com/collections/...

Impacts of Global Change on Polar Terrestrial Biodiversity

This collection examines how human activities and global change stressors are transforming the composition and functioning of terrestrial Arctic and Antarctic ...

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How do we measure #CO2 and #CH4 exchanges from alpine-Arctic #tundra #ecosystems... ... when the weather changes so fast? ⛅ Here is how, in a control plot and a passively warmed plot of a dry heath at #Latnjajaure field station, 100m a.s.l. near Abisko, Northern Sweden, on July 26th, 2025.

Excited to get started! ☺️ Tag me/ @besmacro.bsky.social if you have info to share with the @britishecologicalsociety.org macro ecology community!

BES Macro@besmacro.bsky.social · last yr.

We have a new SIG social media secretary! Please welcome @lauraloubio.bsky.social to this account; she'll be taking over from a very grateful @sheardcat.bsky.social . As always, if you have anything you'd like us to repost that's of plausible interest to the SIG members, please do tag us!

Finally feeling recovered after the field and lab crash! Our field sites cover different vegetation types in the tundra, and we have been sampling to see what’s going on below the ground. We’ve been in the lab processing some samples since we got back; I’m excited to get on with the analysis now…

It’s been a month since I started working with the Wild lab at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social and we are heading out to the field! We’re heading up to Inuvik to see what’s going on under the tundra 👀🌿🍄‍🟫 w/ @larissafrey.bsky.social and Lewis!

Our manuscript on #Arctic root exudation of functionally different and dominant #tundra plants is out in SBB! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Amazing last day at #rhizosphere6! Some wonderful talks, and I loved this quote from Jennifer Pett-Ridge @jeffinerca.bsky.social: “Whatever discipline you come from, whichever goddess you relate to, be it physics, biology, poetry… you can be a rhizosphere researcher”.

Craig presenting to #rhizosphere6 some of the fantastic research and facilities here at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social this morning!

Presenting some data from multiple field sites and multiple bits of my thesis, looking how root traits vary within and across Arctic and alpine sites and with methodologies. Come say hi! #rhizosphere6

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Revisiting the root economics space—its applications, extensions and nuances advance our understanding of fine-root functioning - Plant and Soil

Background and aims Fine roots and their traits determine resource uptake from the soil, thus being fundamental for plant and ecosystem functioning. It has been five years since the concept of the roo...

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School’s out and I’m at #Rhizosphere6 in Edinburgh! Excited to hear some exciting research!

First look at preprint of the AMAP Arctic Climate Change Update 2024 report www.amap.no/documents/do... and Chapter 4 on #Arctic & high-latitude #wildfires with thanks to co-authors @jmccartygeo.bsky.social Juha Aalto @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social & @mikeflannigan.bsky.social

Personally I am disappooffed

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last yr.

The 24 hour emotional cycle of working on climate issues:

I want to connect with and highlight more trans voices working with plants, wildlife, and the natural environment so I've created a starter pack! If this sounds like you, introduce yourself by quote-posting this skeet and I'll add you to the list 🏳️‍⚧️

You can’t learn #rstats just by reading books or watching videos of other people writing R code. You will learn faster if you find some data that you are curious about and use your new coding skills to answer a question about it. How to find fun data to play with....

How to find fun data

Learn about 3 different ways to find datasets to play with

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I was feeling pretty rubbish this morning (my hockey teams both lost last night and I have killer hay-fever), but I read a really great essay from one of my tutees that engaged in all the things we’ve discussed this term, and it’s genuinely made my day! ☺️😌 feels like a rare teaching win #academicsky

Of course. Special shoutout to my colleagues who thought "diversity had gone too far," especially the ones who pretended that diversity statements were oppression.

Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽@needhibhalla.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

Just ten years ago the UK was top of the list - the best place in Europe for LGBT rights. We are now 22nd The only country to drop faster in one year than us is Hungary The government needs to act in a major way before this becomes their entire legacy

ILGA-Europe@ilgaeurope.bsky.social · 2y ago

The #RainbowMap 2025 is live! Find out how 49 European countries rank on LGBTI human rights and see which ones are leading, or falling behind. Check it out now! rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org

Do you want to be part of our team this season, maintaining and sampling field experiments in which we test the effect of extreme weather on grassland C storage? We have a 6-month technician position available - apply here before May 23rd! Please RT or forward! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

🚨 PhD alert. PhD opportunity studying how nutrient availability impacts the ability of ecosystems to absorb more CO2 as CO2 levels rise. With Catriona MacDonald and Ben Smith at Western Sydney University and myself here @sheffieldpps.bsky.social Sheffield www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The Importance of Nutrients in Controlling How Much Ecosystems Can Slow the Rate of Rising CO₂ at Western Sydney University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - The Importance of Nutrients in Controlling How Much Ecosystems Can Slow the Rate of Rising CO₂ at Western Sydney University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Back to book pitching, so here I am caring about the # of followers I have 🤦‍♀️ HELLO! I'm a 🦑 scientist on a mission to get people to take action to protect earth's biodiversity. Alongside others, I use street art, zines, photography, collabs, & more to encourage action. Tell ur friends 😅