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Which plants and animals are able to rewire their seed-dispersal interactions under changing conditions?🐦🌱 We don't know yet but you can help to find out! Please apply to the open #PhD position in the ANEW project led by @emmamarjakangas.bsky.social at the University of Helsinki and @sgn.one 🌎🌐

Emma-Liina Marjakangas@emmamarjakangas.bsky.social · last wk.

📢 PhD opportunity at the University of Helsinki! Join the ANEW project to study ecological networks, seed dispersal and biodiversity conservation under global change. Apply by 31 Aug 2026. 🔗 jobs.helsinki.fi/job/31_8_202... #PhD #Ecology #Conservation #AcademicJobs

"Drawing on an analysis of over 100000 articles in ecology-related disciplines [...], we show that the shift to pay-to-publish OA has already reduced participation by researchers from many middle-income countries." nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Payment‐based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology

Opening access to the products of scientific research is widely considered a key step toward both fairness and better science worldwide. Since the 1990s, different forms of open access (OA) to journa...

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🚨- New paper out today. "Ten simple rules for team synthesis in ecological research" Methods in Ecology and Evolution. #TeamScience #Synthesis #LTER #Ecology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ten simple rules for team synthesis in ecological research

Team-based synthesis is a collaborative, data-intensive, often interdisciplinary approach to conducting science that capitalizes on existing data to answer novel questions. In ecology, synthesis h...

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New GreenRobust publication by the group of Eric Kemen on using machine learning to identify beneficial microbiota: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Machine learning reveals biocontrol agents shaping disease outcome in natural Arabidopsis populations - Nature Communications

Plants can recruit beneficial microbes to suppress pathogens, offering a route to rational biocontrol beyond empirical screening. Here, the authors use machine learning to identify disease-associated ...

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Okay, which maize geneticist is guest writing for the Onion, @jrossibarra.bsky.social was this you?

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob Full Professor (W3) Plant-Soil Interactions 🌱🔬 📍 @unihohenheim.bsky.social, Institute of Crop Science Start: 1 April 2028 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

Open access PDFs of Preslia papers are available at www.preslia.cz. The journal was founded in 1914 and all research papers published in Preslia since then are free to download.

For all Europeans, you can vote on the design for the new bank notes from the European Central Bank here: surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknote... Some of the designs are quite vibrant and punchy

📢 We’re hiring at Aarhus University! Tenure-track or permanent on vertebrate-driven #ecosystem processes, especially large #mammals w/in @econovoau.bsky.social's strong interdisciplinary environment spanning #ecology, paleoecology, biodiversity science & global change biology 🦬🌿🌍 ➡️More info below

I am #hiring! In my group 📍Universität Zürich | University of Zurich & Eawag I have #two open #Postdoc #Positions, with application deadlines in early August 2026. 🧬 🦐 🐠🌐🌍 Here a quick reminder & 🧵with all details, thanks for 🔄 redistributing to interested candidates.

Eins der wenigen gänzlich von natürlichen Kräften geformten Flussufer in Deutschland. Vielleicht haben hier vor 100.000 Jahren Herden von Wildrindern die Isar überquert, so wie heute die Gnus den Mara-Fluss. Nur die Krokodile fehlten.

New @enricounigoe.bsky.social research @jappliedecology.bsky.social, led by Sara Piccini: impacts of non-native trees on biodiversity depend on the vertical stratum, with commonly investigated ground-dwelling communities NOT reflecting (negative) effects in higher strata 🪲🌲 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Same forest, different story: Beetle community responses to non‐native tree species depend on the vertical stratum

Our findings emphasize the importance of integrating vertical stratification into biodiversity monitoring for a comprehensive understanding of the ecological impacts of climate-adapted forest managem...

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Rice feeds over half the world, but paddy fields are increasingly contaminated with toxins. #TERRAnaut Andreas Kappler & an international team propose strategies to cut arsenic, cadmium & mercury uptake into grains, without costly soil replacement. #FoodSecurity #SoilScience #TERRA #Geomicrobiology

New collaborative paper led by Takehiro Sasaki out @natecoevo.nature.com with plenty of contributors from our group & others @idiv-research.bsky.social Biodiversity enhances productivity under drought in more arid grasslands but has limited effects in more arid forests 🌱🌲 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Biodiversity effects under climate extremes intensify with aridity in grasslands but not forests - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning under climate extremes may depend on ecosystem type and baseline aridity. Here the authors show that the effects of plant diversity on productivity are st...

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We are currently recruiting an Independent Junior Research Group Leader in the field of biotic and/or abiotic stress biology in plants at the University of Göttingen (starting in January 2027). www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... Best, Salma Balazadeh & Volker Lipka

Ich durfte dem Reutlinger Generalanzeiger ein Interview zur Abstimmung über neue genomische Techniken um EU-Parlament geben. #GMO #NGT

Syrrhopodon lycopodioides (Brid.) Müll. Hal. Venezuela, caribic coastal mountains, way to Pico Guacamaya, 1500 m, cloud forest, epiphytic on a twig, leg. M. Lüth 3372, 2001, det. Alfons Schäfer-Verwimp

Invasive fern Azolla filiculoides is spreading across the pond cultural landscape of northern bavaria 🌿 you can even see it on aerial pictures 🥲

#Postdoc #Position opening up in my group: Developing Analytical #Pipelines and #Analyses to Survey #Invasive Alien #Species in Aquatic Systems using #eDNA (2 years) 🧬 📈 ❗ 🦐 🦀 🐠 🌍🌐❗ #JobOpening 🎯 apply.refline.ch/673277/1364/... 📍 Apply now & thx for spreading the word (deadline Aug 14th)

I spotted these from the bus last week. and went to investigate today. All now well past their best but an incredible 100+ Bee Orchids on various traffic islands on the Sheepscar Interchange in Leeds City Centre.

Lo and behold this snake DID eat a deer mouse we tagged two days ago. We know bc our scanner found the mouse’s microchip in the snake’s belly. With enough similar data, we can ask about food preferences for snakes and/or if there are any mammal traits that make them more likely to be prey! 🧪

Today, looking for Sphagnum moss in the Alt Pirineu (high Pyrenees) natural park. At least two species found, plus many others mosses and liverworts. #bryophytes #mosses

A nice patch of Herbertus aduncus subsp. hutchinsiae (Juniper Prongwort) on Craig Cywarch 12.6.26 ,the only patch i came across ,still good tp see it another north wales site 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @bbsbryology.bsky.social

Day 4 took us across Oberschwaben to study how the landscape surrounding white stork nests shapes their breeding success. Road trip, birdwatching, and spatial analysis in R 🗺️💻🐥 What more do you need for a successful field-course day?

Landscape Ecology and Vegetation Science Hohenheim@landscape-ecol.bsky.social · last mo.

Day 1 of our Landscape Ecology Masters course at the Federsee was already very rewarding. We spotted Bearded Reedlings, Bluethroat and a fluffy Common Tern fledgling 🐥

Thanks to all the speakers and participants in the "Plant Robustness from molecules to ecosystems" session at the #SEB2026 conference! Exciting science and great discussions sponsored by @theplantjournal.bsky.social and our Excellence Cluster @greenrobust.de 🌱 with @kaspervangelderen.bsky.social

Kasper van Gelderen@kaspervangelderen.bsky.social · 4w ago

Very happy with our @greenrobust.de @isabelmonte.bsky.social Plant Robustness session at the @sebiology.bsky.social conference. Excellent talks by @hildenelissen.bsky.social, Marcel Quint, @rsasidharan.bsky.social and Amy Austin. Great fishbowl discussion on plant robustness! Thanks PlantJ

📞 I'll never forget the call telling us our @novo-nordisk.bsky.social Challenge proposal had been funded! 🎉 We're incredibly grateful for €10M to study how biodiversity shapes soil health and resilience across Finland, Sweden & Denmark. 🌱🪱🦠 www.helsinki.fi/en/news/life... @helsinki.fi

Check out our newly published opinion paper on emergent functions in microbial communities. Grateful to have been part of this.

Christian Kost@kostchristian.bsky.social · 4w ago

Happy to announce that a new opinion paper of our group just came out: A conceptual framework to dissect emergent functions in microbial communities with @swagatika.bsky.social @sharvari27.bsky.social @anjanaprasad.bsky.social @palshubharthi.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How plant stem cells are kept robust summarized by GreenRobust PIs Jan Lohmann (@meristemania.bsky.social) and Thomas Greb (@thomasgreb.bsky.social). Enjoy! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Plant stem cell systems: Robust by design

Plants maintain active stem cell populations throughout their lives, yet these systems are remarkably resilient to genetic, environmental, and mechani…

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Final push! The deadline for applications is in two days. Apply if you want to be my successor. #plantscijobs #plantscijob #plantsciencejob W 3 Professorship for Plant Biotechnology. Freiburg, Germany. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...